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Overview

John W. Morgan is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with specific attention to subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics covered in Morgan's work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Diabetes and associated disorders

Morgan's publication record features articles spanning multiple scientific disciplines, with research appearing in several frequent publication venues:

  • Communications Biology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Morgan include:

  • Forb diversity globally is harmed by nutrient enrichment but can be rescued by large mammalian herbivory, 2025, Communications Biology
  • Author Correction: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSES OF MAJOR IONS AND TRACE METALS REVEAL ROCK-WATER INTERACTION PATTERNS IN AN ALPINE WATERSHED, 2023, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist to sustain patients off basal-bolus insulin regimens, 2024, Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
  • Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands, 2025, Nature Communications

Their collaboration network includes several frequent co-authors who have contributed to multiple publications, including:

  • Erika I. Hersch-Green
  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Pedro M. Tognetti
  • Miguel N. Bugalho

Best Publications

  • Re-Os Ages of Group IIA, IIIA, IVA, and IVB Iron Meteorites

    Michael I. Smoliar;Richard J. Walker;John W. Morgan

  • The remarkable Re-Os chronometer in molybdenite : how and why it works

    H. J. Stein;R. J. Markey;J. W. Morgan;J. L. Hannah

  • Preparation and certification of Re-Os dating reference materials: Molybdenites HLP and JDC

    Andao Du;Shuqi Wu;Dezhong Sun;Shuxian Wang

  • Highly precise and accurate Re-Os ages for molybdenite from the East Qinling molybdenum belt, shaanxi Province, China

    H. J. Stein;R. J. Markey;J. W. Morgan;A. Du

  • Chemical Composition of Earth, Venus, and Mercury

    John W. Morgan;Edward Anders

  • Chemical composition of Mars

    John W Morgan;Edward Anders;Edward Anders

  • Ultramafic xenoliths: Clues to Earth's late accretionary history

    John W. Morgan

  • The osmium isotopic composition of the Earth's primitive upper mantle

    T. Meisel;T. Meisel;R. J. Walker;J. W. Morgan

  • Highly siderophile elements in chondrites

    M.F. Horan;R.J. Walker;J.W. Morgan;J.N. Grossman

  • 190Pt–186Os and 187Re–187Os systematics of abyssal peridotites

    Alan D Brandon;Alan D Brandon;Jonathan E Snow;Richard J Walker;John W Morgan;John W Morgan

  • Comparative 187Re-187Os systematics of chondrites: Implications regarding early solar system processes

    R.J Walker;M.F Horan;J.W Morgan;H Becker

  • Re-Os ages for Archean molybdenite and pyrite, Kuittila-Kivisuo, Finland and Proterozoic molybdenite, Kabeliai, Lithuania: testing the chronometer in a metamorphic and metasomatic setting

    H. J. Stein;K. Sundblad;R. J. Markey;J. W. Morgan

  • Highly precise Re-Os dating for molybdenite using alkaline fusion and NTIMS.

    Richard Markey;Holly Stein;Holly Stein;John Morgan

  • Composition of the earth's upper mantle. I - Siderophile trace elements in ultramafic nodules

    J.W Morgan;G.A Wandless;R.K Petrie;A.J Irving

  • RE-OS ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FOR AN ENRICHED-MANTLE SOURCE FOR THE NORIL'SK-TYPE, ORE-BEARING INTRUSIONS, SIBERIA

    R.J Walker;J.W Morgan;M.F Horan;G.K Czamanske

  • 186Os–187Os systematics of Hawaiian picrites

    Alan D. Brandon;Marc D. Norman;Richard J. Walker;John W. Morgan;John W. Morgan

  • Re-Os Dating of Low-Level Highly Radiogenic (LLHR) Sulfides: The Harnäs Gold Deposit, Southwest Sweden, Records Continental-Scale Tectonic Events

    Holly J. Stein;John W. Morgan;Anders Scherstén

  • Applications of the 190Pt186Os isotope system to geochemistry and cosmochemistry

    Richard J. Walker;John W. Morgan;John W. Morgan;Ellyn S. Beary;Michael I. Smoliar

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Osmium-187 enrichment in some plumes: evidence for core-mantle interaction?

    Richard J. Walker;John W. Morgan;Mary F. Horan

  • Abundance of 17 trace elements in carbonaceous chondrites.

    Urs Krähenbühl;John W. Morgan;R. Ganapathy;Edward Anders

  • Chemical fractionations in meteorites—VI. Accretion temperatures of H-, LL- and E-chondrites, from abundance of volatile trace elements

    J.C. Laul;R. Ganapathy;Edward Anders;John W. Morgan

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Anders
Edward Anders University of Chicago
Richard J. Walker
Richard J. Walker University of Maryland, College Park
Mary F. Horan
Mary F. Horan Carnegie Institution for Science
Holly J. Stein
Holly J. Stein University of Oslo
David D Lambert
David D Lambert Griffith University
Steven B. Shirey
Steven B. Shirey Carnegie Institution for Science
Alan D. Brandon
Alan D. Brandon University of Houston
Richard W. Carlson
Richard W. Carlson Carnegie Institution for Science
Jeffrey N. Grossman
Jeffrey N. Grossman United States Geological Survey
Anthony J. Naldrett
Anthony J. Naldrett University of Toronto

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