John H. Lawton

72.4k citations
299 papers · 57.4k · 31 hit papers · h-index 107

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John H. Lawton

292 papers receiving 50.2k citations

John H. Lawton's Hit Papers

EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE 2005 · 6.2k citations
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John H. Lawton
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  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 24.3k
  • Ecological Modeling 7.4k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 20.8k
  • Ecology 26.1k
  • Insect Science 8.7k
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EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE
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20056203
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Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers
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19943936
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Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers
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19943837
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POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ORGANISMS AS PHYSICAL ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS
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19971940
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Declining biodiversity can alter the performance of ecosystems
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19941410
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Insects on Plants: Community Patterns and Mechanisms
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19841397
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Are There General Laws in Ecology?
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19991166
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Rare species, the coincidence of diversity hotspots and conservation strategies
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1993984
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Making mistakes when predicting shifts in species range in response to global warming
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1998977
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Biodiversity inventories, indicator taxa and effects of habitat modification in tropical forest
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1998957
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Biotic Control over the Functioning of Ecosystems
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1997925
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Species Interactions, Local and Regional Processes, and Limits to the Richness of Ecological Communities: A Theoretical Perspective
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1992909
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Enemy free space and the structure of ecological communities
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1984824
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THE ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SHARED NATURAL ENEMIES
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1994820
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Comparative Losses of British Butterflies, Birds, and Plants and the Global Extinction Crisis
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2004749
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Abundance–occupancy relationships
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2000693
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Plant Architecture and the Diversity of Phytophagous Insects
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1983658
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Range, population abundance and conservation
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1993656
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Food web patterns and their consequences
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1991635
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Number of trophic levels in ecological communities
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1977572

About John H. Lawton

John H. Lawton is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Genetics, having authored 299 papers that have together received 57.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (108 papers), Plant and animal studies (85 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (57 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (32 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (30 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (22 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (18 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (24.3k citations), Ecological Modeling (7.4k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (20.8k citations), Ecology (26.1k citations) and Insect Science (8.7k citations). John H. Lawton has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Clive G. Jones, Moshe Shachak, Stuart L. Pimm, Kevin J. Gaston, Robert D. Holt, J. R. Beddington, Tim M. Blackburn, Andy Hector, Donald R. Strong and M. P. Hassell. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Animal Ecology, Oikos, Nature, Oecologia and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

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