| Changing bee and hoverfly pollinator assemblages along an urban-rural gradient AJ Bates, JP Sadler, AJ Fairbrass, SJ Falk, JD Hale, TJ Matthews PloS one 6, e23459, 2011 | 282 | 2011 |
| Island biogeography: Taking the long view of nature’s laboratories RJ Whittaker, JM Fernández-Palacios, TJ Matthews, MK Borregaard, ... Science 357 (6354), 2017 | 148 | 2017 |
| Habitat fragmentation and the species–area relationship: a focus on total species richness obscures the impact of habitat loss on habitat specialists TJ Matthews, HE Cottee‐Jones, RJ Whittaker Diversity and Distributions 20 (10), 1136-1146, 2014 | 102 | 2014 |
| A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography J Patiño, RJ Whittaker, PAV Borges, JM Fernández‐Palacios, C Ah‐Peng, ... Journal of Biogeography 44 (5), 963-983, 2017 | 101 | 2017 |
| On the species abundance distribution in applied ecology and biodiversity management TJ Matthews, RJ Whittaker Journal of Applied Ecology 52 (2), 443-454, 2015 | 100 | 2015 |
| Habitat composition and connectivity predicts bat presence and activity at foraging sites in a large UK conurbation JD Hale, AJ Fairbrass, TJ Matthews, JP Sadler PloS one 7 (3), e33300, 2012 | 99 | 2012 |
| Mapping lightscapes: spatial patterning of artificial lighting in an urban landscape JD Hale, G Davies, AJ Fairbrass, TJ Matthews, CDF Rogers, JP Sadler PloS one 8 (5), e61460, 2013 | 90 | 2013 |
| The ecological impact of city lighting scenarios: exploring gap crossing thresholds for urban bats J Hale, A Fairbrass, T Matthews, G Davies, J Sadler Global Change Biology, 2015 | 88 | 2015 |
| Neutral theory and the species abundance distribution: recent developments and prospects for unifying niche and neutral perspectives TJ Matthews, RJ Whittaker Ecology and evolution 4 (11), 2263-2277, 2014 | 88 | 2014 |
| Oceanic island biogeography through the lens of the general dynamic model: assessment and prospect MK Borregaard, IR Amorim, PAV Borges, JS Cabral, ... Biological Reviews 92 (2), 830-853, 2017 | 85 | 2017 |
| On the form of species–area relationships in habitat islands and true islands TJ Matthews, F Guilhaumon, KA Triantis, MK Borregaard, RJ Whittaker Global Ecology and Biogeography 25 (7), 847-858, 2016 | 84 | 2016 |
| Fitting and comparing competing models of the species abundance distribution: assessment and prospect TJ Matthews, RJ Whittaker Frontiers of Biogeography 6 (2), 2014 | 60 | 2014 |
| Integrating geoconservation and biodiversity conservation: theoretical foundations and conservation recommendations in a European Union context TJ Matthews Geoheritage 6 (1), 57-70, 2014 | 57 | 2014 |
| Quantifying and interpreting nestedness in habitat islands: a synthetic analysis of multiple datasets TJ Matthews, HEW Cottee‐Jones, RJ Whittaker Diversity and Distributions 21 (4), 392-404, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
| The general dynamic model: towards a unified theory of island biogeography? MK Borregaard, TJ Matthews, RJ Whittaker Global Ecology and Biogeography 25 (7), 805-816, 2016 | 50 | 2016 |
| The gambin model provides a superior fit to species abundance distributions with a single free parameter: evidence, implementation and interpretation TJ Matthews, MK Borregaard, KI Ugland, PAV Borges, F Rigal, P Cardoso, ... Ecography 37 (10), 1002-1011, 2014 | 43 | 2014 |
| Thresholds and the species–area relationship: a synthetic analysis of habitat island datasets TJ Matthews, MJ Steinbauer, E Tzirkalli, KA Triantis, RJ Whittaker Journal of Biogeography 41 (5), 1018-1028, 2014 | 40 | 2014 |
| Multimodal species abundance distributions: a deconstruction approach reveals the processes behind the pattern TJ Matthews, PAV Borges, RJ Whittaker Oikos 123 (5), 533-544, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota PAV Borges, P Cardoso, H Kreft, RJ Whittaker, S Fattorini, BC Emerson, ... Biodiversity and conservation 27 (10), 2567-2586, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| Island species–area relationships and species accumulation curves are not equivalent: an analysis of habitat island datasets TJ Matthews, KA Triantis, F Rigal, MK Borregaard, F Guilhaumon, ... Global Ecology and Biogeography 25 (5), 607-618, 2016 | 37 | 2016 |
Robert J. WhittakerProfessor of Biogeography, University of OxfordVerified email at ouce.ox.ac.uk
