Ben Phalan

10.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
67 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Ben Phalan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Phalan has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Ecology and 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ben Phalan's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (28 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (14 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (11 papers). Ben Phalan is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (28 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (14 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (11 papers). Ben Phalan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Brazil. Ben Phalan's co-authors include Andrew Balmford, Rhys E. Green, Malvika Onial, Paulo Catry, Richard A. Phillips, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, Matthew G. Betts, John P. Croxall and Paul F. Donald and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ben Phalan

66 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing and Land Sparing Compared

2011 1.1k citations Ben Phalan, Andrew Balmford et al. profile →
A global strategy for road building

2014 599 citations William F. Laurance, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements et al. Nature profile →
Global forest loss disproportionately erodes biodiversity in intact landscapes

2017 415 citations Matthew G. Betts, Christopher Wolf et al. Nature profile →

Peers

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Phalan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Phalan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Phalan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Phalan 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 Ben Phalan. Ben Phalan 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	Acoustic monitoring of anurans and birds in tropical biomes 2024 ·Biotropica ·Carlos Barros de Araújo, Marcos Robalinho Lima, Patrícia Maia Correia de Albuquerque, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ricardo B. Machado, Ben Phalan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Diego� Varela, Juan Pablo Zurano, (unknown), Luiz dos Anjos	5
2	The sound of hope: searching for critically endangered species using acoustic template matching 2023 ·Bioacoustics ·Cid B. de Araújo, Juan Pablo Zurano, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Waldo Nogueira, (unknown), (unknown), Ben Phalan, Gustavo A. Zurita	9
3	Climate-driven variation in dispersal ability predicts responses to forest fragmentation in birds 2023 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·(unknown), Matthew G. Betts, Marion Pfeifer, Christopher Wolf, (unknown), Luc Barbaro, Jos Barlow, Alexis Cerezo, Christina M. Kennedy, Urs G. Kormann, Charles J. Marsh, Pieter I. Olivier, Ben Phalan, Hugh P. Possingham, Eric M. Wood, Joseph A. Tobias	29
4	New occurrence records of Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril & Bibron, 1836) (Squamata: Gekkonidae) for the amazon and atlantic forest in Brazil 2021 ·Cuadernos de herpetología ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ben Phalan, (unknown), Luisa Maria Diele‐Viegas	1
5	Characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in Brazil 2020 ·Scientific Reports ·Juliana Silveira dos Santos, Rafael Feltran‐Barbieri, (unknown), Andrew Balmford, (unknown), Agnieszka E. Latawiec, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Ben Phalan	13
6	Biodiversity scientists must fight the creeping rise of extinction denial 2020 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Alexander Charles Lees, Simon Attwood, Jos Barlow, Ben Phalan	34
7	Carbon Storage and Land-Use Strategies in Agricultural Landscapes across Three Continents 2018 ·Current Biology ·David Williams, Ben Phalan, (unknown), Rhys E. Green, Andrew Balmford	36
8	Taxonomic status of the Liberian Greenbul Phyllastrephus leucolepis and the conservation importance of the Cavalla Forest, Liberia 2017 ·Journal für Ornithologie ·J. Martin Collinson, Martin Päckert, (unknown), (unknown), Till Töpfer, Ben Phalan, Lincoln Fishpool	4
9	Scaling up from protected areas in England: The value of establishing large conservation areas 2017 ·Biological Conservation ·Assaf Shwartz, Zoe G. Davies, Nicholas A. Macgregor, Humphrey Q. P. Crick, (unknown), Felix Eigenbrod, (unknown), Chris Hill, Andrew T. Knight, Kristian Metcalfe, Patrick E. Osborne, Ben Phalan, Robert J. Smith	18
10	Global forest loss disproportionately erodes biodiversity in intact landscapes breakdown → 2017 ·Nature ·Matthew G. Betts, Christopher Wolf, William J. Ripple, Ben Phalan, (unknown), Adam Duarte, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Taal Levi	415
11	Old‐growth forests buffer climate‐sensitive bird populations from warming 2017 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Matthew G. Betts, Ben Phalan, Sarah J. K. Frey, Josée S. Rousseau, Zhiqiang Yang	72
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	Age-Related Variation in Foraging Behaviour in the Wandering Albatross at South Georgia: No Evidence for Senescence 2015 ·PLoS ONE ·Hannah Froy, Sue Lewis, Paulo Catry, Charles M. Bishop, (unknown), Akira Fukuda, Hiroyoshi Higuchi, Ben Phalan, José C. Xavier, Daniel H. Nussey, Richard A. Phillips	50
14	Reducing the land use of EU pork production: where there’s swill, there’s a way 2015 ·Food Policy ·Erasmus K. H. J. zu Ermgassen, Ben Phalan, Rhys E. Green, Andrew Balmford	150
15	Comparative cognition for conservationists 2014 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Alison L. Greggor, Nicola S. Clayton, Ben Phalan, Alex Thornton	103
16	A global strategy for road building breakdown → 2014 ·Nature ·William F. Laurance, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Sean Sloan, Christine S. O’Connell, Nathan Mueller, Miriam Goosem, Oscar Venter, David P. Edwards, Ben Phalan, Andrew Balmford, Rodney van der Ree, (unknown)	599
17	Protection Reduces Loss of Natural Land-Cover at Sites of Conservation Importance across Africa 2013 ·PLoS ONE ·Alison E. Beresford, (unknown), Paul F. Donald, Andrew Balmford, Bastian Bertzky, Andreas Brink, Lincoln Fishpool, Philippe Mayaux, Ben Phalan, Dario Simonetti, Graeme M. Buchanan	48
18	Biofuel Plantations on Forested Lands: Double Jeopardy for Biodiversity and Climate 2008 ·Conservation Biology ·Finn Danielsen, Hendrien Beukema, Neil D. Burgess, Faizal Parish, Carsten A. Brühl, Paul F. Donald, Daniel Murdiyarso, Ben Phalan, L. Reijnders, Matthew J. Struebig, Emily Fitzherbert	386
19	Seasonal sexual segregation in twoThalassarchealbatross species: competitive exclusion, reproductive role specialization or foraging niche divergence? 2004 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Richard A. Phillips, Janet R. D. Silk, Ben Phalan, Paulo Catry, John P. Croxall	259
20	Chick metabolic rate and growth in three species of albatross: a comparative study 2003 ·Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology ·Richard A. Phillips, Jonathan A. Green, Ben Phalan, John P. Croxall, P. J. Butler	11

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