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76
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994
National Ranking
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Overview

Nathan J. Sanders is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research has a strong focus on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant number of publications contributing to these fields.

Their scholarly work covers multiple subfields, including:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Genetics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Key topics frequently explored in their research include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Insect and Pesticide Research

Nathan J. Sanders has contributed extensively to well-known publication venues, especially in ecology-related journals. Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Ecosphere
  • Ecology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Sanders are:

  • Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert-based assessment (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Counting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): biodiversity sampling and statistical analysis for myrmecologists (2023, ScholarWorks @UVM (University of Vermont))
  • Alpine grassland plants grow earlier and faster but biomass remains unchanged over 35 years of climate change (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity (2022, Science Advances)
  • The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis (2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)

Collaboration plays an important role in Sanders' research, with several frequent co-authors including:

  • Robert R. Dunn
  • Aimée T. Classen
  • Xin Jing
  • Heloise Gibb
  • Nicholas J. Gotelli

Best Publications

  • Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

    Marti J. Anderson;Thomas O. Crist;Jonathan M. Chase;Mark Vellend

  • Plant genotypic diversity predicts community structure and governs an ecosystem process.

    Gregory M. Crutsinger;Michael D. Collins;James A. Fordyce;Zachariah Gompert

  • Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders

  • The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate

    Xin Jing;Nathan J. Sanders;Yu Shi;Haiyan Chu

  • Community and ecosystem responses to elevational gradients: processes, mechanisms and insights for global change

    Maja K. Sundqvist;Nathan J. Sanders;David A. Wardle

  • Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production.

    Huiying Liu;Zhaorong Mi;Li Lin;Yonghui Wang

  • Community disassembly by an invasive species

    Nathan J. Sanders;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Nicole E. Heller;Deborah M. Gordon

  • Elevational gradients in ant species richness: area, geometry, and Rapoport's rule

    Nathan J. Sanders

  • Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change

    Jake M. Alexander;Jake M. Alexander;Loïc Chalmandrier;Jonathan Lenoir;Treena I. Burgess

  • Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity

    Matthew L. Forister;Andrew C. McCall;Nathan J. Sanders;James A. Fordyce

  • The patterns and causes of elevational diversity gradients

    Nathan J. Sanders;Carsten Rahbek

  • The biogeography of prediction error: why does the introduced range of the fire ant over-predict its native range?

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Jake F. Weltzin;Nathan J. Sanders;Robert R. Dunn

  • Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks

    Paul J. CaraDonna;William K. Petry;William K. Petry;William K. Petry;Ross M. Brennan;Ross M. Brennan;James L. Cunningham;James L. Cunningham

  • Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains

    Nathan J. Sanders;Jean-Philippe Lessard;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Robert R. Dunn

  • European Red List of Habitats : Part 2. Terrestrial and freshwater habitats

    J. A. M. Janssen;J. S. Rodwell;M. Garcia Criado;S. Gubbay

  • Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

    Robert R. Dunn;Donat Agosti;Alan N. Andersen;Xavier Arnan;Xavier Arnan

  • Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

    L. Mauricio Bini;J. Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Thiago F.L.V.B. Rangel;Thomas S.B. Akre

  • Climate change, plant migration, and range collapse in a global biodiversity hotspot: the Banksia (Proteaceae) of Western Australia

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Aaron D. Gove;Nathan J. Sanders;Robert R. Dunn

  • Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally

    Jordan R. Mayor;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders;Aimée T. Classen;Aimée T. Classen;Aimée T. Classen;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Convergent effects of elevation on functional leaf traits within and among species

    Quentin D. Read;Quentin D. Read;Leigh C. Moorhead;Nathan G. Swenson;Joseph K. Bailey

  • Patterns of ant species richness along elevational gradients in an arid ecosystem

    Nathan J. Sanders;Jarrod Moss;Diane Wagner

  • Climatic warming destabilizes forest ant communities.

    Sarah E. Diamond;Lauren M. Nichols;Shannon L. Pelini;Clint A. Penick

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert R. Dunn
Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University
Aimée T. Classen
Aimée T. Classen University of Vermont
Aaron M. Ellison
Aaron M. Ellison Harvard University
Nicholas J. Gotelli
Nicholas J. Gotelli University of Vermont
Matthew C. Fitzpatrick
Matthew C. Fitzpatrick University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Catherine L. Parr
Catherine L. Parr University of Liverpool
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Jin-Sheng He
Jin-Sheng He Peking University
Heloise Gibb
Heloise Gibb La Trobe University
Michael Kaspari
Michael Kaspari University of Oklahoma

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