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David J. Patterson

David J. Patterson

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
9757
World Ranking
17139
National Ranking
486

Overview

David J. Patterson is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia, focusing primarily on environmental science. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including ecology, ecological modeling, information systems, molecular biology, and information systems and management.

The main topics that characterize Patterson's work include species distribution and climate change, wildlife ecology and conservation, research data management practices, wildlife-road interactions and conservation, scientific computing and data management, protist diversity and phylogeny, and animal vocal communication and behavior.

Recent publications by Patterson reflect these research interests through diverse areas of environmental and conservation science. Key papers include:

  • A concept for application of integrated digital technologies to enhance future smart agricultural systems, 2023, Smart Agricultural Technology
  • Restoring Asia's roar: Opportunities for tiger recovery across the historic range, 2023, Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • The Emerging Threat of Extractives Sector to Intact Forest Landscapes, 2021, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • A global assessment of the prevalence of current and potential future infrastructure in Key Biodiversity Areas, 2023, Biological Conservation
  • From Reductionism to Reintegration: Solving society's most pressing problems requires building bridges between data types across the life sciences, 2021, PLoS Biology

The venues in which Patterson frequently publishes include:

  • Smart Agricultural Technology
  • Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Biological Conservation
  • PLoS Biology

Patterson collaborates regularly with a number of co-authors, illustrating interdisciplinary research efforts. Frequent collaborators include Pablo Izquierdo, Anne Thessen, Paul Bogdan, Theresa Casey, and César Hinojo-Hinojo.

Best Publications

  • THE DIVERSITY OF EUKARYOTES

    David J. Patterson

  • Some flagellates (Protista) from tropical marine sediments

    Jacob Larsen;David J. Patterson

  • Agriculture in a changing climate: impacts and adaptation

    J. Reilly;W. Baethgen;F.E. Chege;S.C. van de Geijn

  • The Biology of free-living heterotrophic flagellates

    DJ Patterson;DJ Larsen

  • Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

    Scott A. Thomson;Richard L. Pyle;Shane T Ahyong;Shane T Ahyong;Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga

  • Broadly Sampled Multigene Analyses Yield a Well-Resolved Eukaryotic Tree of Life

    Laura Wegener Parfrey;Jessica Grant;Yonas I. Tekle;Yonas I. Tekle;Erica Lasek-Nesselquist;Erica Lasek-Nesselquist

  • Names are key to the big new biology

    David J. Patterson;J. Cooper;Paul M. Kirk;R. L. Pyle

  • Evaluating Support for the Current Classification of Eukaryotic Diversity

    Laura Wegener Parfrey;Erika Barbero;Elyse Lasser;Micah Saul Dunthorn

  • The stramenopiles from a molecular perspective 16S-like rRNA sequences from Labyrinthuloides minuta and Cafeteria roenbergensis

    D. D. Leipe;P. O. Wainright;J. H. Gunderson;D. Porter

  • CONTRACTILE VACUOLES AND ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES: THEIR ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTION

    D. J. Patterson

  • Heterotrophic flagellates and other protists associated with oceanic detritus throughout the water column in the mid North Atlantic

    David J. Patterson;Kari Nygaard;Gero Steinberg;Carol M. Turley

  • Heterotrophic flagellates from coastal marine and hypersaline sediments in Western Australia

    D. J. Patterson;Alastair G. B. Simpson

  • Broadly sampled multigene trees of eukaryotes.

    Hwan Su Yoon;Hwan Su Yoon;Jessica Grant;Yonas I Tekle;Min Wu

  • Some free-living flagellates (protista) from anoxic habitats

    Catherine Bernard;Alastair G. B. Simpson;David J. Patterson

  • Heterotrophic flagellates (Protista) from marine sediments of Botany Bay, Australia

    Won Je Lee;David J. Patterson

  • Flagellates from stromatolites and surrounding sediments in Shark Bay, Western Australia

    S. Al-Qassab;WJ Lee;S. Murray;Alastair G. B. Simpson

  • The ultrastructure of Carpediemonas membranifera (Eukaryota) with reference to the “excavate hypothesis”

    Alastair G.B. Simpson;David J. Patterson

  • Diversity and Geographic Distribution of Free-Living Heterotrophic Flagellates – Analysis by PRIMER

    Won Je Lee;David J. Patterson

  • Evolutionary history of "early-diverging" eukaryotes: the excavate taxon Carpediemonas is a close relative of Giardia.

    Alastair G. B. Simpson;Andrew J. Roger;Jeffrey D. Silberman;Detlef D. Leipe

  • The Biology of Free-Living Heterotrophic Flagellates

    John O. Corliss;D. J. Patterson;J. Larsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Alastair G. B. Simpson
Alastair G. B. Simpson Dalhousie University
Shauna A. Murray
Shauna A. Murray University of Technology Sydney
Laura A. Katz
Laura A. Katz Smith College
Mitchell L. Sogin
Mitchell L. Sogin Marine Biological Laboratory
Richard A. Kozarek
Richard A. Kozarek Virginia Mason Medical Center
Micah Dunthorn
Micah Dunthorn University of Oslo
David L. Hawksworth
David L. Hawksworth Royal Botanic Gardens
Brian J. Tindall
Brian J. Tindall Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
Sandra Knapp
Sandra Knapp American Museum of Natural History
George M. Garrity
George M. Garrity Michigan State University

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