Jennifer Firn

14.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
83 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Jennifer Firn is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer Firn has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 37 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Jennifer Firn's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (55 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (17 papers) and Plant and animal studies (16 papers). Jennifer Firn is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (55 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (17 papers) and Plant and animal studies (16 papers). Jennifer Firn collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Switzerland. Jennifer Firn's co-authors include John Herbohn, Anita C. Risch, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, Carly Stevens, Johannes M. H. Knops, Justin P. Wright, Martin Schütz, W. Stanley Harpole and Laura Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer Firn

78 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

2015 1.0k citations Jonathan Leff, Stuart E. Jones et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

2016 590 citations Jennifer L. Funk, Julie E. Larson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jennifer Firn Australia	26	1.5k	1.3k	924	907	787	83	3.5k
K. Blake Suttle United States	20	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	610 0.7×	448 0.6×	28	3.9k
Yann Hautier Netherlands	26	1.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.6×	911 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	671 0.9×	72	3.9k
Jane Cowles United States	14	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	500 0.6×	367 0.5×	17	3.0k
E. Carol Adair United States	23	1.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	770 0.8×	1.7k 2.2×	41	4.6k
Juan Gaitán Argentina	19	1.7k 1.1×	965 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	896 1.0×	1.3k 1.6×	43	3.9k
Vicky M. Temperton Germany	38	1.4k 0.9×	2.2k 1.6×	1.3k 1.4×	1.7k 1.9×	1.3k 1.7×	99	5.2k
Loretta C. Johnson United States	31	2.7k 1.8×	1.9k 1.4×	1.4k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	1.3k 1.6×	75	5.2k
Jacqueline E. Mohan United States	24	2.1k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	2.1k 2.3×	1.3k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	44	5.1k
Nona R. Chiariello United States	28	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.9×	1.9k 2.1×	1.1k 1.4×	41	4.5k
T. Michael Anderson United States	29	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	983 1.1×	563 0.6×	303 0.4×	66	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Jennifer Firn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jennifer Firn

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Lyons, Kelly G., Péter Török, Julia‐Maria Hermann, et al.. (2023). Challenges and opportunities for grassland restoration: A global perspective of best practices in the era of climate change. Global Ecology and Conservation. 46. e02612–e02612. 54 indexed citations

Pegg, Geoff S., et al.. (2023). Impacts of Myrtle Rust Induced Tree Mortality on Species and Functional Richness within Seedling Communities of a Wet Sclerophyll Forest in Eastern Australia. Plants. 12(10). 1970–1970. 4 indexed citations

Read, John, et al.. (2020). Ranking buffel: Comparative risk and mitigation costs of key environmental and socio‐cultural threats in central Australia. Ecology and Evolution. 10(23). 12745–12763. 14 indexed citations

Zhang, Pengfei, George A. Kowalchuk, Merel B. Soons, et al.. (2019). SRU_D: A simple non‐destructive method for accurate quantification of plant diversity dynamics. Journal of Ecology. 107(5). 2155–2166. 6 indexed citations

Firn, Jennifer, Emma Ladouceur, & Josh Dorrough. (2018). Integrating local knowledge and research to refine the management of an invasive non-native grass in critically endangered grassy woodlands. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology).

Bryan, Scott E., et al.. (2018). Age and area predict patterns of species richness in pumice rafts contingent on oceanic climatic zone encountered. Ecology and Evolution. 8(10). 5034–5046. 17 indexed citations

Funk, Jennifer L., Julie E. Larson, Gregory M. Ames, et al.. (2017). Revisiting the Holy Grail: Using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 36 indexed citations

Vandegehuchte, Martijn L., et al.. (2017). Mammalian herbivores affect leafhoppers associated with specific plant functional types at different timescales. Functional Ecology. 32(2). 545–555. 6 indexed citations

Baker, Andrew, et al.. (2016). Autecology of a new species of carnivorous marsupial, the endangered black-tailed dusky antechinus (Antechinus arktos), compared to a sympatric congener, the brown antechinus (Antechinus stuartii). QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Dressler, Wolfram, Jessica de Koning, Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio, & Jennifer Firn. (2016). Land sharing not sparing in the “green economy”: The role of livelihood bricolage in conservation and development in the Philippines. Geoforum. 76. 75–89. 34 indexed citations

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Wills, Jarrah, et al.. (2016). Next‐generation tropical forests: reforestation type affects recruitment of species and functional diversity in a human‐dominated landscape. Journal of Applied Ecology. 54(3). 772–783. 25 indexed citations

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Leff, Jonathan, Stuart E. Jones, Suzanne M. Prober, et al.. (2015). Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(35). 10967–10972. 1045 indexed citations breakdown →

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Milford, Michael, Jennifer Firn, James R. Beattie, et al.. (2014). Automated sensory data alignment for environmental and epidermal change monitoring. USC Research Bank (University of the Sunshine Coast). 273–282. 3 indexed citations

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Lamb, David, et al.. (2014). Designing Mixed Species Tree Plantations for the Tropics: Balancing Ecological Attributes of Species with Landholder Preferences in the Philippines. PLoS ONE. 9(4). e95267–e95267. 41 indexed citations

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Firn, Jennifer, et al.. (2014). Wood density : a tool to find complementary species for the design of mixed species plantations. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland).

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Firn, Jennifer, et al.. (2014). Wood density: A tool to find complementary species for the design of mixed species plantations. Forest Ecology and Management. 334. 106–113. 28 indexed citations

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Pichancourt, Jean‐Baptiste, Jennifer Firn, Iadine Chadès, & Tara G. Martin. (2013). Growing biodiverse carbon‐rich forests. Global Change Biology. 20(2). 382–393. 55 indexed citations

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Bryan, Scott E., Alex G. Cook, Jason P. Evans, et al.. (2012). Rapid, long-distance dispersal by pumice rafting. UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia). 111 indexed citations

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Han, Yi, Yvonne M. Buckley, & Jennifer Firn. (2012). An invasive grass shows colonization advantages over native grasses under conditions of low resource availability. Plant Ecology. 213(7). 1117–1130. 21 indexed citations

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Firn, Jennifer. (2009). African lovegrass in Australia: a valuable pasture species or embarrassing invader?. Tropical grasslands. 43(2). 86–97. 24 indexed citations

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