Robert D. Holt

75.4k total citations · 24 hit papers
300 papers, 45.3k citations indexed

About

Robert D. Holt is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert D. Holt has authored 300 papers receiving a total of 45.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Ecology, 120 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 117 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Robert D. Holt's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (112 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (102 papers) and Plant and animal studies (102 papers). Robert D. Holt is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (112 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (102 papers) and Plant and animal studies (102 papers). Robert D. Holt collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Robert D. Holt's co-authors include Gary A. Polis, Richard Gomulkiewicz, John H. Lawton, Richard S. Ostfeld, Wendy B. Anderson, Michael Barfield, C. Myers, Michel Loreau, Diane M. Debinski and Felicia Keesing and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert D. Holt

296 papers receiving 42.6k citations

Hit Papers

The metacommunity concept: a framework... 1977 2026 1993 2009 2004 1977 1997 1989 2010 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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.

  1. The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology
    2004 3.9k citations Mathew A. Leibold, Marcel Holyoak et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  2. Predation, apparent competition, and the structure of prey communities
    1977 1.9k citations Robert D. Holt profile →
  3. Toward an Integration of Landscape and Food Web Ecology: The Dynamics of Spatially Subsidized Food Webs
    1997 1.9k citations Gary A. Polis, Robert D. Holt et al. profile →
  4. The Ecology and Evolution of Intraguild Predation: Potential Competitors That Eat Each Other
    1989 1.7k citations Gary A. Polis, Robert D. Holt et al. profile →
  5. Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology
    2010 1.4k citations Robert D. Holt et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  6. Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases
    2010 1.3k citations Felicia Keesing, Robert D. Holt et al. profile →
  7. Effects of species diversity on disease risk
    2006 1.1k citations Felicia Keesing, Robert D. Holt et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  8. A Survey and Overview of Habitat Fragmentation Experiments
    2000 1.1k citations Robert D. Holt et al. profile →
  9. A framework for community interactions under climate change
    2010 1.0k citations Robert D. Holt et al. profile →
  10. A Theoretical Framework for Intraguild Predation
    1997 912 citations Robert D. Holt, Gary A. Polis The American Naturalist profile →
  11. Biodiversity inventories, indicator taxa and effects of habitat modification in tropical forest
    1998 887 citations Robert D. Holt et al. profile →
  12. THE ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SHARED NATURAL ENEMIES
    1994 745 citations Robert D. Holt et al. profile →
  13. Intraguild predation: The dynamics of complex trophic interactions
    1992 739 citations Gary A. Polis, Robert D. Holt profile →
  14. Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions
    2007 719 citations Robert D. Holt et al. profile →
  15. The Evolution of Dispersal in Spatially and Temporally Varying Environments
    1992 663 citations Mark A. McPeek, Robert D. Holt The American Naturalist profile →
  16. Bringing the Hutchinsonian niche into the 21st century: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives
    2009 635 citations Robert D. Holt Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  17. Population dynamics in two-patch environments: Some anomalous consequences of an optimal habitat distribution
    1985 627 citations Robert D. Holt profile →
  18. Spatial Heterogeneity, Indirect Interactions, and the Coexistence of Prey Species
    1984 607 citations Robert D. Holt The American Naturalist profile →
  19. WHEN DOES EVOLUTION BY NATURAL SELECTION PREVENT EXTINCTION?
    1995 576 citations Robert D. Holt et al. profile →
  20. The interaction between predation and competition: a review and synthesis
    2002 573 citations Jonathan M. Chase, Robert D. Holt et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  21. Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities
    2005 529 citations Mark J. Hovenden, Marcel Holyoak et al. University of Chicago Press eBooks profile →
  22. Simple Rules for Interspecific Dominance in Systems with Exploitative and Apparent Competition
    1994 493 citations Robert D. Holt, David Tilman et al. The American Naturalist profile →
  23. Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity?
    2018 476 citations Robert J. Fletcher, Raphaël K. Didham et al. profile →
  24. Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges
    2015 418 citations Raphaël K. Didham, Robert D. Holt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert D. Holt United States 96 21.2k 17.1k 15.0k 10.4k 7.4k 300 45.3k
John H. Lawton United Kingdom 101 21.6k 1.0× 21.1k 1.2× 18.0k 1.2× 6.5k 0.6× 9.2k 1.2× 280 47.8k
Russell Lande United States 93 14.5k 0.7× 12.7k 0.7× 24.5k 1.6× 22.7k 2.2× 5.8k 0.8× 215 49.2k
