William E. Kunin

28.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
147 papers, 19.0k citations indexed

About

William E. Kunin is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Kunin has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 19.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 74 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 50 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in William E. Kunin's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (95 papers), Plant and animal studies (69 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (50 papers). William E. Kunin is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (95 papers), Plant and animal studies (69 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (50 papers). William E. Kunin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. William E. Kunin's co-authors include Simon G. Potts, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Oliver Schweiger, Claire Kremen, Peter Neumann, Chris D. Thomas, Stuart P. M. Roberts, Josef Settele, Jacob B. Socolar and James J. Gilroy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William E. Kunin

141 papers receiving 18.2k citations

Hit Papers

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers 2006 2026 2012 2019 2010 2006 2015 2008 2015 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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.

  1. Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers
    2010 4.5k citations Simon G. Potts, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer et al. profile →
  2. Parallel Declines in Pollinators and Insect-Pollinated Plants in Britain and the Netherlands
    2006 2.3k citations Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Stuart P. M. Roberts et al. profile →
  3. How Should Beta-Diversity Inform Biodiversity Conservation?
    2015 969 citations William E. Kunin et al. profile →
  4. MEASURING BEE DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN HABITATS AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS
    2008 614 citations Riccardo Bommarco, Simon G. Potts et al. profile →
  5. Where is the UK's pollinator biodiversity? The importance of urban areas for flower-visiting insects
    2015 459 citations Katherine C. R. Baldock, Mark A. Goddard et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  6. A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities
    2019 345 citations Katherine C. R. Baldock, Mark A. Goddard et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
  7. Historical nectar assessment reveals the fall and rise of floral resources in Britain
    2016 312 citations Mathilde Baude, William E. Kunin et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William E. Kunin United Kingdom 54 12.7k 7.5k 6.9k 6.2k 4.4k 147 19.0k
Josef Settele Germany 62 12.1k 1.0× 6.1k 0.8× 7.4k 1.1× 4.9k 0.8× 5.1k 1.2× 229 19.7k
Alexandra‐Maria Klein Germany 59 16.7k 1.3× 6.3k 0.8× 11.3k 1.6× 8.2k 1.3× 5.5k 1.2× 211 22.8k
Riccardo Bommarco Sweden 60 9.9k 0.8× 5.1k 0.7× 7.4k 1.1× 5.6k 0.9× 3.0k 0.7× 168 16.1k
Nico Blüthgen Germany 52 11.2k 0.9× 5.5k 0.7× 4.2k 0.6× 5.7k 0.9× 4.4k 1.0× 197 14.1k
Wolfgang W. Weisser Germany 72 8.3k 0.6× 7.5k 1.0× 6.2k 0.9× 5.5k 0.9× 2.0k 0.5× 400 18.9k
Henrik G. Smith Sweden 72 10.2k 0.8× 5.0k 0.7× 5.1k 0.7× 3.7k 0.6× 2.7k 0.6× 297 16.2k
Marcelo A. Aizen Argentina 57 14.1k 1.1× 6.4k 0.8× 6.8k 1.0× 7.6k 1.2× 4.2k 0.9× 192 16.9k
Oliver Schweiger Germany 43 8.3k 0.6× 4.4k 0.6× 4.9k 0.7× 2.9k 0.5× 3.5k 0.8× 98 11.9k
Simon G. Potts United Kingdom 73 23.0k 1.8× 7.9k 1.1× 15.6k 2.3× 10.8k 1.7× 8.7k 1.9× 240 29.2k
Montserrat Vilà Spain 72 9.7k 0.8× 14.1k 1.9× 5.2k 0.8× 8.0k 1.3× 1.8k 0.4× 240 25.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shortall, C. R., James R. Bell, Elizabeth J. Duncan, et al.. (2025). Spatio‐Temporal Variation in Aerial Arthropod Abundance Revealed by Weather Radars. Global Change Biology. 31(10). e70425–e70425.
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Biesmeijer, Jacobus C., N. D. Boatman, Giles E. Budge, et al.. (2024). Flowering plant communities mediate the effects of habitat composition and configuration on wild pollinator communities. Functional Ecology. 38(12). 2576–2594. 3 indexed citations
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Kunin, William E., et al.. (2023). Spatial targeting of woodland creation can reduce the colonisation credit of woodland plants. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). 2 indexed citations
