Brian J. McGill

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

69h-index29.5kcitations250works9.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Species Distribution and Climate Change(110), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(107), Plant and animal studies(67), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(32), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies(23)

Publications247 total

Biodiversity trends show an excess of both near stasis and of very large change
Figshare·2026Open Access
Biodiversity trends show an excess of both near stasis and of very large change
Figshare·2026Open Access
Biodiversity trends show an excess of both near stasis and of very large change
Figshare·2026Open Access
Stochastic diffusion using mean-field limits to approximate master equations
Royal Society Open Science·2025Open Access
Emergence and Dynamics of Regional Species Pools
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Disentangling nonrandom structure from random placement when estimating β‐diversity through space or time
Ecosphere·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
A new dimension of leaf economic spectrum: temporal instability of relationships among genotypes
New Phytologist·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Innovations through crop switching happen on the diverse margins of US agriculture
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Trees have overlapping potential niches that extend beyond their realized niches
Science·2024· 27 cited
Synthesis reveals approximately balanced biotic differentiation and homogenization
Science Advances·2024· 58 citedOpen Access
Disentangling non-random structure from random placement when estimating β-diversity through space or time
2023Open Access
Operationalizing cultural adaptation to climate change: contemporary examples from United States agriculture
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 13 citedOpen Access
Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages
Science·2023· 50 citedOpen Access
Macrobehaviour: behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa
Trends in Ecology & Evolution·2023· 18 citedOpen Access
Operationalizing cultural adaptation to climate change: contemporary examples from United States agriculture
2023Open Access
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2023· 85 citedOpen Access
Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series
Nature Communications·2023· 58 citedOpen Access
Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2023· 17 cited
Widespread reductions in body size are paired with stable assemblage biomass
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Experimental natural disturbance-based silviculture systems maintain mature forest bird assemblage long-term in Maine (USA)
Forest Ecology and Management·2022· 5 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Brian J. Enquist(14), Anne E. Magurran(11), Cyrille Violle(11), María Dornelas(11), Nicholas J. Gotelli(10), Nathan J. B. Kraft(8), Jens‐Christian Svenning(8), Naia Morueta‐Holme(8), Brad Boyle(7), Robert K. Peet(7), Faye Moyes(6), Peter M. Jørgensen(6), Susan K. Wiser(6), Brody Sandel(5), Irena Šímová(5), John C. Donoghue(5), Mark Schildhauer(5), Barbara M. Thiers(5), Julie Messier(4), Hideyasu Shimadzu(4)