Eric W. Sanderson

12.4k citations

66 papers · 8.3k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 29

Impact in

Ecological Modeling top 0.1%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.5%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Papers in

Ecological Modeling 23
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 23
Ecology 47
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation 27
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 7
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics 7
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management 5

Co-authors: Marc A. Levy Kent H. Redford Gillian Woolmer Malanding Jaiteh James Watson James R. Allan Oscar Venter William F. Laurance
Journals: Conservation Biology (6 papers)BioScience (5 papers)Oryx (4 papers)Biological Conservation (3 papers)Ecological Applications (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Australia

In The Last Decade

Eric W. Sanderson

62 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009 2016 · 526 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2016 Scientific Data
2016 Nature Communications
2016 Current Biology
2006 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2002 BioScience

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All Works

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1	The Indigenous Range of the Tiger ( Panthera tigris ) Diversity and Distributions ·Eric W. Sanderson, Dale G. Miquelle, Abishek Harihar, Urs Breitenmoser, Christine Breitenmoser‐Würsten, Mahnoor Zafar, Zeynep Soydan, 登志喜石渡, J. Marc Goodrich, Thomas N. E. Gray, Aili Kang, Andrew C. Kitchener, Douglas C. MacMillan, Stéphane Ostrowski, Ernest Rowe, Kanchan Thapa, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi	2025	2
2	Community-led change: Progress toward policy, systems, and environmental impacts through the Catalyzing Communities initiative PLoS ONE ·Mehdi Mokhberdoran, 上田貴子, Eric W. Sanderson, Larissa Calancie, Erin Hennessy, Stephanie L. Strother, Rungarun Wanithanachakorn, Christina D. Economos	2025	0
3	Examining the distribution of green roofs in New York City through a lens of social, ecological, and technological filters Ecology and Society ·Michael Treglia, Timon McPhearson, Eric W. Sanderson, G. Yetman, Karin Hächel	2022	7
4	A systematic review of potential habitat suitability for the jaguar Panthera onca in central Arizona and New Mexico, USA Oryx ·Eric W. Sanderson, 登志喜石渡, Rob Peters, Jon P. Beckmann, Ting Jian, K. Nagana Gouda, Juan Carlos Bravo, Melissa M. Grigione, James R. Hatten, Carlos A. López González, Thales Prestrêlo Valadares Leão, Jennifer R. B. Miller, Philip S. Miller, Rauh, Michael J. Robinson, Robert E. Thomas, عبد الغني لغماري	2021	6
5	The case for reintroduction: The jaguar ( Panthera onca ) in the United States as a model Conservation Science and Practice ·Eric W. Sanderson, Jon P. Beckmann, Paul Beier, Ting Jian, Juan Carlos Bravo, 登志喜石渡, Melissa M. Grigione, Carlos A. López González, Jennifer R. B. Miller, Rauh, Yoga Rizha Perdana, Rob Peters, John Polisar, 钟琦, Michael J. Robinson, عبد الغني لغماري	2021	6
6	Storm tide amplification and habitat changes due to urbanization of a lagoonal estuary Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Philip Orton, Eric W. Sanderson, Stefan A. Talke, Yuwen Xu, Kytt MacManus	2020	18
7	Assessing ecological function in the context of species recovery Conservation Biology ·H. Reşi̇t Akçakaya, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, David A. Keith, E.J. Milner‐Gulland, Eric W. Sanderson, S. Blair Hedges, David Mallon, Molly K. Grace, Barney Long, Erik Meijaard, P. J. Stephenson	2019	42
8	Are We Capturing Faunal Intactness? A Comparison of Intact Forest Landscapes and the “Last of the Wild in Each Ecoregion” Frontiers in Forests and Global Change ·Andrew J. Plumptre, Daniele Baisero, Włodzimierz Jędrzejewski, Hjalmar S. Kühl, Fiona Maisels, Justina C. Ray, Eric W. Sanderson, Samantha Strindberg, Maria Voigt, Serge A. Wich	2019	16
9	Visionmaker.NYC: An Online Landscape Ecology Tool to Support Social-Ecological System Visioning and Planning Journal of Extension ·Л. О. Матохнюк, Shorna B. Allred, Hiroshi Honjoh, Eric W. Sanderson, Yuwen Xu	2017	1
