Winsor H. Lowe

8.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
96 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Winsor H. Lowe is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Winsor H. Lowe has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Ecology, 62 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Winsor H. Lowe's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (51 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (44 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers). Winsor H. Lowe is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (51 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (44 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers). Winsor H. Lowe collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Winsor H. Lowe's co-authors include Fred W. Allendorf, Gene E. Likens, Evan H. Campbell Grant, Michael K. Schwartz, Taylor M. Wilcox, William F. Fagan, Michael K. Young, Kevin S. McKelvey, Andrew R. Whiteley and Stephen F. Jane and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Winsor H. Lowe

93 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

What can genetics tell us about population connectivity?

2010 719 citations Winsor H. Lowe et al. Molecular Ecology profile →
Living in the branches: population dynamics and ecological processes in dendritic networks

2007 519 citations Evan H. Campbell Grant, Winsor H. Lowe et al. profile →
Distance, flow and PCR inhibition: eDNA dynamics in two headwater streams

2014 436 citations Michael K. Schwartz, Winsor H. Lowe et al. profile →
Robust Detection of Rare Species Using Environmental DNA: The Importance of Primer Specificity

2013 427 citations Winsor H. Lowe, Michael K. Schwartz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Winsor H. Lowe United States	37	4.2k	2.7k	1.5k	1.4k	1.3k	96	6.2k
Michael T. Monaghan Germany	38	2.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	788 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	115	5.4k
Benjamin H. Letcher United States	43	3.1k 0.7×	3.9k 1.4×	1.3k 0.8×	542 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	124	5.5k
Nicholas E. Mandrak Canada	38	3.7k 0.9×	4.1k 1.5×	931 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	783 0.6×	216	5.8k
Sébastien Brosse France	48	4.6k 1.1×	5.3k 2.0×	1.2k 0.8×	776 0.6×	558 0.4×	142	7.7k
Roland Jansson Sweden	42	3.9k 0.9×	3.1k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	232 0.2×	810 0.6×	82	6.8k
Fabien Leprieur France	42	3.3k 0.8×	3.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	371 0.3×	602 0.5×	97	5.7k
Gaël Grenouillet France	42	4.1k 1.0×	4.8k 1.8×	1.4k 0.9×	362 0.3×	577 0.5×	123	7.2k
David S. Pilliod United States	40	5.4k 1.3×	2.2k 0.8×	2.7k 1.8×	2.3k 1.7×	534 0.4×	133	6.8k
David T. Bilton United Kingdom	37	4.1k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	848 0.6×	400 0.3×	1.3k 1.0×	163	5.9k
Karl Cottenie Canada	31	3.0k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	587 0.4×	575 0.4×	323 0.3×	91	4.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Winsor H. Lowe

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Moeller, Anna K., et al.. (2025). A lifetime of experiences: Modelling habitat quality through cumulative effects on individual survival. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(6). 1173–1185.

Lowe, Winsor H., et al.. (2025). Reproductive strategy predicts thermal biology and microhabitat use in two lizards along a riparian-upland gradient. Journal of Thermal Biology. 131. 104185–104185.

Luis, Angela D., et al.. (2025). Ecosystem-engineered infections: beaver-modified wetlands are associated with conflicting drivers of amphibian pathogen prevalence. Royal Society Open Science. 12(7). 241169–241169. 1 indexed citations

Lowe, Winsor H., et al.. (2024). Stage-Specific Demographic Effects of Hydrologic Variation in a Stream Salamander. The American Naturalist. 203(5). E175–E187. 2 indexed citations

Lowe, Winsor H., et al.. (2022). Environmentally Associated Variation in Dispersal Distance Affects Inbreeding Risk in a Stream Salamander. The American Naturalist. 200(6). 802–814. 2 indexed citations

Lowe, Winsor H., et al.. (2020). Long‐term survival probability, not current habitat quality, predicts dispersal distance in a stream salamander. Ecology. 101(4). e02982–e02982. 6 indexed citations

Lowe, Winsor H., et al.. (2019). Matching habitat choice and plasticity contribute to phenotype–environment covariation in a stream salamander. Ecology. 100(5). e02661–e02661. 18 indexed citations

Lowe, Winsor H., et al.. (2019). Hydrologic variability contributes to reduced survival through metamorphosis in a stream salamander. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(39). 19563–19570. 18 indexed citations

Hossack, Blake R., et al.. (2017). Response of Amphibian and Invertebrate Communities to Wetland Mitigation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The Mathematics Enthusiast. 23. 90–90. 1 indexed citations

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Crook, David A., Winsor H. Lowe, Tibor Erős, et al.. (2015). Human effects on ecological connectivity in aquatic ecosystems: Integrating scientific approaches to support management and mitigation. The Science of The Total Environment. 534. 52–64. 147 indexed citations

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Hossack, Blake R., et al.. (2013). Interactive effects of wildfire, forest management, and isolation on amphibian and parasite abundance. Ecological Applications. 23(2). 479–492. 26 indexed citations

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Lowe, Winsor H., Mark A. McPeek, Gene E. Likens, & Bradley J. Cosentino. (2012). Decoupling of genetic and phenotypic divergence in a headwater landscape. Molecular Ecology. 21(10). 2399–2409. 9 indexed citations

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Sepulveda, Adam J. & Winsor H. Lowe. (2011). Coexistence in streams: do source–sink dynamics allow salamanders to persist with fish predators?. Oecologia. 166(4). 1043–1054. 10 indexed citations

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Grant, Evan H. Campbell, James D. Nichols, Winsor H. Lowe, & William F. Fagan. (2010). Use of multiple dispersal pathways facilitates amphibian persistence in stream networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(15). 6936–6940. 141 indexed citations

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Lowe, Winsor H.. (2010). Explaining long‐distance dispersal: effects of dispersal distance on survival and growth in a stream salamander. Ecology. 91(10). 3008–3015. 28 indexed citations

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Woods, H. Arthur, et al.. (2010). Scale‐dependent genetic structure of the Idaho giant salamander (Dicamptodon aterrimus) in stream networks. Molecular Ecology. 19(5). 898–909. 43 indexed citations

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Lowe, Winsor H.. (2009). What drives long‐distance dispersal? A test of theoretical predictions. Ecology. 90(6). 1456–1462. 47 indexed citations

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Lowe, Winsor H., Mark A. McPeek, Gene E. Likens, & Bradley J. Cosentino. (2008). Linking movement behaviour to dispersal and divergence in plethodontid salamanders. Molecular Ecology. 17(20). 4459–4469. 32 indexed citations

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Lowe, Winsor H., Gene E. Likens, Mark A. McPeek, & D. C. Buso. (2006). LINKING DIRECT AND INDIRECT DATA ON DISPERSAL: ISOLATION BY SLOPE IN A HEADWATER STREAM SALAMANDER. Ecology. 87(2). 334–339. 71 indexed citations

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Lowe, Winsor H.. (2002). Landscape-Scale Spatial Population Dynamics in Human-Impacted Stream Systems. Environmental Management. 30(2). 225–233. 57 indexed citations

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