Xingfeng Si

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Xingfeng Si is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xingfeng Si has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 42 papers in Ecology and 39 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Xingfeng Si's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (55 papers), Plant and animal studies (38 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (32 papers). Xingfeng Si is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (55 papers), Plant and animal studies (38 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (32 papers). Xingfeng Si collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Xingfeng Si's co-authors include Ping Ding, Andrés Baselga, Yuhao Zhao, Di Zeng, Marc W. Cadotte, Stuart L. Pimm, Raphaël K. Didham, Jiajia Liu, Xiao Song and Scott K. Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Xingfeng Si

73 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation: key findings and future challenges

2015 418 citations Raphaël K. Didham, Ping Ding et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xingfeng Si China	27	1.2k	1.1k	725	695	457	77	2.1k
Sergi Herrando Spain	25	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	614 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	869 1.9×	64	2.4k
Giuseppe Bogliani Italy	32	1.8k 1.5×	951 0.8×	784 1.1×	708 1.0×	513 1.1×	105	2.6k
Daijiang Li United States	21	629 0.5×	838 0.7×	668 0.9×	512 0.7×	354 0.8×	57	1.6k
Caroline M. Tucker Canada	18	1.0k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	821 1.2×	454 1.0×	27	2.6k
Laura J. Pollock Canada	22	915 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	715 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	442 1.0×	54	2.1k
Paolo Pedrini Italy	34	2.3k 1.9×	1.1k 1.0×	789 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	519 1.1×	101	3.1k
James I. Watling United States	21	920 0.8×	854 0.7×	560 0.8×	756 1.1×	700 1.5×	49	1.8k
Mike S. Fowler United Kingdom	23	1.4k 1.2×	777 0.7×	655 0.9×	315 0.5×	629 1.4×	53	2.4k
Tzung‐Su Ding Taiwan	17	1.5k 1.3×	1.6k 1.4×	748 1.0×	1.4k 2.0×	616 1.3×	43	2.8k
Stuart J. Marsden United Kingdom	29	1.8k 1.5×	1.4k 1.2×	489 0.7×	739 1.1×	489 1.1×	117	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Xingfeng Si

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xingfeng Si

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Li, Wande, Ingo Graß, Thomas Hiller, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal dynamics of migratory birds reshape seed dispersal and conservation implications on fragmented islands. Biological Conservation. 309. 111283–111283.

Zeng, Di, Thomas J. Matthews, Rui Wang, et al.. (2025). Defaunation erodes the diversity of rodent personality traits in fragmented forests. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(10). 2047–2061.

Sun, Minghao, Ahimsa Campos‐Arceiz, Wande Li, et al.. (2025). Underrated Links Mitigate the Fragmentation‐Induced Mutualism Breakdown in a Large‐Fruited Species. Conservation Letters. 18(4).

Si, Xingfeng, et al.. (2025). Architecture and stability of tripartite ecological networks with two interaction types. Ecology. 106(5). e70098–e70098. 1 indexed citations

Zeng, Di, Yuhao Zhao, Shaopeng Li, et al.. (2025). Contrasting effects of habitat fragmentation on community stability of breeding and wintering birds in urban green spaces. Urban forestry & urban greening. 112. 128961–128961. 2 indexed citations

Si, Xingfeng, et al.. (2024). TIL20: A review of island biogeography and habitat fragmentation studies on subtropical reservoir islands of Thousand Island Lake, China. 1(2). 89–105. 4 indexed citations

Peng, Liqing, et al.. (2024). Effects of urbanization and vegetation on bird diversity in a megacity of central China. Biological Conservation. 297. 110718–110718. 8 indexed citations

Zhao, Yuhao, Chase D. Mendenhall, Thomas J. Matthews, et al.. (2024). Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2018). 20232245–20232245. 7 indexed citations

Tingley, Morgan W., et al.. (2024). Habitat fragmentation mediates the mechanisms underlying long-term climate-driven thermophilization in birds. eLife. 13. 3 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yuhao, et al.. (2023). Characterizing bird species for achieving the win-wins of conserving biodiversity and enhancing regulating ecosystem services in urban green spaces. Urban forestry & urban greening. 87. 128064–128064. 8 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yuhao, et al.. (2023). Uncovering widespread Anthropocene dietary shifts in Chinese large mammalian herbivores. Ecology Letters. 27(1). e14343–e14343. 2 indexed citations

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Ren, Peng, et al.. (2023). Forest edges increase pollinator network robustness to extinction with declining area. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(3). 393–404. 31 indexed citations

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Si, Xingfeng, et al.. (2022). An integrated animal tracking technology combining a GPS tracking system with a UAV. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(2). 505–511. 11 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yuhao, Shupei Tang, Wande Li, et al.. (2022). Nearby large islands diminish biodiversity of the focal island by a negative target effect. Journal of Animal Ecology. 92(2). 492–502. 8 indexed citations

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Han, Peng, et al.. (2022). Island biogeography of soundscapes: Island area shapes spatial patterns of avian acoustic diversity. Journal of Biogeography. 51(4). 511–521. 8 indexed citations

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Chiarucci, Alessandro, et al.. (2021). Scale‐dependent shifts in functional and phylogenetic structure of Mediterranean island plant communities over two centuries. Journal of Ecology. 109(10). 3513–3523. 7 indexed citations

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Chu, Chengjin, Lei Chen, Pengfei Fan, et al.. (2021). Conceptual and theoretical dimensions of biodiversity research in China: examples from plants. National Science Review. 8(7). nwab060–nwab060. 2 indexed citations

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Mao, Lingfeng, Xueting Yang, Xingfeng Si, et al.. (2020). High plant species richness and stable climate lead to richer but phylogenetically and functionally clustered avifaunas. Journal of Biogeography. 47(9). 1945–1954. 15 indexed citations

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Chen, Chuanwu, Marcel Holyoak, Yanping Wang, Xingfeng Si, & Ping Ding. (2019). Spatiotemporal distribution of seasonal bird assemblages on land-bridge islands: linking dynamic and static views of metacommunities. Avian Research. 10(1). 4 indexed citations

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Si, Xingfeng, Andrés Baselga, Fabien Leprieur, Xiao Song, & Ping Ding. (2015). Selective extinction drives taxonomic and functional alpha and beta diversities in island bird assemblages. Journal of Animal Ecology. 85(2). 409–418. 144 indexed citations

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