David A. Lytle

8.8k citations

88 papers · 6.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 40

Impact in

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.2%
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Ecology top 0.2%
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior

Papers in ⓘ

Ecological Modeling 20
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 20
Nature and Landscape Conservation 53
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies 46
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 9

Co-authors: N. LeRoy Poff (3 shared papers)Michael T. Bogan (18 shared papers)David M. Merritt (8 shared papers)Julian D. Olden (19 shared papers)Kate S. Boersma (10 shared papers)Jonathan D. Tonkin (12 shared papers)Debra S. Finn (5 shared papers)Ivan C. Phillipsen (5 shared papers)
Journals: Ecology (14 papers)Freshwater Biology (10 papers)Ecosphere (4 papers)BioScience (3 papers)Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States New Zealand Spain

In The Last Decade

David A. Lytle

88 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

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The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways 2017 · 295 citations

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 Freshwater Biology
2003 Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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1	Adaptation to natural flow regimes Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·David A. Lytle, N. LeRoy Poff Hit paper breakdown →	2003	1398
2	Theory, methods and tools for determining environmental flows for riparian vegetation: riparian vegetation‐flow response guilds Freshwater Biology ·David M. Merritt, Michael L. Scott, N. LeRoy Poff, Gregor T. Auble, David A. Lytle	2009	324
3	The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways Freshwater Biology ·Jonathan D. Tonkin, Florian Altermatt, Debra S. Finn, Jani Heino, Julian D. Olden, Steffen U. Pauls, David A. Lytle Hit paper breakdown →	2017	295
4	Seasonality and predictability shape temporal species diversity Ecology ·Jonathan D. Tonkin, Michael T. Bogan, Núria Bonada‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬, Blanca Ríos‐Touma, David A. Lytle	2017	245
5	Flow regime alteration degrades ecological networks in riparian ecosystems Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Jonathan D. Tonkin, David M. Merritt, Julian D. Olden, Lindsay V. Reynolds, David A. Lytle	2017	186
6	HYDROLOGIC REGIMES AND RIPARIAN FORESTS: A STRUCTURED POPULATION MODEL FOR COTTONWOOD Ecology ·David A. Lytle, David M. Merritt	2004	174
7	VARIATION IN MAYFLY SIZE AT METAMORPHOSIS AS A DEVELOPMENTAL RESPONSE TO RISK OF PREDATION Ecology ·Barbara L. Peckarsky, Brad W. Taylor, Angus R. McIntosh, Mark A. McPeek, David A. Lytle	2001	166
8	Dispersal strength determines meta‐community structure in a dendritic riverine network Journal of Biogeography ·Miguel Cañedo‐Argüelles, Kate S. Boersma, Michael T. Bogan, Julian D. Olden, Ivan C. Phillipsen, Tiffany A. Schriever, David A. Lytle	2015	166
9	Are large‐scale flow experiments informing the science and management of freshwater ecosystems? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ·Julian D. Olden, Christopher P. Konrad, Theodore S. Melis, Mark J. Kennard, Mary C. Freeman, Meryl C. Mims, E. N. Bray, Keith B. Gido, Nina Hemphill, David A. Lytle, Laura E. McMullen, Mark Pyron, Christopher T. Robinson, John C. Schmidt, John G. Williams	2014	160
10	Severe drought drives novel community trajectories in desert stream pools Freshwater Biology ·Michael T. Bogan, David A. Lytle	2011	159
11	Flow Management for Hydropower Extirpates Aquatic Insects, Undermining River Food Webs BioScience ·Theodore A. Kennedy, Jeffrey D. Muehlbauer, Charles B. Yackulic, David A. Lytle, Scott W. Miller, Kimberly L. Dibble, Eric W. Kortenhoeven, Anya N. Metcalfe, Colden V. Baxter	2016	148
12	Resistance and resilience of invertebrate communities to seasonal and supraseasonal drought in arid‐land headwater streams Freshwater Biology ·Michael T. Bogan, Kate S. Boersma, David A. Lytle	2014	147
13	Disturbance Regimes and Life‐History Evolution The American Naturalist ·David A. Lytle	2001	146
14	Ecosystem effects of environmental flows: modelling and experimental floods in a dryland river Freshwater Biology ·Patrick B. Shafroth, Andrew C. Wilcox, David A. Lytle, John T. Hickey, Douglas C. Andersen, Vanessa B. Beauchamp, Andrew B. Hautzinger, Laura E. McMullen, Andrew T. Warner	2009	145
15	Flow intermittency alters longitudinal patterns of invertebrate diversity and assemblage composition in an arid‐land stream network Freshwater Biology ·Michael T. Bogan, Kate S. Boersma, David A. Lytle	2013	132
16	Prepare river ecosystems for an uncertain future Nature ·Jonathan D. Tonkin, N. LeRoy Poff, Nick Bond, Avril Horne, David M. Merritt, Lindsay V. Reynolds, Julian D. Olden, Albert Ruhí, David A. Lytle	2019	132
17	Large-scale Flow Experiments for Managing River Systems BioScience ·Christopher P. Konrad, Julian D. Olden, David A. Lytle, Theodore S. Melis, John C. Schmidt, E. N. Bray, Mary C. Freeman, Keith B. Gido, Nina Hemphill, Mark J. Kennard, Laura E. McMullen, Meryl C. Mims, Mark Pyron, Christopher T. Robinson, John G. Williams	2011	131
18	Seasonal flow variation allows ‘time‐sharing’ by disparate aquatic insect communities in montane desert streams Freshwater Biology ·Michael T. Bogan, David A. Lytle	2006	123
19	CONSTRAINTS ON PRIMARY PRODUCER N:P STOICHIOMETRY ALONG N:P SUPPLY RATIO GRADIENTS Ecology ·Spencer R. Hall, Val H. Smith, David A. Lytle, Mathew A. Leibold	2005	119
20	Automated insect identification through concatenated histograms of local appearance features: feature vector generation and region detection for deformable objects Machine Vision and Applications ·N. Larios, Hongli Deng, Wei Zhang, Matt J. Sarpola, Jenny Yuen, Robert Paasch, Andrew R. Moldenke, David A. Lytle, Salvador Ruíz-Correa, Eric N. Mortensen, Linda G. Shapiro, Thomas G. Dietterich	2007	112

About David A. Lytle

David A. Lytle is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Water Science and Technology, having authored 88 papers that have together received 6.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (46 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (33 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (22 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (11 papers), Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (11 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (3.8k citations), Ecology (4.7k citations), Ecological Modeling (603 citations), Water Science and Technology (1.6k citations) and Soil Science (582 citations). David A. Lytle has collaborated with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Spain. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Ecology, Freshwater Biology, Ecosphere, BioScience and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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