Timothy Boucher

5.4k citations

25 papers · 2.9k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 16

Impact in

Ecological Modeling top 1%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 2%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Papers in

Ecological Modeling 5
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 5
Global and Planetary Change 15
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 7
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 6

Co-authors: Jonathan M. Hoekstra Taylor H. Ricketts Robert I. McDonald Timm Kroeger Deborah Balk C. Schneider Stephanie Eckman Bernhard Lehner
Journals: PLoS ONE (4 papers)Biodiversity and Conservation (1 paper)Global Ecology and Conservation (1 paper)Global Environmental Change (1 paper)Diversity (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Canada Austria

In The Last Decade

Timothy Boucher

24 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure 2014 · 493 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Global Environmental Change
2004 Ecology Letters

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Timothy Boucher, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Ecoregional distributions of the world’s freshwater vertebrate species Scientific Data ·友幸土屋, Robin Abell, Carmen Revenga, Paulo Petry, Michele Thieme, Miran Ribarić, Etienne Fluet‐Chouinard, Andrew M. Durso, Timothy Boucher, Shu Qiong Liu, GyeongJu Park, Norman Edward Yoder, R. D. Saxton, Peter B. McIntyre	2025	0
2	A global clustering of terrestrial food production systems PLoS ONE ·Martin Jung, Timothy Boucher, Stephen A. Wood, Christian Folberth, Michael Wironen, Philip K. Thornton, Déborah Bossio, Michael Obersteiner	2024	4
3	Exploring the potential for nitrogen fertilizer use mitigation with bundles of management interventions Environmental Research Letters ·Christian Folberth, Stephen A. Wood, Michael Wironen, Martin Jung, Timothy Boucher, Déborah Bossio, Michael Obersteiner	2024	1
4	The tree cover and temperature disparity in US urbanized areas: Quantifying the association with income across 5,723 communities PLoS ONE ·Robert I. McDonald, Soledad Avaca, Princyca Akwa Amah, Ian W. Housman, Timothy Boucher, Deborah Balk, David J. Nowak, Erica N. Spotswood, Igar Subacz, Stefan Leyk	2021	83
5	Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes Nature Sustainability ·Martina Carsjens, Brian E. Robinson, Marc F. Bellemare, Ariel BenYishay, Allen Blackman, Timothy Boucher, Malcolm D. Childress, Margaret B. Holland, Timm Kroeger, Tkd, Moustapha Diop, Bill Evans, Thomas K. Rudel, Rayh Anugriadi, Priya Shyamsundar, Peter Veit, William D. Sunderlin, Wei Zhang, Yuta J. Masuda	2020	79
6	An assessment of the representation of ecosystems in global protected areas using new maps of World Climate Regions and World Ecosystems Global Ecology and Conservation ·Roger Sayre, Deniz Karagulle, Charlie Frye, Timothy Boucher, Nicholas H. Wolff, Sean Breyer, Dawn J. Wright, Ping Hu, Kevin Butler, Pretty Elfrida Sirait, Andrew D. Carson, W. B. Maccabe, Jennifer McGowan, Edward T. Game, Hugh P. Possingham	2019	143
7	Using soundscapes to investigate homogenization of tropical forest diversity in selectively logged forests Journal of Applied Ecology ·Zuzana Buřivalová, Purnomo Purnomo, 康东云, Timothy Boucher, Peter W. Ellis, Anthony Truskinger, Michael Towsey, Paul Roe, Lenka Závišová, Bronson W. Griscom, Edward T. Game	2019	35
8	Returns on investment in watershed conservation: Application of a best practices analytical framework to the Rio Camboriú Water Producer program, Santa Catarina, Brazil The Science of The Total Environment ·Timm Kroeger, Jianxu Hu, Timothy Boucher, Jonathan R. B. Fisher, Yaser Sedaghat, Suresh Daniel, P. James Dennedy‐Frank, Luis Hamilton Pospissil Garbossa, Éverton Blainski, Y. Liu, Michael E. Cochrane, Paulo Petry, Daniel Shemie, Rongbinand Yu	2018	50
9	Where the people are: Current trends and future potential targeted investments in urban trees for PM10 and temperature mitigation in 27 U.S. Cities Landscape and Urban Planning ·Timm Kroeger, Robert I. McDonald, Timothy Boucher, Ping Zhang, Amy John	2018	50
