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Kevin J Gaston

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Top papers

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1 Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversity. Nature 2004 10.66
2 Global hotspots of species richness are not congruent with endemism or threat. Nature 2005 9.33
3 Ecology. Coral reefs and the global network of Marine Protected Areas. Science 2006 6.39
4 Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward. Ecol Lett 2006 6.03
5 Global variation in terrestrial conservation costs, conservation benefits, and unmet conservation needs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003 5.78
6 Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates. Nature 2006 5.71
7 Quantification of extinction risk: IUCN's system for classifying threatened species. Conserv Biol 2008 5.09
8 Avian extinction and mammalian introductions on oceanic islands. Science 2004 4.96
9 Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity. Biol Lett 2007 3.47
10 Species-energy relationships at the macroecological scale: a review of the mechanisms. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2005 3.27
11 Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes. PLoS Biol 2011 3.02
12 Predicting unknown species numbers using discovery curves. Proc Biol Sci 2007 2.71
13 Global patterns of geographic range size in birds. PLoS Biol 2006 2.61
14 Body size variation in insects: a macroecological perspective. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2009 2.53
15 The scaling of green space coverage in European cities. Biol Lett 2009 2.38
16 On the heritability of geographic range sizes. Am Nat 2003 2.36
17 Management effectiveness of the world's marine fisheries. PLoS Biol 2009 2.31
18 Ecology. Biodiversity conservation and the Millennium Development Goals. Science 2009 2.22
19 Climate, energy and diversity. Proc Biol Sci 2006 2.16
20 What are the benefits of interacting with nature? Int J Environ Res Public Health 2013 2.01
21 Daytime noise predicts nocturnal singing in urban robins. Biol Lett 2007 1.99
22 Street lighting changes the composition of invertebrate communities. Biol Lett 2012 1.95
23 Variations on a theme: sources of heterogeneity in the form of the interspecific relationship between abundance and distribution. J Anim Ecol 2006 1.70
24 Low functional diversity and no redundancy in British avian assemblages. J Anim Ecol 2007 1.67
25 Human impacts and the global distribution of extinction risk. Proc Biol Sci 2006 1.65
26 Topography, energy and the global distribution of bird species richness. Proc Biol Sci 2007 1.62
27 Global biogeography and ecology of body size in birds. Ecol Lett 2009 1.62
28 Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities. Proc Biol Sci 2012 1.45
29 Structure of the species--energy relationship. Proc Biol Sci 2004 1.45
30 Ecosystem service benefits of contrasting conservation strategies in a human-dominated region. Proc Biol Sci 2009 1.43
31 Extinction and the loss of functional diversity. Proc Biol Sci 2002 1.42
32 Taxonomic and regional uncertainty in species-area relationships and the identification of richness hotspots. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 1.41
33 Dissecting the species-energy relationship. Proc Biol Sci 2005 1.36
34 Hemispheric asymmetries in biodiversity--a serious matter for ecology. PLoS Biol 2004 1.35
35 Energy, range dynamics and global species richness patterns: reconciling mid-domain effects and environmental determinants of avian diversity. Ecol Lett 2006 1.33
36 Balancing alternative land uses in conservation prioritization. Ecol Appl 2011 1.28
37 Are soils in urban ecosystems compacted? A citywide analysis. Biol Lett 2011 1.27
38 Temporal changes in greenspace in a highly urbanized region. Biol Lett 2011 1.26
39 Organic carbon hidden in urban ecosystems. Sci Rep 2012 1.26
40 A conceptual framework for the colonisation of urban areas: the blackbird Turdus merula as a case study. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2010 1.23
41 Macrophysiology for a changing world. Proc Biol Sci 2008 1.22
42 Occupancy, spatial variance, and the abundance of species. Am Nat 2003 1.22
43 Household factors influencing participation in bird feeding activity: a national scale analysis. PLoS One 2012 1.17
44 Biogeographical basis of recent phenotypic divergence among birds: a global study of subspecies richness. Evolution 2007 1.17
45 Spatial covariance between aesthetic value & other ecosystem services. PLoS One 2013 1.16
46 Independent colonization of multiple urban centres by a formerly forest specialist bird species. Proc Biol Sci 2009 1.16
