Mark V. Lomolino

9.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
90 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Mark V. Lomolino is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark V. Lomolino has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Ecology, 34 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 27 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Mark V. Lomolino's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (46 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (34 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (34 papers). Mark V. Lomolino is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (46 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (34 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (34 papers). Mark V. Lomolino collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Australia. Mark V. Lomolino's co-authors include Rob Channell, James H. Brown, Gregory A. Smith, Dov F. Sax, Russell Davis, Alexandra van der Geer, Brett R. Riddle, María Rita Palombo, J. Curtis Creighton and George Lyras and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mark V. Lomolino

87 papers receiving 6.0k 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. Elevation gradients of species‐density: historical and prospective views
    2001 1.0k citations Mark V. Lomolino Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →
  2. Ecology’s most general, yet protean 1 pattern: the species‐area relationship
    2000 535 citations Mark V. Lomolino Journal of Biogeography profile →
  3. Body size evolution in insular vertebrates: generality of the island rule
    2005 480 citations Mark V. Lomolino Journal of Biogeography profile →
  4. Body Size of Mammals on Islands: The Island Rule Reexamined
    1985 440 citations Mark V. Lomolino profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark V. Lomolino United States 39 3.9k 2.9k 2.0k 1.9k 1.1k 90 6.6k
Gary R. Graves United States 34 3.8k 1.0× 2.9k 1.0× 2.2k 1.1× 2.5k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 184 7.3k
Dawn M. Kaufman United States 15 3.8k 1.0× 4.2k 1.4× 3.4k 1.7× 2.6k 1.4× 866 0.8× 23 7.9k
Christy M. McCain United States 29 2.6k 0.7× 2.8k 1.0× 2.9k 1.4× 2.4k 1.2× 805 0.7× 59 5.8k
Susanne A. Fritz Germany 29 2.3k 0.6× 2.3k 0.8× 2.0k 1.0× 2.2k 1.1× 955 0.9× 55 5.8k
S. K. Morgan Ernest United States 35 3.5k 0.9× 2.7k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 554 0.5× 76 6.1k
Jay R. Malcolm Canada 37 3.1k 0.8× 2.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 1.6k 0.9× 758 0.7× 92 6.1k
Allen H. Hurlbert United States 35 2.9k 0.7× 2.8k 1.0× 2.5k 1.2× 1.8k 0.9× 662 0.6× 70 5.6k
Kaustuv Roy United States 41 3.2k 0.8× 1.7k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 87 7.0k
Frances C. James United States 31 3.8k 1.0× 2.4k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 1.8k 1.0× 934 0.8× 75 6.3k
William E. Magnusson Brazil 50 3.6k 0.9× 4.0k 1.4× 1.5k 0.7× 2.4k 1.3× 851 0.8× 300 8.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tomlinson, Sean, Mark V. Lomolino, Jamie Wood, et al.. (2025). Was extinction of New Zealand's avian megafauna an unavoidable consequence of human arrival?. The Science of The Total Environment. 964. 178471–178471. 1 indexed citations
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Fordham, Damien A., Stuart C. Brown, Jeremy J. Austin, et al.. (2024). 52,000 years of woolly rhinoceros population dynamics reveal extinction mechanisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(24). e2316419121–e2316419121. 13 indexed citations
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Tomlinson, Sean, Mark V. Lomolino, Jamie R. Wood, et al.. (2024). Ecological dynamics of moa extinctions reveal convergent refugia that today harbour flightless birds. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(8). 1472–1481. 2 indexed citations
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Tomlinson, Sean, Mark V. Lomolino, Atholl Anderson, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing colonization dynamics to establish how human activities transformed island biodiversity. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 5261–5261. 2 indexed citations
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Rozzi, Roberto, Mark V. Lomolino, Alexandra van der Geer, et al.. (2023). Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands. Science. 379(6636). 1054–1059. 27 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V., et al.. (2023). Melting climates shrink North American small mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(50). e2310855120–e2310855120. 9 indexed citations
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Matthews, Thomas J., Thomas J. Matthews, & Mark V. Lomolino. (2021). The Species–Area Relationship. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 34 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V.. (2018). On Teaching “... that grand subject, ...”. Frontiers of Biogeography. 10(1-2).
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Lomolino, Mark V.. (2018). On Teaching “... that grand subject, ...”. Frontiers of Biogeography. 10(1-2). 3 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V.. (2018). On teaching '... that grand subject ...'. Frontiers of Biogeography. 10(4). 2 indexed citations
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Rozzi, Roberto & Mark V. Lomolino. (2017). Rapid Dwarfing of an Insular Mammal – The Feral Cattle of Amsterdam Island. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 8820–8820. 23 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V., Brett R. Riddle, & Robert J. Whittaker. (2016). Biogeography. Oxford University Press eBooks. 46 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V.. (2016). The unifying, fundamental principles of biogeography: understanding <i>Island Life</i>. Frontiers of Biogeography. 8(2). 12 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V., Dov F. Sax, Brett R. Riddle, & James H. Brown. (2006). The island rule and a research agenda for studying ecogeographical patterns. Journal of Biogeography. 33(9). 1503–1510. 102 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V., Dov F. Sax, & James H. Brown. (2005). Foundations of Biogeography: Classic Papers with Commentaries. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 35 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V., et al.. (2003). Long-term persistence of prairie dog towns: insights for designing networks of prairie reserves. Biological Conservation. 115(1). 111–120. 20 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V., et al.. (2001). Island biogeography and landscape ecology of mammals inhabiting fragmented, temperate rain forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 10(2). 113–132. 55 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V. & Russell Davis. (1997). Biogeographic Scale and Biodiversity of Mountain Forest Mammals of Western North America. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters. 6(1). 57–57. 40 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V. & Rob Channell. (1995). Splendid Isolation: Patterns of Geographic Range Collapse in Endangered Mammals. Journal of Mammalogy. 76(2). 335–347. 169 indexed citations
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Lomolino, Mark V.. (1982). Species-area and species-distance relationships of terrestrial mammals in the Thousand Island Region. Oecologia. 54(1). 72–75. 54 indexed citations

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