2026 Jonathan M. Chase: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	77	935	891	65	63	212	40439

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

5892
Citations
Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

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

2803
Citations
Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches

Jonathan M. Chase;Mathew A. Leibold

2563
Citations
Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

Jonathan M. Chase;Jonathan A. Myers

1689
Citations
Community assembly: when should history matter?

Jonathan M. Chase

1262
Citations
Stochastic community assembly causes higher biodiversity in more productive environments.

Jonathan M. Chase

1164
Citations
Drought mediates the importance of stochastic community assembly

Jonathan M. Chase

1157
Citations
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

1116
Citations
Spatial scale dictates the productivity-biodiversity relationship.

Jonathan M. Chase;Mathew A. Leibold

1019
Citations
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

991
Citations
Trade‐offs in community ecology: linking spatial scales and species coexistence

Jamie M. Kneitel;Jonathan M. Chase

963
Citations
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

890
Citations
The interaction between predation and competition: a review and synthesis

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

844
Citations
Trophic cascades across ecosystems

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

723
Citations
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

720
Citations
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

615
Citations
Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

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

568
Citations
Beta-diversity in temperate and tropical forests reflects dissimilar mechanisms of community assembly

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

478
Citations
Aquatic eutrophication promotes pathogenic infection in amphibians

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

470
Citations
Metacommunity Ecology, Volume 59

Mathew A. Leibold;Jonathan M. Chase

460
Citations
Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss

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

443
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tiffany M. Knight Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Mathew A. Leibold University of Florida

Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Mark Vellend Université de Sherbrooke

Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford

Brian J. McGill University of Maine

W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

James C. Stegen Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Nicholas J. Gotelli University of Vermont

Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles

External Links

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