John L. Orrock

16.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
149 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

John L. Orrock is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, John L. Orrock has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 82 papers in Ecology and 72 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in John L. Orrock's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (94 papers), Plant and animal studies (58 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (53 papers). John L. Orrock is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (94 papers), Plant and animal studies (58 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (53 papers). John L. Orrock collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. John L. Orrock's co-authors include Evan L. Preisser, Ellen I. Damschen, Douglas J. Levey, James I. Watling, Nick M. Haddad, Brent J. Danielson, Joshua J. Tewksbury, Oswald J. Schmitz, Lars A. Brudvig and Scott D. Peacor and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

John L. Orrock

145 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

Predator–prey naïveté, antipredator behavior, and the eco... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Predator–prey naïveté, antipredator behavior, and the ecology of predator invasions
    2010 576 citations Andrew Sih, Barney Luttbeg et al. profile →

Peers

John L. Orrock
Louie H. Yang United States
Luc Lens Belgium
Sandrine Pavoine France
Volker H. W. Rudolf United States
Robert I. Colautti Canada
Fabián M. Jaksić Chile
Constantí Stefanescu Spain
Evan L. Preisser United States
John T. Rotenberry United States
Dries Bonte Belgium
Louie H. Yang United States
John L. Orrock
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Fields of papers citing papers by John L. Orrock

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John L. Orrock

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John L. Orrock. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John L. Orrock 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 L. Orrock. John L. Orrock is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Orrock, John L., et al.. (2026). Environmental variability affects individual variation in activity onset at large geographic scales. Behavioral Ecology. 37(2). 1 indexed citations
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Connolly, B., et al.. (2024). Invasive shrubs differentially alter autumnal activity for three common small‐mammal species. Ecology. 105(9). e4384–e4384.
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LoPresti, Eric, et al.. (2023). Sandy seeds: Armour or invisibility cloak? Mucilage‐bound sand physically protects seeds from rodents and invertebrates. Journal of Ecology. 111(3). 540–551. 2 indexed citations
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Orrock, John L., et al.. (2023). Removal of invasive shrubs reduces rodent consumption of invasive non-native animals and native understory seeds. Biological Invasions. 25(10). 3207–3221. 3 indexed citations
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Orrock, John L., et al.. (2023). Land-use history, fire regime, and large-mammal herbivory affect deer-preferred plant diversity in longleaf pine woodlands. Forest Ecology and Management. 541. 121023–121023. 3 indexed citations
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Brehm, Allison M. & John L. Orrock. (2023). Extensive behavioral data contained within existing ecological datasets. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38(12). 1129–1133. 3 indexed citations
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Orrock, John L., et al.. (2022). The important role of animal social status in vertebrate seed dispersal. Ecology Letters. 25(5). 1094–1109. 9 indexed citations
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Orrock, John L., et al.. (2022). Plant induced defenses that promote cannibalism reduce herbivory as effectively as highly pathogenic herbivore pathogens. Oecologia. 199(2). 397–405. 8 indexed citations
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Brudvig, Lars A., Nash E. Turley, Lukas Bell‐Dereske, et al.. (2021). Large ecosystem-scale effects of restoration fail to mitigate impacts of land-use legacies in longleaf pine savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(17). 15 indexed citations
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Orrock, John L., et al.. (2021). Past agricultural land use affects multiple facets of ungulate antipredator behavior. Behavioral Ecology. 32(5). 961–969. 7 indexed citations
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Deelen, Timothy R. Van, et al.. (2020). Large‐scale patterns of seed removal by small mammals differ between areas of low‐ versus high‐wolf occupancy. Ecology and Evolution. 10(14). 7145–7156. 10 indexed citations
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Donelan, Sarah C., Jennifer K. Hellmann, Alison M. Bell, et al.. (2019). Transgenerational Plasticity in Human-Altered Environments. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 35(2). 115–124. 110 indexed citations
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Sheriff, Michael J., Ben Dantzer, Oliver P. Love, & John L. Orrock. (2018). Error management theory and the adaptive significance of transgenerational maternal‐stress effects on offspring phenotype. Ecology and Evolution. 8(13). 6473–6482. 32 indexed citations
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Orrock, John L., et al.. (2017). Induced defences in plants reduce herbivory by increasing cannibalism. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(8). 1205–1207. 19 indexed citations
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Heldermon, Coy D., Erik D. Herzog, Jeremy R. Glissen Brown, et al.. (2013). Disease correction by combined neonatal intracranial AAV and systemic lentiviral gene therapy in Sanfilippo Syndrome type B mice. Gene Therapy. 20(9). 913–921. 31 indexed citations
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Mattingly, W. Brett & John L. Orrock. (2012). Historic land use influences contemporary establishment of invasive plant species. Oecologia. 172(4). 1147–1157. 41 indexed citations
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Orrock, John L. & Ellen I. Damschen. (2007). The Effect of Burial Depth on Removal of Seeds of Phytolacca americana. Southeastern Naturalist. 6(1). 151–158. 5 indexed citations
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Orrock, John L. & John F. Pagels. (2003). TREE COMMUNITIES, MICROHABITAT CHARACTERISTICS, AND SMALL MAMMALS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ENDANGERED ROCK VOLE, MICROTUS CHROTORRHINUS, IN VIRGINIA. Southeastern Naturalist. 2(4). 547–558. 5 indexed citations

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