Andrew D. C. MacColl

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
78 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Andrew D. C. MacColl is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew D. C. MacColl has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Ecology, 37 papers in Genetics and 24 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Andrew D. C. MacColl's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (25 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (23 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (21 papers). Andrew D. C. MacColl is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (25 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (23 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (21 papers). Andrew D. C. MacColl collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Andrew D. C. MacColl's co-authors include Ben J. Hatchwell, T. H. Clutton‐Brock, Tim Clutton‐Brock, Stuart B. Piertney, John F. Dallas, J. D. Skinner, P. R. Chadwick, David Gaynor, Ruth Kansky and P. J. Bacon and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Andrew D. C. MacColl

74 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection

2017 266 citations Adam M. Siepielski, Michael B. Morrissey et al. Science profile →
Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience

2024 50 citations Andrew D. C. MacColl et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew D. C. MacColl United Kingdom	30	1.8k	1.5k	1.3k	631	331	78	3.4k
Jason Munshi‐South United States	29	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	988 0.8×	404 0.6×	641 1.9×	76	3.3k
Michael B. Morrissey United Kingdom	31	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.6×	364 1.1×	68	3.1k
Daniel R. Stahler United States	34	2.9k 1.6×	741 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	481 0.8×	220 0.7×	90	4.0k
Sipke E. van Wieren Netherlands	36	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	526 0.4×	804 1.3×	531 1.6×	78	3.7k
Catherine E. Grueber Australia	30	1.9k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	886 1.4×	515 1.6×	97	4.0k
Mats Björklund Sweden	39	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	845 1.3×	446 1.3×	136	4.0k
John G. Ewen United Kingdom	35	2.5k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	666 0.5×	769 1.2×	359 1.1×	166	3.7k
Pim Edelaar Spain	27	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	994 0.8×	620 1.0×	314 0.9×	67	2.4k
Christophe Bonenfant France	36	2.9k 1.6×	1.2k 0.8×	794 0.6×	695 1.1×	375 1.1×	92	3.8k
Fanie Pelletier Canada	43	3.6k 2.0×	2.0k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	942 1.5×	545 1.6×	180	5.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

MacColl, Andrew D. C.. (2026). Ecological speciation in allopatry is rooted in older divergence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(14). e2603393123–e2603393123.

Begum, Mahmuda, Victoria Nolan, & Andrew D. C. MacColl. (2023). Ecological constraint, rather than opportunity, promotes adaptive radiation in three‐spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) on North Uist. Ecology and Evolution. 13(1). e9716–e9716. 1 indexed citations

Magalhaes, Isabel S., James R. Whiting, Paul A. Hohenlohe, et al.. (2020). Intercontinental genomic parallelism in multiple three-spined stickleback adaptive radiations. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(2). 251–261. 47 indexed citations

Xie, Kathleen T., Guliang Wang, Julia Wücherpfennig, et al.. (2019). DNA fragility in the parallel evolution of pelvic reduction in stickleback fish. Science. 363(6422). 81–84. 140 indexed citations

MacColl, Andrew D. C., et al.. (2019). Resources are more important than predation in driving the size at maturation of freshwater Threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Evolutionary ecology research. 20(3). 265–278. 1 indexed citations

Dean, Laura, et al.. (2019). Internal embryonic development in a non-copulatory, egg-laying teleost, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 2395–2395. 4 indexed citations

Siepielski, Adam M., Michael B. Morrissey, Mathieu Buoro, et al.. (2017). Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection. Science. 355(6328). 959–962. 266 indexed citations breakdown →

Bradley, Janette E., et al.. (2017). Abiotic environmental variation drives virulence evolution in a fish host–parasite geographic mosaic. Functional Ecology. 31(11). 2138–2146. 8 indexed citations

Robertson, Shaun, Janette E. Bradley, & Andrew D. C. MacColl. (2016). Parallelism and divergence in immune responses: a comparison of expression levels in two lakes. Evolutionary ecology research. 17(2). 263–278. 4 indexed citations

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Robertson, Shaun, Janette E. Bradley, & Andrew D. C. MacColl. (2015). Measuring the immune system of the three‐spined stickleback – investigating natural variation by quantifying immune expression in the laboratory and the wild. Molecular Ecology Resources. 16(3). 701–713. 29 indexed citations

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MacColl, Andrew D. C., et al.. (2014). Significant effects of season and bird age on use of coppice woodland by songbirds. Ibis. 156(3). 561–575. 6 indexed citations

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MacColl, Andrew D. C., et al.. (2012). The evolutionary ecology of dwarfism in three‐spined sticklebacks. Journal of Animal Ecology. 82(3). 642–652. 37 indexed citations

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MacColl, Andrew D. C., et al.. (2011). A benthic predatory fish does not cause selection on armour traits in three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus (Gasterosteiformes: Gasterosteidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104(4). 877–885. 4 indexed citations

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MacColl, Andrew D. C., et al.. (2010). Income sources and their relation to wildlife poaching in Ugalla ecosystem, Western Tanzania.. African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 4(12). 886–896. 27 indexed citations

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MacColl, Andrew D. C. & Ian R. Stevenson. (2003). Stasis in the Morph Ratio Cline in the Bananaquit on Grenada, West Indies. Ornithological Applications. 105(4). 821–825. 1 indexed citations

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MacColl, Andrew D. C. & Ben J. Hatchwell. (2002). Temporal Variation in Fitness Payoffs Promotes Cooperative Breeding in Long‐Tailed Tits Aegithalos caudatus. The American Naturalist. 160(2). 186–194. 50 indexed citations

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MacColl, Andrew D. C., Stuart B. Piertney, Robert L. Moss, & Xavier Lambin. (2000). Spatial arrangement of kin affects recruitment success in young male red grouse. Oikos. 90(2). 261–270. 58 indexed citations

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Piertney, Stuart B., Andrew D. C. MacColl, Xavier Lambin, Robert L. Moss, & John F. Dallas. (1999). Spatial distribution of genetic relatedness in a moorland population of red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 68(1-2). 317–331. 52 indexed citations

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Coltman, David W., Judith A. Smith, David Bancroft, et al.. (1999). Density‐Dependent Variation in Lifetime Breeding Success and Natural and Sexual Selection in Soay Rams. The American Naturalist. 154(6). 730–746. 124 indexed citations

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Piertney, Stuart B., Andrew D. C. MacColl, P. J. Bacon, & John F. Dallas. (1998). Local genetic structure in red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus): evidence from microsatellite DNA markers. Molecular Ecology. 7(12). 1645–1654. 180 indexed citations

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