Andrew Balmford

49.3k citations

253 papers · 30.4k indexed · 19 hit papers · h-index 87

Global and Planetary Change top 0.02%
Ecology top 0.02%
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.05%
Economics and Econometrics top 0.05%
Ecological Modeling top 0.05%

Co-authors: Rhys E. Green Ben Phalan Jörn P. W. Scharlemann Andrea Manica Robin Naidoo Neil D. Burgess Stephen J. Cornell Kevin J. Gaston
Topics: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (87 papers)Economic and Environmental Valuation (67 papers)Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (58 papers)
Cited by: Ecological Modeling Global and Planetary Change Nature and Landscape Conservation
Journals: Nature Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Denmark

In The Last Decade

Andrew Balmford

249 papers receiving 28.6k 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.

Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature

2004 1.5k citations Rhys E. Green, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann et al. Science profile →
Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies

2013 1.2k citations Andrew Balmford et al. Science profile →
Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing and Land Sparing Compared

2011 1.1k citations Ben Phalan, Andrew Balmford et al. Science profile →
Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature

2002 1.0k citations Andrew Balmford, Robert Costanza et al. Science profile →
Integrating economic costs into conservation planning

2006 788 citations Robin Naidoo, Andrew Balmford et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities

2008 776 citations Robin Naidoo, Andrew Balmford et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Preserving the evolutionary potential of floras in biodiversity hotspots

2007 727 citations Mathieu Rouget, Andrew Balmford et al. profile →
Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot

2017 695 citations Andrew Balmford et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Knowing But Not Doing: Selecting Priority Conservation Areas and the Research–Implementation Gap

2008 661 citations Mathieu Rouget, Andrew Balmford et al. profile →
Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene

2017 646 citations Andrew Balmford et al. Science profile →
A global strategy for road building

2014 599 citations Christine S. O’Connell, Ben Phalan et al. profile →
Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas

2010 503 citations Andrew Balmford, Rhys E. Green et al. profile →
Walk on the Wild Side: Estimating the Global Magnitude of Visits to Protected Areas

2015 474 citations Andrew Balmford, Robin Naidoo et al. PLoS Biology profile →
Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs

2012 467 citations Paul F. Donald, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann et al. Science profile →
A Global Perspective on Trends in Nature-Based Tourism

2009 460 citations Andrew Balmford, Robin Naidoo et al. PLoS Biology profile →
A global-level assessment of the effectiveness of protected areas at resisting anthropogenic pressures

2019 440 citations Jonas Geldmann, Andrea Manica et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

2022 435 citations Andrew Balmford et al. Science profile →
Nudging pro‐environmental behavior: evidence and opportunities

2018 248 citations Andrew Balmford, Taylor H. Ricketts et al. profile →
LIFE: A metric for mapping the impact of land-cover change on global extinctions

2025 20 citations Tom Swinfield, Rhys E. Green et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Balmford

