2026 Stephen T. Buckland: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	60	531	449	41	34	164	31204
Ecology and Evolution	69	1411	1347	184	177	209	25666

Research.com Recognitions

2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Stephen T. Buckland is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications in Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Statistics and Probability.

The main topics covered in their work involve Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Marine animal studies overview, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Marine and fisheries research, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with them include David L. Borchers, Tim Gerrodette, Michael Scott, Richard J. Camp, and David L. Miller.

Their publications appear regularly in several venues, with notable appearances in

The "journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue
Ecology and Evolution
Science
Ecography
Oryx

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Stephen T. Buckland include

Estimated trends in abundance of eastern Pacific gray whales from shore counts (1967/68 to 1995/96), 2023, The "journal of cetacean research and management. Special issue
Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene, 2020, Science
Using density surface models to estimate spatio-temporal changes in population densities and trend, 2020, Ecography
Incorporating Animal Movement Into Distance Sampling, 2020, Journal of the American Statistical Association
Using distance sampling with camera traps to estimate the density of group-living and solitary mountain ungulates, 2021, Oryx

Stephen T. Buckland was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2007.

Best Publications

Introduction to Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations

S.T. Buckland;D.R. Anderson;K.P. Burnham;J.L. Laake

5766
Citations
Distance Sampling: Estimating abundance of biological populations

S. T. Buckland

3315
Citations
Distance software: design and analysis of distance sampling surveys for estimating population size.

Len Thomas;Stephen T. Buckland;Eric A. Rexstad;Jeff L. Laake

2907
Citations
An Introduction to the Bootstrap.

S. T. Buckland;B. Efron;R. J. Tibshirani

2852
Citations
Distance Sampling-Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations.

P. Sprent;S. T. Buckland;D. R. Anderson;K. P. Burnham

2389
Citations
Model selection: An integral part of inference

S. T. Buckland;K. P. Burnham;N. H. Augustin

2059
Citations
Advanced distance sampling

S. T. Buckland;D. R. Anderson;Kenneth P. Burnham;J. L. Laake

1325
Citations
Long-term datasets in biodiversity research and monitoring: assessing change in ecological communities through time

Anne E. Magurran;Stephen R. Baillie;Stephen T. Buckland;Jan McP. Dick

1043
Citations
An autologistic model for the spatial distribution of wildlife

N. H. Augustin;M. A. Mugglestone;S. T. Buckland

823
Citations
Trends in the abundance of farmland birds: a quantitative comparison of smoothed Common Birds Census indices

Gavin M. Siriwardena;Gavin M. Siriwardena;Stephen R. Baillie;Stephen T. Buckland;Rachel M. Fewster

626
Citations
Distance Sampling: Methods and Applications

S. T. Buckland;E. A. Rexstad;T. A. Marques;C. S. Oedekoven

600
Citations
Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

Luke T. Kelly;Katherine M. Giljohann;Andrea Duane;Nuria Aquilue

582
Citations
Monitoring change in biodiversity through composite indices

S.T Buckland;A.E Magurran;R.E Green;R.M Fewster

535
Citations
Estimating Animal Abundance: Closed Populations

D. L. Borchers;S. T. Buckland;W. Zucchini

478
Citations
ANALYSIS OF POPULATION TRENDS FOR FARMLAND BIRDS USING GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODELS

Rachel M. Fewster;Stephen T. Buckland;Gavin M. Siriwardena;Gavin M. Siriwardena;Stephen R. Baillie

476
Citations
Estimating Animal Abundance

D. L. Borchers;S. T. Buckland;W. Zucchini

419
Citations
State-space models for the dynamics of wild animal populations

S.T. Buckland;K.B. Newman;L. Thomas;N.B. Koesters

404
Citations
Estimating deer abundance from line transect surveys of dung: sika deer in southern Scotland

Fernanda F.C. Marques;Stephen T. Buckland;David Goffin;Camilla E. Dixon

393
Citations
Spatial models for line transect sampling

Sharon L Hedley;Stephen T Buckland

381
Citations
IMPROVING ESTIMATES OF BIRD DENSITY USING MULTIPLE- COVARIATE DISTANCE SAMPLING

Tiago A. Marques;Tiago A. Marques;Len Thomas;Steven G. Fancy;Stephen T. Buckland

371
Citations
Bootstrap Methods and Their Application

S. T. Buckland;A. C. Davison;D. V. Hinkley

342
Citations
Estimating bird abundance : making methods work

Stephen T. Buckland;Stuart J. Marsden;Rhys E. Green

335
Citations
Incorporating covariates into standard line transect analyses.

Fernanda F. C. Marques;Stephen T. Buckland

316
Citations
Quantifying Precision of Mark-Recapture Estimates Using the Bootstrap and Related Methods

Stephen T. Buckland;Paul H. Garthwaite

257
Citations
Computer Intensive Statistical Methods: Validation Model Selection and Bootstrap.

S. T. Buckland;J. S. U. Hjorth

254
Citations
Wildlife Monographs: Estimation of Density from Line Transect Sampling of Biological Populations

S. T. Buckland;Kenneth P. Burnham;David R. Anderson;Jeffrey L. Lake

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Len Thomas University of St Andrews

David A. Elston James Hutton Institute

Byron J. T. Morgan University of Kent

Olivier Gimenez Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Stephen R. Baillie British Trust for Ornithology

Alison Johnston Cornell University

Paul H. Garthwaite The Open University

Anne E. Magurran University of St Andrews

Andrew J. Plumptre BirdLife international, UK

Stuart E. Newson British Trust for Ornithology

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