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D-Index
48
Citations
11173
World Ranking
4168
National Ranking
1454

Lynn S. Adler 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 Lynn S. Adler sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 128 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lynn S. Adler 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 Lynn S. Adler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lynn S. Adler is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong emphasis on ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. Their work also spans insect science, plant science, genetics, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their most recent publications include the following papers:

  • Floral traits affecting the transmission of beneficial and pathogenic pollinator-associated microbes, 2020, Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • Flowering plant composition shapes pathogen infection intensity and reproduction in bumble bee colonies, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Assessing Chemical Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Sunflower Pollen on a Gut Pathogen in Bumble Bees, 2020, Journal of Chemical Ecology

Common venues where Lynn S. Adler has published include:

  • Ecology
  • Journal of Economic Entomology
  • Journal of Chemical Ecology
  • Microbial Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several authors, with notable co-authors including:

  • Rebecca E. Irwin
  • Alison E. Fowler
  • Jennifer I. Van Wyk
  • Rosemary Malfi
  • Jonathan J. Giacomini

Lynn S. Adler's research covers a range of topics within plant and insect science, notably:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and pesticide research
  • Plant parasitism and resistance
  • Insect and arachnid ecology and behavior
  • Insect-plant interactions and control
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant pathogens and fungal diseases

Best Publications

  • Induced plant responses and information content about risk of herbivory.

    Richard Karban;Anurag A. Agrawal;Jennifer S. Thaler;Lynn S. Adler

  • The ecological significance of toxic nectar

    Lynn S. Adler

  • Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

    Daniel S. Karp;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer;Timothy D. Meehan;Emily A. Martin

  • Correlations among traits associated with herbivore resistance and pollination: implications for pollination and nectar robbing in a distylous plant

    Rebecca E. Irwin;Rebecca E. Irwin;Lynn S. Adler;Lynn S. Adler

  • Secondary metabolites in floral nectar reduce parasite infections in bumblebees

    Leif L. Richardson;Lynn S. Adler;Anne S. Leonard;Jonathan Andicoechea

  • The dual role of floral traits: Pollinator attraction and plant defense

    Rebecca E. Irwin;Rebecca E. Irwin;Lynn S. Adler;Alison K. Brody;Alison K. Brody

  • Arranging the bouquet of disease: floral traits and the transmission of plant and animal pathogens.

    Scott H. McArt;Hauke Koch;Hauke Koch;Rebecca E. Irwin;Lynn S. Adler

  • Leaf herbivory and nutrients increase nectar alkaloids

    Lynn S. Adler;Michael Wink;Melanie Distl;Amanda J. Lentz

  • ECOLOGICAL COSTS AND BENEFITS OF DEFENSES IN NECTAR

    Lynn S. Adler;Lynn S. Adler;Rebecca E. Irwin;Rebecca E. Irwin

  • Chemistry of floral rewards: intra‐ and interspecific variability of nectar and pollen secondary metabolites across taxa

    Evan C. Palmer‐Young;Iain W. Farrell;Lynn S. Adler;Nelson J. Milano

  • Pollination ecology in the 21st Century: Key questions for future research

    Carolin Mayer;Lynn Adler;W. Scott Armbruster;Amots Dafni

  • Comparison of Pollen Transfer Dynamics by Multiple Floral Visitors: Experiments with Pollen and Fluorescent Dye

    Lynn S. Adler;Rebecca E. Irwin

  • DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF ALKALOIDS ON PLANT FITNESS VIA HERBIVORY AND POLLINATION

    Lynn S. Adler;Richard Karban;Sharon Y. Strauss

  • ATTRACTING ANTAGONISTS: DOES FLORAL NECTAR INCREASE LEAF HERBIVORY?

    Lynn S. Adler;Judith L. Bronstein

  • Pollinator and herbivore attraction to cucurbita floral volatiles.

    Elizabeth S. Andrews;Nina Theis;Lynn S. Adler

  • Genetic variation in defensive chemistry in Plantago lanceolata (Plantaginaceae) and its effect on the specialist herbivore Junonia coenia (Nymphalidae)

    Lynn S. Adler;Johanna Schmitt;M. Deane Bowers

  • Reliance on pollinators predicts defensive chemistry across tobacco species

    Lynn S. Adler;Megan G. Seifert;Michael Wink;Geoffrey E. Morse

  • Advertising to the enemy: enhanced floral fragrance increases beetle attraction and reduces plant reproduction.

    Nina Theis;Lynn S. Adler

  • Landscape predictors of pathogen prevalence and range contractions in US bumblebees

    Scott H. McArt;Christine Urbanowicz;Shaun McCoshum;Rebecca E. Irwin

  • Bee pathogen transmission dynamics: deposition, persistence and acquisition on flowers.

    Laura L Figueroa;Malcolm Blinder;Cali Grincavitch;Angus Jelinek

  • Alkaloid Uptake Increases Fitness in a Hemiparasitic Plant via Reduced Herbivory and Increased Pollination.

    Lynn S Adler

  • Potential for Persistence of Genes Escaped from Canola: Germination Cues in Crop, Wild, and Crop-Wild Hybrid Brassica rapa

    L. S. Adler;K. Wikler;F. S. Wyndham;C. R. Linder

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca E. Irwin
Rebecca E. Irwin North Carolina State University
Philip C. Stevenson
Philip C. Stevenson Royal Botanic Gardens
E. Toby Kiers
E. Toby Kiers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michael Wink
Michael Wink Heidelberg University
Anurag A. Agrawal
Anurag A. Agrawal Cornell University
Jay D. Evans
Jay D. Evans Agricultural Research Service
Evan L. Preisser
Evan L. Preisser University of Rhode Island
Richard Karban
Richard Karban University of California, Davis
Johanna Schmitt
Johanna Schmitt University of California, Davis
Simon G. Potts
Simon G. Potts University of Reading

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