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Employment (2)

Washington University in St Louis: St Louis, MO, US

2018-07-01 to present | Associate Professor of Biology (Department of Biology)
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Jonathan A. Myers

Washington University in St. Louis: St. Louis, MO, US

2012-07-01 to 2018-06-30 | Assistant Professor of Biology (Department of Biology)
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Jonathan A. Myers

Education and qualifications (5)

Washington University in St. Louis: St. Louis, MO, US

2010-06-01 to 2012-06-31 | Tyson Research Center Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of Biology)
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Louisiana State University: Baton Rouge, LA, US

2005-01-01 to 2010-05-01 | Ph.D. Biological Sciences - Systematics, Ecology & Evolution (Department of Biological Sciences)
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Jonathan A. Myers

University of Florida: Gainesville, FL, US

2002-09-01 to 2005-12-31 | M.S. Interdisciplinary Ecology (Department of Botany)
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Jonathan A. Myers

Cornell University: Ithaca, NY, US

2000-09-01 to 2002-05-01 | B.S. Biological Sciences - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Jonathan A. Myers

Paul Smith's College: Paul Smiths, NY, US

1997-09-01 to 1999-05-01 | A.A.S. Forestry - Forest Recreation
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Works (33)

Testing the role of biotic interactions in shaping elevational diversity gradients: An ecological metabolomics approach

Ecology
2025-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70069
Contributors: David Henderson; J. Sebastián Tello; Leslie Cayola; Alfredo F. Fuentes; Belen Alvestegui; Nathan Muchhala; Brian E. Sedio; Jonathan A. Myers
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Pervasive but lagged responses in the composition of small mammal communities to a century of climate change

2024-04-28 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.24.590797
Contributors: Ethan Abercrombie; Jonathan A. Myers; Adam B. Smith
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Pawpaws prevent predictability: A locally-dominant tree alters understory beta-diversity and community assembly

2024-03-07 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.04.583351
Contributors: Anna C. Wassel; Jonathan A. Myers
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Tree mycorrhizal associations determine how biodiversity, large trees, and environmental factors drive aboveground carbon stock in temperate forests

2023-11-14 | Preprint
DOI: 10.22541/au.169995545.50410020/v1
Contributors: Chen Yue; Zikun Mao; Jonathan A. Myers; jinghua Yu; Xugao Wang
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Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity

Communications Biology
2023-10-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05410-z
Contributors: Camille S. Delavaux; Joseph A. LaManna; Jonathan A. Myers; Richard P. Phillips; Salomón Aguilar; David Allen; Alfonso Alonso; Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira; Matthew E. Baker; Jennifer L. Baltzer et al.
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Historical Assembly of Andean Tree Communities

Plants
2023-10-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/plants12203546
Contributors: Sebastián González-Caro; J. Sebastián Tello; Jonathan A. Myers; Kenneth Feeley; Cecilia Blundo; Marco Calderón-Loor; Julieta Carilla; Leslie Cayola; Francisco Cuesta; William Farfán et al.
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Beta diversity as a driver of forest biomass across spatial scales

Ecology
2022-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3774
Contributors: Jacqueline C. Reu; Christopher P. Catano; Marko J. Spasojevic; Jonathan A. Myers
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Wildfire severity alters drivers of interaction beta‐diversity in plant–bee networks

Ecography
2022-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.05986
Contributors: Laura A. Burkle; R. Travis Belote; Jonathan A. Myers
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The evolutionary assembly of forest communities along environmental gradients: recent diversification or sorting of pre‐adapted clades?

New Phytologist
2021-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17674
Contributors: Alexander G. Linan; Jonathan A. Myers; Christine E. Edwards; Amy E. Zanne; Stephen A. Smith; Gabriel Arellano; Leslie Cayola; William Farfan‐Ríos; Alfredo F. Fuentes; Karina García‐Cabrera et al.
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide

Nature Communications
2021-05-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23236-3
Contributors: Yonglin Zhong; Chengjin Chu; Jonathan A. Myers; Gregory S. Gilbert; James A. Lutz; Jonas Stillhard; Kai Zhu; Jill Thompson; Jennifer L. Baltzer; Fangliang He et al.
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Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant pollinator community assembly across wildfire gradients

Journal of Ecology
2021-02 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13530
Part of ISSN: 0022-0477
Part of ISSN: 1365-2745
Contributors: Joseph LaManna; Laura Burkle; Russell Travis Belote; Jonathan A. Myers
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Conspecific negative density dependence and why its study should not be abandoned

Ecosphere
2021-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3322
Contributors: Joseph A. LaManna; Scott A. Mangan; Jonathan A. Myers
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The evolutionary assembly of forest communities along environmental gradients: recent diversification or sorting of pre-adapted clades?

