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Lenore Fahrig

Lenore Fahrig

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Ecology and Evolution
Canada
2026

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
109
Citations
67019
World Ranking
911
National Ranking
30

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
111
Citations
69200
World Ranking
157
National Ranking
12

Lenore Fahrig 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 Lenore Fahrig sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 277 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Lenore Fahrig 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 Lenore Fahrig sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 111 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Canada Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Lenore Fahrig is affiliated with Carleton University in Canada and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics of their research cover a range of ecological and conservation issues. These include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Plant and Animal Studies, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, and Forest Management and Policy.

Lenore Fahrig has published extensively in well-known venues. Frequent publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Ecology Letters, Journal of Applied Ecology, Biological Conservation, and Conservation Letters.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Fahrig are:

  • Designing optimal human-modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Why do several small patches hold more species than few large patches?, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • The disproportionately high value of small patches for biodiversity conservation, 2022, Conservation Letters
  • Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda, 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Fahrig frequently collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors. These include Federico Riva, Amanda E. Martin, Christine Anderson, Paul A. Smith, and Carmen Galán-Acedo.

Fahrig's contributions have been recognized with the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2016, awarded by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity

    Lenore Fahrig

  • Connectivity is a vital element of landscape structure

    Philip D. Taylor;Lenore Fahrig;Kringen Henein;Gray Merriam

  • Road Ecology: Science and Solutions

    Richard T T Forman;Daniel Sperling;John A Bissonette;Anthony P Clevenger

  • Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses

    Teja Tscharntke;Jason M. Tylianakis;Tatyana A. Rand;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham

  • Functional landscape heterogeneity and animal biodiversity in agricultural landscapes

    Lenore Fahrig;Jacques Baudry;Lluís Brotons;Françoise G. Burel

  • Effects of Roads on Animal Abundance: an Empirical Review and Synthesis

    Lenore Fahrig;Trina Rytwinski

  • On the usage and measurement of landscape connectivity

    Lutz Tischendorf;Lenore Fahrig

  • Relative Effects of Habitat Loss and Fragmentation on Population Extinction

    Lenore Fahrig

  • Conservation of fragmented populations

    Lenore Fahrig;Gray Merriam

  • Rethinking patch size and isolation effects: the habitat amount hypothesis

    Lenore Fahrig

  • How much habitat is enough

    Lenore Fahrig

  • HABITAT LOSS AND POPULATION DECLINE: A META‐ANALYSIS OF THE PATCH SIZE EFFECT

    Darren J. Bender;Thomas A. Contreras;Lenore Fahrig

  • Ecological Responses to Habitat Fragmentation Per Se

    Lenore Fahrig

  • Habitat Patch Connectivity and Population Survival

    Lenore Fahrig;Gray Merriam

  • Effect of road traffic on amphibian density

    Lenore Fahrig;John H. Pedlar;Shealagh E. Pope;Philip D. Taylor

  • EFFECT OF HABITAT FRAGMENTATION ON THE EXTINCTION THRESHOLD: A SYNTHESIS*

    Lenore Fahrig

  • A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation

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

  • Non‐optimal animal movement in human‐altered landscapes

    Lenore Fahrig

  • Mosaic landscapes and ecological processes

    Lennart Hansson;Lenore Fahrig;Gray Merriam

  • Are ecologists conducting research at the optimal scale

    Heather Bird Jackson;Lenore Fahrig

  • IDEA AND PERSPECTIVE Functional landscape heterogeneity and animal biodiversity in agricultural landscapes

    Lenore Fahrig;Jacques Baudry;Thomas O. Crist;Robert J. Fuller

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix Eigenbrod
Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez
Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Jean-Louis Martin
Jean-Louis Martin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yann Clough
Yann Clough Lund University
Gavin M. Siriwardena
Gavin M. Siriwardena British Trust for Ornithology
Jeff Bowman
Jeff Bowman Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Péter Batáry
Péter Batáry Centre for Ecological Research
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Adam T. Ford
Adam T. Ford University of British Columbia
Charles M. Francis
Charles M. Francis Government of Canada

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