Most cited papers in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
What are the most cited papers in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation?
The most cited paper in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation is "Inference of Population Structure Using Multilocus Genotype Data" (Jonathan K. Pritchard, Matthew Stephens, Peter Donnelly, 2000), with 34,685 citations. Next come "Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities" (31,783) and "Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions" (18,119).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,713 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inference of Population Structure Using Multilocus Genotype Data Jonathan K. Pritchard, Matthew Stephens, Peter Donnelly · Genetics | Jun 2000 | 34,685 |
| 2 | Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities Norman Myers, Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier et al. · Nature | Feb 2000 | 31,783 |
| 3 | Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions Steven J. Phillips, Robert P. Anderson, Robert E. Schapire · Ecological Modelling | 18 Jul 2005 | 18,119 |
| 4 | Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance Carsten F. Dormann, Jane Elith, Sven Bacher et al. · Ecography | 18 May 2012 | 11,040 |
| 5 | Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity Lenore Fahrig · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics | Nov 2003 | 7,880 |
| 6 | Program MARK: survival estimation from populations of marked animals Gary C. White, Kenneth P. Burnham · Bird Study | 1999 | 7,622 |
| 7 | Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, Andrew Gonzalez et al. · Nature | Jun 2012 | 7,502 |
| 8 | Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology Antoine Guisan, Niklaus E. Zimmermann · Ecological Modelling | Dec 2000 | 7,419 |
| 9 | Species Distribution Models: Ecological Explanation and Prediction Across Space and Time Jane Elith, John R. Leathwick · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics | 23 Sep 2009 | 7,384 |
| 10 | A review of methods for the assessment of prediction errors in conservation presence/absence models Alan H. Fielding, John F. Bell · Environmental Conservation | Mar 1997 | 7,025 |
| 11 | Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation Steven J. Phillips, Miroslav Dudı́k · Ecography | 28 Mar 2008 | 6,964 |
| 12 | Predicting species distribution: offering more than simple habitat models Antoine Guisan, Wilfried Thuiller · Ecology Letters | 15 Aug 2005 | 6,657 |
| 13 | The Logic of Animal Conflict John Maynard Smith, George Price · Nature | Nov 1973 | 6,326 |
| 14 | Assessing the accuracy of species distribution models: prevalence, kappa and the true skill statistic (TSS) Omri Allouche, Asaf Tsoar, Ronen Kadmon · Journal of Applied Ecology | 12 Sep 2006 | 5,793 |
| 15 | Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming I‐Ching Chen, Jane K. Hill, Ralf Ohlemüller et al. · Science | 18 Aug 2011 | 5,619 |
| 16 | iNEXT: an R package for rarefaction and extrapolation of species diversity ( H ill numbers) T. C. Hsieh, K. H. Ma, Anne Chao · Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 28 Jun 2016 | 4,579 |
| 17 | ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY RATES WHEN DETECTION PROBABILITIES ARE LESS THAN ONE Darryl I. MacKenzie, James David Nichols, Gideon B. Lachman et al. · Ecology | Aug 2002 | 4,502 |
| 18 | Measuring Biological Diversity Julian R. W. Reid · Austral Ecology | 10 Oct 2005 | 4,500 |
| 19 | Statistical confidence for likelihood‐based paternity inference in natural populations TRISTAN C. MARSHALL, Jon Slate, Loeske E. B. Kruuk et al. · Molecular Ecology | May 1998 | 4,299 |
| 20 | Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anthony D. Barnosky et al. · Science Advances | 5 Jun 2015 | 4,272 |
| 21 | The package “adehabitat” for the R software: A tool for the analysis of space and habitat use by animals Clément Calenge · Ecological Modelling | 19 Apr 2006 | 4,159 |
| 22 | Mating systems, philopatry and dispersal in birds and mammals Paul J. Greenwood · Animal Behaviour | Nov 1980 | 3,990 |
| 23 | Caltech-UCSD Birds-200-2011 Dataset Catherine Wah · CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) | 2024 | 3,926 |
| 24 | FITTING MULTIVARIATE MODELS TO COMMUNITY DATA: A COMMENT ON DISTANCE-BASED REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS Brian H. McArdle, Marti Jane Anderson · Ecology | 2001 | 3,907 |
