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D-Index
80
Citations
40460
World Ranking
813
National Ranking
296

John Vandermeer 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 John Vandermeer sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 345 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John Vandermeer 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 John Vandermeer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

John Vandermeer is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, and Insect Science.

Their work encompasses various topics such as Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Coffee Research and Impacts, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

Frequent collaborators in their publications include Ivette Perfecto, Zachary Hajian-Forooshani, Gordon Fitch, Kevin Li, and Emilio Mora Van Cauwelaert.

John Vandermeer has published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Ecological Complexity, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Theoretical Ecology.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity, 2023, Communications Biology
  • Tree Effects on Coffee Leaf Rust at Field and Landscape Scales, 2022, Plant Disease
  • Chemical Similarity of Co-occurring Trees Decreases With Precipitation and Temperature in North American Forests, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • The importance of shade trees in promoting carbon storage in the coffee agroforest systems, 2023, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

John Vandermeer has contributed to book publications including titles released by Cambridge University Press and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Noteworthy books include "The Dialectical Agroecologist" published in 2024 and "THE MICHIGAN BIG WOODS RESEARCH PLOT AT THE EDWIN S. GEORGE RESERVE, PINCKNEY, MI, USA" published in 2020.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) since 2014.

Best Publications

  • EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

    D. U. Hooper;F. S. Chapin;J. J. Ewel;A. Hector

  • The ecology of intercropping

    John H. Vandermeer

  • Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification

    Teja Tscharntke;Yann Clough;Thomas Cherico Wanger;Thomas Cherico Wanger;Louise Jackson

  • Anticipating Critical Transitions

    Marten Scheffer;Marten Scheffer;Stephen R. Carpenter;Timothy M. Lenton;Jordi Bascompte

  • The agroecological matrix as alternative to the land-sparing/agriculture intensification model

    Ivette Perfecto;John Vandermeer

  • Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Agroecosystems

    Ivette Perfecto;John Vandermeer

  • Global change and multi-species agroecosystems : Concepts and issues

    John Vandermeer;Meine van Noordwijk;Jo Anderson;Chin Ong

  • Biodiversity, yield, and shade coffee certification

    Ivette Perfecto;John Vandermeer;Alex Mas;Lorena Soto Pinto

  • The Agricultural Matrix and a Future Paradigm for Conservation

    John Vandermeer;Ivette Perfecto

  • No Consistent Effect of Plant Diversity on Productivity

    M. A. Huston;L. W. Aarssen;M. P. Austin;B. S. Cade

  • Quality of agroecological matrix in a tropical montane landscape: Ants in coffee plantations in southern Mexico

    Ivette Perfecto;John Vandermeer

  • Breakfast Of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction

    John H. Vandermeer;Ivette Perfecto;Vandana Shiva

  • Conservation of biodiversity in coffee agroecosystems: a tri-taxa comparison in southern Mexico

    Ivette Perfecto;Alexandre Mas;Thomas Dietsch;John H. Vandermeer

  • Bats Limit Insects in a Neotropical Agroforestry System

    Kimberly Williams-Guillén;Ivette Perfecto;John Vandermeer

  • The Competitive Structure of Communities: An Experimental Approach with Protozoa

    John H. Vandermeer;John H. Vandermeer

  • Metapopulation dynamics and the quality of the matrix.

    John Vandermeer;Ricardo Carvajal

  • THE ECOLOGICAL BASIS OF ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE

    John Vandermeer

  • Successional dynamics in Neotropical forests are as uncertain as they are predictable

    Natalia Norden;Héctor A. Angarita;Frans Bongers;Miguel Martínez-Ramos

  • GREATER PREDATION IN SHADED COFFEE FARMS: THE ROLE OF RESIDENT NEOTROPICAL BIRDS

    Ivette Perfecto;John H. Vandermeer;Gustavo López Bautista;Guillermo Ibarra Nunñez

  • Interspecific competition: a new approach to the classical theory.

    John H. Vandermeer

  • Special Issue Article: Advancing Environmental Conservation: Essays In Honor Of Navjot Sodhi Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification

    Teja Tscharntke;Yann Clough;Thomas C. Wanger;Louise Jackson

  • Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge: Ecological Monog

    David Hooper;F. Stuart Chapin;John J. Ewel;Andy Hector

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivette Perfecto
Ivette Perfecto University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stacy M. Philpott
Stacy M. Philpott University of California, Santa Cruz
Deborah E. Goldberg
Deborah E. Goldberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Shalene Jha
Shalene Jha The University of Texas at Austin
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
Javier Ruiz
Javier Ruiz Complutense University of Madrid
Mercedes Pascual
Mercedes Pascual University of Chicago
Andy Hector
Andy Hector University of Oxford
Michel Loreau
Michel Loreau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Brenda B. Lin
Brenda B. Lin Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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