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41
Citations
7100
World Ranking
5808
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1979

S. Kathleen Lyons 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 S. Kathleen Lyons sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 99 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

S. Kathleen Lyons 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 S. Kathleen Lyons sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

S. Kathleen Lyons is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications in related subfields including Ecology, Paleontology, Anthropology, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Recent publications illustrate the scope of their research efforts. Key papers include:

  • Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction leads to missing pieces of ecological space in a North American mammal community, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The influence of juvenile dinosaurs on community structure and diversity, 2021, Science
  • Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Mammal species occupy different climates following the expansion of human impacts, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands, 2023, Science

Frequently appearing publication venues for S. Kathleen Lyons include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including Felisa A. Smith, Catalina P. Tomé, Amelia Villaseñor, William Gearty, and Matthew Craffey.

Best Publications

  • Body mass of late Quaternary mammals

    Felisa A. Smith;S. Kathleen Lyons;S. K. Morgan Ernest;Kate E. Jones

  • Ecotypic variation in the context of global climate change: revisiting the rules.

    Virginie Millien;S. Kathleen Lyons;Link Olson;Felisa A. Smith

  • Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary

    Felisa A. Smith;Rosemary E. Elliott Smith;S. Kathleen Lyons;Jonathan L. Payne

  • Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology

    Nicholas J. Gotelli;Marti J. Anderson;Hector T. Arita;Anne Chao

  • Of mice, mastodons and men: human-mediated extinctions on four continents

    S. Kathleen Lyons;Felisa A. Smith;James H. Brown

  • The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

    Felisa A. Smith;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Daniel P. Costa

  • Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity

    Jonathan L. Payne;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Seth Finnegan

  • Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use

    S. K. Morgan Ernest;Brian J. Enquist;James H. Brown;Eric L. Charnov

  • Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time.

    Felisa A. Smith;Felisa A. Smith;James H. Brown;John P. Haskell;S. Kathleen Lyons

  • Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

    S. Kathleen Lyons;Kathryn L. Amatangelo;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Antoine Bercovici

  • An analytical model of latitudinal gradients of species richness with an empirical test for marsupials and bats in the New World

    Michael R. Willig;S. Kathleen Lyons

  • A QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE RANGE SHIFTS OF PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS

    S. Kathleen Lyons

  • How big should a mammal be? A macroecological look at mammalian body size over space and time

    Felisa A. Smith;S. Kathleen Lyons

  • SPECIES RICHNESS, LATITUDE, AND SCALE-SENSITIVITY

    S. Kathleen Lyons;Michael R. Willig

  • The maximum rate of mammal evolution

    Alistair R. Evans;David Jones;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown

  • Latitudinal patterns of range size : methodological concerns and empirical evaluations for New World bats and marsupials

    S. Kathleen Lyons;Michael R. Willig

  • A HEMISPHERIC ASSESSMENT OF SCALE DEPENDENCE IN LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS OF SPECIES RICHNESS

    S. Kathleen Lyons;Michael R. Willig

  • Integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understanding species richness

    Ethan P. White;S. K. Morgan Ernest;Peter B. Adler;Allen H. Hurlbert

  • The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective

    Jonathan L. Payne;Craig R. McClain;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown

  • Methane emissions from extinct megafauna

    Felisa A. Smith;Scott M. Elliott;S. Kathleen Lyons

  • Supporting Online Material for The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

    Felisa A. Smith;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Daniel P. Costa

Frequent Co-Authors

Felisa A. Smith
Felisa A. Smith University of New Mexico
James H. Brown
James H. Brown University of New Mexico
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Anna K. Behrensmeyer National Museum of Natural History
Gary R. Graves
Gary R. Graves National Museum of Natural History
S. K. Morgan Ernest
S. K. Morgan Ernest University of Florida
Conrad C. Labandeira
Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution
Peter J. Wagner
Peter J. Wagner University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Nicholas J. Gotelli
Nicholas J. Gotelli University of Vermont
Michael R. Willig
Michael R. Willig University of Connecticut
Jussi T. Eronen
Jussi T. Eronen University of Helsinki

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