Barry W. Brook

36.0k total citations · 9 hit papers
337 papers, 24.1k citations indexed

About

Barry W. Brook is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Barry W. Brook has authored 337 papers receiving a total of 24.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 184 papers in Ecology, 123 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 115 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Barry W. Brook's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (133 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (115 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (102 papers). Barry W. Brook is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (133 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (115 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (102 papers). Barry W. Brook collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Singapore. Barry W. Brook's co-authors include Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Navjot S. Sodhi, Richard Frankham, Lian Pin Koh, Damien A. Fordham, Peter K. L. Ng, Derek Spielman, Julian J. O’Grady, Tien Ming Lee and Christopher N. Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Barry W. Brook

328 papers receiving 22.9k 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.

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

2011 1.5k citations Barry W. Brook, Corey J. A. Bradshaw et al. profile →
Synergies among extinction drivers under global change

2008 1.4k citations Barry W. Brook, Navjot S. Sodhi et al. profile →
STRENGTH OF EVIDENCE FOR DENSITY DEPENDENCE IN ABUNDANCE TIME SERIES OF 1198 SPECIES

2006 1.3k citations Barry W. Brook, Corey J. A. Bradshaw profile →
Southeast Asian biodiversity: an impending disaster

2004 1.1k citations Navjot S. Sodhi, Barry W. Brook et al. profile →
Most species are not driven to extinction before genetic factors impact them

2004 908 citations Barry W. Brook et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Genetics in conservation management: Revised recommendations for the 50/500 rules, Red List criteria and population viability analyses

2014 712 citations Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Barry W. Brook et al. profile →
Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene

2017 646 citations Christopher N. Johnson, Barry W. Brook et al. profile →
Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore

2003 513 citations Barry W. Brook, Navjot S. Sodhi et al. profile →
Cross validation for model selection: A review with examples from ecology

2022 163 citations Luke A. Yates, Zach Aandahl et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barry W. Brook Australia	69	11.4k	7.7k	6.8k	5.8k	4.5k	337	24.1k
Corey J. A. Bradshaw Australia	71	11.7k 1.0×	7.4k 1.0×	6.9k 1.0×	3.2k 0.6×	3.6k 0.8×	355	23.1k
Andy Jarvis Colombia	45	7.1k 0.6×	6.1k 0.8×	5.7k 0.8×	7.6k 1.3×	6.7k 1.5×	108	24.9k
Juan L. Parra Colombia	23	6.7k 0.6×	6.6k 0.9×	4.0k 0.6×	8.3k 1.4×	5.8k 1.3×	61	19.0k
Jennifer Kent Australia	22	7.5k 0.7×	7.5k 1.0×	6.4k 0.9×	4.4k 0.8×	7.4k 1.7×	82	24.3k
Rodolfo Dirzo United States	58	10.8k 0.9×	9.9k 1.3×	5.6k 0.8×	4.1k 0.7×	7.2k 1.6×	229	24.1k
Stuart L. Pimm United States	86	14.7k 1.3×	10.8k 1.4×	8.4k 1.2×	6.4k 1.1×	7.6k 1.7×	280	29.7k
Cristina G. Mittermeier United States	8	11.1k 1.0×	10.1k 1.3×	8.9k 1.3×	6.0k 1.0×	9.1k 2.0×	11	30.1k
Taylor H. Ricketts United States	57	8.1k 0.7×	7.4k 1.0×	12.6k 1.8×	3.9k 0.7×	7.1k 1.6×	126	27.6k
Navjot S. Sodhi Singapore	59	9.0k 0.8×	6.7k 0.9×	7.0k 1.0×	4.2k 0.7×	4.9k 1.1×	170	19.1k
Nicholas J. Gotelli United States	71	12.8k 1.1×	13.9k 1.8×	5.2k 0.8×	6.7k 1.2×	11.7k 2.6×	222	29.4k

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Brook, Barry W., S. Kathleen Lyons, Benjamin E. Carter, et al.. (2025). Late Pleistocene faunal community patterns disrupted by Holocene human impacts. Biology Letters. 21(8). 20250151–20250151.

