Michelle Ward

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Michelle Ward is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Michelle Ward has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 19 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Michelle Ward's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (16 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (16 papers). Michelle Ward is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (16 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (16 papers). Michelle Ward collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Michelle Ward's co-authors include James Watson, Oscar Venter, Brooke Williams, Hugh P. Possingham, James R. Allan, Jonathan R. Rhodes, Jeremy S. Simmonds, Scott Atkinson, Rebecca K. Runting and April E. Reside and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michelle Ward

50 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems

2020 207 citations Brooke Williams, Oscar Venter et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michelle Ward Australia	17	592	582	307	305	209	57	1.2k
Victor Cazalis France	12	518 0.9×	570 1.0×	296 1.0×	251 0.8×	187 0.9×	15	1.1k
Scott Atkinson United States	17	597 1.0×	546 0.9×	229 0.7×	219 0.7×	189 0.9×	26	1.3k
Jennifer McGowan Australia	21	850 1.4×	601 1.0×	257 0.8×	270 0.9×	265 1.3×	41	1.5k
Pablo José Negret Australia	11	498 0.8×	532 0.9×	198 0.6×	193 0.6×	132 0.6×	19	975
Claire A. Runge Australia	14	847 1.4×	461 0.8×	360 1.2×	330 1.1×	115 0.6×	22	1.4k
Jodi Hilty United States	13	703 1.2×	490 0.8×	220 0.7×	309 1.0×	126 0.6×	26	1.2k
Cyril Kormos United States	13	471 0.8×	751 1.3×	155 0.5×	382 1.3×	116 0.6×	20	1.3k
Κonstantinos Poirazidis Greece	21	624 1.1×	697 1.2×	247 0.8×	390 1.3×	113 0.5×	55	1.3k
Tom Harwood Australia	15	411 0.7×	466 0.8×	281 0.9×	257 0.8×	103 0.5×	31	1.2k
Hayley M. Geyle Australia	10	549 0.9×	463 0.8×	206 0.7×	217 0.7×	150 0.7×	17	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Michelle Ward

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michelle Ward

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michelle Ward

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Ward, Michelle, Hugh P. Possingham, Brendan A. Wintle, et al.. (2025). The estimated cost of preventing extinction and progressing recovery for Australia’s priority threatened species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(6). e2414985122–e2414985122. 2 indexed citations

Venegas‐Li, Rubén, et al.. (2025). A balanced measure of conservation outcomes: tracking woody vegetation loss and protection in Queensland, Australia. Environmental Research Letters. 20(11). 114076–114076. 1 indexed citations

Garnett, Stephen T., John C. Z. Woinarski, G. Barry Baker, et al.. (2024). Monitoring threats to Australian threatened birds: climate change was the biggest threat in 2020 with minimal progress on its management. Emu - Austral Ornithology. 124(1). 37–54. 6 indexed citations

Catullo, Renee A., et al.. (2024). Niche‐based approach to explore the impacts of environmental disturbances on biodiversity. Conservation Biology. 38(6). e14277–e14277. 3 indexed citations

Kusmanoff, Alexander M., Stephen Kearney, Michelle Ward, et al.. (2024). Motivating government on threatened species through electoral systems. Conservation Science and Practice. 6(9). 1 indexed citations

Reside, April E., Josie Carwardine, Michelle Ward, et al.. (2024). The cost of recovering Australia’s threatened species. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(3). 425–435. 2 indexed citations

Ward, Michelle, David B. Lindenmayer, Sarah Legge, et al.. (2024). Shifting baselines clarify the impact of contemporary logging on forest‐dependent threatened species. Conservation Science and Practice. 6(9).

Cook, Carly N., et al.. (2024). Species and ecological communities as management surrogates for threatened biodiversity. Biodiversity and Conservation. 33(3). 987–1008. 2 indexed citations

Ward, Michelle, James Watson, April E. Reside, et al.. (2023). The costs of managing key threats to Australia's biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(5). 898–910. 13 indexed citations

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Ward, Michelle, Josie Carwardine, James Watson, et al.. (2022). How to prioritize species recovery after a megafire. Conservation Biology. 36(5). e13936–e13936. 12 indexed citations

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Ward, Michelle, James Watson, Hugh P. Possingham, et al.. (2022). Creating past habitat maps to quantify local extirpation of Australian threatened birds. Environmental Research Letters. 17(2). 24032–24032. 12 indexed citations

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Ward, Michelle, Ayesha Tulloch, Hugh P. Possingham, et al.. (2022). Restoring habitat for fire-impacted species’ across degraded Australian landscapes. Environmental Research Letters. 17(8). 84036–84036. 9 indexed citations

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Ward, Michelle, Darren Southwell, Rachael V. Gallagher, et al.. (2022). Modelling the spatial extent of post‐fire sedimentation threat to estimate the impacts of fire on waterways and aquatic species. Diversity and Distributions. 28(11). 2429–2442. 8 indexed citations

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Williams, Brooke, B. Alexander Simmons, Michelle Ward, et al.. (2021). The potential for applying “Nonviolent Communication” in conservation science. Conservation Science and Practice. 3(11). 11 indexed citations

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Elsen, Paul R., Earl C. Saxon, B. Alexander Simmons, et al.. (2021). Accelerated shifts in terrestrial life zones under rapid climate change. Global Change Biology. 28(3). 918–935. 41 indexed citations

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Ward, Michelle, et al.. (2020). Global opportunities and challenges for transboundary conservation. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(5). 694–701. 106 indexed citations

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Ward, Michelle, Santiago Saura, Brooke Williams, et al.. (2020). Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4563–4563. 143 indexed citations

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Ward, Michelle, Jeremy S. Simmonds, April E. Reside, et al.. (2019). Lots of loss with little scrutiny: The attrition of habitat critical for threatened species in Australia. Conservation Science and Practice. 1(11). 72 indexed citations

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Ward, Michelle, Jonathan R. Rhodes, James Watson, et al.. (2019). Use of surrogate species to cost‐effectively prioritize conservation actions. Conservation Biology. 34(3). 600–610. 50 indexed citations

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Suggs, L. Suzanne, et al.. (2002). Adoption of Communication Technologies in a Texas Health Setting. Educational Technology & Society. 5.

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