Andrew M. Liebhold

32.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
346 papers, 19.1k citations indexed

About

Andrew M. Liebhold is a scholar working on Ecology, Insect Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew M. Liebhold has authored 346 papers receiving a total of 19.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 256 papers in Ecology, 156 papers in Insect Science and 149 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Andrew M. Liebhold's work include Forest Insect Ecology and Management (193 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (118 papers) and Plant and animal studies (107 papers). Andrew M. Liebhold is often cited by papers focused on Forest Insect Ecology and Management (193 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (118 papers) and Plant and animal studies (107 papers). Andrew M. Liebhold collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and New Zealand. Andrew M. Liebhold's co-authors include Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Patrick C. Tobin, Deborah G. McCullough, Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, David W. Williams, Walter D. Koenig, Joseph S. Elkinton, Alexei A. Sharov, Derek M. Johnson and Nathan W. Siegert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Andrew M. Liebhold

333 papers receiving 17.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Spatial Synchrony in Population Dynamics

2004 709 citations Andrew M. Liebhold, Ottar N. Bjørnstad et al. profile →
Population Ecology of Insect Invasions and Their Management

2007 486 citations Andrew M. Liebhold, Patrick C. Tobin profile →
Economic Impacts of Non-Native Forest Insects in the Continental United States

2011 478 citations Andrew M. Liebhold et al. profile →
Live plant imports: the major pathway for forest insect and pathogen invasions of the US

2012 462 citations Andrew M. Liebhold, Eckehard G. Brockerhoff et al. profile →
Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050

2020 446 citations Hanno Seebens, Andrew M. Liebhold et al. profile →
Invasion by Exotic Forest Pests: A Threat to Forest Ecosystems

1995 444 citations Andrew M. Liebhold et al. profile →
Nonnative forest insects and pathogens in the United States: Impacts and policy options

2016 280 citations Andrew M. Liebhold et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew M. Liebhold United States	72	12.2k	7.3k	5.9k	5.4k	4.3k	346	19.1k
Anthony R. Ives United States	74	8.6k 0.7×	3.7k 0.5×	10.1k 1.7×	7.7k 1.4×	4.9k 1.1×	243	23.8k
Otso Ovaskainen Finland	62	6.8k 0.6×	2.6k 0.4×	4.9k 0.8×	5.6k 1.0×	2.6k 0.6×	277	15.3k
Michael J. Crawley United Kingdom	58	8.6k 0.7×	3.1k 0.4×	8.3k 1.4×	8.8k 1.6×	2.6k 0.6×	152	20.0k
Wolfgang W. Weisser Germany	72	5.2k 0.4×	6.2k 0.8×	8.3k 1.4×	7.5k 1.4×	3.5k 0.8×	400	18.9k
Ilkka Hanski Finland	73	10.4k 0.9×	2.5k 0.3×	6.8k 1.1×	9.3k 1.7×	3.5k 0.8×	173	20.8k
Franck Courchamp France	64	12.8k 1.1×	3.1k 0.4×	5.4k 0.9×	6.8k 1.3×	4.6k 1.1×	216	23.4k
John Vandermeer United States	61	5.9k 0.5×	2.4k 0.3×	6.0k 1.0×	6.9k 1.3×	6.1k 1.4×	299	21.1k
Gary A. Polis United States	45	9.2k 0.8×	2.4k 0.3×	5.6k 1.0×	5.5k 1.0×	3.8k 0.9×	71	16.6k
Philip E. Hulme New Zealand	76	10.3k 0.8×	4.5k 0.6×	8.7k 1.5×	13.2k 2.5×	4.7k 1.1×	253	24.8k
Ilkka Hanski Finland	57	7.5k 0.6×	2.0k 0.3×	5.6k 0.9×	6.9k 1.3×	2.5k 0.6×	111	15.3k

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Mally, Richard, Rebecca M. Turner, Helen F. Nahrung, et al.. (2025). Insect invasion success depends on taxon and trophic group. NeoBiota. 99. 19–43. 2 indexed citations

Liebhold, Andrew M., et al.. (2025). A mechanistic statistical approach to infer invasion characteristics of human‐dispersed species with complex life cycle. Ecological Monographs. 95(1). 1 indexed citations

