Brett P. Murphy

9.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
140 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Brett P. Murphy is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Brett P. Murphy has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Ecology, 73 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 56 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Brett P. Murphy's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (67 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (66 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (55 papers). Brett P. Murphy is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (67 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (66 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (55 papers). Brett P. Murphy collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and South Africa. Brett P. Murphy's co-authors include David M. J. S. Bowman, Jeremy Russell‐Smith, Grant J. Williamson, Lynda D. Prior, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, Nicola Stevens, Giselda Durigan, Michael J. Lawes, John C. Z. Woinarski and Mark A. Cochrane and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Brett P. Murphy

135 papers receiving 6.1k citations

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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.

Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia

2021 509 citations Nerilie J. Abram, Benjamin J. Henley et al. Communications Earth & Environment profile →
Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents

2016 486 citations Brett P. Murphy et al. Global Change Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brett P. Murphy Australia	42	3.8k	3.2k	2.5k	722	660	140	6.2k
Eric W. Sanderson United States	29	3.2k 0.9×	4.8k 1.5×	2.5k 1.0×	2.0k 2.8×	331 0.5×	66	8.3k
Sally Archibald South Africa	43	5.6k 1.5×	3.4k 1.1×	3.8k 1.5×	617 0.9×	1.1k 1.7×	108	8.2k
Yumiko Kura United States	12	2.6k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	1.7k 2.3×	582 0.9×	22	6.8k
Maurício Lima Chile	35	2.1k 0.5×	4.2k 1.3×	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	504 0.8×	115	6.6k
Mahesh Sankaran India	32	2.6k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	3.2k 1.3×	584 0.8×	353 0.5×	86	5.9k
Thomas F. Allnutt United States	10	2.7k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	1.8k 2.5×	585 0.9×	15	6.9k
Christopher D. G. Harley Canada	44	4.7k 1.2×	6.2k 2.0×	1.0k 0.4×	1.0k 1.4×	404 0.6×	104	10.7k
Kevin McGarigal United States	37	3.8k 1.0×	5.6k 1.8×	3.2k 1.3×	1.8k 2.5×	323 0.5×	88	8.5k
Constance I. Millar United States	36	3.8k 1.0×	2.5k 0.8×	3.0k 1.2×	1.5k 2.1×	1.4k 2.2×	114	6.8k
Holly Strand United States	7	2.5k 0.7×	2.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 2.3×	594 0.9×	9	6.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Murphy, Brett P., et al.. (2025). Exotic Megaherbivores as Ecosystem Engineers in Australian Savannas: Do They Facilitate Predator Movement?. Ecology and Evolution. 15(7). e71622–e71622.

Evans, Theodore A., Paul Eggleton, Brett P. Murphy, et al.. (2025). The relative influences of long‐term fire management and woody cover on termite abundance and activity in an Australian tropical savanna. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(4). 848–856. 1 indexed citations

Christian, Keith A., et al.. (2025). Faunal Responses to Habitat Disturbance: Do the Principles Explaining Responses of Ant Communities Also Apply to Terrestrial Reptiles?. Ecology and Evolution. 15(3). e70939–e70939. 1 indexed citations

Christian, Keith A., et al.. (2025). Limited responses of lizard assemblages to experimental fire regimes in an Australian tropical savanna. Ecology. 106(10). e70235–e70235. 1 indexed citations

Brassard, François, Brett P. Murphy, & Alan N. Andersen. (2024). The impacts of fire vary among vertical strata: Responses of ant communities to long‐term experimental burning. Ecological Applications. 34(7). e3025–e3025. 5 indexed citations

Geyle, Hayley M., Christine Schlesinger, Sam C. Banks, et al.. (2024). Unravelling predator–prey interactions in response to planned fire: a case study from the Tanami Desert. Wildlife Research. 51(8). 2 indexed citations

Murphy, Brett P., et al.. (2024). The influence of fire and termites on tree hollow development in an Australian tropical savanna. Forest Ecology and Management. 577. 122403–122403.

French, Ben J., Brett P. Murphy, & David M. J. S. Bowman. (2024). Promoting Optimal Habitat Availability by Maintaining Fine-Grained Burn Mosaics: A Modelling Study in an Australian Semi-Arid Temperate Woodland. Fire. 7(6). 172–172. 1 indexed citations

Richards, Anna E., et al.. (2024). The efficacy and costing of termite (Blattodea: Termitoidae) survey methods in Australian tropical savannas. Austral Entomology. 63(4). 447–456. 2 indexed citations

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Hohnen, Rosemary, Alex I. James, Brett P. Murphy, et al.. (2023). Abundance and detection of feral cats decreases after severe fire on Kangaroo Island, Australia. Austral Ecology. 48(3). 600–615. 4 indexed citations

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Davies, Hugh F., et al.. (2023). Controlling feral ruminants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: a case study of buffalo in northern Australia. Wildlife Research. 50(11). 899–910. 3 indexed citations

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Reid, Angela M., Brett P. Murphy, Tom Vigilante, & David M. J. S. Bowman. (2022). Pyric Herbivory and the Nexus Between Forage, Fire and Native and Introduced Large Grazing Herbivores in Australian Tropical Savannas. Ecosystems. 26(3). 610–626. 8 indexed citations

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Abram, Nerilie J., Benjamin J. Henley, Alex Sen Gupta, et al.. (2021). Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Reid, Angela M., Brett P. Murphy, Tom Vigilante, & David M. J. S. Bowman. (2020). Distribution and abundance of large herbivores in a northern Australian tropical savanna: A multi‐scale approach. Austral Ecology. 45(5). 529–547. 13 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Thuy T., Brett P. Murphy, & Patrick J. Baker. (2019). The existence of a fire‐mediated tree‐recruitment bottleneck in an Asian savanna. Journal of Biogeography. 46(4). 745–756. 19 indexed citations

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Murphy, Brett P., Lynda D. Prior, Mark A. Cochrane, Grant J. Williamson, & David M. J. S. Bowman. (2018). Biomass consumption by surface fires across Earth's most fire prone continent. Global Change Biology. 25(1). 254–268. 49 indexed citations

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Bowman, David M. J. S., George L. W. Perry, Steven I. Higgins, et al.. (2016). Pyrodiversity is the coupling of biodiversity and fire regimes in food webs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1696). 20150169–20150169. 148 indexed citations

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Russell‐Smith, Jeremy, Andrew Edwards, John C. Z. Woinarski, et al.. (2013). North Australian tropical savannas: the Three Parks Savanna Fire-Effects Plot Network. CDU eSpace Institutional Repository (Charles Darwin University). 6 indexed citations

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Russell‐Smith, Jeremy, Andrew Edwards, John C. Z. Woinarski, et al.. (2009). Fire and biodiversity monitoring for conservation managers: a 10-year assessment of the 'Three Parks' (Kakadu, Litchfield and Nitmiluk) program. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 7 indexed citations

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Murphy, Brett P. & David M. J. S. Bowman. (2006). Kangaroo metabolism does not cause the relationship between bone collagen δ¹⁵N and water availability. Functional Ecology. 20(6). 1062–1069. 135 indexed citations

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