2026 Thomas W. Schoener: 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	82	728	689	267	247	158	47602

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
1992 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1984 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Thomas W. Schoener is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work focuses on several main topics, including:

Plant and animal studies
Species distribution and climate change
Animal behavior and reproduction
Evolution and genetic dynamics
Isotope analysis in ecology
Amphibian and reptile biology
Animal ecology and behavior studies

Prominent subfields in their research include ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, ecological modeling, ecology, and global and planetary change.

Thomas W. Schoener has published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions in:

The American Naturalist
Ecology Letters
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

Resource Partitioning in Ecological Communities

Thomas W. Schoener

5413
Citations
Theory of Feeding Strategies

Thomas W. Schoener

4785
Citations
Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

James A. Estes;John Terborgh;Justin S. Brashares;Mary E. Power

4587
Citations
FIELD EXPERIMENTS ON INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION

Thomas W. Schoener

3113
Citations
The Anolis Lizards of Bimini: Resource Partitioning in a Complex Fauna

Thomas W. Schoener

2453
Citations
Nonsynchronous Spatial Overlap of Lizards in Patchy Habitats

Thomas W. Schoener

2292
Citations
The Newest Synthesis: Understanding the Interplay of Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics

Thomas W. Schoener

1076
Citations
Sizes of Feeding Territories among Birds

Thomas W. Schoener

941
Citations
The Controversy over Interspecific Competition

Thomas W. Schoener

830
Citations
Food Webs From the Small to the Large: The Robert H. MacArthur Award Lecture

Thomas W. Schoener

814
Citations
Lizard Ecology: Studies of a Model Organism

Raymond B. Huey;Eric R. Pianka;Thomas W. Schoener

677
Citations
Differences in Insect Abundance and Diversity Between Wetter and Drier Sites During a Tropical Dry Season

Daniel H. Janzen;Thomas W. Schoener

655
Citations
Adaptive differentiation following experimental island colonization in Anolis lizards

Jonathan B. Losos;Kenneth I. Warheitt;Thomas W. Schoener

628
Citations
The Ecological Significance of Sexual Dimorphism in Size in the Lizard Anolis conspersus.

Thomas W. Schoener

563
Citations
An empirically based estimate of home range

Thomas W. Schoener

553
Citations
Models of Optimal Size for Solitary Predators

Thomas W. Schoener

534
Citations
THE EVOLUTION OF BILL SIZE DIFFERENCES AMONG SYMPATRIC CONGENERIC SPECIES OF BIRDS

Thomas W. Schoener

452
Citations
Mechanistic Approaches to Community Ecology: A New Reductionism

Thomas W. Schoener

449
Citations
Simple Models of Optimal Feeding-Territory Size: A Reconciliation

Thomas W. Schoener

410
Citations
Generality of the Size-Distance Relation in Models of Optimal Feeding

Thomas W. Schoener

400
Citations
STABILITY AND COMPLEXITY IN MODEL ECOSYSTEMS

Thomas W. Schoener

221
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Spiller University of California, Davis

Jonathan B. Losos Washington University in St. Louis

Louie H. Yang University of California, Davis

Jonathan N. Pruitt McMaster University

Jason J. Kolbe University of Rhode Island

Eric R. Pianka The University of Texas at Austin

Anthony Herrel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Robert D. Holt University of Florida

Raymond B. Huey University of Washington

Peter Tiffin University of Minnesota

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