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Overview

Jonathan D. Bakker is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans across environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on various subfields of ecological and environmental studies.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields of study highlighted within their research are:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science

Jonathan D. Bakker's primary topics of work cover ecological and vegetation dynamics, rangeland and wildlife management, plant and animal studies, fire effects on ecosystems, wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution with climate change, and soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Several recent publications by Bakker and collaborators provide insight into their research focus. These include:

  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Challenges and opportunities for grassland restoration: A global perspective of best practices in the era of climate change (2023), published in Global Ecology and Conservation
  • Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands (2020), published in Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors in their published work include Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, Yann Hautier, Carly J. Stevens, and Andrew S. MacDougall. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary exchange across ecological and environmental research communities.

The scientist's work is often published in several notable venues, among which are:

  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Forest Service Research Data Archive

Best Publications

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

    Suzanne M. Prober;Jonathan W. Leff;Scott T. Bates;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

    W. Stanley Harpole;W. Stanley Harpole;Lauren L. Sullivan;Eric M. Lind;Jennifer Firn

  • Natural History's Place in Science and Society

    Joshua J. Tewksbury;John G. T. Anderson;Jonathan D. Bakker;Timothy J. Billo

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • CONTINGENCY OF GRASSLAND RESTORATION ON YEAR, SITE, AND COMPETITION FROM INTRODUCED GRASSES

    Jonathan D. Bakker;Scott D. Wilson;Janice M. Christian;Xingdong Li

  • Life-history constraints in grassland plant species : a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

    Eric M. Lind;Elizabeth Borer;Eric Seabloom;Peter Adler

  • Using ecological restoration to constrain biological invasion

    Jonathan D. Bakker;Scott D. Wilson

  • Comparisons between field- and LiDAR-based measures of stand structural complexity

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  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

    Carly J. Stevens;Eric M. Lind;Yann Hautier;Yann Hautier;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Herbaceous Vegetation Responses (1992-2004) to Restoration Treatments in a Ponderosa Pine Forest

    Margaret Moore;Cheryl Casey;Jonathan Bakker;Judith Springer

  • Competitive abilities of introduced and native grasses

    Jonathan Bakker;Scott Wilson

  • Trajectories of change in sagebrush steppe vegetation communities in relation to multiple wildfires

    G. M. Davies;J. D. Bakker;E. Dettweiler-Robinson;Peter W. Dunwiddie

  • Increasing the utility of Indicator Species Analysis

    Jonathan D. Bakker

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Andersen;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Peter B. Adler
Peter B. Adler Utah State University
Joslin L. Moore
Joslin L. Moore Monash University

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