Saul A. Cunningham

25.5k citations

134 papers · 13.4k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 45

Impact in

Insect Science top 0.01%
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.01%
- Plant and animal studies

Papers in

Nature and Landscape Conservation 67
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 65
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 84
- Plant and animal studies 79

Co-authors: Alexandra‐Maria Klein Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter Claire Kremen Teja Tscharntke James H. Cane Bernard Vaissière Lucas A. Garibaldi Marcelo A. Aizen
Journals: Journal of Applied Ecology (8 papers)Oecologia (7 papers)Austral Ecology (7 papers)Biological Conservation (6 papers)Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (5 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Saul A. Cunningham

132 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Global growth and stability of agricultural yield decrease with pollinator dependence 2011 · 315 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Annals of Botany
2008 Current Biology
2008 Evolutionary Applications
2008 Ecology Letters
2006 Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

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1	Large urban trees are keystone structures for Australian microbats Biological Conservation ·范志, Maldwyn J. Evans, Darren S. Le Roux, Saul A. Cunningham, Bradley Law, Philip Gibbons	2025	0
2	Forest cover and canopy health mapping in Australian subalpine landscape: supervised machine learning models for Sentinel-2 and Landsat images GIScience & Remote Sensing ·Xu-Long Chen, Marta Yebra, 尊徳佐藤, Adrienne B. Nicotra, Saul A. Cunningham, Matthew Brookhouse	2025	1
3	Variation in pollen load composition carried by wild bee species in native and nearby agricultural environments in south‐eastern Australia Insect Conservation and Diversity ·Julian Brown, Helen Burke, Janelle Stevenson, Saul A. Cunningham	2024	1
4	Influence of climate, weather and floral associations on pollinator community composition across an elevational gradient Oikos ·Daniel R. Ramos, Maldwyn J. Evans, Ben C. Scheele, 下村えりか, Charles H. Scott, Jill Turnbull, Saul A. Cunningham	2024	0
5	Biogeographic history predicts bee community structure across floral resource gradients in south‐east Australia Diversity and Distributions ·Julian Brown, Saul A. Cunningham	2022	5
6	Density of invasive western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in fragmented woodlands indicates potential for large impacts on native species Scientific Reports ·Saul A. Cunningham, Mason Crane, Maldwyn J. Evans, Keuntae Cho, David B. Lindenmayer	2022	23
7	Land cover associations of wild bees visiting flowers in apple orchards across three geographic regions of southeast Australia Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Julian Brown, Scott V. C. Groom, Romina Rader, Katja Hogendoorn, Saul A. Cunningham	2021	9
8	Phenology of a bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) community over a 10 year period in south‐eastern Australia Austral Entomology ·Leon Van Zyl, Julian Brown, Michael Batley, Sujaya Rao, Saul A. Cunningham	2020	15
9	Flower visitation and land cover associations of above ground- and below ground-nesting native bees in an agricultural region of south-east Australia Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Julian Brown, Philip S. Barton, Saul A. Cunningham	2020	30
10	Global-scale drivers of crop visitor diversity and the historical development of agriculture Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Julian Brown, Saul A. Cunningham	2019	24
11	Deconstructing pollinator community effectiveness Current Opinion in Insect Science ·Bryony K. Willcox, Marcelo A. Aizen, Saul A. Cunningham, Margaret M. Mayfield, Romina Rader	2017	38
12	Incremental contribution of pollination and other ecosystem services to agricultural productivity Lucas A. Garibaldi, Marcelo A. Aizen, Saul A. Cunningham, Lawrence D. Harder, Alexandra‐Maria Klein	2016	1
13	Farming Approaches for Greater Biodiversity, Livelihoods, and Food Security Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Lucas A. Garibaldi, Barbara Gemmill‐Herren, Raffaele D’Annolfo, Benjamin E. Graeub, Saul A. Cunningham, Tom D. Breeze	2016	251
14	Human welfare and its connection to nature: What have we learned from crop pollination studies? Austral Ecology ·Saul A. Cunningham	2016	7
15	Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau Uplift Drives Divergence of Polyploid Poppies: Meconopsis Viguier (Papaveraceae) PLoS ONE ·Hongyan Xie, Julian Ash, Celeste C. Linde, Saul A. Cunningham, Adrienne B. Nicotra	2014	27
16	Long-Term Global Trends in Crop Yield and Production Reveal No Current Pollination Shortage but Increasing Pollinator Dependency Current Biology ·Marcelo A. Aizen, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Saul A. Cunningham, Alexandra‐Maria Klein Hit paper breakdown →	2008	457
17	Whole-tree sap flow is substantially diminished by leaf herbivory Oecologia ·Saul A. Cunningham, Kimberi R. Pullen, Matthew J. Colloff	2008	25
18	Seed supply for broadscale restoration: maximizing evolutionary potential Evolutionary Applications ·Linda Broadhurst, Andrew J. Lowe, David Coates, Saul A. Cunningham, M. W. McDonald, Peter A. Vesk, Colin J. Yates Hit paper breakdown →	2008	491
19	Rain Forest Provides Pollinating Beetles for Atemoya Crops Journal of Economic Entomology ·P. Keinmsuke, Saul A. Cunningham	2005	42
20	Herbivory Differentially Affects Male and Female Reproductive Traits of Cucumis sativus Plant Biology ·Vivien P. Thomson, Adrienne B. Nicotra, Saul A. Cunningham	2004	18

About Saul A. Cunningham

Saul A. Cunningham is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Ecology and Ecological Modeling, having authored 134 papers that have together received 13.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant and animal studies (79 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (65 papers), Insect and Pesticide Research (35 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (29 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (26 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (12 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (11 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Insect Science (6.7k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (9.7k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (3.7k citations), Ecological Modeling (779 citations) and Genetics (3.8k citations). Saul A. Cunningham has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Claire Kremen, Teja Tscharntke, James H. Cane, Bernard Vaissière, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Marcelo A. Aizen, Philip S. Barton and David B. Lindenmayer. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Applied Ecology, Oecologia, Austral Ecology, Biological Conservation and Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment.

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