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37
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8822
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6758
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422

Karl Cottenie 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 Karl Cottenie sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 103 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Karl Cottenie 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 Karl Cottenie sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Karl Cottenie is affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada. Their research is primarily situated within Environmental Science, with specific contributions to several subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Themes central to Cottenie's work cover a range of environmental and ecological topics. These include:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Cottenie has published research in several frequently appearing scientific venues. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Journal of Mammalogy
  • BMC Genomics
  • The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Cottenie include:

  • "Assessment of stream macroinvertebrate communities with eDNA is not congruent with tissue-based metabarcoding" (2020, Molecular Ecology)
  • "Into the wild: microbiome transplant studies need broader ecological reality" (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "Mapping and understanding the vulnerability of northern peatlands to permafrost thaw at scales relevant to community adaptation planning" (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • "Ethanol eDNA Reveals Unique Community Composition of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates Compared to Bulk Tissue Metabarcoding in a Biomonitoring Sampling Scheme" (2021, Diversity)
  • "At each site its diversity: DNA barcoding reveals remarkable earthworm diversity in neotropical rainforests of French Guiana" (2021, Applied Soil Ecology)

Several researchers have frequently collaborated with Cottenie. These co-authors include:

  • Jennifer Erin Gleason
  • Dirk Steinke
  • Astrid N. Schwalb
  • Robert Hanner
  • Marie-Eugénie Maggia

Best Publications

  • Integrating environmental and spatial processes in ecological community dynamics

    Karl Cottenie

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

    Shubha N. Pandit;Jurek Kolasa;Karl Cottenie

  • The power of species sorting: Local factors drive bacterial community composition over a wide range of spatial scales

    Katleen Van der Gucht;Karl Cottenie;Koenraad Muylaert;Nele Vloemans

  • ZOOPLANKTON METACOMMUNITY STRUCTURE: REGIONAL VS. LOCAL PROCESSES IN HIGHLY INTERCONNECTED PONDS

    Karl Cottenie;Erik Michels;Nele Nuytten;Luc De Meester

  • Plant and fungal identity determines pathogen protection of plant roots by arbuscular mycorrhizas

    Benjamin A. Sikes;Karl Cottenie;John N. Klironomos

  • Spatial autocorrelation and dispersal limitation in freshwater organisms

    Jonathan B. Shurin;Karl Cottenie;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural ecological communities

    J. E. Houlahan;D. J. Currie;K. Cottenie;G. S. Cumming

  • The terminology of metacommunity ecology.

    Amanda K. Winegardner;Amanda K. Winegardner;Brittany K. Jones;Ingrid S.Y. Ng;Tadeu Siqueira;Tadeu Siqueira

  • METACOMMUNITY STRUCTURE: SYNERGY OF BIOTIC INTERACTIONS AS SELECTIVE AGENTS AND DISPERSAL AS FUEL

    Karl Cottenie;Luc De Meester

  • Seasonal patterns in the fish and crustacean community of a turbid temperate estuary (Zeeschelde Estuary, Belgium)

    Joachim Maes;A Taillieu;PA Van Damme;Karl Cottenie

  • Common and rare species respond to similar niche processes in macroinvertebrate metacommunities

    Tadeu Siqueira;Luis Mauricio Bini;Fabio Oliveira Roque;Sheyla Regina Marques Couceiro

  • A comparative analysis reveals weak relationships between ecological factors and beta diversity of stream insect metacommunities at two spatial levels.

    Jani Heino;Adriano Sanches Melo;Luis Mauricio Bini;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt

  • Geographical and genetic distances among zooplankton populations in a set of interconnected ponds: a plea for using GIS modelling of the effective geographical distance

    E. Michels;K. Cottenie;L. Neys;K. De Gelas

  • Zooplankton community structure and environmental conditions in a set of interconnected ponds

    Karl Cottenie;Nele Nuytten;Erik Michels;Luc De Meester

  • Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi‐terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal abilities sampled in the same plots

    Michal Hájek;Michal Hájek;Jan Roleček;Jan Roleček;Karl Cottenie;Kateřina Kintrová

  • Strong top-down control in southern California kelp forest ecosystems.

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Karl Cottenie;Karl Cottenie;Bernardo R. Broitman;Bernardo R. Broitman

  • Zooplankton on the move: first results on the quantification of dispersal of zooplankton in a set of interconnected ponds

    Erik Michels;Karl Cottenie;Liesbeth Neys;Luc De Meester

  • Hierarchical zooplankton metacommunities: distinguishing between high and limiting dispersal mechanisms

    Ingrid S. Y. Ng;Christina M. Carr;Karl Cottenie

  • Connectivity and cladoceran species richness in a metacommunity of shallow lakes

    Karl Cottenie;Luc De Meester

  • Strong spatial influence on colonization rates in a pioneer zooplankton metacommunity.

    Dagmar Frisch;Karl Cottenie;Anna Badosa;Andy J. Green

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
T. Ryan Gregory
T. Ryan Gregory University of Guelph
Tadeu Siqueira
Tadeu Siqueira Sao Paulo State University
J. Bruce Falls
J. Bruce Falls University of Toronto
Nicholas E. Mandrak
Nicholas E. Mandrak University of Toronto
Andrew G. McAdam
Andrew G. McAdam University of Colorado Boulder
Pierre Legendre
Pierre Legendre University of Montreal
David J. Currie
David J. Currie University of Ottawa
Steven M. Wondzell
Steven M. Wondzell US Forest Service

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