Michael Bunce

18.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
181 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Michael Bunce is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Bunce has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Ecology, 67 papers in Molecular Biology and 41 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Michael Bunce's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (58 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (32 papers). Michael Bunce is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (58 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (33 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (32 papers). Michael Bunce collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Michael Bunce's co-authors include K. I. Welsh, Michael Stat, Joseph D. DiBattista, Martin Barnardo, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Euan S. Harvey, Eske Willerslev, P. Krausa, Michael J. Browning and Peter J. Morris and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Bunce

178 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

Phototyping: comprehensive DNA typing for HLA‐A, B, C, DRB1, DRB3, DRB4, DRB5 & DQB1 by PCR with 144 primer mixes utilizing sequence‐specific primers (PCR‐SSP)

1995 903 citations Michael Bunce et al. profile →
The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils

2012 389 citations Morten E. Allentoft, Charlotte L. Oskam et al. profile →
Ecosystem biomonitoring with eDNA: metabarcoding across the tree of life in a tropical marine environment

2017 369 citations Michael Stat, Joseph D. DiBattista et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael Bunce	4.3k	3.5k	2.1k	1.7k	1.2k	181	10.1k
William L. Brown	1.2k 0.3×	2.4k 0.7×	892 0.4×	2.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.4×	265	9.5k
M. Thomas P. Gilbert	9.9k 2.3×	9.7k 2.8×	725 0.3×	8.3k 4.9×	588 0.5×	387	24.4k
François Balloux	3.5k 0.8×	4.1k 1.2×	808 0.4×	7.1k 4.2×	159 0.1×	144	17.1k
Zhi‐Qiang Zhang	830 0.2×	1.0k 0.3×	856 0.4×	711 0.4×	1.7k 1.4×	495	8.0k
Guillaume Laval	5.3k 1.2×	5.3k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	12.9k 7.7×	172 0.1×	41	21.5k
Beth Shapiro	3.6k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	134 0.1×	4.0k 2.4×	464 0.4×	195	9.8k
Thomas J. Matthews	1.9k 0.4×	3.4k 1.0×	3.9k 1.9×	861 0.5×	8.4k 7.0×	221	14.2k
Reinhard Bürger	1.8k 0.4×	1.6k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	5.2k 3.1×	118 0.1×	200	10.5k
Menna E. Jones	4.0k 0.9×	651 0.2×	299 0.1×	2.0k 1.2×	341 0.3×	205	7.7k
John J. Welch	906 0.2×	2.2k 0.6×	287 0.1×	2.4k 1.4×	223 0.2×	136	7.8k

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Pepin, Kim M., Keith M. Carlisle, Richard B. Chipman, et al.. (2025). Practitioner perspectives on informing decisions in One Health sectors with predictive models. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 12(1).

Bunce, Michael, et al.. (2024). Design and Optimization of a Centrifugal Compressor-Based Air Management System for HD Fuel Cell Applications. SAE International Journal of Advances and Current Practices in Mobility. 7(2). 760–772. 1 indexed citations

Nester, Georgia, L. Suter, John A. Kitchener, et al.. (2024). Long-distance Southern Ocean environmental DNA (eDNA) transect provides insights into spatial marine biota and invasion pathways for non-native species. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175657–175657. 4 indexed citations

Fernandes, Kristen, Benjamin J. Saunders, Jonathan Majer, et al.. (2024). Mining exploration infrastructure affects biophysical habitat characteristics and ground-dwelling arthropod communities. Biodiversity and Conservation. 33(8-9). 2465–2486. 1 indexed citations

Bunce, Michael, Jemma L. Geoghegan, David J. Winter, Joep de Ligt, & Siouxsie Wiles. (2023). Exploring the depth and breadth of the genomics toolbox during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 213–213. 1 indexed citations

Keating, James, Tiffany Simpson, Mahsa Mousavi‐Derazmahalleh, et al.. (2023). A large scale temporal and spatial environmental DNA biodiversity survey of marine vertebrates in Brazil following the Fundão tailings dam failure. Marine Environmental Research. 192. 106239–106239. 1 indexed citations

Marnane, Michael J., Justin McDonald, Travis S. Elsdon, et al.. (2023). Comparing environmental DNA collection methods for sampling community composition on marine infrastructure. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 283. 108283–108283. 14 indexed citations

Douglas, Jordan, David J. Winter, Andrea McNeill, et al.. (2022). Tracing the international arrivals of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants after Aotearoa New Zealand reopened its border. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6484–6484. 17 indexed citations

Marnane, Michael J., et al.. (2022). Complementary molecular and visual sampling of fish on oil and gas platforms provides superior biodiversity characterisation. Marine Environmental Research. 179. 105692–105692. 13 indexed citations

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Nester, Georgia, Matthew J. Heydenrych, Tina E. Berry, et al.. (2022). Characterizing the distribution of the critically endangered estuarine pipefish (Syngnathus watermeyeri) across its range using environmental DNA. Environmental DNA. 5(1). 132–145. 14 indexed citations

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David, Bruno, Andy S. Hicks, Shaun Wilkinson, et al.. (2021). Sucked in by eDNA – a promising tool for complementing riverine assessment of freshwater fish communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 48(3-4). 217–244. 15 indexed citations

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Bohmann, Kristine, Vasco Elbrecht, Christian Carøe, et al.. (2021). Strategies for sample labelling and library preparation in DNA metabarcoding studies. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(4). 1231–1246. 83 indexed citations

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Nester, Georgia, Maarten De Brauwer, Adam Koziol, et al.. (2020). Development and evaluation of fish eDNA metabarcoding assays facilitate the detection of cryptic seahorse taxa (family: Syngnathidae). Environmental DNA. 2(4). 614–626. 67 indexed citations

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Bessey, Cindy, Simon Jarman, Oliver Berry, et al.. (2020). Maximizing fish detection with eDNA metabarcoding. Environmental DNA. 2(4). 493–504. 122 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Kristen, Mieke van der Heyde, Megan L. Coghlan, et al.. (2019). Invertebrate DNA metabarcoding reveals changes in communities across mine site restoration chronosequences. Restoration Ecology. 27(5). 1177–1186. 21 indexed citations

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Berry, Tina E., Benjamin J. Saunders, Megan L. Coghlan, et al.. (2019). Marine environmental DNA biomonitoring reveals seasonal patterns in biodiversity and identifies ecosystem responses to anomalous climatic events. PLoS Genetics. 15(2). e1007943–e1007943. 127 indexed citations

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Bunce, Michael, Nicole E. White, Shaun Wilkinson, et al.. (2019). Development of a multi-assay approach for monitoring coral diversity using eDNA metabarcoding. Coral Reefs. 39(1). 159–171. 63 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Kristen, Mieke van der Heyde, Michael Bunce, et al.. (2018). DNA metabarcoding—a new approach to fauna monitoring in mine site restoration. Restoration Ecology. 26(6). 1098–1107. 33 indexed citations

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Rey‐Iglesia, Alba, Christian Carøe, David E. Alquezar‐Planas, et al.. (2018). MobiSeq: De novo SNP discovery in model and non‐model species through sequencing the flanking region of transposable elements. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(2). 512–525. 6 indexed citations

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Allentoft, Morten E., et al.. (2011). A molecular characterization of a newly discovered megafaunal fossil site in North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 42(4). 241–256. 8 indexed citations

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