Andy Purvis

49.4k total citations · 12 hit papers
196 papers, 23.6k citations indexed

About

Andy Purvis is a scholar working on Ecology, Paleontology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Andy Purvis has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 23.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Ecology, 71 papers in Paleontology and 67 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Andy Purvis's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (71 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (66 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (57 papers). Andy Purvis is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (71 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (66 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (57 papers). Andy Purvis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Andy Purvis's co-authors include John L. Gittleman, Georgina M. Mace, Olaf R. P. Bininda‐Emonds, Kate E. Jones, Marcel Cardillo, Susanne A. Fritz, Andrew Rambaut, Andy Hector, Jon Bielby and Guy Cowlishaw and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Andy Purvis

190 papers receiving 22.7k 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.

The delayed rise of present-day mammals

2007 1.6k citations Olaf R. P. Bininda‐Emonds, Marcel Cardillo et al. profile →
Predicting extinction risk in declining species

2000 1.3k citations Andy Purvis, John L. Gittleman et al. profile →
Comparative analysis by independent contrasts (CAIC): an Apple Macintosh application for analysing comparative data

1995 1.0k citations Andy Purvis et al. profile →
Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species

2005 977 citations Marcel Cardillo, Georgina M. Mace et al. Science profile →
Getting the measure of biodiversity

2000 902 citations Andy Purvis et al. profile →
Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits

2010 698 citations Andy Purvis et al. profile →
EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA

2010 667 citations John L. Gittleman, Andy Purvis et al. profile →
A composite estimate of primate phylogeny

1995 561 citations Andy Purvis profile →
Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide

2016 554 citations Samantha L. L. Hill, Tim Newbold et al. profile →
The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss

2022 450 citations Pedro Jaureguiberry, Ute Jacob et al. profile →
Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

2013 439 citations Andy Purvis, Georgina M. Mace et al. profile →
Aiming higher to bend the curve of biodiversity loss

2018 313 citations Georgina M. Mace, Andy Purvis et al. profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andy Purvis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andy Purvis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andy Purvis 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 Andy Purvis. Andy Purvis is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Multithreat Meta‐Analytic Database for Understanding Insect Biodiversity Change 2025 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Joseph Millard, (unknown), Andrew J. Bladon, Rob Cooke, Charlotte L. Outhwaite, James G. Rodger, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Lynn V. Dicks, Cang Hui, J. Iwan Jones, Ben A. Woodcock, Nick J. B. Isaac, Andy Purvis	0
2	Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change 2025 ·Science ·Rob Cooke, Charlotte L. Outhwaite, Andrew J. Bladon, Joseph Millard, James G. Rodger, Zhaoke Dong, Ellie E. Dyer, (unknown), John F. Murphy, Lynn V. Dicks, Cang Hui, J. Iwan Jones, Tim Newbold, Andy Purvis, Helen E. Roy, Ben A. Woodcock, Nick J. B. Isaac	0
3	How land use affects biodiversity: An analysis of the differences in the effects recorded on different continents 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Andy Purvis	4
4	Effects of land use and soil properties on taxon richness and abundance of soil assemblages 2023 ·European Journal of Soil Science ·Victoria J. Burton, Andrés Baselga, Adriana De Palma, Helen R. P. Phillips, Christian Mulder, Paul Eggleton, Andy Purvis	8
5	The Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summaries for the year 1970 to 2050 under various scenarios 2021 ·Helen R. P. Phillips, Adriana De Palma, (unknown), Sara Contu, Samantha L. L. Hill, Andrés Baselga, Luca Börger, Andy Purvis	3
6	Combining mitigation strategies to increase co-benefits for biodiversity and food security 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·(unknown), Adriana De Palma, Patrice Dumas, (unknown), Paul Leadley, Harold Levrel, Andy Purvis, Thierry Brunelle	19
7	Dynamism and context‐dependency in diversification of the megadiverse plant genus Solanum (Solanaceae) 2020 ·Journal of Systematics and Evolution ·Susy Echeverría‐Londoño, Tiina Särkinen, Isabel S. Fenton, Andy Purvis, Sandra Knapp	29
8	Chapter 2.2 Status and Trends –Nature 2019 ·Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Andy Purvis, Zsolt Molnár, David Obura, Kazuhito Ichii, Katherine J. Willis, Nakul Chettri, (unknown), Andrew P. Hendry, (unknown), Julian Gutt, Ute Jacob, Emre Keskin, Aidin Niamir, Bayram Öztürk, (unknown), Pedro Jaureguiberry	13
9	Evaluating the efficacy of small‐scale marine protected areas for preserving reef health: A case study applying emerging monitoring technology 2019 ·Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems ·Daniel T. I. Bayley, Andrew O. M. Mogg, Andy Purvis, Heather J. Koldewey	19
10	Ecological traits affect the sensitivity of bees to land‐use pressures in European agricultural landscapes 2015 ·Journal of Applied Ecology ·Adriana De Palma, Michael Kuhlmann, Stuart P. M. Roberts, Simon G. Potts, Luca Börger, Lawrence N. Hudson, Igor Lysenko, Tim Newbold, Andy Purvis	115
11	paleoPhylo: free software to draw paleobiological phylogenies 2009 ·Paleobiology ·Thomas H. G. Ezard, Andy Purvis	14
12	The delayed rise of present-day mammals (vol 446, pg 507, 2007) 2008 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), Marcel Cardillo, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Richard Grenyer, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Andy Purvis	1
13	Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation 2006 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Marcel Cardillo, Georgina M. Mace, John L. Gittleman, Andy Purvis	229
14	Problems of studying extinction risks - Response 2005 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Marcel Cardillo, Georgina M. Mace, Andy Purvis	1
15	Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species breakdown → 2005 ·Science ·Marcel Cardillo, Georgina M. Mace, Kate E. Jones, Jon Bielby, Olaf R. P. Bininda‐Emonds, Wes Sechrest, C. David L. Orme, Andy Purvis	977
16	Macroevolutionary trends in the Dinosauria: Cope's rule 2005 ·Journal of Evolutionary Biology ·(unknown), (unknown), Davide Pisani, Andy Purvis	85
17	Power of Eight Tree Shape Statistics to Detect Nonrandom Diversification: A Comparison by Simulation of Two Models of Cladogenesis 2002 ·Systematic Biology ·Paul‐Michael Agapow, Andy Purvis	73
18	Phylogeny and Conservation 2001 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·(unknown), Andy Purvis, Elizabeth A. Sinclair, Paul‐Michael Agapow, John C. Avise, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Arne Ø. Mooers, Kate E. Jones, (unknown), Jon C. Lovett, Guy F. Midgley, Craig Moritz, Thomas M. Brooks, Peter M. Bennett, José Maria Cardoso da Silva, Julie L. Lockwood, (unknown), Timothy G. Barraclough	43
19	Building large trees by combining phylogenetic information: a complete phylogeny of the extant Carnivora (Mammalia) 1999 ·Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ·Olaf R. P. Bininda‐Emonds, John L. Gittleman, Andy Purvis	474
20	A short note on the findings of schistosomes in baboons (Papio rhodesiae). 1965 ·PubMed ·Andy Purvis, (unknown), (unknown)	4

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