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D-Index
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10480
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7737
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2592

Bryan L. Foster 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 Bryan L. Foster sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 73 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Bryan L. Foster 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 Bryan L. Foster sits on this spectrum.

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8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Bryan L. Foster is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and medicine. Within these domains, they have contributed considerably to subfields including nature and landscape conservation, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and ecological modeling.

Their research topics cover a wide range of areas such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, plant parasitism and resistance, rangeland and wildlife management, cardiac health and mental health, and interactions between mycorrhizal fungi and plants.

Foster's recent publications illustrate their engagement with ecological responses to environmental change as well as medical imaging. Notable papers include:

  • "Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change" (2021) published in Ecology Letters
  • "Microbial mediators of plant community response to long-term N and P fertilization: Evidence of a role of plant responsiveness to mycorrhizal fungi" (2022) published in Global Change Biology
  • "Utility of the Diffusion Weighted Sequence in Gynecological Imaging: Review Article" (2022) published in Cancers
  • "Making sense of multivariate community responses in global change experiments" (2022) published in Ecosphere
  • "Plant community recovery following Sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata) removal: testing for a soil legacy effect" (2020) published in Restoration Ecology

Foster frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Fergus V. Coakley, Meghan L. Avolio, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Emily Grman, and Sally E. Koerner. This network reflects interdisciplinary teamwork across ecological and biological sciences.

The primary venues for Foster's work include Clinical Imaging, where they have multiple publications, alongside Ecology Letters, Global Change Biology, Cancers, and Ecosphere. These venues denote a blend of ecological and medical scientific platforms.

Best Publications

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

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

  • SPECIES RICHNESS IN A SUCCESSIONAL GRASSLAND: EFFECTS OF NITROGEN ENRICHMENT AND PLANT LITTER

    Bryan L. Foster;Katherine L. Gross

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

  • Dynamic and static views of succession: Testing the descriptive power of the chronosequence approach

    Bryan L. Foster;David Tilman

  • Island theory, matrix effects and species richness patterns in habitat fragments

    William M. Cook;Kurt T Lane;Bryan L. Foster;Robert D. Holt

  • Seed limitation and the regulation of community structure in oak savanna grassland

    Bryan L. Foster;David Tilman;David Tilman

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Propagule pools mediate community assembly and diversity‐ecosystem regulation along a grassland productivity gradient

    Bryan L. Foster;Timothy L. Dickson;Cheryl A. Murphy;Irene S. Karel

  • Constraints on colonization and species richness along a grassland productivity gradient: the role of propagule availability

    Bryan L. Foster

  • Coexistence through spatio-temporal heterogeneity and species sorting in grassland plant communities.

    Erin J. Questad;Bryan L. Foster

  • SECONDARY SUCCESSION IN AN EXPERIMENTALLY FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPE: COMMUNITY PATTERNS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME

    William M. Cook;Jin Yao;Bryan L. Foster;Robert D. Holt

  • Phytoplankton species richness scales consistently from laboratory microcosms to the world's oceans.

    Val H. Smith;Bryan L. Foster;James P. Grover;Robert D. Holt

  • Restoration of Prairie Community Structure and Ecosystem Function in an Abandoned Hayfield: A Sowing Experiment

    Bryan L. Foster;Cheryl A. Murphy;Kane R. Keller;Todd A. Aschenbach

  • Invasibility and compositional stability in a grassland community: relationships to diversity and extrinsic factors

    Bryan L. Foster;Val H. Smith;Timothy L. Dickson;Terri Hildebrand

  • Metapopulations and metacommunities: combining spatial and temporal perspectives in plant ecology

    Helen M. Alexander;Bryan L. Foster;Ford Ballantyne;Cathy D. Collins

  • Establishment, competition and the distribution of native grasses among Michigan old‐fields

    Bryan L. Foster

  • Fertilization decreases plant biodiversity even when light is not limiting.

    Timothy L. Dickson;Bryan L. Foster

  • PARTITIONING THE EFFECTS OF PLANT BIOMASS AND LITTER ON ANDROPOGON GERARDI IN OLD-FIELD VEGETATION

    Bryan L. Foster;Katherine L. Gross

  • Community‐level consequences of mycorrhizae depend on phosphorus availability

    Cathy Diane Collins;Bryan L. Foster

  • GRASSLAND DIVERSITY AND PRODUCTIVITY: THE INTERPLAY OF RESOURCE AVAILABILITY AND PROPAGULE POOLS

    Bryan L. Foster;Timothy L. Dickson

Frequent Co-Authors

Anke Jentsch
Anke Jentsch University of Bayreuth
James F. Cahill
James F. Cahill University of Alberta
Robert D. Holt
Robert D. Holt University of Florida
Edward W. Bork
Edward W. Bork University of Alberta
Carl Beierkuhnlein
Carl Beierkuhnlein University of Bayreuth
Peter Manning
Peter Manning University of Bergen
Marcelo Sternberg
Marcelo Sternberg Tel Aviv University
Gerhard E. Overbeck
Gerhard E. Overbeck Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Marcelo Cabido
Marcelo Cabido National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba

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