William J. Sutherland United Kingdom 101 21.2k 1.0× 11.6k 0.7× 10.2k 0.7× 4.0k 0.4× 9.4k 1.3× 567 42.7k
Nils Chr. Stenseth Norway 102 25.5k 1.2× 11.9k 0.7× 7.2k 0.5× 7.9k 0.8× 14.5k 2.0× 776 44.4k
A. Townsend Peterson United States 101 24.1k 1.1× 19.6k 1.1× 13.5k 0.9× 10.0k 1.0× 8.8k 1.2× 611 58.0k
Michel Loreau France 88 20.9k 1.0× 24.6k 1.4× 14.5k 1.0× 4.2k 0.4× 14.2k 1.9× 289 49.5k
Daniel Simberloff United States 102 25.7k 1.2× 22.1k 1.3× 14.9k 1.0× 6.8k 0.7× 10.7k 1.4× 382 52.5k
David W. Macdonald United Kingdom 101 33.5k 1.6× 7.1k 0.4× 9.1k 0.6× 9.3k 0.9× 4.9k 0.7× 1.1k 47.7k
Alexei J. Drummond New Zealand 60 15.5k 0.7× 8.0k 0.5× 18.9k 1.3× 23.4k 2.3× 6.5k 0.9× 108 70.3k
Ary A. Hoffmann Australia 111 19.1k 0.9× 6.2k 0.4× 16.3k 1.1× 17.4k 1.7× 4.1k 0.6× 957 54.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Glass, Gregory E., et al.. (2024). Metapopulations, the Inflationary Effect, and Consequences for Public Health. The American Naturalist. 205(3). 342–359. 1 indexed citations
2.
McPeek, Mark A., William J. Resetarits, & Robert D. Holt. (2024). The evolution of passive dispersal versus habitat selection have differing emergent consequences in metacommunities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1907). 20230126–20230126. 4 indexed citations
3.
Borer, Elizabeth T., Amy E. Kendig, & Robert D. Holt. (2023). Feeding the fever: Complex host‐pathogen dynamics along continuous resource gradients. Ecology and Evolution. 13(7). e10315–e10315. 3 indexed citations
4.
Backus, Gregory A., et al.. (2023). Ecological and evolutionary consequences of temporal variation in dispersal. Ecography. 2024(2). 17 indexed citations
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Fletcher, Robert J., Jorge A. Sefair, Rodolfo Jaffé, et al.. (2022). Extending isolation by resistance to predict genetic connectivity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(11). 2463–2477. 9 indexed citations
6.
Barfield, Michael, et al.. (2022). When growing pains and sick days collide: infectious disease can stabilize host population oscillations caused by stage structure. Theoretical Ecology. 15(4). 285–309. 2 indexed citations
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Barfield, Michael, et al.. (2021). Environmental fluctuations dampen the effects of clonal reproduction on evolutionary rescue. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 34(4). 710–722. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Aiying, et al.. (2021). Nonlinear thresholds in the effects of island area on functional diversity in woody plant communities. Journal of Ecology. 109(5). 2177–2189. 19 indexed citations
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Wang, Shaopeng, Ulrich Brose, Saskya van Nouhuys, Robert D. Holt, & Michel Loreau. (2021). Metapopulation capacity determines food chain length in fragmented landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(34). 13 indexed citations
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Barfield, Michael, et al.. (2020). The interplay of movement and spatiotemporal variation in transmission degrades pandemic control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(48). 30104–30106. 21 indexed citations
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Levi, Taal, et al.. (2018). Tropical forests can maintain hyperdiversity because of enemies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(2). 581–586. 45 indexed citations
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Christman, Mary C., et al.. (2017). The influence of herbivory and weather on the vital rates of two closely related cactus species. Ecology and Evolution. 7(17). 6996–7009. 6 indexed citations
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Barfield, Michael & Robert D. Holt. (2016). Evolutionary rescue in novel environments: towards improving predictability. Evolutionary ecology research. 17(6). 771–786. 9 indexed citations
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Reuman, Daniel C., Robert D. Holt, & Gabriel Yvon‐Durocher. (2013). A metabolic perspective on competition and body size reductions with warming. Journal of Animal Ecology. 83(1). 59–69. 69 indexed citations
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Keesing, Felicia, Robert D. Holt, & Richard S. Ostfeld. (2006). Effects of species diversity on disease risk. Ecology Letters. 9(4). 485–498. 1128 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hovenden, Mark J., Marcel Holyoak, Mathew A. Leibold, & Robert D. Holt. (2005). Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 529 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leibold, Mathew A., Marcel Holyoak, Nicolas Mouquet, et al.. (2004). The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology. Ecology Letters. 7(7). 601–613. 3866 indexed citations breakdown →
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Polis, Gary A., Yoram Ayal, Sasha R. X. Dall, et al.. (2004). United framework I: interspecific interactions and species diversity in drylands. Health Care Management Science. 1(1). 122–152. 1 indexed citations
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Holt, Robert D.. (2003). On the evolutionary ecology of species' ranges. Evolutionary ecology research. 5(2). 159–178. 389 indexed citations
20.
Holt, Robert D., et al.. (1976). Guidebook to coal geology of northwest New Mexico. 2 indexed citations

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