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6348
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5363
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1825

Overview

Alison Johnston is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and works primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their research extensively covers subfields such as Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics addressed in Alison Johnston's work include:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Marine animal studies overview

Their publication record includes papers in various scientific venues with notable frequent contributions to:

  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Conservation Biology

Recent selected papers authored or co-authored by Alison Johnston are:

  • "Analytical guidelines to increase the value of community science data: An example using eBird data to estimate species distributions" (2021, Diversity and Distributions)
  • "Outstanding challenges and future directions for biodiversity monitoring using citizen science data" (2022, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Estimating species distributions from spatially biased citizen science data" (2020, Ecological Modelling)

Among frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Alison Johnston are Wesley M. Hochachka, Amanda D. Rodewald, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Daniel Fink, and Tom Auer.

Best Publications

  • Analytical guidelines to increase the value of community science data: An example using eBird data to estimate species distributions

    Alison Johnston;Wesley M. Hochachka;Matthew E. Strimas‐Mackey;Viviana Ruiz Gutierrez

  • Protected areas have a mixed impact on waterbirds, but management helps

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  • Rise of the generalists: evidence for climate driven homogenization in avian communities

    Catherine M. Davey;Dan E. Chamberlain;Stuart E. Newson;David G. Noble

  • Using Semistructured Surveys to Improve Citizen Science Data for Monitoring Biodiversity.

    Steve Kelling;Alison Johnston;Aletta Bonn;Daniel Fink

  • Using the IUCN Red List to map threats to terrestrial vertebrates at global scale

    Michael B. J. Harfoot;Alison Johnston;Alison Johnston;Andrew Balmford;Neil D. Burgess;Neil D. Burgess;Neil D. Burgess

  • Estimates of observer expertise improve species distributions from citizen science data

    Alison Johnston;Alison Johnston;Alison Johnston;Daniel Fink;Wesley M. Hochachka;Steve Kelling

  • Observed and predicted effects of climate change on species abundance in protected areas

    Alison Johnston;Malcolm Ausden;Andrew M. Dodd;Richard B. Bradbury

  • Taking a ‘Big Data’ approach to data quality in a citizen science project

    Steve Kelling;Daniel Fink;Frank A. La Sorte;Alison Johnston

  • Abundance models improve spatial and temporal prioritization of conservation resources.

    Alison Johnston;Daniel Fink;Mark D. Reynolds;Wesley M. Hochachka

  • Sounding out ecoacoustic metrics: Avian species richness is predicted by acoustic indices in temperate but not tropical habitats

    Alice Eldridge;Patrice Guyot;Paola Moscoso;Alison Johnston;Alison Johnston

  • Can Observation Skills of Citizen Scientists Be Estimated Using Species Accumulation Curves

    Steve Kelling;Alison Johnston;Wesley M. Hochachka;Marshall Iliff

  • Line transect methods for plant surveys.

    S. T. Buckland;D. L. Borchers;A. Johnston;A. Johnston;P. A. Henrys;P. A. Henrys

  • Dynamic conservation for migratory species.

    Mark D. Reynolds;Brian L. Sullivan;Eric Hallstein;Sandra Matsumoto

  • Estimating species distributions from spatially biased citizen science data

    Alison Johnston;Nick Moran;Andy Musgrove;Daniel Fink

  • Worldwide insect declines: An important message, but interpret with caution

    Benno I. Simmons;Andrew Balmford;Andrew J. Bladon;Alec P. Christie

  • Modelling flight heights of marine birds to more accurately assess collision risk with offshore wind turbines

    Alison Johnston;Aonghais S. C. P. Cook;Lucy J. Wright;Elizabeth M. Humphreys

  • Deforestation in an African biodiversity hotspot: extent, variation and the effectiveness of protected areas

    Jonathan M.H. Green;Cecilia Larrosa;Neil David Burgess;Andrew Balmford

  • Modelling changes in species’ abundance in response to projected climate change

    Anna R. Renwick;Dario Massimino;Stuart E. Newson;Dan E. Chamberlain

  • Declines in British-breeding populations of Afro-Palaearctic migrant birds are linked to bioclimatic wintering zone in Africa, possibly via constraints on arrival time advancement

    Nancy Ockendon;Chris M. Hewson;Alison Johnston;Philip W. Atkinson

  • Modelling large‐scale relationships between changes in woodland deer and bird populations

    Stuart E. Newson;Alison Johnston;Anna R. Renwick;Stephen R. Baillie

  • Species traits explain variation in detectability of UK birds

    Alison Johnston;Stuart E. Newson;Kate Risely;Andy J. Musgrove

  • Making Messy Data Work for Conservation

    A.D.M. Dobson;E.J. Milner-Gulland;Nicholas J. Aebischer;Colin M. Beale

Frequent Co-Authors

Wesley M. Hochachka
Wesley M. Hochachka Cornell University
Stuart E. Newson
Stuart E. Newson British Trust for Ornithology
James W. Pearce-Higgins
James W. Pearce-Higgins British Trust for Ornithology
Stephen R. Baillie
Stephen R. Baillie British Trust for Ornithology
Stephen T. Buckland
Stephen T. Buckland University of St Andrews
Paul F. Donald
Paul F. Donald University of Cambridge
Tatsuya Amano
Tatsuya Amano University of Queensland
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford University of Cambridge
Frank A. La Sorte
Frank A. La Sorte Cornell University

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