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82
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49369
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723
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60

Simon Ferrier 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 Simon Ferrier sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 204 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simon Ferrier 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 Simon Ferrier sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Simon Ferrier is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, contributing extensively to understanding global and planetary change, ecological modeling, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, as well as management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their work covers several main topics, including land use and ecosystem services, species distribution and climate change, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, remote sensing in agriculture, and environmental conservation and management.

Simon Ferrier has published multiple papers across various scientific journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy," 2020, Nature
  • "Sustainable development must account for pandemic risk," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Developing multiscale and integrative nature-people scenarios using the Nature Futures Framework," 2020, People and Nature
  • "Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people," 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Mapping co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Karel Mokany
  • Chris Ware
  • Thomas D. Harwood
  • Rob Alkemade
  • Andrew J. Hoskins

The primary venues for Simon Ferrier's publications are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • BioScience
  • Conservation Biology
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data

    Jane Elith;Catherine H. Graham;Robert P. Anderson;Miroslav Dudík

  • Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

    Gretta T. Pecl;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Johann D. Bell;Johann D. Bell;Julia Blanchard

  • Sample selection bias and presence-only distribution models: implications for background and pseudo-absence data

    Steven J. Phillips;Miroslav Dudík;Jane Elith;Catherine H. Graham

  • Evaluating the predictive performance of habitat models developed using logistic regression

    Jennie Pearce;Simon Ferrier

  • Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions

    A. Guisan;R. Tingley;J. B. Baumgartner;I. Naujokaitis-Lewis

  • Essential biodiversity variables

    H M Pereira;S Ferrier;M Walters;G N Geller

  • New developments in museum-based informatics and applications in biodiversity analysis

    Catherine H. Graham;Catherine H. Graham;Simon Ferrier;Falk Huettman;Craig Moritz

  • Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment

    Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Lawrence N. Hudson;Andrew P. Arnell;Sara Contu

  • Using generalized dissimilarity modelling to analyse and predict patterns of beta diversity in regional biodiversity assessment

    Simon Ferrier;Glenn Manion;Jane Elith;Karen Richardson

  • Mapping spatial pattern in biodiversity for regional conservation planning: Where to from here?

    Simon Ferrier

  • Spatial modelling of biodiversity at the community level

    Simon Ferrier;Antoine Guisan

  • A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology.

    Caroline M. Tucker;Marc William Cadotte;Marc William Cadotte;Silvia B. Carvalho;T. Jonathan Davies;T. Jonathan Davies

  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

    David Leclère;Michael Obersteiner;Michael Obersteiner;Mike Barrett;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Stuart H.M. Butchart

  • Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide

    Claudia L. Gray;Samantha L. L. Hill;Tim Newbold;Lawrence N. Hudson

  • Space can substitute for time in predicting climate-change effects on biodiversity

    Jessica L. Blois;John W. Williams;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Stephen T. Jackson

  • Forecasting the Effects of Global Warming on Biodiversity

    Daniel B. Botkin;Henrik Saxe;Miguel B. Araújo;Richard Betts

  • Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity

    Michael T. Burrows;David S. Schoeman;Anthony J. Richardson;Anthony J. Richardson;Jorge García Molinos

  • Making better biogeographical predictions of species’ distributions

    Antoine Guisan;Anthony Lehmann;Simon Ferrier;Mike Austin

  • Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations

    Walter Jetz;Melodie A. McGeoch;Robert Guralnick;Simon Ferrier

  • Extended statistical approaches to modelling spatial pattern in biodiversity in northeast New South Wales. II. Community-level modelling.

    Simon Ferrier;Graham Watson;Jennie Pearce;Michael Drielsma

  • An evaluation of alternative algorithms for fitting species distribution models using logistic regression

    Jennie Pearce;Simon Ferrier

Frequent Co-Authors

Karel Mokany
Karel Mokany Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Henrique M. Pereira
Henrique M. Pereira Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Samantha L. L. Hill
Samantha L. L. Hill World Conservation Monitoring Centre
James E. M. Watson
James E. M. Watson University of Queensland
Moreno Di Marco
Moreno Di Marco Sapienza University of Rome
Rob Alkemade
Rob Alkemade Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Aafke M. Schipper
Aafke M. Schipper Radboud University
Tim Newbold
Tim Newbold University College London
Eren Turak
Eren Turak Office of Environment and Heritage

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