Oscar Morton

460 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 250 citations indexed

About

Oscar Morton is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Oscar Morton has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 250 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 5 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Oscar Morton's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (9 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (5 papers). Oscar Morton is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (9 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (5 papers). Oscar Morton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Norway. Oscar Morton's co-authors include David P. Edwards, Brett R. Scheffers, Torbjørn Haugaasen, Felicity A. Edwards, Vincent Nijman, John W. Mallord, L.S. Nelson, David Lawson, David B. Lindenmayer and Andrew P. Beckerman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Oscar Morton

17 papers receiving 243 citations

Hit Papers

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Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity

2021 139 citations Oscar Morton, Brett R. Scheffers et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers

Oscar Morton

ECOLO

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Pablo Sinovas United Kingdom

Kelly Malsch United Kingdom

Adam Toomes Australia

Adam Dutton United Kingdom

Steven Broad United Kingdom

Asri A. Dwiyahreni Indonesia

Sarah Brook Australia

Thomasina E. E. Oldfield United Kingdom

Matthew S. Rogan United States

Peter Coals United Kingdom

Pablo Sinovas United Kingdom

Oscar Morton

137 ×1.0

ECOLO

94 ×1.2

NLC

69 ×1.1

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32 ×1.1

51 ×1.8

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Countries citing papers authored by Oscar Morton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oscar Morton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oscar Morton

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19 of 19 papers shown

Hughes, Alice C., Oscar Morton, & David P. Edwards. (2025). Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management. Conservation Letters. 18(2). 1 indexed citations

Morton, Oscar, et al.. (2025). Global risk of wildfire across timber production systems. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4204–4204. 1 indexed citations

Morton, Oscar, Sujithkumar Surendran Nair, David P. Edwards, et al.. (2025). India’s agroecology programme, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’, delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(11). 2057–2068. 1 indexed citations

Morton, Oscar, Vincent Nijman, & David P. Edwards. (2024). International wildlife trade quotas are characterized by high compliance and coverage but insufficient adaptive management. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(11). 2048–2057. 2 indexed citations

Morton, Oscar, et al.. (2024). A sex-linked supergene with large effects on sperm traits has little impact on reproductive traits in female zebra finches. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2019). 20232796–20232796. 1 indexed citations

Morton, Oscar, et al.. (2024). Increasing timber and declining live plant diversity and volumes in global trade from 2000 to 2020. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1).

Morton, Oscar, et al.. (2024). Wildlife farming: Balancing economic and conservation interests in the face of illegal wildlife trade. People and Nature. 6(2). 446–457. 5 indexed citations

Morton, Oscar, et al.. (2024). Climate change will exacerbate land conflict between agriculture and timber production. Nature Climate Change. 14(10). 1071–1077. 11 indexed citations

Morton, Oscar, et al.. (2024). Predator‐induced shape plasticity in Daphnia pulex. Ecology and Evolution. 14(2). e10913–e10913. 3 indexed citations

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Morton, Oscar, et al.. (2024). Colourful Brazilian anurans are preferentially targeted by wildlife trade. Biological Conservation. 302. 110923–110923.

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Morton, Oscar, Vincent Nijman, & David P. Edwards. (2024). Assessing and improving the veracity of international trade in captive-bred animals. Journal of Environmental Management. 354. 120240–120240. 3 indexed citations

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Morton, Oscar, Brett R. Scheffers, Torbjørn Haugaasen, & David P. Edwards. (2023). Association of reproductive traits with captive‐ versus wild‐sourced birds in trade. Conservation Biology. 37(4). e14076–e14076. 1 indexed citations

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Morton, Oscar, et al.. (2023). Global hotspots of traded phylogenetic and functional diversity. Nature. 620(7973). 351–357. 15 indexed citations

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Edwards, David P., et al.. (2023). National spatial and temporal patterns of the global wildlife trade. Global Ecology and Conservation. 48. e02742–e02742. 5 indexed citations

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Morton, Oscar, et al.. (2022). The ecological drivers and consequences of wildlife trade. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 98(3). 775–791. 33 indexed citations

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Morton, Oscar, Brett R. Scheffers, Torbjørn Haugaasen, & David P. Edwards. (2022). Mixed protection of threatened species traded under CITES. Current Biology. 32(5). 999–1009.e9. 11 indexed citations

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Morton, Oscar, et al.. (2021). Protecting habitats in low-intensity tropical farmland using carbon-based payments for ecosystem services. Environmental Research Letters. 16(11). 114022–114022. 4 indexed citations

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Morton, Oscar, Brett R. Scheffers, Torbjørn Haugaasen, & David P. Edwards. (2021). Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(4). 540–548. 139 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morton, Oscar, et al.. (2020). Economically viable forest restoration in shifting cultivation landscapes. Environmental Research Letters. 15(6). 64017–64017. 14 indexed citations

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