Richard Fox

15.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
94 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Richard Fox is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Fox has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Ecological Modeling, 62 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 57 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Richard Fox's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (71 papers), Plant and animal studies (57 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (57 papers). Richard Fox is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (71 papers), Plant and animal studies (57 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (57 papers). Richard Fox collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Sweden. Richard Fox's co-authors include Chris D. Thomas, David B. Roy, Jane K. Hill, R. A. O. Hickling, Jim Asher, Yvonne C. Collingham, Mark G. Telfer, M. S. Warren, Brian Huntley and Mark Parsons and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard Fox

91 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The distributions of a wide range of taxonomic groups are expanding polewards

2006 1.1k citations David B. Roy, Jane K. Hill et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change

2001 1.0k citations M. S. Warren, Jane K. Hill et al. Nature profile →
DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF CLIMATE AND HABITAT FACTORS ON BUTTERFLY DIVERSITY

2007 845 citations Rosa Menéndez, Adela González‐Megías et al. Ecology profile →
Comparative Losses of British Butterflies, Birds, and Plants and the Global Extinction Crisis

2004 705 citations Jeremy A. Thomas, Mark G. Telfer et al. Science profile →
Climate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year

2019 334 citations Chris D. Thomas, David B. Roy et al. Nature Communications profile →
Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

2018 285 citations Andrew J. Suggitt, Robert J. Wilson et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Anthropogenic climate and land-use change drive short- and long-term biodiversity shifts across taxa

2024 42 citations Andrew J. Suggitt, Richard Fox et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Fox United Kingdom	45	5.9k	5.0k	4.7k	3.8k	1.9k	94	10.5k
Nick J. B. Isaac United Kingdom	43	4.1k 0.7×	4.2k 0.8×	4.2k 0.9×	5.3k 1.4×	2.4k 1.2×	114	11.9k
Mark C. Urban United States	40	3.7k 0.6×	4.0k 0.8×	3.9k 0.8×	4.5k 1.2×	2.8k 1.5×	90	10.4k
Lauren B. Buckley United States	47	5.1k 0.9×	3.4k 0.7×	3.5k 0.8×	6.0k 1.6×	3.7k 1.9×	109	11.4k
Vincent Devictor France	48	4.4k 0.7×	5.2k 1.0×	2.9k 0.6×	5.1k 1.4×	2.4k 1.2×	94	9.6k
Cameron K. Ghalambor United States	45	3.0k 0.5×	3.8k 0.8×	6.6k 1.4×	7.1k 1.9×	2.9k 1.5×	125	13.9k
Nicolas Mouquet France	54	3.4k 0.6×	7.8k 1.6×	5.3k 1.1×	8.2k 2.2×	3.0k 1.5×	117	15.6k
Constantí Stefanescu Spain	35	2.9k 0.5×	3.5k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	2.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	121	7.0k
Dominique Gravel Canada	56	2.7k 0.5×	4.7k 0.9×	4.0k 0.9×	4.2k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	188	10.1k
Richard P. Duncan New Zealand	60	2.5k 0.4×	7.2k 1.4×	4.5k 1.0×	6.7k 1.8×	3.6k 1.8×	218	14.9k
Ulrich Brose Germany	56	2.3k 0.4×	4.9k 1.0×	4.7k 1.0×	6.7k 1.8×	2.6k 1.4×	140	12.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Fox

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Sánchez‐Fernández, David, et al.. (2025). Identifying biodiversity hotspots over time: Stability, sampling bias, and conservation implications. Global Ecology and Conservation. 59. e03586–e03586.

Boyd, Robin J., Marc S. Botham, Emily B. Dennis, et al.. (2025). Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(2). 332–344. 2 indexed citations

Milne, Alice E., C. R. Shortall, Björn C. Beckmann, et al.. (2025). Trait mediation explains decadal distributional shifts for a wide range of insect taxa. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8131–8131.

Fox, Richard, et al.. (2024). Wildlife-friendly garden practices increase butterfly abundance and species richness in urban and arable landscapes. The Science of The Total Environment. 929. 171503–171503. 4 indexed citations

Pattison, Zarah, et al.. (2024). Drivers of moth phenology in England and Wales. Journal of Insect Conservation. 28(5). 969–979. 2 indexed citations

Suggitt, Andrew J., Christopher J. Wheatley, Colin M. Beale, et al.. (2023). Linking climate warming and land conversion to species’ range changes across Great Britain. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6759–6759. 21 indexed citations

Platts, Philip J., G Palmer, Jane K. Hill, et al.. (2019). Habitat availability explains variation in climate-driven range shifts across multiple taxonomic groups. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 15039–15039. 114 indexed citations

Suggitt, Andrew J., Robert J. Wilson, Nick J. B. Isaac, et al.. (2018). Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering. Nature Climate Change. 8(8). 713–717. 285 indexed citations breakdown →

Carvalheiro, Luísa G., William E. Kunin, Petr Keil, et al.. (2013). Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW ‐European pollinators and plants. Ecology Letters. 16(7). 870–878. 280 indexed citations

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Pateman, Rachel, Jane K. Hill, David B. Roy, Richard Fox, & Chris D. Thomas. (2012). Temperature-Dependent Alterations in Host Use Drive Rapid Range Expansion in a Butterfly. Science. 336(6084). 1028–1030. 129 indexed citations

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Mair, Louise, Chris D. Thomas, Barbara J. Anderson, et al.. (2012). Temporal variation in responses of species to four decades of climate warming. Global Change Biology. 18(8). 2439–2447. 37 indexed citations

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Rapacciuolo, Giovanni, David B. Roy, Simon Gillings, et al.. (2012). Climatic Associations of British Species Distributions Show Good Transferability in Time but Low Predictive Accuracy for Range Change. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e40212–e40212. 67 indexed citations

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Buckley, Lauren B., et al.. (2011). Does including physiology improve species distribution model predictions of responses to recent climate change?. Ecology. 92(12). 2214–2221. 96 indexed citations

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Fox, Richard & Roger L. H. Dennis. (2010). Winter survival of Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): a new resident butterfly for Britain and Ireland?. Entomologist s Gazette. 61(2). 94–103. 7 indexed citations

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Evans, B. A. J., Matthew Bull, Richard Fox, et al.. (2010). The influence of leptin on trabecular architecture and marrow adiposity in GH-deficient rats. Journal of Endocrinology. 208(1). 69–79. 9 indexed citations

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Menéndez, Rosa, Adela González‐Megías, Yvonne C. Collingham, et al.. (2007). DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF CLIMATE AND HABITAT FACTORS ON BUTTERFLY DIVERSITY. Ecology. 88(3). 605–611. 845 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fox, Richard, et al.. (2005). British moths: throwing light on a new conservation challenge. Rothamsted Repository (Rothamsted Repository). 1 indexed citations

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Thomas, Jeremy A., Mark G. Telfer, David B. Roy, et al.. (2004). Comparative Losses of British Butterflies, Birds, and Plants and the Global Extinction Crisis. Science. 303(5665). 1879–1881. 705 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wilson, Robert J., Chris D. Thomas, Richard Fox, David B. Roy, & William E. Kunin. (2004). Spatial patterns in species distributions reveal biodiversity change. Nature. 432(7015). 393–396. 199 indexed citations

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Warren, M. S., Jane K. Hill, Jeremy A. Thomas, et al.. (2001). Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change. Nature. 414(6859). 65–69. 1037 indexed citations breakdown →

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