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Ben J. Kefford

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
46
Citations
8167
World Ranking
4653
National Ranking
368

Ben J. Kefford publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 118 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ben J. Kefford 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 Ben J. Kefford sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 46 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Ben J. Kefford is affiliated with the University of Canberra in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology. Their research spans diverse subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecological Modeling, and Pollution.

Their work centers on main topics that include:

  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Ben J. Kefford has published in various academic venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Global Change Biology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Marine and Freshwater Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Ecological Indicators

The recent scholarly articles featuring Ben J. Kefford's work include:

  • "Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers" (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • "Energetics as a lens to understanding aquatic insect's responses to changing temperature, dissolved oxygen and salinity regimes" (2020, Current Opinion in Insect Science)
  • "Interactions in statistical models: Three things to know" (2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Acute, diel, and annual temperature variability and the thermal biology of ectotherms" (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • "Tackling inconsistencies among freshwater invertebrate trait databases: harmonising across continents and aggregating taxonomic resolution" (2021, Freshwater Biology)

Collaborations have been a part of their research practice, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Susan J. Nichols
  • Jon P. Bray
  • Ross M. Thompson
  • Andrew J. Brooks
  • Richard P. Duncan

Best Publications

  • Pesticides reduce regional biodiversity of stream invertebrates

    Mikhail A. Beketov;Ben J. Kefford;Ralf B. Schäfer;Matthias Liess

  • Salinisation of rivers: An urgent ecological issue

    Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles;Ben J. Kefford;Christophe Piscart;Narcís Prat

  • Saving freshwater from salts

    M. Cañedo-Argüelles;M. Cañedo-Argüelles;C. P. Hawkins;B. J. Kefford;R. B. Schäfer

  • Thresholds for the Effects of Pesticides on Invertebrate Communities and Leaf Breakdown in Stream Ecosystems

    Ralf B. Schäfer;Peter Carsten von der Ohe;Jes Rasmussen;Ben J. Kefford

  • Effects of Pesticides Monitored with Three Sampling Methods in 24 Sites on Macroinvertebrates and Microorganisms

    Ralf B. Schäfer;Ralf B. Schäfer;Vincent Pettigrove;Vincent Pettigrove;Gavin Rose;Graeme Allinson

  • Relative salinity tolerance of macroinvertebrates from the Barwon River, Victoria, Australia

    Ben J. Kefford;Phil J. Papas;Dayanthi Nugegoda

  • Effects of pesticide toxicity, salinity and other environmental variables on selected ecosystem functions in streams and the relevance for ecosystem services

    Ralf B. Schäfer;Mirco Bundschuh;Duncan A. Rouch;Eduard Szöcs

  • Salt in freshwaters: causes, effects and prospects - introduction to the theme issue.

    Miguel Canedo-Arguelles;Ben Kefford;Ralf B. Schäfer

  • Sub-lethal and chronic salinity tolerances of three freshwater insects:Cloeon sp. and Centroptilum sp. (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae)and Chironomus sp. (Diptera: Chironomidae)

    Kathryn L. Hassell;Ben J. Kefford;Dayanthi Nugegoda

  • Do laboratory salinity tolerances of freshwater animals correspond with their field salinity

    Ben J Kefford;Phil J Papas;Leon Metzeling;Dayanthi Nugegoda

  • Fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal extensive degradation of the world's rivers

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  • Salinized rivers: degraded systems or new habitats for salt-tolerant faunas?

    Ben J. Kefford;David Buchwalter;Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles;Jenny Davis

  • A trait database of stream invertebrates for the ecological risk assessment of single and combined effects of salinity and pesticides in South-East Australia.

    Ralf B. Schäfer;Ralf B. Schäfer;Ben J. Kefford;Ben J. Kefford;Leon Metzeling;Matthias Liess

  • No evidence for a critical salinity threshold for growth and reproduction in the freshwater snail Physa acuta.

    Ben J. Kefford;Dayanthi Nugegoda

  • The salinity tolerance of eggs and hatchlings of selected aquatic macroinvertebrates in south-east Australia and South Africa

    Ben J. Kefford;Alexander Dalton;Carolyn G. Palmer;Dayanthi Nugegoda

  • The definition of species richness used by species sensitivity distributions approximates observed effects of salinity on stream macroinvertebrates

    Ben J. Kefford;Ben J. Kefford;Richard Marchant;Ralf B. Schäfer;Leon Metzeling

  • The salinity tolerance of freshwater macroinvertebrate eggs and hatchlings in comparison to their older life-stages: a diversity of responses - The salinity tolerance of freshwater macroinvertebrate eggs and hatchlings

    Ben J. Kefford;Dayanthi Nugegoda;Liliana Zalizniak;Elizabeth J. Fields

  • Global scale variation in the salinity sensitivity of riverine macroinvertebrates: Eastern Australia, France, Israel and South Africa

    Ben J. Kefford;Graeme L. Hickey;Avital Gasith;Elad Ben-David

  • How to characterize chemical exposure to predict ecologic effects on aquatic communities

    Ralf B Schäfer;Nadine Gerner;Ben J Kefford;Jes J Rasmussen;Jes J Rasmussen

  • Effects of repeated salt pulses on ecosystem structure and functions in a stream mesocosm

    Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles;Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles;Mirco Bundschuh;Mirco Bundschuh;Cayetano Gutiérrez-Cánovas;Ben J. Kefford

  • Validating species sensitivity distributions using salinity tolerance of riverine macroinvertebrates in the southern Murray–Darling Basin (Victoria, Australia)

    Ben J Kefford;Dayanthi Nugegoda;Leon Metzeling;Elizabeth J Fields

Frequent Co-Authors

Dayanthi Nugegoda
Dayanthi Nugegoda RMIT University
Ralf B. Schäfer
Ralf B. Schäfer University of Kaiserslautern-Landau - RPTU
Ross M. Thompson
Ross M. Thompson University of Canberra
Matthias Liess
Matthias Liess Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles
Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles University of Barcelona
Mirco Bundschuh
Mirco Bundschuh University of Koblenz and Landau
Simon M. Mitrovic
Simon M. Mitrovic University of Technology Sydney
Peter C. von der Ohe
Peter C. von der Ohe Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Michael St. J. Warne
Michael St. J. Warne University of Queensland
Richard P. Lim
Richard P. Lim University of Technology Sydney

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