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Chris J. Topping

Chris J. Topping

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
39
Citations
5027
World Ranking
8434
National Ranking
118

Overview

Chris J. Topping is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has a focused research profile within Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses numerous subfields including Insect Science, Food Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Pollution.

The main research topics addressed in Topping's publications cover a broad range of areas within agricultural and ecological sciences. These include:

  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Agricultural safety and regulations
  • Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control

Topping has published extensively, often appearing in venues that specialize in ecological and agricultural systems. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Food and Ecological Systems Modelling Journal
  • EFSA Journal
  • EFSA Supporting Publications
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Research Ideas and Outcomes

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Topping highlight their involvement in pesticide risk assessment and environmental safety. These papers are:

  • Overhaul environmental risk assessment for pesticides, 2020, Science
  • Improving pesticide-use data for the EU, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Development of Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment (IATA) case studies on developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) risk assessment, 2021, EFSA Journal
  • Statement on the active substance acetamiprid, 2022, EFSA Journal
  • European hares do not avoid newly pesticide-sprayed fields: Overspray as unnoticed pathway of pesticide exposure, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Collaboration plays a significant role in Topping's research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Xiaodong Duan
  • Annette Aldrich
  • Sabine Duquesne
  • Andreas Focks
  • Silvia Pieper

Best Publications

  • Limitations to the use of pitfall traps in ecological studies exemplified by a study of spiders in a field of winter wheat

    Topping Cj;Sunderland Kd

  • Overhaul environmental risk assessment for pesticides.

    C. J. Topping;A. Aldrich;P. Berny

  • ALMaSS, an agent-based model for animals in temperate European landscapes

    Chris J. Topping;Tine S. Hansen;Thomas S. Jensen;Jane U. Jepsen

  • Representing the acquisition and use of energy by individuals in agent‐based models of animal populations

    Richard M. Sibly;Volker Grimm;Volker Grimm;Benjamin T. Martin;Alice S. A. Johnston

  • Scientific Opinion addressing the state of the science on risk assessment of plant protection products for in-soil organisms

    Colin Ockleford;Paulien Adriaanse;Philippe Berny;Theodorus Brock

  • Scientific Opinion on the state of the art of Toxicokinetic/Toxicodynamic (TKTD) effect models for regulatory risk assessment of pesticides for aquatic organisms

    Colin Ockleford;Paulien Adriaanse;Philippe Berny;Theodorus Brock

  • A spider population in flux: selection and abandonment of artificial web-sites and the importance of intraspecific interactions in Lephthyphantes tenuis (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in wheat

    Ferenc Samu;Keith D. Sunderland;Chris J. Topping;John S. Fenlon

  • Opening the black box—Development, testing and documentation of a mechanistically rich agent-based model

    Chris J. Topping;Chris J. Topping;Toke T. Høye;Toke T. Høye;Carsten Riis Olesen

  • Modelling roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in a gradient of forest fragmentation: behavioural plasticity and choice of cover

    J U Jepsen;C J Topping

  • Behavioural responses of three linyphiid spiders to pitfall traps

    C. J. Topping

  • The influence of landscape diversity and heterogeneity on spatial dynamics of agrobiont linyphiid spiders: An individual-based model

    P. Thorbek;C.J. Topping

  • Ground beetles and weevils (Carabidae and Curculionoidea) as indicators of grassland management practices

    M. D. Eyre;M. L. Luff;S. P. Rushton;C. J. Topping

  • A Bayesian sensitivity analysis applied to an Agent-based model of bird population response to landscape change

    Hazel R. Parry;Christopher J. Topping;Marc C. Kennedy;Nigel D. Boatman

  • Population-level impacts of pesticide-induced chronic effects on individuals depend more on ecology than toxicology ☆

    Trine Dalkvist;Christopher John Topping;Christopher John Topping;E. Valery Forbes

  • Scientific Opinion on the state of the science on pesticide risk assessment for amphibians and reptiles

    Colin Ockleford;Paulien Adriaanse;Philippe Berny;Theodorus Brock

  • Biodiversity and the mitigation of climate change through bioenergy: impacts of increased maize cultivation on farmland wildlife

    Jana Gevers;Toke Thomas Høye;Chris John Topping;Michael Glemnitz

  • SPIDER DENSITY AND DIVERSITY IN RELATION TO DISTURBANCE IN AGROECOSYSTEMS IN NEW ZEALAND, WITH A COMPARISON TO ENGLAND

    Chris J. Topping;Gábor L. Lövei

  • Modeling the influence of temporal and spatial factors on the assessment of impacts of pesticides on skylarks.

    Christopher John Topping;Peter Odderskær

  • Mighty small: Observing and modeling individual microbes becomes big science.

    Jan Ulrich Kreft;Caroline M. Plugge;Volker Grimm;Clara Prats

  • Risk Assessment of UK Skylark Populations Using Life-History and Individual-Based Landscape Models

    C. J. Topping;R. M. Sibly;H. R. Akçakaya;G. C. Smith

  • The effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on the population dynamics of four animal species in a Danish landscape

    Richard M Sibly;Richard M Sibly;Jacob Nabe-Nielsen;Jacob Nabe-Nielsen;Mads C Forchhammer;Mads C Forchhammer;Valery E Forbes

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. Sibly
Richard M. Sibly University of Reading
Olavi Pelkonen
Olavi Pelkonen University of Oulu
K. D. Sunderland
K. D. Sunderland University of Warwick
Ryszard Laskowski
Ryszard Laskowski Jagiellonian University
Volker Grimm
Volker Grimm Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Toke T. Høye
Toke T. Høye Aarhus University
Jacob Nabe-Nielsen
Jacob Nabe-Nielsen Aarhus University
Ioanna Tzoulaki
Ioanna Tzoulaki Imperial College London
Mads C. Forchhammer
Mads C. Forchhammer University of Copenhagen
Cino Pertoldi
Cino Pertoldi Aalborg University

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