John B. Steel

1.2k total citations
21 papers, 895 citations indexed

About

John B. Steel is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, John B. Steel has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 895 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 7 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in John B. Steel's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers), Plant and animal studies (9 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (7 papers). John B. Steel is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers), Plant and animal studies (9 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (7 papers). John B. Steel collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and Sweden. John B. Steel's co-authors include J. Bastow Wilson, Norman W. H. Mason, J. B. Wilson, Warren McG. King, Benjamin Smith, Susan Walker, Gillian L. Rapson, Y. H. Cottam, Habiba Gitay and Barbara J. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Ecology, Oikos and Ecography.

In The Last Decade

John B. Steel

21 papers receiving 840 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John B. Steel New Zealand 14 606 346 320 258 192 21 895
Gillian L. Rapson New Zealand 15 487 0.8× 337 1.0× 279 0.9× 191 0.7× 124 0.6× 37 856
Habiba Gitay New Zealand 16 781 1.3× 448 1.3× 386 1.2× 293 1.1× 167 0.9× 24 1.1k
Gray Stirling Canada 11 363 0.6× 361 1.0× 266 0.8× 213 0.8× 86 0.4× 13 830
Brandon S. Schamp Canada 20 670 1.1× 281 0.8× 597 1.9× 163 0.6× 166 0.9× 44 1.0k
Linda Olsvig‐Whittaker Israel 16 503 0.8× 324 0.9× 359 1.1× 155 0.6× 109 0.6× 34 957
Stuart W. Livingstone Canada 12 599 1.0× 381 1.1× 413 1.3× 301 1.2× 221 1.2× 17 1.1k
Pierre Couteron France 14 526 0.9× 560 1.6× 149 0.5× 283 1.1× 150 0.8× 18 999
Loïc Chalmandrier France 17 694 1.1× 369 1.1× 454 1.4× 240 0.9× 436 2.3× 28 1.1k
Adam D. Miller United States 13 455 0.8× 332 1.0× 189 0.6× 465 1.8× 94 0.5× 16 865
Marilyn D. Fox Australia 12 540 0.9× 414 1.2× 228 0.7× 298 1.2× 95 0.5× 17 874

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Fields of papers citing papers by John B. Steel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John B. Steel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John B. Steel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John B. Steel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with John B. Steel. John B. Steel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lord, Janice M., et al.. (2022). Flammability trajectories following destocking and forestation: a case study in the New Zealand high country. Restoration Ecology. 30(8). 2 indexed citations
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Steel, John B., et al.. (2012). Chance in plant communities: a new approach to its measurement using the nugget from spatial autocorrelation. Journal of Ecology. 100(4). 987–996. 20 indexed citations
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Mason, Norman W. H., J. Bastow Wilson, & John B. Steel. (2007). Are alternative stable states more likely in high stress environments? Logic and available evidence do not support Didham et al. 2005.. Oikos. 0(0). 110214213–???. 1 indexed citations
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Lawrence‐Lodge, Rachael, et al.. (2007). Spatial autocorrelation in plant communities: vegetation texture versus species composition. Ecography. 30(6). 801–811. 12 indexed citations
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Mason, Norman W. H., J. Bastow Wilson, & John B. Steel. (2007). Are alternative stable states more likely in high stress environments? Logic and available evidence do not support Didham et al. 2005.. Oikos. 116(2). 353–357. 17 indexed citations
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Steel, John B., J. Bastow Wilson, Barbara J. Anderson, Rachael Lawrence‐Lodge, & Raymond S. Tangney. (2004). Are bryophyte communities different from higher‐plant communities? Abundance relations. Oikos. 104(3). 479–486. 29 indexed citations
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Steel, John B. & J. B. Wilson. (2003). Which is the phyte in epiphyte?. Folia Geobotanica. 38(1). 97–99. 16 indexed citations
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Walker, Susan, J. Bastow Wilson, John B. Steel, et al.. (2003). Properties of ecotones: Evidence from five ecotones objectively determined from a coastal vegetation gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science. 14(4). 579–590. 113 indexed citations
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Mason, Norman W. H., et al.. (2003). An index of functional diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science. 14(4). 571–578. 214 indexed citations
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Walker, Susan, J. Bastow Wilson, John B. Steel, et al.. (2003). Properties of ecotones: Evidence from five ecotones objectively determined from a coastal vegetation gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science. 14(4). 579–579. 105 indexed citations
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Mason, Norman W. H., et al.. (2003). An index of functional diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science. 14(4). 571–571. 190 indexed citations
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Mason, Norman W. H., et al.. (2002). Do plant modules describe community structure better than biomass? A comparison of three abundance measures. Journal of Vegetation Science. 13(2). 185–185. 7 indexed citations
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Mason, Norman W. H., et al.. (2002). Do plant modules describe community structure better than biomass? A comparison of three abundance measures. Journal of Vegetation Science. 13(2). 185–190. 6 indexed citations
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Wilson, J. Bastow, John B. Steel, M Dodd, et al.. (2000). A test of community reassembly using the exotic communities of New Zealand roadsides in comparison to British roadsides. Journal of Ecology. 88(5). 757–764. 25 indexed citations
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Wilson, J. Bastow, John B. Steel, James E. Newman, & Warren McG. King. (2000). Quantitative aspects of community structure examined in a semi‐arid grassland. Journal of Ecology. 88(5). 749–756. 18 indexed citations
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Wilson, J. B., John B. Steel, Warren McG. King, & Habiba Gitay. (1999). The effect of spatial scale on evenness. Journal of Vegetation Science. 10(4). 463–468. 39 indexed citations
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Steel, John B., et al.. (1999). Application and Evaluation of Dale's Non-Parametric Method for Detecting Community Structure through Zonation. Oikos. 84(2). 261–261. 1 indexed citations
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Wilson, J. Bastow, Habiba Gitay, John B. Steel, & Warren McG. King. (1998). Relative abundance distributions in plant communities: effects of species richness and of spatial scale. Journal of Vegetation Science. 9(2). 213–220. 36 indexed citations
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Steel, John B., et al.. (1995). THE SAND DUNE VEGETATION OF CHRYSTALLS BEACH, SOUTHERN NEW ZEALAND, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE CUSHION COMMUNITY. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 19(2). 143–151. 8 indexed citations
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Wilson, J. Bastow, John B. Steel, James E. Newman, & Raymond S. Tangney. (1995). Are bryophyte communities different?. Journal of Bryology. 18(4). 689–705. 21 indexed citations

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