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Jeremy Russell-Smith

Jeremy Russell-Smith

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
59
Citations
13285
World Ranking
2424
National Ranking
183

Overview

Jeremy Russell-Smith is affiliated with Charles Darwin University in Australia and focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and related subfields. Their research intersects multiple topics, including fire effects on ecosystems, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, rangeland and wildlife management, land use and ecosystem services, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, disaster management and resilience, and indigenous health, education, and rights.

Recent publications by Jeremy Russell-Smith demonstrate involvement in research largely centered on fire management and ecosystem services. Notable papers include:

  • Opportunities and challenges for savanna burning emissions abatement in southern Africa (2021, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • Transforming fire management in northern Australia through successful implementation of savanna burning emissions reductions projects (2021, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • Assessing changes in global fire regimes (2024, Fire Ecology)
  • Assessing the value of ecosystem services delivered by prescribed fire management in Australian tropical savannas (2021, Ecosystem Services)
  • Altered cyclone-fire interactions are changing ecosystems (2022, Trends in Plant Science)

Russell-Smith frequently collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors. These include Cameron Yates, Andrew Edwards, Kamaljit K. Sangha, Jay D. Evans, and Roland Vernooij, each of whom has contributed to multiple publications alongside Russell-Smith.

The primary publication venues for their work reflect a focus on fire ecology, environmental management, and ecosystem service studies, featuring journals such as the International Journal of Wildland Fire, Journal of Environmental Management, SSRN Electronic Journal, UEF eRepo (University of Eastern Finland), and Ecosystem Services.

Best Publications

  • Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

    Caroline E. R. Lehmann;Caroline E. R. Lehmann;T. Michael Anderson;Mahesh Sankaran;Mahesh Sankaran;Steven I. Higgins;Steven I. Higgins

  • Value of long-term ecological studies

    David B. Lindenmayer;Gene E. Likens;Gene E. Likens;Alan Andersen;David Bowman

  • Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them

    Don A. Driscoll;David B. Lindenmayer;Andrew F. Bennett;Michael Bode

  • Fire ecology and Aboriginal land management in central Arnhem Land, northern Australia: a tradition of ecosystem management

    D. Yibarbuk;Peter J. Whitehead;Jeremy Russell-Smith;DM Jackson

  • Fire frequency and biodiversity conservation in Australian tropical savannas: implications from the Kapalga fire experiment

    Alan N. Andersen;Garry D. Cook;Laurie K. Corbett;Michael M. Douglas

  • Contemporary fire regimes of northern Australia, 1997–2001: change since Aboriginal occupancy, challenges for sustainable management

    Jeremy Russell-Smith;Cameron Yates;Andrew Edwards;Grant E. Allan

  • A LANDSAT MSS-derived fire history of Kakadu National Park, monsoonal northern Australia, 1980-94: seasonal extent, frequency and patchiness.

    Jeremy Russell-Smith;Paul G. Ryan;Richard Durieu

  • Bushfires 'down under': patterns and implications of contemporary Australian landscape burning

    Jeremy Russell-Smith;Cameron P. Yates;Peter J. Whitehead;Richard Smith

  • Aboriginal Resource Utilization and Fire Management Practice in Western Arnhem Land, Monsoonal Northern Australia: Notes for Prehistory, Lessons for the Future

    Jeremy Russell-Smith;Diane Lucas;Minnie Gapindi;Billy Gunbunuka

  • Managing fire regimes in north Australian savannas: applying Aboriginal approaches to contemporary global problems

    Jeremy Russell-Smith;Garry D Cook;Peter M Cooke;Andrew C Edwards

  • RESPONSE OF EUCALYPTUS‐DOMINATED SAVANNA TO FREQUENT FIRES: LESSONS FROM MUNMARLARY, 1973–1996

    Jeremy Russell-Smith;Peter J. Whitehead;Garry D. Cook;Garry D. Cook;James L. Hoare

  • Fire regimes of Australia: A pyrogeographic model system

    Brett P. Murphy;Brett P. Murphy;Ross A. Bradstock;Matthias M. Boer;John Carter

  • Fire regimes, fire‐sensitive vegetation and fire management of the sandstone Arnhem Plateau, monsoonal northern Australia

    Jeremy Russell-Smith;Paul G. Ryan;David Klessa;Gordon Waight

  • How do small savanna trees avoid stem mortality by fire? The roles of stem diameter, height and bark thickness

    Michael J. Lawes;Hylton Adie;Jeremy Russell-Smith;Brett P. Murphy

  • A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems.

    Peter J. Clarke;Michael J. Lawes;Brett P. Murphy;Jeremy Russell-Smith

  • Conservation of monsoon rainforest isolates in the Northern Territory, Australia

    J. Russell-Smith;D.M.J.S. Bowman

  • Classification, species richness, and environmental relations of monsoon rain forest in northern Australia

    Jeremy Russell-Smith

  • Improving estimates of savanna burning emissions for greenhouse accounting in northern Australia: limitations, challenges, applications

    Jeremy Russell-Smith;Brett P. Murphy;C. P. Meyer;C. P. Meyer;Garry D. Cook;Garry D. Cook

  • Culture, ecology and economy of fire management in North Australian Savannas : rekindling the Wurrk tradition

    Jeremy Russell-Smith;Peter J. Whitehead;Peter Cooke

  • Fire regimes and the conservation of sandstone heath in monsoonal northern Australia: frequency, interval, patchiness

    Jeremy Russell-Smith;Paul G Ryan;David C Cheal

Frequent Co-Authors

Brett P. Murphy
Brett P. Murphy Charles Darwin University
Garry D. Cook
Garry D. Cook Arafurica Pty Ltd
Richard J. Williams
Richard J. Williams Deakin University
John C. Z. Woinarski
John C. Z. Woinarski Charles Darwin University
David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Owen Price
Owen Price University of Wollongong
Lindsay B. Hutley
Lindsay B. Hutley Charles Darwin University
Michael J. Lawes
Michael J. Lawes University of KwaZulu-Natal
David A. Keith
David A. Keith University of New South Wales
David M. J. S. Bowman
David M. J. S. Bowman University of Tasmania

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