William A. Foster

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
117 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

William A. Foster is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. Foster has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 43 papers in Genetics and 38 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in William A. Foster's work include Plant and animal studies (51 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (41 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers). William A. Foster is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (51 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (41 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers). William A. Foster collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Malaysia. William A. Foster's co-authors include J. E. Treherne, Edgar C. Turner, M. D. Farnon Ellwood, Jake L. Snaddon, David L. Stern, Tom M. Fayle, Jeremy Field, Tim G. Benton, Nathan Pike and Andrea Manica and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

William A. Foster

117 papers receiving 4.1k citations

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Evidence for the dilution effect in the selfish herd from fish predation on a marine insect

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Mark R. Forbes Canada

Kirsty J. Park United Kingdom

Ilik J. Saccheri United Kingdom

Peter H. Adler United States

Donald M. Windsor Panama

Yael Lubin Israel

Darren M. Evans United Kingdom

Francis Gilbert United Kingdom

Stephen P. Yanoviak United States

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Caliman, Jean‐Pierre, Amelia S. C. Hood, William A. Foster, et al.. (2023). Maintaining understory vegetation in oil palm plantations supports higher assassin bug numbers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 3 indexed citations

Hood, Amelia S. C., Adham Ashton‐Butt, Jean‐Pierre Caliman, et al.. (2021). A whole‐ecosystem method for experimentally suppressing ants on a small scale. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(4). 852–865. 3 indexed citations

Luke, Sarah H., Rory A. Dow, Chey Vun Khen, et al.. (2017). The impacts of habitat disturbance on adult and larval dragonflies (Odonata) in rainforest streams in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Freshwater Biology. 62(3). 491–506. 63 indexed citations

Prescott, Graham W., James J. Gilroy, Torbjørn Haugaasen, et al.. (2016). Reducing the impacts of Neotropical oil palm development on functional diversity. Biological Conservation. 197. 139–145. 48 indexed citations

Prescott, Graham W., James J. Gilroy, Torbjørn Haugaasen, et al.. (2015). Managing Neotropical oil palm expansion to retain phylogenetic diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology. 53(1). 150–158. 32 indexed citations

Fayle, Tom M., David P. Edwards, William A. Foster, Kalsum M. Yusah, & Edgar C. Turner. (2015). An ant–plant by-product mutualism is robust to selective logging of rain forest and conversion to oil palm plantation. Oecologia. 178(2). 441–450. 13 indexed citations

Slade, Eleanor M., William A. Foster, Mohammad Naim, et al.. (2014). Can cattle grazing in mature oil palm increase biodiversity and ecosystem service provision. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 90(1062). 655–665. 26 indexed citations

Foster, William A., Jake L. Snaddon, Holly Barclay, et al.. (2014). The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Project.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 90(1061). 581–591. 9 indexed citations

Montgomery, Diane, et al.. (2014). The Simulated Hospital Environment: A Qualitative Study Applying Space Industry Techniques. Journal of Professional Nursing. 31(1). 18–25. 6 indexed citations

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Foster, William A.. (2010). Behavioural Ecology: The Menopausal Aphid Glue-Bomb. Current Biology. 20(13). R559–R560. 6 indexed citations

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Ellwood, M. D. Farnon, Andrea Manica, & William A. Foster. (2009). Stochastic and deterministic processes jointly structure tropical arthropod communities. Ecology Letters. 12(4). 277–284. 124 indexed citations

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Turner, Edgar C., Jake L. Snaddon, Tom M. Fayle, & William A. Foster. (2008). Oil Palm Research in Context: Identifying the Need for Biodiversity Assessment. PLoS ONE. 3(2). e1572–e1572. 59 indexed citations

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Pike, Nathan, et al.. (2007). Ecological correlates of sociality in Pemphigus aphids, with a partial phylogeny of the genus. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7(1). 185–185. 23 indexed citations

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Turner, Edgar C. & William A. Foster. (2006). Assessing the influence of bird's nest ferns (Asplenium spp.) on the local microclimate across a range of habitat disturbances in Sabah, Malaysia.. 27(2). 195–200. 34 indexed citations

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Ellwood, M. D. Farnon & William A. Foster. (2001). Line Insertion Techniques for the Study of High Forest Canopies. UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol). 22. 6 indexed citations

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Andersen, N. Møller & William A. Foster. (1992). Sea skaters of India, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, with a new species and a revised key to Indian Ocean species of Halobates and Asclepios (Hemiptera, Gerridae). Journal of Natural History. 26(3). 533–553. 15 indexed citations

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Foster, William A. & J. E. Treherne. (1982). Reproductive behaviour of the ocean skater Halobates robustus (Hemiptera: Gerridae) in the Galapagos Islands. Oecologia. 55(2). 202–207. 17 indexed citations

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Foster, William A. & J. E. Treherne. (1980). Feeding, predation and aggregation behaviour in a marine insect, Halobates robustus Barber (Hemiptera: Gerridae), in the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 209(1177). 539–553. 20 indexed citations

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Foster, William A.. (1976). A new species of Pemphigus Hartig (Hornoptera: Aphidoidea) from Western Europe. 44(3). 255–263. 4 indexed citations

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Foster, William A. & J. E. Treherne. (1975). The distribution of an intertidal aphid, Pemphigus trehernei foster, on marine saltmarshes. Oecologia. 21(2). 141–155. 18 indexed citations

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