Stephen J. Richards

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Stephen J. Richards is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen J. Richards has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 20 papers in Ecological Modeling and 9 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Stephen J. Richards's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (26 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers) and Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (9 papers). Stephen J. Richards is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (26 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers) and Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (9 papers). Stephen J. Richards collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Germany. Stephen J. Richards's co-authors include Ross A. Alford, Peter D. Kirkland, Keith McDonald, Paul M. Oliver, Michael McGowan, I. R. Littlejohns, John C. Rothwell, Fred Kraus, Célio F. B. Haddad and Simon P. Loader and has published in prestigious journals such as Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Biodiversity and Conservation and Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

In The Last Decade

Stephen J. Richards

29 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Global Amphibian Declines: A Problem in Applied Ecology

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Can citizen science fill knowledge gaps for the world’s most speciose and poorly-known insular amphibian fauna? 2025 ·Pacific Conservation Biology ·Paul M. Oliver, (unknown), Mohamed Ramdani, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Eric N. Rittmeyer, (unknown), Amir Hamidy, (unknown), Antoine Fouquet, (unknown), Stephen J. Richards	3
2	Gold in the mountains: Striking new species of Papuascincus (Sphenomorphini: Scincidae) from New Guinea 2024 ·Vertebrate Zoology ·Alex Slavenko, Stephen J. Richards, Stephen C. Donnellan, Allen Allison, Paul M. Oliver	0
3	Local and regional diversity of frog communities along an extensive rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea 2023 ·Biotropica ·(unknown), Stephen J. Richards, (unknown), (unknown), Vojtêch Novotný	4
4	Five new species of the pelodryadid genus Litoria Tschudi from the southern versant of Papua New Guinea’s Central Cordillera, with observations on the diversification of reproductive strategies in Melanesian treefrogs 2023 ·Zootaxa ·Stephen J. Richards, Stephen C. Donnellan, Paul M. Oliver	7
5	Another giant species of the microhylid frog genus Cophixalus Boettger, 1892 from the mountains of Papua New Guinea and first records of procoracoids in the genus 2023 ·Zoosystematics and Evolution ·Rainer Günther, (unknown), Stephen J. Richards	1
6	A new species of torrent-breeding treefrog (Pelodryadidae: Litoria) from the mountains of Papua, Indonesia, with new records and observations of Litoria dorsivena (Tyler, 1968) 2023 ·Vertebrate Zoology ·Paul M. Oliver, Djoko T. Iskandar, Stephen J. Richards	2
7	Two new species of green treefrogs (Pelodryadidae: Litoria) from the northern slopes of Papua New Guinea’s Central Cordillera 2023 ·Zootaxa ·Stephen J. Richards, Stephen C. Donnellan	1
8	Melanesia holds the world’s most diverse and intact insular amphibian fauna 2022 ·Communications Biology ·Paul M. Oliver, Deborah S. Bower, Peter J. McDonald, Fred Kraus, Jennifer Luedtke, Kelsey Neam, (unknown), Aliénor L. M. Chauvenet, Allen Allison, Evy Arida, Simon Clulow, Rainer Günther, Elizah Nagombi, Burhan Tjaturadi, Scott L. Travers, Stephen J. Richards	19
9	The other side of the Sahulian coin: biogeography and evolution of Melanesian forest dragons (Agamidae) 2019 ·Biological Journal of the Linnean Society ·Oliver Tallowin, Shai Meiri, Stephen C. Donnellan, Stephen J. Richards, Christopher C. Austin, Paul M. Oliver	15
10	A new caruncle-bearing fanged frog (Limnonectes, Dicroglossidae) from Laos and Thailand 2019 ·ZooKeys ·Somphouthone Phimmachak, Stephen J. Richards, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Bryan L. Stuart	6
11	Two new species of treefrog (Pelodrydidae: Litoria) from southern New Guinea elucidated by DNA barcoding 2019 ·Zootaxa ·Paul M. Oliver, Stephen J. Richards, Stephen C. Donnellan	9
12	A new miniature Melanesian Forest Frog (Ceratobatrachidae: Cornufer) from New Britain Island, constituting the first record of the subgenus Batrachylodes from outside of the Solomon Archipelago 2018 ·Zootaxa ·Scott L. Travers, Stephen J. Richards, (unknown), Rafe M. Brown	1
13	Early insularity and subsequent mountain uplift were complementary drivers of diversification in a Melanesian lizard radiation (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) 2018 ·Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Oliver Tallowin, Karin Tamar, Shai Meiri, Allen Allison, Fred Kraus, Stephen J. Richards, Paul M. Oliver	30
14	Mountain colonisation, miniaturisation and ecological evolution in a radiation of direct-developing New Guinea Frogs ( Choerophryne , Microhylidae) 2017 ·PeerJ ·Paul M. Oliver, (unknown), Stephen J. Richards, Michael S. Y. Lee	31
15	Description of two new species of the microhylid frog genus Oreophryne (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from southern Papua New Guinea 2016 ·Vertebrate Zoology ·Rainer Günther, Stephen J. Richards	5
16	Phylogeny and phylogeography of Mantophryne (Anura: Microhylidae) reveals cryptic diversity in New Guinea 2013 ·Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·(unknown), Eric N. Rittmeyer, Fred Kraus, Stephen J. Richards, Christopher C. Austin	27
17	Molecular phylogeny of microhylid frogs (Anura: Microhylidae) with emphasis on relationships among New World genera 2012 ·BMC Evolutionary Biology ·Rafael O. de Sá, Jeffrey W. Streicher, (unknown), (unknown), Simon P. Loader, Eli Greenbaum, Stephen J. Richards, Célio F. B. Haddad	79
18	A new species of Cophixalus (Anura: Microhylidae) from northern Queensland 1994 ·Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution) ·Stephen J. Richards, Andrew Dennis, (unknown), (unknown)	7
19	Increased reproductive losses in cattle infected with bovine pestivirus around the time of insemination 1993 ·Veterinary Record ·Michael McGowan, Peter D. Kirkland, Stephen J. Richards, I. R. Littlejohns	109
20	Replication of bovine viral diarrhoea virus in the bovine reproductive tract and excretion of virus in semen during acute and chronic infections 1991 ·Veterinary Record ·Peter D. Kirkland, Stephen J. Richards, John C. Rothwell, (unknown)	92

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