Brooke Williams

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Brooke Williams is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Brooke Williams has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Brooke Williams's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (6 papers). Brooke Williams is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (6 papers). Brooke Williams collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Brooke Williams's co-authors include James Watson, Oscar Venter, Michelle Ward, James R. Allan, Hedley S. Grantham, Hawthorne L. Beyer, Scott Atkinson, Moreno Di Marco, Bernardo B. N. Strassburg and Rajeev Pillay and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Brooke Williams

28 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems

2020 207 citations Brooke Williams, Oscar Venter et al. profile →
The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity

2022 127 citations James R. Allan, Hugh P. Possingham et al. Science profile →

Peers

Brooke Williams

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Victor Cazalis France

Rachel Neugarten United States

Pablo José Negret Australia

Bastian Bertzky Italy

Edward Lewis United Kingdom

Jamison Ervin United States

Jodi Hilty United States

Harry D. Jonas United States

Laurenţiu Rozyłowicz Romania

Victor Cazalis France

Brooke Williams

570 ×0.9

GPC

518 ×1.0

ECOLO

296 ×1.3

251 ×1.1

NLC

187 ×1.1

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Citations per year, relative to Brooke Williams Brooke Williams (= 1×) peers Victor Cazalis

Countries citing papers authored by Brooke Williams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brooke Williams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brooke Williams

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20 of 20 papers shown

Williams, Brooke, Carla L. Archibald, James Brazill‐Boast, et al.. (2025). Flexible Climate Adaptation Can Substantially Reduce Conservation Costs and Mitigate Risk. Conservation Letters. 18(1). 2 indexed citations

Williams, Brooke, Carla L. Archibald, James Brazill‐Boast, et al.. (2024). Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change. Environmental Research Letters. 19(12). 124047–124047. 3 indexed citations

Williams, Brooke, Hawthorne L. Beyer, Matthew E. Fagan, et al.. (2024). Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions. Nature. 636(8041). 131–137. 36 indexed citations

Williams, Brooke, Jean Paul Metzger, Anna Phelan, et al.. (2024). Telecoupling cannot be ignored for the forest-based carbon market. BioScience. 75(1). 61–67.

Thomas, Hannah, Younshik Chung, Martine Maron, et al.. (2024). Achieving “nature positive” requires net gain legislation. Science. 386(6720). 383–385. 7 indexed citations

Allan, James R., Hugh P. Possingham, Scott Atkinson, et al.. (2022). The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity. Science. 376(6597). 1094–1101. 127 indexed citations breakdown →

Williams, Brooke, Hedley S. Grantham, James Watson, et al.. (2022). Reconsidering priorities for forest conservation when considering the threats of mining and armed conflict. AMBIO. 51(9). 2007–2024. 10 indexed citations

Pillay, Rajeev, James Watson, Andrew J. Hansen, et al.. (2022). Humid tropical vertebrates are at lower risk of extinction and population decline in forests with higher structural integrity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(12). 1840–1849. 19 indexed citations

Roberson, Leslie, Hawthorne L. Beyer, Casey C. O’Hara, et al.. (2021). Multinational coordination required for conservation of over 90% of marine species. Global Change Biology. 27(23). 6206–6216. 11 indexed citations

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Williams, Brooke, B. Alexander Simmons, Michelle Ward, et al.. (2021). The potential for applying “Nonviolent Communication” in conservation science. Conservation Science and Practice. 3(11). 11 indexed citations

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Elsen, Paul R., Earl C. Saxon, B. Alexander Simmons, et al.. (2021). Accelerated shifts in terrestrial life zones under rapid climate change. Global Change Biology. 28(3). 918–935. 41 indexed citations

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Williams, Brooke, James Watson, Hawthorne L. Beyer, et al.. (2021). Global rarity of intact coastal regions. Conservation Biology. 36(4). e13874–e13874. 81 indexed citations

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Ward, Michelle, Santiago Saura, Brooke Williams, et al.. (2020). Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4563–4563. 143 indexed citations

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Williams, Brooke, James Watson, Stuart H. M. Butchart, et al.. (2020). A robust goal is needed for species in the Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Conservation Letters. 14(3). 32 indexed citations

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Ward, Michelle, Hugh P. Possingham, April E. Reside, et al.. (2020). Six million hectares of threatened species habitat up in smoke. 1 indexed citations

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Williams, Brooke, Oscar Venter, Moreno Di Marco, et al.. (2020). Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Locke, Harvey, Erle C. Ellis, Oscar Venter, et al.. (2019). Three global conditions for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: an implementation framework. National Science Review. 6(6). 1080–1082. 107 indexed citations

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McIntosh, Emma, Sarah Chapman, Stephen Kearney, et al.. (2018). Absence of evidence for the conservation outcomes of systematic conservation planning around the globe: a systematic map. Environmental Evidence. 7(1). 49 indexed citations

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Williams, Brooke, Luke P. Shoo, Kerrie A. Wilson, & Hawthorne L. Beyer. (2017). Optimising the spatial planning of prescribed burns to achieve multiple objectives in a fire‐dependent ecosystem. Journal of Applied Ecology. 54(6). 1699–1709. 15 indexed citations

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Williams, Rod N., et al.. (2009). Breeding Chronology, Sexual Dimorphism, and Genetic Diversity of Congeneric Ambystomatid Salamanders. Journal of Herpetology. 43(3). 438–449. 16 indexed citations

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