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85
Citations
38283
World Ranking
621
National Ranking
221

William F. Fagan 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 William F. Fagan sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 274 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William F. Fagan 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 William F. Fagan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1987 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

William F. Fagan is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans a variety of topics primarily in environmental science, with a focus on ecology and related subfields.

The main fields of study for William F. Fagan include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this broad area, their work includes subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Genetics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

The primary research topics covered in their publications are:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior

William F. Fagan has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Autocorrelation-informed home range estimation: A review and practical guide, 2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations, 2021, Science
  • Effects of body size on estimation of mammalian area requirements, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • Learning and Animal Movement, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns, 2023, Science

The venues in which William F. Fagan frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with William F. Fagan are:

  • Justin M. Calabrese
  • Anshuman Swain
  • Christen H. Fleming
  • Michael Noonan
  • Eliezer Gurarie

William F. Fagan has been recognized with several honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2001
  • SPIE Fellow, 1987

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Nutritional constraints in terrestrial and freshwater food webs

    James J. Elser;William F. Fagan;Robert F. Denno;Dean R. Dobberfuhl;Dean R. Dobberfuhl

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems.

    James Elser;R. W. Sterner;E. Gorokhova;W. F. Fagan

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Growth rate–stoichiometry couplings in diverse biota

    J. J. Elser;K. Acharya;M. Kyle;James B Cotner

  • Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling and ecological response to global change

    James Elser;W. F. Fagan;A. J. Kerkhoff;N. G. Swenson

  • Socioeconomics drive urban plant diversity

    Diane Hope;Corinna Gries;Weixing Zhu;William F. Fagan

  • CONNECTIVITY, FRAGMENTATION, AND EXTINCTION RISK IN DENDRITIC METAPOPULATIONS

    William F. Fagan

  • Umbrellas and flagships: Efficient conservation surrogates or expensive mistakes?

    Sandy J. Andelman;William F. Fagan

  • A comparison-shopper's guide to connectivity metrics

    Justin M. Calabrese;William F. Fagan

  • How Habitat Edges Change Species Interactions

    William F. Fagan;William F. Fagan;Robert Stephen Cantrell;Chris Cosner

  • Living in the branches: population dynamics and ecological processes in dendritic networks.

    Evan H. Campbell Grant;Winsor H. Lowe;William F. Fagan

  • Spatial memory and animal movement

    William F. Fagan;Mark A. Lewis;Marie Auger-Méthé;Tal Avgar

  • Phylogenetic and Growth Form Variation in the Scaling of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the Seed Plants

    Andrew J. Kerkhoff;William F. Fagan;James J. Elser;Brian J. Enquist

  • Ground arthropod community structure in a heterogeneous urban environment

    N.E. McIntyre;J. Rango;W.F. Fagan;S.H. Faeth

  • A New Urban Ecology

    James P. Collins;Ann Kinzig;Nancy B. Grimm;William F. Fagan

  • Nitrogen in Insects: Implications for Trophic Complexity and Species Diversification

    William F. Fagan;Evan Siemann;Charles Mitter;Robert F. Denno

  • Rigorous home range estimation with movement data: a new autocorrelated kernel density estimator

    Chris H. Fleming;Chris H. Fleming;W. F. Fagan;Thomas Mueller;Kirk A. Olson

  • Search and navigation in dynamic environments – from individual behaviors to population distributions

    Thomas Mueller;William F. Fagan

  • A Classification of Ecological Boundaries

    David L. Strayer;Mary E. Power;William F. Fagan;Steward T. A. Pickett

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin M. Calabrese
Justin M. Calabrese University of Maryland, College Park
Thomas Mueller
Thomas Mueller Goethe University Frankfurt
James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana
Eliezer Gurarie
Eliezer Gurarie SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Peter Leimgruber
Peter Leimgruber Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Andrew J. Kerkhoff
Andrew J. Kerkhoff Kenyon College
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Petra Kaczensky
Petra Kaczensky Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Katrin Böhning-Gaese Goethe University Frankfurt

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