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Marcel Holyoak is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their scholarly work concentrates on topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and animal studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Fire effects on ecosystems, and Avian ecology and behavior.

Holyoak has authored and contributed to several research papers, notable among them are:

  • Integrating Disturbance, Seasonality, Multi-Year Temporal Dynamics, and Dormancy Into the Dynamics and Conservation of Metacommunities (2020), published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Integrated assessments call for establishing a sustainable meta-population of Amur tigers in northeast Asia (2021), published in Biological Conservation
  • The functional roles of species in metacommunities, as revealed by metanetwork analyses of bird-plant frugivory networks (2020), published in Ecology Letters
  • Broad-scale climate variation drives the dynamics of animal populations: a global multi-taxa analysis (2022), published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Spatial conservation prioritization for the Amur tiger in Northeast China (2021), published in Ecosphere

Frequent collaborators include Guangshun Jiang, Chuan Yan, Zhibin Zhang, Zhishu Xiao, and Jinzhe Qi.

Holyoak's publications are often found in specific scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in Ecology Letters, Integrative Zoology, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. Other relevant publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) and Ecosphere.

Best Publications

  • The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology

    M. A. Leibold;M. Holyoak;N. Mouquet;N. Mouquet;P. Amarasekare

  • A movement ecology paradigm for unifying organismal movement research

    Ran Nathan;Wayne M. Getz;Eloy Revilla;Marcel Holyoak

  • Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities

    Mark Hovenden;M. Holyoak;M. A. Leibold;R. D. Holt

  • Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges

    Maxwell C. Wilson;Xiao Yong Chen;Richard T. Corlett;Raphael K. Didham

  • Invasion in a heterogeneous world: resistance, coexistence or hostile takeover?

    Brett A. Melbourne;Howard V. Cornell;Kendi F. Davies;Christopher J. Dugaw

  • Trends and missing parts in the study of movement ecology

    Marcel Holyoak;Renato Casagrandi;Ran Nathan;Eloy Revilla

  • CONNECTING THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF TRAIT‐MEDIATED INTERACTIONS

    Benjamin Bolker;Marcel Holyoak;Vlastimil Křivan;Locke Rowe

  • Effects of Introduced Mosquitofish and Bullfrogs on the Threatened California Red‐Legged Frog

    Sharon P. Lawler;Deborah Dritz;Terry Strange;Marcel Holyoak

  • Persistence of an Extinction-Prone Predator-Prey Interaction Through Metapopulation Dynamics

    Marcel Holyoak;Sharon P. Lawler

  • Effects of Moonlight and Meteorological Factors on Light and Bait Trap Catches of Noctuid Moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

    José Luis Yela;José Luis Yela;Marcel Holyoak

  • Variability in plant nutrients reduces insect herbivore performance

    William C. Wetzel;William C. Wetzel;Heather M. Kharouba;Heather M. Kharouba;Moria Robinson;Marcel Holyoak

  • Species’ traits predict the effects of disturbance and productivity on diversity

    Nick M. Haddad;Marcel Holyoak;Tawny M. Mata;Kendi F. Davies;Kendi F. Davies

  • Mechanisms of coexistence in competitive metacommunities

    Priyanga Amarasekare;Martha F. Hoopes;Nicolas Mouquet;Marcel Holyoak

  • The role of dispersal in predator-prey metapopulation dynamics

    Marcel Holyoak;Sharon P. Lawler

  • Interactions among shrub cover and the soil microclimate may determine future Arctic carbon budgets.

    Sean M. P. Cahoon;Patrick F. Sullivan;Gaius R. Shaver;Jeffrey M. Welker

  • Reconciling empirical ecology with neutral community models.

    Marcel Holyoak;Michel Loreau

  • Distinguishing stressors acting on land bird communities in an urbanizing environment.

    Matthew D. Schlesinger;Matthew D. Schlesinger;Patricia N. Manley;Marcel Holyoak

  • Transcontinental Crashes of Insect Populations

    Bradford A. Hawkins;Marcel Holyoak

  • Habitat Patch Arrangement and Metapopulation Persistence of Predators and Prey

    Marcel Holyoak

  • Interactive effects of disturbance and dispersal directionality on species richness and composition in metacommunities

    Florian Altermatt;Sebastian Schreiber;Marcel Holyoak

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Karban
Richard Karban University of California, Davis
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Sharon P. Lawler
Sharon P. Lawler University of California, Davis
Kendi F. Davies
Kendi F. Davies University of Colorado Boulder
Robert D. Holt
Robert D. Holt University of Florida
Donald R. Strong
Donald R. Strong University of California, Davis
Michel Loreau
Michel Loreau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Brett A. Melbourne
Brett A. Melbourne University of Colorado Boulder
Raphael K. Didham
Raphael K. Didham University of Western Australia
Samuel N. Luoma
Samuel N. Luoma University of California, Davis

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