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D-Index
40
Citations
6605
World Ranking
6087
National Ranking
483

Jill Lancaster 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 Jill Lancaster sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 117 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jill Lancaster 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 Jill Lancaster 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.

Overview

Jill Lancaster is a researcher affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their academic work focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with significant contributions to Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their research delves into a variety of interconnected subfields, including:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science
  • Ecological Modeling

Within these domains, key research topics addressed by Lancaster encompass:

  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

A number of Lancaster's recent publications highlight their scientific contributions. Notable papers include:

  • "Coexistence of predatory caddisfly species may be facilitated by variations in the morphology of feeding apparatus and diet" (2020), published in Freshwater Biology
  • "Terrestrial-aquatic transitions: Local abundances and movements of mature female caddisflies are related to oviposition habits but not flight capability" (2020), published in Freshwater Biology
  • "Avoidance and aggregation create consistent egg distribution patterns of congeneric caddisflies across spatially variable oviposition landscapes" (2020), published in Oecologia
  • "From Insects to Frogs, Egg-Juvenile Recruitment Can Have Persistent Effects on Population Sizes" (2021), published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • "Using Fractals to Describe Ecologically Relevant Patterns in Distributions of Large Rocks in Streams" (2021), published in Water Resources Research

Lancaster frequently publishes in these scientific venues:

  • Freshwater Biology
  • Oecologia
  • Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Water Resources Research
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Collaboration has been a significant part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Barbara J. Downes
  • Stephen P. Rice
  • Rebecca E. Lester
  • Georgia Dwyer
  • Louise Slater

Best Publications

  • Assembly rules within a contingent ecology

    Lisa R. Belyea;Jill Lancaster

  • The Rivers Handbook

    J. Lancaster;P. Calow;G. E. Petts

  • Flow Refugia and the Microdistribution of Lotic Macroinvertebrates

    Jill Lancaster;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Characterizing In-stream Flow Refugia

    Jill Lancaster;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Spatial heterogeneity of near‐bed hydraulics above a patch of river gravel

    Thomas Buffin-Bélanger;Stephen Rice;Ian Reid;Jill Lancaster

  • Nested Hierarchies and Scale-Dependence of Mechanisms of Flow Refugium Use

    Jill Lancaster;Lisa R. Belyea

  • Stream hydraulics and the distribution of microcrustacea: a role for refugia?

    Anne L. Robertson;Jill Lancaster;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Linking the hydraulic world of individual organisms to ecological processes: Putting ecology into ecohydraulics

    Jill Lancaster;Barbara Jayne Downes

  • Invertebrate drift and longitudinal transport processes in streams

    J Lancaster;A G Hildrew;C Gjerlov

  • Effects of drought on stream insects and its ecological consequences

    A. J. Boulton;P. S. Lake;J. Lancaster;R. A. Briers

  • Field experiments on flow refugia in streams

    Julie Winterbottom;Stuart Orton;Alan Hildrew;Jill Lancaster

  • The effect of floods on aquatic invertebrate communities.

    R. G. Death;J. Lancaster;R. A. Briers

  • Geometric scaling of microhabitat patches and their efficacy as refugia during disturbance.

    Jill Lancaster

  • Defining the limits to local density: alternative views of abundance–environment relationships

    Jill Lancaster;Lisa R. Belyea

  • Inferring landscape dynamics of bog pools from scaling relationships and spatial patterns

    Lisa R. Belyea;Jill Lancaster

  • Intraguild omnivory in predatory stream insects

    Jill Lancaster;David C. Bradley;Anita Hogan;Susan Waldron

  • Experimentation at the interface of fluvial geomorphology, stream ecology and hydraulic engineering and the development of an effective, interdisciplinary river science

    Stephen P. Rice;Jill Lancaster;Paul Kemp

  • Small‐scale movements of lotic macroinvertebrates with variations in flow

    Jill Lancaster

  • Aquatic Insects: Challenges to Populations

    Jill Lancaster;Robert Briers

  • INVERTEBRATE PREDATION ON PATCHY AND MOBILE PREY IN STREAMS

    Jill Lancaster;Alan G. Hildrew;Colin R. Townsend

  • Introduction to Aquatic Insects

    Jill Lancaster;Barbara J Downes

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara J. Downes
Barbara J. Downes University of Melbourne
Stephen P. Rice
Stephen P. Rice Newcastle University
Robert A. Briers
Robert A. Briers Edinburgh Napier University
Alan G. Hildrew
Alan G. Hildrew Queen Mary University of London
Ian Reid
Ian Reid Loughborough University
Don Monteith
Don Monteith Lancaster University
Paul Reich
Paul Reich Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
Colin R. Townsend
Colin R. Townsend University of Otago
Susan Waldron
Susan Waldron University of Glasgow
Helen Bennion
Helen Bennion University College London

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