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D-Index
48
Citations
14555
World Ranking
4123
National Ranking
1438

Aaron J. Wirsing publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aaron J. Wirsing sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 135 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Aaron J. Wirsing D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aaron J. Wirsing sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Aaron J. Wirsing is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecology and wildlife conservation. Their work spans multiple subfields, including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, global and planetary change, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

The main topics covered in Wirsing's research include wildlife ecology and conservation, rangeland and wildlife management, fish ecology and management studies, species distribution and climate change, animal ecology and behavior studies, animal behavior and reproduction, and ecology and biodiversity studies.

Wirsing has contributed to a number of publications, with frequent appearance in several journals. The most common venues for their work include the Journal of Animal Ecology, Ecology, Journal of Mammalogy, Wildlife Research, and Ecological Applications.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • The context dependence of non-consumptive predator effects, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Predation landscapes influence migratory prey ecology and evolution, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Fear of large carnivores amplifies human-caused mortality for mesopredators, 2023, Science
  • Political affiliation predicts public attitudes toward gray wolf ( Canis lupus ) conservation and management, 2021, Conservation Science and Practice
  • Are we telling the same story? Comparing inferences made from camera trap and telemetry data for wildlife monitoring, 2022, Ecological Applications

Wirsing frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors. Notable collaborators include Laura R. Prugh, Brian N. Kertson, Taylor R. Ganz, Thomas P. Quinn, and Melia T. DeVivo, with whom Wirsing has worked on multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Status and ecological effects of the world's largest carnivores.

    William J. Ripple;James A. Estes;Robert L. Beschta;Christopher C. Wilmers

  • Predicting ecological consequences of marine top predator declines

    Michael R. Heithaus;Alejandro Frid;Aaron J. Wirsing;Boris Worm

  • The ecological effects of providing resource subsidies to predators

    Thomas M. Newsome;Thomas M. Newsome;Justin A. Dellinger;Chris R. Pavey;William J. Ripple

  • State‐dependent risk‐taking by green sea turtles mediates top‐down effects of tiger shark intimidation in a marine ecosystem

    Michael R. Heithaus;Alejandro Frid;Aaron J. Wirsing;Lawrence M. Dill

  • Extinction risk is most acute for the world's largest and smallest vertebrates.

    William J. Ripple;Christopher Wolf;Thomas M. Newsome;Michael Hoffmann

  • The global impacts of domestic dogs on threatened vertebrates

    Tim S Doherty;Chris R Dickman;Alistair S Glen;Thomas M Newsome

  • Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks

    M. Aaron MacNeil;Demian D. Chapman;Michelle Heupel;Colin A. Simpfendorfer

  • Towards a predictive framework for predator risk effects: the interaction of landscape features and prey escape tactics

    Michael R. Heithaus;Aaron J. Wirsing;Aaron J. Wirsing;Derek Burkholder;Jordan Thomson

  • Food habits of the world's grey wolves

    Thomas M. Newsome;Thomas M. Newsome;Thomas M. Newsome;Luigi Boitani;Guillaume Chapron;Paolo Ciucci

  • Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna

    William J Ripple;Guillaume Chapron;José Vicente López-Bao;Sarah M. Durant

  • The ecological importance of intact top-predator populations: a synthesis of 15 years of research in a seagrass ecosystem

    Michael. R. Heithaus;A. J. Wirsing;L. M. Dill

  • Patterns of Top-Down Control in a Seagrass Ecosystem: Could a Roving Apex Predator Induce a Behaviour-Mediated Trophic Cascade?

    Derek A. Burkholder;Michael R. Heithaus;James W. Fourqurean;Aaron Wirsing;Aaron Wirsing

  • Seascapes of fear: evaluating sublethal predator effects experienced and generated by marine mammals

    Aaron J. Wirsing;Michael R. Heithaus;Alejandro Frid;Lawrence M. Dill

  • Widespread mesopredator effects after wolf extirpation

    William J. Ripple;Aaron J. Wirsing;Christopher C. Wilmers;Mike Letnic

  • A review of lethal and non-lethal effects of predators on adult marine turtles

    Michael R. Heithaus;Aaron J. Wirsing;Jordan A. Thomson;Derek A. Burkholder

  • Unraveling the Ecological Importance of Elasmobranchs

    Michael Heithaus;Alejandro Frid;Jeremy Vaudo;Boris Worm

  • Living on the edge: dugongs prefer to forage in microhabitats that allow escape from rather than avoidance of predators

    Aaron J. Wirsing;Aaron J. Wirsing;Michael R. Heithaus;Lawrence M. Dill

  • Fear factor: do dugongs (Dugong dugon) trade food for safety from tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier)?

    Aaron J. Wirsing;Aaron J. Wirsing;Aaron J. Wirsing;Michael R. Heithaus;Lawrence M. Dill

  • Top predators constrain mesopredator distributions

    Thomas M. Newsome;Aaron C. Greenville;Duško Ćirović;Christopher R. Dickman

  • Long-term movements of tiger sharks satellite-tagged in Shark Bay, Western Australia

    Michael R. Heithaus;Michael R. Heithaus;Aaron J. Wirsing;Aaron J. Wirsing;Lawrence M. Dill;Linda I. Heithaus

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael R. Heithaus
Michael R. Heithaus Florida International University
Thomas M. Newsome
Thomas M. Newsome University of Sydney
William J. Ripple
William J. Ripple Oregon State University
Lawrence M. Dill
Lawrence M. Dill Simon Fraser University
Dennis L. Murray
Dennis L. Murray Trent University
Thomas P. Quinn
Thomas P. Quinn University of Washington
Euan G. Ritchie
Euan G. Ritchie Deakin University
Mike Letnic
Mike Letnic University of New South Wales
Michael R. Hoffmann
Michael R. Hoffmann California Institute of Technology
Chris R. Dickman
Chris R. Dickman University of Sydney

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