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Environmental Sciences
Singapore
2023

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Earth Science

D-Index
65
Citations
13151
World Ranking
1428
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Alan D. Ziegler is affiliated with the National University of Singapore and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on several recurring topics, notably:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Alan D. Ziegler has published numerous research articles, with significant contributions appearing in journals such as Nature Sustainability, Environmental Research Letters, Sustainability, ACS ES&T Water, and Nature Geoscience.

Some of the recent papers include:

  • High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century, 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Energy production and water savings from floating solar photovoltaics on global reservoirs, 2023, Nature Sustainability
  • Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation, 2020, Nature Geoscience

Frequent co-authors with whom Alan D. Ziegler has collaborated include:

  • Zhenzhong Zeng
  • Dashan Wang
  • Jie Wu
  • Shijing Liang
  • Philippe Ciais

The publication trends show a consistent presence in journals that focus on sustainability, environmental impact, and geosciences. This profile aligns with the scientist's involvement in topics addressing both localized and global environmental challenges.

Best Publications

  • High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

    Xiaoping Liu;Yinghuai Huang;Xiaocong Xu;Xuecao Li

  • Erosion processes in steep terrain—Truths, myths, and uncertainties related to forest management in Southeast Asia

    Roy C. Sidle;Alan D. Ziegler;Junjiro N. Negishi;Abdul Rahim Nik

  • Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment

    Nathalie van Vliet;Ole Mertz;Andreas Heinimann;Tobias Langanke

  • The Rubber Juggernaut

    Alan D. Ziegler;Jefferson M. Fox;Jianchu Xu

  • A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Zhenzhong Zeng;Alan D. Ziegler;Timothy Searchinger;Long Yang

  • Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods

    Antje Ahrends;Antje Ahrends;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Alan D. Ziegler;Jefferson M. Fox

  • Importance of rural roads as source areas for runoff in mountainous areas of northern Thailand

    Alan D. Ziegler;Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • Highland cropland expansion and forest loss in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Lyndon Estes;Alan D. Ziegler;Anping Chen

  • Environmental Consequences of the Demise in Swidden Cultivation in Southeast Asia: Carbon Storage and Soil Quality

    Thilde Bech Bruun;Andreas de Neergaard;Deborah Lawrence;Alan D. Ziegler

  • Carbon stocks in bamboo ecosystems worldwide: Estimates and uncertainties

    Jia Qi Yuen;Tak Fung;Alan D. Ziegler

  • Carbon outcomes of major land-cover transitions in SE Asia: great uncertainties and REDD+ policy implications

    Alan D. Ziegler;Jacob Phelps;Jia Qi Yuen;Edward L. Webb

  • Environmental Consequences of the Demise in Swidden Cultivation in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia: Hydrology and Geomorphology

    Alan D. Ziegler;Thilde B. Bruun;Maite Guardiola-Claramonte;Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • Consequences of Swidden Transitions for Crop and Fallow Biodiversity in Southeast Asia

    Kanok Rerkasem;Deborah Lawrence;Christine Padoch;Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt

  • Detection of Intensification in Global- and Continental-Scale Hydrological Cycles: Temporal Scale of Evaluation

    Alan D. Ziegler;Justin Sheffield;Edwin P. Maurer;Bart Nijssen

  • Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century

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  • Hydrological consequences of landscape fragmentation in mountainous northern Vietnam: evidence of accelerated overland flow generation

    Alan D Ziegler;Alan D Ziegler;Thomas W Giambelluca;Liem T Tran;Thomas T Vana

  • Accumulation of potentially toxic elements in road deposited sediments in residential and light industrial neighborhoods of Singapore.

    J. Q. Yuen;Paul H. Olin;H. S. Lim;Shawn G. Benner

  • Rewetting global wetlands effectively reduces major greenhouse gas emissions

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  • Swidden, rubber and carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?

    Jefferson Fox;Jean-Christophe Castella;Alan D. Ziegler

  • Runoff generation and sediment production on unpaved roads, footpaths and agricultural land surfaces in northern Thailand

    Alan D. Ziegler;Ross A. Sutherland;Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • Deforestation in the Ayeyarwady Delta and the conservation implications of an internationally-engaged Myanmar

    Edward L. Webb;Nicholas R.A. Jachowski;Jacob Phelps;Daniel A. Friess

  • Raw attitudes, wetland cultures, life-cycles: Socio-cultural dynamics relating to Opisthorchis viverrini in the Mekong Basin

    Carl Grundy-Warr;Ross H. Andrews;Paiboon Sithithaworn;Trevor N. Petney

  • Towards resilient flood risk management for Asian coastal cities: Lessons learned from Hong Kong and Singapore

    F.K.S. Chan;F.K.S. Chan;C. Joon Chuah;A.D. Ziegler;M. Dąbrowski

  • Hydrologic effects of the expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in a tropical catchment

    Maite Guardiola-Claramonte;Peter A. Troch;Alan D. Ziegler;Thomas W. Giambelluca

  • Mangrove biomass estimation in Southwest Thailand using machine learning

    Nicholas R.A. Jachowski;Michelle S.Y. Quak;Daniel A. Friess;Decha Duangnamon

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas W. Giambelluca
Thomas W. Giambelluca University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ross A. Sutherland
Ross A. Sutherland University of Hawaii at Manoa
Robert J. Wasson
Robert J. Wasson Australian National University
Jefferson Fox
Jefferson Fox East-West Center
Daniel A. Friess
Daniel A. Friess Tulane University
Roy C. Sidle
Roy C. Sidle University of Central Asia
Edward L. Webb
Edward L. Webb University of Helsinki
Xixi Lu
Xixi Lu National University of Singapore
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Tjeerd J. Bouma
Tjeerd J. Bouma Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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