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Richard Law is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their research contributions focus significantly on marine and fisheries research as well as related ecological and environmental topics.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of subjects including fisheries management, biodiversity, land and water quality, and microbial symbiosis. Notable works include:

  • "Regulation of fish stocks without stock-recruitment relationships: The case of small pelagic fish" (2020) published in Fish and Fisheries
  • "Fishing for biodiversity by balanced harvesting" (2022) published in Fish and Fisheries
  • "Difficulties in using land use pressure and soil quality indicators to predict water quality" (2024) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Maternal transmission as a microbial symbiont sieve, and the absence of lactation in male mammals" (2024) published in Nature Communications
  • "Maternal transmission as a microbial symbiont sieve, and the absence of lactation in male mammals" (2022) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist's work spans numerous subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Molecular Biology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Soil Science
  • Complementary and alternative medicine

Main topics that recur throughout their research are:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Richard Law frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Fish and Fisheries, SSRN Electronic Journal, and The Science of The Total Environment.

The scientist often collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Michael J. Plank
  • R. W. McDowell
  • Stephen McNeill
  • John J. Drewry
  • Bryan Stevenson

Best Publications

  • The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology

    M. A. Leibold;M. Holyoak;N. Mouquet;N. Mouquet;P. Amarasekare

  • The Dynamical Theory of Coevolution: A Derivation from Stochastic Ecological Processes

    U. Dieckmann;R. Law

  • Fishing, selection, and phenotypic evolution

    Richard Law

  • Reconsidering the Consequences of Selective Fisheries

    S.M. Garcia;J. Kolding;J. Kolding;J. Rice;Marie-Joelle Rochet

  • Ecological information from spatial patterns of plants: insights from point process theory

    Richard Law;Janine Barbel Illian;David Francis Robert Philip Burslem;Georg Gratzer

  • Optimal Life Histories Under Age-Specific Predation

    Richard Law

  • The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity

    Ulf Dieckmann;Richard Law;Johan A. J. Metz

  • PERMANENCE AND THE ASSEMBLY OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES

    Richard Law;R. Daniel Morton

  • Fisheries-induced evolution: present status and future directions

    Richard Law

  • Evolution of yields from populations with age-specific cropping

    Richard Law;David R. Grey

  • POPULATION GROWTH IN SPACE AND TIME: SPATIAL LOGISTIC EQUATIONS

    Richard Law;David J. Murrell;Ulf Dieckmann

  • Evolutionary cycling in predator-prey interactions: population dynamics and the Red Queen

    U. Dieckmann;P. Marrow;R. Law

  • Cheating and the evolutionary stability of mutualisms

    Régis Ferriere;Judith L. Bronstein;Sergio Rinaldi;Richard Law

  • Dispersal in Plants

    Roger Cousens;Calvin Dytham;Richard Law

  • The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Empirical and Statistical Background: A Plant Ecological Perspective

    Ulf Dieckmann;Richard Law;Johan A. J. Metz

  • How does abundance scale with body size in coupled size-structured food webs?

    Julia L. Blanchard;Julia L. Blanchard;Simon Jennings;Richard Law;Matthew D. Castle;Matthew D. Castle

  • LIFE-HISTORY VARIATION IN POA ANNUA.

    Richard Law;A. D. Bradshaw;P. D. Putwain

  • Alternative Permanent States of Ecological Communities

    Richard Law;R. Daniel Morton

  • Role of marine reserves in recruitment to reef fisheries: A metapopulation model

    Alias Man;Richard Law;Nicholas V.C. Polunin

  • The Cost of Reproduction in Annual Meadow Grass

    Richard Law

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Dieckmann
Ulf Dieckmann International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Roger D. Cousens
Roger D. Cousens University of Melbourne
Calvin Dytham
Calvin Dytham University of York
Mikko Heino
Mikko Heino University of Bergen
Johan A. J. Metz
Johan A. J. Metz Leiden University
Drew W. Purves
Drew W. Purves DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Julia L. Blanchard
Julia L. Blanchard University of Tasmania
David F. R. P. Burslem
David F. R. P. Burslem University of Aberdeen
Daniel C. Dunn
Daniel C. Dunn University of Queensland
Alida Bundy
Alida Bundy Bedford Institute of Oceanography

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