C. Patrick Doncaster

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

C. Patrick Doncaster is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Patrick Doncaster has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 32 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in C. Patrick Doncaster's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (54 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (27 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers). C. Patrick Doncaster is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (54 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (27 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers). C. Patrick Doncaster collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Belize. C. Patrick Doncaster's co-authors include Chris R. Dickman, David W. Macdonald, Bart J. Harmsen, Rebecca J. Foster, Carlo Rondinini, Andrew J. H. Davey, Linde E. T. Ostro, Scott C. Silver, Alex Rogers and Jake L. Snaddon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

C. Patrick Doncaster

135 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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AudioMoth: Evaluation of a smart open acoustic device for monitoring biodiversity and the environment

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. Patrick Doncaster United Kingdom	43	3.9k	1.3k	1.1k	1.0k	817	139	5.9k
David Saltz Israel	34	4.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.4×	742 0.7×	919 1.1×	118	5.9k
Thomas Mueller Germany	40	4.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	703 0.7×	893 1.1×	92	6.1k
Clément Calenge France	23	4.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	526 0.5×	840 1.0×	63	5.0k
Colleen Cassady St. Clair Canada	40	3.8k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	887 0.8×	490 0.5×	819 1.0×	109	4.8k
Peter B. Banks Australia	45	4.9k 1.3×	2.2k 1.7×	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	765 0.9×	191	6.4k
Philip J. Seddon New Zealand	37	4.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.7×	1.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	185	6.3k
Luca Börger United Kingdom	31	3.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	1.9k 1.7×	516 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	92	5.6k
Todd K. Fuller United States	40	6.9k 1.8×	1.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	1.5k 1.5×	722 0.9×	177	8.1k
Robert Kenward United Kingdom	39	5.8k 1.5×	2.0k 1.5×	1.8k 1.6×	669 0.7×	740 0.9×	94	6.7k
Hervé Fritz France	53	6.1k 1.6×	2.0k 1.6×	2.2k 2.0×	904 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	300	9.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. Patrick Doncaster

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Snaddon, Jake L., et al.. (2025). A comparison of statistical methods for deriving occupancy estimates from machine learning outputs. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 14700–14700.

Middleton, Owen, et al.. (2023). Neo‐tropical felid activity patterns in relation to potential prey and intraguild competitors in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Biotropica. 55(5). 969–977. 1 indexed citations

Piña‐Covarrubias, Evelyn, et al.. (2022). Ecology of large felids and their prey in small reserves of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy. 104(1). 115–127. 5 indexed citations

Spake, Rebecca, Rose E. O’Dea, Shinichi Nakagawa, et al.. (2022). Improving quantitative synthesis to achieve generality in ecology. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(12). 1818–1828. 32 indexed citations

Langdon, Peter G., C. Patrick Doncaster, John A. Dearing, et al.. (2021). Late Quaternary chironomid community structure shaped by rate and magnitude of climate change. Journal of Quaternary Science. 36(3). 360–376. 11 indexed citations

Spake, Rebecca, Akira Mori, Michael Beckmann, et al.. (2020). Implications of scale dependence for cross‐study syntheses of biodiversity differences. Ecology Letters. 24(2). 374–390. 35 indexed citations

Prince, Peter, et al.. (2019). Leveraging conservation action with open‐source hardware. Conservation Letters. 12(5). 14 indexed citations

Prince, Peter, et al.. (2019). Deploying Acoustic Detection Algorithms on Low-Cost, Open-Source Acoustic Sensors for Environmental Monitoring. Sensors. 19(3). 553–553. 51 indexed citations

Hawkins, SJ, et al.. (2015). Effects of simulated human exploitation of a key grazer, Patella vulgata, on rocky shore assemblages. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 533. 163–176. 6 indexed citations

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Watson, Richard A., et al.. (2015). What can ecosystems learn? Expanding evolutionary ecology with learning theory. Biology Direct. 10(1). 69–69. 47 indexed citations

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Spake, Rebecca, Sietse van der Linde, Adrian C. Newton, et al.. (2015). Similar biodiversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi in set-aside plantations and ancient old-growth broadleaved forests. Biological Conservation. 194. 71–79. 38 indexed citations

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Spake, Rebecca, Nadia Barsoum, Adrian C. Newton, & C. Patrick Doncaster. (2015). Drivers of the composition and diversity of carabid functional traits in UK coniferous plantations. Forest Ecology and Management. 359. 300–308. 35 indexed citations

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Young, Richard P., Robbie A. McDonald, Gavin Wilson, et al.. (2014). Impacts of Removing Badgers on Localised Counts of Hedgehogs. PLoS ONE. 9(4). e95477–e95477. 35 indexed citations

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Doncaster, C. Patrick, et al.. (2013). Detecting regime shifts in artificial ecosystems. 625–632.

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Rowe, Rebecca, et al.. (2013). Evaluating ecosystem processes in willow short rotation coppice bioenergy plantations. GCB Bioenergy. 5(3). 257–266. 31 indexed citations

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Harmsen, Bart J., Rebecca J. Foster, & C. Patrick Doncaster. (2010). Heterogeneous capture rates in low density populations and consequences for capture‐recapture analysis of camera‐trap data. Population Ecology. 53(1). 253–259. 43 indexed citations

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Doncaster, C. Patrick. (2009). Ecological Equivalence: A Realistic Assumption for Niche Theory as a Testable Alternative to Neutral Theory. PLoS ONE. 4(10). e7460–e7460. 22 indexed citations

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Pound, G.E., C. Patrick Doncaster, & Simón Cox. (2002). A Lotka–Volterra Model of Coexistence between a Sexual Population and Multiple Asexual Clones. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 217(4). 535–545. 25 indexed citations

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Becher, S. A., et al.. (2000). Five new polymorphic microsatellite loci in the European hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus. Molecular Ecology. 9(11). 1949–1951. 14 indexed citations

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Doncaster, C. Patrick, Jean Clobert, Blandine Doligez, Lars Gustafsson, & Étienne Danchin. (1997). Balanced Dispersal Between Spatially Varying Local Populations: An Alternative To The Source‐Sink Model. The American Naturalist. 150(4). 425–445. 150 indexed citations

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