Leticia Avilés

3.8k total citations
81 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Leticia Avilés is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Leticia Avilés has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 71 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Leticia Avilés's work include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (64 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (59 papers) and Plant and animal studies (52 papers). Leticia Avilés is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (64 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (59 papers) and Plant and animal studies (52 papers). Leticia Avilés collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Ecuador. Leticia Avilés's co-authors include Wayne P. Maddison, Ingi Agnarsson, Jessica Purcell, Todd C. Bukowski, Eric C. Yip, Asher D. Cutter, Jonathan A. Coddington, Gyan Harwood, Gabriel A. Iturralde and Jonathan N. Pruitt and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Leticia Avilés

79 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leticia Avilés Canada 29 1.8k 1.8k 434 235 205 81 2.5k
Eldridge S. Adams United States 28 1.4k 0.8× 1.7k 1.0× 205 0.5× 397 1.7× 468 2.3× 53 2.1k
Marcy K. Uyenoyama United States 30 1.6k 0.9× 1.8k 1.0× 519 1.2× 312 1.3× 255 1.2× 71 3.2k
Denis Roze France 32 1.7k 0.9× 820 0.5× 849 2.0× 320 1.4× 136 0.7× 65 2.6k
Jeremy Field United Kingdom 30 1.9k 1.0× 2.3k 1.3× 382 0.9× 261 1.1× 828 4.0× 97 2.5k
Maydianne C. B. Andrade Canada 31 1.9k 1.0× 2.3k 1.3× 107 0.2× 341 1.5× 203 1.0× 74 2.7k
Brett Holland United States 10 1.1k 0.6× 1.7k 1.0× 132 0.3× 230 1.0× 278 1.4× 17 1.9k
Peter Nonacs United States 33 2.8k 1.5× 3.1k 1.8× 374 0.9× 331 1.4× 1.3k 6.2× 93 3.6k
Thomas P. Wilcox United States 11 521 0.3× 482 0.3× 415 1.0× 366 1.6× 167 0.8× 11 1.5k
Mikael Puurtinen Finland 20 581 0.3× 815 0.5× 272 0.6× 336 1.4× 124 0.6× 41 1.5k
Andrew D. Higginson United Kingdom 20 415 0.2× 714 0.4× 145 0.3× 250 1.1× 216 1.1× 52 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Leticia Avilés

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leticia Avilés

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leticia Avilés

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All Works

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Bennett, Robb, et al.. (2024). Scaling of the extended phenotype: convergent energetics from diverse spider web geometries. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2036). 20242147–20242147. 1 indexed citations
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Brescovit, Antônio D., et al.. (2024). Disguise or surprise: spider antipredator adaptations as a function of the architecture of their webs. Insect Systematics and Diversity. 8(4). 2 indexed citations
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Avilés, Leticia, et al.. (2023). Sublethal effects of kleptoparasitism on experimental social spider colonies. Ethology. 129(12). 649–654. 1 indexed citations
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LESSARD, J., et al.. (2022). Partner supply mediates elevational gradients in the outcome of ant‐hemipteran mutualistic associations. Journal of Biogeography. 49(11). 1967–1977. 3 indexed citations
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Tong, Chao, Leticia Avilés, Linda S. Rayor, Alexander S. Mikheyev, & Timothy A. Linksvayer. (2022). Genomic signatures of recent convergent transitions to social life in spiders. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6967–6967. 9 indexed citations
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Avilés, Leticia, et al.. (2018). Rain, predators and vegetation lushness may structure web‐building spider communities along precipitation gradients. Ecological Entomology. 44(2). 217–226. 5 indexed citations
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Avilés, Leticia, et al.. (2013). Community‐wide body size differences between nocturnal and diurnal insects. Ecology. 94(2). 537–543. 17 indexed citations
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Agnarsson, Ingi, Leticia Avilés, & Wayne P. Maddison. (2012). Loss of genetic variability in social spiders: genetic and phylogenetic consequences of population subdivision and inbreeding. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 26(1). 27–37. 31 indexed citations
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Avilés, Leticia & Gyan Harwood. (2012). A Quantitative Index of Sociality and Its Application to Group‐Living Spiders and Other Social Organisms. Ethology. 118(12). 1219–1229. 37 indexed citations
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Purcell, Jessica, João Vasconcellos‐Neto, Marcelo O. Gonzaga, Jeffrey Fletcher, & Leticia Avilés. (2012). Spatio-Temporal Differentiation and Sociality in Spiders. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34592–e34592. 15 indexed citations
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Pruitt, Jonathan N., et al.. (2010). Population differences in behaviour are explained by shared within‐population trait correlations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23(4). 748–756. 60 indexed citations
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Avilés, Leticia, Ingi Agnarsson, Patricio A. Salazar, et al.. (2007). Altitudinal Patterns of Spider Sociality and the Biology of a New Midelevation SocialAnelosimusSpecies in Ecuador. The American Naturalist. 170(5). 783–792. 61 indexed citations
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Avilés, Leticia, et al.. (2007). MULTIPLE TECHNIQUES CONFIRM ELEVATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN INSECT SIZE THAT MAY INFLUENCE SPIDER SOCIALITY. Ecology. 88(8). 2015–2023. 44 indexed citations
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Purcell, Jessica & Leticia Avilés. (2007). Smaller colonies and more solitary living mark higher elevation populations of a social spider. Journal of Animal Ecology. 76(3). 590–597. 54 indexed citations
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Cutter, Asher D., Leticia Avilés, & Samuel Ward. (2003). The proximate determinants of sex ratio in C. elegans populations. Genetics Research. 81(2). 91–102. 36 indexed citations
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Miller, Donald G. & Leticia Avilés. (2000). Sex ratio and brood size in a monophagous outcrossing gall aphid, Tamalia coweni (Homoptera: Aphididae). Evolutionary ecology research. 2(6). 745–759. 8 indexed citations
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Avilés, Leticia. (1999). Cooperation and non-linear dynamics: An ecological perspective on the evolution of sociality. Evolutionary ecology research. 1(4). 459–477. 110 indexed citations
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Avilés, Leticia, et al.. (1998). Colony Size and Individual Fitness in the Social SpiderAnelosimus eximius. The American Naturalist. 152(3). 403–418. 144 indexed citations

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