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Meghan L. Avolio

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
Citations
5370
World Ranking
6874
National Ranking
2316

Meghan L. Avolio 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 Meghan L. Avolio sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 104 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Meghan L. Avolio 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 Meghan L. Avolio sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Meghan L. Avolio is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecological Modeling, and Plant Science.

Their work covers a variety of main topics, notably Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Urban Green Space and Health, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Plant and animal studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Rangeland and Wildlife Management.

Meghan L. Avolio has contributed to several recent research papers, including:

  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Causal assumptions and causal inference in ecological experiments, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Residential yard management and landscape cover affect urban bird community diversity across the continental USA, 2021, Ecological Applications
  • Empirical evidence of widespread exaggeration bias and selective reporting in ecology, 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Municipal regulation of residential landscapes across US cities: Patterns and implications for landscape sustainability, 2020, Journal of Environmental Management

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Avolio on multiple research projects include Simone Pulver, Kathryn J. Fiorella, Steven M. Alexander, Kimberly J. Komatsu, and Sally E. Koerner.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with a notable number of articles appearing in:

  • Oecologia
  • PLoS ONE
  • Urban forestry & urban greening
  • Ecosphere
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Best Publications

  • Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments.

    Alan K. Knapp;David L. Hoover;Kevin R. Wilcox;Meghan L. Avolio

  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

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  • Demystifying dominant species.

    Meghan L. Avolio;Elisabeth J. Forrestel;Cynthia C. Chang;Kimberly J. La Pierre

  • Human and biophysical legacies shape contemporary urban forests: A literature synthesis

    Lara A. Roman;Hamil Pearsall;Theodore S. Eisenman;Tenley M. Conway

  • Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity

    Sally E. Koerner;Melinda D. Smith;Deron E. Burkepile;Niall P. Hanan

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie

    Meghan L. Avolio;Sally E. Koerner;Kimberly J. La Pierre;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Andrew T. Tredennick;Sally E. Koerner;Emily Grman

  • Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years.

    Alan K. Knapp;Meghan L. Avolio;Claus Beier;Charles J. W. Carroll

  • Biodiverse cities: the nursery industry, homeowners, and neighborhood differences drive urban tree composition

    Meghan L. Avolio;Diane E. Pataki;Tara L. E. Trammell;Joanna Endter-Wada

  • A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves

    Meghan L. Avolio;Ian T. Carroll;Scott L. Collins;Gregory R. Houseman

  • Understanding preferences for tree attributes: the relative effects of socio-economic and local environmental factors

    Meghan L. Avolio;Diane E. Pataki;Stephanie Pincetl;Thomas W. Gillespie

  • Continental-scale homogenization of residential lawn plant communities

    Megan M. Wheeler;Megan M. Wheeler;Christopher Neill;Christopher Neill;Peter M. Groffman;Meghan Avolio

  • Tree diversity in southern California's urban forest: the interacting roles of social and environmental variables

    Meghan Avolio;Diane E. Pataki;Thomas Gillespie;G. Darrel Jenerette

  • Climate tolerances and trait choices shape continental patterns of urban tree biodiversity

    G. Darrel Jenerette;Lorraine W. Clarke;Meghan L. Avolio;Diane E. Pataki

  • Homogenization of plant diversity, composition, and structure in North American urban yards

    William D. Pearse;Jeannine M Cavender-Bares;Sarah E Hobbie;Meghan L. Avolio

  • Ecological homogenization of residential macrosystems.

    Peter M. Groffman;Meghan Avolio;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Neil D. Bettez

  • Nitrogen transport in the ectomycorrhiza association: The Hebeloma cylindrosporum–Pinus pinaster model

    Tobias Müller;Meghan Avolio;Martin Olivi;Mariam Benjdia

  • Causal assumptions and causal inference in ecological experiments.

    Kaitlin Kimmel;Laura E. Dee;Meghan L. Avolio;Paul J. Ferraro

  • Explaining temporal variation in above-ground productivity in a mesic grassland: the role of climate and flowering

    Kimberly J. La Pierre;Shenghua Yuan;Cynthia C. Chang;Meghan L. Avolio

  • Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change

    Melinda D. Smith;Sally E. Koerner;Alan K. Knapp;Meghan L. Avolio

  • Genetic diversity of a dominant C4 grass is altered with increased precipitation variability.

    Meghan L. Avolio;Jeremy M. Beaulieu;Melinda D. Smith;Melinda D. Smith

  • Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity in ecological communities.

    Scott L. Collins;Meghan L. Avolio;Corinna Gries;Lauren M. Hallett

Frequent Co-Authors

Melinda D. Smith
Melinda D. Smith Colorado State University
Diane E. Pataki
Diane E. Pataki Arizona State University
Kevin R. Wilcox
Kevin R. Wilcox University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Sally E. Koerner
Sally E. Koerner University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Christopher Neill
Christopher Neill Woods Hole Research Center
Scott L. Collins
Scott L. Collins University of New Mexico
Sarah E. Hobbie
Sarah E. Hobbie University of Minnesota
Alan K. Knapp
Alan K. Knapp Colorado State University
Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Jeannine Cavender-Bares University of Minnesota

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