Richard P. Duncan

20.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
218 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Richard P. Duncan is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard P. Duncan has authored 218 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 110 papers in Ecology and 71 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Richard P. Duncan's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (112 papers), Plant and animal studies (56 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (42 papers). Richard P. Duncan is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (112 papers), Plant and animal studies (56 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (42 papers). Richard P. Duncan collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and United Kingdom. Richard P. Duncan's co-authors include Tim M. Blackburn, Philip E. Hulme, Phillip Cassey, Matt S. McGlone, Petr Pyšek, Daniel Sol, John R. Wilson, Melanie A. Harsch, Sven Bacher and David M. Richardson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard P. Duncan

213 papers receiving 14.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A proposed unified framework for biological invasions

2011 1.9k citations Tim M. Blackburn, Richard P. Duncan et al. profile →
Are treelines advancing? A global meta‐analysis of treeline response to climate warming

2009 986 citations Melanie A. Harsch, Philip E. Hulme et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Big brains, enhanced cognition, and response of birds to novel environments

2005 679 citations Richard P. Duncan, Tim M. Blackburn et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Avian Extinction and Mammalian Introductions on Oceanic Islands

2004 674 citations Tim M. Blackburn, Richard P. Duncan et al. profile →
Addressing context dependence in ecology

2021 187 citations Jane A. Catford, Philip E. Hulme et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard P. Duncan New Zealand	60	7.2k	6.7k	4.5k	3.6k	2.5k	218	14.9k
Daniel Borcard Canada	29	7.5k 1.0×	8.2k 1.2×	3.6k 0.8×	3.0k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	50	16.1k
Juan J. Armestó Chile	46	6.3k 0.9×	5.7k 0.8×	4.4k 1.0×	3.7k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	203	13.8k
Robert J. Whittaker United Kingdom	63	8.0k 1.1×	6.7k 1.0×	5.6k 1.2×	3.4k 1.0×	5.7k 2.3×	234	17.4k
William K. Cornwell Australia	50	7.8k 1.1×	5.3k 0.8×	5.6k 1.3×	3.7k 1.0×	3.5k 1.4×	154	16.1k
Mark Vellend Canada	52	8.5k 1.2×	7.1k 1.1×	5.6k 1.2×	3.3k 0.9×	3.5k 1.4×	132	16.2k
Pablo A. Marquet Chile	55	4.8k 0.7×	6.7k 1.0×	3.9k 0.9×	3.6k 1.0×	3.4k 1.3×	211	14.4k
Nathan J. B. Kraft United States	46	9.0k 1.2×	5.1k 0.8×	6.0k 1.3×	3.4k 0.9×	4.0k 1.6×	78	14.3k
Nathan G. Swenson United States	53	10.4k 1.4×	4.1k 0.6×	6.1k 1.4×	4.2k 1.2×	3.4k 1.3×	161	15.7k
Holger Kreft Germany	57	8.0k 1.1×	5.3k 0.8×	6.9k 1.5×	3.5k 1.0×	5.6k 2.2×	224	17.2k
Brian J. McGill United States	52	9.3k 1.3×	7.0k 1.0×	5.9k 1.3×	4.1k 1.1×	5.3k 2.1×	122	16.7k

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Scheele, Benjamin C., et al.. (2025). An invasive pathogen generally contracts species to their niche cores, not margins. Ecography. 2025(5).

