David Western

8.0k citations
94 papers · 5.3k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 37

Impact in

Papers in

David Western

90 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Natural Connections: Perspectives in Community-Based Conservation 1996 · 686 citations
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Peers

David Western
Comparison fields: 5 of 139
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1.7k
  • Ecology 3.2k
  • Ecological Modeling 412
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 1.0k
  • Global and Planetary Change 1.2k
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Countries citing papers authored by David Western

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Western

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Western, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Natural Connections: Perspectives in Community-Based Conservation
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1996686
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Conservation for the Twenty-First Century.
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1990434
3 1975321
4 1979289
5 2009248
6 2001186
7 1979173
8 1982151
9 2004139
10 1973134
11 1989127
12 1984112
13 2009111
14 201094
15 197988
16 200981
17 200875
18 199473
19 199371
20 198969

About David Western

David Western is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Forestry, having authored 94 papers that have together received 5.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (57 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (46 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 papers), Animal Diversity and Health Studies (8 papers), Zoonotic diseases and public health (6 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (1.7k citations), Ecology (3.2k citations), Ecological Modeling (412 citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.0k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (1.2k citations). David Western has collaborated with scholars based in Kenya, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Hans G. Schabel, Samantha Russell, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Innes C. Cuthill, Thomas Dunne, Nicholas J. Georgiadis, W. Keith Lindsay, Virginia A. Finch, Jeffrey S. Worden and Robin S. Reid. Their work appears in journals such as Conservation Biology, Journal of Arid Environments, Journal of Applied Ecology, Oryx and Oecologia.

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