JEFFREY C. NEKOLA
Biosketch

A. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

1987–1994: Ph.D. (Ecology), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Major advisor: Peter S. White. Thesis: Ecology and Biogeography of Isolated Habitats: Fens and Algific Talus Slopes in Northeastern Iowa.

1983–1987: B.A. (Biology), Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Major advisor: Paula Sanchini. Senior Honors Thesis: Ecological and Floristic Analysis of the 30^th Street Woods, Linn County, Iowa.

B. APPOINTMENTS

2018-present: Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

2017-present: IUCN Mollusc Specialist Group

2016-present: Research Associate, Department of Malacology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2013-present: Editorial Board, Malacologia

2011-present: Editor for Pulmonate Gastropods, Zootaxa

2009-present: Associate Editor, Journal of Molluscan Studies

2005-2019: Adjunct Associate Professor, The University of New Mexico

2004-present: Research Associate, Section of Molluscs, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2000–2004: Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay

1994-2000: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay

C. PRODUCTS: As of February 15, 2022, my 90 published peer-reviewed works have generated 8659 citations with an H-index=35, a G-index=89, and an Age-Weighted Citation Rate=534.6

MOST CITED PUBLICATIONS [number of citations]

(As Lead Author):

Nekola, J.C. & P.S. White. 1999. Distance decay of similarity in biogeography and ecology. Journal of Biogeography 26:867-878. [1673]

Nekola, J.C. 1999. Paleorefugia and neorefugia: the influence of colonization history on community pattern and process. Ecology 80: 2459-2473. [168]

Nekola, J.C. & J.H. Brown. 2007. The wealth of species: ecological communities, complex systems, and the legacy of Frank Preston. Ecology Letters 10:188-196. [112]

Nekola, J.C. 2003. Large-scale terrestrial gastropod community composition patterns in the Great Lakes region of North America. Diversity and Distribution 9:55-71. [91]

Nekola, J.C., C.D. Allen, J.H. Brown, J.R. Burger, A.D. Davidson, T.S. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, S.T. Hammond, A. Kodric-Brown, N. Mercado-Silva & J.G. Okie. 2013. The Malthusian-Darwinian dynamic and the trajectory of civilization. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:127-130. [84]

Nekola, J.C. & T.A. Smith. 1999. Terrestrial gastropod richness patterns in Wisconsin carbonate cliff communities. Malacologia 41:253-269. [77]

Nekola, J.C. 2004. Vascular plant composition gradients within and between Iowa fens. Journal of Vegetation Science 15:771-780. [69]

Nekola, J.C. & B.F. Coles. 2010. Pupillid land snails of eastern North America. American Malacological Bulletin 28:29-57. [Color version (~9.25 mb)] [66]

Nekola, J.C. 2002. Effects of fire management on the richness and abundance of central North American grassland land snail faunas. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 25:53-66. [59]

Nekola, J.C., B.F. Coles & U. Bergthorsson. 2009. Evolutionary pattern and process in the Vertigo gouldii (Mollusca: Pulmonata, Pupillidae) group of minute North American land snails. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53:1010-1024. [47]

Nekola, J.C. & B.J. McGill. 2014. Scale dependency in the functional form of the distance decay relationship. Ecography 37:309-320. [46]

Nekola, J.C. 1999. Terrestrial gastropod richness of carbonate cliff and associated habitats in the Great Lakes region of North America. Malacologia 41:231-252. [46]

Nekola, J.C. 2005. Latitudinal richness, evenness, and shell size gradients in eastern North American land snail communities. Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement 68:39-51. [43]

Nekola, J.C., B.F. Coles & M. Horsák. 2015. Species assignment in Pupilla (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupillidae): integration of DNA-sequence data and conchology. Journal of Molluscan Studies 81:196-216. [39]

(As Secondary Author):

Smith, V.H., G.D. Tilman & J.C. Nekola. 1999. Eutrophication impacts of excess nutrient inputs on fresh water, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. Environmental Pollution 100:179-196. [3409]

Brown, J.H., W.R. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, J.P. DeLong, W.C. Dunn, M.J. Hamilton, J.C. Nekola, J.G. Okie, N. Mercado-Silva, W.H. Woodruff & W. Zuo. 2011. Energetic limits to economic growth. Bioscience 61:19-26. [298]

Bossenbroek, J.M., C.E. Kraft & J.C. Nekola. 2001. Prediction of long-distance dispersal using gravity models: Zebra Mussel invasion of inland lakes. Ecological Applications 11:1178-1788. [293]

Burger, J.R., J.H. Brown, C.D. Allen,, W.R. Burnside, A.D. Davidson, T.S. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, N. Mercado-Silva, J.C. Nekola, J.G. Okie & W. Zuo. 2012. The macroecology of sustainability. PLoS Biology 10:e1001345. [177]

Pigati, J.S., J.A. Rech & J.C. Nekola. 2010. Radiocarbon dating of small terrestrial gastropod shells in North America. Quaternary Geochronology 5:519-532. [167]

Moses, M.E., C. Hou, W.H. Woodruff, G.B. West, J.C. Nekola, W. Zuo & J.H. Brown. 2008. A general model of ontogenetic growth II: estimating model parameters from theory and data. The American Naturalist 171: 632-645. [145]

Hammond, S.T., J.H. Brown, J.R. Burger, T.P. Flanagan, T.S. Fristoe, N. Mercado-Silva, J.C. Nekola & J.G. Okie. 2015. Food spoilage, storage and transport: implications for a sustainable future. Bioscience 65:758-768. [105]

Horsák, M., M. Hájek, D. Spitale, P. Hájková, D. Díte & J.C. Nekola. 2012. The age of island-like habitats impacts habitat specialist species richness. Ecology 93:1106-1114. [80]

Brown, J.H., J.R. Burger, W.R. Burnside, M. Chang, A.D. Davidson, T.S. Fristoe, M.J. Hamilton, S.T. Hammond, A. Kodric-Brown, N. Mercado-Silva, J.C. Nekola & J.G. Okie. 2014. Macroecology meets macroeconomics: resource scarcity and global sustainability. Ecological Engineering 65:24-32. [79]

McGill, B.J. & J.C. Nekola. 2010. Mechanisms in macroecology: AWOL or purloined letter? Towards a pragmatic view of mechanism. Oikos 119:591-603. [79]

Kraft, C.E., P.J. Sullivan, A.Y. Karatayev, L.E. Burlakova, J.C. Nekola, L.E. Johnson & D.K. Padilla. 2002. Landscape patterns of an aquatic invader: assessing dispersal extent from spatial distributions. Ecological Applications 12:749-759. [77]

Larson, D.W., U. Mattes-Sears, J.A. Gerrath, N.W.K. Larson, J.M. Gerrath, J.C. Nekola, G.L. Walker, S. Porembski & A. Charlton. 2000. Evidence for the widespread occurrence of ancient forests on cliffs. Journal of Biogeography 27:319-331. [63]

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