Alexander Charles Lees

10.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
120 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Alexander Charles Lees is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Charles Lees has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Ecology, 52 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 31 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Alexander Charles Lees's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (41 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (38 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (31 papers). Alexander Charles Lees is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (41 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (38 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (31 papers). Alexander Charles Lees collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and United States. Alexander Charles Lees's co-authors include Carlos A. Peres, Jos Barlow, Toby Gardner, Joice Ferreira, Érika Berenguer, Nárgila Moura, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Jansen Zuanon, Diana Bell and Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Charles Lees

112 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

2018 436 citations Jos Barlow, Filipe França et al. profile →
Hydropower and the future of Amazonian biodiversity

2016 259 citations Alexander Charles Lees et al. profile →
Brazil's environmental leadership at risk

2014 204 citations Joice Ferreira, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al. profile →
Annotated checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee—second edition

2021 190 citations José Fernando Pacheco, Luís Fábio Silveira et al. Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja profile →
State of the World's Birds

2022 122 citations Alexander Charles Lees, Ian J. Burfield et al. Annual Review of Environment and Resources profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Charles Lees

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexander Charles Lees. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexander Charles Lees 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 Alexander Charles Lees. Alexander Charles Lees is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Unveiling pervasive assumptions: moving beyond the poverty-biodiversity loss association in conservation 2025 ·Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability ·Rachel Carmenta, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad, Neil Dawson, Natalia Estrada-Carmona, Christina C. Hicks, Giorgos Kallis, Eric Djomo Nana, Evan Killick, Alexander Charles Lees, Adrian Martin, Unai Pascual, Nathalie Pettorelli, James Reed, Esther Turnhout, Bhaskar Vira, Julie G. Zaehringer, Jos Barlow	0
2	The efficacy of acoustic indices for monitoring abundance and diversity in soil soundscapes 2024 ·Ecological Indicators ·Oliver C. Metcalf, Catarina S. Nunes, Carlos Abrahams, Fabrício Beggiato Baccaro, Tom Bradfer‐Lawrence, Alexander Charles Lees, (unknown), Jos Barlow	0
3	Identifying climate‐smart tropical Key Biodiversity Areas for protection in response to widespread temperature novelty 2024 ·Conservation Letters ·Brittany T. Trew, Alexander Charles Lees, D. P. Edwards, Regan Early, Ilya M. D. Maclean	2
4	Novel temperatures are already widespread beneath the world’s tropical forest canopies 2024 ·Nature Climate Change ·Brittany T. Trew, David P. Edwards, Alexander Charles Lees, David H. Klinges, Regan Early, Martin Svátek, Roman Plichta, Radim Matula, Joseph Okello, (unknown), Matti Barthel, Johan Six, Eduardo Eiji Maeda, Jos Barlow, (unknown), Érika Berenguer, Joice Ferreira, Jhonatan Sallo‐Bravo, Ilya M. D. Maclean	15
5	Messaging with appeal to intrinsic or relational values shows potential to shift demand for wildlife as pets 2024 ·People and Nature ·(unknown), Nigel Collar, Alexander Charles Lees, Andrew Moss, (unknown), Stuart J. Marsden	1
6	The overlooked importance of vagrancy in ecology and evolution 2023 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Paul Dufour, Alexander Charles Lees, James J. Gilroy, Pierre‐André Crochet	4
7	Evaluating the influence of nature connection and values on conservation attitudes at a tropical deforestation frontier 2023 ·Conservation Biology ·(unknown), Jos Barlow, Alexander Charles Lees, Christopher D. Ives, Micha Strack, Oriana Trindade de Almeida, (unknown), Frazer Sinclair, Luke Parry	7
