Tim Coulson

24.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
239 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

About

Tim Coulson is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Coulson has authored 239 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 171 papers in Ecology, 80 papers in Genetics and 66 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Tim Coulson's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (135 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (55 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (53 papers). Tim Coulson is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (135 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (55 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (53 papers). Tim Coulson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Tim Coulson's co-authors include Tim Clutton‐Brock, Josephine M. Pemberton, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, Shripad Tuljapurkar, S. D. Albon, Bryan T. Grenfell, E.J. Milner‐Gulland, William Amos, Byron J. T. Morgan and Marco Festa‐Bianchet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tim Coulson

236 papers receiving 14.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Age, Sex, Density, Winter Weather, and Population Crashes in Soay Sheep

2001 743 citations Tim Coulson et al. Science profile →
Effects of sampling regime on the mean and variance of home range size estimates

2006 560 citations Tim Coulson et al. Journal of Animal Ecology profile →
Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

2010 493 citations Shripad Tuljapurkar, Tim Coulson et al. profile →
Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection

2017 266 citations Adam M. Siepielski, Michael B. Morrissey et al. Science profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Tim Coulson	10.3k	5.0k	4.6k	3.5k	2.2k	239	15.5k
Oswald J. Schmitz	10.1k 1.0×	5.5k 1.1×	2.5k 0.6×	5.8k 1.6×	2.3k 1.0×	194	16.5k
Bernt‐Erik Sæther	11.8k 1.1×	4.8k 1.0×	3.8k 0.8×	4.7k 1.3×	2.3k 1.0×	309	16.4k
Chris R. Dickman	15.9k 1.5×	3.8k 0.8×	4.7k 1.0×	5.0k 1.4×	3.7k 1.7×	424	19.9k
Stan Boutin	16.4k 1.6×	6.1k 1.2×	2.2k 0.5×	4.7k 1.4×	2.8k 1.3×	383	21.0k
William F. Fagan	8.5k 0.8×	4.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.5×	5.8k 1.7×	2.0k 0.9×	270	16.5k
Michael Begon	7.4k 0.7×	4.4k 0.9×	4.8k 1.0×	3.8k 1.1×	862 0.4×	260	20.0k
Rolf A. Ims	10.8k 1.0×	3.8k 0.8×	1.8k 0.4×	4.3k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	311	14.8k
S. D. Albon	12.1k 1.2×	5.1k 1.0×	4.6k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	912 0.4×	140	17.3k
Charles J. Krebs	17.3k 1.7×	5.8k 1.2×	3.1k 0.7×	8.0k 2.3×	2.5k 1.2×	345	23.5k
Michael E. Soulé	7.4k 0.7×	2.8k 0.6×	3.4k 0.7×	5.4k 1.5×	2.3k 1.0×	71	13.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Coulson, Tim. (2023). When does seasonal reproduction evolve?. 1 indexed citations

Coulson, Tim & David Alonso. (2023). Addressing the daunting challenge of estimating species interactions from count data.

Coulson, Tim, et al.. (2023). The effect of divergent and parallel selection on the genomic landscape of divergence. Molecular Ecology. 33(3). e17225–e17225. 2 indexed citations

Lei, Weipan, et al.. (2022). Unravelling the processes between phenotypic plasticity and population dynamics in migratory birds. Journal of Animal Ecology. 91(5). 983–995. 9 indexed citations

Cubaynes, Sarah, Daniel R. Stahler, Douglas W. Smith, et al.. (2022). Disease outbreaks select for mate choice and coat color in wolves. Science. 378(6617). 300–303. 15 indexed citations

Tuljapurkar, Shripad, Wenyun Zuo, Tim Coulson, Carol C. Horvitz, & Jean‐Michel Gaillard. (2021). Distributions of LRS in varying environments. Ecology Letters. 24(7). 1328–1340. 7 indexed citations

Sheldon, Ben C., et al.. (2021). Neural ordinary differential equations for ecological and evolutionary time‐series analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(7). 1301–1315. 22 indexed citations

Raulo, Aura, et al.. (2021). Social networks strongly predict the gut microbiota of wild mice. The ISME Journal. 15(9). 2601–2613. 88 indexed citations

Reznick, David N., et al.. (2021). Substantial intraspecific variation in energy budgets: Biology or artefact?. Functional Ecology. 35(8). 1693–1707. 8 indexed citations

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Plard, Floriane, J. Jones, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, Tim Coulson, & Shripad Tuljapurkar. (2021). Demographic determinants of the phenotypic mother–offspring correlation. Ecological Monographs. 91(4). 1 indexed citations

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Sendell‐Price, Ashley T., Kristen Ruegg, Eric C. Anderson, et al.. (2020). The Genomic Landscape of Divergence Across the Speciation Continuum in Island-Colonising Silvereyes ( Zosterops lateralis ). G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(9). 3147–3163. 22 indexed citations

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Tuljapurkar, Shripad, Wenyun Zuo, Tim Coulson, Carol C. Horvitz, & Jean‐Michel Gaillard. (2020). Skewed distributions of lifetime reproductive success: beyond mean and variance. Ecology Letters. 23(4). 748–756. 26 indexed citations

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Coulson, Tim. (2020). We live in a changing world, but that shouldn’t mean we abandon the concept of equilibrium. Ecology Letters. 24(1). 3–5. 13 indexed citations

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Cusack, Jeremy J., Michel T. Kohl, Matthew C. Metz, et al.. (2019). Weak spatiotemporal response of prey to predation risk in a freely interacting system. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(1). 120–131. 36 indexed citations

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Quilodrán, Claudio S., Kristen Ruegg, Ashley T. Sendell‐Price, et al.. (2019). The multiple population genetic and demographic routes to islands of genomic divergence. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(1). 6–21. 20 indexed citations

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Boyce, Mark S., Tim Coulson, James R. Heffelfinger, & Paul R. Krausman. (2018). Mountain sheep management must use representative data: A reply to Festa‐Bianchet (2019). Journal of Wildlife Management. 83(1). 9–11. 1 indexed citations

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Coulson, Tim, et al.. (2017). The influence of climatic variation and density on the survival of an insular passerine Zosterops lateralis. PLoS ONE. 12(4). e0176360–e0176360. 10 indexed citations

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Siepielski, Adam M., Michael B. Morrissey, Mathieu Buoro, et al.. (2017). Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection. Science. 355(6328). 959–962. 266 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mammides, Christos, Matthias Schleuning, Katrin Böhning‐Gaese, et al.. (2015). The indirect effects of habitat disturbance on the bird communities in a tropical African forest. Biodiversity and Conservation. 24(12). 3083–3107. 12 indexed citations

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Traill, Lochran W., Susanne Schindler, & Tim Coulson. (2014). Demography, not inheritance, drives phenotypic change in hunted bighorn sheep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(36). 13223–13228. 44 indexed citations

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