Gordon G. McNickle
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
55
Citations
2,504
Est. group size
~1
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
21
Publishing since 2006
Gordon G. McNickle studies how plants compete, cooperate, and coexist with one another, using tools from evolutionary game theory (mathematical models of strategic interactions) to understand root growth, resource allocation, and mutualisms like plant-microbe partnerships. His work spans theoretical modeling and empirical plant biology, including studies on species diversity in forests, allelopathy (chemical competition between plants), mycorrhizal symbiosis, and reproducibility in ecological experiments. Prospective students would engage with a mix of quantitative modeling and hands-on plant ecology research.
Publication output rose steadily from 2017 to a peak in 2022, but has been lower and more variable since, including a gap in 2024.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Niche Overlap in Forest Tree Species Precludes a Positive Diversity–Productivity Relationship
Plants · 2025
- Hyper Diversity, Species Richness, and Community Structure in ESS and Non-ESS Communities
Dynamic Games and Applications · 2025
- Hyper diversity, species richness, and community structure in ESS and non-ESS communities
Research Square · 2025
- Negative frequency dependent selection unites ecology and evolution
Ecology and Evolution · 2023
- Allelopathy as an evolutionary game
Plant Direct · 2022
- Large genetic divergence underpins cryptic local adaptation across ecological and evolutionary gradients
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2022
- Preferential allocation of carbohydrate reserves belowground supports disturbance-based management of American chestnut (Castanea dentata)
Forest Ecology and Management · 2022
- When does mutualism offer a competitive advantage? A game-theoretic analysis of host–host competition in mutualism
AoB Plants · 2022
- Eavesdropping Micropredators as Dynamic Limiters of Sexual Signal Elaboration and Intrasexual Competition
The American Naturalist · 2022
- Information theory and plant ecology
Oikos · 2022
- <scp><i>Pisum sativum</i></scp> has no competitive responses to neighbors: A case study in (non)reproducible plant biology
Plant Direct · 2022
- The duration of <i>Eragrostis capillaris</i> is not strictly annual: it does not senesce, can reproduce multiple times, but lacks frost tolerance
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022
- Vertical root segregation theory put to the test
New Phytologist · 2022
- Allelopathy as an evolutionarily stable strategy
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021
- When Does Mutualism Offer a Competitive Advantage? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Host-Host Competition in Mutualism
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×8
- AoB Plants×3
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences×2
- Oikos×2
- Plant Direct×2
- Jennifer A. Lau
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University
- Maxine A. Watson
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University
- Jordan D. Satler
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Martin Burd
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University
- Lynda F. Delph
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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