Xingli Giam

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Xingli Giam is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Xingli Giam has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 44 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Xingli Giam's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (22 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (21 papers). Xingli Giam is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (22 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (21 papers). Xingli Giam collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and Australia. Xingli Giam's co-authors include Julian D. Olden, David S. Wilcove, Navjot S. Sodhi, David P. Edwards, Brendan Fisher, Lian Pin Koh, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Hugh Tiang Wah Tan, Lise Comte and Pablo A. Tedesco and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Xingli Giam

66 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia
    2013 348 citations David S. Wilcove, Xingli Giam et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers

Xingli Giam
Maud Mouchet France
Raphael D. Sagarin United States
Guangchun Lei China
Belinda Gallardo Spain
Madhu Rao United States
Ross N. Cuthbert United Kingdom
Ute Jacob Germany
Eduardo Martins Venticinque Brazil
Keith R. Hayes Australia
David Williams United Kingdom
Maud Mouchet France
Xingli Giam
Citations per year, relative to Xingli Giam Xingli Giam (= 1×) peers Maud Mouchet

Countries citing papers authored by Xingli Giam

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xingli Giam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xingli Giam. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Xingli Giam. The network helps show where Xingli Giam may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xingli Giam

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xingli Giam. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xingli Giam based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Xingli Giam. Xingli Giam is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Troia, Matthew J., et al.. (2025). Within-reach temperature heterogeneity is limited in a southern Appalachian stream network, southeastern USA. Journal of Hydrology. 657. 133127–133127.
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Lee, Janice Ser Huay, et al.. (2025). Mapping socio-ecological vulnerability of tropical peatland fires. Environmental Research Letters. 20(12). 124059–124059.
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Liang, Dan, Tong Mu, Luting Song, et al.. (2025). Direct mortality due to humans threatens migratory shorebirds. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(11). 2080–2091. 1 indexed citations
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Sims, Charles, et al.. (2025). Does more uncertainty incentivize risk diversification in conservation?. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 108(1). 77–105.
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Danet, Alain, Xingli Giam, Julian D. Olden, & Lise Comte. (2024). Past and recent anthropogenic pressures drive rapid changes in riverine fish communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(3). 442–453. 24 indexed citations
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Herrera‐R, Guido A., Pablo A. Tedesco, Carlos DoNascimiento, Céline Jezequel, & Xingli Giam. (2023). Accessibility and appeal jointly bias the inventory of Neotropical freshwater fish fauna. Biological Conservation. 284. 110186–110186. 7 indexed citations
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Faria, Ana Paula Justino, Raphael Ligeiro, Lenize Batista Calvão, et al.. (2023). Land use types determine environmental heterogeneity and aquatic insect diversity in Amazonian streams. Hydrobiologia. 851(2). 281–298. 13 indexed citations
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Liang, Dan, et al.. (2023). Assessing the illegal hunting of native wildlife in China. Nature. 623(7985). 100–105. 16 indexed citations
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Comte, Lise, Julian D. Olden, Pablo A. Tedesco, Albert Ruhí, & Xingli Giam. (2021). Climate and land-use changes interact to drive long-term reorganization of riverine fish communities globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(27). 67 indexed citations
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Larsen, Stefano, Lise Comte, Ana Filipa Filipe, et al.. (2021). The geography of metapopulation synchrony in dendritic river networks. Ecology Letters. 24(4). 791–801. 46 indexed citations
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Carrasco, Luis, Monica Papeş, Kimberly S. Sheldon, & Xingli Giam. (2021). Global progress in incorporating climate adaptation into land protection for biodiversity since Aichi targets. Global Change Biology. 27(9). 1788–1801. 21 indexed citations
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Troia, Matthew J., et al.. (2019). Species traits and reduced habitat suitability limit efficacy of climate change refugia in streams. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(9). 1321–1330. 39 indexed citations
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Carrasco, Luis, Xingli Giam, Monica Papeş, & Kimberly S. Sheldon. (2019). Metrics of Lidar-Derived 3D Vegetation Structure Reveal Contrasting Effects of Horizontal and Vertical Forest Heterogeneity on Bird Species Richness. Remote Sensing. 11(7). 743–743. 55 indexed citations
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Kao, Albert B., Andrew M. Berdahl, Andrew T. Hartnett, et al.. (2018). Counteracting estimation bias and social influence to improve the wisdom of crowds. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 15(141). 20180130–20180130. 40 indexed citations
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Aziz, Sheema Abdul, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Xingli Giam, Pierre‐Michel Forget, & Ahimsa Campos‐Arceiz. (2017). Coexistence and Conflict between the Island Flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) and Humans on Tioman Island, Peninsular Malaysia. Human Ecology. 45(3). 377–389. 34 indexed citations
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Green, Jonathan, et al.. (2015). The ecology and economics of shorebird conservation in a tropical human‐modified landscape. Journal of Applied Ecology. 52(6). 1483–1491. 47 indexed citations
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Wilcove, David S., Xingli Giam, David P. Edwards, Brendan Fisher, & Lian Pin Koh. (2013). Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 28(9). 531–540. 348 indexed citations breakdown →
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Giam, Xingli, Brett R. Scheffers, Navjot S. Sodhi, et al.. (2013). Reservoirs of richness: least disturbed tropical forests are centres of undescribed species diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 280(1761). 5 indexed citations
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Giam, Xingli & David S. Wilcove. (2012). The geography of conservation ecology research in Southeast Asia: current biases and future opportunities.. ˜The œRaffles bulletin of zoology. 60. 29–36. 9 indexed citations
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Bradshaw, Corey J. A., Xingli Giam, & Navjot S. Sodhi. (2010). Evaluating the Relative Environmental Impact of Countries. PLoS ONE. 5(5). e10440–e10440. 136 indexed citations

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