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Stephen B. Vander Wall

Stephen B. Vander Wall

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
46
Citations
8678
World Ranking
4627
National Ranking
1609

Stephen B. Vander Wall publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen B. Vander Wall sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 86 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Stephen B. Vander Wall D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen B. Vander Wall sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 46 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Stephen B. Vander Wall is affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focused interest in subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work explores several main topics, including:

  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Stephen B. Vander Wall has published research in notable venues, including:

  • The Botanical Review
  • Journal of Biogeography

Frequent co-authorship is recorded with Jacob W. Dittel.

Among the recent papers authored by Stephen B. Vander Wall are:

  • Seed Dispersal in Pines (Pinus), 2023, The Botanical Review
  • The geographical distribution of rodent granivory and cheek pouches across North America, 2021, Journal of Biogeography

Best Publications

  • The evolutionary ecology of nut dispersal

    Stephen B. Vander Wall

  • Coadaptations of the Clark's nutcracker and the pinon pine for efficient seed harvest and dispersal.

    Stephen B. Vander Wall;Russell P. Balda

  • SEED REMOVAL, SEED PREDATION, AND SECONDARY DISPERSAL

    Stephen B. Vander Wall;Kellie M. Kuhn;Maurie J. Beck

  • Diplochory: are two seed dispersers better than one?

    Stephen B. Vander Wall;William S. Longland

  • An experimental analysis of cache recovery in Clark's nutcracker

    Stephen B. Vander Wall

  • How plants manipulate the scatter-hoarding behaviour of seed-dispersing animals

    Stephen B. Vander Wall

  • Seed Fate: Predation, Dispersal, and Seedling Establishment

    Rudolf Schmid;Pierre-Michel Forget;Joanna E. Lambert;Philip E. Hulme

  • The functional roles of mammals in ecosystems

    Thomas E Lacher;Ana D Davidson;Theodore H Fleming;Emma P Gómez-Ruiz

  • MASTING IN ANIMAL-DISPERSED PINES FACILITATES SEED DISPERSAL

    Stephen B. Vander Wall

  • Reciprocal pilferage and the evolution of food-hoarding behavior

    Stephen B. Vander Wall;Stephen H. Jenkins

  • Ecology and Evolution of Food-storage Behavior in Conifer-seed-caching Corvids

    Stephen B. Vander Wall;Stephen B. Vander Wall;Russell P. Balda;Russell P. Balda

  • Effects of seed size of wind‐dispersed pines (Pinus) on secondary seed dispersal and the caching behavior of rodents

    Stephen B. Vander Wall

  • Seed Fate Pathways of Antelope Bitterbrush: Dispersal by Seed-Caching Yellow Pine Chipmunks

    Stephen B. Vander Wall

  • THE ROLE OF ANIMALS IN DISPERSING A "WIND-DISPERSED" PINE'

    Stephen B. Vander Wall

  • Foraging success of granivorous rodents : Effects of variation in seed and soil water on olfaction

    Stephen B. Vander Wall

  • Effectiveness of six species of rodents as dispersers of singleleaf piñon pine ( Pinus monophylla )

    Jennifer L. Hollander;Stephen B. Vander Wall

  • The influence of environmental conditions on cache recovery and cache pilferage by yellow pine chipmunks (Tamias amoenus) and deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus)

    Stephen B. Vander Wall

  • Forest rodents provide directed dispersal of Jeffrey pine seeds

    Jennifer S. Briggs;Stephen B. Vander Wall;Stephen H. Jenkins

  • Cache site selection by chipmunks (Tamias spp.) and its influence on the effectiveness of seed dispersal in Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi).

    Stephen B. Vander Wall

  • Dispersal of singleleaf pinon pine (Pinus monophylla) by seed-caching rodents

    Stephen B. Vander Wall

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre-Michel Forget
Pierre-Michel Forget French National Museum of Natural History
Joseph A. Veech
Joseph A. Veech Texas State University
James A. MacMahon
James A. MacMahon Utah State University
Norman Owen-Smith
Norman Owen-Smith University of the Witwatersrand
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia
Gary F. McCracken
Gary F. McCracken University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Joanna E. Lambert
Joanna E. Lambert University of Colorado Boulder
Todd C. Esque
Todd C. Esque United States Geological Survey
Thomas E. Lacher
Thomas E. Lacher Texas A&M University
Ana D. Davidson
Ana D. Davidson Colorado State University

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