2026 Nicholas J. Gotelli: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	96	333	313	131	122	277	57586

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Nicholas J. Gotelli is affiliated with the University of Vermont in the United States and specializes in research at the intersection of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work encompasses multiple subfields including ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, plant science, and ecological modeling.

Their research topics cover a wide range of themes such as:

Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
Plant and animal studies
Species distribution and climate change
Wildlife ecology and conservation
Insect and arachnid ecology and behavior
Plant and biological electrophysiology studies
Animal and plant science education

Gotelli has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

Ecology
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Ecosphere
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Journal of Biogeography

Recent papers authored by Nicholas J. Gotelli include:

"Counting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): biodiversity sampling and statistical analysis for myrmecologists" (2023), published in ScholarWorks @UVM (University of Vermont)
"Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead" (2023), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
"Local biodiversity change reflects interactions among changing abundance, evenness, and richness" (2022), published in Ecology
"Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time" (2020), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
"Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series" (2023), published in Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in Gotelli's research include:

Brian J. McGill
Aaron M. Ellison
Shane A. Blowes
Jonathan M. Chase
Daniel J. McGlinn

Gotelli has contributed to book publications with Princeton University Press, with notable titles such as "Scaling in Ecology with a Model System" published in 2021.

Recognition for their professional contributions includes being named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2020.

Best Publications

Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness

Nicholas J. Gotelli;Robert K. Colwell

7841
Citations
Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

Anne Chao;Nicholas J. Gotelli;T. C. Hsieh;Elizabeth L. Sander

4261
Citations
A Primer of Ecology

Nicholas J. Gotelli

2846
Citations
A Primer of Ecological Statistics

Nicholas J. Gotelli;Aaron M. Ellison

2464
Citations
NULL MODELS IN ECOLOGY

Nicholas J. Gotelli;Gary R. Graves

2399
Citations
Models and estimators linking individual-based and sample-based rarefaction, extrapolation and comparison of assemblages

Robert K. Colwell;Anne Chao;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Shang Yi Lin

2248
Citations
Null model analysis of species co-occurrence patterns

Nicholas J. Gotelli

2077
Citations
Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

Fernando T. Maestre;José L. Quero;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Adrián Escudero

1693
Citations
Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

Maria Dornelas;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Brian McGill;Hideyasu Shimadzu;Hideyasu Shimadzu

1475
Citations
SPECIES CO-OCCURRENCE: A META-ANALYSIS OF J. M. DIAMOND'S ASSEMBLY RULES MODEL

Nicholas J. Gotelli;Declan J. McCabe

1354
Citations
EcoSim: Null models software for ecology

Nicholas J. Gotelli;Gary L Entsminger

1348
Citations
primer of ecological statistics

Nicholas J. Gotelli;Aaron M. Ellison

1017
Citations
A consumer's guide to nestedness analysis

Werner Ulrich;Mário Almeida-Neto;Nicholas J. Gotelli

987
Citations
The mid-domain effect and species richness patterns:what have we learned so far?

Robert K. Colwell;Carsten Rahbek;Nicholas J. Gotelli

823
Citations
Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

Brian J. McGill;Maria Dornelas;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Anne E. Magurran

784
Citations
Measuring and Estimating Species Richness, Species Diversity, and Biotic Similarity from Sampling Data

Nicholas J. Gotelli;Anne Chao

689
Citations
Sufficient sampling for asymptotic minimum species richness estimators

Anne Chao;Robert K. Colwell;Chih-Wei Lin;Nicholas J. Gotelli

672
Citations
Community disassembly by an invasive species

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

582
Citations
Null model analysis of species nestedness patterns.

Werner Ulrich;Nicholas J. Gotelli

523
Citations
Spatial and temporal niche partitioning in grassland ants

M. Albrecht;N.J. Gotelli

503
Citations
Predicting Species Occurrences: Issues of Accuracy and Scale

Nicholas J. Gotelli

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron M. Ellison Harvard University

Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Werner Ulrich Nicolaus Copernicus University

Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University

Robert K. Colwell University of Connecticut

Gary R. Graves National Museum of Natural History

Brian J. McGill University of Maine

Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution

Tiffany M. Knight Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Anne E. Magurran University of St Andrews

External Links

Personal website of Nicholas J. Gotelli

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