Lisa M. Curran

9.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
61 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Lisa M. Curran is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Lisa M. Curran has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Ecology, 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Lisa M. Curran's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (18 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (13 papers). Lisa M. Curran is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (18 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (13 papers). Lisa M. Curran collaborates with scholars based in United States, Indonesia and Brazil. Lisa M. Curran's co-authors include Daniel C. Nepstad, Gary D. Paoli, Mark Leighton, Simon N. Trigg, Kimberly M. Carlson, Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Paul A. Lefebvre, Campbell O. Webb, Peter Schlesinger and Ricardo Alexandrino Garcia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Lisa M. Curran

60 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin

2006 936 citations Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Daniel C. Nepstad et al. Nature profile →
Lowland Forest Loss in Protected Areas of Indonesian Borneo

2004 601 citations Lisa M. Curran, Simon N. Trigg et al. profile →
Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

2012 342 citations Kimberly M. Carlson, Lisa M. Curran et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lisa M. Curran United States	34	3.3k	2.5k	2.1k	934	657	61	6.0k
Manuel R. Guariguata Indonesia	38	4.0k 1.2×	1.9k 0.7×	2.7k 1.3×	970 1.0×	423 0.6×	108	6.9k
H. Ricardo Grau Argentina	42	3.7k 1.1×	1.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	833 0.9×	404 0.6×	115	6.0k
Ben Phalan United Kingdom	37	2.8k 0.8×	3.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	939 1.0×	701 1.1×	67	6.3k
Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Brazil	36	3.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	724 0.8×	430 0.7×	142	5.7k
Bernardo B. N. Strassburg Brazil	35	3.7k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	702 0.8×	1.1k 1.6×	69	6.5k
Paulo Moutinho Brazil	31	4.5k 1.3×	1.6k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	741 0.8×	993 1.5×	59	6.7k
Edward L. Webb Singapore	44	3.1k 0.9×	2.9k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	539 0.6×	588 0.9×	137	6.4k
Per Angelstam Sweden	46	4.3k 1.3×	2.5k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	724 0.8×	413 0.6×	154	7.4k
Felix Kienast Switzerland	52	4.5k 1.4×	1.9k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	620 0.7×	674 1.0×	152	7.9k
Rodney J. Keenan Australia	37	4.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	472 0.5×	541 0.8×	145	6.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lisa M. Curran

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Lake, Frank K., et al.. (2021). Revitalized Karuk and Yurok cultural burning to enhance California hazelnut for basketweaving in northwestern California, USA. Fire Ecology. 17(1). 37 indexed citations

Curran, Lisa M., et al.. (2019). The Power of Podcasts – sharing stories to transform teaching practices, learning experiences and academic cultures. ASCILITE Publications. 569–570. 1 indexed citations

Lake, Frank K., et al.. (2019). Effects of understory fire management treatments on California Hazelnut, an ecocultural resource of the Karuk and Yurok Indians in the Pacific Northwest. Forest Ecology and Management. 450. 117517–117517. 39 indexed citations

Benami, Elinor, et al.. (2018). Oil palm land conversion in Pará, Brazil, from 2006–2014: evaluating the 2010 Brazilian Sustainable Palm Oil Production Program. Environmental Research Letters. 13(3). 34037–34037. 47 indexed citations

Ponette‐González, Alexandra G., Kate A. Brauman, E. Marín-Spiotta, et al.. (2014). Managing water services in tropical regions: From land cover proxies to hydrologic fluxes. AMBIO. 44(5). 367–375. 40 indexed citations

Balch, Jennifer K., Tara Joy Massad, Paulo Brando, Daniel C. Nepstad, & Lisa M. Curran. (2013). Effects of high-frequency understorey fires on woody plant regeneration in southeastern Amazonian forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 368(1619). 20120157–20120157. 59 indexed citations

Carlson, Kimberly M., Lisa M. Curran, Dessy Ratnasari, et al.. (2012). Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(19). 7559–7564. 342 indexed citations breakdown →

Ponette‐González, Alexandra G., Kathleen C. Weathers, & Lisa M. Curran. (2010). Tropical land‐cover change alters biogeochemical inputs to ecosystems in a Mexican montane landscape. Ecological Applications. 20(7). 1820–1837. 39 indexed citations

Ponette‐González, Alexandra G., Kathleen C. Weathers, & Lisa M. Curran. (2009). Water inputs across a tropical montane landscape in Veracruz, Mexico: synergistic effects of land cover, rain and fog seasonality, and interannual precipitation variability. Global Change Biology. 16(3). 946–963. 94 indexed citations

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Cannon, Charles H., Lisa M. Curran, Andrew J. Marshall, & Mark Leighton. (2007). Beyond mast-fruiting events: Community asynchrony and individual dormancy dominate woody plant reproductive behavior across seven Bornean forest types. Current Science. 93(11). 1558–1566. 36 indexed citations

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Cannon, Charles H., Lisa M. Curran, Andrew J. Marshall, & Mark Leighton. (2007). Long‐term reproductive behaviour of woody plants across seven Bornean forest types in the Gunung Palung National Park (Indonesia): suprannual synchrony, temporal productivity and fruiting diversity. Ecology Letters. 10(10). 956–969. 70 indexed citations

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Trigg, Simon N., et al.. (2006). Utility of Landsat 7 satellite data for continued monitoring of forest cover change in protected areas in Southeast Asia. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 27(1). 49–66. 30 indexed citations

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Brando, Paulo, David Ray, Daniel C. Nepstad, et al.. (2006). Effects of partial throughfall exclusion on the phenology of Coussarea racemosa (Rubiaceae) in an east-central Amazon rainforest. Oecologia. 150(2). 181–189. 26 indexed citations

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Soares‐Filho, Britaldo, Daniel C. Nepstad, Lisa M. Curran, et al.. (2006). Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin. Nature. 440(7083). 520–523. 936 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sodhi, Navjot S., Thomas M. Brooks, Lian Pin Koh, et al.. (2006). Biodiversity and Human Livelihood Crises in the Malay Archipelago. Conservation Biology. 20(6). 1811–1813. 30 indexed citations

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Soares‐Filho, Britaldo, Daniel C. Nepstad, Lisa M. Curran, et al.. (2005). Cenários de desmatamento para a Amazônia. Estudos Avançados. 19(54). 137–152. 55 indexed citations

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Hansen, Andrew J., et al.. (2004). Land Use Change Around Nature Reserves: Implications for Sustaining Biodiversity. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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Curran, Lisa M., et al.. (2004). EFFECTS OF SMALL RODENTS AND LARGE MAMMALS ON NEOTROPICAL SEEDS. Ecology. 85(8). 2161–2170. 89 indexed citations

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Curran, Lisa M. & Mark Leighton. (2000). Vertebrate Responses to Spatiotemporal Variation in Seed Production of Mast-Fruiting Dipterocarpaceae. Ecological Monographs. 70(1). 101–101. 15 indexed citations

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Lipinsky, E.S., et al.. (1976). Systems study of fuels from sugar cane, sweet sorghum, and sugar beets. 3 indexed citations

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