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D-Index
77
Citations
40439
World Ranking
931
National Ranking
65

Jonathan M. Chase 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 Jonathan M. Chase sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 212 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jonathan M. Chase 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 Jonathan M. Chase sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 77 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Jonathan M. Chase is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a substantial body of work in related subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist has contributed to a variety of topics within ecology and environmental science. Key research areas include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Jonathan M. Chase has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss" (2020, Nature)
  • "Biodiversity conservation through the lens of metacommunity ecology" (2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)

Other significant papers in the broader field context, though authored primarily by coauthors, are:

  • "Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances" (2020, Science)
  • "A process-based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology" (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • "A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action" (2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution)

Jonathan M. Chase frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Ecology Letters, Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and Science.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Jonathan M. Chase include Shane A. Blowes, Roel van Klink, María Dornelas, Brian J. McGill, and Daniel J. McGlinn.

Best Publications

  • The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology

    M. A. Leibold;M. Holyoak;N. Mouquet;N. Mouquet;P. Amarasekare

  • Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

    Marti J. Anderson;Thomas O. Crist;Jonathan M. Chase;Mark Vellend

  • Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches

    Jonathan M. Chase;Mathew A. Leibold

  • Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

    Jonathan M. Chase;Jonathan A. Myers

  • Community assembly: when should history matter?

    Jonathan M. Chase

  • Stochastic community assembly causes higher biodiversity in more productive environments.

    Jonathan M. Chase

  • Drought mediates the importance of stochastic community assembly

    Jonathan M. Chase

  • Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances.

    Roel van Klink;Diana E. Bowler;Diana E. Bowler;Konstantin B. Gongalsky;Konstantin B. Gongalsky;Ann B. Swengel

  • Spatial scale dictates the productivity-biodiversity relationship.

    Jonathan M. Chase;Mathew A. Leibold

  • Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity

    Jonathan M. Chase;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Kevin G. Smith;Mark Vellend

  • Trade‐offs in community ecology: linking spatial scales and species coexistence

    Jamie M. Kneitel;Jonathan M. Chase

  • Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders

  • The interaction between predation and competition: a review and synthesis

    Jonathan M. Chase;Peter A. Abrams;James P. Grover;Sebastian Diehl

  • Trophic cascades across ecosystems

    Tiffany M. Knight;Michael W. McCoy;Jonathan M. Chase;Krista A. McCoy

  • Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring

    Helmut Hillebrand;Bernd Blasius;Elizabeth Borer;Jonathan M. Chase;Jonathan M. Chase

  • The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages.

    Shane A. Blowes;Sarah R. Supp;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Amanda Bates

  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

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

  • Beta-diversity in temperate and tropical forests reflects dissimilar mechanisms of community assembly

    Jonathan A. Myers;Jonathan M. Chase;Iván Jiménez;Peter M. Jørgensen

  • Aquatic eutrophication promotes pathogenic infection in amphibians

    Pieter T. J. Johnson;Jonathan M. Chase;Katherine L. Dosch;Richard B. Hartson

  • Metacommunity Ecology, Volume 59

    Mathew A. Leibold;Jonathan M. Chase

  • Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss

    Jonathan M. Chase;Shane A. Blowes;Tiffany M. Knight;Tiffany M. Knight;Katharina Gerstner

Frequent Co-Authors

Tiffany M. Knight
Tiffany M. Knight Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Mathew A. Leibold
Mathew A. Leibold University of Florida
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark Vellend
Mark Vellend Université de Sherbrooke
Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford
Brian J. McGill
Brian J. McGill University of Maine
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
James C. Stegen
James C. Stegen Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nicholas J. Gotelli
Nicholas J. Gotelli University of Vermont
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles

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