Turner, Rebecca M., Andrew M. Liebhold, Helen F. Nahrung, et al.. (2025). Correction: The known unknowns in international border interceptions of non‑native insects. Biological Invasions. 27(3). 1 indexed citations

Yamanaka, Takehiko, Rebecca M. Turner, Cléo Bertelsmeier, et al.. (2024). International imports and climatic filtering drive compositional variation in non‐native insect establishments. Diversity and Distributions. 30(7). 2 indexed citations

Sendek, Agnieszka, Marco Baity‐Jesi, Florian Altermatt, et al.. (2022). Fewer non‐native insects in freshwater than in terrestrial habitats across continents. Diversity and Distributions. 28(11). 2303–2315. 2 indexed citations

Kelly, Dave, et al.. (2022). The role of propagule pressure in experimental bark beetle invasions. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(2). 342–352. 6 indexed citations

Liebhold, Andrew M., Ann E. Hajek, Jonathan A. Walter, et al.. (2021). Historical change in the outbreak dynamics of an invading forest insect. Biological Invasions. 24(3). 879–889. 9 indexed citations

Blackburn, Laura, Joseph S. Elkinton, Nathan P. Havill, et al.. (2020). Predicting the invasion range for a highly polyphagous and widespread forest herbivore. NeoBiota. 59. 1–20. 4 indexed citations

Lampert, Adam & Andrew M. Liebhold. (2020). Combining multiple tactics over time for cost‐effective eradication of invading insect populations. Ecology Letters. 24(2). 279–287. 13 indexed citations

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Santini, Alberto, Andrew M. Liebhold, Duccio Migliorini, & Steve Woodward. (2018). Tracing the role of human civilization in the globalization of plant pathogens. The ISME Journal. 12(3). 647–652. 81 indexed citations

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Klapwijk, Maartje J., Jonathan A. Walter, Anikó Hirka, et al.. (2018). Transient synchrony among populations of five foliage‐feeding Lepidoptera. Journal of Animal Ecology. 87(4). 1058–1068. 15 indexed citations

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Osada, Y., et al.. (2018). Disentangling the drivers of invasion spread in a vector‐borne tree disease. Journal of Animal Ecology. 87(6). 1512–1524. 8 indexed citations

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Liebhold, Andrew M., Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, & Mark O. Kimberley. (2017). Depletion of heterogeneous source species pools predicts future invasion rates. Journal of Applied Ecology. 54(6). 1968–1977. 49 indexed citations

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Walter, Jonathan A., Lawrence W. Sheppard, Thomas L. Anderson, et al.. (2017). The geography of spatial synchrony. Ecology Letters. 20(7). 801–814. 108 indexed citations

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Brockerhoff, Eckehard G., Andrew M. Liebhold, B. Richardson, & D. M. Suckling. (2010). Eradication of invasive forest insects: concepts, methods, costs and benefits. New Zealand journal of forestry science. 40. 83 indexed citations

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Bjørnstad, Ottar N., Christelle Robinet, & Andrew M. Liebhold. (2010). Geographic variation in North American gypsy moth cycles: subharmonics, generalist predators, and spatial coupling. Ecology. 91(1). 106–118. 49 indexed citations

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Liebhold, Andrew M. & Patrick C. Tobin. (2010). Exploiting the Achilles Heels of Pest Invasions: Allee Effects, Stratified Dispersal and Management of Forest Insect Establishment and Spread †. New Zealand journal of forestry science. 40. 16 indexed citations

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Esper, Jan, Ulf Büntgen, David Frank, Daniel Nievergelt, & Andrew M. Liebhold. (2006). 1200 years of regular outbreaks in alpine insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 274(1610). 671–679. 172 indexed citations

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Johnson, Derek M., Ottar N. Bjørnstad, & Andrew M. Liebhold. (2004). Landscape geometry and travelling waves in the larch budmoth. Ecology Letters. 7(10). 967–974. 84 indexed citations

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Liebhold, Andrew M., et al.. (1999). The Evolving Use of Insecticides in Gypsy Moth Management. Journal of Forestry. 97(3). 20–23. 9 indexed citations

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