Christopher J. Brown

16.6k citations

166 papers · 11.1k · 7 hit papers · h-index 47

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Ecological Modeling top 0.2%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Ecology top 0.05%
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Papers in

Ecology 109
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies 57
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics 30
Global and Planetary Change 76
- Marine and fisheries research 57
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies 17

Co-authors: Anthony J. Richardson (17 shared papers)Benjamin S. Halpern (17 shared papers)David S. Schoeman (12 shared papers)Michael T. Burrows (12 shared papers)Isabelle M. Côté (3 shared papers)Rod M. Connolly (42 shared papers)Elvira S. Poloczanska (11 shared papers)Pippa J. Moore (10 shared papers)
Journals: Biological Conservation (9 papers)Global Change Biology (9 papers)Conservation Biology (7 papers)Marine Policy (7 papers)The Science of The Total Environment (6 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United States United Kingdom

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Christopher J. Brown

160 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Christopher J. Brown's Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world’s seagrass bioregions 2021 · 307 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Global Change Biology
2016 Frontiers in Marine Science
2016 Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
2015 Nature Climate Change
2013 Nature Climate Change
2011 Science
2011 Science

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1	Global imprint of climate change on marine life Nature Climate Change ·Elvira S. Poloczanska, Christopher J. Brown, William J. Sydeman, Wolfgang Kiessling, David S. Schoeman, Pippa J. Moore, Keith Brander, John F. Bruno, Lauren B. Buckley, Michael T. Burrows, Carlos M. Duarte, Benjamin S. Halpern, Johnna M. Holding, Carrie V. Kappel, Mary I. O’Connor, John M. Pandolfi, Camille Parmesan, Franklin B. Schwing, Sarah Thompson, Anthony J. Richardson Hit paper breakdown →	2013	1632
2	The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems Science ·Michael T. Burrows, David S. Schoeman, Lauren B. Buckley, Pippa J. Moore, Elvira S. Poloczanska, Keith Brander, Christopher J. Brown, John F. Bruno, Carlos M. Duarte, Benjamin S. Halpern, Johnna M. Holding, Carrie V. Kappel, Wolfgang Kiessling, Mary I. O’Connor, John M. Pandolfi, Camille Parmesan, Franklin B. Schwing, William J. Sydeman, Anthony J. Richardson Hit paper breakdown →	2011	999
3	Responses of Marine Organisms to Climate Change across Oceans Frontiers in Marine Science ·Elvira S. Poloczanska, Michael T. Burrows, Christopher J. Brown, Jorge García Molinos, Benjamin S. Halpern, Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg, Carrie V. Kappel, Pippa J. Moore, Anthony J. Richardson, David S. Schoeman, William J. Sydeman Hit paper breakdown →	2016	696
4	Interactions among ecosystem stressors and their importance in conservation Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Isabelle M. Côté, Emily S. Darling, Christopher J. Brown Hit paper breakdown →	2016	668
5	Impacts of Fishing Low–Trophic Level Species on Marine Ecosystems Science ·Anthony D. M. Smith, Christopher J. Brown, Cathy Bulman, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Penny Johnson, Isaac C. Kaplan, Hector Lozano‐Montes, Steven Mackinson, Martin P. Marzloff, Lynne Shannon, Yunne‐Jai Shin, Jorge Tam Hit paper breakdown →	2011	468
6	Climate velocity and the future global redistribution of marine biodiversity Nature Climate Change ·Jorge García Molinos, Benjamin S. Halpern, David S. Schoeman, Christopher J. Brown, Wolfgang Kiessling, Pippa J. Moore, John M. Pandolfi, Elvira S. Poloczanska, Anthony J. Richardson, Michael T. Burrows Hit paper breakdown →	2015	464
7	Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world’s seagrass bioregions Global Change Biology ·Jillian C. Dunic, Christopher J. Brown, Rod M. Connolly, Mischa P. Turschwell, Isabelle M. Côté Hit paper breakdown →	2021	307
8	Global trends in mangrove forest fragmentation Scientific Reports ·Dale Bryan‐Brown, Rod M. Connolly, Daniel R. Richards, María Fernanda Adame, Daniel A. Friess, Christopher J. Brown	2020	240
9	Achieving the triple bottom line in the face of inherent trade-offs among social equity, economic return, and conservation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Benjamin S. Halpern, Carissa J. Klein, Christopher J. Brown, Maria Beger, Hedley S. Grantham, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Mary Ruckelshaus, Vivitskaia Tulloch, Matthew Watts, Crow White, Hugh P. Possingham	2013	227
