Shawn Leroux

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Shawn Leroux is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Shawn Leroux has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Ecology, 51 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Shawn Leroux's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (38 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (25 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (25 papers). Shawn Leroux is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (38 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (25 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (25 papers). Shawn Leroux collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Shawn Leroux's co-authors include Michel Loreau, Oswald J. Schmitz, Fiona K. A. Schmiegelow, Dominique Gravel, Jeremy T. Kerr, Andrew B. Davies, Trisha B. Atwood, Mauro Galetti, Marie‐Josée Fortin and S. J. Goetz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Shawn Leroux

81 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 25 50 75
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.

  1. Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions
    2023 92 citations Oswald J. Schmitz, Trisha B. Atwood et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shawn Leroux Canada 27 1.4k 957 777 578 412 87 2.3k
Katharina Gerstner Germany 13 972 0.7× 1.2k 1.3× 846 1.1× 642 1.1× 692 1.7× 15 2.5k
Candan U. Soykan United States 18 1.6k 1.1× 1.3k 1.4× 872 1.1× 631 1.1× 536 1.3× 22 2.7k
Robert A. Briers United Kingdom 28 1.6k 1.1× 768 0.8× 681 0.9× 336 0.6× 260 0.6× 50 2.2k
Kelly A. Carscadden United States 5 793 0.5× 1.1k 1.2× 572 0.7× 437 0.8× 638 1.5× 12 1.9k
Shane A. Blowes Germany 20 931 0.6× 730 0.8× 575 0.7× 455 0.8× 363 0.9× 38 1.7k
Carissa D. Brown Canada 19 789 0.5× 1.1k 1.2× 902 1.2× 501 0.9× 425 1.0× 37 2.1k
William Darwall United Kingdom 23 1.4k 1.0× 1.5k 1.5× 480 0.6× 554 1.0× 170 0.4× 30 2.4k
Maud Mouchet France 20 1.3k 0.9× 1.6k 1.6× 1.7k 2.2× 513 0.9× 603 1.5× 50 3.4k
Eduardo Martins Venticinque Brazil 24 1.2k 0.8× 934 1.0× 913 1.2× 301 0.5× 494 1.2× 82 2.6k
Anke Stein Germany 11 778 0.5× 1.2k 1.2× 616 0.8× 596 1.0× 699 1.7× 14 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Shawn Leroux

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shawn Leroux

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shawn Leroux

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Leroux, Shawn, et al.. (2025). Zoogeochemical niche construction: how animal-mediated biogeochemistry affects evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(10). 995–1009.
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Leroux, Shawn, et al.. (2024). Rewiring the Carbon Cycle: A Theoretical Framework for Animal‐Driven Ecosystem Carbon Sequestration. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(4). 9 indexed citations
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Gravel, Dominique, et al.. (2024). Publication‐driven consistency in food web structures: Implications for comparative ecology. Ecology. 106(1). e4467–e4467. 1 indexed citations
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Hong, Pubin, et al.. (2024). Energy transfer efficiency rather than productivity determines the strength of aquatic trophic cascades. Ecology. 106(1). e4482–e4482. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Bo, Shawn Leroux, Joseph J. Bowden, et al.. (2023). Species distribution model identifies influence of climatic constraints on severe defoliation at the leading edge of a native insect outbreak. Forest Ecology and Management. 544. 121166–121166. 6 indexed citations
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Manfrin, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). Cascading impacts of changes in subsidy quality on recipient ecosystem functioning. Ecology. 104(5). e4023–e4023. 12 indexed citations
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Schmitz, Oswald J., Trisha B. Atwood, Elisabeth S. Bakker, et al.. (2023). Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions. Nature Climate Change. 13(4). 324–333. 92 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leroux, Shawn, et al.. (2023). Towards a mechanistic understanding of animal–ecosystem interactions. Journal of Animal Ecology. 92(12). 2244–2247. 2 indexed citations
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Kouki, Jari, Shawn Leroux, Lynette R. Potvin, et al.. (2023). Airborne laser scanning reveals uniform responses of forest structure to moose ( Alces alces ) across the boreal forest biome. Journal of Ecology. 111(7). 1396–1410. 8 indexed citations
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Harvey, Éric, Isabelle Gounand, Shawn Leroux, et al.. (2023). A general meta‐ecosystem model to predict ecosystem functions at landscape extents. Ecography. 2023(11). 13 indexed citations
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Leroux, Shawn, et al.. (2021). Integrating plant stoichiometry and feeding experiments: state-dependent forage choice and its implications on body mass. Oecologia. 198(3). 579–591. 7 indexed citations
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Leroux, Shawn, et al.. (2020). Modelling the spatial–temporal distributions and associated determining factors of a keystone pelagic fish. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 77(7-8). 2776–2789. 10 indexed citations
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Leroux, Shawn, et al.. (2020). Temporal variation and its drivers in the elemental traits of four boreal plant species. Journal of Plant Ecology. 14(3). 398–413. 5 indexed citations
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Leroux, Shawn. (2019). On the prevalence of uninformative parameters in statistical models applying model selection in applied ecology. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0206711–e0206711. 120 indexed citations
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Hanley, Torrance C., Shawn Leroux, Kenneth T. Frank, et al.. (2015). Trophic Ecology. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 28 indexed citations
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Leroux, Shawn, et al.. (2014). Impact of Non-Native Terrestrial Mammals on the Structure of the Terrestrial Mammal Food Web of Newfoundland, Canada. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e106264–e106264. 27 indexed citations
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Leroux, Shawn & Michel Loreau. (2010). Consumer‐mediated recycling and cascading trophic interactions. Ecology. 91(7). 2162–2171. 38 indexed citations
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Leroux, Shawn, et al.. (2007). ACCOUNTING FOR SYSTEM DYNAMICS IN RESERVE DESIGN. Ecological Applications. 17(7). 1954–1966. 35 indexed citations

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