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Jonathan M. Levine

Jonathan M. Levine

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
75
Citations
36821
World Ranking
1024
National Ranking
384

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America

Overview

Jonathan M. Levine is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong focus on ecology, evolution, and related subfields.

The primary fields of study covered in their publications include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, their work addresses several subfields such as:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Genetics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling

The main research topics explored by Jonathan M. Levine include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Jonathan M. Levine has published extensively, including recent papers such as:

  • Using ecological coexistence theory to understand antibiotic resistance and microbial competition, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Small rainfall changes drive substantial changes in plant coexistence, 2022, Nature
  • Competition for pollinators destabilizes plant coexistence, 2022, Nature
  • Coexistence in diverse communities with higher-order interactions, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A quantitative synthesis of soil microbial effects on plant species coexistence, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist frequently collaborates with co-authors including:

  • Theo Gibbs
  • Nathan J. B. Kraft
  • Gaurav S. Kandlikar
  • Stephen W. Pacala
  • Jacob I. Levine

Jonathan M. Levine's publications appear often in journals and venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology Letters
  • The American Naturalist
  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Jonathan M. Levine was awarded the George Mercer Award by The Ecological Society of America in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Priyanga Amarasekare;Márcio S. Araújo;Reinhard Bürger

  • Mechanisms underlying the impacts of exotic plant invasions

    Jonathan M Levine;Montserrat Vilà;Carla M D'Antonio;Jeffrey S Dukes

  • Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Peter B. Adler;Oscar Godoy;Emily C. James

  • Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

    Margaret M. Mayfield;Jonathan M. Levine

  • A meta‐analysis of biotic resistance to exotic plant invasions

    Jonathan M. Levine;Peter B. Adler;Stephanie G. Yelenik

  • Elton revisited: a review of evidence linking diversity and invasibility

    Jonathan M. Levine;Carla M. D'Antonio

  • Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

    J. HilleRisLambers;P. B. Adler;W. S. Harpole;J. M. Levine

  • Biological invasions

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  • Species Diversity and Biological Invasions: Relating Local Process to Community Pattern

    Jonathan M. Levine

  • A niche for neutrality.

    Peter B. Adler;Janneke HilleRisLambers;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Oscar Godoy;Jonathan M. Levine

  • The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

    Jonathan M. Levine;Janneke HilleRisLambers

  • Forecasting Biological Invasions with Increasing International Trade

    Jonathan M. Levine;Carla M. D'Antonio

  • Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities

    Jonathan M. Levine;Jordi Bascompte;Peter B. Adler;Stefano Allesina

  • Novel competitors shape species/' responses to climate change

    Jake M. Alexander;Jeffrey M. Diez;Jonathan M. Levine

  • The Community-Level Consequences of Seed Dispersal Patterns

    Jonathan M. Levine;David J. Murrell

  • Plant invasions and the niche

    Andrew S. MacDougall;Benjamin Gilbert;Jonathan M. Levine

  • TESTING THE RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE INTERACTIONS IN ROCKY INTERTIDAL COMMUNITIES

    Mark D. Bertness;George H. Leonard;Jonathan M. Levine;Paul R. Schmidt

  • HOW FINE SEDIMENT IN RIVERBEDS IMPAIRS GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF JUVENILE SALMONIDS

    Kenwyn B. Suttle;Mary E. Power;Jonathan M. Levine;Jonathan M. Levine;Camille McNeely

  • A competitive network theory of species diversity

    Stefano Allesina;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Nutrients, competition and plant zonation in a New England salt marsh

    Jonathan M. Levine;J. Stephen Brewer;Mark D. Bertness

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B. Adler
Peter B. Adler Utah State University
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles
Janneke HilleRisLambers
Janneke HilleRisLambers University of Washington
Mark D. Bertness
Mark D. Bertness Brown University
Oscar Godoy
Oscar Godoy University of Cádiz
Benjamin Gilbert
Benjamin Gilbert University of Toronto
Margaret M. Mayfield
Margaret M. Mayfield University of Queensland
Blake Matthews
Blake Matthews Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Mark Rees
Mark Rees University of Sheffield
Carla M. D'Antonio
Carla M. D'Antonio University of California, Santa Barbara

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