David A. Lytle

8.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

David A. Lytle is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Lytle has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Ecology, 53 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 20 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in David A. Lytle's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (46 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (33 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (22 papers). David A. Lytle is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (46 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (33 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (22 papers). David A. Lytle collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Spain. David A. Lytle's co-authors include N. LeRoy Poff, Michael T. Bogan, David M. Merritt, Julian D. Olden, Kate S. Boersma, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Debra S. Finn, Ivan C. Phillipsen, Laura E. McMullen and Lindsay V. Reynolds and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

David A. Lytle

88 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Adaptation to natural flow regimes

2003 1.4k citations David A. Lytle, N. LeRoy Poff Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways

2017 295 citations Jonathan D. Tonkin, Florian Altermatt et al. Freshwater Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David A. Lytle United States	40	4.7k	3.8k	1.6k	995	603	88	6.4k
Alexander S. Flecker United States	50	5.5k 1.2×	5.5k 1.5×	743 0.5×	1.5k 1.6×	603 1.0×	138	8.9k
Keith H. Nislow United States	47	3.7k 0.8×	3.8k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.9×	178 0.3×	132	6.2k
Bernard W. Sweeney United States	35	3.4k 0.7×	2.3k 0.6×	671 0.4×	416 0.4×	417 0.7×	77	4.4k
Michael M. Douglas Australia	39	2.8k 0.6×	2.7k 0.7×	498 0.3×	2.0k 2.0×	327 0.5×	147	5.1k
Scott D. Cooper United States	38	3.8k 0.8×	3.1k 0.8×	390 0.3×	1.4k 1.4×	381 0.6×	90	5.8k
Loren M. Smith United States	40	3.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.4×	430 0.3×	1.3k 1.3×	404 0.7×	188	5.0k
Guy Woodward United Kingdom	54	6.7k 1.4×	4.9k 1.3×	951 0.6×	2.1k 2.1×	1.5k 2.4×	125	10.9k
Charles B. Yackulic United States	35	2.8k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	763 0.5×	929 0.9×	1.3k 2.1×	122	4.7k
Bradley J. Pusey Australia	41	3.0k 0.6×	3.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	227 0.4×	112	5.3k
Barbara J. Downes Australia	34	3.1k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	420 0.3×	780 0.8×	275 0.5×	96	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David A. Lytle

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Tylianakis, Jason M., et al.. (2025). Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality. Science. 388(6750). eads4880–eads4880. 7 indexed citations

Messager, Mathis, Julian D. Olden, Jonathan D. Tonkin, et al.. (2023). A metasystem approach to designing environmental flows. BioScience. 73(9). 643–662. 7 indexed citations

Abernethy, Erin F., et al.. (2021). Hydropeaking intensity and dam proximity limit aquatic invertebrate diversity in the Colorado River Basin. Ecosphere. 12(6). 14 indexed citations

Bateman, Heather L., et al.. (2021). Integrated ecosystems: linking food webs through reciprocal resource reliance. Ecology. 102(9). e03450–e03450. 10 indexed citations

Tonkin, Jonathan D., Russell G. Death, Timo Muotka, Anna Astorga, & David A. Lytle. (2018). Do latitudinal gradients exist in New Zealand stream invertebrate metacommunities?. PeerJ. 6. e4898–e4898. 8 indexed citations

Mims, Meryl C., et al.. (2017). Traits-based approaches support the conservation relevance of landscape genetics. Conservation Genetics. 19(1). 17–26. 9 indexed citations

Tonkin, Jonathan D., Florian Altermatt, Debra S. Finn, et al.. (2017). The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways. Freshwater Biology. 63(1). 141–163. 295 indexed citations breakdown →

Tonkin, Jonathan D., David M. Merritt, Julian D. Olden, Lindsay V. Reynolds, & David A. Lytle. (2017). Flow regime alteration degrades ecological networks in riparian ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(1). 86–93. 186 indexed citations

Tonkin, Jonathan D., Michael T. Bogan, Núria Bonada‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬, Blanca Ríos‐Touma, & David A. Lytle. (2017). Seasonality and predictability shape temporal species diversity. Ecology. 98(5). 1201–1216. 245 indexed citations

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Lytle, David A., David M. Merritt, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Julian D. Olden, & Lindsay V. Reynolds. (2017). Linking river flow regimes to riparian plant guilds: a community‐wide modeling approach. Ecological Applications. 27(4). 1338–1350. 47 indexed citations

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Marshall, Christopher & David A. Lytle. (2015). Two new species of Grylloblatta Walker, 1914 (Grylloblattodea: Grylloblattidae) from western North America, and a neotype designation for G. rothi Gurney 1953. Zootaxa. 3949(3). 408–18. 4 indexed citations

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McMullen, Laura E. & David A. Lytle. (2012). Quantifying invertebrate resistance to floods: a global‐scale meta‐analysis. Ecological Applications. 22(8). 2164–2175. 57 indexed citations

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Finn, Debra S., Michael T. Bogan, & David A. Lytle. (2009). Demographic Stability Metrics for Conservation Prioritization of Isolated Populations. Conservation Biology. 23(5). 1185–1194. 20 indexed citations

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Hall, Spencer R., Mathew A. Leibold, David A. Lytle, & Val H. Smith. (2007). GRAZERS, PRODUCER STOICHIOMETRY, AND THE LIGHT : NUTRIENT HYPOTHESIS REVISITED. Ecology. 88(5). 1142–1152. 39 indexed citations

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Hall, Spencer R., Mathew A. Leibold, David A. Lytle, & Val H. Smith. (2006). Inedible Producers in Food Webs: Controls on Stoichiometric Food Quality and Composition of Grazers. The American Naturalist. 167(5). 628–637. 18 indexed citations

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Lytle, David A. & N. LeRoy Poff. (2003). Adaptation to natural flow regimes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 19(2). 94–100. 1398 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lytle, David A.. (2001). Disturbance Regimes and Life‐History Evolution. The American Naturalist. 157(5). 525–536. 146 indexed citations

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Lytle, David A.. (2001). Convergent growth regulation in arthropods: biological fact or statistical artifact?. Oecologia. 128(1). 56–61. 15 indexed citations

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Lytle, David A., M. W. Emmett‐Oglesby, & David Stephens. (1995). Discriminative stimulus effects of midazolam and abecarnil in rats treated chronically with diazepam or abecarnil. Psychopharmacology. 121(3). 339–346. 5 indexed citations

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Emmett‐Oglesby, M. W., et al.. (1993). Abecarnil Used to Treat Benzodiazepine Withdrawal. PubMed. 11. 121–131. 3 indexed citations

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