P. S. Lake

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

P. S. Lake is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, P. S. Lake has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Ecology, 48 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 14 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in P. S. Lake's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (43 papers), Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (28 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (27 papers). P. S. Lake is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (43 papers), Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (28 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (27 papers). P. S. Lake collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. P. S. Lake's co-authors include A. J. Boulton, Andrea Ballinger, E. S. G. Schreiber, Ralph Mac Nally, T. J. Doeg, Gerard P. Closs, Alena Glaister, Barbara J. Downes, Andrew J. Boulton and Michael M. Douglas and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

P. S. Lake

89 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Ecological effects of perturbation by drought in flowing ... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 250 500 750
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. Ecological effects of perturbation by drought in flowing waters
    2003 858 citations P. S. Lake Freshwater Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
P. S. Lake Australia 35 3.3k 2.4k 682 574 549 91 4.2k
Kevin J. Collier New Zealand 33 3.1k 1.0× 2.1k 0.9× 476 0.7× 517 0.9× 662 1.2× 134 3.8k
Arthur C. Benke United States 37 5.1k 1.6× 3.9k 1.7× 572 0.8× 604 1.1× 982 1.8× 76 5.9k
Bernard W. Sweeney United States 35 3.4k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 671 1.0× 416 0.7× 602 1.1× 77 4.4k
Charles F. Rabení United States 38 3.3k 1.0× 3.0k 1.3× 522 0.8× 1.0k 1.8× 409 0.7× 92 4.5k
Thomas F. Waters United States 29 2.9k 0.9× 2.7k 1.1× 451 0.7× 421 0.7× 520 0.9× 52 3.7k
Barbara J. Downes Australia 34 3.1k 1.0× 2.2k 0.9× 420 0.6× 780 1.4× 346 0.6× 96 4.1k
Jonathan P. Benstead United States 39 3.1k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 501 0.7× 646 1.1× 1.2k 2.1× 87 4.3k
Alexander D. Huryn United States 42 4.5k 1.4× 3.6k 1.5× 637 0.9× 939 1.6× 1.4k 2.5× 111 5.8k
Andrew L. Sheldon United States 20 2.4k 0.7× 2.1k 0.9× 468 0.7× 223 0.4× 492 0.9× 45 3.1k
James H. Thorp United States 38 4.9k 1.5× 3.6k 1.5× 789 1.2× 1.2k 2.0× 1.5k 2.7× 119 6.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by P. S. Lake

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of P. S. Lake

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of P. S. Lake. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of P. S. Lake based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with P. S. Lake. P. S. Lake is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Reich, Paul & P. S. Lake. (2014). Extreme hydrological events and the ecological restoration of flowing waters. Freshwater Biology. 60(12). 2639–2652. 42 indexed citations
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Reid, David, P. S. Lake, & Gerry P. Quinn. (2012). Influences of agricultural landuse and seasonal changes in abiotic conditions on invertebrate colonisation of riparian leaf detritus in intermittent streams. Aquatic Sciences. 75(2). 285–297. 9 indexed citations
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Lake, P. S.. (2011). Drought and Aquatic Ecosystems: Effects and Responses. 195 indexed citations
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Nally, Ralph Mac, et al.. (2007). Variation in widths of riparian-zone vegetation of higher-elevation streams and implications for conservation management. Plant Ecology. 198(1). 89–100. 23 indexed citations
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Webb, J. Angus, Barbara J. Downes, P. S. Lake, & Alena Glaister. (2006). Quantifying Abrasion of Stable Substrata in Streams: A New Disturbance Index for Epilithic Biota. Hydrobiologia. 559(1). 443–453. 8 indexed citations
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Ballinger, Andrea & P. S. Lake. (2006). Energy and nutrient fluxes from rivers and streams into terrestrial food webs. Marine and Freshwater Research. 57(1). 15–28. 151 indexed citations
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Lake, P. S.. (2005). Perturbation, Restoration and Seeking Ecological Sustainability in Australian Flowing Waters. Hydrobiologia. 552(1). 109–120. 39 indexed citations
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Lake, P. S.. (2003). Ecological effects of perturbation by drought in flowing waters. Freshwater Biology. 48(7). 1161–1172. 858 indexed citations breakdown →
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Green, Peter T., Dennis J. O’Dowd, & P. S. Lake. (1997). Control of Seedling Recruitment by Land Crabs in Rain Forest on a Remote Oceanic Island. Ecology. 78(8). 2474–2474. 9 indexed citations
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Humphries, Paul & P. S. Lake. (1996). Environmental Flows in Lowland Rivers: Experimental Flow Manipulation in the Campaspe River, Northern Victoria. 197. 7 indexed citations
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Lake, P. S., et al.. (1996). The effects of disturbance on a herbivore-epilithon interaction in an upland stream. Hydrobiologia. 331(1-3). 153–160. 3 indexed citations
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Fincham, Kenneth & P. S. Lake. (1996). Popularity, Prelacy and Puritanism in the 1630s: Joseph Hall Explains Himself. The English Historical Review. CXI(443). 856–881. 6 indexed citations
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Lake, P. S., et al.. (1995). Effects of microspatial complexity on a herbivore—epilithon interaction in an Australian upland stream. Freshwater Biology. 33(3). 557–565. 11 indexed citations
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Boulton, A. J. & P. S. Lake. (1992). The ecology of two intermittent streams in Victoria, Australia. Freshwater Biology. 27(1). 123–138. 229 indexed citations
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Boulton, A. J. & P. S. Lake. (1988). Dynamics of heterotrophic succession in carrion arthropod assemblages. Oecologia. 76(3). 477–480. 22 indexed citations
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Hortle, Kent & P. S. Lake. (1983). Fish of channelized and unchannelized sections of the Bunyip River, Victoria. Marine and Freshwater Research. 34(3). 441–450. 43 indexed citations
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Lake, P. S. & W Fulton. (1981). Observations on the freshwater fish of a small Tasmanian coastal stream. Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 115. 163–172. 2 indexed citations
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Lake, P. S., et al.. (1974). The ultrastructure of the fenestra dorsalis of the syncarid crustaceans Allanaspides helonomus and Allanaspides hickmani. Cell and Tissue Research. 147(3). 335–351. 13 indexed citations
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