Alistair G. Auffret

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Alistair G. Auffret is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Alistair G. Auffret has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 19 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Alistair G. Auffret's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (30 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (18 papers) and Plant and animal studies (12 papers). Alistair G. Auffret is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (30 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (18 papers) and Plant and animal studies (12 papers). Alistair G. Auffret collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and Poland. Alistair G. Auffret's co-authors include Sara A. O. Cousins, Jan Plue, Jessica Lindgren, Richard Fox, Kevin J. Walker, Andrew J. Suggitt, Nick J. B. Isaac, Colin M. Beale, John J. Hopkins and Nicholas A. Macgregor and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alistair G. Auffret

34 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

2018 285 citations Andrew J. Suggitt, Robert J. Wilson et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Anthropogenic climate and land-use change drive short- and long-term biodiversity shifts across taxa

2024 42 citations Andrew J. Suggitt, Richard Fox et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alistair G. Auffret Sweden	21	840	617	490	437	396	34	1.5k
Daijiang Li United States	21	838 1.0×	629 1.0×	668 1.4×	512 1.2×	354 0.9×	57	1.6k
Kelly A. Carscadden United States	5	1.1k 1.3×	793 1.3×	638 1.3×	437 1.0×	572 1.4×	12	1.9k
Jenny L. McCune Canada	17	809 1.0×	572 0.9×	439 0.9×	593 1.4×	340 0.9×	40	1.7k
Paul Caplat United Kingdom	22	696 0.8×	560 0.9×	319 0.7×	528 1.2×	390 1.0×	49	1.3k
Jonas J. Lembrechts Belgium	18	797 0.9×	525 0.9×	447 0.9×	615 1.4×	279 0.7×	46	1.4k
Severin D. H. Irl Germany	22	722 0.9×	537 0.9×	488 1.0×	592 1.4×	290 0.7×	50	1.4k
José Luís Camargo Brazil	19	1.2k 1.4×	729 1.2×	635 1.3×	256 0.6×	913 2.3×	47	2.1k
Noelle G. Beckman United States	21	1.0k 1.2×	677 1.1×	708 1.4×	228 0.5×	445 1.1×	44	1.7k
Lawrence N. Hudson United Kingdom	13	589 0.7×	775 1.3×	445 0.9×	493 1.1×	556 1.4×	15	1.6k
Scott M. Pearson United States	24	942 1.1×	881 1.4×	440 0.9×	262 0.6×	731 1.8×	49	1.9k

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Auffret, Alistair G., Emma Ladouceur, Natalie S. Haussmann, et al.. (2024). A global database of soil seed bank richness, density, and abundance. Ecology. 105(11). e4438–e4438. 2 indexed citations

Auffret, Alistair G., Hedvig K. Nenzén, & Ester Polaina. (2024). Underprediction of extirpation and colonisation following climate and land‐use change using species distribution models. Diversity and Distributions. 30(7). 6 indexed citations

Auffret, Alistair G., et al.. (2023). Species accumulation in novel grassland habitats is linked to land cover history. Ecography. 2023(8). 4 indexed citations

Kotowska, Dorota, Piotr Skórka, Tomas Pärt, Alistair G. Auffret, & Michał Żmihorski. (2023). Spatial scale matters for predicting plant invasions along roads. Journal of Ecology. 112(2). 305–318. 5 indexed citations

Suggitt, Andrew J., Christopher J. Wheatley, Colin M. Beale, et al.. (2023). Linking climate warming and land conversion to species’ range changes across Great Britain. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6759–6759. 21 indexed citations

Kotowska, Dorota, Tomas Pärt, Piotr Skórka, Alistair G. Auffret, & Michał Żmihorski. (2022). Scale dependence of landscape heterogeneity effects on plant invasions. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(5). 1313–1323. 13 indexed citations

Auffret, Alistair G., Aino Hämäläinen, Mats Jonsell, et al.. (2021). Can field botany be effectively taught as a distance course? Experiences and reflections from the COVID-19 pandemic. AoB Plants. 14(1). plab079–plab079. 2 indexed citations

Boakes, Elizabeth H., Richard A. Fuller, Georgina M. Mace, et al.. (2020). GalliForm, a database of Galliformes occurrence records from the Indo-Malay and Palaearctic, 1800–2008. Scientific Data. 7(1). 344–344. 3 indexed citations

Suggitt, Andrew J., Robert J. Wilson, Nick J. B. Isaac, et al.. (2018). Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering. Nature Climate Change. 8(8). 713–717. 285 indexed citations breakdown →

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Auffret, Alistair G., Adam Kimberley, Jan Plue, & Emelie Waldén. (2018). Super-regional land-use change and effects on the grassland specialist flora. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3464–3464. 66 indexed citations

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Auffret, Alistair G. & Sara A. O. Cousins. (2018). Land uplift creates important meadow habitat and a potential original niche for grassland species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1876). 20172349–20172349. 10 indexed citations

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Auffret, Alistair G., Adam Kimberley, Jan Plue, et al.. (2017). HistMapR: Rapid digitization of historical land‐use maps in R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 8(11). 1453–1457. 26 indexed citations

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Plue, Jan, et al.. (2016). Methodological bias in the seed bank flora holds significant implications for understanding seed bank community functions. Plant Biology. 19(2). 201–210. 12 indexed citations

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Cousins, Sara A. O., et al.. (2015). Regional-scale land-cover change during the 20th century and its consequences for biodiversity. AMBIO. 44(S1). 17–27. 130 indexed citations

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Auffret, Alistair G., Jan Plue, & Sara A. O. Cousins. (2015). The spatial and temporal components of functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes. AMBIO. 44(S1). 51–59. 92 indexed citations

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Auffret, Alistair G., et al.. (2014). The geography of human‐mediated dispersal. Diversity and Distributions. 20(12). 1450–1456. 45 indexed citations

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Auffret, Alistair G. & Jan Plue. (2014). Scale-dependent diversity effects of seed dispersal by a wild herbivore in fragmented grasslands. Oecologia. 175(1). 305–313. 24 indexed citations

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Auffret, Alistair G. & Sara A. O. Cousins. (2013). Grassland connectivity by motor vehicles and grazing livestock. Ecography. 36(10). 1150–1157. 31 indexed citations

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Auffret, Alistair G. & Sara A. O. Cousins. (2013). Humans as Long-Distance Dispersers of Rural Plant Communities. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e62763–e62763. 43 indexed citations

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Auffret, Alistair G., Éric Meineri, Hans Henrik Bruun, Rasmus Ejrnæs, & Bente J. Graae. (2010). Ontogenetic niche shifts in three Vaccinium species on a sub-alpine mountain side. Plant Ecology & Diversity. 3(2). 131–139. 13 indexed citations

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