Deborah Lawrence

8.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
83 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Deborah Lawrence is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Lawrence has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 29 papers in Ecology and 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Deborah Lawrence's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (22 papers) and Forest ecology and management (15 papers). Deborah Lawrence is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (22 papers) and Forest ecology and management (15 papers). Deborah Lawrence collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Indonesia. Deborah Lawrence's co-authors include Karen L. Vandecar, Tana E. Wood, Alan D. Ziegler, Thilde Bech Bruun, Laura Schneider, Katherine L. Tully, Paolo D’Odorico, James M. Eaton, Deborah A. Clark and Birgit Schmook and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Lawrence

82 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Effects of tropical deforestation on climate and agriculture

2014 621 citations Deborah Lawrence, Karen L. Vandecar Nature Climate Change profile →
Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005

2009 443 citations Laura Schneider, B. L. Turner et al. profile →
Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

2019 403 citations Stephanie Roe, Charlotte Streck et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

2012 342 citations Deborah Lawrence et al. profile →
The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate

2022 146 citations Deborah Lawrence, Michael T. Coe et al. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deborah Lawrence United States	39	3.2k	1.6k	1.4k	869	624	83	5.6k
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Brazil	36	3.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.4×	872 1.0×	464 0.7×	142	5.7k
Paulo Moutinho Brazil	31	4.5k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	764 0.9×	415 0.7×	59	6.7k
H. Ricardo Grau Argentina	42	3.7k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	423 0.5×	535 0.9×	115	6.0k
Rodney J. Keenan Australia	37	4.0k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	571 0.7×	411 0.7×	145	6.0k
Bernardo B. N. Strassburg Brazil	35	3.7k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	636 0.7×	446 0.7×	69	6.5k
Márcia N. Macedo United States	31	3.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	657 0.8×	290 0.5×	63	5.6k
John R. Healey United Kingdom	44	2.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.9×	141	5.7k
Manuel R. Guariguata Indonesia	38	4.0k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	2.7k 2.0×	468 0.5×	643 1.0×	108	6.9k
Lisa M. Curran United States	34	3.3k 1.0×	2.5k 1.6×	2.1k 1.5×	356 0.4×	447 0.7×	61	6.0k
Erich Tasser Italy	45	3.7k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	580 0.7×	586 0.9×	130	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Deborah Lawrence

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Fields of papers citing papers by Deborah Lawrence

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Lawrence

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20 of 20 papers shown

Streck, Charlotte, Sara Minoli, Stephanie Roe, et al.. (2025). Considering durability in carbon dioxide removal strategies for climate change mitigation. Climate Policy. 26(3). 493–501.

Lawrence, Deborah, Michael T. Coe, Wayne Walker, Louis Verchot, & Karen L. Vandecar. (2022). The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5. 146 indexed citations breakdown →

Boysen, Lena, Victor Brovkin, Julia Pongratz, et al.. (2020). Global climate response to idealized deforestation in CMIP6 models. Biogeosciences. 17(22). 5615–5638. 95 indexed citations

Roe, Stephanie, Charlotte Streck, Michael Obersteiner, et al.. (2019). Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world. Nature Climate Change. 9(11). 817–828. 403 indexed citations breakdown →

Lawrence, Deborah, et al.. (2018). Warming effects on litter decomposition and carbon cycling in a tropical forest. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

Cuba, Nicholas, Deborah Lawrence, John Rogan, & C. A. Williams. (2017). Local variability in the timing and intensity of tropical dry forest deciduousness is explained by differences in forest stand age. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 55(3). 437–456. 6 indexed citations

Osuch, Marzena, Renata J. Romanowicz, Deborah Lawrence, & Wai Kwok Wong. (2015). Assessment of the influence of bias correction on meteorological drought projections for Poland. 12 indexed citations

Geoghegan, Jacqueline, Deborah Lawrence, Claudia Radel, et al.. (2015). Land system science and the social–environmental system: the case of Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (SYPR) project. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 19. 18–29. 24 indexed citations

Ziegler, Alan D., Jacob Phelps, Kai Wan Yuen, et al.. (2012). Carbon outcomes of major land‐cover transitions in SE Asia: great uncertainties and REDD+ policy implications. Global Change Biology. 18(10). 3087–3099. 158 indexed citations

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Tully, Katherine L., Deborah Lawrence, & Todd M. Scanlon. (2012). More trees less loss: Nitrogen leaching losses decrease with increasing biomass in coffee agroforests. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 161. 137–144. 52 indexed citations

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Evan, Amato T., et al.. (2012). Contributions of long‐distance dust transport to atmospheric P inputs in the Yucatan Peninsula. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 27(1). 167–175. 30 indexed citations

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Wood, Tana E., Deborah Lawrence, Deborah A. Clark, & Robin L. Chazdon. (2009). Rain forest nutrient cycling and productivity in response to large‐scale litter manipulation. Ecology. 90(1). 109–121. 85 indexed citations

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Vandecar, Karen L., Deborah Lawrence, Tana E. Wood, et al.. (2009). Biotic and abiotic controls on diurnal fluctuations in labile soil phosphorus of a wet tropical forest. Ecology. 90(9). 2547–2555. 32 indexed citations

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Vester, Henricus F. M., Deborah Lawrence, J. Ronald Eastman, et al.. (2007). LAND CHANGE IN THE SOUTHERN YUCATÁN AND CALAKMUL BIOSPHERE RESERVE: EFFECTS ON HABITAT AND BIODIVERSITY. Ecological Applications. 17(4). 989–1003. 105 indexed citations

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Diekmann, Lucy, Deborah Lawrence, & Gregory S. Okin. (2007). Changes in the spatial variation of soil properties following shifting cultivation in a Mexican tropical dry forest. Biogeochemistry. 84(1). 99–113. 30 indexed citations

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Wood, Tana E., Deborah Lawrence, & Deborah A. Clark. (2006). Determinants of Leaf Litter Nutrient Cycling in a Tropical Rain Forest: Soil Fertility Versus Topography. Ecosystems. 9(5). 700–710. 61 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Deborah. (2003). The response of tropical tree seedlings to nutrient supply: meta-analysis for understanding a changing tropical landscape. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 19(3). 239–250. 84 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Deborah & William H. Schlesinger. (2001). CHANGES IN SOIL PHOSPHORUS DURING 200 YEARS OF SHIFTING CULTIVATION IN INDONESIA. Ecology. 82(10). 2769–2780. 86 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Deborah. (2001). Nitrogen and phosphorus enhance growth and luxury consumption of four secondary forest tree species in Borneo. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 17(6). 859–869. 43 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Deborah, David R. Peart, & Mark Leighton. (1998). . Landscape Ecology. 13(3). 135–148. 65 indexed citations

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