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Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Imon Abedin
Bodoland University
2
Zackary J. Delisle
National Park Service
3
Hannah S. Wauchope
University of Edinburgh
4
Teresa Montras Janer
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
5
Marta Cimatti
Sapienza University of Rome
6
Siddharth Unnithan Kumar
University of Exeter
7
Jasmine L. Loveland
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
8
Linlin Wu
South China Normal University
9
Alison Eyres
Unknown
10
Changlin Xu
Peking University

Papers

1
Publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024) [107 citations, W4391752984]
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2024
107 cit.
2
Publication in Science (2025) [41 citations, W4406753550]
Science|2025
41 cit.
3
Publication in Biology (2024) [16 citations, W4392983737]
Biology|2024
16 cit.
4
Publication in Biology (2024) [10 citations, W4401910946]
Biology|2024
10 cit.
5
Publication in Heliyon (2024) [9 citations, W4395682998]
Heliyon|2024
9 cit.
6
Publication in Ecology and Evolution (2024) [9 citations, W4401587709]
Ecology and Evolution|2024
9 cit.
7
The Accelerating Exposure of European Protected Areas to Climate Change
Global Change Biology|2025
9 cit.
8
Deer activity levels and patterns vary along gradients of food availability and anthropogenic development
Scientific Reports|2024
8 cit.
9
Targeted recreational hunting can reduce animal-vehicle collisions and generate substantial revenue for wildlife management agencies
The Science of The Total Environment|2024
8 cit.
10
Publication in Ecological Informatics (2024) [7 citations, W4405135349]
Ecological Informatics|2024
7 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Gurutzeta Guillera‐Arroita
The University of Melbourne
2
Connor M. French
City College of New York
3
Cory Merow
University of Connecticut
4
Sijing Qiu
Peking University
5
Jordan B. Bemmels
University of Victoria
6
Emma Burns
Macquarie University
7
Arian D. Wallach
Queensland University of Technology
8
Brian McQuinn
University of Regina
9
Russell Dinnage
Australian National University
10
Ruth Emerson
Government of Tamil Nadu

Papers

1
Flexible species distribution modelling methods perform well on spatially separated testing data
Global Ecology and Biogeography|2023
68 cit.
2
AI chatbots can boost scientific coding
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2023
48 cit.
3
A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands
Journal of Animal Ecology|2022
38 cit.
4
Exploring spatial correlations between ecosystem services and sustainable development goals: a regional-scale study from China
Landscape Ecology|2022
38 cit.
5
Priorities for conserving the world’s terrestrial mammals based on over-the-horizon extinction risk
Current Biology|2023
35 cit.
6
Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity
Nature Communications|2023
29 cit.
7
Intrapersonal and interpersonal psychosocial adjustment resources and achievement: A multilevel latent profile analysis of students and schools.
Journal of Educational Psychology|2022
24 cit.
8
Operationalizing expert knowledge in species' range estimates using diverse data types
Frontiers of Biogeography|2022
21 cit.
9
Population genomics reveals strong impacts of genetic drift without purging and guides conservation of bull and giant kelp
Current Biology|2025
21 cit.
10
Systematic and persistent bias against introduced species
BioScience|2024
19 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Peter Donnelly
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
2
Jennifer Kent
The University of Sydney
3
David W. Macdonald
University of Oxford
4
Robert E. Schapire
AT&T (United States)
5
Mark S. Boyce
University of Alberta
6
Robert K. Wayne
University of California, Los Angeles
7
A. Townsend Peterson
University of Kansas
8
Richard Shine
Macquarie University
9
Antoine Guisan
University of Lausanne
10
David B. Lindenmayer
Australian National University

Papers

1
Inference of Population Structure Using Multilocus Genotype Data
Genetics|2000
34.3k cit.
2
Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
Nature|2000
31.2k cit.
3
A Decision-Theoretic Generalization of On-Line Learning and an Application to Boosting
Journal of Computer and System Sciences|1997
20.3k cit.
4
Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions
Ecological Modelling|2005
17.7k cit.
5
Experiments with a new boosting algorithm
Unknown Journal|1996
7.6k cit.
6
A New Statistical Method for Haplotype Reconstruction from Population Data
The American Journal of Human Genetics|2001
7.5k cit.
7
Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology
Ecological Modelling|2000
7.3k cit.
8
A Comparison of Bayesian Methods for Haplotype Reconstruction from Population Genotype Data
The American Journal of Human Genetics|2003
3.5k cit.
9
The Strength of Weak Learnability
Machine Learning|1990
3.3k cit.
10
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Predicting species distributions from small numbers of occurrence records: a test case using cryptic geckos in Madagascar
Journal of Biogeography|2006
3.1k cit.

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