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Sally N. Aitken

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
59
Citations
15904
World Ranking
2380
National Ranking
158

Sally N. Aitken 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 Sally N. Aitken sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 129 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sally N. Aitken 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 Sally N. Aitken sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Sally N. Aitken is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, contributing extensively to plant science, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, ecology, and global and planetary change.

Their work covers a variety of topics including species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, bioenergy crop production and management, forest insect ecology and management, fire effects on ecosystems, and botany and plant ecology studies.

Sally N. Aitken's frequent publication venues include Biological Conservation, SSRN Electronic Journal, Forests, Annual Review of Plant Biology, and Ecological Monographs.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Assisted Migration Field Tests in Canada and Mexico: Lessons, Limitations, and Challenges (2020, Forests)
  • The application of assisted migration as a climate change adaptation tactic: An evidence map and synthesis (2023, Biological Conservation)
  • Effective population size remains a suitable, pragmatic indicator of genetic diversity for all species, including forest trees (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Wildcards in climate change biology (2021, Ecological Monographs)

Frequent co-authors include Richard C. Hamelin, Sean Hoban, Michael W. Bruford, Margarida Lopes-Fernandes, and Myriam Heuertz.

Sally N. Aitken was awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017 within the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Adaptation, migration or extirpation: climate change outcomes for tree populations

    Sally N. Aitken;Sam Yeaman;Jason A. Holliday;Tongli Wang

  • Assisted Gene Flow to Facilitate Local Adaptation to Climate Change

    Sally N. Aitken;Michael C. Whitlock

  • Potential for evolutionary responses to climate change – evidence from tree populations

    Florian J. Alberto;Florian J. Alberto;Florian J. Alberto;Sally N. Aitken;Ricardo Alía;Santiago C. González‐Martínez

  • Evolutionary and plastic responses to climate change in terrestrial plant populations

    Steven J. Franks;Jennifer J. Weber;Sally N. Aitken

  • From genotype to phenotype: unraveling the complexities of cold adaptation in forest trees

    Glenn T. Howe;Sally N. Aitken;David B. Neale;Kathleen D. Jermstad

  • Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved

    Sean Hoban;Michael Bruford;Josephine D'Urban Jackson;Margarida Lopes-Fernandes

  • Time to get moving: assisted gene flow of forest trees.

    Sally N. Aitken;Jordan B. Bemmels

  • Development of scale‐free climate data for Western Canada for use in resource management

    T. Wang;A. Hamann;D. L. Spittlehouse;S. N. Aitken

  • Integrating environmental and genetic effects to predict responses of tree populations to climate.

    Tongli Wang;Gregory A. O'Neill;Sally N. Aitken

  • Convergent local adaptation to climate in distantly related conifers

    Sam Yeaman;Sam Yeaman;Kathryn A. Hodgins;Katie E. Lotterhos;Haktan Suren

  • Putting the landscape into the genomics of trees: approaches for understanding local adaptation and population responses to changing climate

    V. L. Sork;S. N. Aitken;R. J. Dyer;A. J. Eckert

  • Use of response functions in selecting lodgepole pine populations for future climates

    T. Wang;A. Hamann;A. Yanchuk;G. A. O'neill

  • Guidelines for planning genomic assessment and monitoring of locally adaptive variation to inform species conservation.

    Sarah P. Flanagan;Brenna R. Forester;Emily K. Latch;Sally N. Aitken

  • Shoot and root vulnerability to xylem cavitation in four populations of Douglas-fir seedlings.

    K. L. Kavanagh;B. J. Bond;S. N. Aitken;B. L. Gartner

  • Projecting future distributions of ecosystem climate niches: Uncertainties and management applications

    Tongli Wang;Elizabeth M. Campbell;Gregory A. O’Neill;Sally N. Aitken

  • Widespread, ecologically relevant genetic markers developed from association mapping of climate-related traits in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis).

    Jason A. Holliday;Jason A. Holliday;Kermit Ritland;Sally N. Aitken

  • Conservation and the Genomics of Populations

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  • A closer look at novel climates: new methods and insights at continental to landscape scales

    Colin R. Mahony;Alex J. Cannon;Tongli Wang;Sally N. Aitken

  • Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) assisted migration potential: testing establishment north of the species range

    Sierra C. McLane;Sally N. Aitken

  • Adaptive gradients and isolation-by-distance with postglacial migration in Picea sitchensis

    M Mimura;S N Aitken

  • Local adaptation at the range peripheries of Sitka spruce.

    M. Mimura;S. N. Aitken

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Hamann
Andreas Hamann University of Alberta
Loren H. Rieseberg
Loren H. Rieseberg University of British Columbia
David B. Neale
David B. Neale University of California, Davis
Kermit Ritland
Kermit Ritland University of British Columbia
Myriam Heuertz
Myriam Heuertz University of Bordeaux
Paul A. Hohenlohe
Paul A. Hohenlohe University of Idaho
Sean Hoban
Sean Hoban Morton Arboretum
Isabelle Chuine
Isabelle Chuine Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christian Lexer
Christian Lexer University of Vienna
Michael C. Whitlock
Michael C. Whitlock University of British Columbia

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Christophe Plomion

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