David L.R. Affleck

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

David L.R. Affleck is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David L.R. Affleck has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in David L.R. Affleck's work include Forest ecology and management (29 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (20 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers). David L.R. Affleck is often cited by papers focused on Forest ecology and management (29 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (20 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers). David L.R. Affleck collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. David L.R. Affleck's co-authors include Marco A. Contreras, Woodam Chung, Zachary A. Holden, Marco Maneta, Alan Swanson, W. Matt Jolly, Jared W. Oyler, Russell A. Parsons, Hailemariam Temesgen and Charles H. Luce and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

David L.R. Affleck

49 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Decreasing fire season precipitation increased recent western US forest wildfire activity

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David L.R. Affleck United States	18	951	745	349	348	190	51	1.4k
Markku Larjavaara Finland	19	797 0.8×	657 0.9×	228 0.7×	227 0.7×	200 1.1×	46	1.4k
Vincent Kint Belgium	22	856 0.9×	1.0k 1.4×	316 0.9×	270 0.8×	351 1.8×	46	1.6k
Don C. Bragg United States	15	869 0.9×	753 1.0×	159 0.5×	381 1.1×	297 1.6×	102	1.4k
Carlos A. González-Benecke United States	20	703 0.7×	716 1.0×	402 1.2×	210 0.6×	163 0.9×	60	1.2k
Andrés Bravo‐Oviedo Spain	28	1.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.9×	357 1.0×	190 0.5×	283 1.5×	54	1.9k
Guy R. Larocque Canada	24	876 0.9×	910 1.2×	184 0.5×	252 0.7×	169 0.9×	82	1.5k
Frédéric Raulier Canada	25	1.6k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	371 1.1×	371 1.1×	548 2.9×	64	2.0k
Robinson Negrón‐Juárez United States	25	1.0k 1.1×	694 0.9×	239 0.7×	416 1.2×	289 1.5×	57	1.6k
Hannu Salminen Finland	19	1.0k 1.1×	793 1.1×	203 0.6×	233 0.7×	290 1.5×	56	1.4k
Ricardo Ruíz‐Peinado Spain	24	1.4k 1.4×	1.5k 2.0×	398 1.1×	242 0.7×	305 1.6×	58	2.1k

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Affleck, David L.R., et al.. (2025). Recognizing van Deusen’s mixed estimator for annual forest inventory as a linear mixed model. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 55. 1–10.

Affleck, David L.R., et al.. (2024). Mill and Landbase Attributes Condition Response Rates to Timber Product Output Surveys in the Western United States. Forest Science. 70(1). 14–22.

Kreider, Mark R., David L.R. Affleck, Philip E. Higuera, et al.. (2023). Mesic mixed-conifer forests are resilient to both historical high-severity fire and contemporary reburns in the US Northern Rocky Mountains. Forest Ecology and Management. 545. 121283–121283. 7 indexed citations

MacFarlane, David W., Philip J. Radtke, Aaron R. Weiskittel, et al.. (2022). Testing a generalized leaf mass estimation method for diverse tree species and climates of the continental United States. Ecological Applications. 32(7). e2646–e2646. 2 indexed citations

Hogland, John, et al.. (2019). Using Forest Inventory Data with Landsat 8 Imagery to Map Longleaf Pine Forest Characteristics in Georgia, USA. Remote Sensing. 11(15). 1803–1803. 11 indexed citations

Affleck, David L.R., et al.. (2019). Tree spatial patterns modulate peak snow accumulation and snow disappearance. Forest Ecology and Management. 441. 9–19. 20 indexed citations

Madani, Nima, John S. Kimball, Ashley P. Ballantyne, et al.. (2018). Future global productivity will be affected by plant trait response to climate. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2870–2870. 109 indexed citations

Keane, Robert E., et al.. (2018). Growth Response of Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm) Regeneration to Thinning and Prescribed Burn Treatments. Forests. 9(6). 311–311. 13 indexed citations

Madani, Nima, et al.. (2016). Remote Sensing Derived Fire Frequency, Soil Moisture and Ecosystem Productivity Explain Regional Movements in Emu over Australia. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0147285–e0147285. 4 indexed citations

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Affleck, David L.R. & Ulises Diéguez‐Aranda. (2016). Additive Nonlinear Biomass Equations: A Likelihood-Based Approach. Forest Science. 62(2). 129–140. 41 indexed citations

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Affleck, David L.R., et al.. (2015). Conifer crown profile models from terrestrial laser scanning. Silva Fennica. 49(1). 23 indexed citations

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Temesgen, Hailemariam, David L.R. Affleck, Krishna Prasad Poudel, Andrew N. Gray, & John Sessions. (2015). A review of the challenges and opportunities in estimating above ground forest biomass using tree-level models. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. 1–10. 126 indexed citations

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Affleck, David L.R., et al.. (2015). Shelter provided by wood, facilitation, and density-dependent herbivory influence Great Basin bristlecone pine seedling survival. Forest Ecology and Management. 342. 76–83. 15 indexed citations

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Affleck, David L.R., et al.. (2014). Branch aggregation and crown allometry condition the precision of randomized branch sampling estimators of conifer crown mass. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 44(5). 499–508. 4 indexed citations

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Nelson, Cara R., et al.. (2011). Assessing the performance of sampling designs for measuring the abundance of understory plants. Ecological Applications. 21(2). 452–464. 22 indexed citations

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Affleck, David L.R.. (2010). On the efficiency of line intersect distance sampling. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40(6). 1086–1094. 8 indexed citations

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Valentine, Harry T., David L.R. Affleck, & Timothy G. Grégoire. (2009). Systematic sampling of discrete and continuous populations: sample selection and the choice of estimator. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 39(6). 1061–1068. 13 indexed citations

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Affleck, David L.R.. (2009). A comparative study of spatial analysis methods for forestry Nelder experiments. Open Collections. 5 indexed citations

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Valentine, Harry T., Mark J. Ducey, Jeffrey H. Gove, Adrian Lanz, & David L.R. Affleck. (2006). Corrections for Cluster-Plot Slop. Forest Science. 52(1). 55–66. 3 indexed citations

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Affleck, David L.R., Timothy G. Grégoire, & Harry T. Valentine. (2005). Design unbiased estimation in line intersect sampling using segmented transects. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 12(2). 139–154. 21 indexed citations

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