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Nelson G. Hairston

Nelson G. Hairston

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
75
Citations
27062
World Ranking
1039
National Ranking
389

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nelson G. Hairston is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and specializes in environmental science, with a focus on ecology, environmental chemistry, oceanography, genetics, and nature and landscape conservation. Their research spans several interrelated fields, particularly emphasizing aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, fish ecology and management studies, evolution and genetic dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, geology and paleoclimatology research, and biocrusts and microbial ecology.

The scientist has contributed to notable academic journals and venues, including Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Nature Communications, Ecology Letters, Environmental Management, and Limnology and Oceanography. Their publication record shows engagement with both ecological and environmental issues through multidisciplinary approaches.

Recent research publications by Nelson G. Hairston include:

  • "Reversed evolution of grazer resistance to cyanobacteria" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco-evolutionary dynamics" (2023) published in Ecology Letters
  • "What Causes Harmful Algal Blooms? A Case Study of Causal Attributions and Conflict in a Lakeshore Community" (2022) published in Environmental Management
  • "A unified framework for herbivore-to-producer biomass ratio reveals the relative influence of four ecological factors" (2021) published in Communications Biology
  • "Grazing by an endemic atyid shrimp controls microbial communities in the Hawaiian anchialine ecosystem" (2022) published in Limnology and Oceanography

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hairston include Masato Yamamichi, Stephen P. Ellner, Laura Melo Vieira Soares, Olivia Desgué-Itier, and Cécilia Barouillet. These collaborative relationships reflect interdisciplinary connections within ecological and evolutionary research fields.

Nelson G. Hairston was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1980, which is an acknowledgment within the scientific community related to ongoing contributions to research and science.

Best Publications

  • Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition

    Nelson G. Hairston;Frederick E. Smith;Lawrence B. Slobodkin

  • Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator–prey system

    Takehito Yoshida;Laura E. Jones;Stephen P. Ellner;Gregor F. Fussmann;Gregor F. Fussmann

  • Rapid evolution and the convergence of ecological and evolutionary time

    Nelson G. Hairston;Stephen P. Ellner;Monica A. Geber;Takehito Yoshida

  • Ecosystem size determines food-chain length in lakes

    David M. Post;Michael L. Pace;Nelson G. Hairston

  • MEETING ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIETAL NEEDS FOR FRESHWATER

    Jill S. Baron;N. LeRoy Poff;Paul L. Angermeier;Clifford N. Dahm

  • CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS IN ENERGY FLOW, TROPHIC STRUCTURE, AND INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTIONS

    Nelson G. Hairston

  • Zooplankton egg banks as biotic reservoirs in changing environments

    Nelson G. Hairston

  • Crossing the Hopf Bifurcation in a Live Predator-Prey System

    Gregor F. Fussmann;Stephen P. Ellner;Stephen P. Ellner;Kyle W. Shertzer;Nelson G. Hairston

  • Age and survivorship of diapausing eggs in a sediment egg bank

    Nelson G. Hairston;Robert A. Van Brunt;Colleen M. Kearns;Daniel R. Engstrom

  • Rapid evolution revealed by dormant eggs

    Nelson G. Hairston;Winfried Lampert;Carla E. Cáceres;Cami L. Holtmeier

  • Eco-evolutionary conservation biology: contemporary evolution and the dynamics of persistence

    Michael T. Kinnison;Nelson G. Hairston

  • ROLE OF OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS IN MAINTAINING GENETIC VARIATION IN A FLUCTUATING ENVIRONMENT

    Stephen Ellner;Nelson G. Hairston

  • Ecological Experiments: Purpose, Design and Execution

    Nelson G. Hairston

  • Linking genes to communities and ecosystems: Daphnia as an ecogenomic model.

    Brooks E. Miner;Luc De Meester;Michael E. Pfrender;Winfried Lampert

  • Community ecology and salamander guilds

    Nelson G. Hairston

  • REGULATION IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, AND THE IMPLIED BALANCE OF NATURE*

    L. B. Slobodkin;F. E. Smith;N. G. Hairston

  • Does rapid evolution matter? Measuring the rate of contemporary evolution and its impacts on ecological dynamics.

    Stephen P. Ellner;Monica A. Geber;Nelson G. Hairston

  • NATURAL SELECTION FOR GRAZER RESISTANCE TO TOXIC CYANOBACTERIA: EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY?

    N. G. Hairston Jr.;C. L. Holtmeier;W. Lampert;L. J. Weider

  • Cryptic population dynamics: rapid evolution masks trophic interactions.

    Takehito Yoshida;Stephen P. Ellner;Laura E. Jones;Brendan J. M. Bohannan

  • Rate of evolution slowed by a dormant propagule pool

    Nelson G. Hairston;Bart T. De Stasio

  • Reduction of adaptive genetic diversity radically alters eco-evolutionary community dynamics

    Lutz Becks;Stephen P. Ellner;Laura E. Jones;Nelson G. Hairston Jr.

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Ellner
Stephen P. Ellner Cornell University
Gregor F. Fussmann
Gregor F. Fussmann McGill University
Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Alexander S. Flecker
Alexander S. Flecker Cornell University
Jotaro Urabe
Jotaro Urabe Tohoku University
William E. Walton
William E. Walton University of California, Riverside
Robert W. Howarth
Robert W. Howarth Cornell University
Hideyuki Doi
Hideyuki Doi Kyoto University
Carla E. Cáceres
Carla E. Cáceres University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Steven W. Effler
Steven W. Effler Syracuse University

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