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Hillary S. Young

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
11359
World Ranking
5968
National Ranking
2031

Hillary S. Young 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 Hillary S. Young sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 152 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hillary S. Young 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 Hillary S. Young sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Hillary S. Young is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Ecology.

Their scholarly output spans multiple subfields, including:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling

Main topics of their work encompass:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies

Some of their recent publications include:

  • The influence of vector-borne disease on human history: socio-ecological mechanisms, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Water sources aggregate parasites with increasing effects in more arid conditions, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Mismatches in scale between highly mobile marine megafauna and marine protected areas, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Small mammal responses to fire severity mediated by vegetation characteristics and species traits, 2022, Ecology and Evolution
  • Soil fungal community composition and functional similarity shift across distinct climatic conditions, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Devyn Orr
  • Georgia Titcomb
  • An Bui
  • Douglas J. McCauley
  • Maggie Klope

Common publication venues where their work appears multiple times are:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecosphere
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

They were recognized as a Hellman Fellow in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Defaunation in the Anthropocene

    Rodolfo Dirzo;Hillary S. Young;Mauro Galetti;Gerardo Ceballos

  • Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

    William J. Ripple;Katharine Abernethy;Matthew G. Betts;Guillaume Chapron

  • Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation

    Hillary S. Young;Douglas J. McCauley;Mauro Galetti;Rodolfo Dirzo

  • Does biodiversity protect humans against infectious disease

    Chelsea L. Wood;Chelsea L. Wood;Kevin D. Lafferty;Giulio DeLeo;Giulio DeLeo;Hillary S. Young;Hillary S. Young

  • Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity

    Douglas J. McCauley;Hillary S. Young;Robert B. Dunbar;James A. Estes

  • Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna

    William J Ripple;Guillaume Chapron;José Vicente López-Bao;Sarah M. Durant

  • Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: Ecology and Conservation

    R. Dirzo;H. S. Young;H. A. Mooney;G. Ceballos

  • Introduced Species, Disease Ecology, and Biodiversity-Disease Relationships.

    Hillary S. Young;Ingrid M. Parker;Gregory S. Gilbert;Ana Sofia Guerra

  • Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Parasite Avoidance.

    J.C. Buck;J.C. Buck;S.B. Weinstein;S.B. Weinstein;H.S. Young

  • Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease in Africa

    Hillary S. Young;Rodolfo Dirzo;Kristofer M. Helgen;Douglas J. McCauley

  • From wing to wing: the persistence of long ecological interaction chains in less-disturbed ecosystems

    Douglas J. McCauley;Douglas J. McCauley;Paul A. DeSalles;Hillary S. Young;Hillary S. Young;Robert B. Dunbar

  • Synthesizing the effects of large, wild herbivore exclusion on ecosystem function

    Elizabeth S. Forbes;J. Hall Cushman;Deron E. Burkepile;Truman P. Young

  • Plants cause ecosystem nutrient depletion via the interruption of bird-derived spatial subsidies

    Hillary S. Young;Douglas J. McCauley;Robert B. Dunbar;Rodolfo Dirzo

  • A landscape of disgust.

    Sara B. Weinstein;Julia C. Buck;Hillary S. Young

  • Effects of mammalian herbivore declines on plant communities: observations and experiments in an African savanna

    Hillary S. Young;Douglas J. McCauley;Kristofer M. Helgen;Jacob R. Goheen

  • Human infectious disease burdens decrease with urbanization but not with biodiversity.

    Chelsea L. Wood;Alex McInturff;Hillary S. Young;DoHyung Kim

  • Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates

    Hillary Young;Randi H. Griffin;Chelsea L. Wood;Charles L. Nunn

  • Piecewise Disassembly of a Large-Herbivore Community across a Rainfall Gradient: The UHURU Experiment

    Jacob R. Goheen;Todd M. Palmer;Grace K. Charles;Kristofer M. Helgen

  • Niche partitioning among and within sympatric tropical seabirds revealed by stable isotope analysis

    Hillary S. Young;Douglas J. McCauley;Rodolfo Dirzo;Robert B. Dunbar

  • Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now

    William J. Ripple;Guillaume Chapron;José Vicente López-Bao;Sarah M. Durant

  • Resource partitioning by species but not sex in sympatric boobies in the central Pacific Ocean

    Hillary S. Young;Scott A. Shaffer;Douglas J. McCauley;Dave G. Foley

  • Effects of road proximity on heavy metal concentrations in soils and common roadside plants in Southern California

    Noreen Khalid;Noreen Khalid;Mumtaz Hussain;Hillary S Young;Benjamin Boyce

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas J. McCauley
Douglas J. McCauley University of California, Santa Barbara
Rodolfo Dirzo
Rodolfo Dirzo Stanford University
Kristofer M. Helgen
Kristofer M. Helgen Australian Museum
Robert M. Pringle
Robert M. Pringle Princeton University
Fiorenza Micheli
Fiorenza Micheli Stanford University
Truman P. Young
Truman P. Young University of California, Davis
Todd M. Palmer
Todd M. Palmer University of Florida
Charles L. Nunn
Charles L. Nunn Duke University
Robert B. Dunbar
Robert B. Dunbar Stanford University
Scott A. Shaffer
Scott A. Shaffer San Jose State University

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