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D-Index
38
Citations
5976
World Ranking
6613
National Ranking
523

Kristine French 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 Kristine French 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.

Kristine French 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 Kristine French sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kristine French is a researcher affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia, focusing on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans various subfields, including Ecology, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

Frequent publication venues where their research appears are:

  • Wildlife Research
  • Austral Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Symbiosis
  • Biological Invasions

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Kimberly Maute (6 publications)
  • Paul Story (6 publications)
  • Grant C. Hose (5 publications)
  • Julia Rayment (4 publications)
  • Shae Jones (3 publications)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kristine French include:

  • Green infrastructure for air quality improvement in street canyons, 2020, Environment International
  • Managing multi-species plant invasions when interactions influence their impact, 2023, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Experimental admixture among geographically disjunct populations of an invasive plant yields a global mosaic of reproductive incompatibility and heterosis, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Soil nutrients differentially influence root colonisation patterns of AMF and DSE in Australian plant species, 2021, Symbiosis
  • Timber harvest and frequent prescribed burning interact to affect the demography of Eucalypt species, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management

Best Publications

  • Predicting dispersal spectra: A minimal set of hypotheses based on plant attributes

    Lesley Hughes;Michael Dunlop;Kristine French;Michelle R. Leishman

  • Does invasive plant management aid the restoration of natural ecosystems

    Adele M. Reid;Louise Morin;Paul O. Downey;Kristine French

  • Green infrastructure for air quality improvement in street canyons.

    Mamatha Tomson;Prashant Kumar;Yendle Barwise;Pascal Perez

  • Climate change at the landscape scale: predicting fine‐grained spatial heterogeneity in warming and potential refugia for vegetation

    Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Laurie A. Chisholm;Kristine O. French

  • Species interactions and habitat associations of birds inhabiting urban areas of Sydney, Australia

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  • Impact threshold for an alien plant invader, Lantana camara L., on native plant communities

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  • Use of native and exotic garden plants by suburban nectarivorous birds

    Kristine O French;Richard Major;Katherine Hely

  • Vegetation structure influences the vertical stratification of open- and edge-space aerial-foraging bats in harvested forests

    Maria D. Adams;Bradley S. Law;Kris O. French

  • THE EDGE EFFECT AND ECOTONAL SPECIES: BIRD COMMUNITIES ACROSS A NATURAL EDGE IN SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA

    Jack Baker;Kris French;Robert J. Whelan

  • Invasion and management of a woody plant, Lantana camara L., alters vegetation diversity within wet sclerophyll forest in southeastern Australia

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  • An evaluation of environmental factors affecting species distributions

    Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Kristine O. French;Laurie A. Chisholm

  • Reviewing research priorities in weed ecology, evolution and management: a horizon scan

    P Neve;J N Barney;Y Buckley;Roger D Cousens

  • Towards better prediction of seed dispersal by animals

    Roger D. Cousens;Julian Hill;Kris French;Ian D. Bishop

  • The influence of remnant bushland on the composition of suburban bird assemblages in Australia

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  • Management regimes for a plant invader differentially impact resident communities

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  • Threats from introduced birds to native birds

    Jack Baker;Kerinne J Harvey;Kristine French

  • Avian movement across abrupt ecological edges: differential responses to housing density in an urban matrix

    Patricia Hodgson;Kristine French;Richard E. Major

  • Litterfall and nitrogen cycling following invasion by Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. rotundata in coastal Australia

    Elizabeth A. Lindsay;Kristine French

  • Germination response to heat and smoke of 22 Poaceae species from grassy woodlands

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  • Why do more plant species use ants for dispersal on infertile compared with fertile soils

    Mark Westoby;Kristine French;Lesley Hughes;Barbara Rice

  • The effect of exposure on landscape scale soil surface temperatures and species distribution models

    Michael B. Ashcroft;Laurie A. Chisholm;Kristine O. French

  • Effect of an exotic Acacia (Fabaceae) on ant assemblages in South African fynbos

    Kristine French;Richard E. Major

  • Do graminoid and woody invaders have different effects on native plant functional groups

    T. J. Mason;K. French;W. M. Lonsdale

  • Evidence for enemy release and increased seed production and size for two invasive Australian acacias

    Marta Correia;Daniel Montesinos;Kristine French;Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría

  • Urban impacts across realms: Making the case for inter-realm monitoring and management.

    Ana B. Bugnot;Grant C. Hose;Christopher J. Walsh;Oliver Floerl

  • Exotic woody invader limits the recruitment of three indigenous plant species

    Emilie Jane Ens;Kristine French

  • Characteristics and abundance of vertebrate-dispersed fruits in temperate wet sclerophyll forest in southeastern Australia

    Kristine French

Frequent Co-Authors

Lohengrin A. Cavieres
Lohengrin A. Cavieres University of Concepción
Grant C. Hose
Grant C. Hose Macquarie University
Sharon A. Robinson
Sharon A. Robinson University of Wollongong
Mark Westoby
Mark Westoby Macquarie University
Christopher J. Lortie
Christopher J. Lortie York University
Sarah Legge
Sarah Legge Australian National University
C. Michael Bull
C. Michael Bull Flinders University
Stephen T. Garnett
Stephen T. Garnett Charles Darwin University
Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría
Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría University of Coimbra
Lidia Morawska
Lidia Morawska Queensland University of Technology

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