Marion Pfeifer

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Marion Pfeifer is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marion Pfeifer has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 27 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Marion Pfeifer's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (24 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers). Marion Pfeifer is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (24 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers). Marion Pfeifer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Marion Pfeifer's co-authors include Rob Marchant, Robert M. Ewers, Edgar C. Turner, Reuben Nilus, Stephen R. Hardwick, Ralf Toumi, Mathias Disney, Gottfried Jetschke, Wolfgang Heinrich and Aida Cuní‐Sanchez and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Remote Sensing of Environment and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Marion Pfeifer

65 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

The relationship between leaf area index and microclimate... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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.

  1. The relationship between leaf area index and microclimate in tropical forest and oil palm plantation: Forest disturbance drives changes in microclimate
    2014 315 citations Stephen R. Hardwick, Marion Pfeifer et al. profile →

Peers

Marion Pfeifer
Kelvin S.‐H. Peh United Kingdom
Érika Berenguer United Kingdom
Vânia Proença Portugal
Jiajia Liu China
Julio Calvo‐Alvarado Costa Rica
J. Leighton Reid United States
Daniel J. Metcalfe Australia
Raphaël Proulx Canada
Achilleas Psomas Switzerland
Susannah B. Lerman United States
Kelvin S.‐H. Peh United Kingdom
Marion Pfeifer
Citations per year, relative to Marion Pfeifer Marion Pfeifer (= 1×) peers Kelvin S.‐H. Peh

Countries citing papers authored by Marion Pfeifer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marion Pfeifer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Marion Pfeifer. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Marion Pfeifer. The network helps show where Marion Pfeifer may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marion Pfeifer

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

All Works

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Howson, Peter, Susannah M. Sallu, Deo D. Shirima, et al.. (2025). Understanding farmers' attitudes and aspirations for tree-cover restoration in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. Forest Policy and Economics. 172. 103452–103452. 1 indexed citations
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Ngute, Alain Senghor K., Marion Pfeifer, David S. Schoeman, et al.. (2024). Dynamics of tree stems and biomass in old‐growth and secondary forests along gradients in liana dominance, elevation and soil. Journal of Ecology. 112(7). 1638–1654. 2 indexed citations
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Sanderson, Roy, et al.. (2024). Selective impacts of subsistence hunting on mammal communities in Manu National Park, Peru. Biotropica. 56(5). 1 indexed citations
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Ngute, Alain Senghor K., David S. Schoeman, Marion Pfeifer, et al.. (2024). Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17140–e17140. 14 indexed citations
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Milheiras, Sérgio G., Lauren F. Barnes, Deo D. Shirima, et al.. (2024). Cropland can support high bird diversity in heterogeneous rural tropical landscapes. Bird Conservation International. 34. 6 indexed citations
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Howson, Peter, Yara Shennan‐Farpón, Nicholas B. Allen, et al.. (2023). Existing evidence on the use of participatory scenarios in ecological restoration: a systematic map. Environmental Evidence. 12(1). 27–27. 7 indexed citations
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Betts, Matthew G., Marion Pfeifer, Christopher Wolf, et al.. (2023). Climate-driven variation in dispersal ability predicts responses to forest fragmentation in birds. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(7). 1079–1091. 29 indexed citations
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Calders, Kim, Benjamin Brede, Glenn Newnham, et al.. (2023). StrucNet: a global network for automated vegetation structure monitoring. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(5). 587–598. 19 indexed citations
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Grainger, Matthew, et al.. (2023). How effective are perches in promoting bird-mediated seed dispersal for natural forest regeneration? A systematic review protocol. Environmental Evidence. 12(1). 15–15. 4 indexed citations
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Pfeifer, Marion, et al.. (2023). Incomplete recovery of tree community composition and rare species after 120 years of tropical forest succession in Panama. Biotropica. 56(1). 36–49. 9 indexed citations
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Rakotonarivo, O. Sarobidy, Stephen Rushton, Andrew Reid Bell, et al.. (2022). An experimental game to examine pastoralists' preferences for human–lion coexistence strategies. People and Nature. 4(5). 1263–1278. 5 indexed citations
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Shirima, Deo D., Philip J. Platts, Sarah Knight, et al.. (2022). A practice-led assessment of landscape restoration potential in a biodiversity hotspot. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1867). 20210070–20210070. 9 indexed citations
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Howson, Peter, et al.. (2022). The role of participatory scenarios in ecological restoration: a systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence. 11(1). 23–23. 5 indexed citations
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Lefebvre, Véronique, et al.. (2021). Optimising sampling designs for habitat fragmentation studies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(1). 217–229. 6 indexed citations
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Boyle, Michael J. W., Tom R. Bishop, Sarah H. Luke, et al.. (2020). Localised climate change defines ant communities in human‐modified tropical landscapes. Functional Ecology. 35(5). 1094–1108. 37 indexed citations
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Pfeifer, Marion, Michael J. W. Boyle, Stuart Dunning, & Pieter I. Olivier. (2019). Forest floor temperature and greenness link significantly to canopy attributes in South Africa’s fragmented coastal forests. PeerJ. 7. e6190–e6190. 10 indexed citations
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Wearn, Oliver R., Chris Carbone, J. Marcus Rowcliffe, et al.. (2018). Land‐use change alters the mechanisms assembling rainforest mammal communities in Borneo. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88(1). 125–137. 14 indexed citations

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