8	Detecting and reducing heterogeneity of error in acoustic classification 2022 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Oliver C. Metcalf, Jos Barlow, Yves Bas, Érika Berenguer, Christian Devenish, Filipe França, Stuart J. Marsden, Charlotte C. Smith, Alexander Charles Lees	5
9	State of the World's Birds breakdown → 2022 ·Annual Review of Environment and Resources ·Alexander Charles Lees, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ian J. Burfield, Luis Miguel Renjifo, Kenneth V. Rosenberg, Ashwin Viswanathan, Stuart H. M. Butchart	122
10	The Asian songbird crisis 2022 ·Current Biology ·Alexander Charles Lees, (unknown)	7
11	Annotated checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee—second edition breakdown → 2021 ·Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja ·José Fernando Pacheco, Luís Fábio Silveira, Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo, Carlos Eduardo Agne, Glayson Ariel Bencke, Gustavo A. Bravo, Guilherme Renzo Rocha Brito, Mario Cohn‐Haft, Giovanni Nachtigall Maurício, Luciano N. Naka, Fábio Olmos, Sérgio Roberto Posso, Alexander Charles Lees, (unknown), Eduardo Carrano, (unknown), (unknown), Ismael Franz, Fábio Schunck, Vítor de Queiroz Piacentini	190
12	Lista comentada das aves do Brasil pelo Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos – segunda edição 2021 ·Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·José Fernando Pacheco, Luís Fábio Silveira, Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo, Carlos Eduardo Agne, Glayson Ariel Bencke, Gustavo A. Bravo, Guilherme Renzo Rocha Brito, Mario Cohn‐Haft, Giovanni Nachtigall Maurício, Luciano N. Naka, Fábio Olmos, Sérgio Roberto Posso, Alexander Charles Lees, (unknown), Eduardo Carrano, (unknown), (unknown), Ismael Franz, Fábio Schunck, Vítor de Queiroz Piacentini	2
13	Acoustic indices perform better when applied at ecologically meaningful time and frequency scales 2020 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Oliver C. Metcalf, Jos Barlow, Christian Devenish, Stuart J. Marsden, Érika Berenguer, Alexander Charles Lees	71
14	Taxonomic status of the extinct Canary Islands Oystercatcher Haematopus meadewaldoi 2019 ·Ibis ·(unknown), (unknown), Hein van Grouw, (unknown), Erika Tavares, Allan J. Baker, Alexander Charles Lees, J. Martin Collinson	7
15	Integrating the avoidance of forest degradation into systematic conservation planning in the Eastern Amazon 2017 ·AGUFM ·Jéssica Ferreira, Jos Barlow, Jacqueline Thompson, (unknown), Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Alexander Charles Lees, Gareth D. Lennox, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Sílvio Frosini de Barros Ferraz, Nárgila Moura, Victor Hugo Fonseca Oliveira, Júlio Louzada, Ricardo Solar, Sâmia Nunes, Luke Parry, Teresa Fonseca, Rachael Garrett, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Ralph C. MacNally, Terrence G. Gardner	1
16	Species, extinct before we know them? 2015 ·Current Biology ·Alexander Charles Lees, Stuart L. Pimm	65
17	First documented record of the ruff Philomachus pugnax (Scolopacidae) in Brazil 2013 ·Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia ·(unknown), (unknown), Alexander Charles Lees	2
18	One hundred and thirty-five years of avifaunal surveys around Santarem, central Brazilian Amazon 2013 ·Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia ·Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo, Alexander Charles Lees, Nárgila Moura, Christian Borges Andretti, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jos Barlow, Joice Ferreira, Toby Gardner	20
19	Paragominas: a quantitative baseline inventory of an eastern Amazonian avifauna 2012 ·Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia ·Alexander Charles Lees, Nárgila Moura, (unknown), Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo, Jos Barlow, Érika Berenguer, Joice Ferreira, Toby Gardner	25
20	Proceedings of the Association of British Neurologists, University of Oxford, 3 April - 5 April 2002 2002 ·Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry ·Patrick F. Chinnery, (unknown), (unknown), Christopher M. Morris, Laurence A. Bindoff, (unknown), (unknown), David J. Brooks, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alexander Charles Lees, (unknown), (unknown), P A Brex, (unknown), Alan J. Thompson	4

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