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Christopher J. Lortie

Christopher J. Lortie

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
55
Citations
15392
World Ranking
2920
National Ranking
195

Christopher J. Lortie 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 Christopher J. Lortie sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 218 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher J. Lortie 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 Christopher J. Lortie sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christopher J. Lortie is a researcher affiliated with York University in Canada. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions across various subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, and global and planetary change.

The main topics of Christopher J. Lortie's research include:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Rangeland and wildlife management
  • Plant parasitism and resistance
  • Wildlife ecology and conservation
  • Scientific computing and data management

The researcher has published extensively in scientific journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Scientific Reports
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Notable recent publications by Christopher J. Lortie include:

  • A synthesis of local adaptation to climate through reciprocal common gardens, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • What common-garden experiments tell us about climate responses in plants, 2022, Journal of Ecology
  • Network motifs involving both competition and facilitation predict biodiversity in alpine plant communities, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Have our experiments and indices been underestimating the role of facilitation?, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Net plant interactions are highly variable and weakly dependent on climate at the global scale, 2022, Ecology Letters

Christopher J. Lortie collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors including:

  • Nargol Ghazian
  • Mario Zuliani
  • Jenna Braun
  • Alessandro Filazzola
  • Ragan M. Callaway

Best Publications

  • Positive interactions among alpine plants increase with stress.

    Ragan M. Callaway;R. W. Brooker;Philippe Choler;Zaal Kikvidze

  • Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

    Fernando T. Maestre;Ragan M. Callaway;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Christopher J. Lortie

  • Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped-back model of species richness in plant communities?

    Richard Michalet;Robin W. Brooker;Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Zaal Kikvidze

  • Rethinking plant community theory

    Christopher J. Lortie;Rob W. Brooker;Phillipe Choler;Zaal Kikvidze

  • Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors

    Amber E. Budden;Amber E. Budden;Tom Tregenza;Lonnie W. Aarssen;Julia Koricheva

  • The importance of importance

    Rob Brooker;Zaal Kikvidze;Francisco I. Pugnaire;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

    Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Rob W. Brooker;Bradley J. Butterfield;Bradley J. Cook

  • Re‐analysis of meta‐analysis: support for the stress‐gradient hypothesis

    Christopher J. Lortie;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Support for major hypotheses in invasion biology is uneven and declining

    Jonathan M. Jeschke;Lorena Gómez Aparicio;Sylvia Haider;Tina Heger

  • LINKING PATTERNS AND PROCESSES IN ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITIES: A GLOBAL STUDY

    Zaal Kikvidze;Francisco I. Pugnaire;Robin W. Brooker;Philippe Choler

  • Two alternatives to the stress-gradient hypothesis at the edge of life: the collapse of facilitation and the switch from facilitation to competition

    Richard Michalet;Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet;Jean-Paul Maalouf;Christopher J. Lortie

  • A systematic review and conceptual framework for the mechanistic pathways of nurse plants

    Alessandro Filazzola;Christopher J. Lortie

  • The specialization hypothesis for phenotypic plasticity in plants

    Christopher J. Lortie;Lonnie W. Aarssen

  • Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments

    B. J. Butterfield;L. A. Cavieres;R. M. Callaway;B. J. Cook

  • Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change

    Richard Michalet;Christian Schöb;Christopher J. Lortie;Rob W. Brooker

  • Tree invasions: a comparative test of the dominant hypotheses and functional traits

    Laurent Jean Lamarque;Laurent Jean Lamarque;Sylvain Delzon;Christopher James Lortie

  • Evaluating the popularity of R in ecology

    Jiangshan Lai;Christopher J. Lortie;Robert A. Muenchen;Jian Yang

  • Plant invasions, generalist herbivores, and novel defense weapons.

    Urs Schaffner;Wendy M. Ridenour;Vera C. Wolf;Thomas Bassett

  • Publication and Related Biases

    Michael D. Jennions;Christopher J. Lortie;Michael S. Rosenberg;Hannah R. Rothstein

  • Don't diss integration: a comment on Ricklefs's disintegrating communities.

    Rob W. Brooker;Ragan M. Callaway;Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Zaal Kikvidze;Zaal Kikvidze

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Michalet
Richard Michalet University of Bordeaux
Lonnie W. Aarssen
Lonnie W. Aarssen Queen's University
Ragan M. Callaway
Ragan M. Callaway University of Montana
Francisco I. Pugnaire
Francisco I. Pugnaire Spanish National Research Council
Lohengrin A. Cavieres
Lohengrin A. Cavieres University of Concepción
Zaal Kikvidze
Zaal Kikvidze Ilia State University
Julia Koricheva
Julia Koricheva Royal Holloway University of London
Roosa Leimu
Roosa Leimu University of Turku
Rob W. Brooker
Rob W. Brooker James Hutton Institute
Tom Tregenza
Tom Tregenza University of Exeter

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