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Overview

Mathew A. Leibold is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research spans several main fields of study including Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work covers multiple subfields such as Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, and Ecological Modeling.

The primary topics Mathew A. Leibold investigates involve Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Gut Microbiota and Health, and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Among their recent publications, key papers include:

  • "Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects" (2023, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Evolution and Community Assembly Across Spatial Scales" (2022, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics)
  • "A Landscape of Opportunities for Microbial Ecology Research" (2020, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • "Integrating fundamental processes to understand eco-evolutionary community dynamics and patterns" (2021, Functional Ecology)
  • "The Internal Structure of Metacommunities" (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))

Frequent collaborators in Mathew A. Leibold's work include Florian Härtig, Luc De Meester, Jonathan M. Chase, Alex Bush, and Maximilian Pichler.

The scientist's publications appeared often in several venues, notably bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, and Frontiers in Microbiology.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches

    Jonathan M. Chase;Mathew A. Leibold

  • Spatial scale dictates the productivity-biodiversity relationship.

    Jonathan M. Chase;Mathew A. Leibold

  • Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities

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

  • Coexistence of the niche and neutral perspectives in community ecology.

    Mathew A. Leibold;Mark A. McPeek

  • A Graphical Model of Keystone Predators in Food Webs: Trophic Regulation of Abundance, Incidence, and Diversity Patterns in Communities

    Mathew A. Leibold

  • Coherence, species turnover, and boundary clumping: Elements of meta-community structure

    Mathew A. Leibold;Gregory M. Mikkelson

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

    Nicolas Mouquet;Vincent Devictor;Christine N. Meynard;Francois Munoz

  • Metacommunity Ecology, Volume 59

    Mathew A. Leibold;Jonathan M. Chase

  • Species Turnover and the Regulation of Trophic Structure

    Mathew A. Leibold;Jonathan M. Chase;Jonathan B. Shurin;Amy L. Downing

  • Bacterial diversity patterns along a gradient of primary productivity

    M. Claire Horner-Devine;Mathew A. Leibold;Val H. Smith;Brendan J. M. Bohannan

  • The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities.

    Mark C. Urban;Mathew A. Leibold;Priyanga Amarasekare;Luc De Meester

  • Linking community and ecosystem dynamics through spatial ecology

    François Massol;Dominique Gravel;Dominique Gravel;Nicolas Mouquet;Marc W. Cadotte

  • A COMPARISON OF TAXON CO-OCCURRENCE PATTERNS FOR MACRO- AND MICROORGANISMS

    M. Claire Horner-Devine;Jessica M. Silver;Mathew A. Leibold;Brendan J.M. Bohannan

  • Ecosystem consequences of species richness and composition in pond food webs

    Amy L. Downing;Mathew A. Leibold

  • LOCAL AND REGIONAL ZOOPLANKTON SPECIES RICHNESS: A SCALE-INDEPENDENT TEST FOR SATURATION

    Jonathan B. Shurin;John E. Havel;Mathew A. Leibold;Bernadette Pinel-Alloul

  • Biodiversity and nutrient enrichment in pond plankton communities

    Mathew A. Leibold

  • THE EFFECTS OF PRODUCTIVITY, HERBIVORY, AND PLANT SPECIES TURNOVER IN GRASSLAND FOOD WEBS

    Jonathan M. Chase;Mathew A. Leibold;Amy L. Downing;Jonathan B. Shurin

  • Metacommunity phylogenetics: separating the roles of environmental filters and historical biogeography.

    Mathew A. Leibold;Evan P. Economo;Pedro Peres-Neto

  • Similarity and local co-existence of species in regional biotas

    Mathew A. Leibold

  • Community assembly and the functioning of ecosystems: how metacommunity processes alter ecosystems attributes.

    Mathew A. Leibold;Jonathan M. Chase;S. K. Morgan Ernest

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan M. Chase
Jonathan M. Chase Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Nicolas Mouquet
Nicolas Mouquet University of Montpellier
Dominique Gravel
Dominique Gravel Université de Sherbrooke
Val H. Smith
Val H. Smith University of Kansas
Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Pedro R. Peres-Neto
Pedro R. Peres-Neto Concordia University
Spencer R. Hall
Spencer R. Hall Indiana University
S. K. Morgan Ernest
S. K. Morgan Ernest University of Florida
Jonathan B. Shurin
Jonathan B. Shurin University of California, San Diego
David A. Lytle
David A. Lytle Oregon State University

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