Peter Bridgewater

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Peter Bridgewater is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Bridgewater has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Ecology, 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 25 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Peter Bridgewater's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (17 papers), Environmental Conservation and Management (16 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 papers). Peter Bridgewater is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (17 papers), Environmental Conservation and Management (16 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 papers). Peter Bridgewater collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and France. Peter Bridgewater's co-authors include Salvatore Aricò, Richard J. Hobbs, Ian D. Rotherham, Eric W. Sanderson, David M. Richardson, David A. Norton, John J. Ewel, Ariel E. Lugo, James Aronson and Carlos Augusto Klink and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Peter Bridgewater

82 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order

2006 1.4k citations Richard J. Hobbs, Salvatore Aricò et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Bridgewater Australia	21	1.5k	1.3k	999	590	380	88	3.1k
R. Edward Grumbine China	21	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 0.8×	827 0.8×	679 1.2×	412 1.1×	39	3.6k
Rob Marchant United Kingdom	42	1.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	945 0.9×	603 1.0×	898 2.4×	211	5.7k
Thomas Wrbka Austria	27	1.6k 1.0×	918 0.7×	848 0.8×	339 0.6×	377 1.0×	58	2.8k
Cristián Echeverría Chile	28	2.8k 1.8×	1.6k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	551 0.9×	418 1.1×	70	4.6k
Sean Maxwell Australia	18	1.8k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	940 0.9×	540 0.9×	405 1.1×	26	4.0k
Patrick O’Farrell South Africa	32	2.7k 1.8×	1.1k 0.8×	955 1.0×	776 1.3×	409 1.1×	101	4.6k
David Hole United States	25	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	699 0.7×	376 0.6×	740 1.9×	39	3.9k
Jeanne Nel South Africa	31	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	407 0.7×	248 0.7×	59	3.0k
Jane Turpie South Africa	32	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	705 0.7×	623 1.1×	257 0.7×	93	3.2k
Cara R. Nelson United States	33	2.8k 1.9×	1.9k 1.4×	1.6k 1.6×	799 1.4×	438 1.2×	72	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Bridgewater

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Bridgewater

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Bridgewater

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bridgewater, Peter, et al.. (2025). Understanding and managing inland water biodiversity in the earth critical zone. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 100023–100023. 1 indexed citations

Pettorelli, Nathalie & Peter Bridgewater. (2025). Revamping the ecosystem research agenda to tackle the challenges of the Anthropocene. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 41(1). 67–77.

Bridgewater, Peter & Dirk S. Schmeller. (2024). Nature abhors a vacuum: invasive themes and other outputs from the tenth plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-10). Biodiversity and Conservation. 33(3). 867–873. 3 indexed citations

Schmeller, Dirk S. & Peter Bridgewater. (2023). Transformative change – a complex, multifaceted challenge for humanity. Biodiversity and Conservation. 32(11). 3503–3507. 2 indexed citations

Bridgewater, Peter, et al.. (2023). Wildlife Health Australia; One Health in action. 1–12. 1 indexed citations

Bridgewater, Peter. (2021). Australian landscapes from Eocene to Anthropocene. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 133(1). 14–17. 1 indexed citations

Lei, Guangchun, et al.. (2021). Conservation of the Yangtze River Basin, China. Oryx. 55(3). 331–332.

Bridgewater, Peter & Rakhyun E. Kim. (2021). The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands at 50. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(3). 268–270. 41 indexed citations

Bridgewater, Peter & Rakhyun E. Kim. (2021). 50 Years on, w(h)ither the Ramsar convention? A case of institutional drift. Biodiversity and Conservation. 30(13). 3919–3937. 15 indexed citations

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Balvanera, Patricia, Sander Jacobs, Harini Nagendra, et al.. (2020). The science-policy interface on ecosystems and people: challenges and opportunities. Ecosystems and People. 16(1). 345–353. 31 indexed citations

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Bridgewater, Peter. (2016). Can synthetic vegetation (novel ecosystems) help nature conservation in the Anthropocene?. Australasian Plant Conservation journal of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation. 24(4). 27–28. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Hongli, Meng Yang, Mingxiang Zhang, et al.. (2014). Nitrous oxide emission from the littoral zones of the Miyun Reservoir near Beijing, China. Hydrology research. 46(5). 811–823. 9 indexed citations

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Zeng, Qing, et al.. (2012). Zoning for management in wetland nature reserves: a case study using Wuliangsuhai Nature Reserve, China. SpringerPlus. 1(1). 23–23. 8 indexed citations

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Bridgewater, Peter. (2011). SMART or CUTE - what makes a good target?. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 166(3). 240–249. 7 indexed citations

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Ervin, Jamison, K. Mulongoy, Edward T. Game, et al.. (2010). Making protected areas relevant: a guide to integrating protected areas into wider landscapes, seascapes and sectoral plans and strategies.. 37 indexed citations

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Hobbs, Richard J., Salvatore Aricò, James Aronson, et al.. (2006). Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 15(1). 1–7. 1417 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bridgewater, Peter. (2002). Ecohydrology - a perspective from the man and the biosphere programme. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology. 2. 13–17. 1 indexed citations

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Bridgewater, Peter, et al.. (1996). Biosphere reserves and the IUCN system of protected area management categories. IUCN eBooks. 15 indexed citations

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Bridgewater, Peter & Ian Cresswell. (1993). Phytosociology and phytogeography of coastal saltmarshes in Western Australia. 2(2). 1 indexed citations

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Bridgewater, Peter, et al.. (1981). Peripheral vegetation of Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary, Western Australia. Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University). 64. 5–11. 6 indexed citations

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