Stephen J. Livesley

10.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
133 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Stephen J. Livesley is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen J. Livesley has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 51 papers in Environmental Engineering and 47 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Stephen J. Livesley's work include Urban Green Space and Health (46 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (43 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (31 papers). Stephen J. Livesley is often cited by papers focused on Urban Green Space and Health (46 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (43 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (31 papers). Stephen J. Livesley collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Stephen J. Livesley's co-authors include Nicholas S. G. Williams, Andrew Coutts, Stefan K. Arndt, Carlo Calfapietra, E. Gregory McPherson, Amy K. Hahs, Caragh G. Threlfall, Briony A. Norton, Richard J. Harris and P. May and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Stephen J. Livesley

128 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

2 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.

Planning for cooler cities: A framework to prioritise green infrastructure to mitigate high temperatures in urban landscapes

2014 848 citations Andrew Coutts, Stephen J. Livesley et al. Landscape and Urban Planning profile →
The Urban Forest and Ecosystem Services: Impacts on Urban Water, Heat, and Pollution Cycles at the Tree, Street, and City Scale

2016 597 citations Stephen J. Livesley et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen J. Livesley Australia	46	3.5k	3.2k	3.0k	1.2k	1.2k	133	7.2k
G. Darrel Jenerette United States	52	4.7k 1.4×	2.6k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	131	7.6k
E. Gregory McPherson United States	53	4.6k 1.3×	5.0k 1.6×	4.0k 1.4×	2.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.0×	136	8.7k
William D. Shuster United States	36	3.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	3.9k 1.3×	455 0.4×	645 0.5×	96	6.5k
Thomas Rötzer Germany	38	3.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	844 0.7×	108	5.8k
Richard V. Pouyat United States	33	2.7k 0.8×	1.8k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	838 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	74	5.3k
Jeremy Lundholm Canada	29	1.9k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	762 0.6×	91	4.6k
Wayne C. Zipperer United States	28	3.2k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	824 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	67	5.3k
Nigel Dunnett United Kingdom	31	2.0k 0.6×	2.6k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	325 0.3×	55	4.6k
Carlo Calfapietra Italy	42	3.8k 1.1×	1.4k 0.4×	950 0.3×	3.2k 2.6×	702 0.6×	109	6.5k
Hans Pretzsch Germany	70	10.2k 2.9×	1.2k 0.4×	3.5k 1.2×	2.4k 1.9×	1.8k 1.5×	364	16.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen J. Livesley

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Cheung, Pui Kwan & Stephen J. Livesley. (2025). The microclimate, surface energy flux and human skin burn risks of artificial turf as compared to natural turf. Building and Environment. 273. 112679–112679. 1 indexed citations

Livesley, Stephen J., et al.. (2025). Intense drought and vegetation browning exacerbate air temperature rise in unirrigated peri-urban areas under global warming. Sustainable Cities and Society. 130. 106643–106643. 1 indexed citations

Guerin, Greg R., Stephen J. Livesley, Stefan K. Arndt, & Christopher Szota. (2024). Comment on: “Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale” by Esperon-Rodriguez et al.. Landscape and Urban Planning. 254. 105248–105248. 3 indexed citations

Ordóñez, Camilo, Dave Kendal, Stephen J. Livesley, & Tenley M. Conway. (2024). Measuring and modelling values, beliefs and attitudes about urban forests in Canada and Australia. Cities. 155. 105406–105406. 1 indexed citations

Livesley, Stephen J., et al.. (2024). A systematic review of resprouting in woody plants and potential implications for the management of urban plantings. Ecology and Evolution. 14(1). e10839–e10839. 7 indexed citations

Livesley, Stephen J., et al.. (2023). The Use of Compost Tea in a Containerized Urban Tree Nursery Shows No Evident Benefits to Tree Growth or Mycorrhizal Colonization. Forests. 14(6). 1195–1195. 1 indexed citations

Threlfall, Caragh G., Camilo Ordóñez, Stephen J. Livesley, et al.. (2023). Tree removals as socioecological experiments in cities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 22(1). 2 indexed citations

Livesley, Stephen J., et al.. (2022). What does it mean for a transitioning urban waterfront to “work” from a sustainability perspective?. Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 18(3). 349–372. 9 indexed citations

Fletcher, Tim D., et al.. (2022). Supporting Growth and Transpiration of Newly Planted Street Trees With Passive Irrigation Systems. Water Resources Research. 58(1). 12 indexed citations

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Parris, Kirsten M., Marco Amati, Sarah Bekessy, et al.. (2018). The seven lamps of planning for biodiversity in the city. Cities. 83. 44–53. 94 indexed citations

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Szota, Christopher, et al.. (2018). Street tree stormwater control measures can reduce runoff but may not benefit established trees. Landscape and Urban Planning. 182. 144–155. 38 indexed citations

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Hinko‐Najera, Nina, Peter Isaac, Jason Beringer, et al.. (2017). Net ecosystem carbon exchange of a dry temperate eucalypt forest. Biogeosciences. 14(16). 3781–3800. 25 indexed citations

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Escobedo, Francisco J., Stephen J. Livesley, & Justin Morgenroth. (2017). Urban and Periurban Forest Diversity and Ecosystem Services. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 1 indexed citations

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Fest, Benedikt, Nina Hinko‐Najera, Tim Wardlaw, et al.. (2017). Soil methane oxidation in both dry and wet temperate eucalypt forests shows a near-identical relationship with soil air-filled porosity. Biogeosciences. 14(2). 467–479. 30 indexed citations

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Bristow, Mila, Lindsay B. Hutley, Jason Beringer, et al.. (2016). Quantifying the relative importance of greenhouse gas emissions from current and future savanna land use change across northern Australia. Biogeosciences. 13(22). 6285–6303. 19 indexed citations

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Jamali, Hiz, Stephen J. Livesley, Lindsay B. Hutley, Benedikt Fest, & Stefan K. Arndt. (2013). The relationships between termite mound CH ₄ /CO ₂ emissions and internal concentration ratios are species specific. Biogeosciences. 10(4). 2229–2240. 30 indexed citations

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Grover, Samantha, Stephen J. Livesley, Lindsay B. Hutley, et al.. (2012). Land use change and the impact on greenhouse gas exchange in north Australian savanna soils. Biogeosciences. 9(1). 423–437. 50 indexed citations

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Grover, Samantha, Stephen J. Livesley, Lindsay B. Hutley, et al.. (2011). Land use change and the impact on greenhouse gas exchange in north Australian savanna soils. 1 indexed citations

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Nizami, Syed Moazzam, Sarwat N. Mirza, Stephen J. Livesley, et al.. (2009). Estimating carbon stocks in sub-tropical pine (Pinus roxburghii) forests of Pakistan.. The Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 46(4). 266–270. 23 indexed citations

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Arndt, Stefan K., Stephen J. Livesley, Benedikt Fest, Christopher J. Weston, & Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl. (2007). Methane uptake in forest and agro-ecosystems in Australia. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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