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andrew Balmford. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andrew Balmford 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 Andrew Balmford. Andrew Balmford 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	Learning lessons from over-crediting to ensure additionality in forest carbon credits 2025 ·Tom Swinfield,(unknown),David A. Coomes,(unknown),Patrick Ferris,(unknown),(unknown),J. M. Holland,(unknown),Julia P. G. Jones,(unknown),Srinivasan Keshav,Anil Madhavapeddy,(unknown),Thales A. P. West,Andrew Balmford	1
2	Pangolin hunting in southeast Nigeria is motivated more by local meat consumption than international demand for scales 2025 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·(unknown),Samuel K. Wasser,Lauren Coad,Ben Balmford,Daniel J. Ingram,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Andrew Balmford	1
3	Solar farm management influences breeding bird responses in an arable-dominated landscape 2025 ·Bird Study ·(unknown),Catherine E. Waite,Andrew Balmford,Richard B. Bradbury,Rob H. Field,(unknown),Tom Finch	2
4	Reflections on the Global Biodiversity Framework: Achievements, gaps, and future priorities 2024 ·One Earth ·Andrew Balmford,Lian Pin Koh,David Tilman,Hugh P. Possingham,David Obura,Pamela McElwee	0
5	Identifying ways of producing pigs more sustainably: tradeoffs and co-benefits in land and antimicrobial use 2023 ·Scientific Reports ·Harriet Bartlett,Andrew Balmford,James L. N. Wood,Mark A. Holmes	5
6	Bayesian Skyline Plots disagree with range size changes based on Species Distribution Models for Holarctic birds 2021 ·Molecular Ecology ·(unknown),Rhys E. Green,Andrew Balmford,Pierpaolo Maisano Delser,Robert Beyer,Marius Somveille,Michela Leonardi,William Amos,Andrea Manica	8
7	Using the IUCN Red List to map threats to terrestrial vertebrates at global scale 2021 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Michael Harfoot,Alison Johnston,Andrew Balmford,Neil Burgess,Stuart H. M. Butchart,Maria P. Dias,Carolina Hazin,Craig Hilton‐Taylor,Michael Hoffmann,Nick J. B. Isaac,Lars Lønsmann Iversen,Charlotte L. Outhwaite,Piero Visconti,Jonas Geldmann	120
8	Roads as a contributor to landscape-scale variation in bird communities 2020 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown),Andrew Balmford,Paul F. Donald,Stuart E. Newson,Alison Johnston	34
9	Variation in abundances of common bird species associated with roads 2020 ·Journal of Applied Ecology ·(unknown),Andrew Balmford,Alison Johnston,Stuart E. Newson,Paul F. Donald	24
10	Ranging behaviour of Uganda’s elephants 2019 ·African Journal of Ecology ·James Grogan,Andrew J. Plumptre,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Andrew Balmford	3
11	A global-level assessment of the effectiveness of protected areas at resisting anthropogenic pressuresbreakdown → 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jonas Geldmann,Andrea Manica,Neil D. Burgess,Lauren Coad,Andrew Balmford	440
12	Getting Road Expansion on the Right Track: A Framework for Smart Infrastructure Planning in the Mekong 2016 ·PLoS Biology ·Andrew Balmford,Huafang Chen,Ben Phalan,Mingcheng Wang,Christine S. O’Connell,Catherine Tayleur,Jianchu Xu	17
13	Estimating economic losses to tourism in Africa from the illegal killing of elephants 2016 ·Nature Communications ·Robin Naidoo,Brendan Fisher,Andrea Manica,Andrew Balmford	90
14	Synergies between biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision: Lessons on integrated ecosystem service valuation from a Himalayan protected area, Nepal 2016 ·Ecosystem Services ·Kelvin S.‐H. Peh,(unknown),(unknown),Andrew Balmford,(unknown),Richard B. Bradbury,Claire Brown,Stuart H. M. Butchart,Maheshwar Dhakal,(unknown),Francine M. R. Hughes,Mark Mulligan,Bhopal Pandeya,Alison J. Stattersfield,David H. Thomas,Matt Walpole,(unknown)	38
15	Do increases in agricultural yield spare land for nature? 2009 ·Global Change Biology ·Robert M. Ewers,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Andrew Balmford,Rhys E. Green	221
16	Boom-and-Bust Development Patterns Across the Amazon Deforestation Frontier 2009 ·Science ·Ana S. L. Rodrigues,Robert M. Ewers,Luke Parry,Carlos Souza,Adalberto Veríssimo,Andrew Balmford	215
17	Predicting freshwater habitat integrity using land-use surrogates 2009 ·Water SA ·(unknown),Mathieu Rouget,Andrew Balmford,Wilfried Thuiller,(unknown),Jonathon Day,Jeanne Nel	16
18	Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation prioritiesbreakdown → 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Robin Naidoo,Andrew Balmford,Robert Costanza,Brendan Fisher,R. E. Green,Bernhard Lehner,Trent R. Malcolm,Taylor H. Ricketts	776
19	The economics of biodiversity loss: Scoping the science 2008 ·Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution) ·Andrew Balmford,Ana S. L. Rodrigues,Matt Walpole	22
20	Mate choice on leks 1991 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Andrew Balmford	60

About Andrew Balmford

Andrew Balmford is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 253 papers that have together received 30.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (87 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (67 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (58 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (4.5k citations), Global and Planetary Change (13.5k citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (7.5k citations). Andrew Balmford has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Frequent co-authors include Rhys E. Green, Ben Phalan, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, Andrea Manica, Robin Naidoo, Neil D. Burgess, Stephen J. Cornell, Kevin J. Gaston, Thomas M. Brooks and Mathieu Rouget. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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