Dawson, Wayne, Judit Bódis, Anna Bucharová, et al.. (2024). Root traits vary as much as leaf traits and have consistent phenotypic plasticity among 14 populations of a globally widespread herb. Functional Ecology. 38(4). 926–941. 7 indexed citations

Cunningham, Calum X., Christopher N. Johnson, Sean Haythorne, et al.. (2023). Projecting the dynamics of invading deer with pattern‐oriented modelling to support management decision‐making. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(1). 173–185. 4 indexed citations

Schaffer, Jason, Michael P. Hammer, Catherine R. M. Attard, et al.. (2023). Alternative conservation outcomes from aquatic fauna translocations: Losing and saving the Running River rainbowfish. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 33(12). 1445–1459. 1 indexed citations

Dickman, Chris R., Russell Dinnage, Richard P. Duncan, et al.. (2023). Episodic population fragmentation and gene flow reveal a trade‐off between heterozygosity and allelic richness. Molecular Ecology. 32(24). 6766–6776. 5 indexed citations

Duncan, Richard P.. (2021). Time lags and the invasion debt in plant naturalisations. Ecology Letters. 24(7). 1363–1374. 17 indexed citations

Brandt, Angela J., Peter J. Bellingham, Richard P. Duncan, et al.. (2020). Naturalised plants transform the composition and function of the New Zealand flora. Biological Invasions. 23(2). 351–366. 28 indexed citations

Furlan, Elise M., et al.. (2019). eDNA surveys to detect species at very low densities: A case study of European carp eradication in Tasmania, Australia. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(11). 2505–2517. 42 indexed citations

Bufford, Jennifer L., Philip E. Hulme, Benjamin A. Sikes, et al.. (2019). Novel interactions between alien pathogens and native plants increase plant–pathogen network connectance and decrease specialization. Journal of Ecology. 108(2). 750–760. 14 indexed citations

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Tomasetto, Federico, Richard P. Duncan, Philip E. Hulme, & Susan K. Wiser. (2018). Segregation, nestedness and homogenisation in plant communities dominated by native and alien species. Plant Ecology & Diversity. 11(4). 479–488. 5 indexed citations

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Wandrag, Elizabeth M., Amy E. Dunham, Richard P. Duncan, & Haldre S. Rogers. (2017). Seed dispersal increases local species richness and reduces spatial turnover of tropical tree seedlings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(40). 10689–10694. 65 indexed citations

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Kefford, Ben J., David B. Buchwalter, Miguel Cañedo‐Argüelles, et al.. (2016). Salinized rivers: degraded systems or new habitats for salt-tolerant faunas?. Biology Letters. 12(3). 20151072–20151072. 123 indexed citations

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Diez, Jeffrey M., Hannah L. Buckley, Bradley S. Case, et al.. (2009). Interacting effects of management and environmental variability at multiple scales on invasive species distributions. Journal of Applied Ecology. 46(6). 1210–1218. 23 indexed citations

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Duncan, Richard P., et al.. (2009). Performance and Host-plant Preference of Two Insect Biological Control Agents on Moisture Stressed Broom, Cytisus Scoparius. Plant protection quarterly. 24(2). 55–61. 1 indexed citations

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Cullen, Louise E., Richard P. Duncan, Andrew Wells, & Glenn H. Stewart. (2003). Floodplain and regional scale variation in earthquake effects on forests, Westland, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 33(4). 693–701. 31 indexed citations

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Duncan, Richard P. & Tim M. Blackburn. (2002). Morphological over-dispersion in game birds (Aves: Galliformes) successfully introduced to New Zealand was not caused by interspecific competition. Evolutionary ecology research. 4(4). 551–561. 21 indexed citations

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Dungan, Roger J., David A. Norton, & Richard P. Duncan. (2001). Seed rain in successional vegetation, Port Hills Ecological District, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 39(1). 115–124. 10 indexed citations

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Wells, Andrew, Glenn H. Stewart, & Richard P. Duncan. (1998). Evidence of widespread, synchronous, disturbance‐initiated forest establishment in Westland, New Zealand.. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 28(2). 333–345. 33 indexed citations

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Lee, William G., M. Fenner, & Richard P. Duncan. (1993). Pattern of natural regeneration of narrow‐leaved snow tussock Chionochloa rigida ssp. rigida in Central Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 31(2). 117–125. 10 indexed citations

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Duncan, Richard P., et al.. (1990). The lowland vegetation pattern, south Westland, New Zealand 2. Ohinemaka forest. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 28(2). 131–140. 16 indexed citations

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