David Luther

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

David Luther is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Luther has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 29 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in David Luther's work include Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (29 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (25 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (25 papers). David Luther is often cited by papers focused on Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (29 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (25 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (25 papers). David Luther collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. David Luther's co-authors include Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Jennifer N. Phillips, Katherine E. Gentry, Russell Greenberg, Luis F. Baptista, Graham E. Derryberry, Raymond M. Danner, Peter P. Marra, Michael J. Blum and Julie E. Danner and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

David Luther

71 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Singing in a silent spring: Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID-19 shutdown

2020 177 citations Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Jennifer N. Phillips et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Luther United States	23	1.3k	1.1k	1.0k	295	189	74	2.0k
Alexander Cruz United States	24	1.9k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	959 0.9×	354 1.2×	269 1.4×	65	2.3k
Wouter Halfwerk Netherlands	22	1.4k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.6×	441 1.5×	101 0.5×	60	2.5k
Catherine P. Ortega United States	18	1.6k 1.2×	925 0.9×	685 0.7×	331 1.1×	202 1.1×	35	1.8k
Diego Llusia Spain	19	841 0.6×	982 0.9×	479 0.5×	363 1.2×	80 0.4×	50	1.4k
Gonçalo C. Cardoso Portugal	29	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	1.8k 1.8×	204 0.7×	86 0.5×	99	2.2k
Marty L. Leonard Canada	33	2.2k 1.7×	1.1k 1.0×	2.0k 1.9×	279 0.9×	293 1.6×	95	3.0k
Thierry Lengagne France	25	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	696 2.4×	64 0.3×	77	2.0k
Mihai Vâlcu Germany	26	1.5k 1.1×	471 0.4×	1.6k 1.5×	592 2.0×	138 0.7×	75	2.6k
Nadia Pieretti Italy	21	2.0k 1.5×	2.1k 2.0×	612 0.6×	249 0.8×	108 0.6×	36	2.9k
Hansjoerg P. Kunc United Kingdom	26	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	180 0.6×	99 0.5×	43	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by David Luther

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Luther

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Luther

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Luther, David, et al.. (2025). Mineral Licks: An Overlooked Model System for Species Interactions. Biotropica. 57(1). 2 indexed citations

Brawn, Jeffrey D., et al.. (2024). Prospects for Neotropical Forest Birds and Their Habitats Under Contrasting Emissions Scenarios. Global Change Biology. 30(10). e17544–e17544. 2 indexed citations

Fidino, Mason, et al.. (2024). Historical park planning is associated with modern-day patterns of bird diversity in cities. Landscape and Urban Planning. 249. 105132–105132. 3 indexed citations

Farwell, Laura S., et al.. (2024). Avian diversity across guilds in North America versus vegetation structure as measured by the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI). Remote Sensing of Environment. 315. 114446–114446. 3 indexed citations

Pollock, Henry S., et al.. (2023). Equivocal support for the climate variability hypothesis within a Neotropical bird assemblage. Ecology. 105(2). e4206–e4206. 6 indexed citations

Luther, David, et al.. (2023). Effects of forest fragmentation on avian breeding activity. Conservation Biology. 37(4). e14063–e14063. 2 indexed citations

Luther, David, et al.. (2023). The role of social and political factors in the success of rewilding projects. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 5 indexed citations

Mokross, Karl, et al.. (2023). Forest structure predicts species richness and functional diversity in Amazonian mixed‐species bird flocks. Biotropica. 55(2). 467–479. 11 indexed citations

Rutt, Cameron L., Christian Borges Andretti, Thiago Vernaschi Vieira da Costa, et al.. (2023). Low species turnover of upland Amazonian birds in the absence of physical barriers. Diversity and Distributions. 29(4). 466–477. 2 indexed citations

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Rutt, Cameron L., et al.. (2023). Amazonian mixed‐species flocks demonstrate flexible preferences for vertical forest structure. Ecosphere. 14(12). 4 indexed citations

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Benham, Phred M., et al.. (2022). Maintenance of local adaptation despite gene flow in a coastal songbird. Evolution. 76(7). 1481–1494. 8 indexed citations

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Luther, David, Vitek Jirinec, Jared D. Wolfe, et al.. (2022). Long-term changes in avian biomass and functional diversity within disturbed and undisturbed Amazonian rainforest. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1981). 20221123–20221123. 11 indexed citations

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Luther, David, et al.. (2021). Global assessment of forest quality for threatened terrestrial vertebrate species in need of conservation translocation programs. PLoS ONE. 16(4). e0249378–e0249378. 4 indexed citations

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Luther, David, et al.. (2020). Tropical forest fragmentation and isolation: Is community decay a random process?. Global Ecology and Conservation. 23. e01168–e01168. 19 indexed citations

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Luther, David, et al.. (2020). Global assessment of critical forest and landscape restoration needs for threatened terrestrial vertebrate species. Global Ecology and Conservation. 24. e01359–e01359. 4 indexed citations

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Derryberry, Elizabeth P., Jennifer N. Phillips, Graham E. Derryberry, Michael J. Blum, & David Luther. (2020). Singing in a silent spring: Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID-19 shutdown. Science. 370(6516). 575–579. 177 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gentry, Katherine E. & David Luther. (2019). Noise-induced vocal plasticity in urban white-crowned sparrows does not involve adjustment of trill performance components. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 1905–1905. 8 indexed citations

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Derryberry, Elizabeth P., Raymond M. Danner, Julie E. Danner, et al.. (2016). Patterns of Song across Natural and Anthropogenic Soundscapes Suggest That White-Crowned Sparrows Minimize Acoustic Masking and Maximize Signal Content. PLoS ONE. 11(4). e0154456–e0154456. 58 indexed citations

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Schwebach, J. Reid, et al.. (2016). Advancing Graduate Education and Faculty Development with Discipline Based Education Research and the SIMPLE Framework: Design Memos in Biology for Active Teaching. Athens Journal of Education. 3(3). 211–224.

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Danner, Raymond M., Brian J. Olsen, & David Luther. (2016). Migratory Status, Winter Subspecies Interactions, and Habitat Segregation of Atlantic Song Sparrows ( Melospiza melodia atlantica ). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 128(2). 434–437. 2 indexed citations

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