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9012
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Eric W. Sanderson publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eric W. Sanderson sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 85 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Eric W. Sanderson D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eric W. Sanderson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Eric W. Sanderson is affiliated with the Wildlife Conservation Society in the United States. Their work spans multiple topics primarily within environmental science, with a focus on ecology and conservation.

Their research areas include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

Within environmental science, their subfields of study cover:

  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Eric W. Sanderson has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications. Some recent works include:

  • "Range-wide trends in tiger conservation landscapes, 2001 - 2020" (2023), published in Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • "The case for reintroduction: The jaguar ( Panthera onca ) in the United States as a model" (2021), published in Conservation Science and Practice

Other recent papers in the broader dataset from different authors, reflecting related fields, include:

  • "Storm tide amplification and habitat changes due to urbanization of a lagoonal estuary" (2020), Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • "NPCC4: Climate change and New York City's flood risk" (2024), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • "Examining the distribution of green roofs in New York City through a lens of social, ecological, and technological filters" (2022), Ecology and Society

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues, demonstrating a broad engagement with conservation science, ecology, and environmental research:

  • Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Ecology and Society
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Conservation Science and Practice

Among frequently collaborating colleagues are:

  • Kim Fisher
  • Urs Breitenmoser
  • Christine Breitenmoser-Würsten
  • Dale G. Miquelle
  • Abishek Harihar

Best Publications

  • The Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild

    Eric W. Sanderson;Malanding Jaiteh;Marc A. Levy;Kent H. Redford

  • Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order

    Richard J. Hobbs;Salvatore Arico;James Aronson;Jill S. Baron

  • Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

    Oscar Venter;Oscar Venter;Oscar Venter;Eric W. Sanderson;Ainhoa Magrach;Ainhoa Magrach;James R. Allan

  • Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009.

    Oscar Venter;Oscar Venter;Oscar Venter;Eric W. Sanderson;Ainhoa Magrach;Ainhoa Magrach;James R. Allan

  • Planning to Save a Species: the Jaguar as a Model

    Eric W. Sanderson;Kent H. Redford;Cheryl-Lesley B. Chetkiewicz;Rodrigo A. Medellin

  • Catastrophic Declines in Wilderness Areas Undermine Global Environment Targets

    James E.M. Watson;James E.M. Watson;Danielle F. Shanahan;Moreno Di Marco;James Allan

  • A conceptual model for conservation planning based on landscape species requirements

    Eric W Sanderson;Kent H Redford;Amy Vedder;Peter B Coppolillo

  • Deforestation Trends in a Tropical Landscape and Implications for Endangered Large Mammals

    Margaret F. Kinnaird;Eric W. Sanderson;T. Timothy G. O'brien;Hariyo T. Wibisono

  • The Fate of Wild Tigers

    Eric Dinerstein;Colby Loucks;Eric Wikramanayake;Joshua Ginsberg

  • Critique of stepwise multiple linear regression for the extraction of leaf biochemistry information from leaf reflectance data

    Y.L. Grossman;S.L. Ustin;S. Jacquemoud;E.W. Sanderson

  • Mapping the conservation landscape

    Kent H. Redford;Peter Coppolillo;Eric W. Sanderson;Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca

  • The theory behind, and the challenges of, conserving nature's stage in a time of rapid change

    Joshua J. Lawler;David D. Ackerly;Christine M. Albano;Mark G. Anderson

  • The ecological future of the North American bison: conceiving long-term, large-scale conservation of wildlife.

    Eric W. Sanderson;Kent H. Redford;Bill Weber;Keith Aune

  • Mannahatta : a natural history of New York City

    Eric W. Sanderson;Markley Boyer

  • What Does It Mean to Successfully Conserve a (Vertebrate) Species

    Kent H. Redford;George Amato;Jonathan Baillie;Pablo Martín Beldomenico

  • MONITORING PACIFIC COAST SALT MARSHES USING REMOTE SENSING

    M. Zhang;S. L. Ustin;E. Rejmankova;E. W. Sanderson

  • Correlations among species distributions, human density and human infrastructure across the high biodiversity tropical mountains of Africa

    Neil D. Burgess;Andrew Balmford;Norbert J. Cordeiro;Norbert J. Cordeiro;Jon Fjeldså

  • Rescaling the Human Footprint: A tool for conservation planning at an ecoregional scale

    Gillian Woolmer;Stephen C. Trombulak;Justina C. Ray;Patrick J. Doran

  • Regional habitat conservation priorities for the American crocodile

    John Thorbjarnarson;Frank Mazzotti;Eric Sanderson;Fabio Buitrago

  • Range-wide declines of a key Neotropical ecosystem architect, the Near Threatened white-lipped peccary Tayassu pecari

    Mariana Altrichter;Andrew Taber;Harald Beck;Rafael Reyna-Hurtado

Frequent Co-Authors

James E. M. Watson
James E. M. Watson University of Queensland
Susan L. Ustin
Susan L. Ustin University of California, Davis
Kent H. Redford
Kent H. Redford University of New England
Oscar Venter
Oscar Venter University of Northern British Columbia
Timothy G. O'Brien
Timothy G. O'Brien Wildlife Conservation Society
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
John G. Robinson
John G. Robinson Wildlife Conservation Society
Peter Leimgruber
Peter Leimgruber Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
William Solecki
William Solecki City University of New York

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