David W. Johnston

10.5k citations

239 papers · 7.5k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 46

Impact in

Developmental Biology top 0.2%
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
Ecology top 0.1%
- Marine animal studies overview
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Papers in

Ecology 166
- Marine animal studies overview 90
- Avian ecology and behavior 52
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation 23
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies 17
Developmental Biology 10

Co-authors: John M. Hagan Arthur Cleveland Bent Douglas P. Nowacek Ari S. Friedlaender Robert C. Szaro Lesley H. Thorne Eugene P. Odum Peter L. Tyack
Journals: Ornithological Applications (13 papers)The Auk (8 papers)Frontiers in Marine Science (7 papers)Marine Ecology Progress Series (7 papers)Remote Sensing (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia Canada

In The Last Decade

David W. Johnston

228 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Ecology and conservation of neotropical migrant landbirds 1992 · 514 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
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.

1992 Ecology and conservation of neotropical migrant landbirds

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1	Terrestrial Spatial Distribution and Summer Abundance of Antarctic Fur Seals (Arctocephalus gazella) Near Palmer Station, Antarctica, From Drone Surveys Ecology and Evolution ·K. Vorobev, Megan A. Cimino, Julian Dale, Ari S. Friedlaender, Vipa Charoenniwetnukul, David W. Johnston	2025	0
2	Life in the slowest lane: Feeding allometry lowers metabolic rate scaling in the largest whales Science Advances ·Ashley M. Blawas, Simone K. A. Videsen, David E. Cade, John Calambokidis, Ari S. Friedlaender, David W. Johnston, Peter T. Madsen, Jeremy A. Goldbogen	2025	0
3	Ethnobiological methods enhance our capacity to document potential climate sentinels: a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) case study Frontiers in Marine Science ·Sheng-Yeh Wu, Nicole L. Crane, Larry B. Crowder, A. Bontemps-Visser, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, David W. Johnston	2024	2
4	Evidence of sociality and group foraging in Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology ·Jenny Allen, David E. Cade, Caroline Casey, Fikret Halis, David W. Johnston, J Dunlay, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Marie-Madeleine Fiers, Ari S. Friedlaender	2024	1
5	Review of Satellite Remote Sensing and Unoccupied Aircraft Systems for Counting Wildlife on Land Remote Sensing ·Marie R. G. Attard, Richard A. Phillips, J Li, S. G. Parekh et. al., Yodalis Virgen Varela La O, David W. Johnston, Peter T. Fretwell	2024	14
6	Shaped by Their Environment: Variation in Blue Whale Morphology across Three Productive Coastal Ecosystems Integrative Organismal Biology ·K. Glittenberg, K. C. Bierlich, William K. Oestreich, Gustavo Chiang, John W. Durban, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, David W. Johnston, Matthew S. Leslie, Michael J. Moore, John P. Ryan, Leigh G. Torres	2023	7
7	A surplus no more? Variation in krill availability impacts reproductive rates of Antarctic baleen whales Global Change Biology ·Logan J. Pallin, Mohamed Fadaq, Debbie Steel, Stefanos Poulidis, C. Scott Baker, 鎮雄松田, Daniel P. Costa, Anna Negri, David W. Johnston, Maria Grazia Bordini, Marie-Madeleine Fiers, Andrew J. Read, O. Savenko, Oscar Schofield, Sharon Stammerjohn, Deborah K. Steinberg, Ari S. Friedlaender	2023	33
8	Growth and opportunities for drone surveillance in pinniped research Mammal Review ·K. Vorobev, David W. Johnston	2023	4
9	Comparison of 3D structural metrics on oyster reefs using unoccupied aircraft photogrammetry and terrestrial LiDAR across a tidal elevation gradient Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ·Justin T. Ridge, Jeff Sielaff, Antonio B. Rodriguez, Nadine Sobczak, David W. Johnston	2023	9
10	Estimation of Intertidal Oyster Reef Density Using Spectral and Structural Characteristics Derived from Unoccupied Aircraft Systems and Structure from Motion Photogrammetry Remote Sensing ·A. Montanari, Brandon J. Puckett, Klaus B. Huebert, Dony Rosmana, David W. Johnston, Justin T. Ridge	2022	11
