Morgan W. Tingley

8.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
110 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Morgan W. Tingley is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Morgan W. Tingley has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Ecology, 59 papers in Ecological Modeling and 56 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Morgan W. Tingley's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (59 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (53 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (38 papers). Morgan W. Tingley is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (59 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (53 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (38 papers). Morgan W. Tingley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Morgan W. Tingley's co-authors include Steven R. Beissinger, Paul R. Elsen, Craig Moritz, William B. Monahan, Chris S. Elphick, Rodney B. Siegel, Andrew N. Stillman, Michelle S. Koo, Graham A. Montgomery and Robert L. Wilkerson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Morgan W. Tingley

102 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change

2009 477 citations Morgan W. Tingley et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Global mountain topography and the fate of montane species under climate change

2015 366 citations Morgan W. Tingley et al. profile →
Standards and Best Practices for Monitoring and Benchmarking Insects

2021 138 citations Graham A. Montgomery, Michael W. Belitz et al. profile →
Pyrodiversity and biodiversity: A history, synthesis, and outlook

2021 132 citations Morgan W. Tingley et al. Diversity and Distributions profile →
Traits shaping urban tolerance in birds differ around the world

2023 62 citations Montague H. C. Neate‐Clegg, Casey Youngflesh et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Morgan W. Tingley United States	37	3.3k	2.9k	2.2k	1.5k	1.2k	110	5.5k
Luigi Maiorano Italy	44	3.9k 1.2×	3.5k 1.2×	2.6k 1.2×	2.3k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	136	7.2k
Yung En Chee Australia	13	2.9k 0.9×	3.8k 1.3×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	27	6.1k
Allen H. Hurlbert United States	35	2.9k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	70	5.6k
Luke P. Shoo Australia	30	2.0k 0.6×	2.4k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	67	4.3k
Omri Allouche Israel	8	2.7k 0.8×	3.6k 1.2×	2.3k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	9	5.4k
Jonathan Baillie United Kingdom	28	3.6k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	946 0.8×	67	6.4k
Gurutzeta Guillera‐Arroita Australia	36	4.4k 1.3×	4.0k 1.4×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	940 0.8×	68	7.1k
Brett R. Scheffers United States	32	2.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	83	4.7k
Cory Merow United States	31	3.1k 0.9×	4.0k 1.4×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	66	7.0k
Colin M. Beale United Kingdom	32	3.3k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	90	5.4k

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Youngflesh, Casey, et al.. (2026). An ecological cascade links climatic variability to avian irruptions and zoonotic salmonellosis outbreaks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(3). e2511209123–e2511209123.

Belitz, Michael W., Elise A. Larsen, Allen H. Hurlbert, et al.. (2025). Potential for bird–insect phenological mismatch in a tri‐trophic system. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(4). 717–728. 2 indexed citations

Youngflesh, Casey, et al.. (2025). Shifting Gears in a Shifting Climate: Birds Adjust Migration Speed in Response to Spring Vegetation Green‐Up. Diversity and Distributions. 31(5).

Tingley, Morgan W., et al.. (2024). Hazardous wildfire smoke events can alter dawn soundscapes in dry forests of central and eastern Washington, United States. Global Ecology and Conservation. 54. e03044–e03044.

Tingley, Morgan W., et al.. (2024). Habitat fragmentation mediates the mechanisms underlying long-term climate-driven thermophilization in birds. eLife. 13. 3 indexed citations

Youngflesh, Casey, et al.. (2024). Spatial Nonstationarity in Phenological Responses of Nearctic Birds to Climate Variability. Ecology Letters. 27(10). e14526–e14526. 3 indexed citations

Grames, Eliza M., Graham A. Montgomery, Casey Youngflesh, Morgan W. Tingley, & Chris S. Elphick. (2023). The effect of insect food availability on songbird reproductive success and chick body condition: Evidence from a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters. 26(4). 658–673. 39 indexed citations

Stillman, Andrew N., et al.. (2023). Incorporating pyrodiversity into wildlife habitat assessments for rapid post‐fire management: A woodpecker case study. Ecological Applications. 33(4). e2853–e2853. 7 indexed citations

Youngflesh, Casey, James F. Saracco, Rodney B. Siegel, & Morgan W. Tingley. (2022). Abiotic conditions shape spatial and temporal morphological variation in North American birds. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(12). 1860–1870. 49 indexed citations

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Grames, Eliza M., Graham A. Montgomery, Douglas Boyes, et al.. (2022). A framework and case study to systematically identify long‐term insect abundance and diversity datasets. Conservation Science and Practice. 4(6). 10 indexed citations

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Nimmo, Dale G., Alan N. Andersen, Sally Archibald, et al.. (2022). Fire ecology for the 21st century: Conserving biodiversity in the age of megafire. Diversity and Distributions. 28(3). 350–356. 17 indexed citations

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Wells, Heather, Michael Letko, Gorka Lasso, et al.. (2021). The evolutionary history of ACE2 usage within the coronavirus subgenus Sarbecovirus. Virus Evolution. 7(1). veab007–veab007. 49 indexed citations

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Stillman, Andrew N., Teresa J. Lorenz, Rodney B. Siegel, et al.. (2021). Juvenile survival of a burned forest specialist in response to variation in fire characteristics. Journal of Animal Ecology. 90(5). 1317–1327. 24 indexed citations

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Stillman, Andrew N., Teresa J. Lorenz, Rodney B. Siegel, et al.. (2021). Conditional natal dispersal provides a mechanism for populations tracking resource pulses after fire. Behavioral Ecology. 33(1). 27–36. 8 indexed citations

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Stillman, Andrew N., et al.. (2021). Nestling provisioning behavior of Black‐backed Woodpeckers in post‐fire forest. Journal of Field Ornithology. 92(3). 273–283. 1 indexed citations

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Steen, Valerie A., Morgan W. Tingley, Peter W. C. Paton, & Chris S. Elphick. (2020). Spatial thinning and class balancing: Key choices lead to variation in the performance of species distribution models with citizen science data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(2). 216–226. 80 indexed citations

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Kass, Jamie M., et al.. (2020). Co-occurrence of invasive and native carnivorans affects occupancy patterns across environmental gradients. Biological Invasions. 22(7). 2251–2266. 17 indexed citations

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Tingley, Morgan W., et al.. (2020). The challenge of novel abiotic conditions for species undergoing climate‐induced range shifts. Ecography. 43(11). 1571–1590. 102 indexed citations

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Stillman, Andrew N., Rodney B. Siegel, Robert L. Wilkerson, et al.. (2019). Nest site selection and nest survival of Black-backed Woodpeckers after wildfire. Ornithological Applications. 121(3). 37 indexed citations

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Bond, Monica L., Derek Lee, Rodney B. Siegel, & Morgan W. Tingley. (2013). Diet and home-range size of California Spotted Owls in a burned forest. 44(2). 114–126. 17 indexed citations

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