Paul Laris

1.6k total citations
36 papers, 902 citations indexed

About

Paul Laris is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Laris has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 902 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 6 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Paul Laris's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (18 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers) and African Botany and Ecology Studies (6 papers). Paul Laris is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (18 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers) and African Botany and Ecology Studies (6 papers). Paul Laris collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ivory Coast and France. Paul Laris's co-authors include David Andrew Wardell, Fadiala Dembélé, Sepideh Dadashi, Jeremy D. Foltz, Fran Baum, Lareen Newman, Mary Kim Ngo, Colin MacDougall, Deborah Thien and M. Fisher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Paul Laris

35 papers receiving 849 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Laris United States 15 606 238 180 156 126 36 902
Bibiana Bilbao Venezuela 12 460 0.8× 201 0.8× 119 0.7× 120 0.8× 53 0.4× 34 717
Andrew J. Felton United States 18 428 0.7× 222 0.9× 267 1.5× 94 0.6× 56 0.4× 32 922
Ludivine Eloy France 14 509 0.8× 196 0.8× 150 0.8× 80 0.5× 89 0.7× 28 697
Peter M Cooke Australia 9 665 1.1× 499 2.1× 277 1.5× 93 0.6× 103 0.8× 15 969
Edmund Barrow Switzerland 17 554 0.9× 286 1.2× 194 1.1× 109 0.7× 196 1.6× 36 956
Wu Ning China 14 244 0.4× 229 1.0× 147 0.8× 62 0.4× 214 1.7× 49 700
Márcio Santilli Brazil 6 992 1.6× 238 1.0× 147 0.8× 77 0.5× 104 0.8× 9 1.3k
Mats Olsson Sweden 16 189 0.3× 155 0.7× 174 1.0× 66 0.4× 79 0.6× 66 929
Susanne Vetter South Africa 17 359 0.6× 385 1.6× 232 1.3× 166 1.1× 644 5.1× 37 1.2k
Hailey Wilmer United States 19 389 0.6× 537 2.3× 131 0.7× 58 0.4× 337 2.7× 50 994

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Laris

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Laris

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Laris

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All Works

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Thiel, Michael, et al.. (2025). Fire Impacts, vegetation Recovery, and environmental drivers in West African savannas (2014–2023): A High-Resolution remote sensing assessment. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 143. 104783–104783.
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Laris, Paul, et al.. (2023). The Pyrogeography of Methane Emissions from Seasonal Mosaic Burning Regimes in a West African Landscape. Fire. 6(2). 52–52. 6 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul, et al.. (2021). Methane gas emissions from savanna fires: what analysis of local burning regimes in a working West African landscape tell us. Biogeosciences. 18(23). 6229–6244. 13 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul. (2021). On the problems and promises of savanna fire regime change. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4891–4891. 21 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul, et al.. (2021). Where Have the Native Grasses Gone?: What a Long-Term, Repeat Study Can Tell Us about California’s Native Prairie Landscapes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(1). 2 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul, et al.. (2020). Anthropogenic Fires in West African Landscapes: A Spatially Explicit Model Perspective of Humanized Savannas. Fire. 3(4). 62–62. 8 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul, et al.. (2020). Determinants of fire intensity in working landscapes of an African savanna. Fire Ecology. 16(1). 10 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul, et al.. (2018). Effects of landscape pattern and vegetation type on the fire regime of a mesic savanna in Mali. Journal of Environmental Management. 227. 134–145. 16 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul, et al.. (2018). Coyote Brush as Facilitator of Native California Plant Recovery in the Santa Monica Mountains. Madroño. 65(1). 47–59. 3 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul. (2016). The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge. Journal of Historical Geography. 56. 152–153. 21 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul, et al.. (2016). The Coyote Brush Invasion of Southern California Grasslands and the Legacy of Mechanical Disturbance. Geographical Review. 107(4). 640–659. 4 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul, et al.. (2015). The Human Ecology and Geography of Burning in an Unstable Savanna Environment. Journal of Ethnobiology. 35(1). 111–111. 17 indexed citations
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Baum, Fran, Paul Laris, M. Fisher, Lareen Newman, & Colin MacDougall. (2014). Dear health minister: tend the garden but make sure you fence the crocodiles. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 68(4). 295–296. 3 indexed citations
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Baum, Fran, Paul Laris, M. Fisher, Lareen Newman, & Colin MacDougall. (2013). “Never mind the logic, give me the numbers”: Former Australian health ministers' perspectives on the social determinants of health. Social Science & Medicine. 87. 138–146. 59 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul. (2013). Integrating Land Change Science and Savanna Fire Models in West Africa. Land. 2(4). 609–636. 22 indexed citations
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Ngo, Mary Kim, et al.. (2011). Political ecology of emotion and sacred space: The Winnemem Wintu struggles with California water policy. Emotion, space and society. 6. 33–43. 47 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul & Fadiala Dembélé. (2011). Humanizing savanna models: integrating natural factors and anthropogenic disturbance regimes to determine tree–grass dynamics in savannas. Journal of Land Use Science. 7(4). 459–482. 11 indexed citations
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Moseley, William G. & Paul Laris. (2008). West African Environmental Narratives and Development‐Volunteer Praxis*. Geographical Review. 98(1). 59–81. 12 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul, et al.. (2008). Hobby Ranching and Chile's Land‐reform Legacy*. Geographical Review. 98(3). 372–394. 13 indexed citations
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Laris, Paul. (2004). Grounding environmental narratives: the impact of a century of fighting against fire in Mali.. 63–85. 13 indexed citations

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