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93
Citations
43003
World Ranking
384
National Ranking
143

Overview

John A. Wiens is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with significant contributions in social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance.

Their work spans several subfields within environmental science, including ecology, management, monitoring, policy and law, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and nature and landscape conservation. This demonstrates a broad approach to understanding environmental systems and their management.

Key topics addressed in their research include wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution and climate change, conservation, ecology, and wildlife education, wildlife conservation and criminology analyses, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, environmental philosophy and ethics, and economic and environmental valuation.

John A. Wiens has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. Among the most frequent co-authors are James M. Scott, Beatrice Van Horne, Dale D. Goble, Richard B. Norgaard, and Stephen B. Brandt.

Their recent publication record includes:

  • Preparing Scientists, Policymakers, and Managers for a Fast-Forward Future, 2020, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
  • Index, 2020, Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Front Matter, 2020, The Quarterly Review of Biology

In terms of book publications, John A. Wiens has authored works through Cambridge University Press, including the book Shepherding Nature, published in 2020.

Frequent publication venues for their research include San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, Cambridge University Press eBooks, and The Quarterly Review of Biology.

Best Publications

  • Spatial Scaling in Ecology

    J. A. Wiens

  • Multiple scales of patchiness and patch structure: a hierarchical framework for the study of heterogeneity

    Natasha B. Kotliar;John A. Wiens

  • The ecology of bird communities

    John A. Wiens

  • Population Responses to Patchy Environments

    John A. Wiens

  • Ecological mechanisms and landscape ecology

    John A. Wiens;Nils Chr. Stenseth;Beatrice Van Horne;Rolf Anker Ims

  • Species diversity in ecological communities: edited by Robert E. Ricklefs and Dolph Schluter University of Chicago Press, 1993. $105.00 hbk, $35.00 pbk (414 pages) ISBN 0 226 71822 0/0 226 71823 9

    John A. Wiens

  • Ecological Thresholds: The Key to Successful Environmental Management or an Important Concept with No Practical Application?

    Peter M. Groffman;Jill S. Baron;Tamara Blett;Arthur J. Gold

  • Riverine landscapes: taking landscape ecology into the water

    John A. Wiens;John A. Wiens

  • The Ecology of Bird Communities: Acknowledgments

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  • Niches, models, and climate change: Assessing the assumptions and uncertainties

    John A. Wiens;Diana Stralberg;Dennis Jongsomjit;Christine A. Howell

  • A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation

    David Lindenmayer;Richard J. Hobbs;Rebecca Montague-Drake;Jason Alexandra

  • Habitat Associations and Community Structure of Birds in Shrubsteppe Environments

    John A. Wiens;John T. Rotenberry

  • Habitat Structure, Patchiness, and Avian Communities in North American Steppe Vegetation: A Multivariate Analysis

    John T. Rotenberry;John A. Wiens

  • Boundary dynamics: a conceptual framework for studying landscape ecosystems

    John A. Wiens;Clifford S. Crawford;James R. Gosz

  • Scaling of 'landscapes' in landscape ecology, or, landscape ecology from a beetle's perspective

    John A. Wiens;Bruce T. Milne

  • Metapopulation dynamics and landscape ecology

    Ja Wiens

  • Animal movements and population dynamics in heterogeneous landscapes

    A. R. Johnson;J. A. Wiens;B. T. Milne;T. O. Crist

  • Habitat occupancy patterns of North American shrubsteppe birds: the effects of spatial scale

    John A. Wiens;John T. Rotenberry;Beatrice Van Horne

  • Sustainable Biofuels Redux

    G. Philip Robertson;Virginia H. Dale;Otto C. Doering;Steven P. Hamburg

  • Landscape mosaics and ecological theory

    John A. Wiens

  • Animal movement in heterogeneous landscapes: an experiment with Eleodes beetles in shortgrass prairie.

    T. O. Crist;D. S. Guertin;J. A. Wiens;B. T. Milne

  • Habitat fragmentation: island v landscape perspectives on bird conservation

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Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Rotenberry
John T. Rotenberry University of Minnesota
Thomas O. Crist
Thomas O. Crist Miami University
Hugh D. Safford
Hugh D. Safford University of California, Davis
J. Michael Scott
J. Michael Scott University of Idaho
Bruce T. Milne
Bruce T. Milne University of New Mexico
James R. Miller
James R. Miller University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer Agricultural Research Service
Monica G. Turner
Monica G. Turner University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard J. Hobbs
Richard J. Hobbs University of Western Australia
Lenore Fahrig
Lenore Fahrig Carleton University

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