2026 Donald A. Levin: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	78	904	336	225	25841

Discipline name

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World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Ecology and Evolution

904

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25841

Research.com Recognitions

1975 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Donald A. Levin was affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focused on areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covered various subfields including:

Plant Science
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Genetics
Molecular Biology

Key research topics addressed included:

Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
Plant and Animal Studies
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Genetic Diversity and Population Structure
Plant Tissue Culture and Regeneration
Plant Reproductive Biology

Notable publications by Donald A. Levin featured contributions to multiple journals, including:

Propagule pressure and the establishment of emergent polyploid populations, 2020, Annals of Botany
Has the Polyploid Wave Ebbed?, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
Did dysploid waves follow the pulses of whole genome duplications?, 2020, Plant Systematics and Evolution

Frequent publication venues included:

Annals of Botany
Frontiers in Plant Science
Plant Systematics and Evolution

Donald A. Levin was recognized with the award of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1975.

Best Publications

Gene Flow in Seed Plants

Donald A. Levin;Harold W. Kerster

1327
Citations
The Role of Trichomes in Plant Defense

Donald A. Levin

1303
Citations
Polyploidy and Novelty in Flowering Plants

Donald A. Levin

1192
Citations
The Role of Chromosomal Change in Plant Evolution

Donald A. Levin

1166
Citations
Hybridization and the Extinction of Rare Plant Species

Donald A. Levin;Javier Francisco-Ortega;Robert K. Jansen

851
Citations
The Chemical Defenses of Plants to Pathogens and Herbivores

Donald A. Levin

758
Citations
MINORITY CYTOTYPE EXCLUSION IN LOCAL PLANT POPULATIONS

Donald A. Levin

739
Citations
The Ecological and Genetic Consequences of Density-Dependent Regulation in Plants

and J Antonovics;D A Levin

667
Citations
Evolutionary consequences of seed pools

Alan R. Templeton;Donald A. Levin

547
Citations
Competition for Pollinators between Simultaneously Flowering Species

Donald A. Levin;Wyatt W. Anderson

492
Citations
The origin of isolating mechanisms in flowering plants

Da Levin

468
Citations
Dispersal Versus Gene Flow in Plants

Donald A Levin

441
Citations
The origin, expansion, and demise of plant species

Donald A. Levin

425
Citations
On the relative abundance of autopolyploids and allopolyploids.

Michael S. Barker;Nils Arrigo;Nils Arrigo;Anthony E. Baniaga;Zheng Li

409
Citations
Pest Pressure and Recombination Systems in Plants

Donald A. Levin

382
Citations
Plant Phenolics: An Ecological Perspective

Donald A. Levin

330
Citations
The nature of plant species.

Donald A. Levin

308
Citations
A MODEL FOR CHLOROPLAST CAPTURE

Anne Tsitrone;Mark A Kirkpatrick;Donald A Levin

278
Citations
ALKALOID-BEARING PLANTS: AN ECOGEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE

Donald A. Levin

277
Citations
Ecological Constraints on the Establishment of a Novel Polyploid in Competition with Its Diploid Progenitor

Norma L. Fowler;Donald A. Levin

275
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Norma L. Fowler The University of Texas at Austin

Carl D. Schlichting University of Connecticut

Diane L. Marshall University of New Mexico

Barbara A. Schaal Washington University in St. Louis

Donald R. Strong University of California, Davis

William L. Crepet Cornell University

Douglas E. Soltis University of Florida

Sahotra Sarkar The University of Texas at Austin

Philip W. Hedrick Arizona State University

Robert K. Jansen The University of Texas at Austin

External Links

Personal website of Donald A. Levin

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