Dean L. Urban

15.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
110 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Dean L. Urban is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dean L. Urban has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 55 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 51 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Dean L. Urban's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (50 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (23 papers) and Forest ecology and management (20 papers). Dean L. Urban is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (50 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (23 papers) and Forest ecology and management (20 papers). Dean L. Urban collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Venezuela. Dean L. Urban's co-authors include Sarah Goslee, Timothy H. Keitt, Emily S. Minor, Herman H. Shugart, Carol Miller, Eric A. Treml, Andrew G. Bunn, Robert I. McDonald, Robert V. O’Neill and Patrick N. Halpin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Dean L. Urban

110 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

TheecodistPackage for Dissimilarity-based Analysis of Ecological Data

2007 2.0k citations Dean L. Urban et al. profile →
LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY: A GRAPH-THEORETIC PERSPECTIVE

2001 1.1k citations Dean L. Urban et al. Ecology profile →
Graph models of habitat mosaics

2009 476 citations Dean L. Urban et al. profile →
Landscape Ecology

1987 464 citations Dean L. Urban et al. BioScience profile →
Comparing methods for detecting multilocus adaptation with multivariate genotype–environment associations

2018 391 citations Brenna R. Forester, Jesse R. Lasky et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dean L. Urban United States	52	6.3k	5.3k	4.4k	1.4k	1.4k	110	11.7k
H.H.T. Prins Netherlands	68	9.2k 1.5×	4.3k 0.8×	5.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	2.9k 2.1×	407	16.8k
Emma C. Underwood United States	22	3.5k 0.6×	4.0k 0.8×	3.1k 0.7×	2.2k 1.6×	2.2k 1.6×	41	9.3k
Florian Jeltsch Germany	47	4.9k 0.8×	3.3k 0.6×	5.3k 1.2×	2.1k 1.5×	2.8k 2.1×	202	10.9k
María Uriarte United States	55	3.5k 0.6×	4.9k 0.9×	5.0k 1.1×	2.1k 1.5×	2.7k 2.0×	165	11.6k
George V. N. Powell United States	33	5.6k 0.9×	3.1k 0.6×	3.0k 0.7×	2.5k 1.8×	2.7k 2.0×	61	10.6k
Eric Dinerstein United States	39	6.4k 1.0×	4.6k 0.9×	4.5k 1.0×	3.5k 2.5×	3.1k 2.3×	67	13.7k
Susan G. W. Laurance Australia	51	4.5k 0.7×	5.9k 1.1×	7.4k 1.7×	1.4k 1.0×	2.8k 2.1×	120	12.7k
Clive McAlpine Australia	59	5.8k 0.9×	6.3k 1.2×	2.8k 0.6×	2.2k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	242	13.0k
Martı́n Oesterheld Argentina	41	6.1k 1.0×	4.2k 0.8×	5.9k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	2.8k 2.0×	103	13.1k
Jean‐Marc Fromentin France	43	6.8k 1.1×	7.1k 1.4×	4.4k 1.0×	3.0k 2.1×	2.2k 1.6×	141	13.5k

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Thorne, James H., Ryan Boynton, Allan D. Hollander, et al.. (2023). The Contribution of Microrefugia to Landscape Thermal Inertia for Climate‐Adaptive Conservation Strategies. Earth s Future. 11(6). 1 indexed citations

Schaffer‐Smith, Danica, et al.. (2019). Improved connectivity analysis using multiple low-cost paths to evaluate habitat for the endangered San Martin titi monkey (Plecturocebus oenanthe) in north-central Peru. Landscape Ecology. 34(8). 1859–1875. 6 indexed citations

Forester, Brenna R., Jesse R. Lasky, Helene H. Wagner, & Dean L. Urban. (2018). Comparing methods for detecting multilocus adaptation with multivariate genotype–environment associations. Molecular Ecology. 27(9). 2215–2233. 391 indexed citations breakdown →

Duncan, J. M., Lindsey S. Smart, John P. Fay, et al.. (2018). Leveraging Big Data Towards Functionally-Based, Catchment Scale Restoration Prioritization. Environmental Management. 62(6). 1007–1024. 7 indexed citations

Blaszczak, Joanna R., et al.. (2018). Scoured or suffocated: Urban stream ecosystems oscillate between hydrologic and dissolved oxygen extremes. Limnology and Oceanography. 64(3). 877–894. 89 indexed citations

Belote, R. Travis, Matthew S. Dietz, Peter S. McKinley, et al.. (2017). Mapping Conservation Strategies under a Changing Climate. BioScience. 67(6). 494–497. 28 indexed citations

Austin, Kemen, P. S. Kasibhatla, Dean L. Urban, Fred Stolle, & Jeffrey R. Vincent. (2015). Reconciling Oil Palm Expansion and Climate Change Mitigation in Kalimantan, Indonesia. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0127963–e0127963. 52 indexed citations

Sexton, Joe, et al.. (2012). Long-term land cover dynamics by multi-temporal classification across the Landsat-5 record. Remote Sensing of Environment. 128. 246–258. 165 indexed citations

Read, AJ, Dean L. Urban, Charlotte Dunn, et al.. (2011). Community structure in pelagic marine mammals at large spatial scales. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 434. 165–181. 19 indexed citations

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Xi, Weimin, Robert K. Peet, & Dean L. Urban. (2008). Changes in forest structure, species diversity and spatial pattern following hurricane disturbance in a Piedmont North Carolina forest, USA. Journal of Plant Ecology. 1(1). 43–57. 78 indexed citations

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Gardner, Robert H. & Dean L. Urban. (2006). Neutral models for testing landscape hypotheses. Landscape Ecology. 22(1). 15–29. 106 indexed citations

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Bunn, Andrew G., Lisa J. Graumlich, & Dean L. Urban. (2005). Trends in twentieth-century tree growth at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains, USA. The Holocene. 15(4). 481–488. 48 indexed citations

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Wiersma, Yolanda F. & Dean L. Urban. (2005). Beta diversity and nature reserve system design a case study from the Yukon, Canada. Memorial University Research Repository (Memorial University). 3 indexed citations

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McDonald, Robert I. & Dean L. Urban. (2004). FOREST EDGES AND TREE GROWTH RATES IN THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT. Ecology. 85(8). 2258–2266. 75 indexed citations

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McDonald, Robert I., Robert K. Peet, & Dean L. Urban. (2003). Spatial pattern of Quercus regeneration limitation and Acer rubrum invasion in a Piedmont forest. Journal of Vegetation Science. 14(3). 441–441. 10 indexed citations

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McDonald, Robert I., Robert K. Peet, & Dean L. Urban. (2002). Environmental correlates of oak decline and red maple increase in the North Carolina Piedmont.. Castanea. 67(1). 84–95. 42 indexed citations

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Liu, Jianguo, Jianguo Liu, Eugene P. Odum, et al.. (2002). Integrating Landscape Ecology into Natural Resource Management. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 231 indexed citations

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Bunn, Andrew G., Lisa J. Graumlich, & Dean L. Urban. (2001). Interpreting the Climatic Significance of Trends in Twentieth-century Tree Growth at High Elevations. AGUFM. 2001. 1 indexed citations

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Miller, Carol & Dean L. Urban. (1999). A model of surface fire, climate and forest pattern in the Sierra Nevada, California. Ecological Modelling. 114(2-3). 113–135. 76 indexed citations

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Hansen, Andrew J. & Dean L. Urban. (1992). Avian response to landscape pattern: The role of species' life histories. Landscape Ecology. 7(3). 163–180. 142 indexed citations

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