John Acorn

Negative relationships between species richness and evenness render common diversity indices inadequate for assessing long-term trends in butterfly diversity

Zachary G. MacDonald, Scott E. Nielsen, John Acorn · Biodiversity and Conservation · 2016 · 58 citations

Biology, Range Shift, Biodiversity +7

The mandibles of some adult ground beetles: structure, function, and the evolution of herbivory (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

John Acorn, George E. Ball · Canadian Journal of Zoology · 1991 · 56 citations

Biology, Adult Ground Beetles, Terrestrial Arthropod +13

Localized disturbances from oil sands developments increase butterfly diversity and abundance in Alberta's boreal forests

Federico Riva, John Acorn, Scott E. Nielsen · Biological Conservation · 2017 · 43 citations

Biodiversity, Engineering, Forest Conservation +8

Decoupling habitat fragmentation from habitat loss: butterfly species mobility obscures fragmentation effects in a naturally fragmented landscape of lake islands

Zachary G. MacDonald, Iraleigh D. Anderson, John Acorn et al. · Oecologia · 2017 · 42 citations

Biodiversity, Butterfly Species Mobility, Engineering +9

The theory of island biogeography, the sample‐area effect, and the habitat diversity hypothesis: complementarity in a naturally fragmented landscape of lake islands

Zachary G. MacDonald, Iraleigh D. Anderson, John Acorn et al. · Journal of Biogeography · 2018 · 38 citations

Habitat Diversity Hypothesis, Biodiversity, Habitat Diversity +13