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D-Index
57
Citations
31565
World Ranking
2631
National Ranking
931

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jessica Gurevitch is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with key focus areas including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Meta-analysis and systematic reviews, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and animal studies, Animal testing and alternatives, Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications, and Climate Change and Geoengineering.

Recent publications by Jessica Gurevitch include:

  • Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension, 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation, 2020, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • Potential ecological impacts of climate intervention by reflecting sunlight to cool Earth, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Consequences of multiple imputation of missing standard deviations and sample sizes in meta-analysis, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Managing forests for competing goals, 2022, Science

Frequent co-authors in Jessica Gurevitch's research collaborations include:

  • Gordon A. Fox
  • Samuel M. Scheiner
  • John S. Kominoski
  • Debra P. C. Peters
  • David D. Breshears

Publication venues where the scientist has contributed notably include Ecosphere, Nature reviews. Neuroscience, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Ecology and Evolution, and Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Jessica Gurevitch has authored books published by Oxford University Press, notably "The Ecology of Plants" in 2020, which has been cited 270 times.

Awards recognizing Jessica Gurevitch's contributions include being named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2013 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • THE META-ANALYSIS OF RESPONSE RATIOS IN EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY

    Larry V. Hedges;Jessica Gurevitch;Peter S. Curtis

  • A meta-analysis of the response of soil respiration, net nitrogen mineralization, and aboveground plant growth to experimental ecosystem warming

    L.E. Rustad;J.L. Campbell;G.M. Marion;R.J. Norby

  • Are invasive species a major cause of extinctions

    Jessica Gurevitch;Dianna K. Padilla

  • Meta-analysis and the science of research synthesis

    Jessica Gurevitch;Julia Koricheva;Shinichi Nakagawa;Gavin Stewart

  • Jack of all trades, master of some? On the role of phenotypic plasticity in plant invasions

    Christina L. Richards;Oliver Bossdorf;Norris Z. Muth;Jessica Gurevitch

  • Handbook of Meta-analysis in Ecology and Evolution

    Julia Koricheva;Jessica Gurevitch;Kerrie L. Mengersen

  • STATISTICAL ISSUES IN ECOLOGICAL META‐ANALYSES

    Jessica Gurevitch;Larry V. Hedges

  • RESPONSES OF TUNDRA PLANTS TO EXPERIMENTAL WARMING:META‐ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TUNDRA EXPERIMENT

    A. M. Arft;M. D. Walker;J. Gurevitch;J. M. Alatalo

  • Global Warming and Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis

    Gaius R. Shaver;Josep Canadell;F. S. Chapin;Jessica Gurevitch

  • A Meta-Analysis of Competition in Field Experiments

    Jessica Gurevitch;Laura L. Morrow;Alison Wallace;Joseph S. Walsh

  • The consequences of spatial structure for the design and analysis of ecological field surveys

    Pierre Legendre;Mark R. T. Dale;Marie-Josée Fortin;Jessica Gurevitch

  • The ecology of plants

    Jessica Gurevitch;Samuel M. Scheiner;Gordon A. Fox

  • RESAMPLING TESTS FOR META-ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL DATA

    Dean C. Adams;Jessica Gurevitch;Michael S. Rosenberg

  • Responses of insect pests, pathogens, and invasive plant species to climate change in the forests of northeastern North America: What can

    Jeffrey S. DukesJ.S. Dukes;Jennifer PontiusJ. Pontius;David OrwigD. Orwig;Jeffrey R. GarnasJ.R. Garnas

  • EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO QUANTIFYING INTERACTION INTENSITY: COMPETITION AND FACILITATION ALONG PRODUCTIVITY GRADIENTS

    Deborah E. Goldberg;Tara Rajaniemi;Jessica Gurevitch;Allan Stewart-Oaten

  • Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension.

    Rose E. O'Dea;Malgorzata Lagisz;Michael D. Jennions;Julia Koricheva

  • The Interaction between Competition and Predation: A Meta-analysis of Field Experiments.

    Jessica Gurevitch;Janet A. Morrison;Larry V. Hedges

  • Meta-analysis in ecology

    Jessica Gurevitch;Peter S. Curtis;Michael H. Jones

  • Uses and misuses of meta‐analysis in plant ecology

    Julia Koricheva;Jessica Gurevitch

  • Emergent insights from the synthesis of conceptual frameworks for biological invasions

    J. Gurevitch;G. A. Fox;G. M. Wardle;Inderjit

  • Biological invasions: a field synopsis, systematic review, and database of the literature

    Edward Lowry;Emily J. Rollinson;Adam J. Laybourn;Tracy E. Scott;Tracy E. Scott

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinichi Nakagawa
Shinichi Nakagawa University of New South Wales
Julia Koricheva
Julia Koricheva Royal Holloway University of London
Ralf Seppelt
Ralf Seppelt Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Wolfgang Forstmeier
Wolfgang Forstmeier Max Planck Society
Kerrie Mengersen
Kerrie Mengersen Queensland University of Technology
Manuel T. Lerdau
Manuel T. Lerdau University of Virginia
Christopher H. Schmid
Christopher H. Schmid Brown University
John Harte
John Harte University of California, Berkeley
Larry V. Hedges
Larry V. Hedges Northwestern University
Josep G. Canadell
Josep G. Canadell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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