Evan C. Fricke

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 971 citations indexed

About

Evan C. Fricke is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Evan C. Fricke has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 971 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Evan C. Fricke's work include Plant and animal studies (19 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (7 papers). Evan C. Fricke is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (19 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (7 papers). Evan C. Fricke collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Panama. Evan C. Fricke's co-authors include Haldre S. Rogers, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Joshua J. Tewksbury, Alejandro Ordóñez, S. Joseph Wright‬, Anna Traveset, Isabel Donoso, Ross H. Miller, Janneke HilleRisLambers and Eric R. Buhle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Evan C. Fricke

27 papers receiving 962 citations

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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.

The effects of defaunation on plants’ capacity to track climate change

2022 161 citations Evan C. Fricke, Haldre S. Rogers et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Evan C. Fricke United States	17	556	536	333	246	199	29	971
Pedro G. Blendinger Argentina	21	698 1.3×	698 1.3×	551 1.7×	264 1.1×	236 1.2×	72	1.2k
Marina Corrêa Côrtes Brazil	11	657 1.2×	633 1.2×	422 1.3×	219 0.9×	189 0.9×	25	1.1k
Soumya Prasad India	16	551 1.0×	395 0.7×	462 1.4×	150 0.6×	134 0.7×	32	958
Daniel Carstensen Denmark	15	477 0.9×	652 1.2×	343 1.0×	304 1.2×	262 1.3×	23	1.0k
Jörg Albrecht Germany	19	615 1.1×	649 1.2×	442 1.3×	270 1.1×	261 1.3×	46	1.1k
Eike Lena Neuschulz Germany	22	880 1.6×	688 1.3×	501 1.5×	278 1.1×	431 2.2×	50	1.3k
Vanderlei J. Debastiani Brazil	18	533 1.0×	401 0.7×	232 0.7×	139 0.6×	204 1.0×	32	786
Wolfgang Küper Germany	10	618 1.1×	646 1.2×	298 0.9×	230 0.9×	386 1.9×	10	1.3k
Julian Resasco United States	14	362 0.7×	380 0.7×	355 1.1×	175 0.7×	191 1.0×	39	811
Johannes Wessely Austria	15	601 1.1×	418 0.8×	294 0.9×	211 0.9×	574 2.9×	44	1.1k

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Robinson, C. L. N., et al.. (2026). Predator-prey temporal niche partitioning under human disturbance: a meta-analysis. Nature Communications. 17(1).

Fricke, Evan C., Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Charles F. Harvey, & César Terrer. (2025). Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(30). e2500951122–e2500951122.

Fesenmyer, Kurt A., Erin E. Poor, Joseph W. Veldman, et al.. (2025). Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4572–4572. 4 indexed citations

Fricke, Evan C., Carolina Bello, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, et al.. (2025). Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline. Estudo Geral (Universidad de Coimbra). 1(6). 386–400. 3 indexed citations

Hogan, J. Aaron, Jeremy W. Lichstein, Eileen H. Helmer, et al.. (2024). Anthromes and forest carbon responses to global change. Plants People Planet. 7(4). 1027–1042. 2 indexed citations

Fricke, Evan C., et al.. (2023). Non‐native mammals are weak candidates to substitute ecological function of native avian seed dispersers in an island ecosystem. Biotropica. 55(6). 1148–1158. 3 indexed citations

Donoso, Isabel, Evan C. Fricke, Sandra Hervías‐Parejo, Haldre S. Rogers, & Anna Traveset. (2022). Drivers of Ecological and Evolutionary Disruptions in the Seed Dispersal Process: Research Trends and Biases. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10. 7 indexed citations

Knighton, James, Evan C. Fricke, Jaivime Evaristo, Hugo J. de Boer, & Martin J. Wassen. (2021). Phylogenetic Underpinning of Groundwater Use by Trees. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(18). 20 indexed citations

Pollock, Henry S., et al.. (2021). Functional robustness of seed dispersal by a remnant frugivore population on a defaunated tropical island. Biotropica. 53(2). 359–366. 6 indexed citations

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Pollock, Henry S., et al.. (2020). Såli (Micronesian starling –Aplonis opaca) as a key seed dispersal agent across a tropical archipelago. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 36(2). 56–64. 5 indexed citations

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Linck, Ethan, Evan C. Fricke, & Haldre S. Rogers. (2020). Varied abundance and functional diversity across native forest bird communities in the Mariana Islands. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 132(1). 22–28. 3 indexed citations

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Fricke, Evan C. & Jens‐Christian Svenning. (2020). Accelerating homogenization of the global plant–frugivore meta-network. Nature. 585(7823). 74–78. 90 indexed citations

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Schupp, Eugene W., Rafał Zwolak, Landon R. Jones, et al.. (2019). Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal are diverse and pervasive. AoB Plants. 11(6). plz067–plz067. 64 indexed citations

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Fricke, Evan C., Joshua J. Tewksbury, & Haldre S. Rogers. (2019). Linking intra‐specific trait variation and plant function: seed size mediates performance tradeoffs within species. Oikos. 128(12). 1716–1725. 23 indexed citations

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Rehm, Evan M., Evan C. Fricke, John A. Bender, Julie A. Savidge, & Haldre S. Rogers. (2019). Animal movement drives variation in seed dispersal distance in a plant–animal network. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1894). 20182007–20182007. 41 indexed citations

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Rogers, Haldre S., Eric R. Buhle, Janneke HilleRisLambers, et al.. (2017). Effects of an invasive predator cascade to plants via mutualism disruption. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14557–14557. 105 indexed citations

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Fricke, Evan C. & S. Joseph Wright‬. (2017). Measuring the demographic impact of conspecific negative density dependence. Oecologia. 184(1). 259–266. 22 indexed citations

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Fricke, Evan C. & S. Joseph Wright‬. (2016). The mechanical defence advantage of small seeds. Ecology Letters. 19(8). 987–991. 45 indexed citations

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Fricke, Evan C., David C. Haak, Douglas J. Levey, & Joshua J. Tewksbury. (2016). Gut passage and secondary metabolites alter the source of post-dispersal predation for bird-dispersed chili seeds. Oecologia. 181(3). 905–910. 12 indexed citations

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Fricke, Evan C., et al.. (2015). Model of burrow selection predicts pattern of burrow switching by Leach's Storm-Petrels. Journal of Field Ornithology. 86(4). 326–336. 6 indexed citations

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