Nicholas A. Macgregor

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Nicholas A. Macgregor is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas A. Macgregor has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Ecology, 22 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 22 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Nicholas A. Macgregor's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (22 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers). Nicholas A. Macgregor is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (22 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers). Nicholas A. Macgregor collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Nicholas A. Macgregor's co-authors include Simon J. Duffield, Humphrey Q. P. Crick, Michael D. Morecroft, Kevin Watts, Kirsty J. Park, Elisa Fuentes‐Montemayor, Andrew Cockburn, Ilya M. D. Maclean, Andrew J. Suggitt and Colin M. Beale and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas A. Macgregor

42 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

2018 285 citations Andrew J. Suggitt, Robert J. Wilson et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas A. Macgregor United Kingdom	18	540	439	430	411	364	47	1.1k
Claudia L. Gray United Kingdom	13	609 1.1×	500 1.1×	373 0.9×	253 0.6×	537 1.5×	17	1.3k
Bernard W. T. Coetzee South Africa	16	626 1.2×	434 1.0×	461 1.1×	234 0.6×	313 0.9×	30	1.1k
Phillipa K. Gillingham United Kingdom	15	573 1.1×	581 1.3×	648 1.5×	284 0.7×	338 0.9×	43	1.2k
William K. Morris Australia	14	584 1.1×	635 1.4×	583 1.4×	259 0.6×	238 0.7×	26	1.2k
Jim Zook United States	10	456 0.8×	558 1.3×	350 0.8×	358 0.9×	247 0.7×	14	950
Brian M. Starzomski Canada	19	704 1.3×	519 1.2×	233 0.5×	311 0.8×	398 1.1×	62	1.3k
Guillaume Latombe South Africa	21	575 1.1×	363 0.8×	261 0.6×	278 0.7×	196 0.5×	47	1.1k
Karen Mustin Brazil	19	529 1.0×	370 0.8×	336 0.8×	385 0.9×	317 0.9×	44	1.2k
Theresa M. Nogeire United States	8	505 0.9×	643 1.5×	283 0.7×	354 0.9×	367 1.0×	9	1.1k
Michel Loreau France	12	471 0.9×	559 1.3×	330 0.8×	329 0.8×	412 1.1×	16	1.2k

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Wilson, Michael D., et al.. (2025). Call broadcast surveys monitor owls with more precision than passive surveys by citizen scientists or acoustic recording units. Wildlife Research. 52(5). 1 indexed citations

Southwell, Darren, et al.. (2025). Fire regimes drive population trends of a threatened lizard in the central and western deserts of Australia. Wildlife Research. 52(4). 1 indexed citations

Brown, Sarah K., et al.. (2024). Habitat requirements of a critically endangered Ninox hawk‐owl: implications for island‐wide restoration. Restoration Ecology. 32(8). 1 indexed citations

Macgregor, Nicholas A., et al.. (2024). The challenge of preventing extinctions: Lessons from managing threatened land snails on Norfolk Island. PLoS ONE. 19(12). e0314300–e0314300.

Weeks, Andrew R., et al.. (2024). Diet breadth of a critically endangered owl presents challenges for invasive rodent management: a conservation conundrum. Emu - Austral Ornithology. 124(2). 187–198. 4 indexed citations

Southwell, Darren, et al.. (2024). Using power analysis and spatial prioritization to evaluate the design of a forest bird monitoring programme. Oryx. 58(4). 522–531. 2 indexed citations

Heinsohn, Robert, Luis Ortiz–Catedral, Dejan Stojanović, et al.. (2024). Genetic diversity and inbreeding in an endangered island-dwelling parrot population following repeated population bottlenecks. Conservation Genetics. 25(3). 725–737.

Lin, Brenda B., et al.. (2023). Holistic climate change adaptation for World Heritage. Nature Sustainability. 6(10). 1157–1165. 13 indexed citations

Donelson, Jennifer M., Juan Diego Gaitán‐Espitía, Alistair J. Hobday, et al.. (2023). Putting plasticity into practice for effective conservation actions under climate change. Nature Climate Change. 13(7). 632–647. 12 indexed citations

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Lloyd‐Jones, Luke R., Mark V. Bravington, Kyle N. Armstrong, et al.. (2023). Close-kin mark-recapture informs critically endangered terrestrial mammal status. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12512–12512. 9 indexed citations

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Critchlow, Rob, Charles Cunningham, Humphrey Q. P. Crick, et al.. (2022). Multi-taxa spatial conservation planning reveals similar priorities between taxa and improved protected area representation with climate change. Biodiversity and Conservation. 31(2). 683–702. 22 indexed citations

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Heinsohn, Robert, et al.. (2021). Utilization of modified and artificial nests by endemic and introduced parrots on Norfolk Island. Restoration Ecology. 30(5). 8 indexed citations

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Bayraktarov, Elisa, Diego F. Correa, Andrés Felipe Suárez‐Castro, et al.. (2021). Variable effects of protected areas on long‐term multispecies trends for Australia's imperiled birds. Conservation Science and Practice. 3(7). 4 indexed citations

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Massimino, Dario, Colin M. Beale, Andrew J. Suggitt, et al.. (2020). Can microclimate offer refuge to an upland bird species under climate change?. Landscape Ecology. 35(9). 1907–1922. 13 indexed citations

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Suggitt, Andrew J., Robert J. Wilson, Nick J. B. Isaac, et al.. (2018). Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering. Nature Climate Change. 8(8). 713–717. 285 indexed citations breakdown →

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Whytock, Robin C., et al.. (2017). Bird‐community responses to habitat creation in a long‐term, large‐scale natural experiment. Conservation Biology. 32(2). 345–354. 34 indexed citations

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Shwartz, Assaf, Zoe G. Davies, Nicholas A. Macgregor, et al.. (2017). Scaling up from protected areas in England: The value of establishing large conservation areas. Biological Conservation. 212. 279–287. 18 indexed citations

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Morecroft, Michael D., et al.. (2014). Enhancing the impact of climate science. Nature Climate Change. 4(10). 842–843. 5 indexed citations

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Macgregor, Nicholas A., et al.. (2014). Adaptation in Practice: How Managers of Nature Conservation Areas in Eastern England are Responding to Climate Change. Environmental Management. 54(4). 700–719. 16 indexed citations

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Rannow, Sven, Nicholas A. Macgregor, Juliane Albrecht, et al.. (2014). Managing Protected Areas Under Climate Change: Challenges and Priorities. Environmental Management. 54(4). 732–743. 40 indexed citations

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