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74
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1089
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409

Daniel I. Bolnick 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 Daniel I. Bolnick sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 197 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daniel I. Bolnick 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 Daniel I. Bolnick sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 74 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America

Overview

Daniel I. Bolnick is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within the life sciences, with a focus on evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study for Bolnick include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and Environmental Science. Specific subfields of research include Genetics, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, and Immunology.

Key topics that characterize Bolnick's work are:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Genetic Diversity and Population Structure
  • Aquaculture Disease Management and Microbiota
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies

Some of Bolnick's recent publications demonstrate the range and focus of their research. Notable papers include:

  • "Infectious diseases and social distancing in nature" (2021, Science)
  • "Resource diversity promotes among-individual diet variation, but not genomic diversity, in lake stickleback" (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • "Sickness effects on social interactions depend on the type of behaviour and relationship" (2020, Journal of Animal Ecology)
  • "The gut microbiota response to helminth infection depends on host sex and genotype" (2020, The ISME Journal)
  • "Evolutionary gain and loss of a pathological immune response to parasitism" (2022, Science)

Bolnick frequently collaborates with other researchers, with repeated co-authorship from:

  • Jesse N. Weber
  • Lauren E. Fuess
  • Natalie C. Steinel
  • Stephen P. De Lisle
  • Kum Chuan Shim

The scientist has published extensively in various venues, most notably in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Evolution
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • The American Naturalist
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Among the awards received is the George Mercer Award from The Ecological Society of America, awarded in 2005.

Best Publications

  • The Ecology of Individuals: Incidence and Implications of Individual Specialization

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Richard Svanbäck;Richard Svanbäck;James A. Fordyce;Louie H. Yang

  • Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Priyanga Amarasekare;Márcio S. Araújo;Reinhard Bürger

  • SCARED TO DEATH? THE EFFECTS OF INTIMIDATION AND CONSUMPTION IN PREDATOR–PREY INTERACTIONS

    Evan L. Preisser;Daniel I. Bolnick;Michael F. Benard

  • The ecological causes of individual specialisation

    Márcio S. Araújo;Daniel I. Bolnick;Craig A. Layman

  • Intraspecific competition drives increased resource use diversity within a natural population

    Richard Svanbäck;Daniel I Bolnick

  • Sympatric Speciation: Models and Empirical Evidence

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick

  • MEASURING INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL RESOURCE SPECIALIZATION

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Louie H. Yang;James A. Fordyce;Jeremy M. Davis

  • Predator-prey naïveté, antipredator behavior, and the ecology of predator invasions

    Andrew Sih;Daniel I. Bolnick;Barney Luttbeg;John L. Orrock

  • Comparative support for the niche variation hypothesis that more generalized populations also are more heterogeneous

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Richard Svanbäck;Márcio S. Araújo;Lennart Persson

  • REVISITING THE CLASSICS: CONSIDERING NONCONSUMPTIVE EFFECTS IN TEXTBOOK EXAMPLES OF PREDATOR–PREY INTERACTIONS

    Barbara L. Peckarsky;Peter A. Abrams;Daniel I. Bolnick;Lawrence M. Dill

  • Individual diet has sex-dependent effects on vertebrate gut microbiota

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Lisa K. Snowberg;Philipp E. Hirsch;Philipp E. Hirsch;Christian L. Lauber

  • Microgeographic adaptation and the spatial scale of evolution

    Jonathan L. Richardson;Mark C. Urban;Daniel I. Bolnick;David K. Skelly

  • Ecological release from interspecific competition leads to decoupled changes in population and individual niche width.

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Travis Ingram;William E. Stutz;Lisa K. Snowberg

  • An evolutionary ecology of individual differences

    Sasha R. X. Dall;Alison M. Bell;Daniel I. Bolnick;Francis L. W. Ratnieks

  • Many-to-One Mapping of Form to Function: A General Principle in Organismal Design?

    Peter C. Wainwright;Michael E. Alfaro;Daniel I. Bolnick;C. Darrin Hulsey

  • Assortative Mating in Animals

    Yuexin X. Jiang;Daniel I. Bolnick;Mark Kirkpatrick

  • Non)Parallel Evolution

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Daniel I. Bolnick;Rowan D.H. Barrett;Krista B. Oke;Krista B. Oke;Diana J. Rennison

  • Dietary input of microbes and host genetic variation shape among-population differences in stickleback gut microbiota

    Chris C R Smith;Lisa K Snowberg;J Gregory Caporaso;J Gregory Caporaso;Rob Knight

  • CAN INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION DRIVE DISRUPTIVE SELECTION? AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF STICKLEBACKS

    Daniel I. Bolnick

  • The Many Faces of Fear: Comparing the Pathways and Impacts of Nonconsumptive Predator Effects on Prey Populations

    Evan L. Preisser;Daniel I. Bolnick

  • Non-random gene flow: an underappreciated force in evolution and ecology

    Pim Edelaar;Pim Edelaar;Daniel I. Bolnick

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine L. Peichel
Catherine L. Peichel University of Bern
Andrew P. Hendry
Andrew P. Hendry McGill University
Richard Svanbäck
Richard Svanbäck Uppsala University
Evan L. Preisser
Evan L. Preisser University of Rhode Island
Peter C. Wainwright
Peter C. Wainwright University of California, Davis
Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta
Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta Federal University of Uberlândia
J. Gregory Caporaso
J. Gregory Caporaso Northern Arizona University
Glauco Machado
Glauco Machado Universidade de São Paulo
Thomas J. Near
Thomas J. Near Yale University
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego

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