Jacob Weiner
Jacob Weiner (born Robert Milton Weiner, Brooklyn, New York, 1947) is a plant ecologist at the University of Copenhagen. Weiner has made contributions to several areas of plant ecology, including competition, allocation, allometry and application of ecological knowledge to agricultural production.
Major Contributions
Much of Weiner’s work has focused on understanding variation in size and allometry among plants using models and experiments (1-4). During the 90’s, Weiner developed the highly influential concept of size-asymmetric competition, the (per unit size) differences in resource uptake between large and small individuals its consequences (5, 6). In addition, Weiner has demonstrated how size-asymmetric competition and evolutionary theory can be applied to increase weed suppression in agriculture (7, 8).
Prizes and awards
Weiner was in the first group of ISI Highly-Cited Researchers[1] and was named Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America in 2016[2]
Selected publications
- Weiner J (2004) Allocation, plasticity and allometry in plants. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics 6(4)
- Weiner J & Thomas SC (1986) Size variability and competition in plant monocultures. Oikos 47(2):211-222
- Weiner J (1985) Size hierarchies in experimental populations of annual plants. Ecology 66(3):743-752
- Weiner J & Solbrig OT (1984) The meaning and measurement of size hierarchies in plant-populations. Oecologia 61(3):334-336
- Weiner J (1990) Asymmetric competition in plant-populations. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 5(11):360-364
- Schwinning S & Weiner J (1998) Mechanisms determining the degree of size asymmetry in competition among plants. Oecologia 113(4)
- Weiner J, Griepentrog HW, & Kristensen L (2001) Suppression of weeds by spring wheat Triticum aestivum increases with crop density and spatial uniformity. Journal of Applied Ecology 38(4)
- Weiner J, Andersen SB, Wille WKM, Griepentrog HW, & Olsen JM (2010) Evolutionary Agroecology: the potential for cooperative, high density, weed-suppressing cereals. Evolutionary Applications 3(5-6):473-479