Christopher L. Dutton

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 721 citations indexed

About

Christopher L. Dutton is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher L. Dutton has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 721 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Ecology, 11 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Christopher L. Dutton's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (10 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (10 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (4 papers). Christopher L. Dutton is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (10 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (10 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (4 papers). Christopher L. Dutton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and Austria. Christopher L. Dutton's co-authors include Amanda L. Subalusky, David M. Post, Emma J. Rosi, Shimon C. Anisfeld, Laban Njoroge, Stephen K. Hamilton, H. Ernstberger, Duncan M. Kimuyu, Jacob R. Goheen and Tyler C. Coverdale and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christopher L. Dutton

23 papers receiving 715 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.

Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems

2023 104 citations Robert M. Pringle, Joel O. Abraham et al. Current Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher L. Dutton United States	13	490	295	113	90	75	24	721
Amanda L. Subalusky United States	17	735 1.5×	446 1.5×	198 1.8×	102 1.1×	90 1.2×	28	995
Lindsey K. Albertson United States	17	567 1.2×	367 1.2×	79 0.7×	100 1.1×	65 0.9×	42	799
Stefanie von Fumetti Switzerland	14	510 1.0×	188 0.6×	127 1.1×	165 1.8×	134 1.8×	29	797
Julian Seddon Australia	13	340 0.7×	352 1.2×	282 2.5×	62 0.7×	56 0.7×	23	701
Daniel Campbell Canada	15	586 1.2×	231 0.8×	210 1.9×	56 0.6×	58 0.8×	36	871
Qiong Cai China	15	246 0.5×	170 0.6×	203 1.8×	48 0.5×	109 1.5×	40	619
Henri Persat France	21	608 1.2×	795 2.7×	144 1.3×	77 0.9×	135 1.8×	55	1.4k
Edwin T. Chester Australia	16	879 1.8×	520 1.8×	169 1.5×	148 1.6×	144 1.9×	29	1.0k
Darren P. Giling Germany	15	459 0.9×	416 1.4×	174 1.5×	182 2.0×	94 1.3×	25	870
Allison Bidlack United States	17	401 0.8×	169 0.6×	134 1.2×	55 0.6×	45 0.6×	27	729

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Twining, Cornelia W., Andreu Blanco, Christopher L. Dutton, et al.. (2025). Integrating the Bright and Dark Sides of Aquatic Resource Subsidies—A Synthesis. Ecology Letters. 28(4). e70109–e70109.

Mulligan, Connie J., et al.. (2025). Epigenetic signatures of intergenerational exposure to violence in three generations of Syrian refugees. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 5945–5945. 8 indexed citations

Pringle, Robert M., Joel O. Abraham, T. Michael Anderson, et al.. (2023). Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems. Current Biology. 33(11). R584–R610. 104 indexed citations breakdown →

Dutton, Christopher L., et al.. (2023). Maternal Psychosocial Stress Is Associated with Reduced Diversity in the Early Infant Gut Microbiome. Microorganisms. 11(4). 975–975. 7 indexed citations

Blaszczak, Joanna R., Lauren Koenig, Francine Mejia, et al.. (2022). Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 8(3). 453–463. 44 indexed citations

Dutton, Christopher L., et al.. (2022). Development of a low-cost traffic counter for assessing likelihood of impact for tree risk assessment. Arboricultural Journal. 45(1). 49–71. 2 indexed citations

Dutton, Christopher L., Amanda L. Subalusky, Álvaro Sánchez, et al.. (2021). The meta-gut: community coalescence of animal gut and environmental microbiomes. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 23117–23117. 21 indexed citations

Kemp, Andrew C., Christopher H. Vane, Alexander W. Kim, et al.. (2021). Fecal steroids as a potential tool for conservation paleobiology in East Africa. Biodiversity and Conservation. 31(1). 183–209. 9 indexed citations

Subalusky, Amanda L., et al.. (2021). Temporal resource partitioning of wildebeest carcasses by scavengers after riverine mass mortality events. Ecosphere. 12(1). 9 indexed citations

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Dutton, Christopher L., Amanda L. Subalusky, Stephen K. Hamilton, et al.. (2020). Alternative Biogeochemical States of River Pools Mediated by Hippo Use and Flow Variability. Ecosystems. 24(2). 284–300. 15 indexed citations

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Musinguzi, Laban, et al.. (2020). Using sediment fingerprinting to identify erosion hotspots in a sub-catchment of Lake Kivu, Rwanda. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 192(12). 806–806. 9 indexed citations

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Masese, Frank O., Clara Romero González‐Quijano, Amanda L. Subalusky, et al.. (2020). Hippopotamus are distinct from domestic livestock in their resource subsidies to and effects on aquatic ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1926). 20193000–20193000. 21 indexed citations

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Schoelynck, Jonas, Amanda L. Subalusky, Eric Struyf, et al.. (2019). Hippos ( Hippopotamus amphibius ): The animal silicon pump. Science Advances. 5(5). eaav0395–eaav0395. 29 indexed citations

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Dutton, Christopher L., Amanda L. Subalusky, Troy D. Hill, et al.. (2019). A 2000-year sediment record reveals rapidly changing sedimentation and land use since the 1960s in the Upper Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem. The Science of The Total Environment. 664. 148–160. 21 indexed citations

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Dutton, Christopher L., Amanda L. Subalusky, Stephen K. Hamilton, Emma J. Rosi, & David M. Post. (2018). Organic matter loading by hippopotami causes subsidy overload resulting in downstream hypoxia and fish kills. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1951–1951. 58 indexed citations

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Dutton, Christopher L., Amanda L. Subalusky, Shimon C. Anisfeld, et al.. (2018). The influence of a semi-arid sub-catchment on suspended sediments in the Mara River, Kenya. PLoS ONE. 13(2). e0192828–e0192828. 35 indexed citations

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Subalusky, Amanda L., Christopher L. Dutton, Laban Njoroge, Emma J. Rosi, & David M. Post. (2018). Organic matter and nutrient inputs from large wildlife influence ecosystem function in the Mara River, Africa. Ecology. 99(11). 2558–2574. 36 indexed citations

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Jantzi, Sarah C., et al.. (2018). Novel “filter pellet” sample preparation strategy for quantitative LA-ICP-MS analysis of filter-bound sediments: a “green chemistry” alternative to sediment fingerprinting in Tanzania’s Ruvu River basin. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 19(1). 478–490. 5 indexed citations

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Subalusky, Amanda L., Christopher L. Dutton, Emma J. Rosi, & David M. Post. (2017). Annual mass drownings of the Serengeti wildebeest migration influence nutrient cycling and storage in the Mara River. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(29). 7647–7652. 123 indexed citations

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Dutton, Christopher L., Shimon C. Anisfeld, & H. Ernstberger. (2013). A novel sediment fingerprinting method using filtration: application to the Mara River, East Africa. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 13(10). 1708–1723. 35 indexed citations

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