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94

Michael J. Crawley 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 J. Crawley sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 209 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael J. Crawley 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 J. Crawley sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 85 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Michael J. Crawley is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable work in subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work spans key topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Rangeland and Wildlife Management.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Michael J. Crawley include:

  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Microbial carbon use efficiency in grassland soils subjected to nitrogen and phosphorus additions, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • The dynamics of vegetation grazed by a food-limited population of Soay sheep on St Kilda, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Compositional variation in grassland plant communities, 2023, Ecosphere
  • Temporal variation in effect sizes in a long-term, split-plot field experiment, 2020, Ecology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated on multiple publications with Michael J. Crawley include:

  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Catalina Estrada
  • Nico Eisenhauer
  • Christiane Roscher

Michael J. Crawley has contributed multiple articles to several publication venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Journal of Ecology (3 publications)
  • British & Irish Botany (2 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (2 publications)
  • Nature Communications (1 publication)
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry (1 publication)

The scientist has been recognized by professional societies through awards such as:

  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2008
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2002

Best Publications

  • Exotic plant invasions and the enemy release hypothesis

    Ryan M. Keane;Michael J. Crawley

  • GLIM for ecologists

    Michael J. Crawley

  • Herbivory: the Dynamics of Animal-plant Interactions

    Michael J. Crawley

  • Are plant populations seed-limited? A review of seed sowing experiments.

    Lindsay A. Turnbull;Michael J. Crawley;Mark Rees

  • Age, Sex, Density, Winter Weather, and Population Crashes in Soay Sheep

    Tim Coulson;Edward A. Catchpole;Steve D. Albon;Byron J. T. Morgan

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • INSECT HERBIVORES AND PLANT POPULATION DYNAMICS

    Michael J. Crawley

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Colonization, Succession and Stability.

    J. P. Barkham;A. J. Gray;M. J. Crawley;P. J. Edwards

  • Long-Term Studies of Vegetation Dynamics

    Mark Rees;Richard S. Condit;Mick Crawley;Steve Pacala

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Scale dependence in plant biodiversity.

    M. J. Crawley;J. E. Harral

  • Noise and determinism in synchronized sheep dynamics

    B T Grenfell;K Wilson;B F Finkenstadt;T N Coulson

  • The population dynamics of plants

    Michael John Crawley

  • The population biology of invaders

    Michael John Crawley

  • Seed mass and the competition/colonization trade-off: a sowing experiment

    Lindsay A. Turnbull;Mark Rees;Michael J. Crawley

  • Ecology of transgenic oilseed rape in natural habitats

    M. J. Crawley;R. S. Hails;M. Rees;D. Kohn

  • Alternate bearing, predator satiation and seedling recruitment in Quercus robur L.

    M. J. Crawley;C. R. Long

  • Plant-herbivore dynamics

    Mj Crawley

  • Herbivory: The Dynamics of Animal-Plant Interactions.

    J. N. Thompson;M. J. Crawley

  • Dynamics of Nutrient Cycling and Food Webs.

    Michael J. Crawley;D. L. DeAngelis

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Andersen;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • GLIM for Ecologists.

    James Bullock;Michael J. Crawley

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Yvonne M. Buckley
Yvonne M. Buckley Trinity College Dublin
Peter B. Adler
Peter B. Adler Utah State University
Kendi F. Davies
Kendi F. Davies University of Colorado Boulder
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jonathan D. Bakker
Jonathan D. Bakker University of Washington

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