2026 Craig R. Allen: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	66	1692	1617	622	585	260	16267

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Craig R. Allen is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions across various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their scholarly work covers a range of main topics within environmental science: ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, sustainability and climate change governance, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, rangeland and wildlife management, fire effects on ecosystems, forest management and policy, and wildlife ecology and conservation.

Recent publications by Craig R. Allen include the following papers:

Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management (2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment)
Woody Plant Encroachment and the Sustainability of Priority Conservation Areas (2020, Sustainability)
Adaptive capacity beyond the household: a systematic review of empirical social-ecological research (2022, Environmental Research Letters)
Coerced regimes: management challenges in the Anthropocene (2020, Ecology and Society)
Agricultural pests consumed by common bat species in the United States corn belt: The importance of DNA primer choice (2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment)

Craig R. Allen frequently collaborates with other scholars. Their most frequent co-authors include Dirac Twidwell, David G. Angeler, Daniel R. Uden, Ahjond S. Garmestani, and Caleb P. Roberts.

Their research has appeared repeatedly in certain publication venues, notably Ecology and Society, Journal of Environmental Management, Sustainability Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Global Sustainability.

Among the recognitions granted to Craig R. Allen is their status as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 2020.

Best Publications

Ecological Resilience, Biodiversity, and Scale

Garry Peterson;Craig R. Allen;Crawford S. Holling

2224
Citations
Adaptive management for a turbulent future.

Craig R. Allen;Joseph J. Fontaine;Kevin L. Pope;Ahjond S. Garmestani

684
Citations
Panarchy: Theory and Application

Craig R. Allen;David G. Angeler;Ahjond S. Garmestani;Lance H. Gunderson

557
Citations
Foundations of ecological resilience

Lance H. Gunderson;Craig R. Allen;C. S. Holling

435
Citations
Transformative Environmental Governance

Brian C Chaffin;Ahjond S Garmestani;Lance H Gunderson;Melinda Harm Benson

416
Citations
Pathology and failure in the design and implementation of adaptive management.

Craig R. Allen;Lance H. Gunderson

410
Citations
EDITORIAL: Quantifying resilience

David G. Angeler;Craig R. Allen

356
Citations
Red Imported Fire Ant Impacts on Wildlife: A Decade of Research

Craig R. Allen;D.M. Epperson;A.S. Garmestani

301
Citations
Red Imported Fire Ants: Impact on Biodiversity

Daniel P. Wojcik;Craig R. Allen;Richard J. Brenner;Elizabeth A. Forys

300
Citations
Understanding protected area resilience: a multi-scale, social-ecological approach

Graeme S. Cumming;Craig R. Allen;Natalie C. Ban;Duan Biggs

297
Citations
The Use of Discontinuities and Functional Groups to Assess Relative Resilience in Complex Systems

Craig R. Allen;Lance Gunderson;A.R. Johnson

250
Citations
Quantifying spatial resilience

Craig R. Allen;David G. Angeler;Graeme S. Cumming;Carl Folke;Carl Folke

240
Citations
Red Imported Fire Ant Impacts on Northern Bobwhite Populations

Craig R. Allen;R. Scott Lutz;Stephen Demarais

230
Citations
Novelty, Adaptive Capacity, and Resilience

Craig R. Allen;C. S. Holling

220
Citations
Patterns in body mass distributions: sifting among alternative hypotheses.

Craig R. Allen;A. S. Garmestani;T. D. Havlicek;P. A. Marquet

213
Citations
Protected areas as social-ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory.

Graeme S. Cumming;Graeme S. Cumming;Craig R. Allen

204
Citations
A Framework for Spatial Risk Assessments: Potential Impacts of Nonindigenous Invasive Species on Native Species

Craig R. Allen;Alan R. Johnson;Leslie Parris

202
Citations
Red imported fire ant impact on wildlife: An overview

C. R. Allen;S. Demarais;R. S. Lutz

167
Citations
Discontinuities, cross-scale patterns, and the organization of ecosystems

Kirsty L. Nash;Craig R. Allen;David G. Angeler;Chris Barichievy;Chris Barichievy

157
Citations
Panarchy, Adaptive Management and Governance: Policy Options for Building Resilience

Ahjond S. Garmestani;Craig R. Allen;Heriberto Cabezas

155
Citations
Predictions of future ephemeral springtime waterbird stopover habitat availability under global change

Daniel R. Uden;Craig R. Allen;Andrew A. Bishop;Roger Grosse

37
Citations
SYNTHESES Patterns in body mass distributions: sifting among alternative hypotheses

C. R. Allen;A. S. Garmestani;T. D. Havlicek;P. A. Marquet

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ahjond S. Garmestani Environmental Protection Agency

David G. Angeler Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Dirac Twidwell University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Lance Gunderson Emory University

C. S. Holling University of Florida

Craig A. Stow National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Kirsty L. Nash University of Tasmania

Nicholas A. J. Graham Lancaster University

Garry D. Peterson Stockholm Resilience Centre

Stephen Demarais Mississippi State University

External Links

Personal website of Craig R. Allen Google Scholar page

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