Wayne Dawson

16.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
96 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Wayne Dawson is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wayne Dawson has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 69 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 36 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Wayne Dawson's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (77 papers), Plant and animal studies (68 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (27 papers). Wayne Dawson is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (77 papers), Plant and animal studies (68 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (27 papers). Wayne Dawson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and China. Wayne Dawson's co-authors include Mark van Kleunen, Markus Fischer, Petr Pyšek, Franz Essl, Jan Pergl, Philip E. Hulme, Marten Winter, David F. R. P. Burslem, Jonathan M. Jeschke and Holger Kreft and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Wayne Dawson

91 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050

2020 446 citations Hanno Seebens, Wayne Dawson et al. profile →
Global trade will accelerate plant invasions in emerging economies under climate change

2015 297 citations Hanno Seebens, Franz Essl et al. profile →
Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success

2020 194 citations Mark van Kleunen, Noëlie Maurel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wayne Dawson United Kingdom	40	3.0k	2.5k	2.0k	1.5k	897	96	5.1k
Élisa Thébault France	31	2.1k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	570 0.6×	58	4.8k
Ørjan Totland Norway	38	3.1k 1.0×	3.7k 1.5×	2.9k 1.4×	819 0.5×	677 0.8×	103	5.4k
Lindsay A. Turnbull United Kingdom	35	2.9k 1.0×	2.2k 0.9×	2.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	432 0.5×	62	5.7k
Dietmar Moser Austria	36	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	116	4.4k
Yvonne M. Buckley Australia	41	2.7k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	712 0.8×	120	5.4k
Óscar Godoy Spain	29	3.1k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	82	4.8k
Heinz Müller‐Schärer Switzerland	40	2.7k 0.9×	2.6k 1.1×	2.8k 1.4×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	151	6.1k
Jonathan A. Myers United States	29	3.1k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	2.2k 1.5×	1.0k 1.1×	53	4.9k
Alfonso Valiente‐Banuet Mexico	47	3.6k 1.2×	4.1k 1.7×	3.7k 1.8×	1.6k 1.1×	742 0.8×	123	7.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Wayne Dawson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wayne Dawson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wayne Dawson

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Davis, Amy J.S., Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, et al.. (2025). The updated Global Naturalized Alien Flora ( GloNAF 2.0) database. Ecology. 106(11). e70245–e70245.

Grenié, Matthias, Helge Bruelheide, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2025). Gaps in Global Alien Plant Trait Data and How to Fill Them. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(10). 1 indexed citations

Brennan, Adrian C., Wayne Dawson, & Stephen G. Willis. (2025). The potential adaptive and genetic impacts of habitat creation and enhancement using wildflower species: a case study of red campion ( Silene dioica ). Plant Ecology & Diversity. 18(3-4). 185–200.

Dawson, Wayne, Judit Bódis, Anna Bucharová, et al.. (2024). Root traits vary as much as leaf traits and have consistent phenotypic plasticity among 14 populations of a globally widespread herb. Functional Ecology. 38(4). 926–941. 7 indexed citations

Cai, Lirong, Holger Kreft, Pierre Denelle, et al.. (2024). Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(2). 314–324. 6 indexed citations

Pelser, Pieter B., Julie F. Barcelona, S. Tjitrosoedirdjo, et al.. (2023). Naturalizations have led to homogenization of the Malesian flora in the Anthropocene. Journal of Biogeography. 51(3). 394–408.

Cai, Lirong, Holger Kreft, Amanda Taylor, et al.. (2023). Climatic stability and geological history shape global centers of neo- and paleoendemism in seed plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(30). e2300981120–e2300981120. 27 indexed citations

Pelser, Pieter B., Julie F. Barcelona, S. Tjitrosoedirdjo, et al.. (2023). The naturalized vascular flora of Malesia. Biological Invasions. 25(5). 1339–1357. 9 indexed citations

Speed, James D. M., et al.. (2022). Testing enemy release of non‐native plants across time and space using herbarium specimens in Norway. Journal of Ecology. 111(2). 300–313. 8 indexed citations

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Essl, Franz, M.J. Kraak, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2022). Introducing the combined atlas framework for large‐scale web‐based data visualization: The GloNAF atlas of plant invasion. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(5). 1073–1081. 3 indexed citations

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Kreft, Holger, Dylan Craven, Christian König, et al.. (2022). Phylogenetic composition of native island floras influences naturalized alien species richness. Ecography. 2022(11). 6 indexed citations

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Hill, Russell A., et al.. (2021). Impacts of invasive plants on animal behaviour. Ecology Letters. 24(4). 891–907. 41 indexed citations

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Pouteau, Robin, Caroline Brunel, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2021). Environmental and socioeconomic correlates of extinction risk in endemic species. Diversity and Distributions. 28(1). 53–64. 25 indexed citations

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Guo, Qinfeng, Brian S. Cade, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2020). Latitudinal patterns of alien plant invasions. Journal of Biogeography. 48(2). 253–262. 42 indexed citations

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Pyšek, Petr, Wen‐Yong Guo, Kateřina Štajerová, et al.. (2019). Facultative mycorrhizal associations promote plant naturalization worldwide. Ecosphere. 10(11). 17 indexed citations

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Guo, Wen‐Yong, Mark van Kleunen, Simon Pierce, et al.. (2019). Domestic gardens play a dominant role in selecting alien species with adaptive strategies that facilitate naturalization. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(5). 628–639. 64 indexed citations

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Razanajatovo, Mialy, Mark van Kleunen, Holger Kreft, et al.. (2018). Autofertility and self‐compatibility moderately benefit island colonization of plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(3). 341–352. 23 indexed citations

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Kleunen, Mark van, Wayne Dawson, & Noëlie Maurel. (2014). Characteristics of successful alien plants. Molecular Ecology. 24(9). 1954–1968. 161 indexed citations

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Keser, Lidewij H., Wayne Dawson, Yao‐Bin Song, et al.. (2013). Invasive clonal plant species have a greater root-foraging plasticity than non-invasive ones. Oecologia. 174(3). 1055–1064. 77 indexed citations

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Dostál, Petr, Wayne Dawson, Mark van Kleunen, Lidewij H. Keser, & Markus Fischer. (2012). Central European plant species from more productive habitats are more invasive at a global scale. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 22(1). 64–72. 46 indexed citations

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