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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
92
Citations
40337
World Ranking
413
National Ranking
38

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Ecology
  • Biodiversity
  • Habitat

His primary scientific interests are in Biodiversity, Ecology, Environmental protection, Environmental resource management and Urbanization. The Biodiversity study combines topics in areas such as Urban density and Agroforestry. His Ecology study incorporates themes from Natural resource economics and Extinction.

His Environmental protection research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Protected area and Occurrence data. His Environmental resource management research integrates issues from Environmental monitoring, Environmental economics and Ecosystem services. His work carried out in the field of Urbanization brings together such families of science as Space, Marketing, Per capita and Urban planning.

His most cited work include:

  • Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis (850 citations)
  • Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity (805 citations)
  • Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers (634 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Richard A. Fuller focuses on Ecology, Biodiversity, Habitat, Threatened species and Environmental resource management. Many of his studies involve connections with topics such as Extinction and Ecology. Richard A. Fuller has researched Biodiversity in several fields, including Ecosystem services, Environmental planning, Environmental protection, Climate change and Protected area.

His work carried out in the field of Habitat brings together such families of science as Intertidal zone, Vegetation and Predation. The study incorporates disciplines such as Range, IUCN Red List, Endangered species and Introduced species in addition to Threatened species. Richard A. Fuller works mostly in the field of Environmental resource management, limiting it down to topics relating to Ecosystem and, in certain cases, Agroforestry.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Ecology (48.20%)
  • Biodiversity (38.13%)
  • Habitat (22.66%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2019-2021)?

  • Biodiversity (38.13%)
  • Threatened species (21.58%)
  • Ecology (48.20%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Richard A. Fuller spends much of his time researching Biodiversity, Threatened species, Ecology, Habitat and Habitat destruction. His Biodiversity study combines topics in areas such as Protected area, Environmental resource management and Ecosystem. His Threatened species study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Environmental protection, Ecology, IUCN Red List, Species richness and Statistics.

His Ecology study frequently links to adjacent areas such as Extinction. His study focuses on the intersection of Habitat and fields such as Abundance with connections in the field of Population growth, Tropical ecology, Philopatry and Predation. His Habitat destruction research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Eastern curlew, Fishery, Wetland and Ecosystem services.

Between 2019 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Global conservation of species' niches. (22 citations)
  • Estimating the benefit of well-managed protected areas for threatened species conservation (13 citations)
  • Life satisfaction linked to the diversity of nature experiences and nature views from the window (12 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Ecology
  • Biodiversity
  • Habitat

His primary areas of investigation include Threatened species, Biodiversity, Ecology, Range and Social psychology. The Threatened species study combines topics in areas such as Statistics, Species richness and Occupancy. His Species richness research includes themes of Endangered species, Generalist and specialist species and Environmental resource management.

His Biodiversity research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Protected area and Ecological niche. His study involves Butterfly and Flyway, a branch of Ecology. Richard A. Fuller has included themes like Urbanization and Extinction in his Social psychology study.

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

    Sean L. Maxwell;Richard A. Fuller;Thomas M. Brooks;James E. M. Watson

  • Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity

    Richard A Fuller;Katherine N Irvine;Patrick Devine-Wright;Philip H Warren

  • Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis

    Stuart Bearhop;Stuart Bearhop;Colin E. Adams;Susan Waldron;Richard A. Fuller

  • What are the Benefits of Interacting with Nature

    Lucy E. Keniger;Kevin J. Gaston;Katherine N. Irvine;Richard A. Fuller

  • The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats

    Nicholas J. Murray;Nicholas J. Murray;Stuart R. Phinn;Michael F DeWitt;Renata Ferrari

  • One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure.

    Kendall R. Jones;Oscar Venter;Richard A. Fuller;James R. Allan

  • Who benefits from access to green space? A case study from Sheffield, UK

    Olga Barbosa;Jamie A. Tratalos;Paul R. Armsworth;Richard G. Davies

  • Urban form, biodiversity potential and ecosystem services

    Jamie Tratalos;Richard A. Fuller;Philip H. Warren;Richard G. Davies

  • Stochastic simulations reveal few green wave surfing populations among spring migrating herbivorous waterfowl.

    Xin Wang;Lei Cao;Anthony D. Fox;Richard Fuller

  • Distorted views of biodiversity: spatial and temporal bias in species occurrence data.

    Elizabeth H. Boakes;Philip J. K. McGowan;Richard A. Fuller;Richard A. Fuller;Ding Chang-qing

  • Cities are hotspots for threatened species

    Christopher D. Ives;Pia E. Lentini;Caragh G. Threlfall;Karen Ikin

  • The scaling of green space coverage in European cities

    Richard A. Fuller;Kevin J. Gaston

  • Commonness, population depletion and conservation biology

    Kevin J. Gaston;Richard A. Fuller

  • The sizes of species' geographic ranges

    Kevin J. Gaston;Richard A. Fuller

  • Targeting global protected area expansion for imperiled biodiversity.

    Oscar Venter;Richard A. Fuller;Daniel B. Segan;Josie Carwardine

  • Achieving Conservation Science that Bridges the Knowledge–Action Boundary

    Carly N. Cook;Carly N. Cook;Michael B. Mascia;Mark W. Schwartz;Hugh P. Possingham

  • Conserving mobile species

    Claire A Runge;Tara G Martin;Tara G Martin;Hugh P Possingham;Hugh P Possingham;Stephen G Willis;Stephen G Willis;Stephen G Willis

  • Tracking the rapid loss of tidal wetlands in the Yellow Sea

    Nicholas J Murray;Nicholas J Murray;Robert S Clemens;Stuart R Phinn;Hugh P Possingham;Hugh P Possingham

  • Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites

    Colin E. Studds;Bruce E. Kendall;Nicholas J. Murray;Nicholas J. Murray;Howard B. Wilson

  • A national scale inventory of resource provision for biodiversity within domestic gardens

    Zoe G. Davies;Richard A. Fuller;Alison Loram;Katherine N. Irvine

  • Shortfalls and Solutions for Meeting National and Global Conservation Area Targets

    Stuart H.M. Butchart;Martin Clarke;Robert J. Smith;Rachel E. Sykes

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
James E. M. Watson
James E. M. Watson University of Queensland
Kevin J. Gaston
Kevin J. Gaston University of Exeter
Brenda B. Lin
Brenda B. Lin Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Oscar Venter
Oscar Venter University of Northern British Columbia
Ayesha I. T. Tulloch
Ayesha I. T. Tulloch University of Sydney
Tara G. Martin
Tara G. Martin University of British Columbia
Eve McDonald-Madden
Eve McDonald-Madden University of Queensland
Josie Carwardine
Josie Carwardine Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Philip H. Warren
Philip H. Warren University of Sheffield

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