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D-Index
41
Citations
6242
World Ranking
5861
National Ranking
627

Deborah A. Dawson 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 Deborah A. Dawson sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 162 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Deborah A. Dawson 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 Deborah A. Dawson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Deborah A. Dawson is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on various subfields including Ecology, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics within these fields, notably in Environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, species distribution and climate change, genetic diversity and population structure, wildlife ecology and conservation, identification and quantification in food, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, and animal behavior and reproduction.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Deborah A. Dawson include:

  • Fishing for mammals: Landscape-level monitoring of terrestrial and semi-aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems (2020, Journal of Applied Ecology)
  • Genomic erosion in a demographically recovered bird species during conservation rescue (2022, Conservation Biology)
  • Heritability and correlations among learning and inhibitory control traits (2020, Behavioral Ecology)
  • Spatio-temporal genetic tagging of a cosmopolitan planktivorous shark provides insight to gene flow, temporal variation and site-specific re-encounters (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Development of intraspecific size variation in black coucals, white-browed coucals and ruffs from hatching to fledging (2020, Journal of Avian Biology)

Frequent co-authors associated with Deborah A. Dawson include Gavin J. Horsburgh, Samuel S. Browett, Owen S. Wangensteen, Allan D. McDevitt, and Terry Burke.

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as Conservation Genetics, Scientific Reports, Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, Environmental DNA, and the Journal of Applied Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Stable isotopes indicate sex-specific and long-term individual foraging specialisation in diving seabirds

    Stuart Bearhop;Richard A. Phillips;Rona McGill;Yves Cherel

  • Stable isotopes reveal individual variation in migration strategies and habitat preferences in a suite of seabirds during the nonbreeding period

    Richard A. Phillips;Stuart Bearhop;Rona A. R. Mcgill;Deborah A. Dawson

  • Contrasting levels of extra-pair paternity in mainland and island populations of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus): is there an «island effect»?

    Simon C. Griffith;Ian R. K. Stewart;Deborah A. Dawson;Ian P. F. Owens

  • Fifty Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis) microsatellite loci polymorphic in Sylviidae species and their cross‐species amplification in other passerine birds

    DS Richardson;FL Jury;DA Dawson;P Salgueiro

  • New methods to identify conserved microsatellite loci and develop primer sets of high cross-species utility – as demonstrated for birds

    Deborah A. Dawson;Gavin J. Horsburgh;Clemens Küpper;Ian R. K. Stewart

  • Sexual segregation in distribution, diet and trophic level of seabirds: insights from stable isotope analysis

    Richard A. Phillips;Rona A. R. McGill;Deborah A. Dawson;Stuart Bearhop

  • Independent colonization of multiple urban centres by a formerly forest specialist bird species.

    Karl L. Evans;Kevin J. Gaston;Alain C. Frantz;Michelle Simeoni

  • Finding the fathers in the least faithful bird: a microsatellite-based genotyping system for the superb fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus

    M. C. Double;D. Dawson;T. Burke;A. Cockburn

  • Polymorphic microsatellites in the blue tit Parus caeruleus and their cross‐species utility in 20 songbird families

    Deborah A. Dawson;Olivier Hanotte;Carolyn Greig;Ian R. K. Stewart

  • A critique of avian CHD-based molecular sexing protocols illustrated by a Z-chromosome polymorphism detected in auklets

    Deborah A. Dawson;Steven Darby;Fiona M. Hunter;Andrew P. Krupa

  • Genetic and phenotypic divergence in an island bird: isolation by distance, by colonization or by adaptation?

    Lewis G. Spurgin;Lewis G. Spurgin;Lewis G. Spurgin;Juan Carlos Illera;Tove H. Jorgensen;Deborah A. Dawson

  • The shaping of genetic variation in edge-of-range populations under past and future climate change.

    Orly Razgour;Orly Razgour;Javier Juste;Carlos Ibanez;Andreas Kiefer

  • Fishing for mammals: Landscape‐level monitoring of terrestrial and semi‐aquatic communities using eDNA from riverine systems

    Naiara Guimarães Sales;Maisie B. McKenzie;Joseph Drake;Lynsey R. Harper

  • Microsatellite flanking region similarities among different loci within insect species.

    E. Meglécz;S. J. Anderson;D. Bourguet;R. Butcher

  • Mating system of the Eurasian badger, Meles meles, in a high density population.

    Petra J. Carpenter;Lisa C. Pope;Carolyn Greig;Deborah A. Dawson;Deborah A. Dawson

  • Chicken microsatellite markers isolated from libraries enriched for simple tandem repeats

    M. Gibbs;D. A. Dawson;C. Mccamley;A. F. Wardle

  • The isolation and mapping of 19 tetranucleotide microsatellite markers in the chicken

    S. K. J. McConnell;D. A. Dawson;A. Wardle;Terry Burke

  • A comparison of SNPs and microsatellites as linkage mapping markers: lessons from the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

    Alexander D Ball;Jessica Stapley;Deborah A Dawson;Tim R Birkhead

  • High-utility conserved avian microsatellite markers enable parentage and population studies across a wide range of species.

    Deborah A Dawson;Alexander D Ball;Alexander D Ball;Lewis G Spurgin;Lewis G Spurgin;David Martín-Gálvez;David Martín-Gálvez

  • A predicted microsatellite map of the passerine genome based on chicken-passerine sequence similarity.

    Deborah A. Dawson;Terry Burke;Bengt Hansson;Jagroop Pandhal

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry Burke
Terry Burke University of Sheffield
Jim J. Groombridge
Jim J. Groombridge University of Kent
Jon Slate
Jon Slate University of Sheffield
Ben J. Hatchwell
Ben J. Hatchwell University of Sheffield
Bengt Hansson
Bengt Hansson Lund University
Tamás Székely
Tamás Székely University of Bath
Carl G. Jones
Carl G. Jones Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Stephen J. Rossiter
Stephen J. Rossiter Queen Mary University of London
Stuart Bearhop
Stuart Bearhop University of Exeter
Olivier Hanotte
Olivier Hanotte University of Nottingham

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