Aleks Terauds

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Aleks Terauds is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Aleks Terauds has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Ecological Modeling and 12 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Aleks Terauds's work include Polar Research and Ecology (37 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (19 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (16 papers). Aleks Terauds is often cited by papers focused on Polar Research and Ecology (37 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (19 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (16 papers). Aleks Terauds collaborates with scholars based in Australia, South Africa and United Kingdom. Aleks Terauds's co-authors include Justine D. Shaw, Steven L. Chown, Jasmine Lee, Dana M. Bergstrom, Ben Raymond, Peter Convey, Richard A. Fuller, Iadine Chadès, Thomas J. Bracegirdle and Simon Wotherspoon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Aleks Terauds

78 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Drones count wildlife more accurately and precisely than humans

2018 324 citations Jarrod C. Hodgson, Rowan Mott et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Climate change drives expansion of Antarctic ice-free habitat

2017 316 citations Jasmine Lee, Ben Raymond et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aleks Terauds Australia	28	2.3k	516	478	426	406	80	2.8k
Dana M. Bergstrom Australia	27	2.4k 1.1×	828 1.6×	573 1.2×	489 1.1×	371 0.9×	70	3.2k
Heather J. Lynch United States	32	2.3k 1.0×	321 0.6×	486 1.0×	379 0.9×	785 1.9×	107	3.1k
Greg A. Breed United States	24	1.7k 0.7×	509 1.0×	248 0.5×	301 0.7×	545 1.3×	72	2.4k
Justine D. Shaw Australia	24	1.5k 0.6×	368 0.7×	343 0.7×	405 1.0×	263 0.6×	70	1.9k
Ben Raymond Australia	29	1.8k 0.8×	359 0.7×	290 0.6×	425 1.0×	630 1.6×	69	2.5k
Norman Ratcliffe United Kingdom	33	2.4k 1.1×	472 0.9×	318 0.7×	193 0.5×	797 2.0×	95	2.9k
Robert S. Schick United States	26	2.0k 0.9×	248 0.5×	246 0.5×	256 0.6×	801 2.0×	58	2.5k
Leigh G. Torres United States	31	2.6k 1.1×	338 0.7×	304 0.6×	478 1.1×	795 2.0×	116	2.9k
Toby A. Patterson Australia	29	2.4k 1.0×	374 0.7×	229 0.5×	373 0.9×	1.2k 2.9×	67	3.3k
Colin Southwell Australia	28	1.9k 0.8×	212 0.4×	264 0.6×	435 1.0×	465 1.1×	90	2.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aleks Terauds

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tóth, Anikó B., Aleks Terauds, Steven L. Chown, et al.. (2025). A dataset of Antarctic ecosystems in ice-free lands: classification, descriptions, and maps. Scientific Data. 12(1). 133–133. 5 indexed citations

Helmstedt, Kate J., et al.. (2024). A multidimensional assessment of Antarctic terrestrial biological data. Diversity and Distributions. 31(1). 2 indexed citations

Cox, Martin J., et al.. (2023). Scientific echosounder data provide a predator’s view of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Scientific Data. 10(1). 284–284. 1 indexed citations

Hughes, Kevin A., Mercedes Santos, Stephen M. Chignell, et al.. (2022). Ant-ICON - ‘Integrated Science to Inform Antarctic and Southern Ocean Conservation’: a new SCAR Scientific Research Programme. Antarctic Science. 34(6). 446–455. 4 indexed citations

Chown, Steven L., et al.. (2022). Invasive species impacts on sub-Antarctic Collembola support the Antarctic climate-diversity-invasion hypothesis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 166. 108579–108579. 9 indexed citations

Clarke, Laurence J., L. Suter, Bruce E. Deagle, et al.. (2021). Environmental DNA metabarcoding for monitoring metazoan biodiversity in Antarctic nearshore ecosystems. PeerJ. 9. e12458–e12458. 20 indexed citations

Leihy, Rachel I., Bernard W. T. Coetzee, Fraser Morgan, et al.. (2020). Antarctica’s wilderness fails to capture continent’s biodiversity. Nature. 583(7817). 567–571. 48 indexed citations

Cleeland, Jaimie, Déborah Pardo, Ben Raymond, et al.. (2020). Introduced species and extreme weather as key drivers of reproductive output in three sympatric albatrosses. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 8199–8199. 11 indexed citations

Terauds, Aleks, et al.. (2020). Soil Microbiomes With the Genetic Capacity for Atmospheric Chemosynthesis Are Widespread Across the Poles and Are Associated With Moisture, Carbon, and Nitrogen Limitation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 1936–1936. 27 indexed citations

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Baker, D. James, Dana M. Bergstrom, Ben Raymond, et al.. (2019). Spatial variation in the ongoing and widespread decline of a keystone plant species. Austral Ecology. 44(5). 891–905. 7 indexed citations

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Hodgson, Jarrod C., Rowan Mott, Shane M. Baylis, et al.. (2018). Drones count wildlife more accurately and precisely than humans. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(5). 1160–1167. 324 indexed citations breakdown →

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Crates, Ross, Aleks Terauds, Laura Rayner, et al.. (2018). Spatially and temporally targeted suppression of despotic noisy miners has conservation benefits for highly mobile and threatened woodland birds. Biological Conservation. 227. 343–351. 18 indexed citations

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Crates, Ross, Laura Rayner, Dejan Stojanović, et al.. (2018). Contemporary breeding biology of critically endangered Regent Honeyeaters: implications for conservation. Ibis. 161(3). 521–532. 22 indexed citations

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Lee, Jasmine, Ben Raymond, Thomas J. Bracegirdle, et al.. (2017). Climate change drives expansion of Antarctic ice-free habitat. Nature. 547(7661). 49–54. 316 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fraser, Ceridwen I., Aleks Terauds, John L. Smellie, Peter Convey, & Steven L. Chown. (2014). Geothermal activity helps life survive glacial cycles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(15). 5634–5639. 106 indexed citations

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Terauds, Aleks, Steven L. Chown, Fraser Morgan, et al.. (2012). Conservation biogeography of the Antarctic. Diversity and Distributions. 18(7). 726–741. 164 indexed citations

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Bruyn, P J Nico de, Cheryl Ann Tosh, & Aleks Terauds. (2012). Killer whale ecotypes: is there a global model?. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 88(1). 62–80. 92 indexed citations

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Terauds, Aleks, et al.. (2007). Politics adds to Macquarie Island's pest problem. 2007(136). 20–21. 1 indexed citations

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Kirkwood, Roger, Rosemary Gales, Aleks Terauds, et al.. (2005). PUP PRODUCTION AND POPULATION TRENDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN FUR SEAL (ARCTOCEPHALUS PUSILLUS DORIFERUS). Marine Mammal Science. 21(2). 260–282. 60 indexed citations

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Williams, Alan, et al.. (2001). Feeding ecology of five fishes from the mid-slope micronekton community off southern Tasmania, Australia. Marine Biology. 139(6). 1177–1192. 66 indexed citations

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