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Nicholas Gotelli

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Nicholas Gotelli
OccupationBiologist
Known forResearch on biodiversity, species co-occurrence, and community ecology

Nicholas Gotelli is an American biologist who is a professor of biology at the University of Vermont. His research focuses on community ecology, biodiversity measurement, and the statistical analysis of species co-occurrence patterns.[1]

Career

Gotelli has served as a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Vermont since 1992.[2]

Research

According to Semantic Scholar, Gotelli has authored or co-authored 305 papers that have collectively been cited 41,805 times, giving him an h-index of 87.[3]

His work has addressed the scale-dependence of biodiversity patterns, functional trait diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality, spatial and temporal niche partitioning in ant communities, and methods for disentangling biotic interactions, environmental filters, and dispersal limitation as drivers of species co-occurrence.[4]

National Science Foundation records list 16 awards totaling $2,128,745 supporting his research, administered through the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College. These include a collaborative project on forecasting tipping points in aquatic ecosystems ($306,482, awarded July 9, 2012), a Dimensions of Biodiversity award on climatic effects on a temperate ant community ($707,559, awarded August 25, 2011), a dissertation research award on evolutionary responses of Daphnia to climate change in vernal ponds ($13,217, awarded April 17, 2009), a collaborative project on moths, ants, and carnivorous plants ($65,926, awarded April 4, 2006), and a collaborative project on the effects of nutrient stress on a co-evolved food web ($26,513, awarded March 28, 2003).[5]

Selected publications

  • "Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality" (2017), Nature Ecology & Evolution[6]
  • "Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities" (2018), bioRxiv[7]
  • "Spatial and temporal niche partitioning in grassland ants" (2017), Oecologia[8]
  • "A balance of winners and losers in the Anthropocene" (2019), Ecology Letters[9]
  • "Disentangling biotic interactions, environmental filters, and dispersal limitation as drivers of species co-occurrence" (2018)[10]
  • "Similarity of introduced plant species to native ones facilitates naturalization, but differences enhance invasion success" (2018), Nature Communications[11]
  • "MoB (Measurement of Biodiversity): a method to separate the scale-dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change" (2018), bioRxiv[12]
  • "Ecological Network Metrics: Opportunities for Synthesis" (2017), bioRxiv[13]
  • "Diversity-disease relationships and shared species analyses for human microbiome-associated diseases" (2019), The ISME Journal[14]
  • "Community-level regulation of temporal trends in biodiversity" (2017), Science Advances[15]
  1. ↑ ORCID record 0000-0002-5409-7456
  2. ↑ ORCID record 0000-0002-5409-7456
  3. ↑ Semantic Scholar author metrics
  4. ↑ Semantic Scholar publication records
  5. ↑ National Science Foundation award records
  6. ↑ Semantic Scholar publication records
  7. ↑ Semantic Scholar publication records
  8. ↑ Semantic Scholar publication records
  9. ↑ Semantic Scholar publication records
  10. ↑ Semantic Scholar publication records
  11. ↑ Semantic Scholar publication records
  12. ↑ Semantic Scholar publication records
  13. ↑ Semantic Scholar publication records
  14. ↑ Semantic Scholar publication records
  15. ↑ Semantic Scholar publication records
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