Mark Rees

16.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
146 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Mark Rees is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Rees has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 77 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 48 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Mark Rees's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (90 papers), Plant and animal studies (69 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (19 papers). Mark Rees is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (90 papers), Plant and animal studies (69 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (19 papers). Mark Rees collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Mark Rees's co-authors include Lindsay A. Turnbull, Stephen P. Ellner, Michael J. Crawley, Dylan Z. Childs, Karen E. Rose, Yvonne M. Buckley, Colin P. Osborne, Richard L. Hill, P. J. Grubb and Jonathan M. Levine and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mark Rees

145 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Are plant populations seed‐limited? A review of seed sowing experiments

2000 794 citations Lindsay A. Turnbull, Mark Rees et al. profile →
How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists

2011 462 citations Drew W. Purves, Mark Rees et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Rees United Kingdom	60	6.4k	4.9k	4.4k	3.4k	1.8k	146	11.4k
Ove Eriksson Sweden	59	8.2k 1.3×	6.8k 1.4×	5.9k 1.3×	3.7k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	209	12.9k
Ingrid M. Parker United States	40	5.5k 0.9×	4.9k 1.0×	4.5k 1.0×	4.9k 1.4×	1.8k 1.0×	91	12.7k
Donald M. Waller United States	49	5.2k 0.8×	3.2k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	4.8k 1.4×	2.5k 1.4×	155	10.4k
Tiffany M. Knight United States	46	5.6k 0.9×	6.3k 1.3×	4.0k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	165	10.1k
Vojtĕch Jaros̆ı́k Czechia	52	7.4k 1.2×	5.5k 1.1×	4.9k 1.1×	4.9k 1.5×	2.1k 1.2×	82	13.4k
Ladislav Mucina South Africa	40	3.9k 0.6×	3.5k 0.7×	3.6k 0.8×	3.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	252	9.7k
Richard N. Mack United States	49	7.1k 1.1×	4.8k 1.0×	4.4k 1.0×	6.5k 1.9×	2.8k 1.5×	109	14.5k
Regino Zamora Spain	55	6.9k 1.1×	4.2k 0.8×	3.7k 0.8×	3.3k 1.0×	3.6k 2.0×	195	11.3k
Jan Pergl Czechia	54	7.4k 1.2×	5.5k 1.1×	4.8k 1.1×	5.3k 1.6×	2.2k 1.2×	153	13.8k
Meelis Pärtel Estonia	56	7.3k 1.1×	4.7k 1.0×	3.4k 0.8×	4.0k 1.2×	2.3k 1.3×	187	11.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Rees

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20 of 20 papers shown

Antão, Laura H., Mark Rees, Reima Leinonen, et al.. (2025). Recent community warming of moths in Finland is driven by extinction in the north and colonisation in the south. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7063–7063.

Xu, Liang, Adam Thomas Clark, Mark Rees, & Lindsay A. Turnbull. (2022). Estimating competition in metacommunities: accounting for biases caused by dispersal. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(1). 291–301. 1 indexed citations

Simpson, Kimberley J., et al.. (2021). Large seeds provide an intrinsic growth advantage that depends on leaf traits and root allocation. Functional Ecology. 35(10). 2168–2178. 15 indexed citations

Zhang, Pengfei, Mariet M. Hefting, Merel B. Soons, et al.. (2020). Fast and furious: Early differences in growth rate drive short‐term plant dominance and exclusion under eutrophication. Ecology and Evolution. 10(18). 10116–10129. 10 indexed citations

Simpson, Kimberley J., Christopher Bennett, Emily J. Mockford, et al.. (2020). C₄ photosynthesis and the economic spectra of leaf and root traits independently influence growth rates in grasses. Journal of Ecology. 108(5). 1899–1909. 34 indexed citations

Wade, Ruth N., Patrick C. Seed, Pascal‐Antoine Christin, et al.. (2020). The morphogenesis of fast growth in plants. New Phytologist. 228(4). 1306–1315. 8 indexed citations

Freckleton, Robert P. & Mark Rees. (2019). Comparative analysis of experimental data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(8). 1308–1321. 16 indexed citations

Rees, Mark, et al.. (2018). Exploring population responses to environmental change when there is never enough data: a factor analytic approach. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(11). 2283–2293. 6 indexed citations

Simpson, Kimberley J., Ruth N. Wade, Mark Rees, Colin P. Osborne, & Susan E. Hartley. (2017). Still armed after domestication? Impacts of domestication and agronomic selection on silicon defences in cereals. Functional Ecology. 31(11). 2108–2117. 38 indexed citations

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Ellner, Stephen P., Dylan Z. Childs, & Mark Rees. (2016). Data-driven Modelling of Structured Populations A Practical Guide to the Integral Projection Model. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 48 indexed citations

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Metcalf, C. Jessica E., Stephen P. Ellner, Dylan Z. Childs, et al.. (2015). Statistical modelling of annual variation for inference on stochastic population dynamics using Integral Projection Models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6(9). 1007–1017. 29 indexed citations

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Childs, Dylan Z., Tim Coulson, Josephine M. Pemberton, Tim Clutton‐Brock, & Mark Rees. (2011). Predicting trait values and measuring selection in complex life histories: reproductive allocation decisions in Soay sheep. Ecology Letters. 14(10). 985–992. 27 indexed citations

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Paul‐Victor, Cloé, Tobias Züst, Mark Rees, Daniel J. Kliebenstein, & Lindsay A. Turnbull. (2010). A new method for measuring relative growth rate can uncover the costs of defensive compounds in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist. 187(4). 1102–1111. 69 indexed citations

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Franks, Peter J., et al.. (2010). Mutualistic mycorrhiza-like symbiosis in the most ancient group of land plants. Nature Communications. 1(1). 103–103. 159 indexed citations

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Hesse, Elze, Mark Rees, & Heinz Müller‐Schärer. (2008). Life‐History Variation in Contrasting Habitats: Flowering Decisions in a Clonal Perennial Herb ( Veratrum album ). The American Naturalist. 172(5). E196–E213. 49 indexed citations

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Turnbull, Lindsay A., Mark Rees, & Drew W. Purves. (2008). Why equalising trade‐offs aren’t always neutral. Ecology Letters. 11(10). 1037–1046. 29 indexed citations

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Buckley, Yvonne M., Benjamin M. Bolker, & Mark Rees. (2007). Disturbance, invasion and re‐invasion: managing the weed‐shaped hole in disturbed ecosystems. Ecology Letters. 10(9). 809–817. 133 indexed citations

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Pacala, Stephen W. & Mark Rees. (1998). Models Suggesting Field Experiments to Test Two Hypotheses Explaining Successional Diversity. The American Naturalist. 152(5). 729–737. 210 indexed citations

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Rees, Mark. (1996). Evolutionary ecology of seed dormancy and seed size. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 351(1345). 1299–1308. 221 indexed citations

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Rees, Mark. (1993). Trade-offs among dispersal strategies in British plants. Nature. 366(6451). 150–152. 143 indexed citations

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