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Evans, William Lloyd, Christopher Hassall, Elizabeth J. Duncan, et al.. (2022). The development of an unsupervised hierarchical clustering analysis of dual‐polarization weather surveillance radar observations to assess nocturnal insect abundance and diversity. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 8(5). 698–716. 8 indexed citations
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O’Malley, Kieran, et al.. (2020). Roost selection by Mauritian tomb bats (Taphozus mauritianus) in Lilongwe city, Malawi – importance of woodland for sustainable urban planning. PLoS ONE. 15(11). e0240434–e0240434. 4 indexed citations
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Carvalheiro, Luísa G., Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Markus Franzén, et al.. (2019). Soil eutrophication shaped the composition of pollinator assemblages during the past century. Ecography. 43(2). 209–221. 25 indexed citations
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Baldock, Katherine C. R., Mark A. Goddard, D. M. Hicks, et al.. (2019). A systems approach reveals urban pollinator hotspots and conservation opportunities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(3). 363–373. 345 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guenat, Solène, Andrew J. Dougill, William E. Kunin, & Martin Dallimer. (2019). Untangling the motivations of different stakeholders for urban greenspace conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. Ecosystem Services. 36. 100904–100904. 26 indexed citations
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O’Connor, Rory S., William E. Kunin, Michael P. D. Garratt, et al.. (2019). Monitoring insect pollinators and flower visitation: The effectiveness and feasibility of different survey methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(12). 2129–2140. 111 indexed citations
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Guenat, Solène, William E. Kunin, Andrew J. Dougill, & Martin Dallimer. (2018). Effects of urbanisation and management practices on pollinators in tropical Africa. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(1). 214–224. 54 indexed citations
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Dainese, Matteo, Nick J. B. Isaac, Gary D. Powney, et al.. (2016). Landscape simplification weakens the association between terrestrial producer and consumer diversity in Europe. Global Change Biology. 23(8). 3040–3051. 25 indexed citations
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Baude, Mathilde, William E. Kunin, N. D. Boatman, et al.. (2016). Historical nectar assessment reveals the fall and rise of floral resources in Britain. Nature. 530(7588). 85–88. 312 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ouvrard, Pierre, D. M. Hicks, James A. Nicholls, et al.. (2016). Molecular taxonomic analysis of the plant associations of adult pollen beetles (Nitidulidae: Meligethinae), and the population structure of Brassicogethes aeneus. Genome. 59(12). 1101–1116. 15 indexed citations
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Senapathi, Deepa, Luísa G. Carvalheiro, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, et al.. (2015). The impact of over 80 years of land cover changes on bee and wasp pollinator communities in England. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1806). 20150294–20150294. 131 indexed citations
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Shackelford, Gorm E., Peter Steward, Tim G. Benton, et al.. (2013). Comparison of pollinators and natural enemies: a meta‐analysis of landscape and local effects on abundance and richness in crops. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 88(4). 1002–1021. 186 indexed citations
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Carvalheiro, Luísa G., William E. Kunin, Petr Keil, et al.. (2013). Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW ‐European pollinators and plants. Ecology Letters. 16(7). 870–878. 280 indexed citations
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Marini, Lorenzo, Enzo Bona, William E. Kunin, & Kevin J. Gaston. (2010). Exploring anthropogenic and natural processes shaping fern species richness along elevational gradients. Journal of Biogeography. 38(1). 78–88. 43 indexed citations
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Kunin, William E.. (2008). On comparative analyses involving non-heritable traits: why half a loaf is sometimes worse than none. Evolutionary ecology research. 10(6). 787–796. 13 indexed citations
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Kallimanis, Athanasios S., William E. Kunin, John M. Halley, & Stefanos P. Sgardelis. (2006). Patchy disturbance favours longer dispersal distance. Evolutionary ecology research. 8(3). 529–541. 23 indexed citations

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