Amy Whitehead

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Amy Whitehead is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy Whitehead has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Ecology, 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Amy Whitehead's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (9 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (7 papers). Amy Whitehead is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (9 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (7 papers). Amy Whitehead collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and United States. Amy Whitehead's co-authors include Heini Kujala, Brendan A. Wintle, Pia E. Lentini, Ascelin Gordon, Sam Veloz, Sarah Bekessy, Natasha C. R. Cadenhead, Aija S. Kukkala, Atte Moilanen and A. Cameron and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Amy Whitehead

43 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Global synthesis of conservation studies reveals the importance of small habitat patches for biodiversity

2018 362 citations Brendan A. Wintle, Heini Kujala et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amy Whitehead New Zealand	16	509	425	353	177	172	46	1.1k
Aliny P. F. Pires Brazil	17	529 1.0×	385 0.9×	224 0.6×	128 0.7×	124 0.7×	42	1.3k
Tim Boucher United States	7	406 0.8×	539 1.3×	253 0.7×	102 0.6×	128 0.7×	7	1.1k
Roger B. Griffis United States	12	659 1.3×	675 1.6×	306 0.9×	148 0.8×	273 1.6×	26	1.5k
Isabel M.D. Rosa United Kingdom	21	462 0.9×	772 1.8×	222 0.6×	113 0.6×	117 0.7×	41	1.2k
Jean C. Sifneos United States	14	466 0.9×	293 0.7×	445 1.3×	127 0.7×	174 1.0×	23	903
Letícia Couto Garcia Brazil	19	399 0.8×	710 1.7×	485 1.4×	169 1.0×	206 1.2×	48	1.5k
Ken Vance‐Borland United States	15	621 1.2×	536 1.3×	462 1.3×	190 1.1×	151 0.9×	20	1.2k
Gregor W. Schuurman United States	19	484 1.0×	604 1.4×	392 1.1×	89 0.5×	304 1.8×	37	1.3k
Inês S. Martins Germany	12	469 0.9×	552 1.3×	377 1.1×	117 0.7×	300 1.7×	17	1.2k
Rachel Neugarten United States	12	451 0.9×	574 1.4×	259 0.7×	168 0.9×	227 1.3×	18	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amy Whitehead

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amy Whitehead. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amy Whitehead based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Amy Whitehead. Amy Whitehead is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Streeter, M. J. V., E. Gerstmayr, L. Romagnani, et al.. (2023). Experimental characterization of a single-shot spectrometer for high-flux, GeV-scale gamma-ray beams. Physical Review Research. 5(4). 2 indexed citations

Stoffels, Rick J., et al.. (2023). Assigning trend‐based conservation status despite high uncertainty. Conservation Biology. 37(4). e14084–e14084. 2 indexed citations

Broekhuizen, Niall, et al.. (2023). Seasonal forecasting of mussel aquaculture meat yield in the Pelorus Sound. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 1 indexed citations

Leathwick, John R., et al.. (2023). Establishing an evidence-based framework for the systematic conservation of New Zealand’s terrestrial ecosystems. New Zealand Journal of Ecology.

Whitehead, Amy, John R. Leathwick, D. J. Booker, & Angus R. McIntosh. (2022). Quantifying the relative contributions of habitat modification and mammalian predators on landscape-scale declines of a threatened river specialist duck. PLoS ONE. 17(12). e0277820–e0277820. 1 indexed citations

Snelder, Ton H., Linda Lilburne, D. J. Booker, et al.. (2022). Land-use Suitability is Not an Intrinsic Property of a Land Parcel. Environmental Management. 71(5). 981–997. 6 indexed citations

Snelder, Ton H., et al.. (2021). Attribution of river water-quality trends to agricultural land use and climate variability in New Zealand. Marine and Freshwater Research. 73(1). 1–19. 13 indexed citations

Crow, Shannan K., et al.. (2020). Incorporating Māori values into land management decision tools. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 54(3). 431–448. 6 indexed citations

Snelder, Ton H., et al.. (2020). Current state of water quality indicators in urban streams in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 54(3). 354–371. 10 indexed citations

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Snelder, Ton H., Amy Whitehead, Caroline Fraser, Scott T. Larned, & Marc Schallenberg. (2020). Nitrogen loads to New Zealand aquatic receiving environments: comparison with regulatory criteria. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 54(3). 527–550. 19 indexed citations

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Elliott, Alexander H., et al.. (2019). A Heuristic Method for Determining Changes of Source Loads to Comply with Water Quality Limits in Catchments. Environmental Management. 65(2). 272–285. 5 indexed citations

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Lescroël, Amélie, Dennis Jongsomjit, Sam Veloz, et al.. (2019). Inter-individual differences in the foraging behavior of breeding Adélie penguins are driven by individual quality and sex. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 636. 189–205. 15 indexed citations

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Wintle, Brendan A., Heini Kujala, Amy Whitehead, et al.. (2018). Global synthesis of conservation studies reveals the importance of small habitat patches for biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(3). 909–914. 362 indexed citations breakdown →

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Whitehead, Amy & D. J. Booker. (2018). Communicating biophysical conditions across New Zealand's rivers using an interactive webtool. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 53(2). 278–287. 6 indexed citations

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Booker, D. J. & Amy Whitehead. (2018). Inside or Outside: Quantifying Extrapolation Across River Networks. Water Resources Research. 54(9). 6983–7003. 12 indexed citations

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Samaraweera, Amal, Margareta A. Clarke, Amy Whitehead, et al.. (2016). The Central Vein Sign in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions Is Present Irrespective of the T2* Sequence at 3 T. Journal of Neuroimaging. 27(1). 114–121. 41 indexed citations

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Jones, Catherine S., Phil O’B. Lyver, Amy Whitehead, et al.. (2015). Grey‐faced petrel ( Pterodroma gouldi ) productivity unaffected by kiore (Pacific rats, Rattus exulans ) on a New Zealand offshore island. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 42(3). 131–144. 4 indexed citations

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Lechner, Alex M., Neil McIntyre, Heini Kujala, et al.. (2015). A GIS tool for land and water use planning in mining regions. Lincoln Repository (University of Lincoln). 5 indexed citations

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Whitehead, Amy. (2009). Tools for managing threatened species: improving the effectiveness of whio conservation. University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury). 2 indexed citations

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Heath, David & Amy Whitehead. (1992). A survey of pond loss in Essex, South‐east England. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 2(3). 267–273. 24 indexed citations

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