S. K. Morgan Ernest

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
76 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

S. K. Morgan Ernest is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, S. K. Morgan Ernest has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Ecology, 44 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 21 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in S. K. Morgan Ernest's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (42 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (31 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers). S. K. Morgan Ernest is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (42 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (31 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers). S. K. Morgan Ernest collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. S. K. Morgan Ernest's co-authors include James H. Brown, Ethan P. White, Brian J. Enquist, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, John P. Haskell, S. Kathleen Lyons, Felisa A. Smith, Sarah R. Supp, Katherine M. Thibault and Eric L. Charnov and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

S. K. Morgan Ernest

74 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Relationships between body size and abundance in ecology

2007 628 citations Ethan P. White, S. K. Morgan Ernest et al. profile →
Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments

2004 587 citations S. K. Morgan Ernest et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. K. Morgan Ernest United States	35	3.5k	2.7k	1.7k	1.4k	1.2k	76	6.1k
Brian A. Maurer United States	35	3.6k 1.0×	3.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	74	6.6k
Allen H. Hurlbert United States	35	2.9k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	2.5k 2.0×	70	5.6k
Mark V. Lomolino United States	39	3.9k 1.1×	2.9k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	881 0.7×	2.0k 1.6×	90	6.6k
Sandrine Pavoine France	39	3.5k 1.0×	3.4k 1.3×	2.5k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	119	7.5k
Richard Field United Kingdom	29	3.0k 0.9×	4.5k 1.7×	2.5k 1.4×	1.4k 1.0×	3.3k 2.6×	95	7.3k
Susanne A. Fritz Germany	29	2.3k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	796 0.6×	2.0k 1.6×	55	5.8k
Kostas A. Triantis Greece	35	2.0k 0.6×	2.2k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	542 0.4×	1.8k 1.4×	85	4.6k
John B. Dunning United States	25	4.1k 1.2×	2.8k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	1.8k 1.3×	1.0k 0.8×	64	6.4k
John Terborgh United States	33	3.1k 0.9×	3.5k 1.3×	2.1k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	61	6.4k
Dawn M. Kaufman United States	15	3.8k 1.1×	4.2k 1.6×	2.6k 1.5×	1.5k 1.1×	3.4k 2.8×	23	7.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. K. Morgan Ernest

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Clark, Nicholas J., et al.. (2025). Beyond single-species models: leveraging multispecies forecasts to navigate the dynamics of ecological predictability. PeerJ. 13. e18929–e18929. 1 indexed citations

White, Ethan P., et al.. (2022). Data Carpentry for Biologists: A semester long Data Carpentry course using ecological and other biological examples. 5(50). 139–139. 2 indexed citations

Ye, Hao, et al.. (2021). Empirical abundance distributions are more uneven than expected given their statistical baseline. Ecology Letters. 24(9). 2025–2039. 6 indexed citations

Ernest, S. K. Morgan, et al.. (2021). Declines in rodent abundance and diversity track regional climate variability in North American drylands. Global Change Biology. 27(17). 4005–4023. 14 indexed citations

Simpson, Gavin L., et al.. (2019). Established rodent community delays recovery of dominant competitor following experimental disturbance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1917). 20192269–20192269. 4 indexed citations

Yenni, Glenda M., et al.. (2019). Developing a modern data workflow for regularly updated data. PLoS Biology. 17(1). e3000125–e3000125. 28 indexed citations

White, Ethan P., et al.. (2018). Developing an automated iterative near‐term forecasting system for an ecological study. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(3). 332–344. 55 indexed citations

Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J., et al.. (2018). Body size shifts influence effects of increasing temperatures on ectotherm metabolism. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(8). 958–967. 31 indexed citations

Brym, Zachary & S. K. Morgan Ernest. (2018). Process-based allometry describes the influence of management on orchard tree aboveground architecture. PeerJ. 6. e4949–e4949. 6 indexed citations

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Yenni, Glenda M., Peter B. Adler, & S. K. Morgan Ernest. (2017). Do persistent rare species experience stronger negative frequency dependence than common species?. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 26(5). 513–523. 37 indexed citations

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Allington, Ginger, David N. Koons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Michele R. Schutzenhofer, & Thomas J. Valone. (2012). Niche opportunities and invasion dynamics in a desert annual community. Ecology Letters. 16(2). 158–166. 42 indexed citations

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Supp, Sarah R., et al.. (2012). Experimental evidence suggests that richness and total abundance primarily determine macroecological patterns (slide deck from 2011 Ecological Society of America Conference). Figshare. 1 indexed citations

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Thibault, Katherine M., Ethan P. White, Allen H. Hurlbert, & S. K. Morgan Ernest. (2010). Multimodality in the individual size distributions of bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 20(1). 145–153. 34 indexed citations

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Ernest, S. K. Morgan, Thomas J. Valone, & James H. Brown. (2009). Long‐term monitoring and experimental manipulation of a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem near Portal, Arizona, USA. Ecology. 90(6). 1708–1708. 33 indexed citations

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Houlahan, Jeff E., David J. Currie, Karl Cottenie, et al.. (2007). Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural ecological communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(9). 3273–3277. 238 indexed citations

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Savage, Van M., Ethan P. White, Melanie E. Moses, et al.. (2006). Comment on "The Illusion of Invariant Quantities in Life Histories". Science. 312(5771). 198–198. 22 indexed citations

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Goheen, Jacob R., Ethan P. White, S. K. Morgan Ernest, & James H. Brown. (2006). INTRA-GUILD COMPENSATION REGULATES SPECIES RICHNESS IN DESERT RODENTS: REPLY. Ecology. 87(8). 2121–2125. 23 indexed citations

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Charnov, Eric L., John P. Haskell, & S. K. Morgan Ernest. (2001). Density-dependent invariance, dimensionless life histories and the energy-equivalence rule. Evolutionary ecology research. 3(1). 117–127. 35 indexed citations

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Ernest, S. K. Morgan & James H. Brown. (2001). Delayed Compensation for Missing Keystone Species by Colonization. Science. 292(5514). 101–104. 84 indexed citations

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Ernest, S. K. Morgan & James H. Brown. (2001). Homeostasis and Compensation: The Role of Species and Resources in Ecosystem Stability. Ecology. 82(8). 2118–2118. 119 indexed citations

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