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D-Index
43
Citations
16887
World Ranking
5186
National Ranking
1768

Brett A. Melbourne publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brett A. Melbourne sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 101 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Brett A. Melbourne D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brett A. Melbourne sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Brett A. Melbourne is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work covers several main topics such as Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Melbourne include the following:

  • "Eco-evolutionary dynamics of range expansion" (2020), Ecology
  • "Interspecific competition slows range expansion and shapes range boundaries" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Biodiversity impacts of the 2019-2020 Australian megafires" (2024), Nature
  • "Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties" (2020), Global Change Biology
  • "Nitrogen increases early-stage and slows late-stage decomposition across diverse grasslands" (2022), Journal of Ecology

Brett A. Melbourne frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include Ruth A. Hufbauer, Kendi F. Davies, Laure Olazcuaga, Lily F. Durkee, and Elizabeth T. Borer.

The scientist's publications are often found in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Ecology & Evolution, Ecosphere, Journal of Animal Ecology, and Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems

    Nick M. Haddad;Lars A. Brudvig;Jean Clobert;Kendi F. Davies

  • The spatial spread of invasions: new developments in theory and evidence

    Alan Hastings;Kim Cuddington;Kendi F. Davies;Christopher J. Dugaw

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Extinction risk depends strongly on factors contributing to stochasticity

    Brett A. Melbourne;Alan Hastings

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY EXPLAINS THE SCALE DEPENDENCE OF THE NATIVE-EXOTIC DIVERSITY RELATIONSHIP

    Kendi F. Davies;Peter Chesson;Susan Harrison;Brian D. Inouye

  • Invasion in a heterogeneous world: resistance, coexistence or hostile takeover?

    Brett A. Melbourne;Howard V. Cornell;Kendi F. Davies;Christopher J. Dugaw

  • Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance

    Scott Ferrenberg;Sean P O'Neill;Sean P O'Neill;Joseph E Knelman;Joseph E Knelman;Bryan Todd

  • Bias in the effect of habitat structure on pitfall traps: An experimental evaluation

    Brett A. Melbourne

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • Three types of rescue can avert extinction in a changing environment

    Ruth A. Hufbauer;Marianna Szűcs;Emily Kasyon;Courtney Youngberg

  • Life-history constraints in grassland plant species : a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

    Eric M. Lind;Elizabeth Borer;Eric Seabloom;Peter Adler

  • Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession

    Diana R Nemergut;Joseph E Knelman;Scott Ferrenberg;Teresa Bilinski

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Highly Variable Spread Rates in Replicated Biological Invasions: Fundamental Limits to Predictability

    Brett A. Melbourne;Alan Hastings

  • Species’ traits predict the effects of disturbance and productivity on diversity

    Nick M. Haddad;Marcel Holyoak;Tawny M. Mata;Kendi F. Davies;Kendi F. Davies

  • Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

    Carly J. Stevens;Eric M. Lind;Yann Hautier;Yann Hautier;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Andersen;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

Frequent Co-Authors

Kendi F. Davies
Kendi F. Davies University of Colorado Boulder
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Jonathan D. Bakker
Jonathan D. Bakker University of Washington
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
Suzanne M. Prober
Suzanne M. Prober Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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