Alex Zvoleff

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 734 citations indexed

About

Alex Zvoleff is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Zvoleff has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 734 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Alex Zvoleff's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers). Alex Zvoleff is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers). Alex Zvoleff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Argentina and Netherlands. Alex Zvoleff's co-authors include Li An, Mariano González‐Roglich, Monica Noon, Jianguo Liu, William G. Axinn, Matthew Cooper, Julie A. Silva, Nicole Harari, Renate Fleiner and Hanspeter Liniger and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Alex Zvoleff

23 papers receiving 712 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.

Global hotspots of climate-related disasters

2024 41 citations Camila I. Donatti, Giacomo Fedele et al. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction profile →

Peers

Alex Zvoleff

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ECOLO

MMPL

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Arnout van Soesbergen United Kingdom

Felicia O. Akinyemi Switzerland

Richard Munang Kenya

Narcisa G. Pricope United States

Hamere Yohannes Ethiopia

Amare Haileslassie Ethiopia

R. Plant Australia

Issa Ouédraogo Burkina Faso

Gary R. Watmough United Kingdom

Frank Mugagga Uganda

Arnout van Soesbergen United Kingdom

Alex Zvoleff

471 ×1.4

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232 ×1.0

ECOLO

105 ×0.9

MMPL

30 ×0.4

POLLU

50 ×0.7

Citations per year, relative to Alex Zvoleff Alex Zvoleff (= 1×) peers Arnout van Soesbergen

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Zvoleff

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Zvoleff

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Alex Zvoleff. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Alex Zvoleff. The network helps show where Alex Zvoleff may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Zvoleff

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex Zvoleff. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex Zvoleff based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alex Zvoleff. Alex Zvoleff is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Enquist, Brian J., Amy E. Frazier, Cory Merow, et al.. (2025). Global Future Drought Layers Based on Downscaled CMIP6 Models and Multiple Socioeconomic Pathways. Scientific Data. 12(1). 295–295. 5 indexed citations

Viana, Daniel, David Gill, Alex Zvoleff, et al.. (2024). Sustainable-use marine protected areas to improve human nutrition. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7716–7716. 4 indexed citations

Donatti, Camila I., Giacomo Fedele, Damien Delforge, et al.. (2024). Global hotspots of climate-related disasters. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 108. 104488–104488. 41 indexed citations breakdown →

Duncanson, Laura, Veronika Leitold, John Armston, et al.. (2023). The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2908–2908. 82 indexed citations

López‐Carr, David, et al.. (2023). A Conceptual Approach towards Improving Monitoring of Living Conditions for Populations Affected by Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought. Sustainability. 15(12). 9400–9400. 5 indexed citations

Pricope, Narcisa G., et al.. (2022). Operationalizing an integrative socio‐ecological framework in support of global monitoring of land degradation. Land Degradation and Development. 34(1). 109–124. 12 indexed citations

González‐Roglich, Mariano, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Karyn Tabor, et al.. (2022). Assessing protected area’s carbon stocks and ecological structure at regional-scale using GEDI lidar. Global Environmental Change. 78. 102621–102621. 19 indexed citations

An, Li, Eve Bohnett, Rebecca L. Lewison, et al.. (2021). Sex-Specific Habitat Suitability Modeling for Panthera tigris in Chitwan National Park, Nepal: Broader Conservation Implications. Sustainability. 13(24). 13885–13885. 4 indexed citations

González‐Roglich, Mariano, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Karyn Tabor, et al.. (2021). Assessing Protected Area's Carbon Stocks and Ecological Structure at Regional-Scale Using Gedi Lidar. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Daldegan, G. Antunes, Mariano González‐Roglich, Monica Noon, & Alex Zvoleff. (2020). Assessing the performance of NDVI, 2-band EVI and MSAVI vegetation indices for land degradation monitoring across variable biomass cover at global scale.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2020. 1 indexed citations

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Beaudrot, Lydia, Miguel A. Acevedo, J. LESSARD, et al.. (2019). Local temperature and ecological similarity drive distributional dynamics of tropical mammals worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(7). 976–991. 13 indexed citations

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Rovero, Francesco, Jorge Ahumada, Patrick A. Jansen, et al.. (2019). A standardized assessment of forest mammal communities reveals consistent functional composition and vulnerability across the tropics. Ecography. 43(1). 75–84. 28 indexed citations

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Cooper, Matthew, et al.. (2018). Geographic factors predict wild food and nonfood NTFP collection by households across four African countries. Forest Policy and Economics. 96. 38–53. 28 indexed citations

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González‐Roglich, Mariano, Alex Zvoleff, Monica Noon, et al.. (2018). Synergizing global tools to monitor progress towards land degradation neutrality: Trends.Earth and the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies sustainable land management database. Environmental Science & Policy. 93. 34–42. 101 indexed citations

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Selig, Elizabeth R., David Hole, Edward H. Allison, et al.. (2018). Mapping global human dependence on marine ecosystems. Conservation Letters. 12(2). 118 indexed citations

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Zvoleff, Alex, Jorge Ahumada, & Lydia Beaudrot. (2014). Precipitation variability in tropical forests most strongly affecting trees with low wood density. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Zvoleff, Alex, et al.. (2014). Monitoring population and land use change in tropical forest protected areas. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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An, Li, Alex Zvoleff, Jianguo Liu, & William G. Axinn. (2014). Agent-Based Modeling in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): Lessons from a Comparative Analysis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104(4). 723–745. 73 indexed citations

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Zvoleff, Alex & Li An. (2013). Analyzing Human–Landscape Interactions: Tools That Integrate. Environmental Management. 53(1). 94–111. 26 indexed citations

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Zvoleff, Alex, Ayse Selin Kocaman, Woonghee Tim Huh, & Vijay Modi. (2009). The impact of geography on energy infrastructure costs. Energy Policy. 37(10). 4066–4078. 52 indexed citations

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