Amber N. Wright

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Amber N. Wright is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Amber N. Wright has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Ecology, 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Amber N. Wright's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers), Plant and animal studies (8 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers). Amber N. Wright is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers), Plant and animal studies (8 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers). Amber N. Wright collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Brazil. Amber N. Wright's co-authors include Louie H. Yang, Kenneth O. Spence, Justin L. Bastow, H. Bradley Shaffer, Matthew E. Gompper, Stephanie N. Seifert, Dan L. Warren, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, David A. Spiller and Thomas W. Schoener and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecology and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Amber N. Wright

29 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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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.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM RESOURCE PULSES

2008 510 citations Louie H. Yang, Justin L. Bastow et al. Ecology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amber N. Wright United States	18	1.1k	698	564	388	386	31	1.9k
Brandon T. Barton United States	25	897 0.8×	466 0.7×	714 1.3×	400 1.0×	408 1.1×	44	1.8k
Olivier Gilg France	25	1.4k 1.3×	617 0.9×	460 0.8×	492 1.3×	474 1.2×	67	2.3k
Steven J. Presley United States	30	1.3k 1.2×	762 1.1×	1.3k 2.3×	780 2.0×	307 0.8×	72	2.4k
Albertus G. Toxopeus Netherlands	16	1.1k 1.0×	570 0.8×	378 0.7×	883 2.3×	426 1.1×	27	1.9k
Antonio‐Román Muñoz Spain	23	1.1k 1.0×	475 0.7×	357 0.6×	518 1.3×	351 0.9×	90	1.8k
Jaime E. Jiménez Chile	25	1.5k 1.4×	549 0.8×	469 0.8×	295 0.8×	335 0.9×	100	2.1k
Dries P. J. Kuijper Poland	31	2.2k 2.0×	1000 1.4×	452 0.8×	215 0.6×	551 1.4×	89	2.9k
Virginie Millien Canada	22	1.3k 1.2×	540 0.8×	868 1.5×	665 1.7×	259 0.7×	61	2.5k
Hans Petter Leinaas Norway	27	1.1k 1.0×	314 0.4×	959 1.7×	271 0.7×	428 1.1×	85	2.5k
Giuseppe Bogliani Italy	32	1.8k 1.6×	951 1.4×	784 1.4×	708 1.8×	513 1.3×	105	2.6k

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Piantoni, Carla, et al.. (2023). Head shape predicts isotopic diet in anoles and day geckos. Functional Ecology. 37(6). 1553–1566. 6 indexed citations

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Wright, Amber N., et al.. (2021). Clinging performance on natural substrates predicts habitat use in anoles and geckos. Functional Ecology. 35(11). 2472–2482. 14 indexed citations

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Witte, Tricia H., et al.. (2019). Factors Influencing Stigma Toward Individuals Who Have Substance Use Disorders. Substance Use & Misuse. 54(7). 1115–1124. 24 indexed citations

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Higham, Timothy E., Anthony P. Russell, Peter H. Niewiarowski, Amber N. Wright, & Thomas Speck. (2019). The Ecomechanics of Gecko Adhesion: Natural Surface Topography, Evolution, and Biomimetics. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 59(1). 148–167. 49 indexed citations

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Howard, Jeanette K., Kurt A. Fesenmyer, Theodore E. Grantham, et al.. (2018). A freshwater conservation blueprint for California: prioritizing watersheds for freshwater biodiversity. Freshwater Science. 37(2). 417–431. 24 indexed citations

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Piovia‐Scott, Jonah, Louie H. Yang, Amber N. Wright, David A. Spiller, & Thomas W. Schoener. (2017). The effect of lizards on spiders and wasps: variation with island size and marine subsidy. Ecosphere. 8(8). 9 indexed citations

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Piovia‐Scott, Jonah, Louie H. Yang, & Amber N. Wright. (2017). Temporal Variation in Trophic Cascades. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 48(1). 281–300. 40 indexed citations

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Wright, Amber N., Robert J. Hijmans, Mark W. Schwartz, & H. Bradley Shaffer. (2014). Multiple sources of uncertainty affect metrics for ranking conservation risk under climate change. Diversity and Distributions. 21(1). 111–122. 40 indexed citations

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Warren, Dan L., Amber N. Wright, Stephanie N. Seifert, & H. Bradley Shaffer. (2013). Incorporating model complexity and spatial sampling bias into ecological niche models of climate change risks faced by 90 California vertebrate species of concern. Diversity and Distributions. 20(3). 334–343. 235 indexed citations

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Piovia‐Scott, Jonah, David A. Spiller, Gaku Takimoto, et al.. (2013). The effect of chronic seaweed subsidies on herbivory: plant-mediated fertilization pathway overshadows lizard-mediated predator pathways. Oecologia. 172(4). 1129–1135. 17 indexed citations

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Lambert, Max R., et al.. (2013). Habitat Features Determine the Basking Distribution of Introduced Red-Eared Sliders and Native Western Pond Turtles. Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 12(1). 192–199. 21 indexed citations

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Wright, Amber N., Jonah Piovia‐Scott, David A. Spiller, et al.. (2013). Pulses of marine subsidies amplify reproductive potential of lizards by increasing individual growth rate. Oikos. 122(10). 1496–1504. 39 indexed citations

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Spiller, David A., Amber N. Wright, Louie H. Yang, et al.. (2010). Marine subsidies have multiple effects on coastal food webs. Ecology. 91(5). 1424–1434. 175 indexed citations

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Yang, Louie H., Justin L. Bastow, Kenneth O. Spence, & Amber N. Wright. (2008). WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM RESOURCE PULSES. Ecology. 89(3). 621–634. 510 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wright, Amber N. & Matthew E. Gompper. (2005). Altered parasite assemblages in raccoons in response to manipulated resource availability. Oecologia. 144(1). 148–156. 93 indexed citations

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Gompper, Matthew E. & Amber N. Wright. (2005). Altered prevalence of raccoon roundworm ( Baylisascaris procyonis ) owing to manipulated contact rates of hosts. Journal of Zoology. 266(2). 215–219. 43 indexed citations

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Pywell, Richard F., E. A. Warman, Claire Carvell, et al.. (2004). Providing foraging resources for bumblebees in intensively farmed landscapes. Biological Conservation. 121(4). 479–494. 191 indexed citations

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Wright, Amber N. & Kelly R. Zamudio. (2002). Color Pattern Asymmetry as a Correlate of Habitat Disturbance in Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum). Journal of Herpetology. 36(1). 129–129. 1 indexed citations

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Wright, Amber N. & Kelly R. Zamudio. (2002). Color Pattern Asymmetry as a Correlate of Habitat Disturbance in Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum). Journal of Herpetology. 36(1). 129–133. 25 indexed citations

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Wright, Amber N., et al.. (2000). Predicting the Distribution of Eurasian Badger (Meles meles) Setts over an Urbanized Landscape: A GLS Approach Within a heavily urbanized county with a small badger population, a predictive model was able to identity topographic and land-cover characteristics associated with main sett locations. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 66(4). 423–428. 17 indexed citations

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