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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
5183
World Ranking
6196
National Ranking
2099

Overview

Dean E. Pearson is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States and has contributed extensively to environmental and agricultural biological sciences. Their research spans fields such as environmental science, with 40 publications, and agricultural and biological sciences, comprising 35 publications.

Their work engages deeply with subfields including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecology, plant science, and insect science. This breadth reflects a multidisciplinary approach to understanding ecosystems and species interactions.

Key research topics covered by Pearson include ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, rangeland and wildlife management, plant parasitism and resistance, biological control of invasive species, animal ecology and behavior studies, and fire effects on ecosystems. These topics demonstrate the scientist's focus on ecosystem processes and species management.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pearson include Yvette K. Ortega, Philip G. Hahn, Philip W. Ramsey, José L. Hierro, and Łukasz Dylewski.

Dean E. Pearson has published multiple articles in several scientific journals. Prominent publication venues with repeated contributions are Ecology Letters, Restoration Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Ecology, and Biological Invasions.

  • Seed size predicts global effects of small mammal seed predation on plant recruitment (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • Managing invasive plants on Great Plains grasslands: A discussion of current challenges (2020, Rangeland Ecology & Management)
  • Evaluating unintended consequences of intentional species introductions and eradications for improved conservation management (2021, Conservation Biology)
  • Deterring rodent seed-predation using seed-coating technologies (2020, Restoration Ecology)
  • Soil engineering by ants facilitates plant compensation for large herbivore removal of aboveground biomass (2021, Ecology)

Best Publications

  • Indirect effects of host-specific biological control agents

    Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson;Ragan M. Callaway

  • WEAK VS. STRONG INVADERS OF NATURAL PLANT COMMUNITIES: ASSESSING INVASIBILITY AND IMPACT

    Yvette K. Ortega;Dean E. Pearson

  • Community Assembly Theory as a Framework for Biological Invasions

    Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson;Yvette K. Ortega;Özkan Eren;José L. Hierro;José L. Hierro

  • Comparison of proposed survey procedures for detection of forest carnivores

    Kerry R. Foresman;Dean E. Pearson

  • Secondary invasion: The bane of weed management

    Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson;Yvette K. Ortega;Justin B. Runyon;Jack L. Butler

  • Invasive plant architecture alters trophic interactions by changing predator abundance and behavior

    Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson

  • Population estimation with sparse data: the role of estimators versus indices revisited

    Kevin S. McKelvey;Dean E. Pearson

  • Indirect nontarget effects of host-specific biological control agents: Implications for biological control

    Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Transect versus grid trapping arrangements for sampling small-mammal communities

    Dean E Pearson;Leonard E Ruggiero

  • Non-target effects of an introduced biological control agent on deer mouse ecology

    Dean E. Pearson;Kevin S. McKelvey;Leonard F. Ruggiero

  • Seed size and provenance mediate the joint effects of disturbance and seed predation on community assembly

    John L. Maron;Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson;Teal Potter;Yvette K. Ortega

  • Characteristics of American marten den sites in Wyoming

    Leonard F. Ruggiero;Dean E. Pearson;Stephen E. Henry

  • Non‐target effects of broadleaf herbicide on a native perennial forb: a demographic framework for assessing and minimizing impacts

    Elizabeth E. Crone;Marilyn Marler;Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson

  • Small-mammal seed predation limits the recruitment and abundance of two perennial grassland forbs.

    Mary Bricker;Dean Pearson;Dean Pearson;John L. Maron

  • Biotic resistance via granivory: establishment by invasive, naturalized, and native asters reflects generalist preference

    Dean E Pearson;Dean E Pearson;Ragan M Callaway;John L Maron

  • Negative plant‐soil feedbacks increase with plant abundance, and are unchanged by competition

    John L. Maron;Alyssa Laney Smith;Alyssa Laney Smith;Yvette K. Ortega;Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson

  • Fire and mice: Seed predation moderates fire's influence on conifer recruitment

    RafaŁ Zwolak;Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson;Yvette K. Ortega;Elizabeth E. Crone

  • Biological control agents elevate hantavirus by subsidizing deer mouse populations.

    Dean E. Pearson;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Incorporating the effects of generalist seed predators into plant community theory

    Loralee Larios;Loralee Larios;Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson;John L. Maron

  • Seed size predicts global effects of small mammal seed predation on plant recruitment

    Łukasz Dylewski;Łukasz Dylewski;Yvette K. Ortega;Michał Bogdziewicz;Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson

  • Quantifying “apparent” impact and distinguishing impact from invasiveness in multispecies plant invasions

    Dean E. Pearson;Dean E. Pearson;Yvette K. Ortega;Ozkan Eren;Jose Luis Hierro

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Maron
John L. Maron University of Montana
Ragan M. Callaway
Ragan M. Callaway University of Montana
Kevin S. McKelvey
Kevin S. McKelvey US Forest Service
Michał Bogdziewicz
Michał Bogdziewicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Elizabeth E. Crone
Elizabeth E. Crone Tufts University
John C. Kilgo
John C. Kilgo US Forest Service
Michael K. Schwartz
Michael K. Schwartz US Forest Service
Robert E. Keane
Robert E. Keane US Forest Service
Ylva Lekberg
Ylva Lekberg University of Montana
Barbara J. Bentz
Barbara J. Bentz US Forest Service

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