William D. Pearse

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
64 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

William D. Pearse is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, William D. Pearse has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 20 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in William D. Pearse's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers), Plant and animal studies (23 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers). William D. Pearse is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers), Plant and animal studies (23 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers). William D. Pearse collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. William D. Pearse's co-authors include Andy Purvis, Caroline M. Tucker, T. Jonathan Davies, Sandra Dı́az, Marc W. Cadotte, Robert M. Ewers, Georgina M. Mace, Pedro Jordano, Michael J. Donoghue and Johannes H. C. Cornelissen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William D. Pearse

63 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

2013 439 citations Sandra Dı́az, Andy Purvis et al. Ecology and Evolution profile →
Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot

2014 315 citations William D. Pearse et al. profile →
Global imprint of mycorrhizal fungi on whole-plant nutrient economics

2019 193 citations William D. Pearse et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William D. Pearse United States	27	1.4k	1.0k	960	736	723	64	2.9k
Chun‐Huo Chiu Taiwan	18	1.1k 0.8×	975 1.0×	747 0.8×	557 0.8×	414 0.6×	30	2.5k
Julien Renaud France	28	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	919 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	720 1.0×	64	2.9k
Jérôme Chave France	11	1.9k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	633 0.9×	640 0.9×	17	3.1k
Elizabeth L. Sander United States	5	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	984 1.0×	453 0.6×	515 0.7×	6	2.9k
Laure Gallien France	24	1.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.5×	1.0k 1.1×	978 1.3×	329 0.5×	43	3.1k
Oliver Purschke Germany	21	1.3k 0.9×	808 0.8×	806 0.8×	607 0.8×	381 0.5×	35	2.2k
Glenda M. Wardle Australia	30	1.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.7×	1.1k 1.1×	796 1.1×	909 1.3×	88	3.3k
Bráulio Almeida Santos Brazil	28	1.8k 1.3×	909 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	357 0.5×	1.2k 1.7×	81	2.9k
Robert Muscarella United States	24	1.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.5×	1.3k 1.4×	2.0k 2.7×	987 1.4×	49	4.1k
James Rosindell United Kingdom	23	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	968 1.0×	716 1.0×	564 0.8×	49	2.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Crawley, Michael J., et al.. (2025). Using landscape biodiversity metrics to assess rewilding: A comparison of the Knepp Estate and an agricultural baseline at Boothby Wildland. Ecological Solutions and Evidence. 6(3).

Schupp, Harald T., Britta Renner, Julia Schroeder, et al.. (2025). YOLO ‐Behaviour: A simple, flexible framework to automatically quantify animal behaviours from videos. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(4). 760–774. 5 indexed citations

Pearse, William D., et al.. (2024). The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea). Biological Conservation. 290. 110408–110408. 2 indexed citations

Simpson, Elizabeth, et al.. (2024). Variation in near‐surface soil temperature drives plant assemblage differentiation across aspect. Ecology and Evolution. 14(7). e11656–e11656. 1 indexed citations

Morales‐Castilla, Ignacio, T. Jonathan Davies, D. M. Buonaiuto, et al.. (2024). Phylogenetic estimates of species-level phenology improve ecological forecasting. Nature Climate Change. 14(9). 989–995. 3 indexed citations

Gumbs, Rikki, Monika Böhm, Félix Forest, et al.. (2024). Global conservation status of the jawed vertebrate Tree of Life. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1101–1101. 9 indexed citations

Rosindell, James, et al.. (2023). Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage. Systematic Biology. 73(1). 158–182. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Jingqi, et al.. (2023). Comparison of manual, machine learning, and hybrid methods for video annotation to extract parental care data. Journal of Avian Biology. 2024(3-4). 5 indexed citations

Gumbs, Rikki, Claudia L. Gray, Monika Böhm, et al.. (2023). The EDGE2 protocol: Advancing the prioritisation of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species for practical conservation action. PLoS Biology. 21(2). e3001991–e3001991. 45 indexed citations

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Cavender‐Bares, Jeannine, Erik Nelson, José Eduardo Meireles, et al.. (2022). The hidden value of trees: Quantifying the ecosystem services of tree lineages and their major threats across the contiguous US. TUScholarShare (Temple University). 1(4). e0000010–e0000010. 21 indexed citations

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Dobson, Barnaby, et al.. (2022). Predicting catchment suitability for biodiversity at national scales. Water Research. 221. 118764–118764. 8 indexed citations

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Stemkovski, Michael, James R. Bell, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, et al.. (2022). Disorder or a new order: How climate change affects phenological variability. Ecology. 104(1). e3846–e3846. 26 indexed citations

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Smith, Tom, Seth Flaxman, Amanda S. Gallinat, et al.. (2021). Temperature and population density influence SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the absence of nonpharmaceutical interventions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(25). 84 indexed citations

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Stemkovski, Michael, William D. Pearse, Sean R. Griffin, et al.. (2020). Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits. Ecology Letters. 23(11). 1589–1598. 71 indexed citations

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Atwood, Trisha B., Edd Hammill, Douglas J. McCauley, et al.. (2020). Herbivores at the highest risk of extinction among mammals, birds, and reptiles. Science Advances. 6(32). eabb8458–eabb8458. 91 indexed citations

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Pearse, William D., et al.. (2020). Cryptic diversity in the model fern genus Ceratopteris (Pteridaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 152. 106938–106938. 11 indexed citations

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Mooers, Arne Ø., et al.. (2019). The effect of phylogenetic uncertainty and imputation on EDGE Scores. Animal Conservation. 22(6). 527–536. 10 indexed citations

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Mazel, Florent, Matthew W. Pennell, Marc W. Cadotte, et al.. (2018). Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2888–2888. 153 indexed citations

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Pearse, William D., Mark W. Chase, Michael J. Crawley, et al.. (2015). Beyond the EDGE with EDAM: Prioritising British Plant Species According to Evolutionary Distinctiveness, and Accuracy and Magnitude of Decline. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0126524–e0126524. 10 indexed citations

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Pearse, William D., F. Andrew Jones, & Andy Purvis. (2013). Barro Colorado Island's phylogenetic assemblage structure across fine spatial scales and among clades of different ages. Ecology. 94(12). 2861–2872. 19 indexed citations

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