Douglas Chesters

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Douglas Chesters is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas Chesters has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 21 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Douglas Chesters's work include Plant and animal studies (26 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (12 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers). Douglas Chesters is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (26 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (12 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers). Douglas Chesters collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Douglas Chesters's co-authors include Chao‐Dong Zhu, Alfried P. Vogler, Michael C. Orr, Ladislav Bocák, John S. Ascher, John Pickering, Alice C. Hughes, Alex Crampton‐Platt, Dirk Ahrens and Jesús Gómez‐Zurita and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Current Biology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Douglas Chesters

39 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Global Patterns and Drivers of Bee Distribution 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200
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. Global Patterns and Drivers of Bee Distribution
    2020 234 citations Michael C. Orr, Alice C. Hughes et al. Current Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Douglas Chesters China 19 843 409 354 288 187 44 1.2k
C. L. Staines United States 12 641 0.8× 302 0.7× 292 0.8× 362 1.3× 126 0.7× 103 928
Chris A. M. Reid Australia 14 625 0.7× 261 0.6× 323 0.9× 389 1.4× 249 1.3× 80 968
Alessio De Biase Italy 17 674 0.8× 260 0.6× 559 1.6× 504 1.8× 120 0.6× 56 1.2k
Debra Murray United States 10 766 0.9× 406 1.0× 212 0.6× 110 0.4× 262 1.4× 16 1.1k
Jérôme Morinière Germany 22 853 1.0× 570 1.4× 453 1.3× 769 2.7× 123 0.7× 52 1.6k
Michael W. Lloyd United States 14 542 0.6× 680 1.7× 221 0.6× 216 0.8× 102 0.5× 24 993
Christopher E. Carlton United States 18 576 0.7× 362 0.9× 649 1.8× 370 1.3× 91 0.5× 98 1.1k
María Marta Cigliano Argentina 16 813 1.0× 330 0.8× 176 0.5× 146 0.5× 416 2.2× 62 1.2k
Charles R. Haddad South Africa 21 679 0.8× 1.2k 2.9× 185 0.5× 129 0.4× 121 0.6× 158 1.5k
Gwenaëlle Genson France 17 630 0.7× 255 0.6× 317 0.9× 149 0.5× 146 0.8× 27 859

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Douglas Chesters

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Ming‐Qiang, Douglas Chesters, Helge Bruelheide, et al.. (2025). Tree diversity, tree growth, and microclimate independently structure Lepidoptera herbivore community stability. Ecological Monographs. 95(3).
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Wang, Mingqiang, Yi Li, Dan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Blue Vane and Pan Traps Are More Effective for Profiling Multiple Facets of Bee Diversity in Subtropical Forests. Insects. 15(11). 909–909.
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Orr, Michael C., Douglas Chesters, Paul H. Williams, et al.. (2024). Integrative taxonomy of a new species of a bumble bee-mimicking brood parasitic bee, Tetralonioidella mimetica (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apidae), investigated through phylogenomics. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 97. 755–780. 4 indexed citations
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Chesters, Douglas, Silas Bossert, & Michael C. Orr. (2024). [genus]_[species]; Presenting phylogenies to facilitate synthesis. Cladistics. 41(2). 177–192.
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Orr, Michael C., Dan Zhang, Yi Li, et al.. (2023). Phylogeny‐based assignment of functional traits to DNA barcodes outperforms distance‐based, in a comparison of approaches. Molecular Ecology Resources. 23(7). 1526–1539. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Ming‐Qiang, Zhixin Wen, Douglas Chesters, et al.. (2023). Tree communities and functional traits determine herbivore compositional turnover. Oecologia. 203(1-2). 205–218. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Yi, Bernhard Schmid, Andreas Schuldt, et al.. (2023). Multitrophic arthropod diversity mediates tree diversity effects on primary productivity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(6). 832–840. 29 indexed citations
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Li, Yi, Ming‐Qiang Wang, Douglas Chesters, et al.. (2022). Differential impacts on herbivore diversity and scale dependence of tree diversity in subtropical forests. Journal of Ecology. 111(3). 666–675. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Yi, Yuanbao Du, Ming‐Qiang Wang, et al.. (2022). Tree dissimilarity determines multi‐dimensional beta‐diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom‐up effects. Journal of Animal Ecology. 92(2). 442–453. 6 indexed citations
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Orr, Michael C., Alice C. Hughes, Douglas Chesters, et al.. (2020). Global Patterns and Drivers of Bee Distribution. Current Biology. 31(3). 451–458.e4. 234 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chesters, Douglas. (2019). The phylogeny of insects in the data‐driven era. Systematic Entomology. 45(3). 540–551. 27 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiuwei, Douglas Chesters, Chunsheng Wu, Qing‐Song Zhou, & Chao‐Dong Zhu. (2018). A horizon scan of the impacts of environmental change on wild bees in China. Biodiversity Science. 26(7). 760–765. 4 indexed citations
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Chesters, Douglas, et al.. (2017). Integrative Profiling of Bee Communities from Habitats of Tropical Southern Yunnan (China). Scientific Reports. 7(1). 5336–5336. 10 indexed citations
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Chesters, Douglas. (2016). Construction of a Species-Level Tree of Life for the Insects and Utility in Taxonomic Profiling. Systematic Biology. 66(3). syw099–syw099. 30 indexed citations
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Wang, Fang, Jesús A. Ballesteros, Gustavo Hormiga, et al.. (2015). Resolving the phylogeny of a speciose spider group, the family Linyphiidae (Araneae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 91. 135–149. 20 indexed citations
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Zhao, Zhe, Tianjuan Su, Douglas Chesters, et al.. (2013). The Mitochondrial Genome of Elodia flavipalpis Aldrich (Diptera: Tachinidae) and the Evolutionary Timescale of Tachinid Flies. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e61814–e61814. 59 indexed citations
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Chesters, Douglas, et al.. (2013). Phylogeography of Poorly Dispersing Net-Winged Beetles: A Role of Drifting India in the Origin of Afrotropical and Oriental Fauna. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e67957–e67957. 43 indexed citations
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Zhao, Jinliang, Tianjuan Su, Jie Li, et al.. (2012). The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Leucoptera malifoliella Costa (Lepidoptera: Lyonetiidae). DNA and Cell Biology. 31(10). 1508–1522. 27 indexed citations
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Ge, Deyan, Jesús Gómez‐Zurita, Douglas Chesters, Xingke Yang, & Alfried P. Vogler. (2011). Suprageneric systematics of flea beetles (Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) inferred from multilocus sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62(3). 793–805. 37 indexed citations

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