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Michael Doebeli 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 Michael Doebeli sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 196 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Doebeli 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 Michael Doebeli sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael Doebeli is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, with a strong focus on evolutionary biology and theoretical ecology.

The main fields of study in Doebeli's work include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broad fields, their subfields of study are:

  • Genetics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Molecular Biology

The primary research topics covered by Doebeli include:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Yaroslav Ispolatov (20 collaborations)
  • Ilan N. Rubin (7 collaborations)
  • Eduardo Cancino-Jaque (4 collaborations)
  • Christoph Hauert (3 collaborations)
  • Gil J. B. Henriques (3 collaborations)

Doebeli has published multiple works in various scientific venues, with the most frequent venues being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (9 publications)
  • PLoS Computational Biology (3 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (3 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 publications)
  • Journal of Theoretical Biology (2 publications)

Recent papers include:

  • "Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution," 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Evolution of diversity in metabolic strategies," 2021, eLife
  • "Boom-bust population dynamics increase diversity in evolving competitive communities," 2021, Communications Biology
  • "Spatial social dilemmas promote diversity," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "On the Ecological Significance of Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Microbial Populations Undergoing Starvation," 2022, Microbiology Spectrum

Doebeli has been recognized through several fellowships, including:

  • Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2015
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2012 (Academy of Science)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011

Best Publications

  • Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome

    Stilianos Louca;Laura Wegener Parfrey;Michael Doebeli

  • On the Origin of Species by Sympatric Speciation

    U. Dieckmann;M. Doebeli

  • Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

    Stilianos Louca;Martin F Polz;Florent Mazel;Florent Mazel;Michaeline B N Albright

  • Spatial structure often inhibits the evolution of cooperation in the snowdrift game

    Christoph Hauert;Michael Doebeli

  • Models of cooperation based on the Prisoner's Dilemma and the Snowdrift game

    Michael Doebeli;Christoph Hauert

  • Speciation along environmental gradients

    Michael Doebeli;Ulf Dieckmann

  • Evolutionary Branching and Sympatric Speciation Caused by Different Types of Ecological Interactions

    M. Doebeli;U. Dieckmann

  • Correcting for 16S rRNA gene copy numbers in microbiome surveys remains an unsolved problem.

    Stilianos Louca;Michael Doebeli;Laura Wegener Parfrey

  • High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities

    Stilianos Louca;Saulo M S Jacques;Aliny P F Pires;Juliana S Leal

  • The evolution of interspecific mutualisms

    Michael Doebeli;Nancy Knowlton

  • A simple and general explanation for the evolution of altruism.

    Jeffrey Alan Fletcher;Michael Doebeli

  • Efficient comparative phylogenetics on large trees.

    Stilianos Louca;Michael Doebeli

  • Self-destructive cooperation mediated by phenotypic noise.

    Martin Ackermann;Bärbel Stecher;Nikki E. Freed;Pascal Songhet

  • Adaptive Speciation: Introduction

    Ulf Dieckmann;Diethard Tautz;Michael Doebeli;Johan A.J. Metz

  • The evolutionary origin of cooperators and defectors.

    Michael Doebeli;Christoph Hauert;Timothy Killingback

  • Experimental evolution of aging, growth, and reproduction in fruitflies

    S. C. Stearns;M. Ackermann;M. Doebeli;M. Kaiser

  • Synergy and Discounting of Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

    Christoph Hauert;Franziska Michor;Martin A. Nowak;Michael Doebeli

  • Evolutionary games and population dynamics: maintenance of cooperation in public goods games

    Christoph Hauert;Miranda Holmes;Michael Doebeli

  • Spatial Evolutionary Game Theory: Hawks and Doves Revisited

    Timothy Killingback;Michael Doebeli

  • Variable investment, the Continuous Prisoner's Dilemma, and the origin of cooperation.

    T. Killingback;M. Doebeli;N. Knowlton

  • Erratum: Evolutionary games and population dynamics: Maintenance of cooperation in public goods games (Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B Biological Sciences (2006) DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3600)

    Christoph Hauert;Miranda Holmes;Michael Doebeli

  • Evolutionary Branching and Sympatric Speciation Caused by Different Types of Ecological Interactions [Revised 18 September 2000]

    M. Doebeli;U. Dieckmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Dieckmann
Ulf Dieckmann International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Christoph Hauert
Christoph Hauert University of British Columbia
Johan A. J. Metz
Johan A. J. Metz Leiden University
Laura Wegener Parfrey
Laura Wegener Parfrey University of British Columbia
Michael Travisano
Michael Travisano University of Minnesota
Yrene Astor
Yrene Astor Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
Diethard Tautz
Diethard Tautz Max Planck Society
Jacob C. Koella
Jacob C. Koella Imperial College London
Sean A. Crowe
Sean A. Crowe University of British Columbia

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