Gregory M. Ames

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Gregory M. Ames is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory M. Ames has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 9 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 8 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Gregory M. Ames's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers), Plant and animal studies (9 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers). Gregory M. Ames is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers), Plant and animal studies (9 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers). Gregory M. Ames collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and New Zealand. Gregory M. Ames's co-authors include Justin P. Wright, Colleen T. Webb, Jennifer A. Hoeting, Matthew I. Pyne, N. LeRoy Poff, Laura Williams, Bradley J. Butterfield, Julie E. Larson, Daniel C. Laughlin and Ariana E. Sutton‐Grier and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Gregory M. Ames

16 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

2016 590 citations Jennifer L. Funk, Julie E. Larson et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Gregory M. Ames	828	507	461	402	345	16	1.4k
Rolland Douzet	898 1.1×	580 1.1×	454 1.0×	476 1.2×	534 1.5×	11	1.6k
Jörg Perner	668 0.8×	553 1.1×	505 1.1×	327 0.8×	263 0.8×	21	1.3k
Alistair G. Auffret	840 1.0×	490 1.0×	617 1.3×	396 1.0×	437 1.3×	34	1.5k
S. W. Pacala	864 1.0×	350 0.7×	441 1.0×	683 1.7×	128 0.4×	15	1.4k
Michel Loreau	559 0.7×	329 0.6×	471 1.0×	412 1.0×	330 1.0×	16	1.2k
Riin Tamme	1.3k 1.5×	691 1.4×	537 1.2×	420 1.0×	454 1.3×	26	1.8k
Mohammed A. Kalkhan	1.1k 1.4×	521 1.0×	802 1.7×	386 1.0×	270 0.8×	19	1.6k
Éric Meineri	578 0.7×	343 0.7×	333 0.7×	278 0.7×	451 1.3×	34	1.0k
José Luís Camargo	1.2k 1.4×	635 1.3×	729 1.6×	913 2.3×	256 0.7×	47	2.1k
Marlin L. Bowles	691 0.8×	503 1.0×	463 1.0×	358 0.9×	123 0.4×	48	1.2k

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Ames, Gregory M., et al.. (2020). Functional trait similarity predicts survival in rare plant reintroductions. Ecological Applications. 30(4). e02087–e02087. 6 indexed citations

Mitchell, Rachel M., Gregory M. Ames, & Justin P. Wright. (2020). Intraspecific trait variability shapes leaf trait response to altered fire regimes. Annals of Botany. 127(4). 543–552. 17 indexed citations

Funk, Jennifer L., Julie E. Larson, Gregory M. Ames, et al.. (2017). Revisiting the Holy Grail: Using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 36 indexed citations

Mitchell, Rachel M., Justin P. Wright, & Gregory M. Ames. (2017). Species’ traits do not converge on optimum values in preferred habitats. Oecologia. 186(3). 719–729. 13 indexed citations

Ames, Gregory M., et al.. (2017). Functional traits of the understory plant community of a pyrogenic longleaf pine forest across environmental gradients. Ecology. 98(8). 2225–2225. 6 indexed citations

Reese, Aspen T., Gregory M. Ames, & Justin P. Wright. (2016). Variation in Plant Response to Herbivory Underscored by Functional Traits. PLoS ONE. 11(12). e0166714–e0166714. 14 indexed citations

Ames, Gregory M., et al.. (2016). Trait space of rare plants in a fire‐dependent ecosystem. Conservation Biology. 31(4). 903–911. 17 indexed citations

Wright, Justin P., Gregory M. Ames, & Rachel M. Mitchell. (2016). The more things change, the more they stay the same? When is trait variability important for stability of ecosystem function in a changing environment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1694). 20150272–20150272. 49 indexed citations

Mitchell, Rachel M., Justin P. Wright, & Gregory M. Ames. (2016). Intraspecific variability improves environmental matching, but does not increase ecological breadth along a wet‐to‐dry ecotone. Oikos. 126(7). 988–995. 24 indexed citations

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Funk, Jennifer L., Julie E. Larson, Gregory M. Ames, et al.. (2016). Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 92(2). 1156–1173. 590 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ames, Gregory M., et al.. (2015). Annual growth in longleaf (Pinus palustris) and pond pine (P. serotina) in the Sandhills of North Carolina is driven by interactions between fire and climate. Forest Ecology and Management. 340. 1–8. 17 indexed citations

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Ames, Gregory M., Steven M. Anderson, & Justin P. Wright. (2015). Multiple environmental drivers structure plant traits at the community level in a pyrogenic ecosystem. Functional Ecology. 30(5). 789–798. 37 indexed citations

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Ames, Gregory M., et al.. (2011). Using network properties to predict disease dynamics on human contact networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 278(1724). 3544–3550. 58 indexed citations

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Webb, Colleen T., Jennifer A. Hoeting, Gregory M. Ames, Matthew I. Pyne, & N. LeRoy Poff. (2010). A structured and dynamic framework to advance traits‐based theory and prediction in ecology. Ecology Letters. 13(3). 267–283. 408 indexed citations

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Fischer, Joseph C. von, et al.. (2010). Vegetation height and other controls of spatial variability in methane emissions from the Arctic coastal tundra at Barrow, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 115(G4). 78 indexed citations

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Fischer, Joseph C. von, Gregory M. Ames, R. C. Rhew, & Walter C. Oechel. (2007). Methane emission rates from the Arctic coastal tundra at Barrow: temporal and spatial variability and response to an experimental carbon addition. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 2 indexed citations

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