David J. Currie

16.1k citations

112 papers · 11.6k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 47

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.05%
Ecology top 0.1%
Ecological Modeling top 0.05%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.1%
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%

Co-authors: Jeremy T. Kerr Robin L. Mackey Eileen M. O’Brien Thierry Oberdorff Jean‐François Guégan Dawn M. Kaufman Bradford A. Hawkins Richard Field
Topics: Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (55 papers)Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers)Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers)
Cited by: Ecological Modeling Nature and Landscape Conservation Ecology
Journals: Nature Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: Canada United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

David J. Currie

109 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

ENERGY, WATER, AND BROAD-SCALE GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS

2003 1.9k citations Bradford A. Hawkins, Richard Field et al. Ecology profile →
Energy and Large-Scale Patterns of Animal- and Plant-Species Richness

1991 1.4k citations David J. Currie profile →
Predictions and tests of climate‐based hypotheses of broad‐scale variation in taxonomic richness

2004 976 citations David J. Currie, Gary G. Mittelbach et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Large-scale biogeographical patterns of species richness of trees

1987 575 citations David J. Currie et al. profile →
Spatial species‐richness gradients across scales: a meta‐analysis

2008 565 citations Richard Field, Bradford A. Hawkins et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David J. Currie

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David J. Currie. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David J. Currie based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David J. Currie. David J. Currie is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Novel RNA Virus, Macrobrachium rosenbergii Golda Virus (MrGV), Linked to Mass Mortalities of the Larval Giant Freshwater Prawn in Bangladesh 2020 ·Viruses ·Chantelle Hooper,Partho Pratim Debnath,(unknown),Ronny van Aerle,Kelly S. Bateman,(unknown),Muhammad Meezanur Rahman,Chadag Vishnumurthy Mohan,(unknown),Stuart Ross,Grant D. Stentiford,David J. Currie,David Bass	17
2	At the landscape level, birds respond strongly to habitat amount but weakly to fragmentation 2018 ·Diversity and Distributions ·(unknown),Véronique Boucher‐Lalonde,David J. Currie	59
3	Using regional patterns for predicting local temporal change: a test by natural experiment in the Great Lakes bioregion, Ontario, Canada 2016 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Rachelle E. Desrochers,David J. Currie,Jeremy T. Kerr	3
4	Spatial Autocorrelation Can Generate Stronger Correlations between Range Size and Climatic Niches Than the Biological Signal — A Demonstration Using Bird and Mammal Range Maps 2016 ·PLoS ONE ·Véronique Boucher‐Lalonde,David J. Currie	14
5	Protecting Endangered Species: Do the Main Legislative Tools Work? 2012 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown),David J. Currie	40
6	The completeness of the continental fossil record and its impact on patterns of diversification 2010 ·Paleobiology ·(unknown),David J. Currie	35
7	Quantifying the importance of regional and local filters for community trait structure in tropical and temperate zones 2010 ·Ecology ·Adam C. Algar,Jeremy T. Kerr,David J. Currie	49
8	Human land use, agriculture, pesticides and losses of imperiled species 2008 ·Diversity and Distributions ·(unknown),Robin L. Mackey,David J. Currie	114
9	Tracing the colonization history of the Indian Ocean scops-owls (Strigiformes: Otus) with further insight into the spatio-temporal origin of the Malagasy avifauna 2008 ·BMC Evolutionary Biology ·Jérôme Fuchs,Jean‐Marc Pons,Steven M. Goodman,Vincent Bretagnolle,Martim Melo,Rauri C. K. Bowie,David J. Currie,Roger Safford,Munir Z. Virani,Simon Thomsett,(unknown),Corinne Cruaud,Éric Pasquet	35
10	Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural ecological communities 2007 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jeff E. Houlahan,David J. Currie,Karl Cottenie,Graeme S. Cumming,S. K. Morgan Ernest,C. Scott Findlay,Samuel D. Fuhlendorf,Ursula Gaedke,Pierre Legendre,John J. Magnuson,Brian H. McArdle,Esteban Muldavin,David G. Noble,R. Scott Russell,Richard D. Stevens,Trevor J. Willis,I. P. Woiwod,Steven M. Wondzell	238
11	A UNIFIED MODEL OF AVIAN SPECIES RICHNESS ON ISLANDS AND CONTINENTS 2007 ·Ecology ·(unknown),David J. Currie	37
12	Testing a mechanistic explanation for the latitudinal gradient in mammalian species richness across North America 2006 ·Evolutionary ecology research ·A. Marm Kilpatrick,William A. Mitchell,Warren P. Porter,David J. Currie	6
13	Predictions and tests of climate‐based hypotheses of broad‐scale variation in taxonomic richnessbreakdown → 2004 ·Ecology Letters ·David J. Currie,Gary G. Mittelbach,Howard V. Cornell,Richard Field,Jean‐François Guégan,Bradford A. Hawkins,Dawn M. Kaufman,Jeremy T. Kerr,Thierry Oberdorff,Eileen M. O’Brien,John R. G. Turner	976
14	Conservation of endangered species and the patterns and propensities of biodiversity 2003 ·Comptes Rendus Biologies ·David J. Currie	3
15	Does climate determine broad‐scale patterns of species richness? A test of the causal link by natural experiment 2003 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·(unknown),David J. Currie	90
16	Different responses to cold weather in two pied flycatcher populations 2002 ·Ecography ·Tapio Eeva,Esa Lehikoinen,(unknown),(unknown),David J. Currie	46
17	Effects of habitat fragmentation on provisioning rates, diet and breeding success in two species of tit (great tit and blue tit) 1998 ·Oecologia ·Nadia Nour,David J. Currie,Erik Matthysen,Raoul Van Damme,André A. Dhondt	101
18	Estimating fish consumption rates for Ontario Amerindians. 1993 ·PubMed ·G. Mark Richardson,David J. Currie	23
19	Characterization of Cell Types within a Chorionic Gonadotropin-Secreting, Mechanically Dissociated Human Placental Cell Population in Perifusion 1993 ·Neurosignals ·Gillian L. Steele,David J. Currie,Basil Ho Yuen,Peter C. K. Leung	3
20	Stem volume loss due to severe Diplodia infection in a young Pinus radiata stand. 1978 ·David J. Currie,(unknown)	13

About David J. Currie

David J. Currie is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, having authored 112 papers that have together received 11.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (55 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (4.5k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (6.5k citations) and Ecology (5.5k citations). David J. Currie has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Jeremy T. Kerr, Robin L. Mackey, Eileen M. O’Brien, Thierry Oberdorff, Jean‐François Guégan, Dawn M. Kaufman, Bradford A. Hawkins, Richard Field, Howard V. Cornell and Gary G. Mittelbach. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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