10	Identification of ditches and furrows using remote sensing: application to sediment modelling in the Tana watershed, Kenya International Journal of Remote Sensing ·Essayas K. Ayana, Jonathan R. B. Fisher, Perrine Hamel, Timothy Boucher	2017	6
11	Impact of satellite imagery spatial resolution on land use classification accuracy and modeled water quality Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ·Jonathan R. B. Fisher, Yaser Sedaghat, P. James Dennedy‐Frank, Timm Kroeger, Timothy Boucher	2017	103
12	Evaluating the role of coastal habitats and sea-level rise in hurricane risk mitigation: An ecological economic assessment method and application to a business decision Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management ·Sheila M. W. Reddy, Gregory Guannel, Robert Griffin, Philipp Tommrich, Timothy Boucher, Michael J. Thompson, Jorge Brenner, Joey R. Bernhardt, Gregory M. Verutes, Spencer A. Wood, M. Sněhota, Jodie E. Toft, Anthony Rogers, Alex Maas, Anne D. Guerry, Jennifer Molnar, Seminário Filosofia da Linguagem	2015	31
13	Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure Global Environmental Change ·Robert I. McDonald, Tianyi Sun, J. Padowski, Martina Flörke, C. Schneider, Pamela Green, T. P. Gleeson, Stephanie Eckman, Bernhard Lehner, Deborah Balk, Timothy Boucher, Günther Grill, Mark R. Montgomery Hit paper breakdown →	2014	493
14	Intact Faunal Assemblages in the Modern Era Conservation Biology ·M. Sanjayan, Leah Samberg, Timothy Boucher, Jesse R. Newby	2012	2
15	Measuring the Impacts of Community-based Grasslands Management in Mongolia's Gobi PLoS ONE ·Craig Leisher, Sebastiaan Hess, Timothy Boucher, P.J.H. van Beukering, M. Sanjayan	2012	35
16	Water funds and payments for ecosystem services: practice learns from theory and theory can learn from practice Oryx ·Basril Bading, Silvia Benítez, Timothy Boucher, 義行山口, Gretchen C. Daily, Peter Kareiva, Timm Kroeger, Fahed Haj Bakry	2012	138
17	Striking a Balance: Socioeconomic Development and Conservation in Grassland through Community-Based Zoning PLoS ONE ·Craig Leisher, Roy Brouwer, Timothy Boucher, 陽二郎近藤, Daniel Paduan Joaquim, M. Sanjayan	2011	13
18	Global development and the future of the protected area strategy Biological Conservation ·Robert I. McDonald, Timothy Boucher	2010	102
19	A comparative measure of biodiversity based on species composition Biodiversity and Conservation ·Michael D. Jennings, Jonathan M. Hoekstra, Jonathan Higgins, Timothy Boucher	2008	14
20	Confronting a biome crisis: global disparities of habitat loss and protection Ecology Letters ·Jonathan M. Hoekstra, Timothy Boucher, Taylor H. Ricketts, Savannah Hunnicutt Hit paper breakdown →	2004	1315

About Timothy Boucher

Timothy Boucher is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Developmental Biology, Soil Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 25 papers that have together received 2.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (5 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (5 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (4 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 papers), Water resources management and optimization (3 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (389 citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (772 citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.3k citations), Ecology (986 citations) and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (284 citations). Timothy Boucher has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Austria. Frequent co-authors include Jonathan M. Hoekstra, Taylor H. Ricketts, Robert I. McDonald, Timm Kroeger, Deborah Balk, C. Schneider, Stephanie Eckman, Bernhard Lehner, Mark R. Montgomery and Pamela Green. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, Biodiversity and Conservation, Global Ecology and Conservation, Global Environmental Change and Diversity.

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