Patrick L. Thompson

6.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
48 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Patrick L. Thompson is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick L. Thompson has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 25 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Patrick L. Thompson's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Plant and animal studies (14 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (11 papers). Patrick L. Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Plant and animal studies (14 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (11 papers). Patrick L. Thompson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Patrick L. Thompson's co-authors include Andrew Gonzalez, Jonathan B. Shurin, Michel Loreau, Pavel Kratina, Hamish S. Greig, Forest Isbell, Mary I. O’Connor, Bronwyn Rayfield, Rolf D. Vinebrooke and Laura E. Dee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Patrick L. Thompson

48 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

2017 490 citations Forest Isbell, Andrew Gonzalez et al. Nature profile →
Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research

2020 301 citations Andrew Gonzalez, Rachel M. Germain et al. Ecology Letters profile →
A process‐based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology

2020 204 citations Patrick L. Thompson, Laura Melissa Guzman et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application

2021 173 citations Michel Loreau, Matthieu Barbier et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick L. Thompson Canada	25	1.7k	1.6k	1.1k	783	642	48	3.5k
Christopher F. Steiner United States	20	1.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	809 0.7×	1.0k 1.3×	495 0.8×	37	3.5k
Adriano S. Melo Brazil	37	3.2k 1.9×	2.9k 1.8×	469 0.4×	709 0.9×	439 0.7×	108	4.8k
Hamish S. Greig United States	21	1.6k 0.9×	958 0.6×	550 0.5×	552 0.7×	424 0.7×	40	2.4k
Belinda Gallardo Spain	30	2.1k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	689 0.6×	371 0.5×	221 0.3×	69	3.2k
Andrés Millán Spain	34	2.6k 1.5×	1.5k 0.9×	411 0.4×	942 1.2×	284 0.4×	142	3.7k
Dénes Schmera Hungary	28	1.9k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	398 0.4×	748 1.0×	209 0.3×	108	3.1k
Joel C. Trexler United States	43	2.9k 1.7×	2.3k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	918 1.2×	393 0.6×	130	5.0k
Maud Mouchet France	20	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.5×	603 0.8×	238 0.4×	50	3.4k
Scott D. Cooper United States	38	3.8k 2.2×	3.1k 2.0×	1.4k 1.3×	818 1.0×	698 1.1×	90	5.8k
Karl Cottenie Canada	31	3.0k 1.7×	1.9k 1.2×	587 0.5×	711 0.9×	733 1.1×	91	4.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rubidge, Emily, Patrick L. Thompson, Stephen S. Ban, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the design of the first marine protected area network in Pacific Canada under a changing climate. FACETS. 9. 1–18. 5 indexed citations

Thompson, Patrick L., et al.. (2023). Eelgrass Meadow Edge Habitat Heterogeneity Enhances Fish Diversity on the Pacific Coast of Canada. Estuaries and Coasts. 46(5). 1326–1344. 3 indexed citations

Thompson, Patrick L., Catalina Gómez, Anders Knudby, et al.. (2023). Addressing uncertainty when projecting marine species' distributions under climate change. Ecography. 2023(11). 14 indexed citations

Thompson, Patrick L., et al.. (2022). Integrating trawl and longline surveys across British Columbia improves groundfish distribution predictions. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 80(1). 195–210. 17 indexed citations

Loreau, Michel, Matthieu Barbier, Élise Filotas, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 96(5). 2333–2354. 173 indexed citations breakdown →

Thompson, Patrick L., Sonia Kéfi, Yuval R. Zelnik, et al.. (2021). Scaling up biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships: the role of environmental heterogeneity in space and time. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1946). 20202779–20202779. 30 indexed citations

Wang, Shaopeng, Forest Isbell, Pubin Hong, et al.. (2021). How complementarity and selection affect the relationship between ecosystem functioning and stability. Ecology. 102(6). e03347–e03347. 74 indexed citations

Thompson, Patrick L., Laura Melissa Guzman, Luc De Meester, et al.. (2020). A process‐based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology. Ecology Letters. 23(9). 1314–1329. 204 indexed citations breakdown →

Gonzalez, Andrew, Rachel M. Germain, Diane S. Srivastava, et al.. (2020). Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research. Ecology Letters. 23(4). 757–776. 301 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thompson, Patrick L., et al.. (2020). Beyond a single patch: local and regional processes explain diversity patterns in a seagrass epifaunal metacommunity. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 655. 91–106. 14 indexed citations

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Thompson, Patrick L. & Emanuel A. Fronhofer. (2019). The conflict between adaptation and dispersal for maintaining biodiversity in changing environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(42). 21061–21067. 66 indexed citations

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Guzman, Laura Melissa, Rachel M. Germain, Mary I. O’Connor, et al.. (2018). Towards a multi‐trophic extension of metacommunity ecology. Ecology Letters. 22(1). 19–33. 70 indexed citations

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Bernhardt, Joey R., Jennifer M. Sunday, Patrick L. Thompson, & Mary I. O’Connor. (2018). Nonlinear averaging of thermal experience predicts population growth rates in a thermally variable environment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1886). 20181076–20181076. 96 indexed citations

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Pedersen, Eric J., Patrick L. Thompson, Marie‐Josée Fortin, et al.. (2017). Signatures of the collapse and incipient recovery of an overexploited marine ecosystem. Royal Society Open Science. 4(7). 170215–170215. 66 indexed citations

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Thompson, Patrick L. & Andrew Gonzalez. (2017). Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(6). 162–162. 88 indexed citations

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Isbell, Forest, Andrew Gonzalez, Michel Loreau, et al.. (2017). Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales. Nature. 546(7656). 65–72. 490 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gonzalez, Andrew, Patrick L. Thompson, & Michel Loreau. (2017). Spatial ecological networks: planning for sustainability in the long-term. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 29. 187–197. 57 indexed citations

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Thompson, Patrick L., Bronwyn Rayfield, & Andrew Gonzalez. (2015). Robustness of the spatial insurance effects of biodiversity to habitat loss. Evolutionary ecology research. 16(6). 445–460. 19 indexed citations

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Thompson, Patrick L., T. Jonathan Davies, & Andrew Gonzalez. (2015). Ecosystem Functions across Trophic Levels Are Linked to Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0117595–e0117595. 68 indexed citations

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Thompson, Patrick L., et al.. (2008). Impacts of Climate Warming and Nitrogen Deposition on Alpine Plankton in Lake and Pond Habitats: an In Vitro Experiment. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 40(1). 192–198. 24 indexed citations

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