WC Leggett

1.4k total citations
24 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

WC Leggett is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, WC Leggett has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in WC Leggett's work include Marine and fisheries research (17 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (12 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (5 papers). WC Leggett is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (17 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (12 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (5 papers). WC Leggett collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Denmark and Spain. WC Leggett's co-authors include Brian R. MacKenzie, Louis Fortier, CT Taggart, JA Brown, R. Christopher Chambers, Pierre Pepin, Alexander B. Bochdansky, Peter Grønkjær, G. R. Stirling and Brian Petrie and has published in prestigious journals such as Marine Ecology Progress Series and Scientific American.

In The Last Decade

WC Leggett

24 papers receiving 977 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
WC Leggett Canada 15 805 641 408 266 255 24 1.1k
Grace Klein-Macphee United States 14 506 0.6× 408 0.6× 318 0.8× 208 0.8× 166 0.7× 18 832
Petter Fossum Norway 16 768 1.0× 449 0.7× 254 0.6× 259 1.0× 104 0.4× 44 963
Kai Wieland Denmark 19 1.1k 1.4× 618 1.0× 477 1.2× 408 1.5× 138 0.5× 55 1.4k
Esteban Barrera-Oro Argentina 21 643 0.8× 431 0.7× 698 1.7× 241 0.9× 129 0.5× 57 1.2k
James H. Petersen United States 17 345 0.4× 778 1.2× 603 1.5× 104 0.4× 194 0.8× 31 1.0k
JJ Dodson Canada 17 583 0.7× 416 0.6× 450 1.1× 367 1.4× 130 0.5× 19 911
Skip McKinnell Canada 22 780 1.0× 859 1.3× 546 1.3× 209 0.8× 191 0.7× 57 1.3k
Richard T. Kraus United States 20 939 1.2× 975 1.5× 755 1.9× 132 0.5× 281 1.1× 56 1.4k
Gerd Hubold Germany 15 700 0.9× 483 0.8× 598 1.5× 291 1.1× 272 1.1× 27 1.1k
S. H. Coombs United Kingdom 21 971 1.2× 478 0.7× 460 1.1× 407 1.5× 256 1.0× 46 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by WC Leggett

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Fields of papers citing papers by WC Leggett

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of WC Leggett

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Leggett, WC, et al.. (2021). Maintenance of long-term equilibrium in a perturbed metacommunity of sub-arctic marine fishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 675. 81–96. 1 indexed citations
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Petrie, Brian, et al.. (2020). Marine macroinvertebrate species-area relationships, assemblage structure and their environmental drivers on submarine banks. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 641. 25–47. 4 indexed citations
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Leggett, WC, et al.. (2018). Support for the trophic theory of island biogeography across submarine banks in a predator-depleted large marine ecosystem. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 607. 155–169. 5 indexed citations
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Petrie, Brian, et al.. (2016). Anomalous ecosystem dynamics following the apparent collapse of a keystone forage species. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 553. 185–202. 4 indexed citations
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Leggett, WC, et al.. (2009). Degraded recruitment synchrony in Northwest Atlantic cod stocks. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 393. 131–146. 16 indexed citations
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Bochdansky, Alexander B., Peter Grønkjær, Pierre Pepin, & WC Leggett. (2008). Food limitation in larval fish: ontogenetic variation in feeding scope and its potential effect on survival. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 367. 239–248. 17 indexed citations
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Stirling, G. R., et al.. (2000). Osmotic condition, buoyancy change and mortality in larval cod Gadus morhua. A bioassay for assessing near-term mortality. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 193. 157–166. 5 indexed citations
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Browman, Howard I., et al.. (1995). Commentaries on current research trends in recruitment studies. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 128. 305–310. 11 indexed citations
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Leggett, WC, et al.. (1994). Predation risk during the early life history periods of fishes: separating the effects of size and age. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 111. 105–114. 7 indexed citations
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Leggett, WC, et al.. (1993). Negative correleations between larval and juvenile growth rates in winter flounder: implications of compensatory growth for variation in size-at-age. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 96. 209–215. 45 indexed citations
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MacKenzie, Brian R. & WC Leggett. (1993). Wind-based models for estimating the dissipation rates of turbulent energy in aquatic environments: empirical comparisons. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 94. 207–216. 134 indexed citations
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Leggett, WC, et al.. (1992). Age and size-selective predation on larval fishes: the bigger-is-better hypothesis revisited. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 81. 13–24. 218 indexed citations
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MacKenzie, Brian R. & WC Leggett. (1991). Quantifying the contribution of small-scale turbulence to the encounter rates between larval fish and their zooplankton prey: effects of wind and tide. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 73. 149–160. 154 indexed citations
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MacKenzie, Brian R., et al.. (1990). Estimating larval fish ingestion rates: can laboratory derived values be reliably extrapolated to the wild?. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 67. 209–225. 116 indexed citations
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Chambers, R. Christopher, WC Leggett, & JA Brown. (1988). Variation in and among early life history traits of laboratory-reared winter flounder Pseudo-pleuronectes americanus. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 47. 1–15. 71 indexed citations
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Taggart, CT & WC Leggett. (1987). Short-term mortality in post-emergent arval capelin Mallotus villosus. II. Importance of food and predator density, and density-dependence. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 41. 219–229. 18 indexed citations
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Taggart, CT & WC Leggett. (1987). Short-term mortality in post-emergent larval capelin Mallotus villosus. I. Analysis of multiple in situ estimates. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 41. 205–217. 40 indexed citations
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Leggett, WC, et al.. (1986). Effect of prey abundance and size on the growth and survival of larval fish: an experimental study employing large volume enclosures. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 34. 11–22. 53 indexed citations
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Fortier, Louis & WC Leggett. (1985). A drift study of larval fish survival. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 25. 245–257. 67 indexed citations

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