Toby Gardner

25.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
124 papers, 14.3k citations indexed

About

Toby Gardner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Toby Gardner has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 14.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 45 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 39 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Toby Gardner's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (49 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (38 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (22 papers). Toby Gardner is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (49 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (38 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (22 papers). Toby Gardner collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and Sweden. Toby Gardner's co-authors include Jos Barlow, Carlos A. Peres, Isabelle M. Côté, Andrew R. Watkinson, Jennifer A. Gill, Alastair Grant, Navjot S. Sodhi, Joice Ferreira, Érika Berenguer and Alexander Charles Lees and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Toby Gardner

123 papers receiving 13.7k 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.

Long-Term Region-Wide Declines in Caribbean Corals

2003 1.6k citations Toby Gardner et al. profile →
Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

2011 1.5k citations Lian Pin Koh, Barry W. Brook et al. profile →
Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human‐modified world

2009 708 citations Toby Gardner, Jos Barlow et al. profile →
Beyond the Fragmentation Threshold Hypothesis: Regime Shifts in Biodiversity Across Fragmented Landscapes

2010 457 citations Renata Pardini, Toby Gardner et al. PLoS ONE profile →
The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

2018 436 citations Jos Barlow, Filipe França et al. profile →
Faustian bargains? Restoration realities in the context of biodiversity offset policies

2012 405 citations Toby Gardner et al. profile →
Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

2014 364 citations Yadvinder Malhi, Toby Gardner et al. Annual Review of Environment and Resources profile →
Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

2015 324 citations Toby Gardner et al. profile →
Brazil's environmental leadership at risk

2014 204 citations Joice Ferreira, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Toby Gardner	7.3k	6.3k	5.2k	2.1k	1.8k	124	14.3k
Graeme S. Cumming	7.9k 1.1×	5.9k 0.9×	2.8k 0.5×	2.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	243	16.1k
James Aronson	7.6k 1.0×	5.6k 0.9×	6.0k 1.2×	2.7k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	175	16.8k
Rik Leemans	10.6k 1.5×	7.1k 1.1×	6.2k 1.2×	4.0k 1.9×	2.9k 1.6×	206	23.4k
Rob Alkemade	6.8k 0.9×	5.1k 0.8×	3.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	100	13.9k
Michael T. Coe	12.9k 1.8×	6.1k 1.0×	3.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	942 0.5×	110	21.0k
Atte Moilanen	6.4k 0.9×	7.6k 1.2×	6.4k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	4.3k 2.5×	169	14.9k
Charles Perrings	6.3k 0.9×	3.9k 0.6×	3.5k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	197	17.0k
Reed F. Noss	5.9k 0.8×	7.2k 1.1×	5.9k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	2.9k 1.6×	128	14.1k
Erika S. Zavaleta	4.9k 0.7×	6.4k 1.0×	6.0k 1.2×	3.1k 1.5×	2.5k 1.4×	96	14.4k
Gary Yohe	5.0k 0.7×	4.3k 0.7×	3.1k 0.6×	3.4k 1.6×	4.0k 2.3×	143	14.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toby Gardner

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J. zu, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Toby Gardner, et al.. (2022). Addressing indirect sourcing in zero deforestation commodity supply chains. Science Advances. 8(17). 42 indexed citations

Berenguer, Érika, Gareth D. Lennox, Joice Ferreira, et al.. (2021). Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(30). 77 indexed citations

Lathuillière, Michael J., Laure Patouillard, Manuele Margni, et al.. (2021). A Commodity Supply Mix for More Regionalized Life Cycle Assessments. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(17). 12054–12065. 5 indexed citations

Willemen, Louise, Nichole N. Barger, Ben ten Brink, et al.. (2020). How to halt the global decline of lands. Nature Sustainability. 3(3). 164–166. 44 indexed citations

Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J. zu, et al.. (2020). The origin, supply chain, and deforestation risk of Brazil’s beef exports. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(50). 31770–31779. 102 indexed citations

Meyfroidt, Patrick, Jan Börner, Rachael Garrett, et al.. (2020). Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 90202–90202. 83 indexed citations

Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J. zu, Javier Godar, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, et al.. (2019). Using supply chain data to monitor zero deforestation commitments: an assessment of progress in the Brazilian soy sector. Environmental Research Letters. 15(3). 35003–35003. 99 indexed citations

Berenguer, Érika, Toby Gardner, Joice Ferreira, et al.. (2018). Seeing the woods through the saplings: Using wood density to assess the recovery of human‐modified Amazonian forests. Journal of Ecology. 106(6). 2190–2203. 39 indexed citations

Lennox, Gareth D., Toby Gardner, James R. Thomson, et al.. (2018). Second rate or a second chance? Assessing biomass and biodiversity recovery in regenerating Amazonian forests. Global Change Biology. 24(12). 5680–5694. 117 indexed citations

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Berenguer, Érika, Toby Gardner, Joice Ferreira, et al.. (2015). Developing Cost-Effective Field Assessments of Carbon Stocks in Human-Modified Tropical Forests. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0133139–e0133139. 14 indexed citations

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Malhi, Yadvinder, Toby Gardner, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Miles R. Silman, & Przemyslaw Zelazowski. (2014). Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 39(1). 125–159. 364 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aleixo, Alexandre Luis Padovan, Alexander Charles Lees, Nárgila Moura, et al.. (2013). One hundred and thirty-five years of avifaunal surveys around Santarem, central Brazilian Amazon. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia. 21(51). 42. 20 indexed citations

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Pilgrim, John D., Susie Brownlie, Jonathan M. M. Ekstrom, et al.. (2013). Offsetability is highest for common and widespread biodiversity: response to Regnery et al .. Conservation Letters. 6(5). 387–388. 9 indexed citations

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Lees, Alexander Charles, Nárgila Moura, Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo, et al.. (2012). Paragominas: a quantitative baseline inventory of an eastern Amazonian avifauna. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia. 20(48). 26. 25 indexed citations

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Pilgrim, John D., Susie Brownlie, Jonathan M. M. Ekstrom, et al.. (2012). A process for assessing the offsetability of biodiversity impacts. Conservation Letters. 6(5). 376–384. 91 indexed citations

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Koh, Lian Pin, Barry W. Brook, Toby Gardner, et al.. (2011). Primary Forests Are Vital For Sustaining Tropical Biodiversity. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Jones, Julia P. G. & Toby Gardner. (2008). Conservation news. Oryx. 42(1). 13–18. 1 indexed citations

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Caro, Tim, Toby Gardner, C. J. Stoner, Emily Fitzherbert, & Tim R. B. Davenport. (2008). Assessing the effectiveness of protected areas: paradoxes call for pluralism in evaluating conservation performance. Diversity and Distributions. 15(1). 178–182. 47 indexed citations

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Ribeiro‐Júnior, Marco Antônio, Toby Gardner, & Teresa C. S. Ávila‐Pires. (2006). THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GLUE TRAPS TO SAMPLE LIZARDS IN A TROPICAL RAINFOREST. South American Journal of Herpetology. 1(2). 131–137. 12 indexed citations

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Gardner, Toby. (2001). Declining amphibian populations: a global phenomenon in conservation biology. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. 24(2). 25–44. 79 indexed citations

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