Lee E. Brown

13.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
130 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Lee E. Brown is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee E. Brown has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Ecology, 48 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 45 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Lee E. Brown's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (46 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (37 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (35 papers). Lee E. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (46 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (37 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (35 papers). Lee E. Brown collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Austria. Lee E. Brown's co-authors include Alexander M. Milner, David M. Hannah, Guy Woodward, Daniel M. Perkins, Paul Kay, Stephen R. Hughes, Joseph Holden, Mark E. Ledger, B. Webb and R. D. Moore and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lee E. Brown

127 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Climate change and freshwater ecosystems: impacts across multiple levels of organization

2010 915 citations Guy Woodward, Lee E. Brown et al. profile →
Recent advances in stream and river temperature research

2008 650 citations David M. Hannah, Lee E. Brown et al. profile →
Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs

2008 630 citations Lee E. Brown, François Edwards et al. Journal of Animal Ecology profile →
Global Synthesis and Critical Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Data Sets Collected from River Systems

2012 601 citations Paul Kay, Lee E. Brown et al. profile →
River dam impacts on biogeochemical cycling

2020 551 citations Lee E. Brown et al. profile →
Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems

2017 437 citations Alexander M. Milner, Kieran Khamis et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lee E. Brown United Kingdom	44	4.7k	3.1k	2.4k	1.5k	1.3k	130	8.8k
J. Iwan Jones United Kingdom	42	4.1k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	385 0.3×	847 0.7×	119	7.8k
Jacques C. Finlay United States	55	4.1k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.4×	134	8.8k
Guoyi Zhou China	55	3.6k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	5.3k 4.3×	247	11.4k
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo Brazil	50	2.8k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	841 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	3.8k 3.1×	234	8.7k
Susan Waldron United Kingdom	44	4.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.3×	998 0.4×	719 0.5×	1.9k 1.5×	117	7.0k
Gary M. Lovett United States	63	4.9k 1.1×	3.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.6×	4.4k 3.5×	141	14.0k
Nianpeng He China	65	4.3k 0.9×	3.4k 1.1×	634 0.3×	1.7k 1.1×	3.8k 3.0×	334	13.5k
Irena F. Creed Canada	47	4.1k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	3.1k 1.3×	907 0.6×	2.7k 2.1×	214	9.3k
Jos T. A. Verhoeven Netherlands	55	5.9k 1.3×	1.6k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	639 0.4×	1.4k 1.1×	164	9.3k
Shirong Liu China	54	3.1k 0.7×	3.2k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	1.9k 1.3×	5.9k 4.7×	394	11.7k

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Shortall, C. R., James R. Bell, Elizabeth J. Duncan, et al.. (2025). Spatio‐Temporal Variation in Aerial Arthropod Abundance Revealed by Weather Radars. Global Change Biology. 31(10). e70425–e70425.

Wilkes, Martin, et al.. (2025). Revealing hidden sources of uncertainty in biodiversity trend assessments. Ecography. 2025(5). 1 indexed citations

Loarte, Edwin, et al.. (2024). Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the Cordillera Blanca, Perú. Global Change Biology. 30(7). e17355–e17355. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Jun, Jorge García Molinos, Huan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Macroinvertebrate and environmental responses to dredging and submerged macrophytes transplantation. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(5). 1041–1052. 4 indexed citations

Talbot, Julie, Lee E. Brown, Manuel Helbig, et al.. (2023). Climate‐driven spatial and temporal patterns in peatland pool biogeochemistry. Global Change Biology. 29(14). 4056–4068. 8 indexed citations

Brown, Lee E., et al.. (2023). Interactive effects of resource quality and temperature drive differences in detritivory among native and invasive freshwater amphipods. Freshwater Biology. 68(6). 915–925. 2 indexed citations

Wilkes, Martin, Jonathan L. Carrivick, Emmanuel Castella, et al.. (2023). Glacier retreat reorganizes river habitats leaving refugia for Alpine invertebrate biodiversity poorly protected. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(6). 841–851. 27 indexed citations

Carrivick, Jonathan L., Sophie Cauvy‐Fraunié, Verónica Crespo‐Pérez, et al.. (2021). Fungal decomposition of river organic matter accelerated by decreasing glacier cover. Nature Climate Change. 11(4). 349–353. 22 indexed citations

Brown, Lee E. & Joseph Holden. (2020). Contextualizing UK moorland burning studies with geographical variables and sponsor identity. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57(11). 2121–2131. 5 indexed citations

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Kay, Paul, et al.. (2020). High Concentrations of Pharmaceuticals in a Nigerian River Catchment. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 41(3). 551–558. 54 indexed citations

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Wilkes, Martin, François Edwards, J. Iwan Jones, et al.. (2020). Trait‐based ecology at large scales: Assessing functional trait correlations, phylogenetic constraints and spatial variability using open data. Global Change Biology. 26(12). 7255–7267. 30 indexed citations

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Dunn, Alison M., et al.. (2019). Invasion success of a widespread invasive predator may be explained by a high predatory efficacy but may be influenced by pathogen infection. Biological Invasions. 21(12). 3545–3560. 11 indexed citations

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Brown, Lee E., et al.. (2018). Sediment deposition from eroding peatlands alters headwater invertebrate biodiversity. Global Change Biology. 25(2). 602–619. 15 indexed citations

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Carrivick, Jonathan L., et al.. (2018). Declining glacier cover threatens the biodiversity of alpine river diatom assemblages. Global Change Biology. 24(12). 5828–5840. 31 indexed citations

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Brown, Lee E., Kieran Khamis, Martin Wilkes, et al.. (2017). Functional diversity and community assembly of river invertebrates show globally consistent responses to decreasing glacier cover. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(2). 325–333. 94 indexed citations

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Carrivick, Jonathan L., Martin Geilhausen, William James, et al.. (2015). Decadal‐scale changes of the ödenwinkelkees, central austria, suggest increasing control of topography and evolution towards steady state. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography. 97(3). 543–562. 27 indexed citations

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Brown, Lee E. & Alexander M. Milner. (2012). Rapid loss of glacial ice reveals stream community assembly processes. Global Change Biology. 18(7). 2195–2204. 74 indexed citations

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Brown, Lee E., François Edwards, Alexander M. Milner, Guy Woodward, & Mark E. Ledger. (2011). Food web complexity and allometric scaling relationships in stream mesocosms: implications for experimentation. Journal of Animal Ecology. 80(4). 884–895. 29 indexed citations

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Brown, Lee E., et al.. (1976). Small-scale tests on control methods for some liquefied natural gas hazards. Final report. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 165(10). 2769–2774. 1 indexed citations

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Slaughter, Charles W., Malcolm Mellor, Paul V. Sellmann, Jerry Brown, & Lee E. Brown. (1975). Accumulating snow to augment the fresh water supply at Barrow, Alaska. US Army Corps of Engineers: Engineer Research and Development Center (Knowledge Core). 9 indexed citations

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