Christopher J. Lortie

15.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
206 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Christopher J. Lortie is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher J. Lortie has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 99 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 61 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Christopher J. Lortie's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (128 papers), Plant and animal studies (94 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (61 papers). Christopher J. Lortie is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (128 papers), Plant and animal studies (94 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (61 papers). Christopher J. Lortie collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Christopher J. Lortie's co-authors include Ragan M. Callaway, Richard Michalet, Zaal Kikvidze, Francisco I. Pugnaire, Rob W. Brooker, Lonnie W. Aarssen, Fernando T. Maestre, Fernando Valladares, Philippe Choler and Alessandro Filazzola and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christopher J. Lortie

199 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

Positive interactions among alpine plants increase with stress

2002 1.5k citations Ragan M. Callaway, Christopher J. Lortie et al. profile →
Refining the stress‐gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

2009 1.1k citations Ragan M. Callaway, Christopher J. Lortie et al. Journal of Ecology profile →
Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped‐back model of species richness in plant communities?

2006 532 citations Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Christopher J. Lortie et al. Ecology Letters profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher J. Lortie Canada	43	5.9k	3.9k	2.7k	2.5k	1.9k	206	9.5k
Lonnie W. Aarssen Canada	50	4.9k 0.8×	4.0k 1.0×	3.3k 1.2×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	196	8.1k
Julia Koricheva United Kingdom	62	4.9k 0.8×	5.4k 1.4×	4.6k 1.7×	4.1k 1.7×	2.4k 1.2×	135	15.4k
Richard B. Primack United States	69	6.9k 1.2×	8.1k 2.1×	5.0k 1.8×	4.8k 1.9×	3.0k 1.6×	256	16.4k
Richard J. Ladle Brazil	47	2.7k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	3.6k 1.5×	2.4k 1.2×	201	9.9k
Dominique Gravel Canada	56	4.7k 0.8×	4.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	4.2k 1.7×	2.1k 1.1×	188	10.1k
Abraham J. Miller‐Rushing United States	39	2.5k 0.4×	3.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	2.7k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	78	7.7k
Emilio M. Bruna United States	37	3.3k 0.6×	2.6k 0.7×	831 0.3×	2.3k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	104	6.4k
David J. Currie Canada	47	6.5k 1.1×	3.3k 0.8×	712 0.3×	5.5k 2.2×	2.4k 1.2×	112	11.6k
René van der Wal United Kingdom	45	1.6k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	989 0.4×	3.7k 1.5×	1.0k 0.5×	178	7.3k
Luis Maurício Bini Brazil	62	7.9k 1.3×	2.8k 0.7×	793 0.3×	8.4k 3.4×	2.3k 1.2×	269	15.6k

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Westphal, Michael, et al.. (2024). Environmental drivers of arthropod communities across the endangered predator Gambelia sila 's current and historic range. Conservation Science and Practice. 7(1).

Lortie, Christopher J., et al.. (2024). The importance of native shrubs on the distribution and diversity of reptiles and amphibians in the central drylands of Southwestern USA.. Biodiversity and Conservation. 33(6-7). 2131–2151. 6 indexed citations

Kéfi, Sonia, Christopher J. Lortie, & Lohengrin A. Cavieres. (2024). The importance of facilitative interactions in mediating climate change impact on biodiversity. Oikos. 2024(8). 1 indexed citations

Lortie, Christopher J., et al.. (2024). Ten Simple Rules for Incorporating the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into Environmental and Natural Science Courses. Sustainability. 16(21). 9594–9594.

Westphal, Michael, et al.. (2023). Shrub density effects on the presence of an endangered lizard of the Carrizo Plain National Monument, California. Ecology and Evolution. 13(5). e10128–e10128. 6 indexed citations

Filazzola, Alessandro & Christopher J. Lortie. (2022). A call for clean code to effectively communicate science. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(10). 2119–2128. 16 indexed citations

Callaway, Ragan M., et al.. (2022). The EICA is dead? Long live the EICA !. Ecology Letters. 25(10). 2289–2302. 20 indexed citations

Schwinning, Susanne, Christopher J. Lortie, Todd C. Esque, & Lesley A. DeFalco. (2022). What common‐garden experiments tell us about climate responses in plants. Journal of Ecology. 110(5). 986–996. 30 indexed citations

Yang, Xuejun, Lorena Gómez‐Aparicio, Christopher J. Lortie, et al.. (2022). Net plant interactions are highly variable and weakly dependent on climate at the global scale. Ecology Letters. 25(6). 1580–1593. 30 indexed citations

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Lortie, Christopher J., et al.. (2021). Too much of a good thing: Shrub benefactors are less important in higher diversity arid ecosystems. Journal of Ecology. 109(5). 2047–2053. 8 indexed citations

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Lortie, Christopher J. & José L. Hierro. (2021). A synthesis of local adaptation to climate through reciprocal common gardens. Journal of Ecology. 110(5). 1015–1021. 42 indexed citations

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Wright, Alexandra J., Kathryn E. Barry, Christopher J. Lortie, & Ragan M. Callaway. (2021). Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Have our experiments and indices been underestimating the role of facilitation?. Journal of Ecology. 109(5). 1962–1968. 58 indexed citations

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Hierro, José L., Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Özkan Eren, et al.. (2021). Experimental admixture among geographically disjunct populations of an invasive plant yields a global mosaic of reproductive incompatibility and heterosis. Journal of Ecology. 109(5). 2152–2162. 16 indexed citations

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Lortie, Christopher J., et al.. (2020). A systematic review of the direct and indirect effects of herbivory on plant reproduction mediated by pollination. PeerJ. 8. e9049–e9049. 28 indexed citations

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Montesinos, Daniel, Özkan Eren, Christopher J. Lortie, et al.. (2017). Extensive analysis of native and non-native Centaurea solstitialis L. populations across the world shows no traces of polyploidization. PeerJ. 5. e3531–e3531. 7 indexed citations

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Lortie, Christopher J., et al.. (2016). A picture is worth a thousand data points: an imagery dataset of paired shrub-open microsites within the Carrizo Plain National Monument. GigaScience. 5(1). 40–40. 11 indexed citations

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Filazzola, Alessandro, et al.. (2016). Germination response of desert annuals to shrub facilitation is species specific but not ecotypic. Journal of Plant Ecology. rtw030–rtw030. 9 indexed citations

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Lortie, Christopher J., et al.. (2014). A systematic review of the attractant-decoy and repellent-plant hypotheses: do plants with heterospecific neighbours escape herbivory?. Journal of Plant Ecology. 8(4). 337–346. 19 indexed citations

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Jeschke, Jonathan M., Lorena Gómez Aparicio, Sylvia Haider, et al.. (2012). Support for major hypotheses in invasion biology is uneven and declining. NeoBiota. 14. 1–20. 236 indexed citations

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Reid, Anya, Laurent J. Lamarque, & Christopher J. Lortie. (2010). A systematic review of the recent ecological literature on cushion plants: champions of plant facilitation. Web Ecology. 10(1). 44–49. 59 indexed citations

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