2026 Douglas W. Morris: 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	41	5778	5577	370	351	126	7740

Overview

Douglas W. Morris is affiliated with Lakehead University in Canada and primarily conducts research in Environmental Science. Their work focuses on several subfields, notably Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Climate Change Policy and Economics.

Douglas W. Morris has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed journals with publications in several venues. Frequent publication outlets include Ecology, PLoS ONE, Oecologia, Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research, and FACETS.

On the effect of international human migration on nations' abilities to attain CO2 emission-reduction targets (2021, PLoS ONE)
Long-term patterns in winter habitat selection, breeding and predation in a density-fluctuating, high Arctic lemming population (2021, Oecologia)
Warmer temperatures promote shrub radial growth but not cover in the central Canadian Arctic (2020, Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research)
Self-promotion and the need to be first in science (2021, FACETS)
Time-averaging voles match density with long-term habitat quality (2020, Ecology)

The scientist collaborates with various researchers, with frequent co-authors including Angélique Dupuch, Niels Martin Schmidt, Floris M. van Beest, Lars Holst Hansen, and Jean-Pierre Desforges.

Best Publications

Toward an ecological synthesis: a case for habitat selection

Douglas W. Morris

1026
Citations
Ecological Scale and Habitat Use

Douglas W. Morris

708
Citations
Considering ecological dynamics in resource selection functions

Philip D. McLoughlin;Douglas W. Morris;Daniel Fortin;Eric Vander Wal

327
Citations
Habitat-dependent population regulation and community structure

Douglas W. Morris

324
Citations
Using commonality analysis in multiple regressions: a tool to decompose regression effects in the face of multicollinearity

Jayanti Ray-Mukherjee;Kim Nimon;Shomen Mukherjee;Douglas W. Morris

318
Citations
OPTIMALLY FORAGING MICE MATCH PATCH USE WITH HABITAT DIFFERENCES IN FITNESS

Douglas W. Morris;Douglas L. Davidson

261
Citations
TESTS OF DENSITY-DEPENDENT HABITAT SELECTION IN A PATCHY ENVIRONMENT'

Douglas W. Morris

240
Citations
Scales and costs of habitat selection in heterogeneous landscapes

Douglas W. Morris

232
Citations
Density-dependent habitat selection: Testing the theory with fitness data

Douglas W. Morris

216
Citations
How can we apply theories of habitat selection to wildlife conservation and management

Douglas W. Morris

159
Citations
Adaptation and habitat selection in the eco-evolutionary process

Douglas W. Morris

154
Citations
Spatial scale and the cost of density-dependent habitat selection

Douglas W. Morris

150
Citations
Ecological traps in isodars: effects of tallgrass prairie management on bird nest success

Eyal Shochat;Michael A. Patten;Douglas W. Morris;Dan L. Reinking

138
Citations
Measuring the ghost of competition: Insights from density-dependent habitat selection on the co-existence and dynamics of lemmings

Douglas W. Morris;Douglas L. Davidson;Charles J. Krebs

135
Citations
The influence of phylogeny, size and behaviour on patterns of covariation in salmonid life histories

Jeffrey A. Hutchings;Douglas W. Morris

130
Citations
Habitat matching: Alternatives and implications to populations and communities

Douglas W. Morris

123
Citations
Patterns and scale of habitat use in two temperate-zone, small mammal faunas

Douglas W. Morris

107
Citations
Optimal allocation of parental investment

Douglas W. Morris

103
Citations
Documenting lemming population change in the Arctic: Can we detect trends?

Dorothée Ehrich;Niels M. Schmidt;Gilles Gauthier;Ray Alisauskas

90
Citations
Behavioral Indicators for Conserving Mammal Diversity

Douglas W. Morris;Burt P. Kotler;Joel S. Brown;Vijayan Sundararaj

89
Citations
How Many Habitats do Landscapes Contain

Thomas W. Knight;Douglas W. Morris

87
Citations
Patterns in the structure of mammalian communities

Douglas W. Morris

54
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Lundberg Lund University

Burt P. Kotler Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Joel S. Brown University of Illinois at Chicago

Daniel Fortin Université Laval

Charles J. Krebs University of British Columbia

Niels Martin Schmidt Aarhus University

Dorothee Ehrich University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

Birger Hörnfeldt Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Barry J. Fox University of New South Wales

Paul Smith University of Surrey

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