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37
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5306
World Ranking
6889
National Ranking
86

Overview

Jonathan D. Tonkin is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research covers multiple subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics mainly focused on aquatic and freshwater ecosystems. Key areas include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Plant and animal studies.

Jonathan D. Tonkin has authored several recent papers such as:

  • "A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research", 2021, Ecology Letters
  • "Increasing climate-driven taxonomic homogenization but functional differentiation among river macroinvertebrate assemblages", 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "The power of forecasts to advance ecological theory", 2022, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Causes, Responses, and Implications of Anthropogenic versus Natural Flow Intermittence in River Networks", 2022, BioScience
  • "Designing flow regimes to support entire river ecosystems", 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Jonathan D. Tonkin include:

  • Thibault Datry
  • Julian D. Olden
  • Tadeu Siqueira
  • Peter Haase
  • Núria Bonada

Publication venues in which Jonathan D. Tonkin has frequently contributed include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Ecology Letters, and BioScience.

Best Publications

  • The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt;Debra S. Finn;Jani Heino

  • Seasonality and predictability shape temporal species diversity.

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Michael T. Bogan;Núria Bonada;Blanca Rios‐Touma

  • Flow regime alteration degrades ecological networks in riparian ecosystems

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;David. M. Merritt;Julian D. Olden;Lindsay V. Reynolds

  • The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity.

    Peter Haase;Peter Haase;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Stefan Stoll;Benjamin Burkhard

  • Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones

    Scott D. Tiegs;David M. Costello;Mark W. Isken;Guy Woodward

  • Dispersal distance and the pool of taxa, but not barriers, determine the colonisation of restored river reaches by benthic invertebrates

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Stefan Stoll;Andrea Sundermann;Peter Haase

  • A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research.

    Alain Maasri;Alain Maasri;Sonja C. Jähnig;Sonja C. Jähnig;Mihai C. Adamescu;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian

  • Prepare river ecosystems for an uncertain future.

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;N. Le Roy Poff;Nick R. Bond;Avril Horne

  • Effects of changing climate on European stream invertebrate communities: A long-term data analysis

    Jonas Jourdan;Robert B. O'Hara;Roberta Bottarin;Kaisa-Leena Huttunen

  • Context dependency in biodiversity patterns of central German stream metacommunities

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Jani Heino;Andrea Sundermann;Peter Haase;Peter Haase

  • The three Rs of river ecosystem resilience: Resources, recruitment, and refugia

    Kris Van Looy;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Mathieu Floury;Catherine Leigh

  • Contrasting metacommunity structure and beta diversity in an aquatic‐floodplain system

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Stefan Stoll;Sonja C. Jähnig;Peter Haase

  • Disentangling environmental drivers of benthic invertebrate assemblages: The role of spatial scale and riverscape heterogeneity in a multiple stressor environment

    Moritz Leps;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Veronica Dahm;Peter Haase

  • Metacommunities in river networks: The importance of network structure and connectivity on patterns and processes

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Jani Heino;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt

  • Moderate warming over the past 25 years has already reorganized stream invertebrate communities

    Peter Haase;Francesca Pilotto;Fengqing Li;Andrea Sundermann

  • The power of forecasts to advance ecological theory

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  • Scale-dependent effects of river habitat quality on benthic invertebrate communities--Implications for stream restoration practice

    Stefan Stoll;Philippa Breyer;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Denise Früh

  • Time is no healer: increasing restoration age does not lead to improved benthic invertebrate communities in restored river reaches.

    Moritz Leps;Moritz Leps;Andrea Sundermann;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Armin W. Lorenz

  • Assessing drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in African highland streams: An exploration using multivariate analysis.

    Tatenda Dalu;Ryan J. Wasserman;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Mhairi E. Alexander

  • Increasing climate-driven taxonomic homogenization but functional differentiation among river macroinvertebrate assemblages.

    Théophile L. Mouton;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Fabrice Stephenson;Piet Verburg

  • Reintroduction of freshwater macroinvertebrates: challenges and opportunities.

    Jonas Jourdan;Martin Plath;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Maria Ceylan

  • Metacommunity structuring in Himalayan streams over large elevational gradients: the role of dispersal routes and niche characteristics

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Ram Devi Tachamo Shah;Deep Narayan Shah;Felicitas Hoppeler

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Haase
Peter Haase University of Duisburg-Essen
Sonja C. Jähnig
Sonja C. Jähnig Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Stefan Stoll
Stefan Stoll University of Duisburg-Essen
David A. Lytle
David A. Lytle Oregon State University
Russell G. Death
Russell G. Death Victoria University of Wellington
Andrea Sundermann
Andrea Sundermann American Museum of Natural History
Jani Heino
Jani Heino University of Oulu
Julian D. Olden
Julian D. Olden University of Washington
Steffen U. Pauls
Steffen U. Pauls Senckenberg German Entomological Institute
David M. Merritt
David M. Merritt US Forest Service

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