Oliver L. Pescott

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 939 citations indexed

About

Oliver L. Pescott is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver L. Pescott has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 939 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 13 papers in Ecological Modeling and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Oliver L. Pescott's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (4 papers). Oliver L. Pescott is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (4 papers). Oliver L. Pescott collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Oliver L. Pescott's co-authors include Gavin Stewart, Robin J. Boyd, Peter A. Henrys, Gary D. Powney, Joachim Nozulak, Kayo Mitsukawa, Kevin H. McAllister, Herman van der Putten, Cédric Mombereau and Nick J. B. Isaac and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Oliver L. Pescott

26 papers receiving 918 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.

Data Integration for Large-Scale Models of Species Distributions

2019 251 citations Nick J. B. Isaac, Marta A. Jarzyna et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oliver L. Pescott United Kingdom	12	324	317	299	193	185	26	939
Michael D. Doherty Australia	18	305 0.9×	393 1.2×	473 1.6×	420 2.2×	170 0.9×	22	1.6k
Corey A. Handelsman United States	13	92 0.3×	478 1.5×	337 1.1×	47 0.2×	577 3.1×	18	1.1k
Wayne A. Van Voorhies United States	21	70 0.2×	543 1.7×	104 0.3×	143 0.7×	439 2.4×	30	1.7k
Rachel Ben‐Shlomo Israel	19	55 0.2×	392 1.2×	105 0.4×	78 0.4×	226 1.2×	56	1.3k
Justin C. Touchon United States	20	216 0.7×	246 0.8×	200 0.7×	89 0.5×	523 2.8×	39	990
Johan P. Dahlgren Sweden	19	357 1.1×	504 1.6×	783 2.6×	24 0.1×	758 4.1×	45	1.8k
Dick Groenendijk Netherlands	17	164 0.5×	364 1.1×	156 0.5×	30 0.2×	255 1.4×	30	925
Avalon C. S. Owens United States	12	93 0.3×	196 0.6×	44 0.1×	98 0.5×	244 1.3×	17	822
Myles H. M. Menz Australia	24	404 1.2×	656 2.1×	688 2.3×	46 0.2×	1.3k 7.1×	47	2.2k
Lukas Landler Austria	13	65 0.2×	262 0.8×	81 0.3×	45 0.2×	221 1.2×	46	750

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20 of 20 papers shown

Boyd, Robin J., Gavin Stewart, & Oliver L. Pescott. (2023). Descriptive inference using large, unrepresentative nonprobability samples: An introduction for ecologists. Ecology. 105(2). e4214–e4214. 7 indexed citations

Boyd, Robin J., Gary D. Powney, & Oliver L. Pescott. (2023). We need to talk about nonprobability samples. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38(6). 521–531. 48 indexed citations

Boyd, Robin J., Martin Harvey, David B. Roy, et al.. (2023). Causal inference and large‐scale expert validation shed light on the drivers of SDM accuracy and variance. Diversity and Distributions. 29(6). 774–784. 5 indexed citations

Boyd, Robin J., Marcelo A. Aizen, Rodrigo M. Barahona‐Segovia, et al.. (2022). Inferring trends in pollinator distributions across the Neotropics from publicly available data remains challenging despite mobilization efforts. Diversity and Distributions. 28(7). 1404–1415. 12 indexed citations

Pescott, Oliver L. & Mark Jitlal. (2020). Reassessing the observational evidence for nitrogen deposition impacts in acid grassland: spatial Bayesian linear models indicate small and ambiguous effects on species richness. PeerJ. 8. e9070–e9070. 2 indexed citations

Ridding, Lucy E., James M. Bullock, Oliver L. Pescott, et al.. (2020). Long-term change in calcareous grassland vegetation and drivers over three time periods between 1970 and 2016. Plant Ecology. 221(5). 377–394. 25 indexed citations

Maskell, Lindsay C., Peter A. Henrys, Oliver L. Pescott, & Simon M. Smart. (2020). Long‐term trends in the distribution, abundance and impact of native “injurious” weeds. Applied Vegetation Science. 23(4). 635–647. 10 indexed citations

Pescott, Oliver L., et al.. (2019). Temporal changes in distributions and the species atlas: How can British and Irish plant data shoulder the inferential burden?. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 1(4). 250–282. 15 indexed citations

Isaac, Nick J. B., Marta A. Jarzyna, Petr Keil, et al.. (2019). Data Integration for Large-Scale Models of Species Distributions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 35(1). 56–67. 251 indexed citations breakdown →

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Norton, Briony A., Gary D. Bending, Ron Corstanje, et al.. (2019). Urban meadows as an alternative to short mown grassland: effects of composition and height on biodiversity. Ecological Applications. 29(6). e01946–e01946. 98 indexed citations

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Pescott, Oliver L.. (2016). A systematic florula of a disturbed urban habitat: Pavements of Sheffield, England. Biodiversity Data Journal. 4(4). e10658–e10658. 1 indexed citations

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Pallett, D., Oliver L. Pescott, & Stefanie Schäfer. (2016). Changes in plant species richness and productivity in response to decreased nitrogen inputs in grassland in southern England. Ecological Indicators. 68. 73–81. 26 indexed citations

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Pescott, Oliver L., Kevin J. Walker, Michael J. O. Pocock, et al.. (2015). Ecological monitoring with citizen science: the design and implementation of schemes for recording plants in Britain and Ireland. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 115(3). 505–521. 51 indexed citations

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Smart, Simon M., Susan G. Jarvis, Kevin J. Walker, et al.. (2015). Common plants as indicators of habitat suitability for rare plants; quantifying the strength of the association between threatened plants and their neighbours. New Journal of Botany. 5(2). 72–88. 4 indexed citations

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Walker, Kevin, et al.. (2015). Making plants count. 1 indexed citations

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Pescott, Oliver L., Janet Simkin, Tom August, et al.. (2015). Air pollution and its effects on lichens, bryophytes, and lichen-feeding Lepidoptera: review and evidence from biological records. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 115(3). 611–635. 72 indexed citations

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Pescott, Oliver L. & Gavin Stewart. (2014). Assessing the impact of human trampling on vegetation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental evidence. 1 indexed citations

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Pescott, Oliver L. & Chris Preston. (2014). Monitoring the impacts of ash dieback on epiphytic bryophytes. 1 indexed citations

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Pescott, Oliver L. & Gavin Stewart. (2014). Assessing the impact of human trampling on vegetation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental evidence. PeerJ. 2. e360–e360. 65 indexed citations

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Mitsukawa, Kayo, Silvio Ofner, Joachim Nozulak, et al.. (2005). A selective metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 agonist: Activation of receptor signaling via an allosteric site modulates stress parametersin vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(51). 18712–18717. 204 indexed citations

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