Frank A. La Sorte

9.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Frank A. La Sorte is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank A. La Sorte has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Ecology, 56 papers in Ecological Modeling and 45 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Frank A. La Sorte's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (56 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (45 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (37 papers). Frank A. La Sorte is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (56 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (45 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (37 papers). Frank A. La Sorte collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Czechia. Frank A. La Sorte's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Frank A. La Sorte

97 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frank A. La Sorte United States	42	2.9k	2.3k	1.9k	1.7k	1.2k	101	5.0k
Kirsten M. Parris Australia	39	2.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	81	4.7k
Curtis H. Flather United States	43	3.4k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	2.9k 1.6×	2.1k 1.3×	866 0.7×	116	5.7k
Jukka Jokimäki Finland	36	3.1k 1.1×	810 0.4×	1.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	115	4.9k
Jeff E. Houlahan Canada	26	2.3k 0.8×	980 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	606 0.5×	47	4.3k
Sandrine Pavoine France	39	3.5k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	3.4k 1.8×	1.3k 0.8×	2.5k 2.1×	119	7.5k
Robert B. Blair United States	25	2.1k 0.7×	707 0.3×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	930 0.8×	57	3.7k
Pia E. Lentini Australia	21	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	970 0.5×	979 0.6×	703 0.6×	45	2.9k
Allen H. Hurlbert United States	35	2.9k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	2.8k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.5×	70	5.6k
Santiago Saura Spain	46	6.6k 2.3×	1.5k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	4.4k 2.6×	546 0.5×	101	8.5k
Morgan W. Tingley United States	37	3.3k 1.2×	2.9k 1.3×	2.2k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	110	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank A. La Sorte

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20 of 20 papers shown

Winger, Benjamin M., et al.. (2025). Joint evolution of the biogeography and phenology of seasonal migration. PNAS Nexus. 4(8). pgaf247–pgaf247.

Sorte, Frank A. La, Jeremy M. Cohen, & Walter Jetz. (2024). Data coverage, biases, and trends in a global citizen‐science resource for monitoring avian diversity. Diversity and Distributions. 30(8). 5 indexed citations

DeLong, John P., Kyle E. Coblentz, Frank A. La Sorte, & Stella F. Uiterwaal. (2024). The global diet diversity spectrum in avian apex predators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2036). 20242156–20242156. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Mengxia, et al.. (2024). Addressing critical gaps in protected area coverage for bird habitats in China. Journal of Environmental Management. 368. 122263–122263. 3 indexed citations

Nussbaumer, Raphaël, Benjamin M. Van Doren, Wesley M. Hochachka, et al.. (2024). Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground. Ecography. 2024(9). 2 indexed citations

Sorte, Frank A. La, Myla F. J. Aronson, Christopher A. Lepczyk, & Kyle G. Horton. (2022). Assessing the combined threats of artificial light at night and air pollution for the world’s nocturnally migrating birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31(5). 912–924. 10 indexed citations

Rega‐Brodsky, Christine C., Myla F. J. Aronson, Max R. Piana, et al.. (2022). Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions. Urban Ecosystems. 25(4). 1083–1096. 130 indexed citations breakdown →

Sorte, Frank A. La, Kyle G. Horton, Alison Johnston, Daniel Fink, & Tom Auer. (2022). Seasonal associations with light pollution trends for nocturnally migrating bird populations. Ecosphere. 13(3). 13 indexed citations

Sorte, Frank A. La, Christopher A. Lepczyk, & Myla F. J. Aronson. (2022). Light pollution enhances ground‐level exposure to airborne toxic chemicals for nocturnally migrating passerines. Global Change Biology. 29(1). 57–68. 2 indexed citations

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Sorte, Frank A. La, Marius Somveille, Adriaan M. Dokter, & Eliot T. Miller. (2022). Seasonal species richness of birds on the world's islands and its geographical correlates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1980). 20221105–20221105. 3 indexed citations

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Supp, Sarah R., Gil Bohrer, John Fieberg, & Frank A. La Sorte. (2021). Estimating the movements of terrestrial animal populations using broad-scale occurrence data. Movement Ecology. 9(1). 60–60. 12 indexed citations

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Sorte, Frank A. La, Daniel Fink, & Alison Johnston. (2019). Time of emergence of novel climates for North American migratory bird populations. Ecography. 42(6). 1079–1091. 14 indexed citations

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Horton, Kyle G., Frank A. La Sorte, Daniel Sheldon, et al.. (2019). Phenology of nocturnal avian migration has shifted at the continental scale. Nature Climate Change. 10(1). 63–68. 106 indexed citations

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Horton, Kyle G., Benjamin M. Van Doren, Frank A. La Sorte, et al.. (2019). Holding steady: Little change in intensity or timing of bird migration over the Gulf of Mexico. Global Change Biology. 25(3). 1106–1118. 70 indexed citations

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Dokter, Adriaan M., Andrew Farnsworth, Daniel Fink, et al.. (2018). Seasonal abundance and survival of North America’s migratory avifauna determined by weather radar. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(10). 1603–1609. 136 indexed citations

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Sorte, Frank A. La, Kyle G. Horton, Cecilia Nilsson, & Adriaan M. Dokter. (2018). Projected changes in wind assistance under climate change for nocturnally migrating bird populations. Global Change Biology. 25(2). 589–601. 29 indexed citations

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Ricotta, Carlo, Gillian L. Rapson, Petr Pyšek, et al.. (2017). British plants as aliens in New Zealand cities: residence time moderates their impact on the beta diversity of urban floras. Biological Invasions. 19(12). 3589–3599. 8 indexed citations

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Sorte, Frank A. La, Daniel Fink, Jeffrey J. Buler, Andrew Farnsworth, & Sergio A. Cabrera‐Cruz. (2017). Seasonal associations with urban light pollution for nocturnally migrating bird populations. Global Change Biology. 23(11). 4609–4619. 98 indexed citations

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Yang, Jun, Frank A. La Sorte, Petr Pyšek, et al.. (2015). The compositional similarity of urban forests among the world's cities is scale dependent. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 24(12). 1413–1423. 51 indexed citations

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Sorte, Frank A. La. (2011). Emerging research opportunities in global urban ecology. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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