Kenneth D. Whitney

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
110 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Kenneth D. Whitney is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenneth D. Whitney has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 45 papers in Plant Science and 38 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Kenneth D. Whitney's work include Plant and animal studies (48 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (38 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (21 papers). Kenneth D. Whitney is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (48 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (38 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (21 papers). Kenneth D. Whitney collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Kenneth D. Whitney's co-authors include Loren H. Rieseberg, Rebecca A. Randell, Christopher A. Gabler, Kerri M. Crawford, Stephen M. Hovick, Jennifer A. Rudgers, Jeffrey R. Ahern, Lesley G. Campbell, Howard J. Arnott and Eric J. Baack and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kenneth D. Whitney

106 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

  1. What we still don't know about invasion genetics
    2014 296 citations Céline Caseys, Sariel Hübner et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

Peers

Kenneth D. Whitney
Yuji Isagi Japan
N. Joop Ouborg Netherlands
Mitchell B. Cruzan United States
Ken Oyama Mexico
Nigel P. Barker South Africa
Myriam Heuertz France
Andrew L. Hipp United States
Félix Gugerli Switzerland
C. Alex Buerkle United States
J. Gerard B. Oostermeijer Netherlands
Yuji Isagi Japan
Kenneth D. Whitney
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenneth D. Whitney

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kenneth D. Whitney. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kenneth D. Whitney 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 Kenneth D. Whitney. Kenneth D. Whitney 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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Owens, Gregory L., Céline Caseys, Nora Mitchell, et al.. (2025). Shared Selection and Genetic Architecture Drive Strikingly Repeatable Evolution in Long-Term Experimental Hybrid Populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(1).
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Whitney, Kenneth D., et al.. (2024). Microbial symbionts buffer hosts from the demographic costs of environmental stochasticity. Ecology Letters. 27(5). e14438–e14438. 2 indexed citations
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Wearing, Helen J., et al.. (2024). Why so many polyploids? Accounting for environmental stochasticity in unreduced gamete formation lowers the perceived barriers to polyploid establishment. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 37(3). 325–335. 2 indexed citations
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Wright, Karen W., et al.. (2024). Heat and desiccation tolerances predict bee abundance under climate change. Nature. 628(8007). 342–348. 23 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Nora, et al.. (2022). Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers ( Helianthus ). Evolution. 76(7). 1512–1528. 6 indexed citations
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Owens, Gregory L., Marco Todesco, Natalia Bercovich, et al.. (2021). Standing variation rather than recent adaptive introgression probably underlies differentiation of the texanus subspecies of Helianthus annuus. Molecular Ecology. 30(23). 6229–6245. 11 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Nora & Kenneth D. Whitney. (2021). Limited evidence for a positive relationship between hybridization and diversification across seed plant families. Evolution. 75(8). 1966–1982. 10 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Nora, Scott Chamberlain, & Kenneth D. Whitney. (2021). Proximity to crop relatives determines some patterns of natural selection in a wild sunflower. Evolutionary Applications. 14(5). 1328–1342. 6 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Nora, et al.. (2019). Correlates of hybridization in plants. Evolution Letters. 3(6). 570–585. 34 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Nora, Gregory L. Owens, Stephen M. Hovick, Loren H. Rieseberg, & Kenneth D. Whitney. (2019). Hybridization speeds adaptive evolution in an eight-year field experiment. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6746–6746. 44 indexed citations
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Siepielski, Adam M., Michael B. Morrissey, Stephanie M. Carlson, et al.. (2019). No evidence that warmer temperatures are associated with selection for smaller body sizes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1907). 20191332–20191332. 35 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Nora & Kenneth D. Whitney. (2018). Can plants evolve to meet a changing climate? The potential of field experimental evolution studies. American Journal of Botany. 105(10). 1613–1616. 10 indexed citations
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Whitney, Kenneth D., Bastien Boussau, Eric J. Baack, & Theodore Garland. (2011). Drift and Genome Complexity Revisited. PLoS Genetics. 7(6). e1002092–e1002092. 32 indexed citations
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Whitney, Kenneth D., Eric J. Baack, J. L. Hamrick, et al.. (2010). A ROLE FOR NONADAPTIVE PROCESSES IN PLANT GENOME SIZE EVOLUTION?. Evolution. 64(7). 2097–109. 70 indexed citations
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Whitney, Kenneth D. & Howard J. Arnott. (1988). The Effect of Calcium on Mycelial Growth and Calcium Oxalate Crystal Formation in Gilbertella Persicaria (Mucorales). Mycologia. 80(5). 707–715. 17 indexed citations
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Keller, Harold W., et al.. (1986). Corticolous Myxomycetes. IX. Two Species of Arcyria , One New, One Old. Mycologia. 78(3). 432–438. 3 indexed citations
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Olive, Lindsay S. & Kenneth D. Whitney. (1982). A New Species of the Protostelid Genus Schizoplasmodiopsis. Mycologia. 74(4). 655–661. 10 indexed citations
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Whitney, Kenneth D.. (1980). The Myxomycete Genus Echinostelium. Mycologia. 72(5). 950–987. 27 indexed citations
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Whitney, Kenneth D. & Harold W. Keller. (1980). A New Species of Echinostelium. Mycologia. 72(3). 640–643. 4 indexed citations
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Whitney, Kenneth D.. (1979). A New Foliicolous Didymium From Northern California. Mycologia. 71(6). 1256–1261. 1 indexed citations

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