Daniel C. Donato

13.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
66 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Daniel C. Donato is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel C. Donato has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 40 papers in Ecology and 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Daniel C. Donato's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (44 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (19 papers). Daniel C. Donato is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (44 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (19 papers). Daniel C. Donato collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Indonesia. Daniel C. Donato's co-authors include J. Boone Kauffman, Daniel Murdiyarso, Sofyan Kurnianto, Markku Kanninen, Melanie Stidham, Monica G. Turner, Brian J. Harvey, Joseph B. Fontaine, B. E. Law and William H. Romme and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Daniel C. Donato

65 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2012 2015 2017 2020 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics
    2011 2.2k citations Daniel C. Donato, J. Boone Kauffman et al. profile →
  2. Estimating Global “Blue Carbon” Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems
    2012 1.1k citations Daniel C. Donato, J. Boone Kauffman et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  3. The potential of Indonesian mangrove forests for global climate change mitigation
    2015 582 citations Daniel Murdiyarso, J. Boone Kauffman et al. profile →
  4. Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change
    2017 498 citations Brian J. Harvey, Daniel C. Donato et al. profile →
  5. Total ecosystem carbon stocks of mangroves across broad global environmental and physical gradients
    2020 219 citations J. Boone Kauffman, María Fernanda Adame et al. Ecological Monographs profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel C. Donato United States 37 6.0k 4.2k 1.9k 1.1k 871 66 8.4k
J. Boone Kauffman United States 65 9.9k 1.7× 6.2k 1.5× 3.4k 1.8× 1.7k 1.5× 1.2k 1.4× 131 14.6k
Sally D. Hacker United States 34 6.3k 1.1× 2.8k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 2.2k 1.9× 165 0.2× 82 9.1k
François Fromard France 25 2.5k 0.4× 1.8k 0.4× 2.1k 1.1× 639 0.6× 338 0.4× 47 4.9k
Ilka C. Feller United States 48 7.0k 1.2× 1.3k 0.3× 602 0.3× 2.0k 1.7× 468 0.5× 127 8.0k
Adrian C. Stier United States 29 4.5k 0.8× 2.2k 0.5× 886 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 113 0.1× 73 6.3k
A. I. Robertson Australia 46 4.6k 0.8× 1.9k 0.5× 1.5k 0.8× 464 0.4× 154 0.2× 101 6.3k
Glenn R. Guntenspergen United States 42 5.9k 1.0× 2.1k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 3.0k 2.6× 57 0.1× 121 7.9k
Neil Saintilan Australia 45 6.4k 1.1× 1.9k 0.5× 615 0.3× 2.5k 2.2× 289 0.3× 181 7.5k
Evamaria W. Koch United States 26 6.4k 1.1× 2.5k 0.6× 511 0.3× 1.9k 1.7× 171 0.2× 42 8.8k
G. van der Velde Netherlands 61 9.8k 1.6× 4.7k 1.1× 3.5k 1.9× 236 0.2× 63 0.1× 300 12.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Meigs, Garrett W., C. Alina Cansler, Derek J. Churchill, et al.. (2025). Big trees burning: Divergent wildfire effects on large trees in open‐ vs. closed‐canopy forests. Ecosphere. 16(9). 1 indexed citations
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Rahman, Md Mizanur, Martin Zimmer, Daniel C. Donato, et al.. (2024). Functional composition outweighs taxonomic and functional diversity in maintaining ecosystem properties and processes of mangrove forests. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17152–e17152. 3 indexed citations
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Reilly, Matthew J., Joshua S. Halofsky, Crystal L. Raymond, et al.. (2022). Cascadia Burning: The historic, but not historically unprecedented, 2020 wildfires in the Pacific Northwest,USA. Ecosphere. 13(6). 54 indexed citations
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Kauffman, J. Boone, María Fernanda Adame, Virni Budi Arifanti, et al.. (2020). Total ecosystem carbon stocks of mangroves across broad global environmental and physical gradients. Ecological Monographs. 90(2). 219 indexed citations breakdown →
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Halofsky, Joshua S., et al.. (2018). The nature of the beast: examining climate adaptation options in forests with stand‐replacing fire regimes. Ecosphere. 9(3). 47 indexed citations
