Liba Pejchar

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
81 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Liba Pejchar is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Liba Pejchar has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Ecology, 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Liba Pejchar's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (29 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (26 papers) and Plant and animal studies (19 papers). Liba Pejchar is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (29 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (26 papers) and Plant and animal studies (19 papers). Liba Pejchar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and France. Liba Pejchar's co-authors include Harold A. Mooney, Gretchen C. Daily, Joshua Goldstein, Peter Kareiva, Taylor H. Ricketts, James Salzman, Robert J. Shallenberger, Stephen Polasky, Sara Bombaci and Jai Ranganathan and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Liba Pejchar

79 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Ecosystem Services in Decision Making: Time to Deliver

2009 1.4k citations James Salzman, Gretchen C. Daily et al. eYLS (Yale Law School) profile →
Invasive species, ecosystem services and human well-being

2009 1.0k citations Liba Pejchar, Harold A. Mooney Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Liba Pejchar	2.4k	1.6k	1.3k	692	646	81	4.7k
Christoph Plutzar	2.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	982 0.8×	557 0.8×	583 0.9×	51	5.3k
Jan Hanspach	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	371 0.5×	813 1.3×	90	4.7k
Adina M. Merenlender	2.1k 0.9×	2.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.1×	695 1.0×	760 1.2×	96	5.4k
Cristián Echeverría	2.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	354 0.5×	418 0.6×	70	4.6k
Bernardo B. N. Strassburg	3.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	702 1.1×	69	6.5k
Edward L. Webb	3.1k 1.3×	2.9k 1.8×	1.0k 0.8×	588 0.8×	539 0.8×	137	6.4k
Fabrice DeClerck	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	412 0.6×	1.0k 1.6×	88	5.7k
Philip Gibbons	2.6k 1.1×	2.3k 1.4×	2.2k 1.7×	759 1.1×	616 1.0×	113	5.3k
Ben Phalan	2.8k 1.2×	3.0k 1.8×	1.2k 0.9×	701 1.0×	939 1.5×	67	6.3k
Patrick O’Farrell	2.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	955 0.7×	500 0.7×	409 0.6×	101	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Liba Pejchar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liba Pejchar

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liba Pejchar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Liba Pejchar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Liba Pejchar 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 Liba Pejchar. Liba Pejchar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Duchardt, Courtney J., et al.. (2025). Considering Multiecosystem Trade‐Offs Is Critical When Leveraging Systematic Conservation Planning for Restoration. Global Change Biology. 31(1). e70020–e70020. 1 indexed citations

Bedrosian, Bryan, et al.. (2025). Ferruginous Hawk nest site selection, success, and productivity: Implications for mitigating the effects of natural gas development. Biological Conservation. 310. 111314–111314.

Pejchar, Liba, Christine C. Rega‐Brodsky, Luis‐Bernardo Vázquez, & Ian MacGregor‐Fors. (2025). Bird‐mediated ecosystem services and disservices in cities and towns. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 23(5). 1 indexed citations

Wilkins, Kate, et al.. (2023). Sexual harassment disproportionately affects ecology and evolution graduate students with multiple marginalized identities in the United States. BioScience. 73(5). 376–387. 6 indexed citations

Sofaer, Helen R., et al.. (2023). Land cover differentially affects abundance of common and rare birds. Global Change Biology. 29(11). 2999–3009. 2 indexed citations

Laverty, Theresa M., et al.. (2019). Underrepresented faculty play a disproportionate role in advancing diversity and inclusion. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(7). 1030–1033. 127 indexed citations

Pejchar, Liba, Travis Gallo, Mevin B. Hooten, & Gretchen C. Daily. (2018). Predicting effects of large‐scale reforestation on native and exotic birds. Diversity and Distributions. 24(6). 811–819. 11 indexed citations

Pejchar, Liba, et al.. (2018). An introduced plant affects aquatic-derived carbon in the diets of riparian birds. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0207389–e0207389. 9 indexed citations

Bombaci, Sara & Liba Pejchar. (2018). Using paired acoustic sampling to enhance population monitoring of New Zealand’s forest birds. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 18 indexed citations

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Reed, Sarah E., et al.. (2018). Social Network Analysis Identifies Key Participants in Conservation Development. Environmental Management. 61(5). 732–740. 8 indexed citations

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Pejchar, Liba, et al.. (2018). Potential disruption of seed dispersal in the absence of a native Kauai thrush. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0191992–e0191992. 8 indexed citations

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Mangan, Anna M., Liba Pejchar, & Scott J. Werner. (2017). Bird use of organic apple orchards: Frugivory, pest control and implications for production. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0183405–e0183405. 17 indexed citations

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Pejchar, Liba. (2015). Introduced birds incompletely replace seed dispersal by a native frugivore. AoB Plants. 7. plv072–plv072. 35 indexed citations

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Gould, Rachelle K., Liba Pejchar, Berry J. Brosi, et al.. (2013). Forest Restoration and Parasitoid Wasp Communities in Montane Hawai’i. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e59356–e59356. 14 indexed citations

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Pejchar, Liba, et al.. (2013). Comparing the Ecological Impacts of Wind and Oil & Gas Development: A Landscape Scale Assessment. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e81391–e81391. 61 indexed citations

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Pejchar, Liba, et al.. (2012). Seed dispersal by a captive corvid: the role of the ‘Alalā (Corvus hawaiiensis) in shaping Hawai‘i's plant communities. Ecological Applications. 22(6). 1718–1732. 48 indexed citations

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Salzman, James, Gretchen C. Daily, Stephen Polasky, et al.. (2009). Ecosystem Services in Decision Making: Time to Deliver. eYLS (Yale Law School). 1398 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pejchar, Liba & Harold A. Mooney. (2009). Invasive species, ecosystem services and human well-being. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 24(9). 497–504. 1034 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pejchar, Liba, et al.. (2006). Evaluating the Potential for Conservation Development: Biophysical, Economic, and Institutional Perspectives. Conservation Biology. 21(1). 69–78. 70 indexed citations

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Pejchar, Liba, et al.. (2004). Sap-Feeding Behavior and Tree Selection in the Endangered Akiapolaau (Hemignathus Munroi) in Hawaii. The Auk. 121(2). 548–556. 6 indexed citations

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