David S. Melville

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
75 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

David S. Melville is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, David S. Melville has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in David S. Melville's work include Avian ecology and behavior (40 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (12 papers). David S. Melville is often cited by papers focused on Avian ecology and behavior (40 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (12 papers). David S. Melville collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Netherlands. David S. Melville's co-authors include Zhijun Ma, Theunis Piersma, Ying Chen, Zhengwang Zhang, Hongyan Yang, Bo Li, Jianguo Liu, Chris J. Hassell, Richard A. Fuller and Wenwei Ren and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David S. Melville

69 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Rethinking China's new great wall 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2017 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Rethinking China's new great wall
    2014 439 citations Zhijun Ma, David S. Melville et al. profile →
  2. Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites
    2017 376 citations Colin E. Studds, Bruce E. Kendall et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David S. Melville China 23 2.0k 583 372 334 285 75 2.4k
Tyler C. Coverdale United States 19 1.3k 0.6× 539 0.9× 588 1.6× 189 0.6× 200 0.7× 27 2.0k
Rebecca S. Epanchin‐Niell United States 25 1.3k 0.7× 691 1.2× 630 1.7× 302 0.9× 175 0.6× 56 2.3k
Peter C. Frederick United States 30 2.2k 1.1× 597 1.0× 619 1.7× 197 0.6× 92 0.3× 129 3.1k
Dale E. Gawlik United States 25 1.7k 0.9× 490 0.8× 715 1.9× 244 0.7× 77 0.3× 81 2.1k
Juan Pablo Isacch Argentina 24 1.4k 0.7× 449 0.8× 541 1.5× 229 0.7× 73 0.3× 91 1.8k
Chi‐Yeung Choi China 25 1.2k 0.6× 362 0.6× 241 0.6× 155 0.5× 131 0.5× 61 1.4k
Emre Turak Australia 13 1.6k 0.8× 1.1k 1.9× 441 1.2× 424 1.3× 151 0.5× 21 2.1k
Adam C. Liedloff Australia 24 855 0.4× 811 1.4× 607 1.6× 213 0.6× 204 0.7× 41 1.7k
Christine Angelini United States 27 1.8k 0.9× 810 1.4× 483 1.3× 81 0.2× 164 0.6× 92 2.7k
Maria P. Dias Portugal 30 2.2k 1.1× 781 1.3× 416 1.1× 372 1.1× 121 0.4× 65 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by David S. Melville

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Fields of papers citing papers by David S. Melville

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David S. Melville

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All Works

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Green, Rhys E., Noel A. Clark, Guy Q.A. Anderson, et al.. (2024). New estimate of the trend in world population size of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper suggests continuing decline. 131(2). 1 indexed citations
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Peng, He‐Bo, Chi‐Yeung Choi, Zhijun Ma, et al.. (2023). Individuals of a group-living shorebird show smaller home range overlap when food availability is low. Movement Ecology. 11(1). 70–70. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaodan, Xinhai Li, Micha V. Jackson, et al.. (2021). Effects of anthropogenic landscapes on population maintenance of waterbirds. Conservation Biology. 36(2). e13808–e13808. 39 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shoudong, Zhijun Ma, Chi‐Yeung Choi, et al.. (2019). Morphological and digestive adjustments buffer performance: How staging shorebirds cope with severe food declines. Ecology and Evolution. 9(7). 3868–3878. 31 indexed citations
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Ma, Zhijun, Ying Chen, David S. Melville, et al.. (2019). Changes in area and number of nature reserves in China. Conservation Biology. 33(5). 1066–1075. 81 indexed citations
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Studds, Colin E., Bruce E. Kendall, Nicholas Murray, et al.. (2017). Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14895–14895. 376 indexed citations breakdown →
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Murray, Nicholas, Peter P. Marra, Richard A. Fuller, et al.. (2017). The large‐scale drivers of population declines in a long‐distance migratory shorebird. Ecography. 41(6). 867–876. 47 indexed citations
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Rawlence, Nicolas J., Hamish G. Spencer, Rob Schuckard, et al.. (2017). Speciation, range contraction and extinction in the endemic New Zealand King Shag complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 115. 197–209. 16 indexed citations
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He, Peng, David S. Melville, He‐Bo Peng, et al.. (2016). Aquaculture pond banks as high-tide roosts : What physical characteristics are more attractive to shorebirds?. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2016. 62–65. 10 indexed citations
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Cooper, David, et al.. (2016). First and second breeding of Australian wood duck (Chenonetta jubata) in New Zealand. Notornis. 63(2). 105–105. 3 indexed citations
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Melville, David S., et al.. (2014). Rethinking China’s new great wall : Massive seawall construction in coastal wetlands threatens biodiversity. Integrated Information System (Vlaams Instituut Voor De Zee). 12 indexed citations
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Melville, David S.. (2013). Variable (Haematopus unicolor) and pied oystercatchers (H. finschi) feeding on lion’s mane jellyfish (Cyanea sp.). Notornis. 60(4). 309–309. 1 indexed citations
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Schuckard, Rob, et al.. (2012). Diet of the Australasian gannet (Morus serrator) at Farewell Spit, New Zealand. Notornis. 59(1-2). 66–66. 7 indexed citations
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McCaffery, Brian J., Robert E. Gill, David S. Melville, et al.. (2010). Variation in timing, behaviour, and plumage of spring migrant Bar-tailed Godwits on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska. 117(3). 179–185. 4 indexed citations
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Schuckard, Rob, et al.. (2006). Dual sand sources on Farewell Spit intertidal sand flats, New Zealand: Partitioning during redistribution. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 49(1). 91–99. 2 indexed citations
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Melville, David S. & Philip D. Round. (1984). Weights and gonad condition of some Thai birds. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 1 indexed citations

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