William K. Morris

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

William K. Morris is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, William K. Morris has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 11 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in William K. Morris's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (10 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers). William K. Morris is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (10 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers). William K. Morris collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Finland and United States. William K. Morris's co-authors include Peter A. Vesk, Laura J. Pollock, Michael A. McCarthy, Kirsten M. Parris, Reid Tingley, Robert B. O’Hara, Nick Golding, Brendan A. Wintle, Heini Kujala and Amy Whitehead and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

William K. Morris

26 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Understanding co‐occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (JSDM)

2014 463 citations Laura J. Pollock, William K. Morris et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William K. Morris Australia	14	635	584	583	259	238	26	1.2k
Claudia L. Gray United Kingdom	13	500 0.8×	609 1.0×	373 0.6×	253 1.0×	537 2.3×	17	1.3k
Luciana L. Porfirio Australia	12	325 0.5×	410 0.7×	461 0.8×	177 0.7×	400 1.7×	19	1.1k
Michael Drielsma Australia	16	603 0.9×	740 1.3×	639 1.1×	131 0.5×	418 1.8×	34	1.2k
Lawrence N. Hudson United Kingdom	13	589 0.9×	775 1.3×	493 0.8×	445 1.7×	556 2.3×	15	1.6k
Thomas Gardali United States	21	488 0.8×	1.2k 2.0×	440 0.8×	241 0.9×	485 2.0×	66	1.6k
Adrian Hughes United Kingdom	5	411 0.6×	625 1.1×	586 1.0×	263 1.0×	495 2.1×	6	1.2k
Daniele Baisero Italy	14	407 0.6×	829 1.4×	684 1.2×	155 0.6×	374 1.6×	20	1.3k
Caroline Corrêa Nóbrega Brazil	11	461 0.7×	405 0.7×	380 0.7×	208 0.8×	602 2.5×	11	1.2k
Glenn Manion Australia	14	852 1.3×	793 1.4×	794 1.4×	372 1.4×	480 2.0×	23	1.7k
Carolina Tovar United Kingdom	20	378 0.6×	391 0.7×	387 0.7×	271 1.0×	353 1.5×	36	1.2k

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Lehikoinen, Aleksi, et al.. (2023). The iratebirds Citizen Science Project: a Dataset on Birds’ Visual Aesthetic Attractiveness to Humans. Scientific Data. 10(1). 297–297. 9 indexed citations

Santangeli, Andrea, William K. Morris, Kaspar Delhey, et al.. (2023). What drives our aesthetic attraction to birds?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 20–20. 20 indexed citations

Morris, William K., et al.. (2023). An Automated Early Warning Biosecurity Alert System for Finland. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 7. 1 indexed citations

Pollock, Laura J., et al.. (2023). From mallees to mountain ash, specific leaf area is coordinated with eucalypt tree stature, resprouting, stem construction, and fruit size. Australian Journal of Botany. 71(8). 506–522. 2 indexed citations

Morris, William K., et al.. (2022). Exploring how functional traits modulate species distributions along topographic gradients in Baxian Mountain, North China. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 994–994. 8 indexed citations

Jones, Christopher S., David H. Duncan, William K. Morris, Doug Robinson, & Peter A. Vesk. (2022). Using data calibration to reconcile outputs from different survey methods in long-term or large-scale studies. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 194(3). 185–185. 1 indexed citations

Vesk, Peter A., et al.. (2020). Transferability of trait‐based species distribution models. Ecography. 44(1). 134–147. 23 indexed citations

Death, Clare, et al.. (2018). When less is more: a comparison of models to predict fluoride accumulation in free-ranging kangaroos. The Science of The Total Environment. 660. 531–540. 5 indexed citations

Pollock, Laura J., Luke T. Kelly, Freya Thomas, et al.. (2018). Combining functional traits, the environment and multiple surveys to understand semi‐arid tree distributions. Journal of Vegetation Science. 29(6). 967–977. 7 indexed citations

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Plein, Michaela, William K. Morris, Melinda L. Moir, & Peter A. Vesk. (2017). Identifying species at coextinction risk when detection is imperfect: Model evaluation and case study. PLoS ONE. 12(8). e0183351–e0183351. 7 indexed citations

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Death, Clare, Graeme Coulson, Uwe Kierdorf, et al.. (2015). Dental fluorosis and skeletal fluoride content as biomarkers of excess fluoride exposure in marsupials. The Science of The Total Environment. 533. 528–541. 43 indexed citations

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Jones, Christopher S., David H. Duncan, Libby Rumpff, et al.. (2015). Empirically validating a dense woody regrowth ‘problem’ and thinning ‘solution’ for understory vegetation. Forest Ecology and Management. 340. 153–162. 14 indexed citations

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Catford, Jane A., William K. Morris, Peter A. Vesk, Christopher J. Gippel, & Barbara J. Downes. (2014). Species and environmental characteristics point to flow regulation and drought as drivers of riparian plant invasion. Diversity and Distributions. 20(9). 1084–1096. 70 indexed citations

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Barnes, Megan, Judit K. Szabo, William K. Morris, & Hugh P. Possingham. (2014). Evaluating protected area effectiveness using bird lists in the Australian Wet Tropics. Diversity and Distributions. 21(4). 368–378. 26 indexed citations

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Duncan, David H., et al.. (2014). Public investment does not crowd out private supply of environmental goods on private land. Journal of Environmental Management. 136. 94–102. 8 indexed citations

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Morris, William K., Peter A. Vesk, Michael A. McCarthy, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, & Patrick J. Baker. (2014). The neglected tool in the Bayesian ecologist's shed: a case study testing informative priors' effect on model accuracy. Ecology and Evolution. 5(1). 102–108. 36 indexed citations

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Morris, William K., Peter A. Vesk, & Michael A. McCarthy. (2012). Profiting from pilot studies: Analysing mortality using Bayesian models with informative priors. Basic and Applied Ecology. 14(1). 81–89. 17 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Michael A., Joslin L. Moore, William K. Morris, et al.. (2012). The influence of abundance on detectability. Oikos. 122(5). 717–726. 133 indexed citations

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Morris, William K., et al.. (2011). Quantifying variance components in ecological models based on expert opinion. Journal of Applied Ecology. 48(3). 736–745. 27 indexed citations

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Pollock, Laura J., William K. Morris, & Peter A. Vesk. (2011). The role of functional traits in species distributions revealed through a hierarchical model. Ecography. 35(8). 716–725. 158 indexed citations

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