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Jonathan B. Shurin
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 109
Citations - 21040
Jonathan B. Shurin is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem & Biomass (ecology). The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 99 publications receiving 18455 citations. Previous affiliations of Jonathan B. Shurin include University of Chicago & State Street Corporation.
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The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology
Mathew A. Leibold,Marcel Holyoak,Nicolas Mouquet,Nicolas Mouquet,Priyanga Amarasekare,Jonathan M. Chase,Martha F. Hoopes,Robert D. Holt,Jonathan B. Shurin,Richard Law,David Tilman,Michel Loreau,Andrew Gonzalez +12 more
TL;DR: This framework is used to discuss why the metacommunity concept is useful in modifying existing ecological thinking and illustrate this with a number of both theoretical and empirical examples.
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Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
James J. Elser,Matthew E. S. Bracken,Elsa E. Cleland,Daniel S. Gruner,W. Stanley Harpole,Helmut Hillebrand,Jacqueline T. Ngai,Eric W. Seabloom,Jonathan B. Shurin,Jennifer E. Smith +9 more
TL;DR: A large-scale meta-analysis of experimental enrichments shows that P limitation is equally strong across these major habitats and that N and P limitation are equivalent within both terrestrial and freshwater systems.
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Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth
James A. Estes,John Terborgh,Justin S. Brashares,Mary E. Power,Joel Berger,William J. Bond,Stephen R. Carpenter,Timothy E. Essington,Robert D. Holt,Jeremy B. C. Jackson,Robert J. Marquis,Lauri Oksanen,Tarja Oksanen,Robert T. Paine,Ellen K. Pikitch,William J. Ripple,Stuart A. Sandin,Marten Scheffer,Thomas W. Schoener,Jonathan B. Shurin,Anthony R. E. Sinclair,Michael E. Soulé,Risto Virtanen,David A. Wardle +23 more
TL;DR: This empirical work supports long-standing theory about the role of top-down forcing in ecosystems but also highlights the unanticipated impacts of trophic cascades on processes as diverse as the dynamics of disease, wildfire, carbon sequestration, invasive species, and biogeochemical cycles.
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A cross-ecosystem comparison of the strength of trophic cascades
Jonathan B. Shurin,Elizabeth T. Borer,Eric W. Seabloom,Kurt E. Anderson,Carol A. Blanchette,Bernardo R. Broitman,Scott D. Cooper,Benjamin S. Halpern +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the responses of herbivore and plant communities to predator manipulations in 102 field experiments in six different ecosystems: lentic ( lake and pond), marine, and stream benthos, lentic and marine plankton, and terrestrial (grasslands and agricultural fields).
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Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities
W. Stanley Harpole,Jacqueline T. Ngai,Elsa E. Cleland,Eric W. Seabloom,Elizabeth T. Borer,Matthew E. S. Bracken,James J. Elser,Daniel S. Gruner,Helmut Hillebrand,Jonathan B. Shurin,Jennifer E. Smith +10 more
TL;DR: This work summarises multiple-resource limitation responses in plant communities using a dataset of 641 studies that applied factorial addition of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in freshwater, marine and terrestrial systems to highlight the importance of interactions between N and P in regulating primary producer community biomass.