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D-Index
36
Citations
11654
World Ranking
7001
National Ranking
2346

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Louie H. Yang is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their work is situated primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, encompassing a total of 57 publications across these areas.

The main subfields of study in which Yang has contributed include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. These subfields highlight a broad engagement with ecological processes and insect-related research.

Yang's research covers topics such as plant and animal studies, animal behavior and reproduction, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics, insect-plant interactions and control, as well as insect and pesticide research and insect and arachnid ecology and behavior.

Prominent coauthors collaborating frequently with Yang include Tracie Hayes, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, Meredith Cenzer, and Laura J. Morgan.

Yang has published in various scientific venues, with multiple works appearing in journals such as Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Ecology, Current Opinion in Insect Science, and The American Naturalist.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Yang include:

  • "The complexity of global change and its effects on insects," 2021, Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • "Toward a more temporally explicit framework for community ecology," 2020, Ecological Research
  • "A meta-analysis of single visit pollination effectiveness comparing honeybees and other floral visitors," 2021, American Journal of Botany
  • "Nitrogen increases early-stage and slows late-stage decomposition across diverse grasslands," 2022, Journal of Ecology
  • "The role of timing in intraspecific trait ecology," 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Yang received the Hellman Fellow award in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The Ecology of Individuals: Incidence and Implications of Individual Specialization

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Richard Svanbäck;Richard Svanbäck;James A. Fordyce;Louie H. Yang

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • MEASURING INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL RESOURCE SPECIALIZATION

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Louie H. Yang;James A. Fordyce;Jeremy M. Davis

  • WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM RESOURCE PULSES

    Louie H. Yang;Justin L. Bastow;Kenneth O. Spence;Amber N. Wright

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Phenology, ontogeny and the effects of climate change on the timing of species interactions

    Louie H. Yang;V. H. W. Rudolf

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Agroecology: A Review from a Global-Change Perspective

    Thomas P. Tomich;Sonja Brodt;Howard Ferris;Ryan Galt

  • A Meta-Analysis Of Resource Pulse-Consumer Interactions

    Louie H. Yang;Louie H. Yang;Kyle F. Edwards;Jarrett E. Byrnes;Jarrett E. Byrnes;Justin L. Bastow;Justin L. Bastow

  • Volatile communication between plants that affects herbivory: a meta‐analysis

    Richard Karban;Louie H. Yang;Kyle F. Edwards

  • Insects as drivers of ecosystem processes

    Louie H Yang;Claudio Gratton

  • African Wild Ungulates Compete with or Facilitate Cattle Depending on Season

    Wilfred O. Odadi;Moses K. Karachi;Shaukat A. Abdulrazak;Truman P. Young

  • The mechanisms of phenology: the patterns and processes of phenological shifts

    Helen E. Chmura;Helen E. Chmura;Heather M. Kharouba;Heather M. Kharouba;Jaime Ashander;Sean M. Ehlman

  • Periodical cicadas as resource pulses in North American forests.

    Louie H. Yang

  • Marine subsidies have multiple effects on coastal food webs

    David A. Spiller;Jonah Piovia-Scott;Amber N. Wright;Louie H. Yang

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • COMPARING RESOURCE PULSES IN AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS

    Weston H. Nowlin;Michael J. Vanni;Louie H. Yang

  • Drosophila regulate yeast density and increase yeast community similarity in a natural substrate.

    Judy A. Stamps;Louie H. Yang;Vanessa M. Morales;Kyria L. Boundy-Mills

  • Behavior as a key component of integrative biology in a human-altered world.

    Andrew Sih;Judy Stamps;Louie H. Yang;Richard McElreath

  • Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: Is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Interactions between a detrital resource pulse and a detritivore community.

    Louie H. Yang

  • Response to Comments on “Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness”

    James B. Grace;Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
John L. Orrock
John L. Orrock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kendi F. Davies
Kendi F. Davies University of Colorado Boulder
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky

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