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D-Index
41
Citations
5851
World Ranking
5897
National Ranking
2000

Overview

Ian S. Pearse is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant number of publications contributing to these fields.

The scientist's main subfields of study include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, and Ecological Modeling. Pearse's work covers a variety of research topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Insect and Pesticide Research, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, and Plant Parasitism and Resistance.

Ian S. Pearse has contributed to several frequently cited publication venues, including:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology Letters
  • New Phytologist
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their recent notable publications include:

  • "Generalising indirect defence and resistance of plants," 2020, Ecology Letters
  • "The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation," 2021, BioScience
  • "Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Mast seeding patterns are asynchronous at a continental scale," 2020, Nature Plants
  • "North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East," 2022, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

Ian S. Pearse has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Jalene M. LaMontagne
  • Helen R. Sofaer
  • Inés Ibáñez
  • Miranda D. Redmond
  • Michał Bogdziewicz

Additionally, Pearse has authored a book titled How to Do Ecology, published in 2023 by Princeton University Press.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of mast seeding: resources, weather, cues, and selection.

    Ian S. Pearse;Walter D. Koenig;Dave Kelly

  • The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants.

    Owen L Petchey;Owen L Petchey;Mikael Pontarp;Mikael Pontarp;Thomas M Massie;Sonia Kéfi

  • Development and Delivery of Species Distribution Models to Inform Decision-Making

    Helen R Sofaer;Catherine S Jarnevich;Ian S Pearse;Regan L Smyth

  • Phylogenetic and trait similarity to a native species predict herbivory on non-native oaks

    Ian S. Pearse;Andrew L. Hipp

  • Increasing phenological asynchrony between spring green-up and arrival of migratory birds

    Stephen J. Mayor;Robert P. Guralnick;Morgan W. Tingley;Javier Otegui

  • What drives masting? The phenological synchrony hypothesis

    Walter D. Koenig;Johannes M. H. Knops;William J. Carmen;Ian S. Pearse

  • Predicting novel trophic interactions in a non‐native world

    Ian S. Pearse;Florian Altermatt

  • GLOBAL PATTERNS OF LEAF DEFENSES IN OAK SPECIES

    Ian S. Pearse;Andrew L. Hipp;Andrew L. Hipp

  • Predicting novel herbivore–plant interactions

    Ian S. Pearse;David J. Harris;Richard Karban;Andrew Sih

  • Cues versus proximate drivers: testing the mechanism behind masting behavior

    Ian S. Pearse;Walter D. Koenig;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Inter-annual variation in seed production has increased over time (1900-2014).

    Ian S. Pearse;Jalene M. LaMontagne;Walter D. Koenig

  • The relationship between invader abundance and impact

    Helen R. Sofaer;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Ian S. Pearse

  • Generalising indirect defence and resistance of plants

    Ian S. Pearse;Eric LoPresti;Robert N. Schaeffer;William C. Wetzel

  • Similarity and specialization of the larval versus adult diet of European butterflies and moths.

    Florian Altermatt;Ian S. Pearse

  • Sticky plant traps insects to enhance indirect defence.

    B. A. Krimmel;I. S. Pearse

  • The Importance of Forests in Bumble Bee Biology and Conservation

    John M Mola;Jeremy Hemberger;Jade Kochanski;Leif L Richardson

  • From theory to experiments for testing the proximate mechanisms of mast seeding: an agenda for an experimental ecology

    Michał Bogdziewicz;Davide Ascoli;Andrew Hacket‐Pain;Walter D. Koenig

  • Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence

    Tong Qiu;Marie-Claire Aravena;Robert Andrus;Davide Ascoli

  • Individual resource limitation combined with population‐wide pollen availability drives masting in the valley oak (Quercus lobata)

    Mario B. Pesendorfer;Walter D. Koenig;Ian S. Pearse;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • The role of leaf defensive traits in oaks on the preference and performance of a polyphagous herbivore, Orgyia vetusta

    Ian S. Pearse

  • Insect herbivores selectively suppress the HPL branch of the oxylipin pathway in host plants

    Tatyana Savchenko;Ian S. Pearse;Laura Ignatia;Richard Karban

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter D. Koenig
Walter D. Koenig University of California, Berkeley
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Andrew L. Hipp
Andrew L. Hipp Morton Arboretum
Richard Karban
Richard Karban University of California, Davis
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Michał Bogdziewicz
Michał Bogdziewicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Paul J. Ode
Paul J. Ode Colorado State University
Owen L. Petchey
Owen L. Petchey University of Zurich
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Michael E. Schaepman
Michael E. Schaepman University of Zurich

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