Kumar P. Mainali

1.3k total citations
40 papers, 868 citations indexed

About

Kumar P. Mainali is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Kumar P. Mainali has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 868 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Ecological Modeling and 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Kumar P. Mainali's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (16 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers). Kumar P. Mainali is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (16 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers). Kumar P. Mainali collaborates with scholars based in United States, Nepal and China. Kumar P. Mainali's co-authors include Niti B. Mishra, Bharat Babu Shrestha, Camille Parmesan, Andrew J. McConnachie, K. Dhileepan, L. W. Strathie, Gul Hassan, Dan L. Warren, Scott A. Heckathorn and William F. Fagan and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Kumar P. Mainali

39 papers receiving 850 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kumar P. Mainali United States 17 336 302 277 240 137 40 868
Robin Pouteau France 18 347 1.0× 301 1.0× 230 0.8× 403 1.7× 205 1.5× 46 957
Giovanni Caudullo Italy 13 241 0.7× 149 0.5× 318 1.1× 331 1.4× 166 1.2× 23 794
Salvador Arenas‐Castro Spain 15 433 1.3× 469 1.6× 226 0.8× 256 1.1× 107 0.8× 39 838
Chris Ware Australia 17 626 1.9× 234 0.8× 340 1.2× 205 0.9× 82 0.6× 30 1.1k
Philippe Birnbaum France 17 262 0.8× 231 0.8× 195 0.7× 452 1.9× 133 1.0× 40 896
Katharine L. Gerst United States 15 392 1.2× 433 1.4× 327 1.2× 278 1.2× 166 1.2× 28 870
Rut Sánchez de Dios Spain 12 244 0.7× 327 1.1× 258 0.9× 373 1.6× 181 1.3× 29 822
Daniel E. Winkler United States 15 223 0.7× 125 0.4× 233 0.8× 276 1.1× 196 1.4× 41 739
Greg R. Guerin Australia 19 299 0.9× 358 1.2× 253 0.9× 506 2.1× 258 1.9× 66 1.0k
Aud H. Halbritter Norway 13 209 0.6× 210 0.7× 189 0.7× 336 1.4× 204 1.5× 26 768

Countries citing papers authored by Kumar P. Mainali

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kumar P. Mainali

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kumar P. Mainali

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All Works

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Paudel, Shishir, Sarah L. States, & Kumar P. Mainali. (2025). Urban greening with biodiverse perennial meadows improves ecosystem services in human dominated landscapes. Urban forestry & urban greening. 113. 129014–129014.
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Mainali, Kumar P. & Eric Slud. (2023). Null model analyses are not adequate to summarize strong associations: Rebuttal to Ulrich et al. (2022). Journal of Biogeography. 51(2). 263–268. 1 indexed citations
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Mainali, Kumar P., et al.. (2023). A brighter shade of future climate on Himalayan musk deer Moschus leucogaster. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12771–12771. 3 indexed citations
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Dawson, Michael N, Kumar P. Mainali, Rachel S. Meyer, et al.. (2023). Reshaping biogeography: Perspectives on the past, present and future. Journal of Biogeography. 50(8). 1405–1408. 1 indexed citations
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Evans, Michael J., et al.. (2023). Predicting patterns of solar energy buildout to identify opportunities for biodiversity conservation. Biological Conservation. 283. 110074–110074. 9 indexed citations
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Mainali, Kumar P., et al.. (2022). Convolutional neural network for high-resolution wetland mapping with open data: Variable selection and the challenges of a generalizable model. The Science of The Total Environment. 861. 160622–160622. 18 indexed citations
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Adhikari, Arjun, Ronald E. Masters, Henry D. Adams, et al.. (2021). Effects of climate variability and management on shortleaf pine radial growth across a forest-savanna continuum in a 34-year experiment. Forest Ecology and Management. 491. 119125–119125. 6 indexed citations
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Mainali, Kumar P., et al.. (2021). Chesapeake Watershed Solar Data. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Mainali, Kumar P., Trevor J. Hefley, Leslie Ries, & William F. Fagan. (2020). Matching expert range maps with species distribution model predictions. Conservation Biology. 34(5). 1292–1304. 26 indexed citations
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Singh, Paras B., Kumar P. Mainali, Zhigang Jiang, et al.. (2020). Projected distribution and climate refugia of endangered Kashmir musk deer Moschus cupreus in greater Himalaya, South Asia. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 1511–1511. 41 indexed citations
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Polk, Molly H., Niti B. Mishra, Kenneth R. Young, & Kumar P. Mainali. (2020). Greening and Browning Trends across Peru’s Diverse Environments. Remote Sensing. 12(15). 2418–2418. 11 indexed citations
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Mainali, Kumar P., Sharon Bewick, Briana Vecchio-Pagán, David Karig, & William F. Fagan. (2019). Detecting interaction networks in the human microbiome with conditional Granger causality. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(5). e1007037–e1007037. 28 indexed citations
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Mainali, Kumar P., Sharon Bewick, Peter Thielen, et al.. (2017). Statistical analysis of co-occurrence patterns in microbial presence-absence datasets. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0187132–e0187132. 29 indexed citations
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Mishra, Niti B. & Kumar P. Mainali. (2017). Greening and browning of the Himalaya: Spatial patterns and the role of climatic change and human drivers. The Science of The Total Environment. 587-588. 326–339. 87 indexed citations
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Vecchio-Pagán, Briana, Sharon Bewick, Kumar P. Mainali, David Karig, & William F. Fagan. (2017). A Stoichioproteomic Analysis of Samples from the Human Microbiome Project. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1119–1119. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Dan, et al.. (2016). Timing Effects of Heat-Stress on Plant Ecophysiological Characteristics and Growth. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7. 1629–1629. 54 indexed citations
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Mainali, Kumar P., Scott A. Heckathorn, Dan Wang, et al.. (2014). Impact of a short-term heat event on C and N relations in shoots vs. roots of the stress-tolerant C4 grass, Andropogon gerardii. Journal of Plant Physiology. 171(12). 977–985. 23 indexed citations
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Wang, Dan, Scott A. Heckathorn, Kumar P. Mainali, & E. William Hamilton. (2008). Effects of N on Plant Response to Heat‐wave: A Field Study with Prairie Vegetation. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 50(11). 1416–1425. 29 indexed citations
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Mainali, Kumar P.. (2007). Impact of heat waves on plant-soil links in tall-grass prairie. OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network). 4 indexed citations

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