2020-12-22 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.12.22.424032
Contributors: Alexander G. Linan; Jonathan A. Myers; Christine E. Edwards; Amy E. Zanne; Stephen A. Smith; Gabriel Arellano; Leslie Cayola; William Farfan-Ríos; Alfredo F. Fuentes; Karina Garcia-Cabrera et al.
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Untangling the importance of niche breadth and niche position as drivers of tree species abundance and occupancy across biogeographic regions

Global Ecology and Biogeography
2020-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13139
Contributors: Dilys M. Vela Díaz; Cecilia Blundo; Leslie Cayola; Alfredo F. Fuentes; Lucio R. Malizia; Jonathan A. Myers; Jason Pither
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Local species diversity, β diversity and climate influence the regional stability of bird biomass across North America

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2020-03-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2520
Part of ISSN: 0962-8452
Part of ISSN: 1471-2954
Contributors: Christopher Catano; Trevor S. Fristoe; Joseph A. LaManna; Jonathan A. Myers
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Jonathan A. Myers

Accurate forest projections require long‐term wood decay experiments because plant trait effects change through time

Global Change Biology
2020-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14873
Part of ISSN: 1354-1013
Part of ISSN: 1365-2486
Contributors: Brad Oberle; Marissa R. Lee; Jonathan A. Myers; Oyomoare L. Osazuwa‐Peters; Marko J. Spasojevic; Maranda L. Walton; Darcy F. Young; Amy E. Zanne
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Jonathan A. Myers

Patterns of nitrogen‐fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America

Journal of Ecology
2019-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13199
Part of ISSN: 0022-0477
Part of ISSN: 1365-2745
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Jonathan A. Myers

Snail herbivory affects seedling establishment in a temperate forest in the Ozarks

Journal of Ecology
2019-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13150
Contributors: Anna J. Liang; Claudia Stein; Eleanor Pearson; Jonathan A. Myers; Raelene M. Crandall; Scott A. Mangan; Matthew Heard
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Wildfires Influence Abundance, Diversity, and Intraspecific and Interspecific Trait Variation of Native Bees and Flowering Plants Across Burned and Unburned Landscapes

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
2019-07-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00252
Part of ISSN: 2296-701X
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Jonathan A. Myers

Landscape context mediates the relationship between plant functional traits and decomposition

Plant and Soil
2019-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-019-04009-w
Part of ISSN: 0032-079X
Part of ISSN: 1573-5036
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Jonathan A. Myers

Species Diversity Associated with Foundation Species in Temperate and Tropical Forests

Forests
2019-02-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/f10020128
Part of ISSN: 1999-4907
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Global importance of large-diameter trees

Global Ecology and Biogeography
2018-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12747
Part of ISSN: 1466-822X
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Jonathan A. Myers

Integrating species traits into species pools

Ecology
2018-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2220
Part of ISSN: 0012-9658
Part of ISSN: 1939-9170
Contributors: Marko J. Spasojevic; Christopher Catano; Joseph A. LaManna; Jonathan A. Myers
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Jonathan A. Myers

Ecological drivers of spatial community dissimilarity, species replacement and species nestedness across temperate forests

Global Ecology and Biogeography
2018-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12719
Part of ISSN: 1466-822X
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Jonathan A. Myers

Dispersal and neutral sampling mediate contingent effects of disturbance on plant beta diversity: a meta analysis

Ecology Letters
2017-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12733
Part of ISSN: 1461-023X
Part of ISSN: 1461-0248
Contributors: Christopher P. Catano; Timothy L. Dickson; Jonathan A. Myers
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Groundcover community assembly in high-diversity pine savannas: seed arrival and fire-generated environmental filtering

Ecosphere
2017-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1716
Part of ISSN: 2150-8925
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Jonathan A. Myers

The promise and pitfalls of β-diversity in ecology and conservation

Journal of Vegetation Science
2016-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12482
Part of ISSN: 1100-9233
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Jonathan A. Myers

Direct estimates of downslope deadwood movement over 30 years in a temperature forest illustrate impacts of treefall on forest ecosystem dynamics

Canadian Journal of Forest Research
2016-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2015-0348
Part of ISSN: 0045-5067
Part of ISSN: 1208-6037
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Jonathan A. Myers

When does intraspecific trait variation contribute to functional beta-diversity?

Journal of Ecology
2016-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12518
Part of ISSN: 0022-0477
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Wildfire disturbance and productivity as drivers of plant species diversity across spatial scales

Ecosphere
2015-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1890/es15-00438.1
Part of ISSN: 2150-8925
Part of ISSN: 2150-8925
Contributors: Laura A. Burkle; Jonathan A. Myers; R. Travis Belote
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Jonathan A. Myers

Disturbance alters beta diversity but not the relative importance of community assembly mechanisms

Journal of Ecology
2015-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12436
Part of ISSN: 0022-0477
Part of ISSN: 1365-2745
Contributors: Jonathan A. Myers; Jonathan M. Chase; Raelene M. Crandall; Iván Jiménez
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Beta‐diversity in temperate and tropical forests reflects dissimilar mechanisms of community assembly

Ecology Letters
2013-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12021
Part of ISSN: 1461-023X
Part of ISSN: 1461-0248
Contributors: Jonathan A. Myers; Jonathan M. Chase; Iván Jiménez; Peter M. Jørgensen; Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami; Narel Paniagua‐Zambrana; Renate Seidel
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Carbohydrate storage enhances seedling shade and stress tolerance in a neotropical forest

Journal of Ecology
2007-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01207.x
Part of ISSN: 0022-0477
Part of ISSN: 1365-2745
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Jonathan A. Myers

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