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Halofsky, Joshua S., David R. Conklin, Daniel C. Donato, Jessica E. Halofsky, & John B. Kim. (2018). Climate change, wildfire, and vegetation shifts in a high-inertia forest landscape: Western Washington, U.S.A.. PLoS ONE. 13(12). e0209490–e0209490. 27 indexed citations
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Bukoski, Jacob J., Jeremy Broadhead, Daniel C. Donato, Daniel Murdiyarso, & Timothy G. Grégoire. (2017). The Use of Mixed Effects Models for Obtaining Low-Cost Ecosystem Carbon Stock Estimates in Mangroves of the Asia-Pacific. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0169096–e0169096. 31 indexed citations
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Campbell, John L., Daniel C. Donato, & Joseph B. Fontaine. (2016). Effects of post-fire logging on fuel dynamics in a mixed-conifer forest, Oregon, USA: a 10-year assessment. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25(6). 646–656. 10 indexed citations
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Harvey, Brian J., Daniel C. Donato, & Monica G. Turner. (2016). Drivers and trends in landscape patterns of stand-replacing fire in forests of the US Northern Rocky Mountains (1984–2010). Landscape Ecology. 31(10). 2367–2383. 94 indexed citations
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Horák, Jakub, Jiří Kout, Štěpán Vodka, & Daniel C. Donato. (2016). Dead wood dependent organisms in one of the oldest protected forests of Europe: Investigating the contrasting effects of within-stand variation in a highly diversified environment. Forest Ecology and Management. 363. 229–236. 29 indexed citations
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Seidl, Rupert, Daniel C. Donato, Kenneth F. Raffa, & Monica G. Turner. (2016). Spatial variability in tree regeneration after wildfire delays and dampens future bark beetle outbreaks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(46). 13075–13080. 59 indexed citations
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Bače, Radek, Miroslav Svoboda, Pavel Janda, et al.. (2015). Legacy of Pre-Disturbance Spatial Pattern Determines Early Structural Diversity following Severe Disturbance in Montane Spruce Forests. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0139214–e0139214. 42 indexed citations
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Ammer, Christian, et al.. (2014). Multi-taxon alpha diversity following bark beetle disturbance: Evaluating multi-decade persistence of a diverse early-seral phase. Forest Ecology and Management. 338. 32–45. 43 indexed citations
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Harvey, Brian J., Daniel C. Donato, William H. Romme, & Monica G. Turner. (2013). Influence of recent bark beetle outbreak on fire severity and postfire tree regeneration in montane Douglas‐fir forests. Ecology. 94(11). 2475–2486. 88 indexed citations
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Donato, Daniel C.. (2012). Perspective and parsimony in forest carbon management. Carbon Management. 3(3). 227–230. 5 indexed citations
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Donato, Daniel C., John L. Campbell, & Jerry F. Franklin. (2011). Multiple successional pathways and precocity in forest development: can some forests be born complex?. Journal of Vegetation Science. 23(3). 576–584. 218 indexed citations
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Donato, Daniel C., Joseph B. Fontaine, John L. Campbell, et al.. (2009). Conifer regeneration in stand-replacement portions of a large mixed-severity wildfire in the Klamath–Siskiyou Mountains. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 39(4). 823–838. 120 indexed citations
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Donato, Daniel C., Joseph B. Fontaine, W. Douglas Robinson, J. Boone Kauffman, & B. E. Law. (2008). Vegetation response to a short interval between high‐severity wildfires in a mixed‐evergreen forest. Journal of Ecology. 97(1). 142–154. 144 indexed citations
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Donato, Daniel C., Joseph B. Fontaine, John L. Campbell, et al.. (2006). Response to Comments on "Post-Wildfire Logging Hinders Regeneration and Increases Fire Risk". Science. 313(5787). 615–615. 7 indexed citations

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