John M. Fryxell

18.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
175 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

John M. Fryxell is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, John M. Fryxell has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Ecology, 53 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 27 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in John M. Fryxell's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (98 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (41 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (38 papers). John M. Fryxell is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (98 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (41 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (38 papers). John M. Fryxell collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Tanzania. John M. Fryxell's co-authors include A. R. E. Sinclair, John Wilmshurst, Daniel Fortin, Tal Avgar, Luca Börger, Benjamin D. Dalziel, Daniel T. Haydon, Juan M. Morales, Evelyn H. Merrill and Per Lundberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John M. Fryxell

168 papers receiving 11.1k 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.

EXTRACTING MORE OUT OF RELOCATION DATA: BUILDING MOVEMENT MODELS AS MIXTURES OF RANDOM WALKS

2004 581 citations Daniel T. Haydon, John M. Fryxell et al. Ecology profile →
Are there general mechanisms of animal home range behaviour? A review and prospects for future research

2008 516 citations John M. Fryxell et al. Ecology Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John M. Fryxell Canada	64	9.4k	3.4k	2.2k	1.8k	1.6k	175	11.9k
Norman Owen‐Smith South Africa	57	8.6k 0.9×	3.8k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	179	11.6k
Graham I. H. Kerley South Africa	48	6.8k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	259	8.8k
Steeve D. Côté Canada	52	7.7k 0.8×	2.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.3×	245	9.9k
Christopher N. Johnson Australia	56	8.4k 0.9×	3.5k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	2.2k 1.2×	2.3k 1.4×	250	12.2k
Mike Letnic Australia	45	7.5k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	2.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	179	9.3k
A. R. E. Sinclair Canada	69	13.3k 1.4×	6.0k 1.8×	3.0k 1.4×	2.9k 1.6×	2.2k 1.4×	175	17.5k
Bogumiła Jędrzejewska Poland	57	8.3k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	2.2k 1.3×	149	10.0k
Paul Beier United States	48	8.6k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	3.1k 1.7×	1.3k 0.8×	127	11.4k
Mark Hebblewhite United States	59	13.8k 1.5×	2.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	221	15.6k
Luigi Boitani Italy	69	12.1k 1.3×	3.9k 1.2×	2.1k 0.9×	2.9k 1.6×	2.9k 1.8×	250	15.8k

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Shahmohamadloo, René S., et al.. (2025). A test for microbiome-mediated rescue via host phenotypic plasticity in Daphnia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2044). 20250365–20250365. 1 indexed citations

Shahmohamadloo, René S., John M. Fryxell, & Seth M. Rudman. (2025). Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance increases trait variation but is not adaptive. Evolution. 79(6). 1033–1043. 2 indexed citations

Steinke, Dirk, Sean W. J. Prosser, Jayme E Sones, et al.. (2025). Metabarcoding arthropods in agroecosystems in Southern Ontario, Canada. Biodiversity Data Journal. 13. e158459–e158459.

Bull, Sarah, Sarah Cubaynes, Katrina Davis, et al.. (2025). Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities. Ecology Letters. 28(8). e70198–e70198.

Benson, John F., et al.. (2024). Humans drive spatial variation in mortality risk for a threatened wolf population in a Canis hybrid zone. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(4). 700–712. 6 indexed citations

Fryxell, John M., et al.. (2024). Flexible migration by woodland caribou in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Wildlife Management. 88(8). 1 indexed citations

Schaefer, James A., et al.. (2023). Horse fly and deer fly (Diptera: Tabanidae) species and abundance following logging in northwestern Ontario. Forest Ecology and Management. 544. 121158–121158.

Fryxell, John M. & Gustavo S. Betini. (2023). Algal blooms as a reactive dynamic response to seasonal perturbation in an experimental system. Theoretical Ecology. 16(2). 151–160. 1 indexed citations

Schneider, Stefan, Graham W. Taylor, Stefan C. Kremer, et al.. (2021). Bulk arthropod abundance, biomass and diversity estimation using deep learning for computer vision. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(2). 346–357. 25 indexed citations

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McCann, Kevin S., Kévin Cazelles, Andrew S. MacDougall, et al.. (2020). Landscape modification and nutrient‐driven instability at a distance. Ecology Letters. 24(3). 398–414. 34 indexed citations

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Betini, Gustavo S., et al.. (2020). Transgenerational plasticity mediates temperature effects on fitness in the water flea Daphnia magna. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 98(10). 661–665. 11 indexed citations

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Rodgers, Arthur, Jennifer L. Shuter, Ian D. Thompson, et al.. (2020). Comparison of Woodland Caribou Calving Areas Determined by Movement Patterns Across Northern Ontario. Journal of Wildlife Management. 85(1). 169–182. 12 indexed citations

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Avgar, Tal, Glen S. Brown, Brent R. Patterson, et al.. (2018). Woodland caribou habitat selection patterns in relation to predation risk and forage abundance depend on reproductive state. Ecology and Evolution. 8(11). 5863–5872. 41 indexed citations

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Erickson, Richard A., Jay E. Diffendorfer, D. Ryan Norris, et al.. (2017). Defining and classifying migratory habitats as sources and sinks: The migratory pathway approach. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(1). 108–117. 14 indexed citations

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McCann, Kevin S., et al.. (2016). Early warning signals detect critical impacts of experimental warming. Ecology and Evolution. 6(17). 6097–6106. 10 indexed citations

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Hatton, Ian, Kevin S. McCann, John M. Fryxell, et al.. (2015). The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes. Science. 349(6252). aac6284–aac6284. 235 indexed citations

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Wiebe, Philip A., et al.. (2014). Fine-scale winter resource selection by American martens in boreal forests and the effect of snow depth on access to coarse woody debris. Ecoscience. 21(2). 123–132. 7 indexed citations

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Broquet, Thomas, Cheryl A. Johnson, Éric Petit, et al.. (2006). Dispersal and genetic structure in the American marten,Martes americana. Molecular Ecology. 15(6). 1689–1697. 72 indexed citations

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Haydon, Daniel T. & John M. Fryxell. (2004). USING KNOWLEDGE OF RECRUITMENT TO MANAGE HARVESTING. Ecology. 85(1). 78–85. 7 indexed citations

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Fryxell, John M., et al.. (1991). Provisioning time and central-place foraging in beavers. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 69(5). 1308–1313. 75 indexed citations

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