Robert E. Ricklefs
Impact in
- Ecological Modeling top 0.02%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.01%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Papers in
- Ecology 278
- Avian ecology and behavior 178
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- Plant and animal studies 124
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction 92
- Co-authors
- Hong Liang Qian (25 shared papers)Dolph Schluter (5 shared papers)Eldredge Bermingham (35 shared papers)Susanne S. Renner (14 shared papers)Martin C. Wikelski (5 shared papers)J. Matthias Starck (9 shared papers)Jonathan B. Losos (5 shared papers)Roger Earl Latham (5 shared papers)
- Journals
- The American Naturalist (40 papers)The Auk (37 papers)Evolution (27 papers)Ornithological Applications (24 papers)Ecology (23 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesPanamaBrazil
In The Last Decade
Robert E. Ricklefs
526 papers receiving 45.7k citations
Robert E. Ricklefs's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 200
- Ecological Modeling 7.6k
- Nature and Landscape Conservation 16.8k
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 22.8k
- Parasitology 6.6k
- Ecology 25.6k
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Species diversity in ecological communities: historical and geographical perspectives. Hit paper breakdown → | 1993 | 1987 |
| 2 | Community Diversity: Relative Roles of Local and Regional Processes Hit paper breakdown → | 1987 | 1963 |
| 3 | An analysis of nesting mortality in birds Hit paper breakdown → | 1969 | 1531 |
| 4 | Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 1392 |
| 5 | The physiology/life-history nexus Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 1294 |
| 6 | A comprehensive framework for global patterns in biodiversity Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 1119 |
| 7 | D ioecy and its correlates in the flowering plants Hit paper breakdown → | 1995 | 797 |
| 8 | Adaptation and diversification on islands Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 767 |
| 9 | PATTERNS OF GROWTH IN BIRDS Hit paper breakdown → | 1968 | 743 |
| 10 | EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 697 |
| 11 | Competition and the Structure of Bird Communities Hit paper breakdown → | 1975 | 661 |
| 12 | A Graphical Method of Fitting Equations to Growth Curves Hit paper breakdown → | 1967 | 599 |
| 13 | Large-scale processes and the Asian bias in species diversity of temperate plants Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 590 |
| 14 | Avian growth and development : evolution within the altricial-precocial spectrum | 1998 | 549 |
| 15 | The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 492 |
| 16 | 2008 | 453 | |
| 17 | 2007 | 428 | |
| 18 | Environmental Heterogeneity and Plant Species Diversity: A Hypothesis Hit paper breakdown → | 1977 | 426 |
| 19 | 1999 | 404 | |
| 20 | Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 399 |
About Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Parasitology and Ecological Modeling, having authored 530 papers that have together received 50.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Avian ecology and behavior (178 papers), Plant and animal studies (124 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (115 papers), Bird parasitology and diseases (110 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (92 papers), Vector-borne infectious diseases (64 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (63 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (62 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (7.6k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (16.8k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (22.8k citations), Parasitology (6.6k citations) and Ecology (25.6k citations). Robert E. Ricklefs has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Panama and Brazil. Frequent co-authors include Hong Liang Qian, Dolph Schluter, Eldredge Bermingham, Susanne S. Renner, Martin C. Wikelski, J. Matthias Starck, Jonathan B. Losos, Roger Earl Latham, Sylvia M. Fallon and Martin L. Cody. Their work appears in journals such as The American Naturalist, The Auk, Evolution, Ornithological Applications and Ecology.
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