Liam Langan

1.0k total citations
21 papers, 655 citations indexed

About

Liam Langan is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Liam Langan has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 655 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 5 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Liam Langan's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (5 papers). Liam Langan is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (5 papers). Liam Langan collaborates with scholars based in Germany, New Zealand and South Africa. Liam Langan's co-authors include Simon Scheiter, Steven I. Higgins, Mirjam Pfeiffer, Carola Martens, V. A. Lazar, Antonio Trabucco, Kenneth C. Beeson, Richard T. Corlett, Glenn R. Moncrieff and Kyle W. Tomlinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Liam Langan

19 papers receiving 644 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Liam Langan Germany 10 388 362 152 147 111 21 655
Leen Depauw Belgium 14 358 0.9× 418 1.2× 151 1.0× 142 1.0× 133 1.2× 20 722
Jyh‐Min Chiang Taiwan 15 406 1.0× 459 1.3× 156 1.0× 81 0.6× 151 1.4× 26 714
Timo Conradi Germany 14 265 0.7× 248 0.7× 211 1.4× 103 0.7× 105 0.9× 28 552
Steffi Heinrichs Germany 16 368 0.9× 434 1.2× 148 1.0× 89 0.6× 135 1.2× 38 786
Mateus Dantas de Paula Germany 14 540 1.4× 447 1.2× 272 1.8× 89 0.6× 91 0.8× 22 849
Shaun C. Cunningham Australia 13 460 1.2× 252 0.7× 191 1.3× 75 0.5× 75 0.7× 16 665
Mathangi Jayaraman India 8 405 1.0× 128 0.4× 110 0.7× 108 0.7× 169 1.5× 9 639
Sandro Pütz Germany 10 464 1.2× 375 1.0× 248 1.6× 71 0.5× 79 0.7× 12 746
Vanda Acácio Portugal 12 607 1.6× 346 1.0× 215 1.4× 41 0.3× 102 0.9× 21 861
Matthew D. Petrie United States 14 537 1.4× 299 0.8× 277 1.8× 63 0.4× 86 0.8× 30 778

Countries citing papers authored by Liam Langan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liam Langan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liam Langan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Liam Langan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Liam Langan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Liam Langan. Liam Langan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Paula, Mateus Dantas de, Laynara F. Lugli, Liam Langan, et al.. (2025). The fungal collaboration gradient drives root trait distribution and ecosystem processes in a tropical montane forest. Biogeosciences. 22(12). 2707–2732.
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Pfenninger, Markus, Liam Langan, Barbara Feldmeyer, et al.. (2025). Predicting Forest Tree Leaf Phenology Under Climate Change Using Satellite Monitoring and Population‐Based Genomic Trait Association. Global Change Biology. 31(9). e70484–e70484.
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Langan, Liam, Simon Scheiter, Thomas Hickler, & Steven I. Higgins. (2025). Amazon forest resistance to drought is increased by diversity in hydraulic traits. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8246–8246. 1 indexed citations
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Scheiter, Simon, et al.. (2024). Modeling drought mortality and resilience of savannas and forests in tropical Asia. Ecological Modelling. 494. 110783–110783. 3 indexed citations
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Knapp, Nikolai, M. Forrest, Liam Langan, et al.. (2024). Modelling past and future impacts of droughts on tree mortality and carbon storage in Norway spruce stands in Germany. Ecological Modelling. 501. 110987–110987. 5 indexed citations
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Scheiter, Simon, et al.. (2023). Biome classification influences current and projected future biome distributions. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(2). 259–271. 7 indexed citations
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Pfeiffer, Mirjam, et al.. (2021). Climate change and elevated CO 2 favor forest over savanna under different future scenarios in South Asia. Biogeosciences. 18(9). 2957–2979. 22 indexed citations
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Paula, Mateus Dantas de, Matthew Forrest, Liam Langan, et al.. (2021). Nutrient cycling drives plant community trait assembly and ecosystem functioning in a tropical mountain biodiversity hotspot. New Phytologist. 232(2). 551–566. 31 indexed citations
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Scheiter, Simon, Richard T. Corlett, Liam Langan, et al.. (2020). Climate change promotes transitions to tall evergreen vegetation in tropical Asia. Global Change Biology. 26(9). 5106–5124. 41 indexed citations
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Pfeiffer, Mirjam, et al.. (2019). Misinterpretation of Asian savannas as degraded forest can mislead management and conservation policy under climate change. Biological Conservation. 241. 108293–108293. 41 indexed citations
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Thonicke, Kirsten, Fanny Langerwisch, Matthias Baumann, et al.. (2019). A social-ecological approach to identify and quantify biodiversitytipping points in South America's seasonal dry ecosystems. 3 indexed citations
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Pfeiffer, Mirjam, Liam Langan, Anja Linstädter, et al.. (2019). Grazing and aridity reduce perennial grass abundance in semi-arid rangelands – Insights from a trait-based dynamic vegetation model. Ecological Modelling. 395. 11–22. 43 indexed citations
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Langan, Liam, et al.. (2018). African shrub distribution emerges via a trade‐off between height and sapwood conductivity. Journal of Biogeography. 45(12). 2815–2826. 15 indexed citations
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Langan, Liam, Steven I. Higgins, & Simon Scheiter. (2017). Climate‐biomes, pedo‐biomes or pyro‐biomes: which world view explains the tropical forest–savanna boundary in South America?. Journal of Biogeography. 44(10). 2319–2330. 48 indexed citations
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Moncrieff, Glenn R., Simon Scheiter, Liam Langan, Antonio Trabucco, & Steven I. Higgins. (2016). The future distribution of the savannah biome: model-based and biogeographic contingency. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1703). 20150311–20150311. 25 indexed citations
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Scheiter, Simon, Liam Langan, & Steven I. Higgins. (2013). Next‐generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology. New Phytologist. 198(3). 957–969. 335 indexed citations
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Langan, Liam, et al.. (1991). Definitive Criteria for Hydrologic Soil Groups. Soil Survey Horizons. 32(3). 69–77. 4 indexed citations
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Nettleton, W. D., et al.. (1986). Differentiation of Closely Related Xerolls that Support Different Sagebrush Plant Communities in Nevada. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 50(5). 1277–1280. 2 indexed citations
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Kubota, Joe, V. A. Lazar, Liam Langan, & Kenneth C. Beeson. (1961). The Relationship of Soils to Molybdenum Toxicity in Cattle in Nevada. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 25(3). 227–232. 21 indexed citations

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