Owen L. Petchey

22.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
146 papers, 14.4k citations indexed

About

Owen L. Petchey is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Owen L. Petchey has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 14.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Ecology, 59 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 59 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Owen L. Petchey's work include Plant and animal studies (57 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (53 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (40 papers). Owen L. Petchey is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (57 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (53 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (40 papers). Owen L. Petchey collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Owen L. Petchey's co-authors include Kevin J. Gaston, Andrew P. Beckerman, Philip H. Warren, Peter J. Morin, Andy Hector, Timon McPhearson, Timothy M. Casey, Ulrich Brose, José M. Montoya and Amy B. Pedersen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Owen L. Petchey

142 papers receiving 13.9k citations

Hit Papers

Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward 1999 2026 2008 2017 2006 2002 2015 1999 2004 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward
    2006 1.8k citations Owen L. Petchey, Kevin J. Gaston Ecology Letters profile →
  2. Functional diversity (FD), species richness and community composition
    2002 1.4k citations Owen L. Petchey, Kevin J. Gaston Ecology Letters profile →
  3. Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions
    2015 987 citations Owen L. Petchey et al. profile →
  4. Environmental warming alters food-web structure and ecosystem function
    1999 629 citations Owen L. Petchey et al. profile →
  5. Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities
    2004 559 citations Bo Ebenman, Mark Emmerson et al. Journal of Animal Ecology profile →
  6. Navigating the complexity of ecological stability
    2016 431 citations Ian Donohue, José M. Montoya et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  7. Biodiversity increases and decreases ecosystem stability
    2018 368 citations Frank Pennekamp, Mikael Pontarp et al. profile →
  8. Organic and conservation agriculture promote ecosystem multifunctionality
    2021 204 citations Owen L. Petchey et al. profile →
  9. Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change
    2021 165 citations Bernhard Schmid, Owen L. Petchey et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Owen L. Petchey Switzerland 54 6.7k 6.5k 4.6k 3.9k 2.8k 146 14.4k
Nicolas Mouquet France 54 8.2k 1.2× 7.8k 1.2× 5.3k 1.1× 3.0k 0.8× 3.4k 1.2× 117 15.6k
Diane S. Srivastava Canada 40 7.2k 1.1× 7.0k 1.1× 4.5k 1.0× 4.1k 1.1× 2.5k 0.9× 116 16.3k
William F. Fagan United States 64 8.5k 1.3× 5.8k 0.9× 4.0k 0.9× 3.7k 0.9× 2.0k 0.7× 270 16.5k
Ulrich Brose Germany 56 6.7k 1.0× 4.9k 0.8× 4.7k 1.0× 2.6k 0.7× 2.3k 0.8× 140 12.2k
Brian J. McGill United States 52 7.0k 1.0× 9.3k 1.4× 5.9k 1.3× 4.1k 1.0× 5.3k 1.9× 122 16.7k
Eric L. Berlow United States 24 5.7k 0.9× 4.8k 0.7× 3.3k 0.7× 3.1k 0.8× 1.8k 0.6× 40 11.6k
Marcel Holyoak United States 36 6.9k 1.0× 5.0k 0.8× 3.9k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 125 11.9k
Mark Vellend Canada 52 7.1k 1.1× 8.5k 1.3× 5.6k 1.2× 3.3k 0.9× 3.5k 1.3× 132 16.2k
Kevin S. McCann Canada 49 6.9k 1.0× 4.5k 0.7× 3.6k 0.8× 3.3k 0.8× 1.1k 0.4× 157 12.8k
Hal Caswell United States 69 9.4k 1.4× 7.5k 1.2× 5.0k 1.1× 4.4k 1.1× 1.6k 0.6× 214 19.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Owen L. Petchey

