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Colin R. Townsend

Colin R. Townsend publishes mostly in Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

World rank
#13,296
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in New Zealand
#27
of 4,714
Works
65
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
16.3

What does Colin R. Townsend research?

Ecology: 28.6%Nature and Landscape Conservation: 19.8%Global and Planetary Change: 5.5%Genetics: 5.5%other fields: 40.6%29%top field
Ecology28.6%Nature and Landscape Conservation19.8%Global and Planetary Change5.5%Genetics5.5%other fields40.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Ecology29% of their works
  2. 2Nature and Landscape Conservation20% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change6% of their works
  4. 4Genetics6% of their works
  5. 5Insect Science4% of their works
  6. 6Aquatic Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Colin R. Townsend's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Invasive Species, Freshwater Biodiversity, Habitat Fragmentation, Conservation Challenges, Flow Regulation, Population Dynamics, Ecosystem Engineering and Freshwater Mussels.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Invasive Species234 topics
  2. Freshwater Biodiversity152 topics
  3. Habitat Fragmentation152 topics
  4. Conservation Challenges111 topic
  5. Flow Regulation111 topic
  6. Population Dynamics62 topics
  7. Ecosystem Engineering51 topic
  8. Freshwater Mussels51 topic
  9. Adaptation41 topic
  10. Biodiversity41 topic
  11. Conservation41 topic
  12. Evolution41 topic
  13. Land Use41 topic
  14. Stream Ecosystems41 topic
  15. Animal Movement31 topic
  16. Black Sea31 topic
  17. Holocene31 topic
  18. Island Ecosystems31 topic
  19. Occupancy Rates31 topic
  20. Rodent Eradication31 topic

Where does Colin R. Townsend work?

Colin R. Townsend's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Otago, New Zealand.

How many publications and citations does Colin R. Townsend have?

Science Explorer counts 65 works and 1,061 citations for Colin R. Townsend, ranking #13,296 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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