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Richard J. Williams

Richard J. Williams

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
48
Citations
15419
World Ranking
4120
National Ranking
1434

Overview

Richard J. Williams is affiliated with Vibrant Data Labs in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with specific contributions across several notable subfields including environmental chemistry, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist's work encompasses multiple interconnected topics relevant to current environmental challenges. The main topics they have explored are:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and wildlife management
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Hydrology and watershed management
  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Among recent publications, several papers illustrate the diversity of their research interests:

  • "Biogeochemical and climate drivers of wetland phosphorus and nitrogen release: Implications for nutrient legacies and eutrophication risk," 2020, Journal of Environmental Quality
  • "An integrated approach to assessing abiotic and biotic threats to post-fire plant species recovery: Lessons from the 2019-2020 Australian fire season," 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Biological and anthropogenic predictors of metal concentration in the Eurasian otter, a sentinel of freshwater ecosystems," 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • "Frameworks for identifying priority plants and ecosystems most impacted by major fires," 2022, Australian Journal of Botany
  • "From networks to networking," 2023, Nature Physics

The scientist has published multiple times in specific venues, highlighting sustained contributions to those journals:

  • Australian Journal of Botany (2 publications)
  • Journal of Environmental Quality (1 publication)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography (1 publication)
  • Environmental Pollution (1 publication)
  • Nature Physics (1 publication)

Frequent collaborators include Rachael V. Gallagher, Stuart Allen, Berin D. E. Mackenzie, David A. Keith, and Stephen van Leeuwen. Each has coauthored at least two papers with Williams, indicating established research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance

    Jennifer A. Dunne;Jennifer A. Dunne;Richard J. Williams;Neo D. Martinez

  • Food-web structure and network theory: The role of connectance and size.

    Jennifer A. Dunne;Richard J. Williams;Neo D. Martinez

  • Simple rules yield complex food webs

    Richard J. Williams;Neo D. Martinez

  • CONSUMER–RESOURCE BODY-SIZE RELATIONSHIPS IN NATURAL FOOD WEBS

    Ulrich Brose;Tomas Jonsson;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Philip Warren

  • Allometric scaling enhances stability in complex food webs

    Ulrich Brose;Richard J. Williams;Neo D. Martinez

  • Two degrees of separation in complex food webs.

    Richard J. Williams;Eric L. Berlow;Jennifer A. Dunne;Jennifer A. Dunne;Albert László Barabási

  • ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS: SENSITIVITY TO SAMPLE COVERAGE AND INSENSITIVITY TO SPATIAL PATTERNS

    Ulrich Brose;Neo D. Martinez;Richard J. Williams

  • Network structure and robustness of marine food webs

    Jennifer A. Dunne;Jennifer A. Dunne;Richard J. Williams;Richard J. Williams;Neo D. Martinez;Neo D. Martinez

  • More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs.

    Sonia Kéfi;Sonia Kéfi;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Evie A. Wieters;Evie A. Wieters;Sergio A. Navarrete

  • Limits to trophic levels and omnivory in complex food webs: theory and data.

    Richard J. Williams;Neo D. Martinez

  • Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs.

    Eric L. Berlow;Jennifer A. Dunne;Neo D. Martinez;Philip B. Stark

  • Spanish Aerobiology Network (REA): management and quality manual

    Unknown

  • Cascading extinctions and community collapse in model food webs

    Jennifer A. Dunne;Richard J. Williams

  • Parasites affect food web structure primarily through increased diversity and complexity.

    Jennifer A. Dunne;Kevin D. Lafferty;Andrew P. Dobson;Ryan F. Hechinger

  • Compilation and network analyses of cambrian food webs.

    Jennifer A Dunne;Richard J Williams;Neo D Martinez;Rachel A Wood

  • Stabilization of chaotic and non-permanent food-web dynamics

    R. J. Williams;N. D. Martinez

  • Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems

    Ulrich Brose;Phillippe Archambault;Andrew D. Barnes;Andrew D. Barnes;Louis-Felix Bersier

  • Predicting invasion success in complex ecological networks.

    Tamara Natasha Romanuk;Yun Zhou;Ulrich Brose;Eric L. Berlow

  • Mechanistic theory and modelling of complex food-web dynamics in Lake Constance.

    Alice Boit;Neo D. Martinez;Richard J. Williams;Ursula Gaedke

  • Dilu: A knowledge-driven approach to autonomous driving with large language models

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Neo D. Martinez
Neo D. Martinez Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Jennifer A. Dunne
Jennifer A. Dunne Santa Fe Institute
Ulrich Brose
Ulrich Brose Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Eric L. Berlow
Eric L. Berlow University of California, Merced
Owen L. Petchey
Owen L. Petchey University of Zurich
Roland A. Knapp
Roland A. Knapp University of California, Berkeley
Lucas Joppa
Lucas Joppa Microsoft (United States)
Philip H. Warren
Philip H. Warren University of Sheffield
Drew W. Purves
Drew W. Purves DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Andrew D. Friend
Andrew D. Friend University of Cambridge

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