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82
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267

Thomas W. Schoener 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 Thomas W. Schoener sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 158 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas W. Schoener 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 Thomas W. Schoener sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 82 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

Recent papers by Schoener include:

  • Consumer Responses to Experimental Pulsed Subsidies in Isolated versus Connected Habitats, 2020, The American Naturalist
  • The Difficulty of Predicting Evolutionary Change in Response to Novel Ecological Interactions: A Field Experiment with Anolis Lizards, 2022, The American Naturalist
  • Predator-driven Behavioural Shifts in a Common Lizard Shape Resource-Flow from Marine to Terrestrial Ecosystems, 2023, Ecology Letters
  • Experimentally Simulating the Evolution-to-Ecology Connection: Divergent Predator Morphologies Alter Natural Food Webs, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Effects of Size Selection versus Density Dependence on Life Histories: A First Experimental Probe, 2021, Ecology Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schoener include:

  • Oriol Lapiedra
  • Jonah Piovia-Scott
  • Jason J. Kolbe
  • Jonathan B. Losos
  • David A. Spiller

Throughout their career, Schoener has received multiple recognitions, such as:

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

Best Publications

  • Resource Partitioning in Ecological Communities

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • Theory of Feeding Strategies

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

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

  • FIELD EXPERIMENTS ON INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION

    Thomas W. Schoener

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

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • Nonsynchronous Spatial Overlap of Lizards in Patchy Habitats

    Thomas W. Schoener

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

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • Sizes of Feeding Territories among Birds

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • The Controversy over Interspecific Competition

    Thomas W. Schoener

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

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • Lizard Ecology: Studies of a Model Organism

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

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

    Daniel H. Janzen;Thomas W. Schoener

  • Adaptive differentiation following experimental island colonization in Anolis lizards

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

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

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • An empirically based estimate of home range

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • Models of Optimal Size for Solitary Predators

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • THE EVOLUTION OF BILL SIZE DIFFERENCES AMONG SYMPATRIC CONGENERIC SPECIES OF BIRDS

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • Mechanistic Approaches to Community Ecology: A New Reductionism

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • Simple Models of Optimal Feeding-Territory Size: A Reconciliation

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • Generality of the Size-Distance Relation in Models of Optimal Feeding

    Thomas W. Schoener

  • STABILITY AND COMPLEXITY IN MODEL ECOSYSTEMS

    Thomas W. Schoener

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Spiller
David A. Spiller University of California, Davis
Jonathan B. Losos
Jonathan B. Losos Washington University in St. Louis
Louie H. Yang
Louie H. Yang University of California, Davis
Jonathan N. Pruitt
Jonathan N. Pruitt McMaster University
Jason J. Kolbe
Jason J. Kolbe University of Rhode Island
Eric R. Pianka
Eric R. Pianka The University of Texas at Austin
Anthony Herrel
Anthony Herrel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Robert D. Holt
Robert D. Holt University of Florida
Raymond B. Huey
Raymond B. Huey University of Washington
Peter Tiffin
Peter Tiffin University of Minnesota

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