| 25 | Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization Michael L. McKinney · Biological Conservation | 3 Nov 2005 | 3,879 |
| 26 | Model selection in ecology and evolution Jerald B. Johnson, Kristian Shawn Omland · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 20 Nov 2003 | 3,878 |
| 27 | A practical guide to MaxEnt for modeling species' distributions: what it does, and why inputs and settings matter Cory Merow, Matthew J. Smith, John A. Silander · Ecography | 18 Jun 2013 | 3,878 |
| 28 | Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores William J. Ripple, James A. Estes, Robert L. Beschta et al. · Science | 9 Jan 2014 | 3,722 |
| 29 | The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection Stuart L. Pimm, Clinton N. Jenkins, Robin Abell et al. · Science | 29 May 2014 | 3,588 |
| 30 | Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review Carsten F. Dormann, Jana M. McPherson, Miguel B. Araújo et al. · Ecography | 27 Sep 2007 | 3,465 |
| 31 | Global patterns in biodiversity Kevin J. Gaston · Nature | May 2000 | 3,407 |
| 32 | ROADS AND THEIR MAJOR ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS Richard T. T. Forman, Lauren E. Alexander · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 1998 | 3,372 |
| 33 | 2016 Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research and education: Robert S. Sikes · Journal of Mammalogy | 28 May 2016 | 3,254 |
| 34 | Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures Jörg Tews, Ulrich Brose, Volker Grimm et al. · Journal of Biogeography | 22 Dec 2003 | 3,191 |
| 35 | ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Predicting species distributions from small numbers of occurrence records: a test case using cryptic geckos in Madagascar Richard G. Pearson, Christopher J. Raxworthy, Miguel Nakamura et al. · Journal of Biogeography | 27 Sep 2006 | 3,177 |
| 36 | Uninformative Parameters and Model Selection Using Akaike's Information Criterion Todd W. Arnold · Journal of Wildlife Management | Aug 2010 | 3,119 |
| 37 | Inference of Population Splits and Mixtures from Genome-Wide Allele Frequency Data Joseph K. Pickrell, Jonathan K. Pritchard · PLoS Genetics | 15 Nov 2012 | 3,077 |
| 38 | Sample selection bias and presence‐only distribution models: implications for background and pseudo‐absence data Steven J. Phillips, Miroslav Dudı́k, Jane Elith et al. · Ecological Applications | 2009 | 3,033 |
| 39 | Selecting pseudo‐absences for species distribution models: how, where and how many? Morgane Barbet‐Massin, Frédéric Jiguet, Cécile Hélène Albert et al. · Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 19 Jan 2012 | 2,995 |
| 40 | Opening the black box: an open‐source release of Maxent Steven J. Phillips, Robert P. Anderson, Miroslav Dudı́k et al. · Ecography | 21 Mar 2017 | 2,941 |
| 41 | Taphonomic and ecologic information from bone weathering Anna K. Behrensmeyer · Paleobiology | 1978 | 2,900 |
| 42 | Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the Use of Wild Mammals in Research William L. Gannon, Robert S. Sikes · Journal of Mammalogy | 24 May 2007 | 2,891 |
| 43 | The Ecology of Individuals: Incidence and Implications of Individual Specialization Daniel I. Bolnick, Richard Svanbäck, James A. Fordyce et al. · The American Naturalist | 2003 | 2,822 |
| 44 | Metapopulation dynamics Ilkka Hanski · Nature | Nov 1998 | 2,803 |
| 45 | BIOMOD – a platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions Wilfried Thuiller, Bruno Lafourcade, Robin Engler et al. · Ecography | Jun 2009 | 2,785 |
| 46 | Selecting thresholds of occurrence in the prediction of species distributions Canran Liu, Pam M. Berry, Terence P. Dawson et al. · Ecography | Jun 2005 | 2,732 |
| 47 | The use of focus group discussion methodology: Insights from two decades of application in conservation Tobias Ochieng Nyumba, Kerrie A. Wilson, Christina J. Derrick et al. · Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 2,660 |
| 48 | Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals Michael L. McKinney · Urban Ecosystems | 28 Jan 2008 | 2,605 |
| 49 | Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models Mary Susanne Wisz, Robert J. Hijmans, Jin Li et al. · Diversity and Distributions | 12 Aug 2008 | 2,539 |
| 50 | Estimating the Population Size for Capture-Recapture Data with Unequal Catchability Anne Chao · Biometrics | Dec 1987 | 2,514 |
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