Benjamin H. Letcher

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

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Benjamin H. Letcher is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin H. Letcher has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 66 papers in Ecology and 39 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Benjamin H. Letcher's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (100 papers), Marine and fisheries research (31 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (23 papers). Benjamin H. Letcher is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (100 papers), Marine and fisheries research (31 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (23 papers). Benjamin H. Letcher collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Benjamin H. Letcher's co-authors include Keith H. Nislow, Jason A. Coombs, Andrew R. Whiteley, Gabe Gries, Yoichiro Kanno, Matthew J. O’Donnell, Gregg E. Horton, Todd L. Dubreuil, Nadia Aubin‐Horth and Mark Hudy and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin H. Letcher

120 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Distance, flow and PCR inhibition: eDNA dynamics in two headwater streams

2014 436 citations Benjamin H. Letcher, Andrew R. Whiteley et al. Molecular Ecology Resources profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin H. Letcher United States	43	3.9k	3.1k	1.3k	1.3k	859	124	5.5k
Nicholas E. Mandrak Canada	38	4.1k 1.0×	3.7k 1.2×	783 0.6×	931 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	216	5.8k
Bernard Hugueny France	44	4.5k 1.2×	3.8k 1.2×	629 0.5×	661 0.5×	1.5k 1.7×	100	6.2k
Sébastien Brosse France	48	5.3k 1.4×	4.6k 1.5×	558 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.9k 2.2×	142	7.7k
Fabien Leprieur France	42	3.5k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	602 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	97	5.7k
Winsor H. Lowe United States	37	2.7k 0.7×	4.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	245 0.3×	96	6.2k
Gaël Grenouillet France	42	4.8k 1.2×	4.1k 1.3×	577 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	123	7.2k
Sigurd Einum Norway	33	3.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	105	4.8k
Jay R. Stauffer United States	35	3.1k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	875 0.7×	762 0.6×	1.7k 1.9×	217	5.0k
Charles C. Krueger United States	40	4.3k 1.1×	3.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.6×	170	5.2k
Carlos García de Leániz United Kingdom	39	2.2k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	862 0.7×	855 1.0×	134	4.2k

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Fair, Jennifer H., et al.. (2025). Technical note: A low-cost approach to monitoring relative streamflow dynamics in small headwater streams using time lapse imagery and a deep learning model. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(22). 6445–6460.

O’Donnell, Michael J., Amy M. Regish, Stephen D. McCormick, & Benjamin H. Letcher. (2025). How quickly do brook trout lose long-term thermal acclimation?. Journal of Thermal Biology. 129. 104103–104103.

Jia, Kebin, et al.. (2024). Bringing vision to climate: A hierarchical model for water depth monitoring in headwater streams. Information Fusion. 110. 102448–102448. 1 indexed citations

Childress, Evan S., C. Andrew Dolloff, Nathaniel P. Hitt, et al.. (2023). Spatial asynchrony and cross‐scale climate interactions in populations of a coldwater stream fish. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17029–e17029. 4 indexed citations

Whiteley, Andrew R., et al.. (2023). A new genomic resource to enable standardized surveys of SNPs across the native range of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(5). e13853–e13853. 5 indexed citations

Andrews, Caitlin M., Joseph A. Bard, David S. Blehert, et al.. (2023). Community for data integration 2019 project report. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Zhongliang, Nathaniel P. Hitt, Benjamin H. Letcher, Weili Shi, & Sheng Li. (2022). Pigmentation-based Visual Learning for Salvelinus fontinalis Individual Re-identification. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 6850–6852. 2 indexed citations

O’Donnell, Matthew J., Amy M. Regish, Stephen D. McCormick, & Benjamin H. Letcher. (2020). How repeatable is CTmax within individual brook trout over short- and long-time intervals?. Journal of Thermal Biology. 89. 102559–102559. 33 indexed citations

Letcher, Benjamin H., et al.. (2016). A hierarchical model of daily stream temperature using air-water temperature synchronization, autocorrelation, and time lags. PeerJ. 4. e1727–e1727. 77 indexed citations

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Kanno, Yoichiro, Jason C. Vokoun, & Benjamin H. Letcher. (2011). Fine‐scale population structure and riverscape genetics of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) distributed continuously along headwater channel networks. Molecular Ecology. 20(18). 3711–3729. 104 indexed citations

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Letcher, Benjamin H., Jason A. Coombs, & Keith H. Nislow. (2011). Maintenance of phenotypic variation: repeatability, heritability and size-dependent processes in a wild brook trout population. Evolutionary Applications. 4(4). 602–615. 33 indexed citations

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Aubin‐Horth, Nadia, Benjamin H. Letcher, & Hans A. Hofmann. (2009). Gene-expression signatures of Atlantic salmon’s plastic life cycle. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 163(3). 278–284. 42 indexed citations

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Coombs, Jason A., Benjamin H. Letcher, & Keith H. Nislow. (2009). pedagog: software for simulating eco‐evolutionary population dynamics. Molecular Ecology Resources. 10(3). 558–563. 25 indexed citations

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Leániz, Carlos García de, Ian Fleming, Sigurd Einum, et al.. (2007). A critical review of adaptive genetic variation in Atlantic salmon: implications for conservation. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 82(2). 173–211. 352 indexed citations

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Letcher, Benjamin H., Keith H. Nislow, Jason A. Coombs, Matthew J. O’Donnell, & Todd L. Dubreuil. (2007). Population Response to Habitat Fragmentation in a Stream-Dwelling Brook Trout Population. PLoS ONE. 2(11). e1139–e1139. 159 indexed citations

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Aubin‐Horth, Nadia, Christian R. Landry, Benjamin H. Letcher, & Hans A. Hofmann. (2005). Alternative life histories shape brain gene expression profiles in males of the same population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 272(1573). 1655–1662. 131 indexed citations

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Letcher, Benjamin H., Gregg E. Horton, Todd L. Dubreuil, & Matthew J. O’Donnell. (2005). A field test of the extent of bias in selection estimates after accounting for emigration. Evolutionary ecology research. 7(4). 643–650. 10 indexed citations

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Aubin‐Horth, Nadia, Benjamin H. Letcher, & Hans A. Hofmann. (2005). Interaction of Rearing Environment and Reproductive Tactic on Gene Expression Profiles in Atlantic Salmon. Journal of Heredity. 96(3). 261–278. 48 indexed citations

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Carlson, Stephanie M., Andrew P. Hendry, & Benjamin H. Letcher. (2004). Natural selection acting on body size, growth rate and compensatory growth: an empirical test in a wild trout population. Evolutionary ecology research. 6(7). 955–973. 51 indexed citations

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Letcher, Benjamin H.. (2003). Life history dependent morphometric variation in stream-dwelling Atlantic salmon. Oecologia. 137(4). 533–540. 10 indexed citations

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