Erle C. Ellis

30.8k total citations · 12 hit papers
138 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Erle C. Ellis is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Erle C. Ellis has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Ecology and 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Erle C. Ellis's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (39 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (25 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers). Erle C. Ellis is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (39 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (25 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers). Erle C. Ellis collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Erle C. Ellis's co-authors include Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan P. Dandois, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Jed O. Kaplan, Stefan Siebert, Dorian Q. Fuller, William F Ruddiman, Peter H. Verburg, Laura J. Martin and Marc Olano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Erle C. Ellis

133 papers receiving 12.1k citations

Hit Papers

Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2010 2018 2013 2011 400 800 1.2k
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. Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world
    2007 1.2k citations Erle C. Ellis, Navin Ramankutty profile →
  2. Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000
    2010 992 citations Erle C. Ellis, Kees Klein Goldewijk et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →
  3. A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation
    2018 784 citations Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, James Watson et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
  4. Used planet: A global history
    2013 553 citations Erle C. Ellis, Jed O. Kaplan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere
    2011 499 citations Erle C. Ellis profile →
  6. People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years
    2021 475 citations Erle C. Ellis, Nicolas Gauthier et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. High spatial resolution three-dimensional mapping of vegetation spectral dynamics using computer vision
    2013 444 citations Erle C. Ellis et al. profile →
  8. Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective
    2015 415 citations Peter H. Verburg, Erle C. Ellis et al. profile →
  9. Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere
    2015 366 citations Erle C. Ellis profile →
  10. Optimal Altitude, Overlap, and Weather Conditions for Computer Vision UAV Estimates of Forest Structure
    2015 349 citations Erle C. Ellis et al. profile →
  11. Land Use and Ecological Change: A 12,000-Year History
    2021 120 citations Erle C. Ellis profile →
  12. Post-2020 biodiversity framework challenged by cropland expansion in protected areas
    2023 86 citations Ziqi Meng, Jinwei Dong et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Erle C. Ellis United States 52 5.6k 3.8k 2.0k 1.6k 1.3k 138 12.7k
Virginia H. Dale United States 50 6.8k 1.2× 4.2k 1.1× 3.6k 1.8× 1.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 172 13.1k
Clive McAlpine Australia 59 6.3k 1.1× 5.8k 1.5× 2.8k 1.4× 1.4k 0.8× 941 0.7× 242 13.0k
Mark A. Cochrane United States 50 10.1k 1.8× 5.0k 1.3× 3.3k 1.6× 1.1k 0.7× 1.5k 1.1× 136 12.9k
Harini Nagendra India 53 6.4k 1.2× 3.9k 1.0× 1.6k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 445 0.3× 191 10.9k
Tobias Kuemmerle Germany 76 11.0k 2.0× 7.2k 1.9× 2.7k 1.3× 1.8k 1.1× 1.4k 1.1× 247 18.2k
Svetlana Turubanova United States 34 9.9k 1.8× 7.6k 2.0× 2.7k 1.4× 3.4k 2.1× 1.4k 1.1× 50 16.0k
Anil Kommareddy United States 13 5.9k 1.1× 4.8k 1.2× 1.8k 0.9× 2.3k 1.4× 983 0.7× 23 10.0k
Mary L. Cadenasso United States 57 7.1k 1.3× 2.9k 0.8× 2.7k 1.4× 3.7k 2.2× 776 0.6× 117 13.0k
Vasilis Dakos France 40 8.7k 1.6× 2.9k 0.7× 1.9k 0.9× 2.3k 1.4× 1.5k 1.1× 100 13.3k
Emilio F. Morán United States 55 8.9k 1.6× 5.6k 1.4× 2.0k 1.0× 3.1k 1.9× 2.0k 1.5× 201 16.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erle C. Ellis

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jenkins, Clinton N., Xi Zhang, Rachael Garrett, et al.. (2025). Identifying conservation priorities in global Biodiversity Hotspots to protect small-ranged vertebrates from agricultural pressure. Communications Earth & Environment. 7(1).
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Ellis, Erle C., Yadvinder Malhi, Hannah Ritchie, et al.. (2025). An aspirational approach to planetary futures. Nature. 642(8069). 889–899. 4 indexed citations
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Zinngrebe, Yves, et al.. (2025). Land-use spillovers from environmental policy interventions. Global Environmental Change. 92. 103013–103013.
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Berl, Richard E. W., Lily M. van Eeden, Jonathan Salerno, et al.. (2025). Foundational principles of an applied cultural evolutionary science for natural resource management and conservation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1940).
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Edgeworth, Matt, Andrew M. Bauer, Erle C. Ellis, et al.. (2024). The Anthropocene Is More Than a Time Interval. Earth s Future. 12(7). 8 indexed citations
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Walker, M. J. C., Andrew M. Bauer, Matt Edgeworth, et al.. (2023). The Anthropocene is best understood as an ongoing, intensifying, diachronous event. Boreas. 53(1). 1–3. 11 indexed citations
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Meng, Ziqi, Jinwei Dong, Erle C. Ellis, et al.. (2023). Post-2020 biodiversity framework challenged by cropland expansion in protected areas. Nature Sustainability. 6(7). 758–768. 86 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dallmeyer, Anne, Erle C. Ellis, Jed O. Kaplan, et al.. (2022). Land-cover and land-use change through the Holocene: Wrapping up the PAGES LandCover6k working group. Past Global Change Magazine. 30(1). 61–61. 1 indexed citations
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Meng, Ziqi, Jinwei Dong, Jun Zhai, et al.. (2022). Effectiveness in protected areas at resisting development pressures in China. Applied Geography. 141. 102682–102682. 17 indexed citations
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Gibbard, Philip L., M. J. C. Walker, Andrew M. Bauer, et al.. (2022). The Anthropocene as an Event, not an Epoch. Journal of Quaternary Science. 37(3). 395–399. 72 indexed citations
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Edwards, Lucy E., Andrew M. Bauer, Matt Edgeworth, et al.. (2022). The Anthropocene serves science better as an event, rather than an epoch. Journal of Quaternary Science. 37(7). 1188–1188. 12 indexed citations
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Ellis, Erle C., Nicolas Gauthier, Kees Klein Goldewijk, et al.. (2021). People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(17). 475 indexed citations breakdown →
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Oberlack, Christoph, Diana Sietz, Ariane de Bremond, et al.. (2019). Archetype analysis in sustainability research: meanings, motivations, and evidence-based policy making. Ecology and Society. 24(2). 141 indexed citations
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Estes, Lyndon, Paul R. Elsen, Timothy Treuer, et al.. (2018). The spatial and temporal domains of modern ecology. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(5). 819–826. 130 indexed citations
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Cao, Wenfang, et al.. (2018). Developing a framework to observe and analyze anthropogenic geomorphology across millennia. Research Padua Archive (University of Padua). 780. 1 indexed citations
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Martin, Laura J., et al.. (2017). Designing Autonomy: Opportunities for New Wildness in the Anthropocene. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 32(3). 156–166. 30 indexed citations
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Magliocca, Nicholas R. & Erle C. Ellis. (2013). Using Pattern‐oriented Modeling (POM) to Cope with Uncertainty in Multi‐scale Agent‐based Models of Land Change. Transactions in GIS. 17(6). 883–900. 23 indexed citations
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Ellis, Erle C., et al.. (2010). Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 19(5). 589–606. 992 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rob, Mohammad A., et al.. (2007). CASE PROJECTS IN DATA WAREHOUSING AND DATA MINING. Issues in Information Systems. 2 indexed citations

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