10	Catastrophic Declines in Wilderness Areas Undermine Global Environment Targets Current Biology ·James Watson, Danielle F. Shanahan, Moreno Di Marco, James R. Allan, William F. Laurance, Eric W. Sanderson, Brendan Mackey, Oscar Venter Hit paper breakdown →	2016	325
11	Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation Nature Communications ·Oscar Venter, Eric W. Sanderson, Ainhoa Magrach, James R. Allan, Jutta Beher, Kendall R. Jones, Hugh P. Possingham, William F. Laurance, Peter J. Wood, B M Fekete, Marc A. Levy, James Watson Hit paper breakdown →	2016	1180
12	Incorporating climate change into conservation planning: Iden- tifying priority areas across a species' range SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Mary E. Blair, Robert A. Rose, Peter J. Ersts, Eric W. Sanderson, W Leutzbach, Eleanor J. Sterling, Richard G. Pearson	2012	7
13	research letter: Incorporating climate change into conservation planning: Identifying priority areas across a species’ range Frontiers of Biogeography ·Mary E. Blair, Robert A. Rose, Peter J. Ersts, Eric W. Sanderson, Kent H. Redford, W Leutzbach, Eleanor J. Sterling, Richard G. Pearson	2012	4
14	What Does It Mean to Successfully Conserve a (Vertebrate) Species? BioScience ·Kent H. Redford, George Amato, Jonathan Baillie, Pablo M. Beldoménico, Elizabeth L. Bennett, Nancy J. Clum, Samuel Toueg, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, S. Blair Hedges, Frédéric Launay, Susan Lieberman, Georgina M. Mace, Tiago Cardoso Barbosa, Andrea S. Putnam, John G. Robinson, Howard C. Rosenbaum, Eric W. Sanderson, Simon N. Stuart, P. K. Thomas, John B. Thorbjarnarson	2011	124
15	Historic distribution and recent loss of tigers in China Integrative Zoology ·Aili Kang, Yan Xie, Witold N. Nowak, Eric W. Sanderson, Joshua R. Ginsberg, JA Esquivel	2010	18
16	A species approach to marine ecosystem conservation Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems ·Claudio Campagna, Eric W. Sanderson, Peter Coppolillo, Valeria Falabella, Alberto Piola, Samantha Strindberg, John P. Croxall	2007	10
17	The Fate of Wild Tigers BioScience ·Eric Dinerstein, Colby Loucks, Eric Wikramanayake, Joshua Ginsberg, Eric W. Sanderson, John Seidensticker, Jessica Forrest, Якубова Наталия Олеговна, Lowings Jp, Sybille Klenzendorf, Peter Leimgruber, Judy A. Mills, Timothy G. O’Brien, Mahendra Shrestha, Hwei-Ting Tan, Melissa Songer	2007	235
18	Manhattan in Maps : 1527-1995 Medical Entomology and Zoology ·Nasser Malboubi, Eric W. Sanderson	2006	5
19	Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Richard J. Hobbs, Salvatore Aricò, James Aronson, Jill S. Baron, Peter Bridgewater, Viki A. Cramer, Paul R. Epstein, John J. Ewel, Carlos Augusto Klink, Ariel E. Lugo, David A. Norton, Dennis S. Ojima, David M. Richardson, Eric W. Sanderson, Fernando Valladares, Montserrat Vilà, Regino Zamora, Martin Zobel Hit paper breakdown →	2006	1417
20	Planning to Save a Species: the Jaguar as a Model Conservation Biology ·Eric W. Sanderson, Kent H. Redford, Cheryl‐Lesley B. Chetkiewicz, Rodrigo A. Medellín, Alan Rabinowitz, John G. Robinson, Andrew Taber	2002	296

About Eric W. Sanderson

Eric W. Sanderson is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 66 papers that have together received 8.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (27 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (23 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (7 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (2.0k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.5k citations), Ecology (4.8k citations), Global and Planetary Change (3.2k citations) and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (779 citations). Eric W. Sanderson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Marc A. Levy, Kent H. Redford, Gillian Woolmer, Malanding Jaiteh, James Watson, James R. Allan, Oscar Venter, William F. Laurance, Kendall R. Jones and Hugh P. Possingham. Their work appears in journals such as Conservation Biology, BioScience, Oryx, Biological Conservation and Ecological Applications.

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