Lucy Rowland

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Lucy Rowland is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucy Rowland has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 45 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 16 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Lucy Rowland's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (42 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers) and Forest ecology and management (26 papers). Lucy Rowland is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (42 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers) and Forest ecology and management (26 papers). Lucy Rowland collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and Australia. Lucy Rowland's co-authors include Patrick Meir, Maurizio Mencuccini, Antônio C. L. da Costa, Rafael S. Oliveira, David Galbraith, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Oliver Binks, Yadvinder Malhi, Steel Silva Vasconcelos and R. Toby Pennington and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Lucy Rowland

66 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

2015 493 citations Lucy Rowland, Antônio C. L. da Costa et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucy Rowland United Kingdom	30	2.3k	1.4k	936	705	536	71	3.0k
N. G. McDowell United States	20	2.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.5×	705 1.0×	591 1.1×	31	3.4k
Charlotte Grossiord Switzerland	28	3.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.7×	1.0k 1.4×	508 0.9×	70	3.8k
Robert E. Pangle United States	22	2.0k 0.9×	927 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	751 1.1×	503 0.9×	32	2.5k
Imma Oliveras Menor United Kingdom	30	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	521 0.6×	517 0.7×	688 1.3×	92	2.7k
Clifton W. Meyer United States	9	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	974 1.0×	457 0.6×	768 1.4×	13	2.8k
Jean‐Marc Limousin France	28	2.1k 0.9×	961 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	781 1.1×	368 0.7×	55	2.5k
Heloísa S. Miranda Brazil	30	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	468 0.5×	735 1.0×	897 1.7×	65	3.4k
Matteo Campioli Belgium	32	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	819 0.9×	700 1.0×	1.0k 1.9×	73	3.0k
Ze‐Xin Fan China	33	2.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.9k 2.1×	464 0.7×	241 0.4×	116	3.1k
Daniel M. Johnson United States	36	3.4k 1.5×	1.4k 1.0×	2.0k 2.1×	1.6k 2.2×	517 1.0×	85	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Lucy Rowland

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucy Rowland

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Neves, Danilo M., Catherine Kidner, D. J. N. Hind, et al.. (2025). Plant biogeography of rock outcrops in South American tropical lowlands. Frontiers of Biogeography. 18. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Han, Ian J. Wright, I. Colin Prentice, et al.. (2025). Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback. Science. 388(6750). 984–988. 1 indexed citations

Silva, Mateus, et al.. (2025). COSST: A tool to facilitate seed provenancing for climate‐smart ecosystem restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(3). 677–688.

Xavier, Rafael de Oliveira, Guilherme G. Mazzochini, Éder S. Martins, et al.. (2024). Soil acidification controls invasive plant species in the restoration of degraded Cerrado grasslands. Restoration Ecology. 33(1). 1 indexed citations

Silva, Mateus, Lucy Rowland, Rafael S. Oliveira, R. Toby Pennington, & Peter W. Moonlight. (2024). Elevation modulates the impacts of climate change on the Brazilian Cerrado flora. Diversity and Distributions. 30(5). 6 indexed citations

Giles, André L., Mateus Silva, Guilherme G. Mazzochini, et al.. (2024). Fire triggers reestablishment of invasive grasses in a neotropical savanna under restoration. Restoration Ecology. 33(3).

Bartholomew, David C., David F. R. P. Burslem, Paulo Bittencourt, et al.. (2024). Bornean tropical forests recovering from logging at risk of regeneration failure. Global Change Biology. 30(3). e17209–e17209. 6 indexed citations

Bittencourt, Paulo, Lucy Rowland, Stephen Sitch, et al.. (2023). Bridging Scales: An Approach to Evaluate the Temporal Patterns of Global Transpiration Products Using Tree‐Scale Sap Flow Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(3). 11 indexed citations

Pilon, Natashi A. L., Giselda Durigan, Mário G. B. Cava, et al.. (2023). Challenges and directions for open ecosystems biodiversity restoration: An overview of the techniques applied for Cerrado. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(5). 849–858. 16 indexed citations

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Rowland, Lucy, José Alberto Ramírez‐Valiente, Iain P. Hartley, & Maurizio Mencuccini. (2023). How woody plants adjust above‐ and below‐ground traits in response to sustained drought. New Phytologist. 239(4). 1173–1189. 60 indexed citations

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Binks, Oliver, Lucas A. Cernusak, Michael J. Liddell, et al.. (2023). Vapour pressure deficit modulates hydraulic function and structure of tropical rainforests under nonlimiting soil water supply. New Phytologist. 240(4). 1405–1420. 12 indexed citations

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Giles, André L., Patrícia de Britto Costa, Alexandre Bonesso Sampaio, et al.. (2022). Abandoned pastures and restored savannas have distinct patterns of plant–soil feedback and nutrient cycling compared with native Brazilian savannas. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(7). 1863–1873. 9 indexed citations

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Signori‐Müller, Caroline, Rafael S. Oliveira, Julia Valentim Tavares, et al.. (2021). Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast–slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees. Functional Ecology. 36(2). 341–355. 18 indexed citations

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Giles, André L., Lucy Rowland, Paulo Bittencourt, et al.. (2021). Small understorey trees have greater capacity than canopy trees to adjust hydraulic traits following prolonged experimental drought in a tropical forest. Tree Physiology. 42(3). 537–556. 17 indexed citations

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Giles, André L., Patrícia de Britto Costa, Lucy Rowland, et al.. (2021). How effective is direct seeding to restore the functional composition of neotropical savannas?. Restoration Ecology. 30(1). 18 indexed citations

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Eller, Cleiton B., Lucy Rowland, Maurizio Mencuccini, et al.. (2020). Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate. New Phytologist. 226(6). 1622–1637. 111 indexed citations

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Rowland, Lucy, Peter M. Cox, Debbie Hemming, et al.. (2020). The role of non-structural carbohydrates in simulations of ecosystem carbon fluxes..

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Rowland, Lucy, Antônio C. L. da Costa, Rafael S. Oliveira, et al.. (2020). The response of carbon assimilation and storage to long‐term drought in tropical trees is dependent on light availability. Functional Ecology. 35(1). 43–53. 21 indexed citations

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Rowland, Lucy, Peter M. Cox, Deborah Hemming, et al.. (2020). The impact of a simple representation of non-structural carbohydrates on the simulated response of tropical forests to drought. Biogeosciences. 17(13). 3589–3612. 31 indexed citations

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Mencuccini, Maurizio, Teresa Rosas, Lucy Rowland, et al.. (2019). Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf : wood area ratios. New Phytologist. 224(4). 1544–1556. 102 indexed citations

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