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17563
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3542
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Mark L. Taper 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 Mark L. Taper sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 101 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark L. Taper 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 Mark L. Taper sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mark L. Taper is affiliated with Montana State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of mathematics and environmental science, with a significant focus on statistics and probability as well as related subfields such as artificial intelligence, molecular biology, ecology, and environmental engineering.

Their research topics include advanced statistical methods and models, data analysis with R, statistical methods and inference, mitochondrial function and pathology, soil geostatistics and mapping, statistics education and methodologies, and Gaussian processes and Bayesian inference.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Entropy
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Heart Lung and Circulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Aging Cell

Frequent collaborators in their research projects include Cassandra Malecki, Sean Lal, José Miguel Ponciano, Brian Dennis, and Subhash R. Lele.

Among their recent publications are:

  • DNA Methylation Ageing Atlas Across 17 Human Tissues, 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Editorial: Evidential Statistics, Model Identification, and Science, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Entropy, Statistical Evidence, and Scientific Inference: Evidence Functions in Theory and Applications, 2022, Entropy
  • Evidence of an Absence of Inbreeding Depression in a Wild Population of Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii), 2023, Entropy
  • The Human Cardiac "Age-OME": Age-Specific Changes in Myocardial Molecular Expression, 2025, Aging Cell

Best Publications

  • Revising how the computer program CERVUS accommodates genotyping error increases success in paternity assignment.

    Steven T. Kalinowski;Mark L. Taper;Tristan C. Marshall

  • ml‐relate: a computer program for maximum likelihood estimation of relatedness and relationship

    Steven T. Kalinowski;Aaron P. Wagner;Mark L. Taper

  • Evolution of Body Size: Consequences of an Energetic Definition of Fitness

    James H. Brown;Pablo A. Marquet;Mark L. Taper

  • DENSITY DEPENDENCE IN TIME SERIES OBSERVATIONS OF NATURAL POPULATIONS: ESTIMATION AND TESTING'

    Brian Dennis;Mark L. Taper

  • Interspecific Competition, Environmental Gradients, Gene Flow, and the Coevolution of Species' Borders

    Ted J. Case;Mark L. Taper

  • ESTIMATING DENSITY DEPENDENCE, PROCESS NOISE, AND OBSERVATION ERROR

    Brian Dennis;José Miguel Ponciano;Subhash R. Lele;Mark L. Taper

  • Environmental Variation and the Persistence of Small Populations.

    Peter B. Stacey;Mark Taper

  • Maximum likelihood estimation of the frequency of null alleles at microsatellite loci

    Steven T. Kalinowski;Mark L. Taper

  • Hybridization rapidly reduces fitness of a native trout in the wild

    Clint C. Muhlfeld;Clint C. Muhlfeld;Steven T. Kalinowski;Thomas E. McMahon;Mark L. Taper

  • Theoretical models of species' borders: single species approaches

    Robert D. Holt;Timothy H. Keitt;Mark A. Lewis;Mark A. Lewis;Brian A. Maurer

  • Quantitative Genetic Models for the Coevolution of Character Displacement

    Mark L. Taper;Ted J. Chase

  • Spatial-temporal population dynamics across species range: from centre to margin

    Qinfeng Guo;Mark Taper;Michele Schoenberger;J. Brandle

  • MODELS OF CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT AND THE THEORETICAL ROBUSTNESS OF TAXON CYCLES.

    Mark L. Taper;Ted J. Case

  • DUCK NEST SURVIVAL IN THE MISSOURI COTEAU OF NORTH DAKOTA: LANDSCAPE EFFECTS AT MULTIPLE SPATIAL SCALES

    Scott E. Stephens;Jay J. Rotella;Mark. S. Lindberg;Mark L. Taper

  • Species' geographic ranges and distributional limits: pattern analysis and statistical issues

    M.-J. Fortin;T. H. Keitt;B. A. Maurer;M. L. Taper

  • Migration within Metapopulations: The Impact upon Local Population Dynamics

    Peter B. Stacey;Mark L. Taper;Veronica A. Johnson

  • ON THE COEXISTENCE AND COEVOLUTION OF ASEXUAL AND SEXUAL COMPETITORS.

    Ted J. Case;Mark L. Taper

  • The influences of wolf predation, habitat loss, and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands

    Samuel K Wasser;Jonah L Keim;Mark L Taper;Subhash R Lele

  • On size and area: Patterns of mammalian body size extremes across landmasses

    Pablo A. Marquet;Mark L. Taper

  • Are Declines in North American Insectivorous Songbirds Due to Causes on the Breeding Range

    Katrin Böhning-Gaese;Mark L. Taper;James H. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Dennis
Brian Dennis University of Idaho
Jay J. Rotella
Jay J. Rotella Montana State University
Lisa J. Rew
Lisa J. Rew Montana State University
Bruce D. Maxwell
Bruce D. Maxwell Montana State University
L. Scott Mills
L. Scott Mills University of Montana
James H. Brown
James H. Brown University of New Mexico
Pablo A. Marquet
Pablo A. Marquet Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Brian A. Maurer
Brian A. Maurer Michigan State University
Christopher L. Jerde
Christopher L. Jerde University of California, Santa Barbara
James R. Lovvorn
James R. Lovvorn Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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