Michele L. Barnes

6.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Michele L. Barnes is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michele L. Barnes has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 30 papers in Ecology and 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Michele L. Barnes's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (27 papers), Marine and fisheries research (19 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (11 papers). Michele L. Barnes is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (27 papers), Marine and fisheries research (19 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (11 papers). Michele L. Barnes collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Michele L. Barnes's co-authors include Joshua E. Cinner, Tiffany H. Morrison, Terry P. Hughes, Graeme S. Cumming, Ingrid A. van de Leemput, Stephen R. Palumbi, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Marten Scheffer, David R. Bellwood and Joanie Kleypas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michele L. Barnes

55 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Coral reefs in the Anthropocene

2017 1.4k citations Terry P. Hughes, Michele L. Barnes et al. Nature profile →
Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities

2018 485 citations Joshua E. Cinner, Michele L. Barnes et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Social Dimensions of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems

2019 228 citations Joshua E. Cinner, Michele L. Barnes One Earth profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michele L. Barnes

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Agency, social networks, and adaptation to environmental change 2025 ·Global Environmental Change ·Michele L. Barnes, Sarah Sutcliffe, (unknown), Nyawira A. Muthiga, Stephen Wanyonyi, Petr Matouš, Michael Murunga	0
2	Downscaling global reference points to assess the sustainability of local fisheries 2025 ·Conservation Biology ·Jessica Zamborain‐Mason, Sean R. Connolly, M. Aaron MacNeil, Michele L. Barnes, Andrew G. Bauman, David A. Feary, (unknown), Fraser A. Januchowski‐Hartley, Jacqueline Lau, Michalis Mihalitsis, Joshua E. Cinner	1
3	Overcoming lock-in of science-policy responses to reef heating 2024 ·Marine Policy ·Tiffany H. Morrison, Jon Barnett, Georgina G. Gurney, Jacqueline Lau, Michele L. Barnes, Joshua E. Cinner, Missaka Hettiarachchi, (unknown)	4
4	Adaptation and Peace: Extending the Agenda for Capacity‐Building in Climate and Conflict‐Affected Communities 2024 ·Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change ·(unknown), Michele L. Barnes, Tiffany H. Morrison	0
5	Divergence over solutions to adapt or transform Australia’s Great Barrier Reef 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Maria Carmen Lemos, Chris Margules, Michele L. Barnes, Andrew Song, Tiffany H. Morrison	1
6	Imagining reef futures after mass coral bleaching events 2023 ·Environmental Science & Policy ·(unknown), Carina Wyborn, Brian C. Chaffin, Michele L. Barnes	5
7	Disparities in the impacts of co-management on fishers’ livelihoods 2023 ·Sustainability Science ·(unknown), Georgina G. Gurney, Michele L. Barnes, Stefan Gelcich, Joshua E. Cinner	4
8	Closing the compliance gap in marine protected areas with human behavioural sciences 2023 ·Fish and Fisheries ·Brock J. Bergseth, Adrian Arias, Michele L. Barnes, Iain R. Caldwell, (unknown), Stefan Gelcich, Sam H. Ham, Jacqueline Lau, (unknown), Patrick Smallhorn‐West, (unknown), Jessica Zamborain‐Mason, Joshua E. Cinner	12
9	COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities 2023 ·Ecology and Society ·Sarah Sutcliffe, Jacqueline Lau, Michele L. Barnes, Emmanuel Mbaru, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Stephen Wanyonyi, Nyawira A. Muthiga, Philippa J. Cohen, Joshua E. Cinner	6
10	‘Bunkering down’: How one community is tightening social‐ecological network structures in the face of global change 2022 ·People and Nature ·Michele L. Barnes, Lorien Jasny, Andrew G. Bauman, (unknown), Ramiro Berardo, Örjan Bodin, Joshua E. Cinner, David A. Feary, Angela M. Guerrero, Fraser A. Januchowski‐Hartley, (unknown), Jacqueline Lau, Peng Wang, Jessica Zamborain‐Mason	9
11	Big events, little change: Extreme climatic events have no region-wide effect on Great Barrier Reef governance 2022 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·(unknown), Michele L. Barnes, Brian C. Chaffin, Theresa M. Floyd, Tiffany H. Morrison, Sarah Sutcliffe	8
12	Conceptualizing ecosystem services using social–ecological networks 2021 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·María R. Felipe‐Lucia, Angela M. Guerrero, Steven M. Alexander, Jaime Ashander, Jacopo A. Baggio, Michele L. Barnes, Örjan Bodin, Aletta Bonn, Marie‐Josée Fortin, Rachel Friedman, Jessica A. Gephart, Kate J. Helmstedt, (unknown), Kailin Kroetz, François Massol, Michael J. O. Pocock, Jesse S. Sayles, Ross M. Thompson, Spencer A. Wood, Laura E. Dee	84
13	Key considerations and challenges in the application of social‐network research for environmental decision making 2020 ·Conservation Biology ·Angela M. Guerrero, Michele L. Barnes, Örjan Bodin, Iadine Chadès, Katrina Davis, Md Sayed Iftekhar, Courtney Morgans, Kerrie A. Wilson	30
14	Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change 2020 ·Nature Climate Change ·Michele L. Barnes, Peng Wang, Joshua E. Cinner, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Angela M. Guerrero, Lorien Jasny, Jacqueline Lau, Sarah Sutcliffe, Jessica Zamborain‐Mason	179
15	Improving network approaches to the study of complex social–ecological interdependencies 2019 ·Nature Sustainability ·Örjan Bodin, Steven M. Alexander, Jacopo A. Baggio, Michele L. Barnes, Ramiro Berardo, Graeme S. Cumming, Laura E. Dee, A. Paige Fischer, Manuel Fischer, María Mancilla García, Angela M. Guerrero, Jacob Hileman, Karin Ingold, Petr Matouš, Tiffany H. Morrison, Daniel Nohrstedt, Jeremy Pittman, Garry Robins, Jesse S. Sayles	213
16	Social Dimensions of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems breakdown → 2019 ·One Earth ·Joshua E. Cinner, Michele L. Barnes	228
17	Addressing poaching in marine protected areas through voluntary surveillance and enforcement 2018 ·Nature Sustainability ·Brock J. Bergseth, Georgina G. Gurney, Michele L. Barnes, Adrian Arias, Joshua E. Cinner	39
18	The social structural foundations of adaptation and transformation in social–ecological systems 2017 ·Ecology and Society ·Michele L. Barnes, Örjan Bodin, Angela M. Guerrero, Ryan R. J. McAllister, Steven M. Alexander, Garry Robins	143
19	The pleasure of pursuit: recreational hunters in rural Southwest China exhibit low exit rates in response to declining catch 2017 ·Ecology and Society ·Charlotte H. Chang, Michele L. Barnes, Margaret Frye, Mingxia Zhang, Rui‐Chang Quan, (unknown), Simon A. Levin, David S. Wilcove	31
20	Coral reefs in the Anthropocene breakdown → 2017 ·Nature ·Terry P. Hughes, Michele L. Barnes, David R. Bellwood, Joshua E. Cinner, Graeme S. Cumming, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Joanie Kleypas, Ingrid A. van de Leemput, Janice Lough, Tiffany H. Morrison, Stephen R. Palumbi, Egbert H. van Nes, Marten Scheffer	1377

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