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D-Index
104
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55908
World Ranking
216
National Ranking
28

Andy Purvis 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 Andy Purvis sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 295 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Andy Purvis 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 Andy Purvis sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Marsh Award for Ecology, British Ecological Society

Overview

Andy Purvis is affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom and focuses on research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research addresses various topics with notable coverage in Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Plant and Animal Studies, and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies.

Purvis has published extensively in journals and venues such as Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Natural History Museum, London, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Recent papers reflecting Andy Purvis's contributions include:

  • "Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy" (2020, Nature)
  • "The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss" (2022, Science Advances)
  • "Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability" (2020, Science)
  • "Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people" (2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment)
  • "Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050" (2024, Science)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Purvis include:

  • Adriana De Palma
  • Samantha L. L. Hill
  • Tim Newbold
  • Simon Ferrier
  • Sandra Díaz

Andy Purvis received the Marsh Award for Ecology from the British Ecological Society in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

    Tim Newbold;Lawrence N Hudson;Samantha L L Hill;Sara Contu

  • Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • The delayed rise of present-day mammals

    Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Marcel Cardillo;Kate E. Jones;Ross D. E. MacPhee

  • Predicting extinction risk in declining species

    Andy Purvis;John L. Gittleman;Guy Cowlishaw;Georgina M. Mace

  • Getting the measure of biodiversity

    Andy Purvis;Andy Hector

  • PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

    Kate E. Jones;Jon Bielby;Marcel Cardillo;Susanne A. Fritz

  • Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species

    Marcel Cardillo;Georgina M. Mace;Kate E. Jones;Jon Bielby

  • Comparative analysis by independent contrasts (CAIC): an Apple Macintosh application for analysing comparative data.

    Andy Purvis;Andrew Rambaut

  • Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment

    Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Lawrence N. Hudson;Andrew P. Arnell;Sara Contu

  • Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits

    Susanne A. Fritz;Andy Purvis

  • The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss

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  • Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data.

    Luke J Harmon;Luke J Harmon;Jonathan B Losos;T Jonathan Davies;Rosemary G Gillespie

  • A composite estimate of primate phylogeny

    Andy Purvis

  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

    David Leclère;Michael Obersteiner;Michael Obersteiner;Mike Barrett;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Stuart H.M. Butchart

  • The Impact of Species Concept on Biodiversity Studies

    Paul‐Michael Agapow;Olaf R. P. Bininda‐Emonds;Keith A. Crandall;John L. Gittleman

  • Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide

    Claudia L. Gray;Samantha L. L. Hill;Tim Newbold;Lawrence N. Hudson

  • Human Population Density and Extinction Risk in the World's Carnivores

    Marcel Cardillo;Andy Purvis;Wes Sechrest;John L Gittleman

  • Building large trees by combining phylogenetic information: a complete phylogeny of the extant Carnivora (Mammalia).

    Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;John L. Gittleman;Andy Purvis

  • Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability.

    Sandra Díaz;Andy Purvis;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Georgina M. Mace;Georgina M. Mace

  • Nonrandom Extinction and the Loss of Evolutionary History

    Andy Purvis;Paul-Michael Agapow;John L. Gittleman;Georgina M. Mace

  • Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

    Susanne A. Fritz;Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Andy Purvis

Frequent Co-Authors

Samantha L. L. Hill
Samantha L. L. Hill World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Tim Newbold
Tim Newbold University College London
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London
John L. Gittleman
John L. Gittleman University of Georgia
Jörn P. W. Scharlemann
Jörn P. W. Scharlemann University of Sussex
Marcel Cardillo
Marcel Cardillo Australian National University
Kate E. Jones
Kate E. Jones University College London
Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds
Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Paul H. Harvey
Paul H. Harvey University of Oxford
Ben Collen
Ben Collen University College London

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