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38
Citations
4903
World Ranking
6705
National Ranking
2259

Overview

Nicholas H. Wolff is affiliated with The Nature Conservancy in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a total of 62 publications contributing to this domain.

The scientist's research covers several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics explored by Nicholas H. Wolff encompass:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wolff include:

  • Yuta J. Masuda
  • Edward T. Game
  • June T. Spector
  • Timm Kroeger
  • Luke Parsons

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Nicholas H. Wolff include:

  • Accounting for albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Wildfire, Smoke Exposure, Human Health, and Environmental Justice Need to be Integrated into Forest Restoration and Management, 2022, Current Environmental Health Reports
  • Large scale tropical deforestation drives extreme warming, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Global labor loss due to humid heat exposure underestimated for outdoor workers, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Agroforestry and non-state actors: A review, 2021, Forest Policy and Economics

The frequent venues where Wolff has published include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • One Earth
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Ecological resilience, robustness and vulnerability: how do these concepts benefit ecosystem management?

    Peter J Mumby;Peter J Mumby;Iliana Chollett;Iliana Chollett;Yves-Marie Bozec;Yves-Marie Bozec;Nicholas H Wolff

  • Water quality mediates resilience on the Great Barrier Reef

    M. Aaron MacNeil;Camille Mellin;Camille Mellin;Sam Matthews;Sam Matthews;Nicholas H. Wolff

  • An assessment of the representation of ecosystems in global protected areas using new maps of World Climate Regions and World Ecosystems

    Roger Sayre;Deniz Karagulle;Charlie Frye;Timothy Boucher

  • An Overview of Marine Biodiversity in United States Waters

    Daphne Fautin;Penelope Dalton;Lewis S. Incze;Jo-Ann C. Leong

  • Connectivity and systemic resilience of the Great Barrier Reef.

    Karlo Hock;Nicholas H. Wolff;Juan C. Ortiz;Scott A. Condie

  • Anticipative management for coral reef ecosystem services in the 21st century

    Alice Rogers;Alice Rogers;Alastair R. Harborne;Christopher J. Brown;Yves Marie Bozec;Yves Marie Bozec

  • Connectivity of lobster populations in the coastal Gulf of Maine: Part I: Circulation and larval transport potential

    Huijie Xue;Lewis Incze;Danya Xu;Nicholas Wolff

  • Impaired recovery of the Great Barrier Reef under cumulative stress

    Juan Carlos Ortiz;Juan Carlos Ortiz;Nicholas H. Wolff;Nicholas H. Wolff;Nicholas H. Wolff;Kenneth R. N. Anthony;Michelle Devlin

  • Integrating regional conservation priorities for multiple objectives into national policy

    Maria Beger;Jennifer McGowan;Eric A. Treml;Alison L. Green

  • Spatial resilience of the Great Barrier Reef under cumulative disturbance impacts.

    Camille Mellin;Camille Mellin;Samuel Matthews;Samuel Matthews;Kenneth R.N. Anthony;Kenneth R.N. Anthony;Stuart C. Brown

  • Operationalizing the Resilience of Coral Reefs in an Era of Climate Change

    Peter J. Mumby;Peter J. Mumby;Nicholas H. Wolff;Yves-Marie Bozec;Yves-Marie Bozec;Iliana Chollett;Iliana Chollett

  • Changes in copepod distributions associated with increased turbulence from wind stress

    L. S. Incze;D. Hebert;N. Wolff;N. Oakey

  • Coral reef habitat mapping: A combination of object-based image analysis and ecological modelling

    Chris Roelfsema;Eva Kovacs;Juan Carlos Ortiz;Nicholas H. Wolff

  • Vulnerability of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change and local pressures

    Nicholas H. Wolff;Nicholas H. Wolff;Peter J. Mumby;Michelle Devlin;Michelle Devlin;Kenneth R. N. Anthony

  • Heat Exposure and Occupational Injuries: Review of the Literature and Implications.

    June T. Spector;Yuta J. Masuda;Nicholas H. Wolff;Miriam Calkins

  • Exploring the role of environmental variables in shaping patterns of seabed biodiversity composition in regional‐scale ecosystems

    C. Roland Pitcher;Peter Lawton;Nick Ellis;Stephen J. Smith

  • Water quality and river plume monitoring in the Great Barrier Reef: An overview of methods based on ocean colour satellite data

    Michelle J. Devlin;Caroline Petus;Eduardo Teixeira da Silva;Dieter Tracey

  • Connectivity of lobster (Homarus americanus) populations in the coastal Gulf of Maine: part II. Coupled biophysical dynamics

    Lewis Incze;Huijie Xue;Nicholas Wolff;Danya Xu

  • Connectivity networks reveal the risks of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks on the Great Barrier Reef

    Karlo Hock;Nicholas H. Wolff;Scott A. Condie;Kenneth R. N. Anthony

  • Emissions mitigation opportunities for savanna countries from early dry season fire management

    Geoffrey J. Lipsett-Moore;Nicholas H. Wolff;Edward T. Game;Edward T. Game

  • Trophic relationships and oceanography on and around a small offshore bank

    Peter T. Stevick;Lewis S. Incze;Scott D. Kraus;Shale Rosen

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Mumby
Peter J. Mumby University of Queensland
Edward T. Game
Edward T. Game The Nature Conservancy
Kenneth R. N. Anthony
Kenneth R. N. Anthony Australian Institute of Marine Science
Yves-Marie Bozec
Yves-Marie Bozec University of Queensland
Michelle Devlin
Michelle Devlin Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Kristie L. Ebi
Kristie L. Ebi University of Washington
Robert S. Steneck
Robert S. Steneck University of Maine
David S. Battisti
David S. Battisti University of Washington
Huijie Xue
Huijie Xue University of Maine

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