Dylan Craven

12.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Dylan Craven is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Dylan Craven has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 30 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Dylan Craven's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (50 papers), Plant and animal studies (24 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers). Dylan Craven is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (50 papers), Plant and animal studies (24 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers). Dylan Craven collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Chile and United States. Dylan Craven's co-authors include Jefferson S. Hall, Michiel van Breugel, Johannes Ransijn, Graeme P. Berlyn, Mark S. Ashton, Sarah A. Batterman, Lars O. Hedin, Frans Bongers, Nico Eisenhauer and Holger Kreft and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Dylan Craven

67 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change

2021 165 citations Pubin Hong, Bernhard Schmid et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dylan Craven Germany	27	1.3k	835	587	548	462	76	2.3k
Shin‐ichiro Aiba Japan	24	1.7k 1.2×	856 1.0×	566 1.0×	513 0.9×	381 0.8×	62	2.5k
Maria C. Caldeira Portugal	23	1.0k 0.8×	987 1.2×	602 1.0×	467 0.9×	750 1.6×	50	2.3k
Márcia C. M. Marques Brazil	27	1.4k 1.0×	867 1.0×	536 0.9×	822 1.5×	392 0.8×	91	2.4k
Takehiro Sasaki Japan	23	1.3k 1.0×	828 1.0×	918 1.6×	548 1.0×	343 0.7×	91	2.4k
Xiaojuan Liu China	24	1.4k 1.0×	777 0.9×	496 0.8×	575 1.0×	379 0.8×	68	2.1k
João Augusto Alves Meira‐Neto Brazil	31	1.5k 1.1×	608 0.7×	601 1.0×	1.1k 2.0×	536 1.2×	131	2.7k
Runguo Zang China	28	1.5k 1.1×	866 1.0×	551 0.9×	909 1.7×	682 1.5×	180	2.6k
Susan Cordell United States	32	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	867 1.5×	839 1.5×	704 1.5×	87	2.9k
Valentin H. Klaus Switzerland	28	957 0.7×	595 0.7×	686 1.2×	479 0.9×	577 1.2×	79	1.9k
Angelina Martínez‐Yrizar Mexico	25	884 0.7×	925 1.1×	635 1.1×	351 0.6×	297 0.6×	54	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Dylan Craven

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dylan Craven

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dylan Craven

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dylan Craven. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dylan Craven based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Dylan Craven. Dylan Craven is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Zambrano, Francisco, Anton Vrieling, Francisco Meza, et al.. (2025). From Drought to Aridification: Land‐Cover Fingerprints of a Drying Chile. Earth s Future. 13(12).

Breugel, Michiel van, et al.. (2025). Evaluating Ecological Restoration Through Natural Regeneration Requires Replicated Landscape‐Scale Monitoring Studies. Global Change Biology. 31(11). e70578–e70578.

Craven, Dylan, et al.. (2025). Diversity–Elevation Relationships of Vascular Plants in Austral Temperate Ecosystems Are Strata Dependent. Ecology and Evolution. 15(12). e72515–e72515.

Guerrero‐Ramírez, Nathaly R., et al.. (2024). Biogeographic context mediates multifaceted diversity‐productivity relationships in island and mainland forests. Journal of Ecology. 112(4). 800–816. 4 indexed citations

Cai, Lirong, Holger Kreft, Pierre Denelle, et al.. (2024). Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(2). 314–324. 6 indexed citations

Alfaro, Fernando D., et al.. (2023). Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities. Journal of Vegetation Science. 34(5).

Guerrero‐Ramírez, Nathaly R., Dylan Craven, Gustavo B. Paterno, et al.. (2022). Broad‐ and small‐scale environmental gradients drive variation in chemical, but not morphological, leaf traits of vascular epiphytes. Functional Ecology. 36(8). 1858–1872. 7 indexed citations

Craven, Dylan, Patrick Weigelt, Hanno Seebens, et al.. (2021). Anthropogenic and environmental drivers shape diversity of naturalized plants across the Pacific. Diversity and Distributions. 27(6). 1120–1133. 17 indexed citations

Weigelt, Patrick, et al.. (2021). Biovera-Epi: A new database on species diversity, community composition and leaf functional traits of vascular epiphytes along gradients of elevation and forest-use intensity in Mexico. ZooKeys. 9. e71974–e71974. 3 indexed citations

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Craven, Dylan, Patrick Weigelt, Dustin Wolkis, & Holger Kreft. (2021). Niche properties constrain occupancy but not abundance patterns of native and alien woody species across Hawaiian forests. Journal of Vegetation Science. 32(3). 6 indexed citations

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Weigelt, Patrick, Nathaly R. Guerrero‐Ramírez, Dylan Craven, et al.. (2021). BIOVERA-Tree: tree diversity, community composition, forest structure and functional traits along gradients of forest-use intensity and elevation in Veracruz, Mexico. ZooKeys. 9. e69560–e69560.

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Hong, Pubin, Bernhard Schmid, Frederik De Laender, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change. Ecology Letters. 25(2). 555–569. 165 indexed citations breakdown →

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Craven, Dylan, Patrick Weigelt, Hanno Seebens, et al.. (2021). Data Descriptor: Pacific Introduced Flora (PaciFLora). ZooKeys. 9. e67318–e67318. 1 indexed citations

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Guerrero‐Ramírez, Nathaly R., et al.. (2021). Functional diversity and redundancy of tropical forests shift with elevation and forest‐use intensity. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(9). 1827–1837. 25 indexed citations

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Aquilué, Núria, et al.. (2020). Evaluating forest resilience to global threats using functional response traits and network properties. Ecological Applications. 30(5). 40 indexed citations

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Zotz, Gerhard, et al.. (2019). Effects of forest‐use intensity on vascular epiphyte diversity along an elevational gradient. Diversity and Distributions. 26(1). 4–15. 29 indexed citations

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Zemp, Delphine Clara, Martin Ehbrecht, Dominik Seidel, et al.. (2019). Mixed-species tree plantings enhance structural complexity in oil palm plantations. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 283. 106564–106564. 66 indexed citations

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Craven, Dylan, Marten Winter, Jitendra Gaikwad, et al.. (2019). Evolution of interdisciplinarity in biodiversity science. Ecology and Evolution. 9(12). 6744–6755. 22 indexed citations

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Breugel, Michiel van, et al.. (2018). Soil nutrients and dispersal limitation shape compositional variation in secondary tropical forests across multiple scales. Journal of Ecology. 107(2). 566–581. 76 indexed citations

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Ferlian, Olga, Simone Cesarz, Dylan Craven, et al.. (2018). Mycorrhiza in tree diversity–ecosystem function relationships: conceptual framework and experimental implementation. Ecosphere. 9(5). e02226–e02226. 55 indexed citations

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