Allen H. Hurlbert

9.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
70 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Allen H. Hurlbert is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Allen H. Hurlbert has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 42 papers in Ecology and 40 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Allen H. Hurlbert's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (42 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (40 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (25 papers). Allen H. Hurlbert is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (42 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (40 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (25 papers). Allen H. Hurlbert collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Allen H. Hurlbert's co-authors include Walter Jetz, Ethan P. White, John P. Haskell, James Stegen, Daniel L. Rabosky, Lauren B. Buckley, Rampal S. Etienne, Marti J. Anderson, David Alonso and Brian J. Enquist and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Allen H. Hurlbert

70 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework

2007 1.0k citations Brian J. McGill, Rampal S. Etienne et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Species richness, hotspots, and the scale dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation

2007 530 citations Allen H. Hurlbert, Walter Jetz Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Observing the Observers: How Participants Contribute Data to iNaturalist and Implications for Biodiversity Science

2021 171 citations Grace J. Di Cecco, Vijay Barve et al. BioScience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Allen H. Hurlbert United States	35	2.9k	2.8k	2.5k	1.8k	1.1k	70	5.6k
Richard Field United Kingdom	29	3.0k 1.0×	4.5k 1.6×	3.3k 1.3×	2.5k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	95	7.3k
Sandrine Pavoine France	39	3.5k 1.2×	3.4k 1.2×	1.6k 0.6×	2.5k 1.4×	1.3k 1.2×	119	7.5k
Luigi Maiorano Italy	44	3.9k 1.3×	2.6k 0.9×	3.5k 1.4×	1.3k 0.7×	2.3k 2.0×	136	7.2k
S. K. Morgan Ernest United States	35	3.5k 1.2×	2.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	76	6.1k
Kostas A. Triantis Greece	35	2.0k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	542 0.5×	85	4.6k
David Štorch Czechia	40	2.1k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	886 0.8×	97	4.2k
Jeremy VanDerWal Australia	44	3.0k 1.0×	2.6k 0.9×	3.9k 1.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.6×	90	6.3k
Jonathan Belmaker Israel	33	2.8k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	99	4.6k
Signe Normand Denmark	35	1.9k 0.6×	2.4k 0.8×	2.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	859 0.8×	93	5.1k
Mark V. Lomolino United States	39	3.9k 1.3×	2.9k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	881 0.8×	90	6.6k

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Belitz, Michael W., Elise A. Larsen, Allen H. Hurlbert, et al.. (2025). Potential for bird–insect phenological mismatch in a tri‐trophic system. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(4). 717–728. 2 indexed citations

Hurlbert, Allen H., et al.. (2024). Arthropod community composition in urban landscapes is shaped by both environmental filtering and dispersal limitation. PLoS ONE. 19(8). e0297507–e0297507. 1 indexed citations

Larsen, Elise A., Michael W. Belitz, Grace J. Di Cecco, et al.. (2024). Overwintering strategy regulates phenological sensitivity and consequences for ecological services in a clade of temperate North American insects. Functional Ecology. 38(5). 1075–1088. 6 indexed citations

Yeager, Lauren A., et al.. (2024). Habitat area more consistently affects seagrass faunal communities than fragmentation per se. Ecological Monographs. 94(4). 1 indexed citations

Vance‐Chalcraft, Heather D., Terry A. Gates, & Allen H. Hurlbert. (2024). Bringing Global Ecological Research to Undergraduate Students Through Citizen Science. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 105(3). 1 indexed citations

Hurlbert, Allen H., et al.. (2023). Comparing multiscale, presence-only habitat suitability models created with structured survey data and community science data for a rare warbler species at the southern range margin. PLoS ONE. 18(4). e0275556–e0275556. 2 indexed citations

D’Agostino, Emmanuel R. R., Rafael José Vivero, Eduar Elías Bejarano, et al.. (2022). Phylogenetic climatic niche conservatism in sandflies (Diptera: Phlebotominae) and their relatives. Evolution. 76(10). 2361–2374. 2 indexed citations

Cecco, Grace J. Di, Vijay Barve, Michael W. Belitz, et al.. (2021). Observing the Observers: How Participants Contribute Data to iNaturalist and Implications for Biodiversity Science. BioScience. 71(11). 1179–1188. 171 indexed citations breakdown →

Hurlbert, Allen H., et al.. (2021). The Avian Diet Database as a source of quantitative information on bird diets. Scientific Data. 8(1). 260–260. 11 indexed citations

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Comeault, Aaron A., Jeremy Wang, Silas Tittes, et al.. (2020). Genetic Diversity and Thermal Performance in Invasive and Native Populations of African Fig Flies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(7). 1893–1906. 25 indexed citations

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Sockman, Keith W. & Allen H. Hurlbert. (2020). How the effects of latitude on daylight availability may have influenced the evolution of migration and photoperiodism. Functional Ecology. 34(9). 1752–1766. 21 indexed citations

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Pontarp, Mikael, Lynsey Bunnefeld, Juliano Sarmento Cabral, et al.. (2018). The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Novel Understanding through Mechanistic Eco-evolutionary Models. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 34(3). 211–223. 148 indexed citations

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Rabosky, Daniel L. & Allen H. Hurlbert. (2015). Species Richness at Continental Scales Is Dominated by Ecological Limits. The American Naturalist. 185(5). 572–583. 212 indexed citations

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Hurlbert, Allen H. & James Stegen. (2014). On the processes generating latitudinal richness gradients: identifying diagnostic patterns and predictions. Frontiers in Genetics. 5. 420–420. 23 indexed citations

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Hurlbert, Allen H., et al.. (2013). Opposing Mechanisms Drive Richness Patterns of Core and Transient Bird Species. The American Naturalist. 181(4). E83–E90. 44 indexed citations

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Thibault, Katherine M., Ethan P. White, Allen H. Hurlbert, & S. K. Morgan Ernest. (2010). Multimodality in the individual size distributions of bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 20(1). 145–153. 34 indexed citations

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Meehan, Timothy D., Allen H. Hurlbert, & Claudio Gratton. (2010). Bird communities in future bioenergy landscapes of the Upper Midwest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(43). 18533–18538. 108 indexed citations

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Morlon, Hélène, Ethan P. White, Rampal S. Etienne, et al.. (2009). Taking species abundance distributions beyond individuals. Ecology Letters. 12(6). 488–501. 71 indexed citations

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Hurlbert, Allen H. & Walter Jetz. (2007). Species richness, hotspots, and the scale dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(33). 13384–13389. 530 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hurlbert, Allen H. & John P. Haskell. (2003). The Effect of Energy and Seasonality on Avian Species Richness and Community Composition. The American Naturalist. 161(1). 83–97. 311 indexed citations

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