Bruce Nelson

19.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Bruce Nelson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Nelson has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 42 papers in Ecology and 38 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Bruce Nelson's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (26 papers) and Forest ecology and management (16 papers). Bruce Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (26 papers) and Forest ecology and management (16 papers). Bruce Nelson collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and United Kingdom. Bruce Nelson's co-authors include Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Euler Melo Nogueira, Níro Higuchi, Philip M. Fearnside, Henri Puig, Husato Ogawa, Bernard Riéra, François Fromard, Takuo Yamakura and Derek Eamus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Nelson

120 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks a... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bruce Nelson Brazil 44 3.8k 3.5k 2.3k 1.7k 745 125 8.5k
Richard A. Birdsey United States 45 4.3k 1.1× 6.8k 1.9× 2.4k 1.1× 2.4k 1.4× 974 1.3× 141 9.7k
Frederick J. Swanson United States 46 5.1k 1.3× 6.1k 1.7× 8.2k 3.6× 1.3k 0.8× 1.4k 1.8× 89 15.0k
Stephen K. Hamilton United States 65 3.8k 1.0× 3.4k 1.0× 6.7k 3.0× 1.3k 0.8× 810 1.1× 191 14.9k
Ronald Amundson United States 67 1.6k 0.4× 3.2k 0.9× 5.4k 2.4× 1.3k 0.8× 5.0k 6.8× 228 17.7k
John L. Campbell United States 41 1.8k 0.5× 3.4k 1.0× 2.3k 1.0× 571 0.3× 1.7k 2.3× 146 7.4k
Franz–Josef Bormann United States 58 4.4k 1.2× 3.7k 1.1× 3.8k 1.7× 994 0.6× 1.8k 2.4× 126 12.8k
Jianwu Tang United States 62 1.4k 0.4× 5.8k 1.6× 5.1k 2.3× 1.0k 0.6× 2.6k 3.5× 180 13.3k
Shuqing Zhao China 42 1.4k 0.4× 5.9k 1.7× 2.0k 0.9× 3.3k 2.0× 1.7k 2.3× 113 10.0k
David S.G. Thomas United Kingdom 61 628 0.2× 2.7k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 538 0.3× 5.4k 7.3× 247 13.0k
Timothy J. Killeen United States 32 2.1k 0.5× 2.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 373 0.2× 991 1.3× 65 5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Bruce Nelson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruce Nelson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce Nelson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bruce Nelson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bruce Nelson 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 Bruce Nelson. Bruce Nelson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kramer, David, Bruce Nelson, Tyeen Taylor, et al.. (2025). Seasonal and intracanopy shifts in the fates of absorbed photons in central Amazonian forests: implications for leaf fluorescence and photosynthesis. New Phytologist. 248(1). 76–91. 1 indexed citations
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Stark, Scott C., Antônio Donato Nobre, Luz Adriana Cuartas, et al.. (2024). Amazon forest biogeography predicts resilience and vulnerability to drought. Nature. 631(8019). 111–117. 35 indexed citations
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Song, Guangqin, Jing Wang, Yingyi Zhao, et al.. (2024). Scale matters: Spatial resolution impacts tropical leaf phenology characterized by multi-source satellite remote sensing with an ecological-constrained deep learning model. Remote Sensing of Environment. 304. 114027–114027. 18 indexed citations
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Dalagnol, Ricardo, Lênio Soares Galvão, Bruce Nelson, et al.. (2023). Assessing the Magnitude of the Amazonian Forest Blowdowns and Post-Disturbance Recovery Using Landsat-8 and Time Series of PlanetScope Satellite Constellation Data. Remote Sensing. 15(12). 3196–3196. 3 indexed citations
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Almeida, Danilo Roberti Alves de, Scott C. Stark, Gang Shao, et al.. (2019). Optimizing the Remote Detection of Tropical Rainforest Structure with Airborne Lidar: Leaf Area Profile Sensitivity to Pulse Density and Spatial Sampling. Remote Sensing. 11(1). 92–92. 88 indexed citations
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Martins, Giordane, Bruce Nelson, Matthias Sörgel, et al.. (2019). Sensitivity of Ball-Berry stomatal conductance model parameters to leaf age in the upper canopy of a central Amazon forest. EGUGA. 19096. 1 indexed citations
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Dalagnol, Ricardo, Fabien Wagner, Lênio Soares Galvão, Bruce Nelson, & Luiz E. O. C. Aragão. (2018). Life cycle of bamboo in the southwestern Amazon and its relation to fire events. Biogeosciences. 15(20). 6087–6104. 34 indexed citations
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Nelson, Bruce, et al.. (2015). Pollen colleded by Trigona williana (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Central Amazonia. Revista de Biología Tropical. 44. 567–573. 4 indexed citations
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Miranda, Izildinha Souza, et al.. (2015). Tree Regeneration Under Different Land-Use Mosaics in the Brazilian Amazon’s “Arc of Deforestation”. Environmental Management. 56(2). 342–354. 7 indexed citations
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Wu, Jin, Bruce Nelson, Julia Valentim Tavares, et al.. (2014). Seasonality of Central Amazon Forest Leaf Flush Using Tower-Mounted RGB Camera. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Jianshuang, Natalia Restrepo‐Coupé, Matthew Hayek, et al.. (2013). Tropical forest phenology and metabolism: Integrated analysis of tower-mounted camera images and tower derived GPP for interpreting ecosystem scale processes. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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Nelson, Bruce. (2012). Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Nelson, Bruce, et al.. (2005). Evidence for Shallow-level Assimilation of the Submarine Volcanic Complex Underlying the NW Rift Zone of Tenerife, Canary Islands. AGUFM. 2005. 1 indexed citations
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Campos, Mário F. M., et al.. (2004). Automatic Geometric and Radiometric Registration of Landsat-TM Images Using Mutual Information.. Biblioteca Digital da Memória Científica do INPE (National Institute for Space Research). 343–360. 5 indexed citations
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Nelson, Bruce, et al.. (2001). Modeling biomass of forests in the southwest Amazon by polar ordination of Landsat TM. Biblioteca Digital da Memória Científica do INPE (National Institute for Space Research). 4 indexed citations
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Nelson, Bruce. (2001). Sediment dynamics in Rangoon River, Myanmar. The Science of The Total Environment. 266(1-3). 15–21. 3 indexed citations
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Eglinton, Timothy I., Bruce Nelson, & Ann P. McNichol. (1996). Radiocarbon ages of sedimentary lipids as tracers of organic carbon input to marine sediments. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations
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Nelson, Bruce, et al.. (1985). Trace metal sources in two Malaysian estuaries. Geol. Soc. Am., Abstr. Programs; (United States). 17. 2 indexed citations
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Nelson, Bruce & Rustum Roy. (1958). Synthesis of the chlorites and their structural and chemical constitution. American Mineralogist. 43. 707–725. 60 indexed citations

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