47 The quest for a null model for macroecological patterns: geometry of species distributions at multiple spatial scales. Ecol Lett 2008 1.14
48 Common European birds are declining rapidly while less abundant species' numbers are rising. Ecol Lett 2014 1.14
49 Artificial light pollution: are shifting spectral signatures changing the balance of species interactions? Glob Chang Biol 2013 1.14
50 The cost of policy simplification in conservation incentive programs. Ecol Lett 2012 1.14
51 Sympatric speciation in birds is rare: insights from range data and simulations. Am Nat 2008 1.11
52 Effectiveness of protected areas in maintaining plant production. PLoS One 2011 1.11
53 Understanding urban green space as a health resource: a qualitative comparison of visit motivation and derived effects among park users in Sheffield, UK. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2013 1.08
54 Urban domestic gardens (XIV): the characteristics of gardens in five cities. Environ Manage 2008 1.07
55 The growth of easements as a conservation tool. PLoS One 2009 1.07
56 Pink landscapes: 1/f spectra of spatial environmental variability and bird community composition. Proc Biol Sci 2002 1.04
57 Reconciling biodiversity and carbon conservation. Ecol Lett 2012 1.04
58 Spatial covariation between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystem services. Ecol Appl 2011 1.00
59 Toward improved public health outcomes from urban nature. Am J Public Health 2015 0.96
60 Ecology. Untangling an entangled bank. Science 2005 0.95
61 Rarity, commonness, and the contribution of individual species to species richness patterns. Am Nat 2009 0.94
62 Emergence of structural patterns in neutral trophic networks. PLoS One 2012 0.91
63 Occupancy frequency distributions: patterns, artefacts and mechanisms. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2002 0.90
64 Relative contribution of abundant and rare species to species-energy relationships. Biol Lett 2005 0.90
65 Identifying potential sources of variability between vegetation carbon storage estimates for urban areas. Environ Pollut 2013 0.90
66 The species-area-energy relationship. Ecol Lett 2005 0.88
67 Constraint and competition in assemblages: a cross-continental and modeling approach for ants. Am Nat 2005 0.86
68 Field-level bird abundances are enhanced by landscape-scale agri-environment scheme uptake. Biol Lett 2010 0.85
69 The Fynbos and sUcculent Karoo biomes do not have exceptional local ant richness. PLoS One 2012 0.85
70 Species traits and the form of individual species-energy relationships. Proc Biol Sci 2006 0.84
71 Incorporating private lands in conservation planning: protected areas in Britain. Ecol Appl 2008 0.84
72 Intraspecific body size frequency distributions of insects. PLoS One 2011 0.84
73 Species abundance distribution results from a spatial analogy of central limit theorem. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009 0.84
74 Quantifying preferences for the natural world using monetary and nonmonetary assessments of value. Conserv Biol 2013 0.84
75 The mid-domain effect revisited. Am Nat 2005 0.83
76 Macroecology is distinct from biogeography. Nature 2002 0.82
77 Protected areas and regional avian species richness in South Africa. Biol Lett 2006 0.81
78 Coincident scales of forest feedback on climate and conservation in a diversity hot spot. Proc Biol Sci 2006 0.81
79 The ecological research needs of business. J Appl Ecol 2010 0.80
80 Causes of exotic bird establishment across oceanic islands. Proc Biol Sci 2005 0.79
81 Spatial scale, abundance and the species-energy relationship in British birds. J Anim Ecol 2007 0.79
82 Characterization of 38 microsatellite loci in the European blackbird, Turdus merula (Turdidae, AVES). Mol Ecol Resour 2009 0.77
83 Sometimes the obvious answer is the right one: a response to 'missing the rarest: is the positive interspecific abundance-distribution relationship a truly general macroecological pattern?'. Author reply 779-80. Biol Lett 2009 0.75
84 Threats to avifauna on oceanic islands revisited. Conserv Biol 2008 0.75
85 Ecology: The how and why of biodiversity. Nature 2003 0.75
86 Corrigendum: Worldwide variations in artificial skyglow. Sci Rep 2015 0.75
87 Physiological tolerances of the euterrestrial amphipod Arcitalitrus dorrieni (Hunt) as a key to its geographical distribution? A test using mesocosms. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2004 0.75
88 Environmental tolerances of an invasive terrestrial amphipod, Arcitalitrus dorrieni (Hunt) in Britain. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2003 0.75