Hal Caswell

32.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
214 papers, 19.5k citations indexed

About

Hal Caswell is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hal Caswell has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 19.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Ecology, 58 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 50 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Hal Caswell's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (50 papers), Plant and animal studies (34 papers) and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (32 papers). Hal Caswell is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (50 papers), Plant and animal studies (34 papers) and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (32 papers). Hal Caswell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Hal Caswell's co-authors include Michael G. Neubert, Larry B. Crowder, Deborah T. Crouse, Masami Fujiwara, Patricia A. Werner, P. Holgate, Hans de Kroon, Jan van Groenendael, Solange Brault and Shripad Tuljapurkar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hal Caswell

211 papers receiving 17.5k 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.

Matrix population models : construction, analysis, and interpretation

2001 2.3k citations Hal Caswell profile →
A Stage‐Based Population Model for Loggerhead Sea Turtles and Implications for Conservation

1987 913 citations Hal Caswell et al. Ecology profile →
Elasticity: The Relative Contribution of Demographic Parameters to Population Growth Rate

1986 677 citations Hal Caswell et al. Ecology profile →
Diversity of ageing across the tree of life

2013 620 citations Hal Caswell et al. profile →
Predator-Mediated Coexistence: A Nonequilibrium Model

1978 409 citations Hal Caswell The American Naturalist profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Hal Caswell	9.4k	7.5k	5.0k	4.4k	2.6k	214	19.5k
Peter Chesson	6.5k 0.7×	8.9k 1.2×	7.1k 1.4×	3.3k 0.8×	3.2k 1.2×	117	16.1k
Gary A. Polis	9.2k 1.0×	5.5k 0.7×	5.6k 1.1×	3.8k 0.9×	3.2k 1.2×	71	16.6k
William F. Fagan	8.5k 0.9×	5.8k 0.8×	4.0k 0.8×	3.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	270	16.5k
Michael L. Rosenzweig	8.5k 0.9×	7.4k 1.0×	5.1k 1.0×	2.9k 0.7×	3.8k 1.5×	141	17.2k
Richard Levins	8.4k 0.9×	7.2k 1.0×	6.7k 1.3×	4.1k 0.9×	4.4k 1.7×	173	22.8k
Richard Law	5.4k 0.6×	6.5k 0.9×	4.1k 0.8×	3.9k 0.9×	3.4k 1.3×	159	16.0k
Kevin S. McCann	6.9k 0.7×	4.5k 0.6×	3.6k 0.7×	3.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	157	12.8k
Peter Kareiva	9.9k 1.0×	7.9k 1.1×	4.8k 0.9×	11.2k 2.6×	2.4k 0.9×	210	26.5k
Corey J. A. Bradshaw	11.7k 1.2×	7.4k 1.0×	3.6k 0.7×	6.9k 1.6×	2.7k 1.0×	355	23.1k
Nelson G. Hairston	7.8k 0.8×	5.4k 0.7×	4.2k 0.8×	3.1k 0.7×	3.7k 1.4×	187	15.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zarulli, Virginia & Hal Caswell. (2024). Longer healthy life, but for how many? A stochastic analysis of healthy lifespan inequality. Annals of Operations Research.

Caswell, Hal. (2024). The formal demography of kinship VI: Demographic stochasticity and variance in the kinship network. Demographic Research. 51. 1201–1256. 1 indexed citations

Song, Xi, et al.. (2024). Kinship and Care: Racial Disparities in Potential Dementia Caregiving in the United States From 2000 to 2060. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 79(Supplement_1). S32–S41. 5 indexed citations

Hernández, Christina M., et al.. (2024). Maternal effect senescence and caloric restriction interact to affect fitness through changes in life history timing. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(1). 99–111. 1 indexed citations

Song, Xi & Hal Caswell. (2022). The Role of Kinship in Racial Differences in Exposure to Unemployment. Demography. 59(4). 1325–1352. 4 indexed citations

Barbraud, Christophe, Henri Weimerskirch, Karine Delord, et al.. (2022). Causes and consequences of pair‐bond disruption in a sex‐skewed population of a long‐lived monogamous seabird. Ecological Monographs. 92(3). e1522–e1522. 12 indexed citations

Hernández, Christina M., Silke F. van Daalen, Hal Caswell, Michael G. Neubert, & Kristin E. Gribble. (2020). A demographic and evolutionary analysis of maternal effect senescence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(28). 16431–16437. 16 indexed citations

Caswell, Hal. (2020). The formal demography of kinship II: Multistate models, parity, and sibship. Demographic Research. 42. 1097–1146. 19 indexed citations

Jenouvrier, Stéphanie, Marika M. Holland, David T. Iles, et al.. (2019). The Paris Agreement objectives will likely halt future declines of emperor penguins. Global Change Biology. 26(3). 1170–1184. 33 indexed citations

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Riffe, Tim, et al.. (2019). Changing contribution of area-level deprivation to total variance in age at death: a population-based decomposition analysis. BMJ Open. 9(3). e024952–e024952. 16 indexed citations

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Caswell, Hal. (2019). The formal demography of kinship: A matrix formulation. Demographic Research. 41. 679–712. 29 indexed citations

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Vries, Charlotte de & Hal Caswell. (2019). Stage-Structured Evolutionary Demography: Linking Life Histories, Population Genetics, and Ecological Dynamics. The American Naturalist. 193(4). 545–559. 17 indexed citations

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Caswell, Hal & Virginia Zarulli. (2018). Matrix methods in health demography: a new approach to the stochastic analysis of healthy longevity and DALYs. Population Health Metrics. 16(1). 8–8. 14 indexed citations

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Koons, David N., David T. Iles, Michael Schaub, & Hal Caswell. (2016). A life‐history perspective on the demographic drivers of structured population dynamics in changing environments. Ecology Letters. 19(9). 1023–1031. 92 indexed citations

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Caswell, Hal. (2014). A matrix approach to the statistics of longevity in heterogeneous frailty models. Demographic Research. 31. 553–592. 29 indexed citations

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Caswell, Hal. (2001). Matrix population models : construction, analysis, and interpretation. 2339 indexed citations breakdown →

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Raventós, José, et al.. (1990). Fire and fire exclusion effects on the growth and survival of two savanna grasses.. Acta Oecologica. 11(6). 783–800. 41 indexed citations

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Caswell, Hal. (1988). Theory and models in ecology: A different perspective. Ecological Modelling. 43(1-2). 33–44. 108 indexed citations

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Caswell, Hal, et al.. (1983). Effects of wrack accumulation on salt marsh vegetation. Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea). 6 indexed citations

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Abrahamson, Warren G. & Hal Caswell. (1982). On the comparative allocation of biomass, energy, and nutrients in plants Solidago; Verbascum thapsus. Ecology. 2 indexed citations

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