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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
109
Citations
45530
World Ranking
187
National Ranking
80

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Scott L. Collins is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The scientist has contributed extensively to several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Soil Science.

The main topics of their work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Pasture and Agricultural Systems, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Recent notable publications by Scott L. Collins include:

  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Sensitivity of primary production to precipitation across the United States, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time, 2020, Ecology
  • The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate, 2023, Nature Communications

Throughout their career, Scott L. Collins has frequently published in the following venues:

  • BioScience
  • Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

They have collaborated extensively with a number of researchers, including:

  • Melinda D. Smith
  • Alan K. Knapp
  • Qiang Yu
  • Wentao Luo
  • Robert J. Griffin-Nolan

Scott L. Collins has been recognized as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) since 2016 and as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2011.

Best Publications

  • Rainfall variability, carbon cycling, and plant species diversity in a mesic grassland

    Alan K. Knapp;Philip A. Fay;John M. Blair;Scott L. Collins;Scott L. Collins

  • Modulation of Diversity by Grazing and Mowing in Native Tallgrass Prairie

    Scott L. Collins;Scott L. Collins;Scott L. Collins;Alan K. Knapp;Alan K. Knapp;Alan K. Knapp;John M. Briggs;John M. Briggs;John M. Briggs;John M. Blair;John M. Blair;John M. Blair

  • Functional- and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to N fertilization.

    Katharine N. Suding;Scott L. Collins;Laura Gough;Christopher Clark

  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative.

    James S. Clark;Steven R. Carpenter;Mary Barber;Scott Collins

  • Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation

    Bradley J. Cardinale;Margaret A. Palmer;Scott L. Collins

  • The Keystone Role of Bison in North American Tallgrass Prairie

    Alan K. Knapp;John M. Blair;John M. Briggs;Scott L. Collins

  • The Keystone Role of Bison in North American Tallgrass Prairie Bison increase habitat heterogeneity and alter a broad array of plant, community, and ecosystem processes

    A. K. Knapp;J. M. Blair;J. M. Briggs;S. L. Collins;S. L. Collins

  • Models, mechanisms and pathways of succession

    S. T.A. Pickett;S. L. Collins;Juan J. Armesto

  • An integrated conceptual framework for long‐term social–ecological research

    Scott L Collins;Stephen R Carpenter;Scott M Swinton;Daniel E Orenstein

  • Ecology for a Crowded Planet

    Margaret Palmer;Emily S. Bernhardt;Elizabeth A. Chornesky;Scott L. Collins

  • The ecological concept of disturbance and its expression at various hierarchical levels

    S. T.A. Pickett;J. Kolasa;J. J. Armesto;S. L. Collins

  • A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change

    Melinda D. Smith;Alan K. Knapp;Scott L. Collins

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs

    Alan K. Knapp;John M. Briggs;Scott L. Collins;Steven R. Archer

  • Fertilization effects on species density and primary productivity in herbaceous plant communities

    Laura Gough;Craig W. Osenberg;Katherine L. Gross;Scott L. Collins

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • INTERACTION OF DISTURBANCES IN TALLGRASS PRAIRIE: A FIELD EXPERIMENT'

    Scott L. Collins

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas

    Zakary Ratajczak;Jesse B. Nippert;Scott L. Collins

  • Productivity responses to altered rainfall patterns in a C4-dominated grassland

    Philip A. Fay;Philip A. Fay;Jonathan D. Carlisle;Alan K. Knapp;John M. Blair

  • Pulse dynamics and microbial processes in aridland ecosystems

    Scott L. Collins;Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Chelsea Crenshaw;Laura Green

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan K. Knapp
Alan K. Knapp Colorado State University
Melinda D. Smith
Melinda D. Smith Colorado State University
John M. Blair
John M. Blair Kansas State University
Kevin P. Kirkman
Kevin P. Kirkman University of KwaZulu-Natal
Sally E. Koerner
Sally E. Koerner University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Kevin R. Wilcox
Kevin R. Wilcox University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Philip A. Fay
Philip A. Fay Agricultural Research Service
Paolo D'Odorico
Paolo D'Odorico University of California, Berkeley
William T. Pockman
William T. Pockman University of New Mexico

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