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32
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5147
World Ranking
8015
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495

Jurek Kolasa 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 Jurek Kolasa sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 107 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jurek Kolasa 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 Jurek Kolasa sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 32 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Jurek Kolasa is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research addresses multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Environmental Chemistry.

Key topics of Kolasa's research focus on ecosystem dynamics and resilience, species distribution and climate change, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, animal ecology and behavior studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, and land use and ecosystem services.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kolasa include Matthew P. Hammond, Jessica Marchesan, Jo A. Werba, Mehdi Cherif, and Rui-Wu Wang.

Kolasa's recent publications encompass contributions to several scientific journals. Selected papers include:

  • Disentangling local, metapopulation, and cross-community sources of stabilization and asynchrony in metacommunities (2020, Ecosphere)
  • Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science (2023, Ecosphere)
  • Synthetic ecosystems: an emerging opportunity for science and society? (2023, Oikos)
  • Habitat Fragmentation Affects Richness-A View Through a Metacommunity Lens (2024, Diversity)
  • Long-term supratidal rockpool invertebrate community, Discovery Bay, Jamaica (2023, Ecology)

Kolasa has published in various venues repeatedly, with multiple works featured in Ecosphere, Preprints.org, Oikos, Diversity, and Ecology.

In addition to journal articles, Kolasa has contributed to academic books, including a publication titled Models in Population, Community and Ecosystem Dynamics, released by Frontiers Media in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Ecological Understanding: The Nature of Theory and the Theory of Nature

    Steward T. A. Pickett;Clive G. Jones;Jurek Kolasa

  • The ecological concept of disturbance and its expression at various hierarchical levels

    S. T.A. Pickett;J. Kolasa;J. J. Armesto;S. L. Collins

  • Contrasts between habitat generalists and specialists: an empirical extension to the basic metacommunity framework

    Shubha N. Pandit;Jurek Kolasa;Karl Cottenie

  • Are natural microcosms useful model systems for ecology

    Diane S. Srivastava;Jurek Kolasa;Jan Bengtsson;Andrew Gonzalez

  • Introduction: The Heterogeneity of Heterogeneity: A Glossary

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  • The relative sensitivity of four benthic invertebrates to metals in spiked‐sediment exposures and application to contaminated field sediment

    Danielle Milani;Danielle Milani;Trefor B. Reynoldson;Uwe Borgmann;Jurek Kolasa

  • Ecological Systems as Complex Systems: Challenges for an Emerging Science

    Madhur Anand;Andrew Gonzalez;Frédéric Guichard;Jurek Kolasa

  • Evolutionary implications of the relationship between genome size and body size in flatworms and copepods

    T Ryan Gregory;Paul D N Hebert;Jurek Kolasa

  • Ecological Understanding and the Public

    Steward T.A. Pickett;Jurek Kolasa;Clive G. Jones

  • Notes on ecotone attributes and functions

    Jurek Kolasa;Maciej Zalewski

  • Biological invasions, ecological resilience and adaptive governance.

    Brian C. Chaffin;Ahjond S. Garmestani;David G. Angeler;Dustin L. Herrmann

  • Nestedness, niche metrics and temporal dynamics of a metacommunity in a dynamic natural model system

    Ermias T. Azeria;Jurek Kolasa

  • DESICCATION FREQUENCY REDUCES SPECIES DIVERSITY AND PREDICTABILITY OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN COASTAL ROCK POOLS

    Thomas W. Therriault;Jurek Kolasa

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  • Environmental variability alters the relationship between richness and variability of community abundances in aquatic rock pool microcosms

    Tamara N. Romanuk;Jurek Kolasa

  • Complexity, system integration, and susceptibility to change: Biodiversity connection

    Jurek Kolasa

  • Explicit links among physical stress, habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity

    Thomas W. Therriault;Jurek Kolasa

  • Physical determinants of richness, diversity, evenness and abundance in natural aquatic microcosms

    Thomas W. Therriault;Jurek Kolasa

  • A review of the phosphorus content of dry cereal and legume crops of the world

    John N.A. Lott;Marla Bojarski;Jurek Kolasa;Graeme D. Batten

  • Removing the confounding effect of habitat specialization reveals the stabilizing contribution of diversity to species variability.

    Jurek Kolasa;Bai-Lian Li

  • Resource limitation, biodiversity, and competitive effects interact to determine the invasibility of rock pool microcosms

    Tamara N. Romanuk;Jurek Kolasa

  • Rapoport's rule: an explanation or a byproduct of the latitudinal gradient in species richness?

    Jurek Kolasa;Chad L. Hewitt;James A. Drake

  • Nutrient enrichment weakens the stabilizing effect of species richness

    Tamara N. Romanuk;Richard J. Vogt;Jurek Kolasa

  • Species richness–variability relationships in multi‐trophic aquatic microcosms

    Richard J. Vogt;Tamara N. Romanuk;Jurek Kolasa

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert University of Guelph
Roy G. Danzmann
Roy G. Danzmann University of Guelph
Karl Cottenie
Karl Cottenie University of Guelph
Beatrix E. Beisner
Beatrix E. Beisner University of Quebec at Montreal
Steward T. A. Pickett
Steward T. A. Pickett Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Chad L. Hewitt
Chad L. Hewitt Murdoch University
Andrew Gonzalez
Andrew Gonzalez McGill University
Tom Artois
Tom Artois Hasselt University
Jan W. de Leeuw
Jan W. de Leeuw International Soil Reference and Information Centre
Craig A. Stow
Craig A. Stow National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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