Toni Lyn Morelli

5.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
75 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Toni Lyn Morelli is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Toni Lyn Morelli has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Ecological Modeling, 33 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Toni Lyn Morelli's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (37 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (19 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers). Toni Lyn Morelli is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (37 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (19 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers). Toni Lyn Morelli collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Toni Lyn Morelli's co-authors include Sarah R. Weiskopf, Erin E. Boydston, Kay E. Holekamp, Constance I. Millar, Laura M. Thompson, Madeleine A. Rubenstein, Patricia C. Wright, Simone Tenan, Steven R. Beissinger and Craig Moritz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Toni Lyn Morelli

67 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

2020 666 citations Sarah R. Weiskopf, Madeleine A. Rubenstein et al. profile →
Managing Climate Change Refugia for Climate Adaptation

2016 360 citations Toni Lyn Morelli et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Climate change and the global redistribution of biodiversity: substantial variation in empirical support for expected range shifts

2023 90 citations Madeleine A. Rubenstein, Sarah R. Weiskopf et al. Environmental Evidence profile →
Biodiversity loss reduces global terrestrial carbon storage

2024 54 citations Sarah R. Weiskopf, Forest Isbell et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toni Lyn Morelli United States	27	1.3k	1.1k	958	763	672	75	3.1k
Nathalie Butt Australia	30	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	602 0.9×	72	3.0k
Michela Pacifici Italy	14	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	615 0.6×	711 0.9×	525 0.8×	34	2.5k
Wendy Foden South Africa	18	1.8k 1.4×	1.8k 1.6×	1.4k 1.5×	1.3k 1.7×	901 1.3×	40	4.0k
Andrew R. Marshall United Kingdom	26	1.2k 1.0×	457 0.4×	761 0.8×	663 0.9×	464 0.7×	76	2.5k
Philip J. Platts United Kingdom	26	763 0.6×	778 0.7×	828 0.9×	779 1.0×	514 0.8×	49	2.3k
Nicole E. Heller United States	19	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	965 1.3×	868 1.3×	28	3.1k
Daniel Ramp Australia	30	1.8k 1.4×	618 0.6×	535 0.6×	819 1.1×	394 0.6×	111	3.0k
Ilya M. D. Maclean United Kingdom	30	1.4k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	741 1.1×	94	3.4k
Ricardo B. Machado Brazil	28	1.6k 1.3×	953 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	71	3.6k
Ailene K. Ettinger United States	18	580 0.5×	966 0.9×	565 0.6×	671 0.9×	484 0.7×	30	1.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toni Lyn Morelli

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lobora, Alex L., et al.. (2025). Climate change refugia hotspots for priority species: A case study in East Africa. Conservation Science and Practice. 8(1).

Morelli, Toni Lyn, Michael T. Hallworth, Steven D. Faccio, et al.. (2025). Does habitat or climate change drive species range shifts?. Ecography. 2025(6). 3 indexed citations

Fuller, Angela K., Zhongqi Miao, Alexej P. K. Sirén, et al.. (2025). DeepFaune New England: A Species Classification Model for Trail Camera Images in Northeastern North America. Ecology and Evolution. 15(11). e72174–e72174.

Belitz, Michael W., Caitlin J. Campbell, Ryan G. Drum, et al.. (2025). A case for assemblage-level conservation to address the biodiversity crisis. 1(2). 134–143. 2 indexed citations

Boydston, Erin E., Michael E. Akresh, Jennifer S. Briggs, et al.. (2025). Biodiversity on public lands: How community science can help. Conservation Science and Practice. 7(5).

Lopez, Bianca, et al.. (2025). Centering voices of scientists from marginalized backgrounds to understand experiences in climate adaptation science and inform action. PLoS ONE. 20(2). e0318438–e0318438.

Hallworth, Michael T., Alexej P. K. Sirén, William V. DeLuca, et al.. (2024). Boom and bust: the effects of masting on seed predator range dynamics and trophic cascades. Diversity and Distributions. 30(8). 3 indexed citations

Keppel, Gunnar, Diana Stralberg, Toni Lyn Morelli, & Zoltán Bátori. (2024). Managing climate-change refugia to prevent extinctions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(9). 800–808. 23 indexed citations

Weiskopf, Sarah R., Susannah B. Lerman, Forest Isbell, & Toni Lyn Morelli. (2024). Biodiversity promotes urban ecosystem functioning. Ecography. 2024(9). 11 indexed citations

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Weiskopf, Sarah R., Forest Isbell, Moreno Di Marco, et al.. (2024). Biodiversity loss reduces global terrestrial carbon storage. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4354–4354. 54 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sirén, Alexej P. K., et al.. (2024). Monitoring Animal Populations With Cameras Using Open, Multistate, N‐Mixture Models. Ecology and Evolution. 14(12). e70583–e70583. 1 indexed citations

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Bradley, Bethany A., et al.. (2024). Climate‐Smart Invasive Species Management for 21st Century Global Change Challenges. Global Change Biology. 30(10). e17531–e17531. 4 indexed citations

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Sirén, Alexej P. K., Markéta Zímová, Chris Sutherland, et al.. (2023). A Great Escape: resource availability and density‐dependence shape population dynamics along trailing range edges. Ecography. 2023(8). 2 indexed citations

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Rubenstein, Madeleine A., Sarah R. Weiskopf, Romain Bertrand, et al.. (2023). Climate change and the global redistribution of biodiversity: substantial variation in empirical support for expected range shifts. Environmental Evidence. 12(1). 7–7. 90 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lopez, Bianca, Jenica M. Allen, Jeffrey S. Dukes, et al.. (2022). Global environmental changes more frequently offset than intensify detrimental effects of biological invasions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(22). e2117389119–e2117389119. 42 indexed citations

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Morelli, Toni Lyn, Jenica M. Allen, Evelyn M. Beaury, et al.. (2021). Translational invasion ecology: bridging research and practice to address one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. Biological Invasions. 23(11). 3323–3335. 19 indexed citations

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Morelli, Toni Lyn, et al.. (2020). Evaluating pressures on Lemur demographic histories in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University). 1 indexed citations

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Zímová, Markéta, Alexej P. K. Sirén, J. Joshua Nowak, et al.. (2019). Local climate determines vulnerability to camouflage mismatch in snowshoe hares. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(3). 503–515. 25 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Rachel L., Tammie S. MacFie, Andrea L. Baden, et al.. (2017). Novel opsin gene variation in large-bodied, diurnal lemurs. Biology Letters. 13(3). 20170050–20170050. 27 indexed citations

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Rowe, Kevin C., Sonal Singhal, Matthew D. MacManes, et al.. (2011). Museum genomics: low‐cost and high‐accuracy genetic data from historical specimens. Molecular Ecology Resources. 11(6). 1082–1092. 115 indexed citations

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