Tara Joy Massad

6.1k total citations
33 papers, 823 citations indexed

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Tara Joy Massad is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tara Joy Massad has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 823 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 16 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 13 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Tara Joy Massad's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Plant and animal studies (16 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (7 papers). Tara Joy Massad is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Plant and animal studies (16 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (7 papers). Tara Joy Massad collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Germany. Tara Joy Massad's co-authors include Lee A. Dyer, Paulo Brando, Jennifer K. Balch, Susan Trumbore, Daniel C. Nepstad, Angela M. Smilanich, Corina E. Tarnita, Mike Peel, Marc Stalmans and Robert M. Pringle and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tara Joy Massad

32 papers receiving 800 citations

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tara Joy Massad United States 14 307 297 257 242 215 33 823
J.L.C.H. van Valkenburg Netherlands 13 400 1.3× 224 0.8× 289 1.1× 211 0.9× 250 1.2× 74 1.0k
Matthew A. Albrecht United States 14 339 1.1× 224 0.8× 222 0.9× 177 0.7× 217 1.0× 39 624
Brendan J. Lepschi Australia 15 207 0.7× 282 0.9× 354 1.4× 121 0.5× 147 0.7× 72 770
José Alejandro Zavala‐Hurtado Mexico 17 319 1.0× 362 1.2× 331 1.3× 135 0.6× 134 0.6× 59 752
Susanna Saari United States 10 173 0.6× 293 1.0× 262 1.0× 239 1.0× 186 0.9× 11 813
Dalva M. Silva Matos Brazil 16 526 1.7× 354 1.2× 207 0.8× 206 0.9× 253 1.2× 39 830
Lígia Silveira Funch Brazil 19 317 1.0× 569 1.9× 353 1.4× 153 0.6× 167 0.8× 83 934
María‐José Endara United States 14 516 1.7× 609 2.1× 359 1.4× 92 0.4× 228 1.1× 24 991
Michael John Gilbert Hopkins Brazil 14 281 0.9× 498 1.7× 189 0.7× 80 0.3× 128 0.6× 37 729
Nicol Fuentes Chile 11 398 1.3× 449 1.5× 347 1.4× 105 0.4× 228 1.1× 16 871

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tara Joy Massad

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All Works

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Pompeiano, Antonio, et al.. (2024). Geographical and environmental influences on Boswellia elongata Balf.f. volatiles: An in situ study on Socotra Island. Flora. 321. 152638–152638. 1 indexed citations
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Massad, Tara Joy, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem‐wide responses to fire and large mammal herbivores in an African savanna. Biotropica. 56(4). 1 indexed citations
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Massad, Tara Joy, Lee A. Dyer, Yasmine Antonini, et al.. (2023). Intra- and interspecific diversity in a tropical plant clade alter herbivory and ecosystem resilience. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations
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Massad, Tara Joy. (2023). Plant defences as functional traits: A comparison across savannas differing in herbivore specialization. Journal of Ecology. 111(12). 2552–2567.
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Dyer, Lee A., et al.. (2023). Plasticity in plant defense and the role of phytochemical dissimilarity in limiting specialist herbivory. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 4 indexed citations
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Massad, Tara Joy, Lora A. Richards, Matthew L. Forister, et al.. (2023). Variation in the strength of local and regional determinants of herbivory across the Neotropics. Oikos. 2024(2). 2 indexed citations
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Massad, Tara Joy, Lora A. Richards, Casey S. Philbin, et al.. (2022). The chemical ecology of tropical forest diversity: Environmental variation, chemical similarity, herbivory, and richness. Ecology. 103(9). e3762–e3762. 14 indexed citations
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Massad, Tara Joy, José C. Ramalho, Natasha Ribeiro, et al.. (2022). Linking Bacterial Rhizosphere Communities of Two Pioneer Species, Brachystegia boehmii and B. spiciformis, to the Ecological Processes of Miombo Woodlands. Forests. 13(11). 1840–1840. 3 indexed citations
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White, Joseph D., et al.. (2020). Understanding recruitment limitations in a critically endangered species: The story of the iconic Cape cedar (Widdringtonia wallichii). Global Ecology and Conservation. 23. e01062–e01062. 4 indexed citations
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Stalmans, Marc, Tara Joy Massad, Mike Peel, Corina E. Tarnita, & Robert M. Pringle. (2019). War-induced collapse and asymmetric recovery of large-mammal populations in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. PLoS ONE. 14(3). e0212864–e0212864. 68 indexed citations
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Massad, Tara Joy, Marcílio Martins de Moraes, Casey S. Philbin, et al.. (2017). Similarity in volatile communities leads to increased herbivory and greater tropical forest diversity. Ecology. 98(7). 1750–1756. 30 indexed citations
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Balch, Jennifer K., Paulo Brando, Daniel C. Nepstad, et al.. (2015). The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment. BioScience. 65(9). 893–905. 96 indexed citations
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Massad, Tara Joy, Jennifer K. Balch, Ben Hur Marimon, et al.. (2015). Early recruitment responses to interactions between frequent fires, nutrients, and herbivory in the southern Amazon. Oecologia. 178(3). 807–817. 12 indexed citations
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Massad, Tara Joy, Susan Trumbore, Michael Reichelt, et al.. (2014). An optimal defense strategy for phenolic glycoside production in Populus trichocarpa – isotope labeling demonstrates secondary metabolite production in growing leaves. New Phytologist. 203(2). 607–619. 36 indexed citations
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Keiner, Robert, Torsten Frosch, Tara Joy Massad, Susan Trumbore, & Jürgen Popp. (2014). Enhanced Raman multigas sensing – a novel tool for control and analysis of13CO2labeling experiments in environmental research. The Analyst. 139(16). 3879–3879. 62 indexed citations
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Balch, Jennifer K., Tara Joy Massad, Paulo Brando, Daniel C. Nepstad, & Lisa M. Curran. (2013). Effects of high-frequency understorey fires on woody plant regeneration in southeastern Amazonian forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 368(1619). 20120157–20120157. 59 indexed citations
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Massad, Tara Joy, Jennifer K. Balch, Eric A. Davidson, et al.. (2012). Interactions between repeated fire, nutrients, and insect herbivores affect the recovery of diversity in the southern Amazon. Oecologia. 172(1). 219–229. 26 indexed citations
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Massad, Tara Joy, et al.. (2008). Diversity Cascades in Alfalfa Fields: From Plant Quality to Agroecosystem Diversity. Environmental Entomology. 37(4). 947–955. 10 indexed citations

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