Simone Des Roches

4.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
27 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Simone Des Roches is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Des Roches has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Ecological Modeling and 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Simone Des Roches's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (10 papers), Plant and animal studies (6 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers). Simone Des Roches is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (10 papers), Plant and animal studies (6 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers). Simone Des Roches collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Belgium. Simone Des Roches's co-authors include Eric P. Palkovacs, Luke J. Harmon, Andrew P. Hendry, Michael T. Kinnison, Nash E. Turley, David M. Post, Max R. Lambert, Jennifer A. Schweitzer, Joseph K. Bailey and Christopher J. Schell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Simone Des Roches

26 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

The ecological importance of intraspecific variation

2017 618 citations Simone Des Roches, David M. Post et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations

2010 549 citations Jeremy B. Yoder, Erin Clancey et al. Journal of Evolutionary Biology profile →
The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments

2020 413 citations Christopher J. Schell, Karen Dyson et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Des Roches United States	16	998	880	844	767	692	27	2.7k
Søren Faurby Sweden	33	2.0k 2.0×	1.5k 1.7×	1.1k 1.3×	554 0.7×	782 1.1×	96	4.2k
Mark Hassall United Kingdom	32	1.5k 1.5×	770 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	636 0.8×	429 0.6×	80	3.0k
Thomas E. Lacher United States	31	1.7k 1.7×	747 0.8×	986 1.2×	291 0.4×	562 0.8×	101	3.2k
Axel Hochkirch Germany	31	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	1.8k 2.1×	1.2k 1.5×	1.0k 1.5×	116	4.0k
Caterina Penone Switzerland	18	848 0.8×	900 1.0×	975 1.2×	371 0.5×	607 0.9×	30	2.4k
Susumu Tomiya United States	7	1.1k 1.1×	784 0.9×	541 0.6×	301 0.4×	649 0.9×	13	2.7k
Eric P. Palkovacs United States	32	2.1k 2.1×	2.2k 2.5×	1.3k 1.5×	1.3k 1.7×	1.1k 1.6×	90	4.6k
Menno Schilthuizen Netherlands	35	1.7k 1.7×	449 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	774 1.0×	352 0.5×	172	4.0k
Dennis M. Hansen Switzerland	27	869 0.9×	1.6k 1.8×	1.6k 1.9×	346 0.5×	490 0.7×	56	3.0k
Robert H. Cowie United States	41	3.6k 3.6×	840 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	638 0.8×	539 0.8×	137	6.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Des Roches

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Lambert, Max R., et al.. (2025). Building the neighborhood for the trees: Illuminating win–wins for housing densification and nature. Conservation Science and Practice. 7(7).

Urban, Mark C., Marina Alberti, Luc De Meester, et al.. (2024). Interactions between climate change and urbanization will shape the future of biodiversity. Nature Climate Change. 14(5). 436–447. 32 indexed citations

Carlen, Elizabeth J., Benjamin R. Goldstein, Lauren A. Stanton, et al.. (2024). A framework for contextualizing social‐ecological biases in contributory science data. People and Nature. 6(2). 377–390. 24 indexed citations

Roches, Simone Des, et al.. (2024). Shoreline restoration including armor removal and log placement affect ecosystem recovery through time. Restoration Ecology. 32(4). 2 indexed citations

Toft, Jason D., et al.. (2023). Coastal landforms and fetch influence shoreline restoration effectiveness. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 3 indexed citations

Roches, Simone Des, et al.. (2022). Population expansion, divergence, and persistence in Western Fence Lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis) at the northern extreme of their distributional range. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 6310–6310. 4 indexed citations

Stuble, Katharine L., Simone Des Roches, Anthony R. Ambrose, et al.. (2021). Regional Networks of Biological Field Stations to Study Climate Change. BioScience. 71(8). 874–882. 1 indexed citations

Roches, Simone Des, Linwood H. Pendleton, Beth Shapiro, & Eric P. Palkovacs. (2021). Conserving intraspecific variation for nature’s contributions to people. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(5). 574–582. 126 indexed citations

Roches, Simone Des, et al.. (2021). The legacy of predator threat shapes prey foraging behaviour. Oecologia. 198(1). 79–89. 9 indexed citations

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Schell, Christopher J., Karen Dyson, Tracy L. Fuentes, et al.. (2020). The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments. Science. 369(6510). 413 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lambert, Max R., Kristien I. Brans, Simone Des Roches, Colin M. Donihue, & Sarah E. Diamond. (2020). Adaptive Evolution in Cities: Progress and Misconceptions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 36(3). 239–257. 99 indexed citations

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Roches, Simone Des, Kristien I. Brans, Max R. Lambert, et al.. (2020). Socio‐eco‐evolutionary dynamics in cities. Evolutionary Applications. 14(1). 248–267. 116 indexed citations

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Roches, Simone Des, Michael A. Bell, & Eric P. Palkovacs. (2019). Climate‐driven habitat change causes evolution in Threespine Stickleback. Global Change Biology. 26(2). 597–606. 24 indexed citations

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Roches, Simone Des, David M. Post, Nash E. Turley, et al.. (2017). The ecological importance of intraspecific variation. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(1). 57–64. 618 indexed citations breakdown →

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Roches, Simone Des, et al.. (2016). Survival by genotype: patterns at Mc1r are not black and white at the White Sands ecotone. Molecular Ecology. 26(1). 320–329. 7 indexed citations

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Refsnider, Jeanine M., Simone Des Roches, & Erica Bree Rosenblum. (2015). Evidence for ecological release over a fine spatial scale in a lizard from the White Sands formation. Oikos. 124(12). 1624–1631. 13 indexed citations

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Roches, Simone Des, Jonathan B. Shurin, Dolph Schluter, & Luke J. Harmon. (2013). Ecological and Evolutionary Effects of Stickleback on Community Structure. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e59644–e59644. 37 indexed citations

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Roches, Simone Des, et al.. (2013). Beyond black and white: divergent behaviour and performance in three rapidly evolving lizard species at White Sands. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 111(1). 169–182. 10 indexed citations

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Yoder, Jeremy B., Erin Clancey, Simone Des Roches, et al.. (2010). Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23(8). 1581–1596. 549 indexed citations breakdown →

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Harmon, Luke J., Blake Matthews, Simone Des Roches, et al.. (2009). Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning. Nature. 458(7242). 1167–1170. 282 indexed citations

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