Lee E. Brown

13.3k citations

130 papers · 8.8k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 44

Impact in

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.2%
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Ecology top 0.2%
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior

Papers in ⓘ

Nature and Landscape Conservation 48
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies 46
Ecology 88
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology 35
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology 21
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes 21
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior 19
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics 18

Co-authors: Alexander M. Milner (42 shared papers)David M. Hannah (30 shared papers)Guy Woodward (10 shared papers)Daniel M. Perkins (1 shared paper)Paul Kay (8 shared papers)Stephen R. Hughes (3 shared papers)Joseph Holden (22 shared papers)Mark E. Ledger (11 shared papers)
Journals: Hydrological Processes (9 papers)Global Change Biology (9 papers)Freshwater Biology (8 papers)River Research and Applications (5 papers)Nature Climate Change (5 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Austria

In The Last Decade

Lee E. Brown

127 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

River dam impacts on biogeochemical cycling 2020 · 551 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.

2020 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2012 Environmental Science & Technology
2010 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
2008 Hydrological Processes
2008 Journal of Animal Ecology

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1	Climate change and freshwater ecosystems: impacts across multiple levels of organization Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Guy Woodward, Daniel M. Perkins, Lee E. Brown Hit paper breakdown →	2010	915
2	Recent advances in stream and river temperature research Hydrological Processes ·B. Webb, David M. Hannah, R. D. Moore, Lee E. Brown, F. Nobilis Hit paper breakdown →	2008	650
3	Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs Journal of Animal Ecology ·Thomas C. Ings, José M. Montoya, Jordi Bascompte, Nico Blüthgen, Lee E. Brown, Carsten F. Dormann, François Edwards, David Figueroa, Ute Jacob, J. Iwan Jones, Rasmus B. Lauridsen, Mark E. Ledger, Hannah M. Lewis, Jens M. Olesen, F. J. Frank van Veen, Phil H. Warren, Guy Woodward Hit paper breakdown →	2008	630
4	Global Synthesis and Critical Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Data Sets Collected from River Systems Environmental Science & Technology ·Stephen R. Hughes, Paul Kay, Lee E. Brown Hit paper breakdown →	2012	601
5	River dam impacts on biogeochemical cycling Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Taylor Maavara, Qiuwen Chen, K. J. Van Meter, Lee E. Brown, Jianyun Zhang, Jinren Ni, Christiane Zarfl Hit paper breakdown →	2020	551
6	Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alexander M. Milner, Kieran Khamis, Tom J. Battin, John E. Brittain, Nicholas E. Barrand, Leopold Füreder, Sophie Cauvy‐Fraunié, Gísli Már Gíslason, Dean Jacobsen, David M. Hannah, Andy Hodson, Eran Hood, Valeria Lencioni, Jón S. Ólafsson, Christopher T. Robinson, Martyn Tranter, Lee E. Brown Hit paper breakdown →	2017	437
7	Biodiversity under threat in glacier-fed river systems Nature Climate Change ·Dean Jacobsen, Alexander M. Milner, Lee E. Brown, Olivier Dangles	2012	249
8	Vulnerability of alpine stream biodiversity to shrinking glaciers and snowpacks Global Change Biology ·Lee E. Brown, David M. Hannah, Alexander M. Milner	2007	245
9	Hydroecological response of river systems to shrinking glaciers Hydrological Processes ·Alexander M. Milner, Lee E. Brown, David M. Hannah	2008	239
10	Drought alters the structure and functioning of complex food webs Nature Climate Change ·Mark E. Ledger, Lee E. Brown, François Edwards, Alexander M. Milner, Guy Woodward	2012	195
11	Fire effects on aquatic ecosystems: an assessment of the current state of the science Freshwater Science ·Rebecca J. Bixby, Scott D. Cooper, Robert E. Gresswell, Lee E. Brown, Clifford N. Dahm, Kathleen A. Dwire	2015	166
12	The effects of climatic fluctuations and extreme events on running water ecosystems Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Guy Woodward, Núria Bonada‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬, Lee E. Brown, Russell G. Death, Isabelle Durance, Clare Gray, Sally Hladyz, Mark E. Ledger, Alexander M. Milner, S. J. Ormerod, Ross M. Thompson, Samraat Pawar	2016	147
13	Widespread, routine occurrence of pharmaceuticals in sewage effluent, combined sewer overflows and receiving waters Environmental Pollution ·Paul Kay, Stephen R. Hughes, James R. Ault, Alison E. Ashcroft, Lee E. Brown	2016	114
14	Environmental effects of drainage, drain-blocking and prescribed vegetation burning in UK upland peatlands Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment ·Sorain J. Ramchunder, Lee E. Brown, Joseph Holden	2009	110
15	Alpine Stream Habitat Classification: An Alternative Approach Incorporating the Role of Dynamic Water Source Contributions Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research ·Lee E. Brown, David M. Hannah, Alexander M. Milner	2003	108
16	Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions Nature Geoscience ·Junyu Zou, Alan D. Ziegler, Deliang Chen, Gavin McNicol, Philippe Ciais, Xin Jiang, Chunmiao Zheng, Jie Wu, Jin Wu, Ziyu Lin, Xinyue He, Lee E. Brown, Joseph Holden, Zuotai Zhang, Sorain J. Ramchunder, Anping Chen, Zhenzhong Zeng	2022	107
17	Impact of simulated drought on ecosystem biomass production: an experimental test in stream mesocosms Global Change Biology ·Mark E. Ledger, François Edwards, Lee E. Brown, Alexander M. Milner, Guy Woodward	2011	99
18	A critical analysis of regulated river ecosystem responses to managed environmental flows from reservoirs Freshwater Biology ·Ben R. Gillespie, Simon Desmet, Paul Kay, Martin R. Tillotson, Lee E. Brown	2014	97
19	Functional diversity and community assembly of river invertebrates show globally consistent responses to decreasing glacier cover Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Lee E. Brown, Kieran Khamis, Martin Wilkes, Phillip Blaen, John E. Brittain, Jonathan L. Carrivick, Sarah Fell, Nikolai Friberg, Leopold Füreder, Gísli Már Gíslason, Sarah Hainie, David M. Hannah, William James, Valeria Lencioni, Jón S. Ólafsson, Christopher T. Robinson, Svein Jakob Saltveit, Craig M. Thompson, Alexander M. Milner	2017	94
20	Integrating climate–hydrology–ecology for alpine river systems Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems ·David M. Hannah, Lee E. Brown, Alexander M. Milner, Angela M. Gurnell, Glenn R. McGregor, Geoff Petts, B. P. G. Smith, Deborah L. Snook	2006	91

About Lee E. Brown

Lee E. Brown is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Water Science and Technology, Ecological Modeling and Atmospheric Science, having authored 130 papers that have together received 8.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (46 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (37 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (35 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (21 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (21 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (21 papers), Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (19 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (3.1k citations), Ecology (4.7k citations), Water Science and Technology (2.4k citations), Ecological Modeling (656 citations) and Environmental Chemistry (1.1k citations). Lee E. Brown has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Austria. Frequent co-authors include Alexander M. Milner, David M. Hannah, Guy Woodward, Daniel M. Perkins, Paul Kay, Stephen R. Hughes, Joseph Holden, Mark E. Ledger, R. D. Moore and F. Nobilis. Their work appears in journals such as Hydrological Processes, Global Change Biology, Freshwater Biology, River Research and Applications and Nature Climate Change.

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