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44
Citations
11522
World Ranking
4973
National Ranking
1703

Overview

Sebastian J. Schreiber is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a strong emphasis on environmental science as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their main areas of study include the following topics:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Subfields within their research portfolio consist of:

  • Genetics
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Sociology and Political Science

Frequent publication venues where Sebastian J. Schreiber's work appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The American Naturalist
  • Ecology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Ecology Letters

Their recent papers demonstrate contributions to ecological and evolutionary theory, among them:

  • Positively and Negatively Autocorrelated Environmental Fluctuations Have Opposing Effects on Species Coexistence (2020), The American Naturalist
  • Individual variation in dispersal and fecundity increases rates of spatial spread (2020), AoB Plants
  • Does deterministic coexistence theory matter in a finite world? (2022), Ecology

Other related publications where Schreiber is involved focus on theoretical frameworks and community assembly:

  • Permanence via invasion graphs: incorporating community assembly into modern coexistence theory (2022), Journal of Mathematical Biology (co-authored by Josef Hofbauer)
  • Building modern coexistence theory from the ground up: The role of community assembly (2023), Ecology Letters (co-authored by Jürg W. Spaak)

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their scientific activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jay A. Rosenheim
  • Joachim Jose
  • Andrew Sih
  • Alexandru Hening
  • Kathryn L. Cottingham

Best Publications

  • Superspreading and the effect of individual variation on disease emergence

    James Lloyd-Smith;S. J. Schreiber;P. E. Kopp;W M Getz

  • Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Priyanga Amarasekare;Márcio S. Araújo;Reinhard Bürger

  • How variation between individuals affects species coexistence

    Simon P. Hart;Sebastian J. Schreiber;Jonathan M. Levine

  • Ocean acidification through the lens of ecological theory

    Brian Gaylord;Kristy J Kroeker;Jennifer M Sunday;Kathryn M Anderson

  • Allee effects, extinctions, and chaotic transients in simple population models.

    Sebastian J. Schreiber

  • Persistence in fluctuating environments

    Sebastian J. Schreiber;Michel Benaïm;Kolawolé A. S. Atchadé

  • Importance of Metapopulation Connectivity to Restocking and Restoration of Marine Species

    Romuald N. Lipcius;David B. Eggleston;Sebastian J. Schreiber;Rochelle D. Seitz

  • The community effects of phenotypic and genetic variation within a predator population

    Sebastian J. Schreiber;Reinhard Bürger;Daniel I. Bolnick

  • Crossing habitat boundaries: coupling dynamics of ecosystems through complex life cycles.

    Sebastian Schreiber;Volker H. W. Rudolf

  • Invasion Dynamics in Spatially Heterogeneous Environments

    Sebastian J. Schreiber;James O. Lloyd‐Smith

  • Stochastic population growth in spatially heterogeneous environments

    Steven N. Evans;Peter L. Ralph;Sebastian J. Schreiber;Arnab Sen

  • Criteria for Cr Robust Permanence

    Sebastian J. Schreiber

  • Interactive effects of disturbance and dispersal directionality on species richness and composition in metacommunities

    Florian Altermatt;Sebastian Schreiber;Marcel Holyoak

  • Evolution in a Community Context: Trait Responses to Multiple Species Interactions*

    Casey P. terHorst;Peter C. Zee;Katy D. Heath;Thomas E. Miller

  • Consequences of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal for plant demography, communities, evolution and global change.

    Rebecca S Snell;Noelle G Beckman;Evan Fricke;Bette A Loiselle

  • A PHYSIOLOGICALLY BASED TRITROPHIC PERSPECTIVE ON BOTTOM-UP-TOP-DOWN REGULATION OF POPULATIONS'

    A. P. Gutierrez;N. J. Mills;S. J. Schreiber;C. K. Ellis

  • Interactive effects of temporal correlations, spatial heterogeneity and dispersal on population persistence

    Sebastian J. Schreiber

  • URN MODELS, REPLICATOR PROCESSES, AND RANDOM GENETIC DRIFT*

    Sebastian J. Schreiber

  • ON THE EVOLUTION OF DISPERSAL IN PATCHY LANDSCAPES

    Stephen Kirkland;Chi-Kwong Li;Sebastian J. Schreiber

  • When rarity has costs: coexistence under positive frequency-dependence and environmental stochasticity

    Sebastian J. Schreiber;Masato Yamamichi;Sharon Y. Strauss

  • Persistence of structured populations in random environments

    Michel Benaïm;Sebastian J. Schreiber

Frequent Co-Authors

James O. Lloyd-Smith
James O. Lloyd-Smith University of California, Los Angeles
Michel Benaïm
Michel Benaïm University of Neuchâtel
Romuald N. Lipcius
Romuald N. Lipcius Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Wayne M. Getz
Wayne M. Getz University of California, Berkeley
Alan Hastings
Alan Hastings University of California, Davis
Steven N. Evans
Steven N. Evans University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Sih
Andrew Sih University of California, Davis
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Chi-Kwong Li
Chi-Kwong Li William & Mary
Jonathan M. Levine
Jonathan M. Levine Princeton University

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