Casey Youngflesh

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 616 citations indexed

About

Casey Youngflesh is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Casey Youngflesh has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 616 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Ecological Modeling and 7 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Casey Youngflesh's work include Avian ecology and behavior (13 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers). Casey Youngflesh is often cited by papers focused on Avian ecology and behavior (13 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers). Casey Youngflesh collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Casey Youngflesh's co-authors include Morgan W. Tingley, Graham A. Montgomery, Heather J. Lynch, James F. Saracco, Rodney B. Siegel, Montague H. C. Neate‐Clegg, David A. Miller, Allen H. Hurlbert, Stéphanie Jenouvrier and Robert Guralnick and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Casey Youngflesh

22 papers receiving 605 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.

Traits shaping urban tolerance in birds differ around the world

2023 62 citations Montague H. C. Neate‐Clegg, Casey Youngflesh et al. Current Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Casey Youngflesh United States	12	452	215	145	144	136	25	616
Birgit Erni South Africa	15	489 1.1×	220 1.0×	242 1.7×	189 1.3×	161 1.2×	27	664
Karsten Laursen Denmark	14	490 1.1×	173 0.8×	117 0.8×	160 1.1×	180 1.3×	47	660
Marcelo M. Weber Brazil	11	258 0.6×	246 1.1×	165 1.1×	159 1.1×	138 1.0×	25	501
Rachel V. Blakey United States	14	298 0.7×	150 0.7×	214 1.5×	146 1.0×	231 1.7×	29	575
Anna M. Calvert Canada	14	624 1.4×	147 0.7×	119 0.8×	155 1.1×	142 1.0×	32	724
Christopher J. Wheatley United Kingdom	9	252 0.6×	279 1.3×	159 1.1×	188 1.3×	161 1.2×	23	637
Ann E. McKellar Canada	13	414 0.9×	143 0.7×	190 1.3×	144 1.0×	134 1.0×	44	565
Glenn E. Stauffer United States	12	445 1.0×	198 0.9×	69 0.5×	146 1.0×	95 0.7×	20	539
Giovanni Rapacciuolo United States	15	359 0.8×	456 2.1×	176 1.2×	320 2.2×	172 1.3×	20	694
Thierry Onkelinx Belgium	12	271 0.6×	124 0.6×	125 0.9×	202 1.4×	156 1.1×	41	589

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20 of 20 papers shown

Youngflesh, Casey, et al.. (2026). An ecological cascade links climatic variability to avian irruptions and zoonotic salmonellosis outbreaks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(3). e2511209123–e2511209123.

Youngflesh, Casey, et al.. (2025). Shifting Gears in a Shifting Climate: Birds Adjust Migration Speed in Response to Spring Vegetation Green‐Up. Diversity and Distributions. 31(5).

Belitz, Michael W., Elise A. Larsen, Allen H. Hurlbert, et al.. (2025). Potential for bird–insect phenological mismatch in a tri‐trophic system. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(4). 717–728. 2 indexed citations

Youngflesh, Casey, et al.. (2025). Environmental Variability Shapes Life History of the World's Birds. Ecology Letters. 28(2). e70077–e70077. 1 indexed citations

Youngflesh, Casey, et al.. (2024). Spatial Nonstationarity in Phenological Responses of Nearctic Birds to Climate Variability. Ecology Letters. 27(10). e14526–e14526. 3 indexed citations

Preston, Stephen, Casey Youngflesh, Gemma V. Clucas, et al.. (2024). The influence of biotic and abiotic factors on the bacterial microbiome of gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) in their natural environment. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 17933–17933. 1 indexed citations

Grames, Eliza M., Graham A. Montgomery, Casey Youngflesh, Morgan W. Tingley, & Chris S. Elphick. (2023). The effect of insect food availability on songbird reproductive success and chick body condition: Evidence from a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters. 26(4). 658–673. 39 indexed citations

Neate‐Clegg, Montague H. C., Casey Youngflesh, Joanna X. Wu, et al.. (2023). Traits shaping urban tolerance in birds differ around the world. Current Biology. 33(9). 1677–1688.e6. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

Youngflesh, Casey, et al.. (2023). Geomagnetic disturbance associated with increased vagrancy in migratory landbirds. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 414–414. 16 indexed citations

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Youngflesh, Casey, James F. Saracco, Rodney B. Siegel, & Morgan W. Tingley. (2022). Abiotic conditions shape spatial and temporal morphological variation in North American birds. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(12). 1860–1870. 49 indexed citations

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Youngflesh, Casey, Jacob B. Socolar, Ali Arab, et al.. (2021). Migratory strategy drives species-level variation in bird sensitivity to vegetation green-up. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(7). 987–994. 64 indexed citations

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Lange, Orlando de, et al.. (2021). Broadening Participation: 21st Century Opportunities for Amateurs in Biology Research. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 61(6). 2294–2305. 5 indexed citations

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Rollinson, Christine R., Andrew O. Finley, M. Ross Alexander, et al.. (2021). Working across space and time: nonstationarity in ecological research and application. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 19(1). 66–72. 94 indexed citations

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Youngflesh, Casey, et al.. (2020). Large‐scale assessment of intra‐ and inter‐annual breeding success using a remote camera network. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 7(1). 97–108. 9 indexed citations

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Youngflesh, Casey, et al.. (2019). Tourism and stress hormone measures in Gentoo Penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biology. 42(7). 1299–1306. 21 indexed citations

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Youngflesh, Casey, Gemma V. Clucas, Steven C. Forrest, et al.. (2018). Multi-modal survey of Adélie penguin mega-colonies reveals the Danger Islands as a seabird hotspot. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 3926–3926. 63 indexed citations

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Youngflesh, Casey. (2018). MCMCvis: Tools to Visualize, Manipulate, and Summarize MCMC Output. The Journal of Open Source Software. 3(24). 640–640. 75 indexed citations

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Che‐Castaldo, Christian, Stéphanie Jenouvrier, Casey Youngflesh, et al.. (2017). Pan-Antarctic analysis aggregating spatial estimates of Adélie penguin abundance reveals robust dynamics despite stochastic noise. Nature Communications. 8(1). 832–832. 39 indexed citations

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Youngflesh, Casey, Stéphanie Jenouvrier, Jefferson T. Hinke, et al.. (2017). Rethinking “normal”: The role of stochasticity in the phenology of a synchronously breeding seabird. Journal of Animal Ecology. 87(3). 682–690. 11 indexed citations

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Youngflesh, Casey, Stéphanie Jenouvrier, Yun Li, et al.. (2017). Circumpolar analysis of the Adélie Penguin reveals the importance of environmental variability in phenological mismatch. Ecology. 98(4). 940–951. 26 indexed citations

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