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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
69
Citations
31216
World Ranking
1401
National Ranking
513

Brian J. McGill publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 179 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Brian J. McGill 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 Brian J. McGill sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Brian J. McGill is affiliated with the University of Maine in the United States, specializing in Environmental Science with a strong focus on Ecology and related subfields. Their research portfolio spans Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their main research topics cover diverse areas within ecology and environmental science, including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Brian J. McGill has contributed to several recent scientific papers, some of which include:

  • "30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%," published in 2020 in Ecography
  • "Clustered versus catastrophic global vertebrate declines," published in 2020 in Nature
  • "The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces," published in 2021 in Ecology Letters
  • "A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base," published in 2022 in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead," published in 2023 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Nicholas J. Gotelli
  • María Dornelas
  • Shane A. Blowes
  • Jonathan M. Chase
  • Anne E. Magurran

Their publications appear often in top-tier journals and venues, such as:

  • Nature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Ecology

Brian J. McGill was recognized as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits.

    Brian J. McGill;Brian J. Enquist;Evan Weiher;Mark Westoby

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

    Cyrille Violle;Cyrille Violle;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. McGill;Lin Jiang

  • Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework

    Brian J. McGill;Rampal S. Etienne;John S. Gray;David Alonso

  • Biological Diversity: Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment

    Anne E. Magurran;Brian J. McGill

  • Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

    Maria Dornelas;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Brian McGill;Hideyasu Shimadzu;Hideyasu Shimadzu

  • Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

    E. M. Wolkovich;B. I. Cook;B. I. Cook;J. M. Allen;T. M. Crimmins

  • How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait‐based ecology

    Julie Messier;Brian J. McGill;Brian J. McGill;Martin J. Lechowicz

  • Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

    Brian J. McGill;Maria Dornelas;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Anne E. Magurran

  • The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages.

    Shane A. Blowes;Sarah R. Supp;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Amanda Bates

  • A test of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity

    Brian J. McGill

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Empirical evaluation of neutral theory.

    Brian J. McGill;Brian A. Maurer;Michael D. Weiser

  • Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient.

    Christine Lamanna;Benjamin Blonder;Benjamin Blonder;Cyrille Violle;Nathan J.B. Kraft

  • The BIEN R package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database

    Brian S. Maitner;Brad Boyle;Nathan Casler;Rick Condit

  • Towards a unification of unified theories of biodiversity

    Brian J. McGill

  • The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants.

    Owen L Petchey;Owen L Petchey;Mikael Pontarp;Mikael Pontarp;Thomas M Massie;Sonia Kéfi

  • Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities

    Jonathan M. Chase;Brian J. McGill;Daniel J. McGlinn;Felix May

  • The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants.

    Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Xiao Feng;Brad Boyle;Brian Maitner

  • Null Versus Neutral Models: What's The Difference?

    N. J. Gotelli;Brian J. McGill

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Brian J. McGill

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Nicholas J. Gotelli
Nicholas J. Gotelli University of Vermont
Maria Dornelas
Maria Dornelas University of St Andrews
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Anne E. Magurran
Anne E. Magurran University of St Andrews
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles
Robert K. Peet
Robert K. Peet University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Susan K. Wiser
Susan K. Wiser Landcare Research
Benjamin Blonder
Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley

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