Sam Veloz

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Sam Veloz is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Veloz has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Ecological Modeling, 19 papers in Ecology and 17 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Sam Veloz's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (17 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers). Sam Veloz is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (17 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers). Sam Veloz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Denmark. Sam Veloz's co-authors include John W. Williams, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Feng He, Zhengyu Liu, Jessica L. Blois, Dennis Jongsomjit, Franck Courchamp, Céline Bellard, Michel Bakkenes and Boris Leroy and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Global Change Biology and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Sam Veloz

29 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Spatially autocorrelated sampling falsely inflates measures of accuracy for presence‐only niche models

2009 513 citations Sam Veloz Journal of Biogeography profile →
Global synthesis of conservation studies reveals the importance of small habitat patches for biodiversity

2018 362 citations Brendan A. Wintle, Heini Kujala et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sam Veloz United States	18	1.1k	1.1k	845	611	482	29	2.2k
Raquel A. Garcia South Africa	14	1.5k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	917 1.1×	654 1.1×	526 1.1×	25	2.3k
William B. Monahan United States	22	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	811 1.0×	754 1.2×	418 0.9×	37	2.3k
Julien Renaud France	28	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.7×	720 1.2×	919 1.9×	64	2.9k
Mirko Di Febbraro Italy	29	922 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	502 0.6×	669 1.1×	513 1.1×	100	2.5k
Tarek Hattab France	23	766 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	703 0.8×	903 1.5×	350 0.7×	49	2.0k
Diana Stralberg Canada	28	1.5k 1.4×	1.9k 1.7×	1.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.9×	391 0.8×	66	3.1k
Isabelle Boulangeat France	19	1.2k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	1.6k 1.9×	571 0.9×	977 2.0×	26	2.6k
Shawn Leroux Canada	27	578 0.5×	1.4k 1.3×	957 1.1×	777 1.3×	412 0.9×	87	2.3k
Heather M. Kharouba Canada	21	1.3k 1.1×	970 0.9×	992 1.2×	438 0.7×	1.0k 2.1×	43	2.4k
Bernat Claramunt López Spain	17	633 0.6×	834 0.8×	825 1.0×	856 1.4×	384 0.8×	27	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Sam Veloz

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sam Veloz

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Veloz

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

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Aslan, Clare E., et al.. (2024). Experiences with wildfire are associated with private landowners’ management decisions, relationships, and perceptions of risk. Landscape and Urban Planning. 247. 105067–105067. 2 indexed citations

Byrd, Kristin B., Claudia Mengelt, Tamara S. Wilson, et al.. (2023). Knowledge coproduction on the impact of decisions for waterbird habitat in a changing climate. Conservation Biology. 37(5). e14089–e14089. 4 indexed citations

Aslan, Clare E., Sam Veloz, Rebecca S. Epanchin‐Niell, Mark W. Brunson, & Benjamin A. Sikes. (2022). Integrating Social and Ecological Predictors to Understand Variation within Ecosystems: A Case Study of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park PACE. Natural Areas Journal. 42(4). 1 indexed citations

Conlisk, Erin, Gregory H. Golet, Mark Reynolds, et al.. (2021). Both real‐time and long‐term environmental data perform well in predicting shorebird distributions in managed habitat. Ecological Applications. 32(4). e2510–e2510. 7 indexed citations

Slatyer, Rachel, et al.. (2021). How is adaptive potential distributed within species ranges?. Evolution. 75(9). 2152–2166. 20 indexed citations

Aslan, Clare E., Mark W. Brunson, Benjamin A. Sikes, et al.. (2021). Coupled ecological and management connectivity across administrative boundaries in undeveloped landscapes. Ecosphere. 12(1). 17 indexed citations

Lescroël, Amélie, Dennis Jongsomjit, Sam Veloz, et al.. (2019). Inter-individual differences in the foraging behavior of breeding Adélie penguins are driven by individual quality and sex. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 636. 189–205. 15 indexed citations

Wintle, Brendan A., Heini Kujala, Amy Whitehead, et al.. (2018). Global synthesis of conservation studies reveals the importance of small habitat patches for biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(3). 909–914. 362 indexed citations breakdown →

Ballard, Guy, Annie E. Schmidt, Sam Veloz, et al.. (2018). Fine-scale oceanographic features characterizing successful Adélie penguin foraging in the SW Ross Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 608. 263–277. 11 indexed citations

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Alexander, John D., et al.. (2017). Using regional bird density distribution models to evaluate protected area networks and inform conservation planning. Ecosphere. 8(5). 8 indexed citations

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Reiter, Matthew E., Sam Veloz, Dennis Jongsomjit, et al.. (2015). Spatio‐Temporal Patterns of Open Surface Water in the Central Valley of California 2000‐2011: Drought, Land Cover, and Waterbirds. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 51(6). 1722–1738. 31 indexed citations

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Grossenbacher, Dena L., Sam Veloz, & Jason P. Sexton. (2014). NICHE AND RANGE SIZE PATTERNS SUGGEST THAT SPECIATION BEGINS IN SMALL, ECOLOGICALLY DIVERGED POPULATIONS IN NORTH AMERICAN MONKEYFLOWERS (MIMULUS SPP.). Evolution. 68(5). 1270–1280. 88 indexed citations

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Bellard, Céline, Camille Leclerc, Boris Leroy, et al.. (2014). Vulnerability of biodiversity hotspots to global change. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 23(12). 1376–1386. 298 indexed citations

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Williams, John W., Jessica L. Blois, Jacquelyn L. Gill, et al.. (2013). Model systems for a no‐analog future: species associations and climates during the last deglaciation. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1297(1). 29–43. 33 indexed citations

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Record, Sydne, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, Andrew O. Finley, Sam Veloz, & Aaron M. Ellison. (2013). Should species distribution models account for spatial autocorrelation? A test of model projections across eight millennia of climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 22(6). 760–771. 64 indexed citations

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Williams, John W., Heather M. Kharouba, Sam Veloz, et al.. (2012). The ice age ecologist: testing methods for reserve prioritization during the last global warming. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 22(3). 289–301. 47 indexed citations

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Blois, Jessica L., John W. Williams, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, et al.. (2012). Modeling the climatic drivers of spatial patterns in vegetation composition since the Last Glacial Maximum. Ecography. 36(4). 460–473. 60 indexed citations

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Veloz, Sam, John W. Williams, Jessica L. Blois, et al.. (2011). No‐analog climates and shifting realized niches during the late quaternary: implications for 21st‐century predictions by species distribution models. Global Change Biology. 18(5). 1698–1713. 249 indexed citations

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Veloz, Sam, John W. Williams, David J. Lorenz, et al.. (2011). Identifying climatic analogs for Wisconsin under 21st-century climate-change scenarios. Climatic Change. 112(3-4). 1037–1058. 54 indexed citations

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Veloz, Sam. (2009). Spatially autocorrelated sampling falsely inflates measures of accuracy for presence‐only niche models. Journal of Biogeography. 36(12). 2290–2299. 513 indexed citations breakdown →

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