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R. A. J. Taylor

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1979
Insect-Plant Interactions and ControlInsect Resistance and GeneticsInsect and Pesticide ResearchPlant Surface Properties and TreatmentsEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Publications

76

Citations

1,998

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

47

Publishing since 1979

Research summary
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R. A. J. Taylor's research focuses on how insects, nematodes, and other organisms are distributed in space, and how mathematical patterns (especially 'Taylor's power law,' which describes how variability in population density scales with average density) can be used to improve pest sampling and monitoring in agricultural and forest settings. Work also extends to crop-pest simulation modeling and studies of how similar scaling patterns appear in other biological systems, such as microbiomes. This research is relevant to students interested in quantitative ecology, pest management, and statistical modeling of biological populations.

Spatial distribution and sampling of insect populationsTaylor's power law and scaling relationships in ecologyPest monitoring and management (e.g., emerald ash borer, potato leafhopper)Crop-pest interaction modelingApplications of ecological scaling laws to other biological systems (e.g., microbiomes)

Publication output was concentrated between 2017 and 2021 (peaking in 2019 with a book's worth of chapters), but has slowed markedly since, with almost no output from 2022–2025 aside from a single 2025 paper.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.2/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 9 publications9192020: 2 publications202021: 1 publication212223242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Elsevier eBooks×8
  • Agricultural and Forest Entomology×3
  • CATENA×1
  • Journal of Applied Ecology×1
  • Oikos×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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