Richard A. Birdsey

16.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
141 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Richard A. Birdsey is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. Birdsey has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 63 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 29 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Richard A. Birdsey's work include Forest Management and Policy (63 papers), Forest ecology and management (62 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (39 papers). Richard A. Birdsey is often cited by papers focused on Forest Management and Policy (63 papers), Forest ecology and management (62 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (39 papers). Richard A. Birdsey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Richard A. Birdsey's co-authors include Yude Pan, Jennifer C. Jenkins, Linda S. Heath, David C. Chojnacky, Robert B. Jackson, R. A. Houghton, Oliver L. Phillips, Sandra Brown, Werner A. Kurz and John Hom and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. Birdsey

137 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

National-Scale Biomass Estimators for United States Tree Species

2003 1.0k citations Linda S. Heath, Richard A. Birdsey et al. Forest Science profile →
FOREST CARBON SINKS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

2002 679 citations Richard A. Birdsey, Linda S. Heath et al. profile →
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes

2021 675 citations Richard A. Birdsey, R. A. Houghton et al. profile →
The Structure, Distribution, and Biomass of the World's Forests

2013 656 citations Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey et al. profile →
The enduring world forest carbon sink

2024 202 citations Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard A. Birdsey United States	45	6.8k	4.3k	2.4k	2.4k	974	141	9.7k
Werner A. Kurz Canada	51	8.2k 1.2×	3.8k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	3.3k 1.4×	2.0k 2.1×	189	11.1k
Níro Higuchi Brazil	44	6.1k 0.9×	6.3k 1.5×	1.8k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	217	10.5k
Jeffrey Q. Chambers United States	43	6.6k 1.0×	5.9k 1.4×	2.0k 0.8×	2.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	141	10.8k
Jari Liski Finland	50	4.6k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	132	8.4k
Steven P. Hamburg United States	47	4.0k 0.6×	1.8k 0.4×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.7k 1.8×	129	8.3k
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão Brazil	58	8.4k 1.2×	3.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	4.1k 1.7×	1.4k 1.4×	218	12.1k
Sebastiaan Luyssaert France	48	7.2k 1.1×	2.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	3.4k 1.4×	2.3k 2.3×	117	12.0k
Alessandro Baccini United States	38	7.0k 1.0×	2.7k 0.6×	3.6k 1.5×	5.1k 2.1×	1.8k 1.8×	59	11.1k
Michael J. Apps Canada	36	3.9k 0.6×	2.0k 0.5×	839 0.3×	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	74	5.8k
Linda S. Heath United States	33	3.4k 0.5×	2.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	977 0.4×	406 0.4×	89	4.9k

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Birdsey, Richard A., et al.. (2023). Assessing carbon stocks and accumulation potential of mature forests and larger trees in U.S. federal lands. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5. 19 indexed citations

Pan, Yude, Robert B. Jackson, David Y. Hollinger, et al.. (2022). Contrasting responses of woody and grassland ecosystems to increased CO2 as water supply varies. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(3). 315–323. 29 indexed citations

Zhu, Jianxiao, Chuankuan Wang, Zhou Zhang, et al.. (2020). Increasing soil carbon stocks in eight permanent forest plots in China. Biogeosciences. 17(3). 715–726. 18 indexed citations

Zhu, Jianxiao, Chuankuan Wang, Zhou Zhang, et al.. (2019). Increasing soil carbon stocks in eight typical forests in China. 1 indexed citations

Dai, Zhaohua, et al.. (2017). Estimated Carbon Sequestration in a Temperate Forest in Idaho of USA. Natural Science. 9(12). 421–436. 1 indexed citations

Li, Peijun, Jieshun Zhu, Zhaodi Guo, et al.. (2016). The relative contributions of forest growth and areal expansion to forest biomass carbon. Biogeosciences. 13(2). 375–388. 39 indexed citations

Kauppi, Pekka E., Richard A. Birdsey, Yude Pan, et al.. (2015). Effects of land management on large trees and carbon stocks. Biogeosciences. 12(3). 855–862. 22 indexed citations

Zhu, Juntao, et al.. (2015). The relative contributions of forest growth and areal expansion to forest biomass carbon sinks in China. 8 indexed citations

Guo, Zhaodi, et al.. (2014). Increasing biomass carbon stocks in trees outside forests in China over the last three decades. Biogeosciences. 11(15). 4115–4122. 27 indexed citations

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Dubayah, Ralph, Anu Swatantran, Kristofer Johnson, et al.. (2014). High Resolution Carbon Estimation Using Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Modeling In NASA's Carbon Modeling System. 2 indexed citations

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Deng, Feng, Jing M. Chen, Yude Pan, et al.. (2013). The use of forest stand age information in an atmospheric CO ₂ inversion applied to North America. Biogeosciences. 10(8). 5335–5348. 10 indexed citations

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Deng, Feng, Jing M. Chen, Yude Pan, et al.. (2013). Forest stand age information improves an inverse North American carbon flux estimate. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fangmin, Jing M. Chen, Yude Pan, et al.. (2012). Attributing carbon changes in conterminous U.S. forests to disturbance and non‐disturbance factors from 1901 to 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(G2). 120 indexed citations

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Pan, Yude, Richard A. Birdsey, Jingyun Fang, et al.. (2011). A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests. Science. 333(6045). 988–993. 8 indexed citations

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Hayes, Daniel J., David P. Turner, G. Stinson, et al.. (2011). Reconciling estimates of the contemporary North American carbon balance among an inventory-based approach, terrestrial biosphere models, and atmospheric inversions. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Pan, Yude, Jing M. Chen, Richard A. Birdsey, et al.. (2011). Age structure and disturbance legacy of North American forests. Biogeosciences. 8(3). 715–732. 265 indexed citations

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Pan, Yude, et al.. (2011). Attributing carbon sinks in conterminous US forests to disturbance and non-disturbance factors from 1901 to 2010. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Deng, Feng, Gang Mo, Richard A. Birdsey, et al.. (2009). Nested Inversion of the North America Carbon Flux with Forest Stand Age Constraint. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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Schroeder, Paul R., et al.. (1997). Biomass Estimation for Temperate Broadleaf Forests of the United States Using Inventory Data. Forest Science. 43(3). 424–434. 219 indexed citations

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Wadsworth, Frank H. & Richard A. Birdsey. (1985). A new look at the forests of puerto rico. Turrialba. 35(1). 11–17. 11 indexed citations

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