Brook, Barry W., et al.. (2024). Measuring the human-dimension of outdoor recreation and its impacts on terrestrial wildlife. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. 47. 100808–100808. 2 indexed citations

Johnson, Christopher N., et al.. (2024). Seasonal and depth-dependent thermoregulatory benefits of burrows for wombats – The largest burrowing marsupials. Journal of Thermal Biology. 125. 103961–103961.

Brook, Barry W., et al.. (2024). Camouflage or Coincidence? Investigating the Effects of Spatial and Temporal Environmental Features on Feral Cat Morphology in Tasmania. Ecology and Evolution. 14(11). e70530–e70530.

McDowell, Matthew C., et al.. (2023). Modelling of fossil and contemporary data suggest the Broad‐toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus) currently occupies a small part of its available climatic niche: Implications of paleontological data for conservation of a threatened species. Austral Ecology. 48(7). 1292–1305. 3 indexed citations

Cunningham, Calum X., Christopher N. Johnson, Sean Haythorne, et al.. (2023). Projecting the dynamics of invading deer with pattern‐oriented modelling to support management decision‐making. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(1). 173–185. 4 indexed citations

Ondei, Stefania, et al.. (2022). Predicted impacts of climate change and extreme temperature events on the future distribution of fruit bat species in Australia. Global Ecology and Conservation. 37. e02181–e02181. 13 indexed citations

Fordham, Damien A., Sean Haythorne, Stuart C. Brown, Jessie C. Buettel, & Barry W. Brook. (2021). poems: R package for simulating species' range dynamics using pattern‐oriented validation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(12). 2364–2371. 20 indexed citations

Wheatley, Rebecca, Jessie C. Buettel, Barry W. Brook, Christopher N. Johnson, & Rory P. Wilson. (2021). Accidents alter animal fitness landscapes. Ecology Letters. 24(5). 920–934. 11 indexed citations

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Buettel, Jessie C., et al.. (2021). Roadkill islands: Carnivore extinction shifts seasonal use of roadside carrion by generalist avian scavenger. Journal of Animal Ecology. 90(10). 2268–2276. 9 indexed citations

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Brook, Barry W., et al.. (2021). Factors affecting success of conservation translocations of terrestrial vertebrates: A global systematic review. Global Ecology and Conservation. 28. e01630–e01630. 74 indexed citations

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Fordham, Damien A., Ron Sinclair, David Peacock, et al.. (2012). European rabbit survival and recruitment are linked to epidemiological and environmental conditions in their exotic range. Austral Ecology. 37(8). 945–957. 16 indexed citations

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Fordham, Damien A., et al.. (2012). Managed relocation as an adaptation strategy for mitigating climate change threats to the persistence of an endangered lizard. Global Change Biology. 18(9). 2743–2755. 53 indexed citations

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Brook, Barry W.. (2011). Global climate change: Convergence of disciplines by Arnold J. Bloom. Sunderland (Massachusetts): Sinauer Associates. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 86(2). 130. 4 indexed citations

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Haile, James, Duane Froese, R. D. E. MacPhee, et al.. (2009). Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(52). 22352–22357. 186 indexed citations

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Monte‐Luna, Pablo del, Daniel Lluch‐Belda, Roberto Carmona, et al.. (2008). Extinciones en el mar: mitos y realidades. Interciencia. 33(1). 74–80. 3 indexed citations

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Bradshaw, Corey J. A., Navjot S. Sodhi, Kelvin S.‐H. Peh, & Barry W. Brook. (2007). Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world. Global Change Biology. 13(11). 2379–2395. 418 indexed citations

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Sodhi, Navjot S., Barry W. Brook, & Corey J. A. Bradshaw. (2007). Tropical Conservation Biology. CDU eSpace Institutional Repository (Charles Darwin University). 56 indexed citations

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Brook, Barry W. & Peter Whitehead. (2006). The Fragile Millions of the Tropical North. CDU eSpace Institutional Repository (Charles Darwin University). 2 indexed citations

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Brook, Barry W., Rosemary G. Gillespie, & P. S. Martin. (2006). Megafauna mix-up. 27. 35–37. 4 indexed citations

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