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Jonathan Belmaker

Jonathan Belmaker

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
7186
World Ranking
6061
National Ranking
33

Overview

Jonathan Belmaker is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and specializes in Environmental Science with a primary focus on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Oceanography. Their research spans a significant breadth of topics related to ecological dynamics and environmental processes.

The main topics of Jonathan Belmaker's research include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Jonathan Belmaker's recent notable papers illustrate their focus on marine and ecological systems with the following works:

  • "Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment" (2021, Biological Conservation)
  • "Distance decay 2.0 - A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities" (2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • "The Tropical Seagrass Halophila stipulacea: Reviewing What We Know From Its Native and Invasive Habitats, Alongside Identifying Knowledge Gaps" (2020, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • "Are we ready to track climate-driven shifts in marine species across international boundaries? - A global survey of scientific bottom trawl data" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "Incorporating physiology into species distribution models moderates the projected impact of warming on selected Mediterranean marine species" (2020, Ecography)

The frequent scientific venues where Jonathan Belmaker publishes include:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Biological Conservation
  • Coral Reefs
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Jonathan Belmaker collaborates extensively with several co-authors, emphasizing a consistent network of research partnership. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Shira Salingré
  • Yehezkel Buba
  • Tal Gavriel
  • Shahar Chaikin
  • Shahar Malamud

Best Publications

  • EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

    Hamish Wilman;Jonathan Belmaker;Jonathan Belmaker;Jennifer Simpson;Carolina de la Rosa

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • The global biogeography of polyploid plants

    Anna Rice;Petr Šmarda;Maria Novosolov;Maria Novosolov;Michal Drori

  • Inferring local ecological processes amid species pool influences

    Jean-Philippe Lessard;Jonathan Belmaker;Jonathan Belmaker;Jonathan A. Myers;Jonathan M. Chase

  • Assessing the suitability of diversity metrics to detect biodiversity change

    Luca Santini;Luca Santini;Jonathan Belmaker;Jonathan Belmaker;Mark J. Costello;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira

  • Is oxygen limitation in warming waters a valid mechanism to explain decreased body sizes in aquatic ectotherms

    Asta Audzijonyte;Diego R. Barneche;Alan R. Baudron;Jonathan Belmaker

  • Relative roles of ecological and energetic constraints, diversification rates and region history on global species richness gradients

    Jonathan Belmaker;Walter Jetz

  • Niche shift can impair the ability to predict invasion risk in the marine realm: an illustration using Mediterranean fish invaders.

    Valeriano Parravicini;Ernesto Azzurro;Michel Kulbicki;Jonathan Belmaker

  • Cross-scale variation in species richness–environment associations

    Jonathan Belmaker;Jonathan Belmaker;Walter Jetz;Walter Jetz

  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment.

    Amanda E. Bates;Richard B. Primack;Brandy S. Biggar;Tomas J. Bird

  • Biologists ignore ocean weather at their peril.

    Amanda E. Bates;Brian Helmuth;Michael T. Burrows;Murray I. Duncan

  • Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

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  • Global patterns of specialization and coexistence in bird assemblages

    Jonathan Belmaker;Cagan H. Sekercioglu;Walter Jetz

  • Global mismatch between species richness and vulnerability of reef fish assemblages.

    Valeriano Parravicini;Valeriano Parravicini;Sébastien Villéger;Tim R. McClanahan;Jesus Ernesto Arias-González

  • Upgrading Marine Ecosystem Restoration Using Ecological‐Social Concepts

    Avigdor Abelson;Benjamin S. Halpern;Daniel C. Reed;Robert J. Orth

  • Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010.

    Aafke M Schipper;Jonathan Belmaker;Murilo Dantas de Miranda;Laetitia M Navarro

  • Ecological traits and environmental affinity explain Red Sea fish introduction into the Mediterranean.

    Jonathan Belmaker;Valeriano Parravicini;Michel Kulbicki

  • Downscaling of species distribution models: a hierarchical approach

    Petr Keil;Petr Keil;Jonathan Belmaker;Jonathan Belmaker;Adam M. Wilson;Philip Unitt

  • The Tropical Seagrass Halophila stipulacea: Reviewing What We Know From Its Native and Invasive Habitats, Alongside Identifying Knowledge Gaps

    Gidon Winters;Sven Beer;Demian A. Willette;Inés G. Viana

  • Large but uneven reduction in fish size across species in relation to changing sea temperatures.

    Itai van Rijn;Yehezkel Buba;John DeLong;Moshe Kiflawi

  • Are we ready to track climate‐driven shifts in marine species across international boundaries? ‐ A global survey of scientific bottom trawl data

    Aurore Maureaud;Romain Frelat;Laurène Pécuchet;Nancy Shackell

  • Empirical Evidence for the Scale Dependence of Biotic Interactions

    Jonathan Belmaker;Phoebe Zarnetske;Phoebe Zarnetske;Mao Ning Tuanmu;Sara Zonneveld;Sara Zonneveld

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Jetz
Walter Jetz Yale University
Nadav Shashar
Nadav Shashar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Valeriano Parravicini
Valeriano Parravicini University of Perpignan
Shai Meiri
Shai Meiri Tel Aviv University
Michel Kulbicki
Michel Kulbicki Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Uri Roll
Uri Roll Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Gil Rilov
Gil Rilov Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
John P. DeLong
John P. DeLong University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Graham J. Edgar
Graham J. Edgar University of Tasmania
Alan M. Friedlander
Alan M. Friedlander University of Hawaii at Manoa

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