Terry L. Root

12.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
43 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Terry L. Root is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Terry L. Root has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Ecological Modeling, 20 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Terry L. Root's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (27 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (8 papers). Terry L. Root is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (27 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (8 papers). Terry L. Root collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Terry L. Root's co-authors include Stephen H. Schneider, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Jeff Price, Kimberly R. Hall, J. Alan Pounds, Camille Parmesan, Michael R. Willig, Dena P. MacMynowski, A.C. Imeson and Bernard Séguin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Terry L. Root

43 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants

2003 3.6k citations Terry L. Root, Jeff Price et al. Nature profile →
Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change

2008 1.1k citations Cynthia Rosenzweig, David J. Karoly et al. Nature profile →
Impacts of Extreme Weather and Climate on Terrestrial Biota^*

2000 602 citations Terry L. Root et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Terry L. Root United States	22	3.9k	3.6k	2.9k	2.6k	2.2k	43	8.4k
Alan Grainger United Kingdom	29	3.2k 0.8×	3.2k 0.9×	3.7k 1.3×	2.8k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	69	9.0k
Lera Miles United Kingdom	20	3.6k 0.9×	4.0k 1.1×	3.3k 1.1×	3.5k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	39	9.3k
George V. N. Powell United States	33	5.6k 1.4×	2.5k 0.7×	3.1k 1.1×	3.0k 1.2×	2.7k 1.3×	61	10.6k
Albert S. van Jaarsveld South Africa	25	3.3k 0.8×	3.6k 1.0×	2.6k 0.9×	3.1k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	36	8.0k
Michel Bakkenes Netherlands	20	3.5k 0.9×	4.1k 1.1×	2.4k 0.8×	3.2k 1.2×	2.0k 0.9×	30	8.4k
Yvonne C. Collingham United Kingdom	26	4.3k 1.1×	5.5k 1.5×	2.2k 0.8×	4.4k 1.7×	2.5k 1.1×	36	9.3k
Barend Erasmus South Africa	31	3.7k 0.9×	3.9k 1.1×	2.5k 0.9×	3.2k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	97	8.5k
J. Alan Pounds United States	16	2.7k 0.7×	3.4k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	2.2k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	23	7.1k
Linda J. Beaumont Australia	32	3.9k 1.0×	5.3k 1.5×	2.6k 0.9×	3.7k 1.4×	2.5k 1.2×	79	9.8k
Miguel A. Ortega‐Huerta Mexico	15	3.2k 0.8×	4.1k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	2.9k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	24	7.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Terry L. Root

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Root, Terry L.. (2016). Scientific/Philosophical Challenges of Global Change Research: A Case Study of Climatic Changes on Birds. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Pei-Fen, et al.. (2012). Global Change Projections for Taiwan Island Birds: Linking Current and Future Distributions. Nature Conservation. 2. 21–40. 7 indexed citations

Hoegh‐Guldberg, Ove, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Terry L. Root, et al.. (2011). Difficult but not impossible. Nature Climate Change. 1(2). 72–72. 16 indexed citations

Ko, Chia‐Ying, Terry L. Root, & Pei-Fen Lee. (2010). Movement distances enhance validity of predictive models. Ecological Modelling. 222(4). 947–954. 16 indexed citations

Root, Terry L., et al.. (2009). Human-modified temperatures induce species changes: Joint attribution. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 6(9). 92003–92003. 2 indexed citations

Stralberg, Diana, Dennis Jongsomjit, Christine A. Howell, et al.. (2009). Re-Shuffling of Species with Climate Disruption: A No-Analog Future for California Birds?. PLoS ONE. 4(9). e6825–e6825. 155 indexed citations

Karp, Daniel S. & Terry L. Root. (2009). Sound the stressor: how Hoatzins (Opisthocomus hoazin) react to ecotourist conversation. Biodiversity and Conservation. 18(14). 3733–3742. 42 indexed citations

Rosenzweig, Cynthia, David J. Karoly, Marta Vicarelli, et al.. (2008). Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change. Nature. 453(7193). 353–357. 1056 indexed citations breakdown →

Butler, James, et al.. (2007). Temperature-associated Dynamics of Songbird Winter Distributions and Abundances. AMBIO. 36(8). 657–660. 11 indexed citations

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MacMynowski, Dena P. & Terry L. Root. (2007). Climate and the complexity of migratory phenology: sexes, migratory distance, and arrival distributions. International Journal of Biometeorology. 51(5). 361–373. 67 indexed citations

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Root, Terry L. & Stephen H. Schneider. (2006). Conservation and Climate Change: the Challenges Ahead. Conservation Biology. 20(3). 706–708. 88 indexed citations

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Root, Terry L., Diana Liverman, & Chris Newman. (2006). Managing biodiversity in the light of climate change: current biological effects and future impacts. 6 indexed citations

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Root, Terry L., Dena P. MacMynowski, Michael D. Mastrandrea, & Stephen H. Schneider. (2005). Human-modified temperatures induce species changes: Joint attribution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(21). 7465–7469. 173 indexed citations

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Root, Terry L., et al.. (2003). Terry L. Root: Following the thread. Nature. 426(6962). 20–20. 2 indexed citations

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Root, Terry L., Jeff Price, Kimberly R. Hall, et al.. (2003). Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants. Nature. 421(6918). 57–60. 3577 indexed citations breakdown →

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Blaustein, Andrew R., Terry L. Root, Joseph M. Kiesecker, et al.. (2003). Amphibian Breeding and Climate Change: Reply to Corn. Conservation Biology. 17(2). 626–627. 8 indexed citations

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Blaustein, Andrew R., Lisa K. Belden, Deanna H. Olson, et al.. (2001). Amphibian Breeding and Climate Change. Conservation Biology. 15(6). 1804–1809. 214 indexed citations

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Murphy, Dennis D., David S. Wilcove, Reed F. Noss, et al.. (1994). On Reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act. Conservation Biology. 8(1). 1–3. 20 indexed citations

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Root, Terry L.. (1989). Energy Constraints on Avian Distributions: A Reply to Castro. Ecology. 70(4). 1183–1185. 15 indexed citations

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Mode, Charles J. & Terry L. Root. (1988). Projecting age-structured populations in a random environment. Mathematical Biosciences. 88(2). 223–245. 6 indexed citations

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