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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.
Declining Amphibian Populations: The Problem of Separating Human Impacts from Natural Fluctuations
1991626 citationsJoseph H. K. Pechmann, David E. Scott et al.Scienceprofile →
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Gibbons, J. Whitfield, Jeffrey E. Lovich, Anton D. Tucker, Nancy N. FitzSimmons, & Judith L. Greene. (2001). Demographic and ecological factors affecting conservation and management of the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) in South Carolina. Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 4(1). 66–74.85 indexed citations
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Gibbons, J. Whitfield & Michael E. Dorcas. (1998). Cowards, Bluffers, and Warriors: What does it take to make a cottonmouth strike?.. Natural history. 107(9). 56–57.1 indexed citations
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Tucker, Anton D., Nancy N. FitzSimmons, & J. Whitfield Gibbons. (1995). RESOURCE PARTITIONING BY THE ESTUARINE TURTLE MALACLEMYS TERRAPIN: TROPHIC, SPATIAL, AND TEMPORAL FORAGING CONSTRAINTS. Herpetologica. 1(2). 167–181.8 indexed citations
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Pechmann, Joseph H. K., David E. Scott, Raymond D. Semlitsch, et al.. (1991). Declining Amphibian Populations: The Problem of Separating Human Impacts from Natural Fluctuations. Science. 253(5022). 892–895.626 indexed citations breakdown →
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Morreale, Stephen J. & J. Whitfield Gibbons. (1986). Habitat Suitability Index Models: Slider Turtle. FWS/OBS.10 indexed citations
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Congdon, Justin D. & J. Whitfield Gibbons. (1985). EGG components and reproductive characteristics of turtles: relationships to body size. Herpetologica. 41(2). 194–205.156 indexed citations
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Scribner, Kim T., Michael H. Smith, & J. Whitfield Gibbons. (1984). GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION AMONG LOCAL POPULATIONS OF THE YELLOW-BELLIED SLIDER TURTLE (PSEUDEMYS SCRIPTA). Herpetologica. 40(4). 382–387.13 indexed citations
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Spotila, James R., et al.. (1984). Opportunistic behavioral thermoregulation of turtles, Pseudemys scripta, in response to microclimatology of a nuclear reactor cooling reservoir. Herpetologica. 40(3). 299–308.31 indexed citations
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Sharitz, Rebecca R. & J. Whitfield Gibbons. (1982). Ecology of southeastern shrub bogs (pocosins) and Carolina bays: a community profile. FWS/OBS.111 indexed citations
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Gibbons, J. Whitfield, Rebecca R. Sharitz, & I. Lehr Brisbin. (1980). Thermal ecology research at the Savannah River Plant: a review.2 indexed citations
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Gibbons, J. Whitfield, et al.. (1979). Unusual population size structure in freshwater turtles on barrier islands. [Role of water temperature and diet]. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).1 indexed citations
Gibbons, J. Whitfield, et al.. (1974). Saturation values of dissolved gases associated with the occurrence of gas- bubble disease in fish in a heated effluent. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).1 indexed citations
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Gibbons, J. Whitfield, et al.. (1974). Chronic malnutrition in four species of sunfish in a thermally loaded impoundment. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).3 indexed citations
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Schmidt, G. D., G. W. Esch, & J. Whitfield Gibbons. (1970). Neoechinorhynchus chelonos, a new species of acanthocephalan parasite of turtles.. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 37(2). 172–174.8 indexed citations
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