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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
11156
World Ranking
4973
National Ranking
1706

Matthew C. Fitzpatrick publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 88 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Matthew C. Fitzpatrick 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 Matthew C. Fitzpatrick sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Matthew C. Fitzpatrick is affiliated with the University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable focus on subfields such as Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work addresses several main topics including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Forest ecology and management

Fitzpatrick's recent papers reflect research contributions across climate adaptation, biodiversity, and genomic methods. Select publications include:

  • "Genomic Prediction of (Mal)Adaptation Across Current and Future Climatic Landscapes" (2020) published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • "Maladaptation, migration and extirpation fuel climate change risk in a forest tree species" (2021) published in Nature Climate Change
  • "A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment" (2022) published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Experimental support for genomic prediction of climate maladaptation using the machine learning approach Gradient Forests" (2021) published in Molecular Ecology Resources
  • "Seeing the forest for the trees: Assessing genetic offset predictions from gradient forest" (2022) published in Evolutionary Applications

Frequent co-authors have included:

  • Stephen R. Keller
  • Thibaut Capblancq
  • Susanne Lachmuth
  • Michelle Zavala-Paez
  • Jason A. Holliday

Publishing venues where Fitzpatrick has appeared regularly include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Evolutionary Applications
  • Nature Climate Change

Best Publications

  • Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data

    Olivier Broennimann;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Peter B. Pearman;Blaise Petitpierre

  • Climate change and the past, present, and future of biotic interactions

    Jessica L. Blois;Phoebe L. Zarnetske;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Seth Finnegan

  • Space can substitute for time in predicting climate-change effects on biodiversity

    Jessica L. Blois;John W. Williams;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Stephen T. Jackson

  • Ecological genomics meets community-level modelling of biodiversity: mapping the genomic landscape of current and future environmental adaptation.

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Stephen R. Keller

  • The projection of species distribution models and the problem of non-analog climate

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;William W. Hargrove

  • Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography

    Daniel G. Gavin;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Paul F. Gugger;Katy D. Heath

  • The biogeography of prediction error: why does the introduced range of the fire ant over-predict its native range?

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Jake F. Weltzin;Nathan J. Sanders;Robert R. Dunn

  • Temperature, but not productivity or geometry, predicts elevational diversity gradients in ants across spatial grains

    Nathan J. Sanders;Jean-Philippe Lessard;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Robert R. Dunn

  • Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

    Robert R. Dunn;Donat Agosti;Alan N. Andersen;Xavier Arnan;Xavier Arnan

  • Climate change, plant migration, and range collapse in a global biodiversity hotspot: the Banksia (Proteaceae) of Western Australia

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Aaron D. Gove;Nathan J. Sanders;Robert R. Dunn

  • Genomic Prediction of (Mal)Adaptation Across Current and Future Climatic Landscapes

    Thibaut Capblancq;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Rachael A. Bay;Moises Exposito-Alonso;Moises Exposito-Alonso

  • Observer bias and the detection of low-density populations.

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Evan L. Preisser;Aaron M. Ellison;Joseph S. Elkinton

  • Environmental and historical imprints on beta diversity: insights from variation in rates of species turnover along gradients

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Nathan J. Sanders;Signe Normand;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • MaxEnt versus MaxLike: empirical comparisons with ant species distributions

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Aaron M. Ellison

  • A working guide to harnessing generalized dissimilarity modelling for biodiversity analysis and conservation assessment

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  • GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Catherine L. Parr;Catherine L. Parr;Robert R. Dunn;Nathan J. Sanders;Michael D. Weiser

  • Modeling Species and Community Responses to Past, Present, and Future Episodes of Climatic and Ecological Change

    Kaitlin C. Maguire;Diego Nieto-Lugilde;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;John W. Williams

  • Maladaptation, migration and extirpation fuel climate change risk in a forest tree species

    Andrew V. Gougherty;Andrew V. Gougherty;Stephen R. Keller;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick

  • Experimental support for genomic prediction of climate maladaptation using the machine learning approach Gradient Forests.

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Vikram E. Chhatre;Vikram E. Chhatre;Raju Y. Soolanayakanahally;Stephen R. Keller

  • Soil properties and tree species drive ß-diversity of soil bacterial communities

    William J. Landesman;William J. Landesman;David M. Nelson;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick

  • Global diversity in light of climate change: the case of ants

    Clinton Neil Jenkins;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders;Alan N. Andersen;Xavier Arnan

  • Forecasting the future of biodiversity: a test of single- and multi-species models for ants in North America

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders;Simon Ferrier;John T. Longino

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert R. Dunn
Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Aaron M. Ellison
Aaron M. Ellison Harvard University
John W. Williams
John W. Williams University of Wisconsin–Madison
Catherine L. Parr
Catherine L. Parr University of Liverpool
Evan L. Preisser
Evan L. Preisser University of Rhode Island
Jonathan Majer
Jonathan Majer Curtin University
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Stacy M. Philpott
Stacy M. Philpott University of California, Santa Cruz
Alan N. Andersen
Alan N. Andersen Charles Darwin University

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