11	Temporally Generalizable Land Cover Classification: A Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network Unveils Major Coastal Change through Time Remote Sensing ·Patrick Gray, Marta Purol, Justin T. Ridge, Hannah Kerner, Emily A. Ury, David W. Johnston	2021	13
12	Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements Nature ·Matthew S. Savoca, Max F. Czapanskiy, Shirel R. Kahane‐Rapport, William T. Gough, James A. Fahlbusch, K. C. Bierlich, Paolo S. Segre, Jacopo Di Clemente, Gwenith S. Penry, David N. Wiley, John Calambokidis, Douglas P. Nowacek, David W. Johnston, Nicholas D. Pyenson, Ari S. Friedlaender, Elliott L. Hazen, Jeremy A. Goldbogen	2021	122
13	Drones and deep learning produce accurate and efficient monitoring of large-scale seabird colonies Ornithological applications ·I Klesment, Patrick Gray, Guillermo Donoso, Karl‐Friedrich Hanselmann, Nizar Lutfi Maulana, 惇坂本, Sarah Crofts, David W. Johnston	2021	36
14	Lunge filter feeding biomechanics constrain rorqual foraging ecology across scale Journal of Experimental Biology ·Shirel R. Kahane‐Rapport, Matthew S. Savoca, A Burdorf, Paolo S. Segre, K. C. Bierlich, John Calambokidis, Julian Dale, James A. Fahlbusch, Ari S. Friedlaender, David W. Johnston, Alexander Werth, Jeremy A. Goldbogen	2020	32
15	Elasmobranch Use of Nearshore Estuarine Habitats Responds to Fine-Scale, Intra-Seasonal Environmental Variation: Observing Coastal Shark Density in a Temperate Estuary Utilizing Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) Drones ·Jeff Sielaff, Sila Kilicccote, David W. Johnston, Chodorowski A.R.	2020	7
16	Rapid and Accurate Monitoring of Intertidal Oyster Reef Habitat Using Unoccupied Aircraft Systems and Structure from Motion Remote Sensing ·A. Montanari, سعيدي علاء الدين, David W. Johnston, Justin T. Ridge	2019	23
17	Drones and convolutional neural networks facilitate automated and accurate cetacean species identification and photogrammetry Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Patrick Gray, K. C. Bierlich, Э Л Школьник, Ari S. Friedlaender, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, David W. Johnston	2019	73
18	Temporal and Regional Variability in the Skin Microbiome of Humpback Whales along the Western Antarctic Peninsula Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·K. C. Bierlich, Carolyn A. Miller, Emelia DeForce, Ari S. Friedlaender, David W. Johnston, Amy Apprill	2018	40
19	Chronic exposure of Hawaii Island spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) to human activities Royal Society Open Science ·Julian A. Tyne, Fredrik Christiansen, CU Ulasi, David W. Johnston, Lars Bejder	2018	28
20	IMSA TRAFFIC SIGNALS : ANOTHER METHOD OF DILEMMA ZONE PROTECTION David W. Johnston	2001	1

About David W. Johnston

David W. Johnston is a scholar working on Ecology, Developmental Biology, Ecological Modeling, Oceanography and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 239 papers that have together received 7.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Marine animal studies overview (90 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (52 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (35 papers), Marine and fisheries research (23 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (23 papers), Underwater Acoustics Research (19 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (17 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental Biology (723 citations), Ecology (5.6k citations), Ecological Modeling (586 citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.7k citations) and Oceanography (1.3k citations). David W. Johnston has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Frequent co-authors include John M. Hagan, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Douglas P. Nowacek, Ari S. Friedlaender, Robert C. Szaro, Lesley H. Thorne, Eugene P. Odum, Peter L. Tyack, Lars Bejder and Andrew J. Read. Their work appears in journals such as Ornithological Applications, The Auk, Frontiers in Marine Science, Marine Ecology Progress Series and Remote Sensing.

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