10	Ecosystem restructuring along the Great Barrier Reef following mass coral bleaching Nature ·Rick D. Stuart‐Smith, Christopher J. Brown, Daniela M. Ceccarelli, Graham J. Edgar	2018	221
11	Managing for Interactions between Local and Global Stressors of Ecosystems PLoS ONE ·Christopher J. Brown, Megan I. Saunders, Hugh P. Possingham, Anthony J. Richardson	2013	216
12	Effects of climate‐driven primary production change on marine food webs: implications for fisheries and conservation Global Change Biology ·Christopher J. Brown, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Alistair J. Hobday, Richard J. Matear, Hugh P. Possingham, Cathy Bulman, Villy Christensen, Robyn E. Forrest, PC Gehrke, Neil Gribble, Shane P. Griffiths, Hector Lozano‐Montes, Juancho Movilla Martín, S.J. Metcalf, Tomas A. Okey, Reg Watson, Anthony J. Richardson	2009	177
13	Ecological and methodological drivers of species’ distribution and phenology responses to climate change Global Change Biology ·Christopher J. Brown, Mary I. O’Connor, Elvira S. Poloczanska, David S. Schoeman, Lauren B. Buckley, Michael T. Burrows, Carlos M. Duarte, Benjamin S. Halpern, John M. Pandolfi, Camille Parmesan, Anthony J. Richardson	2015	163
14	Climate Velocity Can Inform Conservation in a Warming World Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Isaac Brito‐Morales, Jorge García Molinos, David S. Schoeman, Michael T. Burrows, Elvira S. Poloczanska, Christopher J. Brown, Simon Ferrier, Tom Harwood, Carissa J. Klein, Eve McDonald‐Madden, Pippa J. Moore, John M. Pandolfi, James Watson, Amelia Wenger, Anthony J. Richardson	2018	152
15	Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss Global Change Biology ·María Fernanda Adame, Rod M. Connolly, Mischa P. Turschwell, Catherine E. Lovelock, Temilola Fatoyinbo, David Lagomasino, Liza Goldberg, Jordan Holdorf, Daniel A. Friess, Sigit D. Sasmito, Jonathan Sanderman, Michael Sievers, Christina A. Buelow, J. Boone Kauffman, Dale Bryan‐Brown, Christopher J. Brown	2021	152
16	Theoretical Predictions for How Temperature Affects the Dynamics of Interacting Herbivores and Plants The American Naturalist ·Mary I. O’Connor, Benjamin Gilbert, Christopher J. Brown	2011	149
17	Automating the Analysis of Fish Abundance Using Object Detection: Optimizing Animal Ecology With Deep Learning Frontiers in Marine Science ·Ellen M. Ditria, Sebastian Lopez‐Marcano, Michael Sievers, Eric L. Jinks, Christopher J. Brown, Rod M. Connolly	2020	143
18	Shortfalls in the global protected area network at representing marine biodiversity Scientific Reports ·Carissa J. Klein, Christopher J. Brown, Benjamin S. Halpern, Daniel B. Segan, Jennifer McGowan, Maria Beger, James Watson	2015	127
19	Decline of coastal apex shark populations over the past half century Communications Biology ·George Roff, Christopher J. Brown, Mark A. Priest, Peter J. Mumby	2018	124
20	Future recovery of baleen whales is imperiled by climate change Global Change Biology ·Vivitskaia Tulloch, Éva E. Plagányi, Christopher J. Brown, Anthony J. Richardson, Richard J. Matear	2019	121

About Christopher J. Brown

Christopher J. Brown is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 166 papers that have together received 11.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Marine and fisheries research (57 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (57 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (32 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (30 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (20 papers), Coastal and Marine Management (20 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (17 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (1.3k citations), Ecology (7.1k citations), Oceanography (3.4k citations), Global and Planetary Change (5.3k citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.2k citations). Christopher J. Brown has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Anthony J. Richardson, Benjamin S. Halpern, David S. Schoeman, Michael T. Burrows, Isabelle M. Côté, Rod M. Connolly, Elvira S. Poloczanska, Pippa J. Moore, Emily S. Darling and John M. Pandolfi. Their work appears in journals such as Biological Conservation, Global Change Biology, Conservation Biology, Marine Policy and The Science of The Total Environment.

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