Seema N. Sheth

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Seema N. Sheth is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Seema N. Sheth has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Ecological Modeling, 21 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Seema N. Sheth's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (22 papers), Plant and animal studies (18 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers). Seema N. Sheth is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (22 papers), Plant and animal studies (18 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers). Seema N. Sheth collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Seema N. Sheth's co-authors include Amy L. Angert, John R. Paul, Julie A. Lee‐Yaw, Jenny L. McCune, Samuel Pironon, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Iván Jiménez, Rachel Wooliver, Megan L. DeMarche and Susana M. Wadgymar and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Seema N. Sheth

32 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Species distribution models rarely predict the biology of real populations

2021 174 citations Julie A. Lee‐Yaw, Jenny L. McCune et al. Ecography profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Seema N. Sheth United States	19	621	545	533	465	244	35	1.2k
Maya Guéguen France	17	544 0.9×	404 0.7×	273 0.5×	459 1.0×	177 0.7×	24	1.0k
Iván Jiménez United States	13	456 0.7×	640 1.2×	459 0.9×	401 0.9×	121 0.5×	19	1.0k
Guilherme de Oliveira Brazil	19	554 0.9×	415 0.8×	414 0.8×	308 0.7×	271 1.1×	41	1.1k
Marcelo Ferreira de Vasconcelos Brazil	17	431 0.7×	645 1.2×	578 1.1×	577 1.2×	178 0.7×	74	1.4k
José C. Carvalho Portugal	13	370 0.6×	580 1.1×	383 0.7×	488 1.0×	202 0.8×	19	1.1k
Rafael Molina‐Venegas Spain	17	312 0.5×	462 0.8×	400 0.8×	275 0.6×	134 0.5×	42	997
Alex Gilman United States	3	589 0.9×	496 0.9×	425 0.8×	375 0.8×	159 0.7×	7	1.1k
Andrea J. Webster United Kingdom	5	489 0.8×	596 1.1×	387 0.7×	474 1.0×	233 1.0×	5	1.2k
Johannes Wessely Austria	15	574 0.9×	601 1.1×	418 0.8×	294 0.6×	136 0.6×	44	1.1k
Alexander Kubisch Germany	13	374 0.6×	373 0.7×	422 0.8×	364 0.8×	301 1.2×	20	922

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sheth, Seema N., et al.. (2026). Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought. Science. 391(6790). 1172–1176.

Evans, Margaret E. K., Peter B. Adler, Amy L. Angert, et al.. (2025). Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology. Nature Climate Change. 15(8). 809–812. 1 indexed citations

Kooyers, Nicholas J., Jill T. Anderson, Amy L. Angert, et al.. (2025). Responses to climate change – insights and limitations from herbaceous plant model species. New Phytologist. 248(2). 461–493.

Oldfather, Meagan F., et al.. (2025). Limited directional change in mountaintop plant communities over 19 years in western North America. Ecosphere. 16(3). 1 indexed citations

Buckley, Lauren B., Lucas P. P. Braga, Malin L. Pinsky, et al.. (2025). Repeating Historical Studies to Understand Functional Responses to Environmental Change. The American Naturalist. 207(1). 125–134. 1 indexed citations

Wadgymar, Susana M., Seema N. Sheth, Emily B. Josephs, Megan L. DeMarche, & Jill T. Anderson. (2024). Defining Fitness in Evolutionary Ecology. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 185(3). 218–227. 9 indexed citations

Wooliver, Rachel, et al.. (2022). The evolution of thermal performance in native and invasive populations of Mimulus guttatus. Evolution Letters. 6(2). 136–148. 14 indexed citations

Wooliver, Rachel, et al.. (2022). Populations of western North American monkeyflowers accrue niche breadth primarily via genotypic divergence in environmental optima. Ecology and Evolution. 12(10). e9434–e9434. 1 indexed citations

Preston, Jill C., et al.. (2021). Spatial variation in high temperature‐regulated gene expression predicts evolution of plasticity with climate change in the scarlet monkeyflower. Molecular Ecology. 31(4). 1254–1268. 6 indexed citations

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Lee‐Yaw, Julie A., Jenny L. McCune, Samuel Pironon, & Seema N. Sheth. (2021). Species distribution models rarely predict the biology of real populations. Ecography. 2022(6). 174 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Brian S., Matthew Sasaki, Sarah Gignoux‐Wolfsohn, et al.. (2021). Limited plasticity in thermally tolerant ectotherm populations: evidence for a trade-off. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1958). 20210765–20210765. 63 indexed citations

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Wooliver, Rachel, Silas Tittes, & Seema N. Sheth. (2020). A resurrection study reveals limited evolution of thermal performance in response to recent climate change across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Evolution. 74(8). 1699–1710. 27 indexed citations

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Oldfather, Meagan F., Matthew M. Kling, Seema N. Sheth, Nancy C. Emery, & David D. Ackerly. (2019). Range edges in heterogeneous landscapes: Integrating geographic scale and climate complexity into range dynamics. Global Change Biology. 26(3). 1055–1067. 59 indexed citations

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Runquist, Ryan D. Briscoe, Amanda J. Gorton, Jeremy B. Yoder, et al.. (2019). Context Dependence of Local Adaptation to Abiotic and Biotic Environments: A Quantitative and Qualitative Synthesis. The American Naturalist. 195(3). 412–431. 56 indexed citations

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Sheth, Seema N. & Amy L. Angert. (2018). Demographic compensation does not rescue populations at a trailing range edge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(10). 2413–2418. 68 indexed citations

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Morueta‐Holme, Naia, Meagan F. Oldfather, Andrew P. Weitz, et al.. (2018). Best practices for reporting climate data in ecology. Nature Climate Change. 8(2). 92–94. 9 indexed citations

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Sheth, Seema N. & Amy L. Angert. (2014). THE EVOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOLERANCE AND RANGE SIZE: A COMPARISON OF GEOGRAPHICALLY RESTRICTED AND WIDESPREADMIMULUS. Evolution. 68(10). 2917–2931. 114 indexed citations

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Sheth, Seema N., Iván Jiménez, & Amy L. Angert. (2014). Identifying the paths leading to variation in geographical range size in western North American monkeyflowers. Journal of Biogeography. 41(12). 2344–2356. 30 indexed citations

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Paul, John R., Seema N. Sheth, & Amy L. Angert. (2011). Quantifying the Impact of Gene Flow on Phenotype-Environment Mismatch: A Demonstration with the Scarlet MonkeyflowerMimulus cardinalis. The American Naturalist. 178(S1). S62–S79. 57 indexed citations

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Amend, Jan P., et al.. (2003). Palaeococcus helgesonii sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a geothermal well on Vulcano Island, Italy. Archives of Microbiology. 179(6). 394–401. 32 indexed citations

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