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D-Index
36
Citations
5245
World Ranking
7113
National Ranking
2397

Thomas M. Iliffe 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 Thomas M. Iliffe sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 220 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas M. Iliffe 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 Thomas M. Iliffe sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 36 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas M. Iliffe is affiliated with Texas A&M University at Galveston in the United States. Their research career encompasses significant contributions in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 22 and 11 publications respectively in these main areas.

Their specialized subfields of study include Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. These focus areas illustrate a broad engagement with ecological systems, geological processes, and biodiversity conservation.

The primary topics covered by Iliffe's research include Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Karst Systems and Hydrogeology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior.

Iliffe has published in several academic venues, with repeated contributions to UEF eRepo (University of Eastern Finland) and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). They have also published in Nature, Diversity, and the International Journal of Speleology.

Recent publications highlight the variety and scope of their research interests. These include:

  • A function-based typology for Earth's ecosystems, 2022, Nature
  • Bermuda's Walsingham Caves: A Global Hotspot for Anchialine Stygobionts, 2021, Diversity
  • Anchialine biodiversity in the Turks and Caicos Islands: New discoveries and current faunal composition, 2020, International Journal of Speleology
  • Expression pattern of CAPA/pyrokinin neuropeptide genes in Remipedia and silverfish: Rapid differentiation after gene duplication in early Hexapoda, followed by strong conservation of newly established features in insects, 2021, Peptides
  • Response and resilience of karst subterranean estuary communities to precipitation impacts, 2023, Ecology and Evolution

Frequent collaborators in their work include Brett C. Gonzalez, Elizabeth Borda, Dávid Brankovits, David A. Keith, and José R. Ferrer-Paris, indicating a network of partnerships within the ecology and marine biology research communities.

Best Publications

  • A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems

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  • Pancrustacean Phylogeny in the Light of New Phylogenomic Data: Support for Remipedia as the Possible Sister Group of Hexapoda

    Bjoern M von Reumont;Ronald A Jenner;Matthew A Wills;Emiliano Dell'ampio

  • A stable isotope study of organic cycling and the ecology of an anchialine cave ecosystem

    Pohlman Jw;Iliffe Tm;Cifuentes La

  • Marine Lava Cave Fauna: Composition, Biogeography, and Origins

    Thomas M. Iliffe;Horst Wilkens;Jakob Parzefall;Dennis Williams

  • Biogeography and the caves of Bermuda

    Thomas M. Iliffe;C. W. Hart;Raymond B. Manning

  • The Fauna Of Atlantic Marine Caves - Evidence Of Dispersal By Sea floor Spreading While Maintaining Ties To Deep Waters

    C W Hart;R B Manning;T M Iliffe

  • Pancrustacean Evolution Illuminated by Taxon-Rich Genomic-Scale Data Sets with an Expanded Remipede Sampling

    Jesus Lozano-Fernandez;Mattia Giacomelli;James F Fleming;Albert Chen;Albert Chen

  • Methane- and dissolved organic carbon-fueled microbial loop supports a tropical subterranean estuary ecosystem.

    David Brankovits;John W. Pohlman;John W. Pohlman;Helge Niemann;Mary Beth Leigh

  • Anchialine cave ecology

    T. M. Iliffe

  • 'Anchialine' redefined as a subterranean estuary in a crevicular or cavernous geological setting

    Renée E. Bishop;William F. Humphreys;William F. Humphreys;William F. Humphreys;Neven Cukrov;Vesna Žic

  • Revision of the Bahamian cave-fishes of the genus Lucifuga (Ophidiiformes, Bythitidae), with description of a new species from islands on the Little Bahama Bank.

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  • Mictocaris halope, a new unusual peracaridan crustacean from marine caves on Bermuda

    Thomas E. Bowman;Thomas M. Iliffe

  • Two new genera of Calanoida and a new order of Copepoda, Platycopioida, from marine caves on Bermuda

    Audun Fosshagen;Thomas M. Iliffe

  • Annual and lunar reproductive rhythms of the sea urchin, Diadema antillarum (Philippi) in Bermuda

    Thomas M. Iliffe;John S. Pearse

  • Microbial hotspots in anchialine blue holes: initial discoveries from the Bahamas

    Brett C. Gonzalez;Thomas M. Iliffe;Jennifer L. Macalady;Irene Schaperdoth

  • New hypogean cyclopoid copepods (Crustacea) from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

    Frank Fiers;Janet W. Reid;Thomas M. Iliffe;Eduardo Suárez-Morales

  • Drawn to the dark side: a molecular phylogeny of freshwater shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) reveals frequent cave invasions and challenges current taxonomic hypotheses.

    Kristina von Rintelen;Timothy J. Page;Yixiong Cai;Kevin Roe

  • Age determination of recent cave deposits using excess 210Pb ‐ A new technique

    M. Baskaran;Thomas M. Iliffe

  • Amino acid concentrations in the Aplysia nervous system: neurons with high glycine concentrations.

    T. M. Iliffe;D. J. McAdoo;Carol B. Beyer;B. Haber

  • Origin and Age of the Marine Stygofauna of Lanzarote, Canary Islands

    Horst Wilkens;Jakob Parzefall;Thomas M. Iliffe

  • Cave Fauna of Bermuda

    Boris Sket;Thomas M. Iliffe

  • Global Biodiversity and Phylogenetic Evaluation of Remipedia (Crustacea)

    Marco T. Neiber;Tamara R. Hartke;Torben Stemme;Alexandra Bergmann

  • Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the cave‐adapted shrimp genus Typhlatya (Atyidae) in the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic

    Rebecca L. Hunter;Michael Scott Webb;Thomas M. Iliffe;Thomas M. Iliffe;Jaime R. Alvarado Bremer;Jaime R. Alvarado Bremer

  • Three new genera and five new species of misophrioid copepods (Crustacea) from anchialine caves on Indo-West Pacific and North Atlantic Islands

    Geoffrey A. Boxshall;Thomas M. Iliffe

  • The Corona lava tube, Lanzarote: geology, habitat diversity and biogeography

    Horst Wilkens;Thomas M. Iliffe;Pedro Oromí;Alejandro Martínez

Frequent Co-Authors

William F. Humphreys
William F. Humphreys Australian Museum
John W. Pohlman
John W. Pohlman United States Geological Survey
Jørgen E. Olesen
Jørgen E. Olesen Aarhus University
Vasilis Gerovasileiou
Vasilis Gerovasileiou Ionian University
Boris Sket
Boris Sket University of Ljubljana
Moritz F. Lehmann
Moritz F. Lehmann University of Basel
Helge Niemann
Helge Niemann Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Mary Beth Leigh
Mary Beth Leigh University of Alaska Fairbanks
Diego Fontaneto
Diego Fontaneto Water Research Institute
Lisa A. Levin
Lisa A. Levin University of California, San Diego

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