Frank A. La Sorte

9.8k citations

101 papers · 5.0k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 42

Ecology top 0.5%
Ecological Modeling top 0.1%
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.5%
Global and Planetary Change top 1%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.5%

Co-authors: Walter Jetz Daniel Fink Wesley M. Hochachka Frank R. Thompson Steve Kelling Michael L. McKinney Andrew Farnsworth Christopher A. Lepczyk
Topics: Species Distribution and Climate Change (56 papers)Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (45 papers)Avian ecology and behavior (37 papers)
Cited by: Ecological Modeling Nature and Landscape Conservation Ecology
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesSHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaPLoS ONE
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Czechia

In The Last Decade

Frank A. La Sorte

97 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Hierarchical filters determine community assembly of urban species pools

2016 312 citations Myla F. J. Aronson, Charles H. Nilon et al. profile →
Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions

2022 130 citations Christine C. Rega‐Brodsky, Myla F. J. Aronson et al. Urban Ecosystems profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Joint evolution of the biogeography and phenology of seasonal migration 2025 ·PNAS Nexus ·Benjamin M. Winger,Frank A. La Sorte,(unknown),Teresa M. Pegan	0
2	Data coverage, biases, and trends in a global citizen‐science resource for monitoring avian diversity 2024 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Frank A. La Sorte,Jeremy M. Cohen,Walter Jetz	5
3	The global diet diversity spectrum in avian apex predators 2024 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·John P. DeLong,Kyle E. Coblentz,Frank A. La Sorte,Stella F. Uiterwaal	1
4	Addressing critical gaps in protected area coverage for bird habitats in China 2024 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·(unknown),(unknown),Mengxia Yang,Frank A. La Sorte,(unknown),Jiayu Wu	3
5	Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground 2024 ·Ecography ·Raphaël Nussbaumer,Benjamin M. Van Doren,Wesley M. Hochachka,Andrew Farnsworth,Frank A. La Sorte,Alison Johnston,Adriaan M. Dokter	2
6	Assessing the combined threats of artificial light at night and air pollution for the world’s nocturnally migrating birds 2022 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Frank A. La Sorte,Myla F. J. Aronson,Christopher A. Lepczyk,Kyle G. Horton	10
7	Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directionsbreakdown → 2022 ·Urban Ecosystems ·Christine C. Rega‐Brodsky,Myla F. J. Aronson,Max R. Piana,(unknown),Amy K. Hahs,Adriana Herrera-Montes,Sonja Knapp,D. Johan Kotze,Christopher A. Lepczyk,Marco Moretti,Allyson B. Salisbury,Nicholas S. G. Williams,Kirsten Jung,Madhusudan Katti,Ian MacGregor‐Fors,J. Scott MacIvor,Frank A. La Sorte,(unknown),(unknown),Charles H. Nilon	130
8	Seasonal associations with light pollution trends for nocturnally migrating bird populations 2022 ·Ecosphere ·Frank A. La Sorte,Kyle G. Horton,Alison Johnston,Daniel Fink,Tom Auer	13
9	Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines 2022 ·Global Change Biology ·Frank A. La Sorte,Christopher A. Lepczyk,Myla F. J. Aronson	2
10	Seasonal species richness of birds on the world's islands and its geographical correlates 2022 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Frank A. La Sorte,Marius Somveille,Adriaan M. Dokter,Eliot T. Miller	3
11	Estimating the movements of terrestrial animal populations using broad-scale occurrence data 2021 ·Movement Ecology ·Sarah R. Supp,Gil Bohrer,John Fieberg,Frank A. La Sorte	12
12	Time of emergence of novel climates for North American migratory bird populations 2019 ·Ecography ·Frank A. La Sorte,Daniel Fink,Alison Johnston	14
13	Phenology of nocturnal avian migration has shifted at the continental scale 2019 ·Nature Climate Change ·Kyle G. Horton,Frank A. La Sorte,Daniel Sheldon,Tsung‐Yu Lin,Kevin Winner,(unknown),Subhransu Maji,Wesley M. Hochachka,Andrew Farnsworth	106
14	Holding steady: Little change in intensity or timing of bird migration over the Gulf of Mexico 2019 ·Global Change Biology ·Kyle G. Horton,Benjamin M. Van Doren,Frank A. La Sorte,Emily B. Cohen,(unknown),Jeffrey J. Buler,Daniel Fink,Jeffrey F. Kelly,Andrew Farnsworth	70
15	Seasonal abundance and survival of North America’s migratory avifauna determined by weather radar 2018 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Adriaan M. Dokter,Andrew Farnsworth,Daniel Fink,Viviana Ruiz‐Gutiérrez,Wesley M. Hochachka,Frank A. La Sorte,Orin J. Robinson,Kenneth V. Rosenberg,Steve Kelling	136
16	Projected changes in wind assistance under climate change for nocturnally migrating bird populations 2018 ·Global Change Biology ·Frank A. La Sorte,Kyle G. Horton,Cecilia Nilsson,Adriaan M. Dokter	29
17	British plants as aliens in New Zealand cities: residence time moderates their impact on the beta diversity of urban floras 2017 ·Biological Invasions ·Carlo Ricotta,Gillian L. Rapson,(unknown),Petr Pyšek,Ingolf Kühn,Frank A. La Sorte,Ken Thompson	8
18	Seasonal associations with urban light pollution for nocturnally migrating bird populations 2017 ·Global Change Biology ·Frank A. La Sorte,Daniel Fink,Jeffrey J. Buler,Andrew Farnsworth,Sergio A. Cabrera‐Cruz	98
19	The compositional similarity of urban forests among the world's cities is scale dependent 2015 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Jun Yang,Frank A. La Sorte,Petr Pyšek,Pengbo Yan,David J. Nowak,Joe R. McBride	51
20	Emerging research opportunities in global urban ecology 2011 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Frank A. La Sorte	0

About Frank A. La Sorte

Frank A. La Sorte is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, having authored 101 papers that have together received 5.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (56 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (45 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (37 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (2.3k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.9k citations) and Ecology (2.9k citations). Frank A. La Sorte has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Czechia. Frequent co-authors include Walter Jetz, Daniel Fink, Wesley M. Hochachka, Frank R. Thompson, Steve Kelling, Michael L. McKinney, Andrew Farnsworth, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Kyle G. Horton and Petr Pyšek. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

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