2026 Sharon Y. Strauss: 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	67	1587	1518	581	547	147	18587

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2009 - George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America

Overview

Sharon Y. Strauss is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science.

The main fields of study in their work include:

Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Environmental Science

Within these broad disciplines, the subfields of study cover:

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Plant Science
Ecological Modeling
Genetics

Their research topics focus on:

Plant and animal studies
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Species Distribution and Climate Change
Plant Parasitism and Resistance
Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

Recent publications by Sharon Y. Strauss include:

Evolutionary origins for ecological patterns in space, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Generalists are more specialized in low-resource habitats, increasing stability of ecological network structure, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Two centuries of monarch butterfly collections reveal contrasting effects of range expansion and migration loss on wing traits, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Genome size evolution is associated with climate seasonality and glucosinolates, but not life history, soil nutrients or range size, across a clade of mustards, 2021, Annals of Botany
Macroevolution of protective coloration across caterpillars reflects relationships with host plants, 2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Ecology
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
The American Naturalist

Collaborations are a notable component of their scientific output, with frequent coauthors being:

Julin Maloof
Jennifer R. Gremer
Samantha J. Worthy
Johanna Schmitt
N. Ivalú Cacho

Among distinctions received by Sharon Y. Strauss are:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2015
George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America, 2009

Best Publications

The ecology and evolution of plant tolerance to herbivory.

Sharon Y. Strauss;Anurag A. Agrawal

1912
Citations
Direct and ecological costs of resistance to herbivory

Sharon Y. Strauss;Jennifer A. Rudgers;Jennifer A. Lau;Rebecca E. Irwin

1056
Citations
Evolutionary responses of natives to introduced species: what do introductions tell us about natural communities?

Sharon Y. Strauss;Jennifer A. Lau;Scott P. Carroll

797
Citations
Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Multispecies Plant-Animal Interactions

Sharon Y. Strauss;Rebecca E. Irwin

650
Citations
Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

Anurag A. Agrawal;David D. Ackerly;Fred Adler;A. Elizabeth Arnold

610
Citations
Exotic taxa less related to native species are more invasive

Sharon Y. Strauss;Campbell O. Webb;Nicolas Salamin

576
Citations
Indirect effects in community ecology: Their definition, study and importance.

Sharon Y. Strauss

550
Citations
More closely related species are more ecologically similar in an experimental test

Jean H. Burns;Sharon Y. Strauss

497
Citations
Mutual feedbacks maintain both genetic and species diversity in a plant community.

Richard A. Lankau;Sharon Y. Strauss

418
Citations
COSTS OF INDUCED RESPONSES AND TOLERANCE TO HERBIVORY IN MALE AND FEMALE FITNESS COMPONENTS OF WILD RADISH.

Anurag A. Agrawal;Sharon Y. Strauss;Michael J. Stout

398
Citations
Foliar Herbivory Affects Floral Characters and Plant Attractiveness to Pollinators: Implications for Male and Female Plant Fitness

Sharon Y. Strauss;Jeffrey K. Conner;Scott L. Rush

364
Citations
The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities.

Mark C. Urban;Mathew A. Leibold;Priyanga Amarasekare;Luc De Meester

359
Citations
FLORAL CHARACTERS LINK HERBIVORES, POLLINATORS, AND PLANT FITNESS

Sharon Y. Strauss

339
Citations
Applying evolutionary biology to address global challenges.

Scott P. Carroll;Peter Søgaard Jørgensen;Michael T. Kinnison;Carl T. Bergstrom

323
Citations
Evolutionary principles and their practical application

Andrew P. Hendry;Michael T. Kinnison;Mikko Heino;Mikko Heino;Troy Day

317
Citations
The geography and ecology of plant speciation: range overlap and niche divergence in sister species.

Brian L. Anacker;Sharon Y. Strauss

300
Citations
Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground-belowground ecology

Wim H. van der Putten;R. D. Bardgett;P. C. de Ruiter;W. H. G. Hol

297
Citations
Mutualist-mediated effects on species' range limits across large geographic scales

Michelle E. Afkhami;Patrick J. McIntyre;Sharon Y. Strauss

282
Citations
Genetic Structure and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations

Susan Mopper;Sharon Y. Strauss

264
Citations
THE ROLE OF HERBIVORES IN THE MAINTENANCE OF A FLOWER COLOR POLYMORPHISM IN WILD RADISH

Rebecca E. Irwin;Sharon Y. Strauss;Shonna Storz;Aimee Emerson

258
Citations
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Gary G. Mittelbach;Brian J. McGill

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Karban University of California, Davis

Jennifer A. Lau Indiana University

Eric J. B. von Wettberg University of Vermont

Rebecca E. Irwin North Carolina State University

Jennifer A. Rudgers University of New Mexico

Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra University of California, Davis

Anurag A. Agrawal Cornell University

Daniel J. Kliebenstein University of California, Davis

Sergey V. Nuzhdin University of Southern California

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