Rebecca Spake

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Rebecca Spake is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebecca Spake has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Rebecca Spake's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers). Rebecca Spake is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers). Rebecca Spake collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and Australia. Rebecca Spake's co-authors include C. Patrick Doncaster, Felix Eigenbrod, Zoe M. Harris, Gail Taylor, Shinichi Nakagawa, Adrian C. Newton, James M. Bullock, Booker Ogutu, Dianna Smith and Kerry A. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Global Change Biology and Ecology Letters.

In The Last Decade

Rebecca Spake

36 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Unpacking ecosystem service bundles: Towards predictive mapping of synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services

2017 271 citations Rebecca Spake, Rémy Lasseur et al. Global Environmental Change profile →
Quantitative evidence synthesis: a practical guide on meta-analysis, meta-regression, and publication bias tests for environmental sciences

2023 85 citations Shinichi Nakagawa, Yefeng Yang et al. Environmental Evidence profile →

Peers

Rebecca Spake

GPC

NLC

ECOLO

EEBS

Ana Sofía Vaz Portugal

Riho Marja Estonia

Adam Terando United States

Assaf Shwartz Israel

Jennifer Costanza United States

Nicholas A. Fisichelli United States

Naeem China

Tommaso Sitzia Italy

Miguel N. Bugalho Portugal

Kerry A. Brown United Kingdom

Ana Sofía Vaz Portugal

Rebecca Spake

565 ×0.9

GPC

372 ×0.9

NLC

513 ×1.3

ECOLO

207 ×0.7

EEBS

285 ×1.2

Citations per year, relative to Rebecca Spake Rebecca Spake (= 1×) peers Ana Sofía Vaz

Countries citing papers authored by Rebecca Spake

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rebecca Spake

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rebecca Spake

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rebecca Spake. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rebecca Spake 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 Rebecca Spake. Rebecca Spake is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Mori, Akira, Masashi Soga, Tetsuji Ota, et al.. (2025). Assessing the priorities of stakeholders regarding forest ecosystem services in Japan. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(4). 753–760. 1 indexed citations

Millard, Joseph, et al.. (2024). ChatGPT is likely reducing opportunity for support, friendship and learned kindness in research. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(10). 1764–1766.

Spake, Rebecca, et al.. (2024). A cross-regional analysis of red-backed shrike responses to agri-environmental schemes in Europe. Environmental Research Letters. 19(3). 34004–34004. 2 indexed citations

Martin, Philip A., Leticia Pérez‐Izquierdo, Bertrand Guenet, et al.. (2024). Meta‐analysis reveals that the effects of precipitation change on soil and litter fauna in forests depend on body size. Global Change Biology. 30(5). e17305–e17305. 5 indexed citations

Callaghan, Corey T., Luca Santini, Rebecca Spake, & Diana E. Bowler. (2024). Population abundance estimates in conservation and biodiversity research. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(6). 515–523. 24 indexed citations

Hohlenwerger, Camila, Rebecca Spake, Leandro Reverberi Tambosi, et al.. (2024). Coffee pollination and pest control are affected by edge diversity at local scales but multiscalar approaches and disservices can not be ignored. Landscape Ecology. 39(4). 4 indexed citations

Nakagawa, Shinichi, Yefeng Yang, Erin L. Macartney, Rebecca Spake, & Malgorzata Lagisz. (2023). Quantitative evidence synthesis: a practical guide on meta-analysis, meta-regression, and publication bias tests for environmental sciences. Environmental Evidence. 12(1). 8–8. 85 indexed citations breakdown →

Nakagawa, Shinichi, Daniel W. A. Noble, Malgorzata Lagisz, et al.. (2022). A robust and readily implementable method for the meta‐analysis of response ratios with and without missing standard deviations. Ecology Letters. 26(2). 232–244. 47 indexed citations

Spake, Rebecca, Rose E. O’Dea, Shinichi Nakagawa, et al.. (2022). Improving quantitative synthesis to achieve generality in ecology. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(12). 1818–1828. 32 indexed citations

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Spake, Rebecca, et al.. (2021). Non‐native species outperform natives in coastal marine ecosystems subjected to warming and freshening events. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(8). 1698–1712. 19 indexed citations

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Spake, Rebecca, Masashi Soga, Jane A. Catford, & Felix Eigenbrod. (2021). Applying the stress‐gradient hypothesis to curb the spread of invasive bamboo. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(9). 1993–2003. 9 indexed citations

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Konno, Ko, Munemitsu Akasaka, Naoki Katayama, et al.. (2020). Ignoring non‐English‐language studies may bias ecological meta‐analyses. Ecology and Evolution. 10(13). 6373–6384. 144 indexed citations

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Spake, Rebecca, Akira Mori, Michael Beckmann, et al.. (2020). Implications of scale dependence for cross‐study syntheses of biodiversity differences. Ecology Letters. 24(2). 374–390. 35 indexed citations

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Spake, Rebecca, et al.. (2020). Forest damage by deer depends on cross‐scale interactions between climate, deer density and landscape structure. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57(7). 1376–1390. 47 indexed citations

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Graham, Laura, Rebecca Spake, Simon Gillings, Kevin Watts, & Felix Eigenbrod. (2019). Incorporating fine‐scale environmental heterogeneity into broad‐extent models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(6). 767–778. 35 indexed citations

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Spake, Rebecca, Rémy Lasseur, Émilie Crouzat, et al.. (2017). Unpacking ecosystem service bundles: Towards predictive mapping of synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services. Global Environmental Change. 47. 37–50. 271 indexed citations breakdown →

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Doncaster, C. Patrick & Rebecca Spake. (2017). Correction for bias in meta‐analysis of little‐replicated studies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(3). 634–644. 37 indexed citations

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Spake, Rebecca, Sietse van der Linde, Adrian C. Newton, et al.. (2015). Similar biodiversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi in set-aside plantations and ancient old-growth broadleaved forests. Biological Conservation. 194. 71–79. 38 indexed citations

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Spake, Rebecca, Nadia Barsoum, Adrian C. Newton, & C. Patrick Doncaster. (2015). Drivers of the composition and diversity of carabid functional traits in UK coniferous plantations. Forest Ecology and Management. 359. 300–308. 35 indexed citations

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Harris, Zoe M., Rebecca Spake, & Gail Taylor. (2015). Land use change to bioenergy: A meta-analysis of soil carbon and GHG emissions. Biomass and Bioenergy. 82. 27–39. 118 indexed citations

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