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Roger L. Kitching

Roger L. Kitching

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
58
Citations
12830
World Ranking
2557
National Ranking
195

Overview

Roger L. Kitching is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia. Their research spans various aspects of environmental science, biochemistry, genetics, and agricultural and biological sciences. The scientist has contributed notably to subfields such as genetics, ecological modeling, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change.

Their work covers diverse ecological and biological topics including species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, spider taxonomy and behavior studies, and orthoptera research and taxonomy.

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sarah C. Maunsell
  • Nigel E. Stork
  • Tom M. Fayle
  • Kalsum M. Yusah
  • Louise A. Ashton

Roger L. Kitching has published research in a variety of scientific venues. Notable among these are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Nature
  • Biotropica
  • The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine

Recent notable papers include:

  • The Role of Evolution in Shaping Ecological Networks, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Different environmental factors drive tree species diversity along elevation gradients in three climatic zones in Yunnan, southern China, 2021, Plant Diversity
  • Butterflies on the brink: identifying the Australian butterflies (Lepidoptera) most at risk of extinction, 2021, Austral Entomology
  • Ecological patterns and processes in the vertical dimension of terrestrial ecosystems, 2023, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate, 2024, Nature

Best Publications

  • Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity

    Ross M. Thompson;Ulrich Brose;Jennifer A. Dunne;Robert O. Hall

  • Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding

    Yinqiu Ji;Louise Ashton;Scott M. Pedley;David P. Edwards;David P. Edwards

  • Arthropod diversity in a tropical forest

    Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Lukas Cizek;Lukas Cizek;Philippe Cuenoud;Raphael K. Didham

  • Food Webs and Container Habitats: The Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata

    R. L. Kitching

  • Biodiversity meets the atmosphere: A global view of forest canopies

    C. M. P. Ozanne;D. Anhuf;Sarah Boulter;M. Keller

  • Moth assemblages as indicators of environmental quality in remnants of upland Australian rain forest

    Roger Kitching;Roger Kitching;Albert George Orr;Albert George Orr;Lukman Thalib;Heather Judith Mitchell;Heather Judith Mitchell

  • Can We Defy Nature's End?

    Stuart L. Pimm;Márcio Ayres;Andrew Balmford;George Branch

  • Forests and Their Canopies: Achievements and Horizons in Canopy Science.

    Akihiro Nakamura;Roger L. Kitching;Min Cao;Thomas J. Creedy;Thomas J. Creedy

  • An ecological study of water-filled tree-holes and their position in the woodland ecosystem.

    R. L. Kitching

  • FOOD WEBS IN PHYTOTELMATA: “Bottom-Up” and “Top-Down” Explanations for Community Structure

    Roger Kitching

  • Vertical stratification of arthropod assemblages.

    Y. Basset;P. M. Hammond;H. Barrios;J. D. Holloway

  • Productivity, disturbance and food web structure at a local spatial scale in experimental container habitats

    B. Jenkins;R. L. Kitching;S. L. Pimm

  • The determinants of food chain lengths

    S. L. Pimm;R. L. Kitching

  • Arthropod distribution in a tropical rainforest: Tackling a four dimensional puzzle

    Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Lukas Cizek;Lukas Cizek;Philippe Cuenoud;Raphael K. Didham

  • The costs and benefits of cooperation between the Australian lycaenid butterfly, Jalmenus evagoras , and its attendant ants

    N. E. Pierce;N. E. Pierce;R. L. Kitching;R. C. Buckley;M. F. J. Taylor

  • Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest

    Robert M. Ewers;Michael J. W. Boyle;Rosalind A. Gleave;Nichola S. Plowman

  • The use of ants and other soil and litter arthropods as bio-indicators of the impacts of rainforest clearing and subsequent land use

    Akihiro Nakamura;Carla P. Catterall;Alan P. N. House;Roger L. Kitching

  • Species number, species abundance and body length of arboreal arthropods associated with an Australian rainforest tree

    Yves Basset;R. L. Kitching

  • Foodwebs and Container Habitats

    Roger Kitching

  • Assessing biodiversity 'sampling packages': how similar are arthropod assemblages in different tropical rainforests?

    Roger Kitching;Daiqin Li;Nigel E. Stork

  • Food Webs and Container Habitats: The Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata

    Rudolf Schmid;R. L. Kitching

Frequent Co-Authors

Vojtech Novotny
Vojtech Novotny Czech Academy of Sciences
Yves Basset
Yves Basset Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Scott E. Miller
Scott E. Miller National Museum of Natural History
David W. Roubik
David W. Roubik Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Lukas Cizek
Lukas Cizek Sewanee: The University of the South
Yves Roisin
Yves Roisin Université Libre de Bruxelles
Bruno Corbara
Bruno Corbara University of Clermont Auvergne
Jérôme Orivel
Jérôme Orivel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thomas M. Lewinsohn
Thomas M. Lewinsohn State University of Campinas
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London

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