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hamard, Samuel, Romain Walcker, Ellen Dorrepaal, et al.. (2025). Microbial photosynthesis mitigates carbon loss from northern peatlands under warming. Nature Climate Change. 15(4). 436–443. 6 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Shyamolina, Blake Matthews, & Owen L. Petchey. (2024). Temperature and biodiversity influence community stability differently in birds and fishes. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(10). 1835–1846. 9 indexed citations
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Pomati, Francesco, et al.. (2024). The dependence of forecasts on sampling frequency as a guide to optimizing monitoring in community ecology. Ecosphere. 15(2). 1 indexed citations
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Barel, Janna M., et al.. (2023). Uncovering microbial food webs using machine learning. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 186. 109174–109174. 7 indexed citations
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Jassey, Vincent E. J., Owen L. Petchey, Philippe Binet, et al.. (2023). Food web structure and energy flux dynamics, but not taxonomic richness, influence microbial ecosystem functions in a Sphagnum-dominated peatland. European Journal of Soil Biology. 118. 103532–103532. 7 indexed citations
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Ross, Samuel R. P.‐J., Owen L. Petchey, Takehiro Sasaki, & David Armitage. (2023). How to measure response diversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(5). 1150–1167. 13 indexed citations
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Choffat, Yves, et al.. (2022). Predicting the effects of multiple global change drivers on microbial communities remains challenging. Global Change Biology. 28(18). 5575–5586. 11 indexed citations
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Eppinga, Maarten B., et al.. (2022). The relationship between ecosystem services and human modification displays decoupling across global delta systems. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 33 indexed citations
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Antiqueira, Pablo A. P., et al.. (2021). Trophic downgrading decreases species asynchrony and community stability regardless of climate warming. Ecology Letters. 24(12). 2660–2673. 14 indexed citations
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Tabi, Andrea, Frank Pennekamp, Florian Altermatt, et al.. (2020). Species multidimensional effects explain idiosyncratic responses of communities to environmental change. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(8). 1036–1043. 23 indexed citations
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Petchey, Owen L., et al.. (2019). Warming can destabilize predator–prey interactions by shifting the functional response from Type III to Type II. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88(10). 1575–1586. 51 indexed citations
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Pennekamp, Frank, Owen L. Petchey, Jean‐Christophe Poggiale, et al.. (2016). The practice of prediction: What can ecologists learn from applied, ecology-related fields?. Ecological Complexity. 32. 156–167. 22 indexed citations
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Petchey, Owen L., Mikael Pontarp, Thomas M. Massie, et al.. (2015). The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants. Ecology Letters. 18(7). 597–611. 207 indexed citations
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Donohue, Ian, Owen L. Petchey, José M. Montoya, et al.. (2013). On the dimensionality of ecological stability. Ecology Letters. 16(4). 421–429. 311 indexed citations
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Adams, Georgina, Heather Cohen, Nikolai Friberg, et al.. (2012). Impacts of Warming on the Structure and Functioning of Aquatic Communities: Individual-to Ecosystem-Level Responses. UCL Discovery (University College London). 4 indexed citations
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Petchey, Owen L., et al.. (2010). Mechanisms of temperature-dependent swimming: the importance of physics, physiology and body size in determining protist swimming speed. Journal of Experimental Biology. 213(24). 4223–4231. 26 indexed citations
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Petchey, Owen L., Andrew P. Beckerman, Jens Riede, & Philip H. Warren. (2008). Size, foraging, and food web structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(11). 4191–4196. 377 indexed citations
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Petchey, Owen L., Anna Eklöf, Charlotte Borrvall, & Bo Ebenman. (2008). Trophically Unique Species Are Vulnerable to Cascading Extinction. The American Naturalist. 171(5). 568–579. 83 indexed citations
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Petchey, Owen L. & Kevin J. Gaston. (2006). Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward. Ecology Letters. 9(6). 741–758. 1836 indexed citations breakdown →
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Beckerman, Andrew P., Owen L. Petchey, & Philip H. Warren. (2006). Foraging biology predicts food web complexity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(37). 13745–13749. 175 indexed citations

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