Alta De Vos

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Alta De Vos is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alta De Vos has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Alta De Vos's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (19 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (8 papers). Alta De Vos is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (19 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (8 papers). Alta De Vos collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Australia and Finland. Alta De Vos's co-authors include Rika Preiser, Reinette Biggs, Carl Folke, Graeme S. Cumming, Joana Bezerra, M. Justin O’Riain, Kristine Maciejewski, Charlie M. Shackleton, Hayley S. Clements and Christine Moore and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Conservation Biology and Ecological Economics.

In The Last Decade

Alta De Vos

39 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches

2018 331 citations Rika Preiser, Reinette Biggs et al. Ecology and Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alta De Vos South Africa	19	802	338	264	224	193	43	1.4k
Angela M. Guerrero Australia	20	1.1k 1.3×	516 1.5×	330 1.3×	348 1.6×	171 0.9×	44	1.9k
Allan Dale Australia	21	619 0.8×	287 0.8×	343 1.3×	207 0.9×	127 0.7×	90	1.4k
Monika Zurek United Kingdom	17	847 1.1×	397 1.2×	267 1.0×	220 1.0×	220 1.1×	37	1.8k
Rob Tinch United Kingdom	18	683 0.9×	255 0.8×	302 1.1×	347 1.5×	244 1.3×	37	1.4k
Ulrich Heink Germany	12	605 0.8×	215 0.6×	221 0.8×	136 0.6×	138 0.7×	14	1.1k
Anne‐Sophie Crépin Sweden	20	1.1k 1.4×	443 1.3×	317 1.2×	504 2.3×	280 1.5×	44	2.5k
Georgina Cullman United States	6	728 0.9×	600 1.8×	403 1.5×	251 1.1×	180 0.9×	8	1.6k
Jeremy Brooks United States	17	625 0.8×	335 1.0×	327 1.2×	356 1.6×	226 1.2×	40	1.3k
Corrine Nöel Knapp United States	19	591 0.7×	306 0.9×	292 1.1×	366 1.6×	80 0.4×	35	1.4k
Steven M. Alexander Canada	24	961 1.2×	531 1.6×	406 1.5×	355 1.6×	114 0.6×	48	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alta De Vos

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20 of 20 papers shown

Clements, Hayley S., Reinette Biggs, Alta De Vos, et al.. (2025). A place-based assessment of biodiversity intactness in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature. 649(8095). 113–121.

Mantel, Sukhmani, et al.. (2024). Using the analytic hierarchical process to identify potential sites for rural ecological infrastructure investment in South Africa: examples from Cacadu and Tsitsa Catchments. Restoration Ecology. 33(2).

Clements, Hayley S., et al.. (2024). The diverse socioeconomic contributions of wildlife ranching. Conservation Science and Practice. 6(7). 2 indexed citations

Vos, Alta De, et al.. (2021). The influence of biophysical and socio-economic factors on the effectiveness of private land conservation areas in preventing natural land cover loss across South Africa. Global Ecology and Conservation. 28. e01670–e01670. 5 indexed citations

Bellón, Beatriz, Julien Blanco, Alta De Vos, et al.. (2020). Integrated Landscape Change Analysis of Protected Areas and their Surrounding Landscapes: Application in the Brazilian Cerrado. Remote Sensing. 12(9). 1413–1413. 10 indexed citations

Nolte, Christoph, et al.. (2019). Cost‐effectiveness of public policy for the long‐term conservation of private lands: What is the deal?. Conservation Letters. 12(6). 1 indexed citations

Vos, Alta De, Hayley S. Clements, Duan Biggs, & Graeme S. Cumming. (2019). The dynamics of proclaimed privately protected areas in South Africa over 83 years. Conservation Letters. 12(6). 20 indexed citations

Cockburn, Jessica, Chris L. de Wet, Joana Bezerra, et al.. (2019). Exploring and expanding transdisciplinary research for sustainable and just natural resource management. Ecology and Society. 24(4). 39 indexed citations

Preiser, Rika, Reinette Biggs, Alta De Vos, & Carl Folke. (2018). Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches. Ecology and Society. 23(4). 331 indexed citations breakdown →

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Clements, Hayley S., Graham I. H. Kerley, Graeme S. Cumming, Alta De Vos, & Carly N. Cook. (2018). Privately protected areas provide key opportunities for the regional persistence of large‐ and medium‐sized mammals. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(3). 537–546. 38 indexed citations

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Baum, J. Robert, Graeme S. Cumming, & Alta De Vos. (2017). Understanding Spatial Variation in the Drivers of Nature-based Tourism and Their Influence on the Sustainability of Private Land Conservation. Ecological Economics. 140. 225–234. 21 indexed citations

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Vos, Alta De, Graeme S. Cumming, & Dirk J. Roux. (2017). The relevance of cross-scale connections and spatial interactions for ecosystem service delivery by protected areas: Insights from southern Africa. Ecosystem Services. 28. 133–139. 13 indexed citations

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Vos, Alta De, J.M. Bowker, Judith M. Ament, & Graeme S. Cumming. (2016). Mixed Effectiveness of Africa's Tropical Protected Areas for Maintaining Forest Cover: Insights from a Global Forest Change Dataset. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Vos, Alta De, Graeme S. Cumming, David H. M. Cumming, et al.. (2016). Pathogens, disease, and the social-ecological resilience of protected areas. Ecology and Society. 21(1). 42 indexed citations

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Cumming, Graeme S., Craig R. Allen, Natalie C. Ban, et al.. (2014). Understanding protected area resilience: a multi‐scale, social‐ecological approach. Ecological Applications. 25(2). 299–319. 178 indexed citations

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Maciejewski, Kristine, Alta De Vos, Graeme S. Cumming, Christine Moore, & Duan Biggs. (2014). Cross‐scale feedbacks and scale mismatches as influences on cultural services and the resilience of protected areas. Ecological Applications. 25(1). 11–23. 32 indexed citations

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O’Riain, M. Justin, et al.. (2014). The role of refugia in reducing predation risk for Cape fur seals by white sharks. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 69(1). 127–138. 25 indexed citations

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Dolfing, Jan, Alta De Vos, J. Bloem, & P.J. Kuikman. (2004). Microbial diversity in archived agricultural soils; the past as a guide to the future. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 2 indexed citations

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Vos, Alta De, et al.. (1970). The Effect of Logging and Intensive Camping on Vegetation in Riding Mountain National Park. The Forestry Chronicle. 46(1). 49–55. 7 indexed citations

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Vos, Alta De, et al.. (1970). Damage to Exotic Softwoods by Sykes Monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis kolbi Neuman). East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal. 35(4). 323–330. 8 indexed citations

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