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46
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9774
World Ranking
4603
National Ranking
52

Overview

Daniel B. Stouffer is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. The main fields of study encompass environmental science with 65 publications and agricultural and biological sciences with 53 publications.

Their work addresses several subfields, including ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics (42 publications); nature and landscape conservation (39 publications); ecological modeling (16 publications); plant science (9 publications); and ecology (7 publications).

Key topics explored in their research include plant and animal studies, which account for 74 publications, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, with 68 publications. Additional topics covered are species distribution and climate change (32 publications), plant parasitism and resistance (18 publications), animal ecology and behavior studies (10 publications), animal behavior and reproduction (10 publications), and evolution and genetic dynamics (10 publications).

Several frequent coauthors have collaborated with Stouffer, such as D. Matthias Dehling and Margaret M. Mayfield, each with 9 joint publications; Márk Novák and Hao Ran Lai, each with 7; and Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva, with 6 coauthored works.

Regarding publication venues, Stouffer has frequently published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 15 papers, Ecology Letters with 6 publications, Ecography with 4, Nature Communications with 3, and The American Naturalist with 3.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Stouffer include:

  • "Linking functional traits and demography to model species-rich communities," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Reconciling resilience across ecological systems, species and subdisciplines," 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • "Specialists and generalists fulfil important and complementary functional roles in ecological processes," 2021, Functional Ecology
  • "Systematic bias in studies of consumer functional responses," 2020, Ecology Letters
  • "Related plants tend to share pollinators and herbivores, but strength of phylogenetic signal varies among plant families," 2020, New Phytologist

Best Publications

  • Compartmentalization increases food-web persistence

    Daniel B. Stouffer;Jordi Bascompte

  • Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity

    Ross M. Thompson;Ulrich Brose;Jennifer A. Dunne;Robert O. Hall

  • Nestedness versus modularity in ecological networks: two sides of the same coin?

    Miguel A. Fortuna;Daniel B. Stouffer;Jens M. Olesen;Pedro Jordano

  • A Poissonian explanation for heavy tails in e-mail communication

    R. Dean Malmgren;Daniel B. Stouffer;Adilson E. Motter;Luis A. Nunes Amaral

  • Beyond species: why ecological interaction networks vary through space and time

    Timothée Poisot;Daniel B. Stouffer;Dominique Gravel

  • Strong contributors to network persistence are the most vulnerable to extinction

    Serguei Saavedra;Daniel B. Stouffer;Daniel B. Stouffer;Brian Uzzi;Jordi Bascompte

  • Higher-order interactions capture unexplained complexity in diverse communities

    Margaret M Mayfield;Daniel B Stouffer

  • Parasites affect food web structure primarily through increased diversity and complexity.

    Jennifer A. Dunne;Kevin D. Lafferty;Andrew P. Dobson;Ryan F. Hechinger

  • On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity

    R. Dean Malmgren;Daniel B. Stouffer;Daniel B. Stouffer;Andriana S. L. O. Campanharo;Andriana S. L. O. Campanharo;Luís A. Nunes Amaral;Luís A. Nunes Amaral

  • The assembly and disassembly of ecological networks

    Jordi Bascompte;Daniel B. Stouffer

  • QUANTITATIVE PATTERNS IN THE STRUCTURE OF MODEL AND EMPIRICAL FOOD WEBS

    D. B. Stouffer;J. Camacho;J. Camacho;R. Guimerà;C. A. Ng

  • Evidence for the existence of a robust pattern of prey selection in food webs.

    Daniel B Stouffer;Juan Camacho;Juan Camacho;Wenxin Jiang;Luís A Nunes Amaral

  • Evolutionary conservation of species' roles in food webs.

    Daniel B. Stouffer;Daniel B. Stouffer;Marta Sales-Pardo;M. Irmak Sirer;Jordi Bascompte

  • Understanding food‐web persistence from local to global scales

    Daniel B. Stouffer;Jordi Bascompte

  • Origin of compartmentalization in food webs

    Roger Guimerà;Daniel Stouffer;Marta Sales-Pardo;Elizabeth Leicht

  • A robust measure of food web intervality

    Daniel B. Stouffer;Juan Camacho;Juan Camacho;Luís A. Nunes Amaral

  • paco: implementing Procrustean Approach to Cophylogeny in R

    Matthew C. Hutchinson;Matthew C. Hutchinson;E. Fernando Cagua;Juan Antonio Balbuena;Daniel B. Stouffer

  • The mechanistic basis for higher-order interactions and non-additivity in competitive communities.

    Andrew D. Letten;Andrew D. Letten;Daniel B. Stouffer

  • The marine fish food web is globally connected

    Camille Albouy;Philippe Archambault;Ward Appeltans;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo

  • Accurate predictions of coexistence in natural systems require the inclusion of facilitative interactions and environmental dependency

    Malyon D. Bimler;Daniel B. Stouffer;Hao Ran Lai;Hao Ran Lai;Margaret M. Mayfield

  • Intransitivity is infrequent and fails to promote annual plant coexistence without pairwise niche differences.

    Oscar Godoy;Daniel B. Stouffer;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Jonathan M. Levine

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Gravel
Dominique Gravel Université de Sherbrooke
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Jordi Bascompte
Jordi Bascompte University of Zurich
Spencer A. Wood
Spencer A. Wood University of Washington
Margaret M. Mayfield
Margaret M. Mayfield University of Queensland
Jennifer A. Dunne
Jennifer A. Dunne Santa Fe Institute
Sonia Kéfi
Sonia Kéfi University of Montpellier
Marie-Josée Fortin
Marie-Josée Fortin University of Toronto
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Tomas Roslin
Tomas Roslin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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