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D-Index
69
Citations
32683
World Ranking
1401
National Ranking
183

Overview

Robert M. Ewers is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls under the field of Environmental Science with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Developmental Biology, and Signal Processing.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, notably:

  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Robert M. Ewers has contributed to multiple papers, several of which have garnered significant citations. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Characterizing soundscapes across diverse ecosystems using a universal acoustic feature set" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Countering the effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation through habitat restoration" (2020, One Earth)
  • "The global abundance of tree palms" (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • "Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data" (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • "Monitoring Forest Phenology in a Changing World" (2021, Forests)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Terhi Riutta
  • Sarab S. Sethi
  • Arthur Y. C. Chung
  • Yadvinder Malhi
  • C. David L. Orme

Robert M. Ewers has published extensively in various venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Spiral (Imperial College London)
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Nature

Best Publications

  • Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems

    Nick M. Haddad;Lars A. Brudvig;Jean Clobert;Kendi F. Davies

  • Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

    Tim Newbold;Lawrence N Hudson;Samantha L L Hill;Sara Contu

  • Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation

    Robert M. Ewers;Raphael K. Didham

  • 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

  • Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world.

    Toby A. Gardner;Jos Barlow;Robin Chazdon;Robert M. Ewers

  • Are invasive species the drivers of ecological change

    Raphael K. Didham;Jason M. Tylianakis;Melissa A. Hutchison;Robert M. Ewers

  • Interactive effects of habitat modification and species invasion on native species decline.

    Raphael K. Didham;Jason M. Tylianakis;Neil J. Gemmell;Tatyana A. Rand

  • Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity

    Robert J. Fletcher;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Cristina Banks-Leite;Jos Barlow

  • Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability.

    Sandra Díaz;Andy Purvis;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Georgina M. Mace;Georgina M. Mace

  • Habitat fragmentation, variable edge effects, and the landscape-divergence hypothesis.

    William F. Laurance;Henrique E. M. Nascimento;Susan G. Laurance;Ana Andrade

  • Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates

    M. Pfeifer;M. Pfeifer;V. Lefebvre;C.A. Peres;C. Banks-Leite

  • The relationship between leaf area index and microclimate in tropical forest and oil palm plantation: forest disturbance drives changes in microclimate.

    Stephen R. Hardwick;Ralf Toumi;Marion Pfeifer;Edgar C. Turner

  • Rethinking the conceptual foundations of habitat fragmentation research

    Raphael K. Didham;Valerie Kapos;Robert M. Ewers

  • Do increases in agricultural yield spare land for nature

    Robert Mark Ewers;Robert Mark Ewers;Jorn P. W. Scharlemann;Andrew Balmford;Rhys E. Green;Rhys E. Green

  • Boom-and-Bust Development Patterns Across the Amazon Deforestation Frontier

    Ana S. L. Rodrigues;Ana S. L. Rodrigues;Ana S. L. Rodrigues;Robert M. Ewers;Luke Parry;Carlos Souza

  • A large-scale forest fragmentation experiment: the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems Project

    Robert M. Ewers;Raphael K. Didham;Lenore Fahrig;Gonçalo Ferraz;Gonçalo Ferraz

  • Fragmentation Impairs the Microclimate Buffering Effect of Tropical Forests

    Robert M. Ewers;Cristina Banks-Leite

  • The effect of fragment shape and Species' Sensitivity to Habitat Edges on Animal Population Size

    Robert M. Ewers;Raphael K. Didham

  • Synergistic interactions between edge and area effects in a heavily fragmented landscape.

    Robert M. Ewers;Stephen Thorpe;Raphael K. Didham

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • Past and future trajectories of forest loss in New Zealand

    Robert M. Ewers;Robert M. Ewers;Robert M. Ewers;Andrew D. Kliskey;Susan Walker;Daniel Rutledge

Frequent Co-Authors

Raphael K. Didham
Raphael K. Didham University of Western Australia
Edgar C. Turner
Edgar C. Turner University of Cambridge
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Jos Barlow
Jos Barlow Lancaster University
Marion Pfeifer
Marion Pfeifer Newcastle University
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Henry Bernard
Henry Bernard Universiti of Malaysia Sabah
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Terhi Riutta
Terhi Riutta UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Carlos A. Peres
Carlos A. Peres University of East Anglia

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