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D-Index
40
Citations
12548
World Ranking
5967
National Ranking
69

Overview

David A. Norton is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences with significant contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's key topics of focus include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, and Rangeland and Wildlife Management.

David A. Norton has published articles in various academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • New Zealand Journal of Ecology
  • Journal of Marketing Research
  • People and Nature
  • Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
  • Agricultural Systems

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Norton include:

  • Achieving win-win outcomes for pastoral farming and biodiversity conservation in New Zealand, 2020, New Zealand Journal of Ecology
  • Restoring mature-phase forest tree species through enrichment planting in New Zealand's lowland landscapes, 2020, New Zealand Journal of Ecology
  • The roles of non-production vegetation in agroecosystems: A research framework for filling process knowledge gaps in a social-ecological context, 2020, People and Nature
  • The Bulletproof Glass Effect: Unintended Consequences of Privacy Notices, 2021, Journal of Marketing Research
  • Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 2022, Journal of Air Law and Commerce

Their work shows interdisciplinary collaboration across multiple scientific domains, reflecting an integrative approach to environmental and agricultural research.

Frequent co-authors contributing alongside David A. Norton include:

  • Hannah L. Buckley
  • Bradley S. Case
  • Adam Forbes
  • Jennifer Pannell
  • Febyana Suryaningrum

Best Publications

  • Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order

    Richard J. Hobbs;Salvatore Arico;James Aronson;Jill S. Baron

  • Towards a Conceptual Framework for Restoration Ecology

    Richard J. Hobbs;David A. Norton

  • Grazing effects on plant cover, soil and microclimate in fragmented woodlands in south‐western Australia: implications for restoration

    Colin J. Yates;David A. Norton;Richard J. Hobbs

  • Scale and the Spatial Concept of Fragmentation

    Janice M. Lord;David A. Norton

  • Mast seeding over 33 years by Dacrydium cupressinum Lamb. (rimu) (Podocarpaceae) in New Zealand: the importance of economies of scale

    D. A. Norton;D. Kelly

  • Mistletoes as parasites: Host specificity and speciation.

    David A. Norton;Margaret A. Carpenter

  • Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand

    P.J. de Lange;D. A. Norton;P. B. Heenan;S. P. Courtney

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

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

  • Ecological restoration at Mainland Islands in New Zealand

    A Saunders;D.A Norton

  • Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision).

    P. J. de Lange;D. A. Norton;S. P. Courtney;P. B. Heenan

  • Dendroecological studies in New Zealand 1. An evaluation of tree age estimates based on increment cores

    D.A. Norton;J.G. Palmer;J. Ogden

  • Ecological Filters, Thresholds, and Gradients in Resistance to Ecosystem Reassembly

    Richard Hobbs;D.A. Norton

  • Are systems with strong underlying abiotic regimes more likely to exhibit alternative stable states

    Raphael K. Didham;Corinne H. Watts;David A. Norton

  • Assessing the Success of Restoration Plantings in a Temperate New Zealand Forest

    Stephen D. Reay;David A. Norton

  • Species invasions and the limits to restoration: learning from the New Zealand experience.

    David A. Norton

  • The flood pulse as the underlying driver of vegetation in the largest wetland and fishery of the Mekong Basin.

    Mauricio E. Arias;Thomas A. Cochrane;David Norton;Timothy J. Killeen

  • Climate and growth of Pinus sylvestris at its upper altitudinal limit in Scotland: evidence from tree growth-rings.

    J. Grace;D. A. Norton

  • Conservation Biology and Private Land: Shifting the Focus

    David A. Norton

  • Which plant traits determine abundance under long-term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity?

    Etienne Laliberté;Etienne Laliberté;Bill Shipley;David A. Norton;David Scott

  • Host specificity in parasitic mistletoes (Loranthaceae) in New Zealand

    D. A. Norton;P. J. De Lange

Frequent Co-Authors

Raphael K. Didham
Raphael K. Didham University of Western Australia
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Hannah L. Buckley
Hannah L. Buckley Auckland University of Technology
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Patrick J. O’Farrell
Patrick J. O’Farrell University of Cape Town
Ingo Grass
Ingo Grass University of Hohenheim
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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