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Laura E. Dee 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 Laura E. Dee sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 89 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Laura E. Dee 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 Laura E. Dee sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 33 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

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Overview

Laura E. Dee is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics Laura E. Dee's research covers include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, as well as Forest Management and Policy.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Michel Loreau, Forest Isbell, Peter B. Reich, Andrew Gonzalez, and Akira Mori.

Their recent notable papers are:

  • Scaling-up biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application, 2021, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • The number of tree species on Earth, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biodiversity-productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions, 2021, Nature Climate Change

Their work has been published frequently in journals such as Ecology Letters, Nature Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Trends in Ecology & Evolution, and Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

    Jarrett E. K. Byrnes;Lars Gamfeldt;Forest Isbell;Jonathan S. Lefcheck

  • Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Uncertainties and the Necessary Next Steps

    Patricia Balvanera;Ilyas Siddique;Laura Dee;Alain Paquette

  • Scaling-up biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research.

    Andrew Gonzalez;Rachel M. Germain;Diane S. Srivastava;Elise Filotas

  • The number of tree species on Earth

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  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

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  • Improving network approaches to the study of complex social-ecological interdependencies

    Örjan Bodin;S. M. Alexander;J. Baggio;M. L. Barnes

  • Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application

    Michel Loreau;Matthieu Barbier;Elise Filotas;Dominique Gravel

  • When Do Ecosystem Services Depend on Rare Species

    Laura E. Dee;Jane Cowles;Forest Isbell;Stephanie Pau

  • Incorporating climate change into ecosystem service assessments and decisions: A review

    Rebecca K. Runting;Brett A. Bryan;Laura E. Dee;Fleur J. F. Maseyk

  • Quantifying effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning across times and places.

    Forest Isbell;Jane Cowles;Laura E. Dee;Michel Loreau

  • Biodiversity–productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions

    Akira S. Mori;Laura E. Dee;Andrew Gonzalez;Haruka Ohashi

  • Operationalizing Network Theory for Ecosystem Service Assessments

    Laura E. Dee;Stefano Allesina;Aletta Bonn;Anna Eklöf

  • A general biodiversity–function relationship is mediated by trophic level

    Mary I. O'Connor;Andrew Gonzalez;Jarrett E.K. Byrnes;Bradley J. Cardinale

  • Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions

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  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

    Yann Hautier;Pengfei Zhang;Michel Loreau;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • Conceptualizing ecosystem services using social-ecological networks.

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  • Conservation and management of ornamental coral reef wildlife: Successes, shortcomings, and future directions

    Laura E. Dee;Stephanie S. Horii;Daniel J. Thornhill

  • Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time.

    Eric W. Seabloom;Peter B. Adler;Juan Alberti;Lori Biederman

  • An ecological network approach to predict ecosystem service vulnerability to species losses.

    Aislyn A. Keyes;John P. McLaughlin;Allison K. Barner;Laura E. Dee

  • Drivers of Daily Routines in an Ectothermic Marine Predator: Hunt Warm, Rest Warmer?

    Yannis P. Papastamatiou;Yuuki Y. Watanabe;Darcy Bradley;Laura E. Dee

  • Linking multidimensional functional diversity to quantitative methods: a graphical hypothesis--evaluation framework.

    Kate S. Boersma;Laura E. Dee;Steve J. Miller;Michael Thomas Bogan

  • Assessing and managing data‐limited ornamental fisheries in coral reefs

    Rod Fujita;Daniel J Thornhill;Kendra Karr;Cara H Cooper

  • How complementarity and selection affect the relationship between ecosystem functioning and stability

    Shaopeng Wang;Forest Isbell;Wanlu Deng;Pubin Hong

  • The links between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Patricia Balvanera;Sandra Quijas;Berta Martín-López;Edmundo Barrios

Frequent Co-Authors

Forest Isbell
Forest Isbell University of Minnesota
Michel Loreau
Michel Loreau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Andrew Gonzalez
Andrew Gonzalez McGill University
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Andy Hector
Andy Hector University of Oxford
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Sonia Kéfi
Sonia Kéfi University of Montpellier
Mahesh Sankaran
Mahesh Sankaran University of Leeds
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Jonathan S. Lefcheck
Jonathan S. Lefcheck Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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