Laura J. Pollock

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Laura J. Pollock is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura J. Pollock has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Ecological Modeling, 33 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 20 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Laura J. Pollock's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (41 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (32 papers) and Plant and animal studies (18 papers). Laura J. Pollock is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (41 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (32 papers) and Plant and animal studies (18 papers). Laura J. Pollock collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and Australia. Laura J. Pollock's co-authors include Wilfried Thuiller, Peter A. Vesk, William K. Morris, Walter Jetz, Michael A. McCarthy, Robert B. O’Hara, Nick Golding, Kirsten M. Parris, Reid Tingley and Dan F. Rosauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Laura J. Pollock

51 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Understanding co‐occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (JSDM)

2014 463 citations Laura J. Pollock, Michael A. McCarthy et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

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Naia Morueta‐Holme Denmark

Isabelle Boulangeat France

Sam Veloz United States

Sílvia B. Carvalho Portugal

Rafael O. Wüest Switzerland

Malcolm D. Burgess United Kingdom

Tony Rebelo South Africa

Xingfeng Si China

Michael P. Nobis Switzerland

Glenn Manion Australia

Naia Morueta‐Holme Denmark

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Countries citing papers authored by Laura J. Pollock

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura J. Pollock

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura J. Pollock

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

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Sharma, Shubhi, Kevin Winner, Laura J. Pollock, et al.. (2025). No species left behind: borrowing strength to map data-deficient species. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(7). 699–711.

Ficetola, Gentile Francesco, Núria Galiana, Dominique Gravel, et al.. (2025). Overcoming the disconnect between species interaction networks and biodiversity conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(9). 840–851. 1 indexed citations

Pollock, Laura J., Justin Kitzes, Sara Beery, et al.. (2025). Harnessing artificial intelligence to fill global shortfalls in biodiversity knowledge. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 1(3). 166–182. 9 indexed citations

Baker, Janelle, et al.. (2025). Bridging biodiversity and ecosystem services through useful plant species. Plants People Planet. 7(5). 1498–1509. 1 indexed citations

Bruneau, Anne, et al.. (2024). Herbarium collections remain essential in the age of community science. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7586–7586. 20 indexed citations

Brose, Ulrich, et al.. (2024). Trait‐matching models predict pairwise interactions across regions, not food web properties. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(4). 5 indexed citations

Gallien, Laure, Laura J. Pollock, Irena Axmanová, et al.. (2024). Plant invasion in Mediterranean Europe: current hotspots and future scenarios. Ecography. 2024(5). 13 indexed citations

Baillie, Jonathan, et al.. (2024). Advancing EDGE Zones to identify spatial conservation priorities of tetrapod evolutionary history. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7672–7672. 3 indexed citations

Berti, Emilio, Ulrich Brose, Myriam R. Hirt, et al.. (2024). Linking biodiversity, ecosystem function, and Nature’s contributions to people: a macroecological energy flux perspective. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(5). 427–434. 16 indexed citations

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Strydom, Tanya, Ceres Barros, Maxwell J. Farrell, et al.. (2023). Graph embedding and transfer learning can help predict potential species interaction networks despite data limitations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(12). 2917–2930. 10 indexed citations

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Gumbs, Rikki, Abhishek Chaudhary, Barnabas H. Daru, et al.. (2023). Indicators to monitor the status of the tree of life. Conservation Biology. 37(6). e14138–e14138. 9 indexed citations

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Härtig, Florian, Nerea Abrego, Alex Bush, et al.. (2023). Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(3). 280–293. 38 indexed citations

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Gumbs, Rikki, Claudia L. Gray, Michael Hoffmann, et al.. (2023). Conserving avian evolutionary history can effectively safeguard future benefits for people. Science Advances. 9(38). eadh4686–eadh4686. 9 indexed citations

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Roche, Dominique G., Sandra A. Binning, Kerri Finlay, et al.. (2022). Data rescue: saving environmental data from extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1979). 20220938–20220938. 11 indexed citations

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Strydom, Tanya, Ceres Barros, Maxwell J. Farrell, et al.. (2022). Food web reconstruction through phylogenetic transfer of low‐rank network representation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(12). 2838–2849. 21 indexed citations

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Strydom, Tanya, Philippe Desjardins-Proulx, Andrew Gonzalez, et al.. (2021). A roadmap towards predicting species interaction networks (across space and time). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1837). 20210063–20210063. 53 indexed citations

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Talluto, Lauren, Karel Mokany, Laura J. Pollock, & Wilfried Thuiller. (2018). Multifaceted biodiversity modelling at macroecological scales using Gaussian processes. Diversity and Distributions. 24(10). 1492–1502. 10 indexed citations

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Carboni, Marta, Irene Calderón‐Sanou, Laura J. Pollock, Cyrille Violle, & Wilfried Thuiller. (2018). Functional traits modulate the response of alien plants along abiotic and biotic gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(10). 1173–1185. 38 indexed citations

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Rosauer, Dan F., Laura J. Pollock, Simon Linke, & Walter Jetz. (2017). Supplementary material from "Phylogenetically informed spatial planning is required to conserve the mammalian tree of life". Figshare. 1 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Michael A. & Laura J. Pollock. (2016). Conserving phylogenetic diversity, with reference to Victorian eucalypts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 128(1). 7–11. 2 indexed citations

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