2026 Jill Lancaster: 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	40	6091	5875	483	472	117	6605

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

727
Citations
The Rivers Handbook

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

423
Citations
Flow Refugia and the Microdistribution of Lotic Macroinvertebrates

Jill Lancaster;Alan G. Hildrew

414
Citations
Characterizing In-stream Flow Refugia

Jill Lancaster;Alan G. Hildrew

287
Citations
Spatial heterogeneity of near‐bed hydraulics above a patch of river gravel

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

223
Citations
Nested Hierarchies and Scale-Dependence of Mechanisms of Flow Refugium Use

Jill Lancaster;Lisa R. Belyea

221
Citations
Stream hydraulics and the distribution of microcrustacea: a role for refugia?

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

161
Citations
Linking the hydraulic world of individual organisms to ecological processes: Putting ecology into ecohydraulics

Jill Lancaster;Barbara Jayne Downes

154
Citations
Invertebrate drift and longitudinal transport processes in streams

J Lancaster;A G Hildrew;C Gjerlov

145
Citations
Effects of drought on stream insects and its ecological consequences

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

142
Citations
Field experiments on flow refugia in streams

Julie Winterbottom;Stuart Orton;Alan Hildrew;Jill Lancaster

141
Citations
The effect of floods on aquatic invertebrate communities.

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

135
Citations
Geometric scaling of microhabitat patches and their efficacy as refugia during disturbance.

Jill Lancaster

126
Citations
Defining the limits to local density: alternative views of abundance–environment relationships

Jill Lancaster;Lisa R. Belyea

119
Citations
Inferring landscape dynamics of bog pools from scaling relationships and spatial patterns

Lisa R. Belyea;Jill Lancaster

115
Citations
Intraguild omnivory in predatory stream insects

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

109
Citations
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

108
Citations
Small‐scale movements of lotic macroinvertebrates with variations in flow

Jill Lancaster

107
Citations
Aquatic Insects: Challenges to Populations

Jill Lancaster;Robert Briers

103
Citations
INVERTEBRATE PREDATION ON PATCHY AND MOBILE PREY IN STREAMS

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

102
Citations
Introduction to Aquatic Insects

Jill Lancaster;Barbara J Downes

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara J. Downes University of Melbourne

Stephen P. Rice Newcastle University

Robert A. Briers Edinburgh Napier University

Alan G. Hildrew Queen Mary University of London

Ian Reid Loughborough University

Don Monteith Lancaster University

Paul Reich Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research

Colin R. Townsend University of Otago

Susan Waldron University of Glasgow

Helen Bennion University College London

External Links

Personal website of Jill Lancaster

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