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39
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Ilya M. D. Maclean 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 Ilya M. D. Maclean sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 129 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ilya M. D. Maclean 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 Ilya M. D. Maclean sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ilya M. D. Maclean is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily within the field of Environmental Science, with extensive contributions to subfields such as Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

Themes central to their work include Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations.

Maclean has a number of recent publications in major journals, including:

  • Global maps of soil temperature, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change, 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Global variation in diurnal asymmetry in temperature, cloud cover, specific humidity and precipitation and its association with leaf area index, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: The promise of biophysical ecology, 2022, Global Change Biology

They have frequently published in venues including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Ecology and Biogeography, and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Their collaborative work includes frequent coauthors such as Alexandra S. Gardner, Kevin J. Gaston, Juha Aalto, David H. Klinges, and Brittany T. Trew.

Best Publications

  • Travelling through a warming world: climate change and migratory species.

    Robert A. Robinson;Humphrey Q. P. Crick;Jennifer A. Learmonth;Ilya M. D. Maclean

  • Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

    Andrew J. Suggitt;Andrew J. Suggitt;Robert J. Wilson;Nick J. B. Isaac;Colin M. Beale

  • Recent ecological responses to climate change support predictions of high extinction risk

    Ilya M. D. Maclean;Robert J. Wilson

  • Climate change causes rapid changes in the distribution and site abundance of birds in winter

    Ilya M. D. Maclean;Graham E. Austin;Mark M. Rehfisch;Jan Blew

  • Advances in Monitoring and Modelling Climate at Ecologically Relevant Scales

    Isobel Bramer;Barbara J. Anderson;Jonathan Bennie;Andrew J. Bladon

  • Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change

    Brittany T. Trew;Ilya M. D. Maclean

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Global variation in diurnal asymmetry in temperature, cloud cover, specific humidity and precipitation and its association with leaf area index

    Daniel T C Cox;Ilya M D Maclean;Alexandra S Gardner;Kevin J Gaston

  • Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: The promise of biophysical ecology

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  • Microclima: An r package for modelling meso- and microclimate

    Ilya M. D. Maclean;Jonathan R. Mosedale;Jonathan J. Bennie

  • Climate change impacts and adaptive strategies: lessons from the grapevine

    Jonathan R. Mosedale;Kirsten E. Abernethy;Richard E. Smart;Robert J. Wilson

  • Microclimates buffer the responses of plant communities to climate change

    Ilya M. D. Maclean;John J. Hopkins;Jonathan Bennie;Callum R. Lawson

  • Determinants of woody encroachment and cover in African savannas.

    Aisling P. Devine;Robbie A. McDonald;Tristan Quaife;Ilya M. D. Maclean

  • On the measurement of microclimate

    Ilya M. D. Maclean;James P. Duffy;Stef Haesen;Sanne Govaert

  • ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests.

    Stef Haesen;Jonas J. Lembrechts;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir

  • A method for computing hourly, historical, terrain-corrected microclimate anywhere on earth

    Michael R. Kearney;Phillipa K. Gillingham;Isobel Bramer;James P. Duffy

  • Fine‐scale climate change: modelling spatial variation in biologically meaningful rates of warming

    Ilya M. D. Maclean;Andrew J. Suggitt;Robert J. Wilson;James P. Duffy

  • Recent evidence for the climate change threat to Lepidoptera and other insects

    Robert J. Wilson;Ilya M. D. Maclean

  • Climate Change and Crop Exposure to Adverse Weather: Changes to Frost Risk and Grapevine Flowering Conditions.

    Jonathan R. Mosedale;Robert J. Wilson;Ilya M. D. Maclean

  • Macroclimate data overestimate range shifts of plants in response to climate change

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  • Climatic predictors of species distributions neglect biophysiologically meaningful variables

    Alexandra S. Gardner;Ilya M.D. Maclean;Kevin J. Gaston

  • Using in situ management to conserve biodiversity under climate change.

    Owen Greenwood;Hannah L. Mossman;Andrew J. Suggitt;Robin J. Curtis

  • Effects of disturbance and habitat loss on papyrus-dwelling passerines

    Ilya M.D. Maclean;Ilya M.D. Maclean;Mark Hassall;Rosalind R. Boar;Iain R. Lake

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Wilson
Robert J. Wilson University of St Andrews
Jonathan Bennie
Jonathan Bennie University of Exeter
Kevin J. Gaston
Kevin J. Gaston University of Exeter
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Michael D. Morecroft
Michael D. Morecroft Natural England
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
James W. Pearce-Higgins
James W. Pearce-Higgins British Trust for Ornithology
Martin Kopecký
Martin Kopecký Czech Academy of Sciences
Richard Fox
Richard Fox Butterfly Conservation
Humphrey Q. P. Crick
Humphrey Q. P. Crick Natural England

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