Carissa D. Brown

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Carissa D. Brown is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Carissa D. Brown has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 16 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Carissa D. Brown's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (14 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (13 papers). Carissa D. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (14 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (13 papers). Carissa D. Brown collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Belgium. Carissa D. Brown's co-authors include Mark Vellend, Jill F. Johnstone, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Robin Beauséjour, Lander Baeten, Pieter De Frenne, Kris Verheyen, Sonja Wipf and Jenny L. McCune and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Carissa D. Brown

32 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

2013 387 citations Mark Vellend, Lander Baeten et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

2014 329 citations Mark Vellend, Carissa D. Brown et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carissa D. Brown

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Assessing the Relationships Among Protected Areas, Disturbance, and Ecological Integrity on Newfoundland's Coastal Vegetated Dunes 2025 ·Journal of Coastal Research ·(unknown), Carissa D. Brown	0
2	Social and seasonal risk assessment by woodland caribou: responses to habitat openness, fire, and roads 2025 ·Canadian Journal of Zoology ·(unknown), Carissa D. Brown, (unknown), Eric Vander Wal	0
3	Acoustic features as a tool to visualize and explore marine soundscapes: Applications illustrated using marine mammal passive acoustic monitoring datasets 2024 ·Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), Carissa D. Brown, Valeria Rossi, Jack Lawson	6
4	Factors limiting the potential range expansion of lodgepole pine in Interior Alaska 2024 ·Ecological Applications ·Xanthe J. Walker, Sarah J. Hart, Winslow D. Hansen, Mélanie Jean, Carissa D. Brown, F. Stuart Chapin, Rebecca E. Hewitt, Teresa N. Hollingsworth, Michelle C. Mack, Jill F. Johnstone	0
5	Patterns of vegetation change in Yukon: recent findings and future research in dynamic subarctic ecosystems 2022 ·Environmental Reviews ·(unknown), Donald G. Reid, Carissa D. Brown	10
6	Integrating demographic niches and black spruce range expansion at subarctic treelines 2022 ·Oecologia ·(unknown), Carissa D. Brown	3
7	Eco‐evolutionary dynamics of range expansion 2020 ·Ecology ·Tom E. X. Miller, Amy L. Angert, Carissa D. Brown, Julie A. Lee‐Yaw, Mark A. Lewis, Frithjof Lutscher, (unknown), Brett A. Melbourne, Allison K. Shaw, Marianna Szűcs, (unknown), Takuji Usui, Christopher Weiss‐Lehman, Jennifer L. Williams	76
8	A global framework for linking alpine‐treeline ecotone patterns to underlying processes 2020 ·Ecography ·Maaike Y. Bader, Luis D. Llambí, Bradley S. Case, Hannah L. Buckley, Johanna M. Toivonen, J. Julio Camarero, David M. Cairns, Carissa D. Brown, Thorsten Wiegand, Lynn M. Resler	66
9	Spatial extent and severity of all‐terrain vehicles use on coastal sand dune vegetation 2020 ·Applied Vegetation Science ·(unknown), Carissa D. Brown	5
10	Understanding habitat co-occurrence and the potential for competition between native mammals and invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) at the northern edge of their range 2019 ·Canadian Journal of Zoology ·(unknown), Eric Vander Wal, Erin L. Koen, Carissa D. Brown, (unknown), Floris M. van Beest, Ryan K. Brook	13
11	Reproduction as a bottleneck to treeline advance across the circumarctic forest tundra ecotone 2018 ·Ecography ·Carissa D. Brown, (unknown), (unknown), Steven D. Mamet, Andrew J. Trant, Xanthe J. Walker, Stéphane Boudreau, Karen A. Harper, Gregory H. R. Henry, Luise Hermanutz, Annika Hofgaard, (unknown), G. Peter Kershaw, Jill F. Johnstone	39
12	Biotic and abiotic drivers of tree seedling recruitment across an alpine treeline ecotone 2018 ·Scientific Reports ·Esther R. Frei, (unknown), (unknown), Peter Bebi, Melissa A. Dawes, Carissa D. Brown, Andrew J. Trant, Steven D. Mamet, Christian Rixen	48
13	Shifting global Larix distributions: Northern expansion and southern retraction as species respond to changing climate 2018 ·Journal of Biogeography ·Steven D. Mamet, Carissa D. Brown, Andrew J. Trant, Colin P. Laroque	57
14	The boreal–temperate forest ecotone response to climate change 2017 ·Environmental Reviews ·(unknown), Carissa D. Brown	73
15	Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny 2016 ·Ecology ·Mark Vellend, María Dornelas, Lander Baeten, Robin Beauséjour, Carissa D. Brown, Pieter De Frenne, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Faye Moyes, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Anne E. Magurran, Brian J. McGill, Hideyasu Shimadzu, Caya Sievers	88
16	Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time breakdown → 2013 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Mark Vellend, Lander Baeten, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Robin Beauséjour, Carissa D. Brown, Pieter De Frenne, Kris Verheyen, Sonja Wipf	387
17	The Impacts of Changing Disturbance Regimes on Serotinous Plant Populations and Communities 2013 ·BioScience ·Brian Buma, Carissa D. Brown, (unknown), Joseph B. Fontaine, Jill F. Johnstone	111
18	Historical ecology: Using unconventional data sources to test for effects of global environmental change 2013 ·American Journal of Botany ·Mark Vellend, Carissa D. Brown, Heather M. Kharouba, Jenny L. McCune, Isla H. Myers‐Smith	140
19	Linking past land use, recent disturbance, and dispersal mechanism to forest composition 2009 ·Biological Conservation ·Carissa D. Brown, Céline Boutin	37
20	Free recall from mixed-language lists by Greek-English and French-English bilinguals 1979 ·Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society ·P. D. McCormack, Carissa D. Brown, (unknown)	1

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