Shirley Pledger

2.9k total citations
48 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Shirley Pledger is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Shirley Pledger has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Ecology, 20 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Shirley Pledger's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (23 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (15 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (10 papers). Shirley Pledger is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (23 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (15 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (10 papers). Shirley Pledger collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and United States. Shirley Pledger's co-authors include Charles H. Daugherty, James L. Norris, Kenneth H. Pollock, Nicola J. Nelson, Kevin C. Burns, Ben D. Bell, Susan N. Keall, Michael B. Thompson, Nicola J. Mitchell and Kelly M. Hare and has published in prestigious journals such as Biometrics, Biological Conservation and Animal Behaviour.

In The Last Decade

Shirley Pledger

47 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shirley Pledger New Zealand 24 1.3k 617 553 422 388 48 2.0k
Chang Xuan Mao United States 11 874 0.7× 761 1.2× 305 0.6× 556 1.3× 339 0.9× 30 1.9k
Rachel M. Fewster New Zealand 21 1.8k 1.4× 708 1.1× 403 0.7× 247 0.6× 520 1.3× 58 2.5k
Rémi Choquet France 29 1.8k 1.4× 684 1.1× 404 0.7× 380 0.9× 307 0.8× 75 2.2k
Brett T. McClintock United States 29 2.3k 1.8× 562 0.9× 377 0.7× 353 0.8× 768 2.0× 53 2.8k
Devin S. Johnson United States 30 2.0k 1.6× 656 1.1× 513 0.9× 292 0.7× 644 1.7× 90 2.6k
Stephen N. Freeman United Kingdom 29 1.7k 1.3× 932 1.5× 386 0.7× 642 1.5× 759 2.0× 65 2.6k
K P Burnham United Kingdom 2 2.6k 2.0× 844 1.4× 627 1.1× 371 0.9× 635 1.6× 2 3.0k
Paul B. Conn United States 26 1.5k 1.1× 675 1.1× 593 1.1× 122 0.3× 375 1.0× 53 1.9k
Paul M. Lukacs United States 29 2.3k 1.7× 623 1.0× 409 0.7× 408 1.0× 701 1.8× 100 3.0k
Beth Gardner United States 33 3.1k 2.4× 905 1.5× 490 0.9× 305 0.7× 1.2k 3.2× 83 3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shirley Pledger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shirley Pledger

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bell, Ben D., Kelly M. Hare, & Shirley Pledger. (2018). Lizards in the suburbs: a single‐garden study of a small endemic New Zealand skink ( Oligosoma aeneum ). New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 45(4). 341–358. 1 indexed citations
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Fernández, Daniel & Shirley Pledger. (2015). Categorising Count Data into Ordinal Responses with Application to Ecological Communities. Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics. 21(2). 348–362. 6 indexed citations
3.
Harper, Margaret, Shirley Pledger, Euan Smith, Alexa R. Van Eaton, & Colin Wilson. (2015). Eruptive and environmental processes recorded by diatoms in volcanically dispersed lake sediments from the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. Journal of Paleolimnology. 54(4). 263–277. 6 indexed citations
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Hare, Kelly M., Shirley Pledger, Michael B. Thompson, John H. Miller, & Charles H. Daugherty. (2010). Nocturnal lizards from a cool-temperate environment have high metabolic rates at low temperatures. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 180(8). 1173–1181. 25 indexed citations
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Pledger, Shirley, Kenneth H. Pollock, & James L. Norris. (2009). Open Capture–Recapture Models with Heterogeneity: II. Jolly–Seber Model. Biometrics. 66(3). 883–890. 53 indexed citations
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Pledger, Shirley, et al.. (2008). Using Mixtures to Model Heterogeneity in Ecological Capture‐Recapture Studies. Biometrical Journal. 50(6). 1022–1034. 25 indexed citations
7.
Hare, Kelly M., Shirley Pledger, & Charles H. Daugherty. (2008). Low Incubation Temperatures Negatively Influence Locomotor Performance and Behavior of the Nocturnal Lizard Oligosoma Suteri (Lacertidae: Scincidae). Copeia. 2008(1). 16–22. 21 indexed citations
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Hare, Kelly M., Shirley Pledger, Michael B. Thompson, John H. Miller, & Charles H. Daugherty. (2007). Low Cost of Locomotion in Lizards That Are Active at Low Temperatures. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 80(1). 46–58. 18 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Nicola J., Nicola J. Nelson, Alison Cree, et al.. (2006). Support for a rare pattern of temperature-dependent sex determination in archaic reptiles: evidence from two species of tuatara (Sphenodon). Frontiers in Zoology. 3(1). 9–9. 46 indexed citations
10.
Pledger, Shirley, et al.. (2006). Does differential particulate food supply explain the presence of mussels in Wellington Harbour (New Zealand) and their absence on neighbouring Cook Strait shores?. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 72(1-2). 223–234. 24 indexed citations
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Hare, Kelly M., Shirley Pledger, Michael B. Thompson, John H. Miller, & Charles H. Daugherty. (2006). Daily Patterns of Metabolic Rate among New Zealand Lizards (Reptilia: Lacertilia: Diplodactylidae and Scincidae). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 79(4). 745–753. 28 indexed citations
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McCartney, Jay, et al.. (2005). How did invertebrates respond to eradication of rats from Kapiti Island, New Zealand?. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 32(4). 293–315. 28 indexed citations
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Pledger, Shirley, et al.. (2005). Patterns of Size Variation in the Shearwater Genus Puffinus. Marine ornithology. 33(1). 16 indexed citations
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Bell, Ben D., et al.. (2004). The fate of a population of the endemic frog Leiopelma pakeka (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) translocated to restored habitat on Maud Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 31(2). 123–131. 22 indexed citations
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Nelson, Nicola J., Michael B. Thompson, Shirley Pledger, Susan N. Keall, & Charles H. Daugherty. (2004). Induction of oviposition produces smaller eggs in tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus). New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 31(4). 283–289. 8 indexed citations
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Hare, Kelly M., Shirley Pledger, Michael B. Thompson, John H. Miller, & Charles H. Daugherty. (2004). Conditioning reduces metabolic rate and time to steady-state in the lizard Naultinus manukanus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 139(2). 245–250. 18 indexed citations
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Bell, Ben D., Scott Carver, Nicola J. Mitchell, & Shirley Pledger. (2004). The recent decline of a New Zealand endemic: how and why did populations of Archey's frog Leiopelma archeyi crash over 1996–2001?. Biological Conservation. 120(2). 189–199. 91 indexed citations
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Pledger, Shirley, Kenneth H. Pollock, & James L. Norris. (2003). Open Capture‐Recapture Models with Heterogeneity: I. Cormack‐Jolly‐Seber Model. Biometrics. 59(4). 786–794. 170 indexed citations
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Pledger, Shirley. (2000). Unified Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Closed Capture–Recapture Models Using Mixtures. Biometrics. 56(2). 434–442. 424 indexed citations
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Pledger, Shirley, et al.. (1998). Tests for Mate and Nest Fidelity in Birds with Application to Little Blue Penguins (Eudyptula minor). Biometrics. 54(1). 61–61. 12 indexed citations

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