Mark E. Ledger

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Mark E. Ledger is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark E. Ledger has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Ecology, 34 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 10 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Mark E. Ledger's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (30 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (27 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (16 papers). Mark E. Ledger is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (30 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (27 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (16 papers). Mark E. Ledger collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Mark E. Ledger's co-authors include Alexander M. Milner, Guy Woodward, Lee E. Brown, François Edwards, Alan G. Hildrew, J. Iwan Jones, José M. Montoya, Hannah M. Lewis, Carsten F. Dormann and Jens M. Olesen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Environmental Pollution.

In The Last Decade

Mark E. Ledger

47 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs

2008 630 citations Thomas C. Ings, José M. Montoya et al. Journal of Animal Ecology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark E. Ledger United Kingdom	26	1.7k	1.4k	570	364	322	48	2.5k
François Edwards United Kingdom	21	1.3k 0.8×	833 0.6×	480 0.8×	331 0.9×	231 0.7×	40	2.1k
Dénes Schmera Hungary	28	1.9k 1.1×	1.8k 1.3×	748 1.3×	398 1.1×	289 0.9×	108	3.1k
Brad W. Taylor United States	26	1.9k 1.1×	1.9k 1.4×	343 0.6×	567 1.6×	498 1.5×	57	3.0k
Jonathan D. Tonkin New Zealand	30	2.4k 1.4×	1.9k 1.4×	241 0.4×	426 1.2×	331 1.0×	91	3.2k
Victor Lemes Landeiro Brazil	28	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	397 0.7×	223 0.6×	480 1.5×	50	2.3k
Anders G. Finstad Norway	28	1.6k 1.0×	2.0k 1.5×	357 0.6×	945 2.6×	287 0.9×	115	2.9k
Stefano Larsen Italy	21	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	227 0.4×	442 1.2×	224 0.7×	43	2.1k
Olivier Beauchard Belgium	29	1.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.4×	192 0.3×	509 1.4×	152 0.5×	54	3.0k
Ronald W. Davies Canada	26	1.7k 1.0×	984 0.7×	435 0.8×	311 0.9×	247 0.8×	163	2.7k
Risto Virtanen Finland	40	2.4k 1.5×	1.9k 1.4×	1.1k 1.9×	453 1.2×	377 1.2×	109	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Mark E. Ledger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark E. Ledger

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Tu, Xinjun, Vijay P. Singh, Qiang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric window detection of abrupt global drought-wetness alternations and ecological responses. Journal of Environmental Management. 395. 127743–127743.

Gorard, Stephen, Mark E. Ledger, Beng Huat See, & Rebecca Morris. (2024). What are the key predictors of international teacher shortages?. Research Papers in Education. 40(4). 515–542. 9 indexed citations

See, Beng Huat, et al.. (2024). A structured review of the potential role of school leaders in making teaching more attractive. Educational Review. 78(2). 239–263. 1 indexed citations

Aspin, Thomas W. H., Kieran Khamis, Thomas J. Matthews, et al.. (2023). Extra terrestrials: drought creates niche space for rare invertebrates in a large-scale and long-term field experiment. Biology Letters. 19(11). 20230381–20230381. 2 indexed citations

Khamis, Kieran, et al.. (2021). Low flow and heatwaves alter ecosystem functioning in a stream mesocosm experiment. The Science of The Total Environment. 777. 146067–146067. 21 indexed citations

Thornhill, Ian, et al.. (2021). Leaf breakdown rates as a functional indicator were influenced by an invasive non-native invertebrate in urban ponds. Ecological Indicators. 124. 107360–107360. 4 indexed citations

Leigh, Catherine, Thomas W. H. Aspin, Thomas J. Matthews, Robert J. Rolls, & Mark E. Ledger. (2019). Drought alters the functional stability of stream invertebrate communities through time. Journal of Biogeography. 46(9). 1988–2000. 26 indexed citations

Brown, Lee E., et al.. (2018). Sediment deposition from eroding peatlands alters headwater invertebrate biodiversity. Global Change Biology. 25(2). 602–619. 15 indexed citations

Aspin, Thomas W. H., Kieran Khamis, Thomas J. Matthews, et al.. (2018). Extreme drought pushes stream invertebrate communities over functional thresholds. Global Change Biology. 25(1). 230–244. 82 indexed citations

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Thornhill, Ian, et al.. (2017). The application of graph theory and percolation analysis for assessing change in the spatial configuration of pond networks. Urban Ecosystems. 21(2). 213–225. 25 indexed citations

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Holden, Joseph, et al.. (2017). Organic sediment pulses impact rivers across multiple levels of ecological organization. Ecohydrology. 10(6). 13 indexed citations

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Hudson, Lawrence N., Gareth Jenkins, Katrin Layer, et al.. (2012). Cheddar: analysis and visualisation of ecological communities in R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 4(1). 99–104. 95 indexed citations

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Woodward, Guy, Lee E. Brown, François Edwards, et al.. (2012). Climate change impacts in multispecies systems: drought alters food web size structure in a field experiment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 367(1605). 2990–2997. 72 indexed citations

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Brown, Lee E., François Edwards, Alexander M. Milner, Guy Woodward, & Mark E. Ledger. (2011). Food web complexity and allometric scaling relationships in stream mesocosms: implications for experimentation. Journal of Animal Ecology. 80(4). 884–895. 29 indexed citations

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Ings, Thomas C., José M. Montoya, Jordi Bascompte, et al.. (2008). Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs. Journal of Animal Ecology. 78(1). 253–269. 630 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ledger, Mark E., et al.. (2008). Disturbance frequency influences patch dynamics in stream benthic algal communities. Oecologia. 155(4). 809–819. 76 indexed citations

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Ledger, Mark E., et al.. (2006). Disturbance, biological legacies and community development in stream mesocosms. Oecologia. 148(4). 682–691. 27 indexed citations

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Ledger, Mark E., et al.. (2005). The ecology of acidification and recovery: changes in herbivore-algal food web linkages across a stream pH gradient. Environmental Pollution. 137(1). 103–118. 79 indexed citations

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Ledger, Mark E. & Alan G. Hildrew. (2000). Herbivory in an acid stream. Freshwater Biology. 43(4). 545–556. 47 indexed citations

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Ledger, Mark E. & Alan G. Hildrew. (2000). Resource depression by a trophic generalist in an acid stream. Oikos. 90(2). 271–278. 23 indexed citations

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