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Oliver T. Coomes

Oliver T. Coomes

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
13861
World Ranking
4282
National Ranking
253

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
13914
World Ranking
5197
National Ranking
340

Overview

Oliver T. Coomes is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science. Their research spans several key areas, including global and planetary change, ecology, economics and econometrics, nature and landscape conservation, and social psychology.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, wildlife ecology and conservation, primate behavior and ecology, fish biology, ecology, and behavior, agriculture, land use, and rural development, land use and ecosystem services, and flood risk assessment and management.

Oliver T. Coomes has a number of notable recent publications, including:

  • Impoverishment of local wild resources in western Amazonia: a large-scale community survey of local ecological knowledge (2020), Environmental Research Letters
  • Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs (2021), PLoS ONE
  • What drives clearing of old-growth forest over secondary forests in tropical shifting cultivation systems? Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon (2021), Ecological Economics
  • Who is the expert? Evaluating local ecological knowledge for assessing wildlife presence in the Peruvian Amazon (2021), Conservation Science and Practice
  • Drivers and consequences of archetypical shifting cultivation transitions (2023), People and Nature

They have frequently published in several journals, including:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Data
  • Ecology and Society
  • PLoS ONE
  • People and Nature

Oliver T. Coomes collaborates often with colleagues such as Yoshito Takasaki, Christian Abizaid, Margaret Kalácska, Brian E. Robinson, and Camilo Alejo.

Best Publications

  • The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

    Eric F. Lambin;B.L. Turner;Helmut J. Geist;Samuel B. Agbola

  • Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change

    Thomas K. Rudel;Oliver T. Coomes;Emilio Moran;Frederic Achard

  • The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon

    Elizabeth Barona;Elizabeth Barona;Navin Ramankutty;Glenn Hyman;Oliver T Coomes

  • Farmer seed networks make a limited contribution to agriculture? Four common misconceptions

    Oliver T. Coomes;Shawn J. McGuire;Eric Garine;Sophie Caillon

  • Seed exchange networks for agrobiodiversity conservation. A review

    Marco Pautasso;Guntra Aistara;Adeline Barnaud;Sophie Caillon

  • Tropical forests and shifting cultivation: secondary forest fallow dynamics among traditional farmers of the Peruvian Amazon

    Oliver T Coomes;Franque Grimard;Graeme J Burt

  • Cultivated Plant Species Diversity in Home Gardens of an Amazonian Peasant Village in Northeastern Peru

    Oliver T. Coomes;Natalie Ban

  • Risk coping strategies in tropical forests: floods, illnesses, and resource extraction

    Yoshito Takasaki;Bradford L. Barham;Oliver T. Coomes

  • Targeting conservation-development initiatives in tropical forests: insights from analyses of rain forest use and economic reliance among Amazonian peasants

    Oliver T. Coomes;Bradford L. Barham;Yoshito Takasaki

  • Leveraging total factor productivity growth for sustainable and resilient farming

    Oliver T. Coomes;Bradford L. Barham;Graham K. MacDonald;Navin Ramankutty

  • Indigenous livelihoods, slash-and-burn agriculture, and carbon stocks in Eastern Panama

    Petra Tschakert;Oliver T. Coomes;Catherine Potvin

  • Climate-related disaster opens a window of opportunity for rural poor in northeastern Honduras.

    Kendra McSweeney;Oliver T. Coomes

  • The fate of the tropical forest: Carbon or cattle?

    Oliver T. Coomes;Franque Grimard;Catherin Potvin;Philip Sima

  • Rain Forest Extraction and Conservation in Amazonia

    Oliver T. Coomes;Bradford L. Barham

  • Distribution of Agrobiodiversity in Home Gardens along the Corrientes River, Peruvian Amazon

    Mathilde Perrault-Archambault;Oliver T. Coomes

  • Amazonian Peasants, Rain Forest Use, and Income Generation: The Role of Wealth and Geographical Factors

    Bradford L. Barham Yoshito Takasaki;Oliver T. Coomes

  • Prosperity's Promise: The Amazon Rubber Boom And Distorted Economic Development

    Bradford Barham;O. T. Coomes

  • A Century of Rain Forest Use in Western Amazonia: Lessons for Extraction-Based Conservation of Tropical Forest Resources

    Oliver T. Coomes

  • Indigenous market-oriented agroforestry: dissecting local diversity in western Amazonia

    O. T. Coomes;G. J. Burt

  • Land-use poverty traps identified in shifting cultivation systems shape long-term tropical forest cover

    Oliver T. Coomes;Yoshito Takasaki;Jeanine M. Rhemtulla

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradford L. Barham
Bradford L. Barham University of Wisconsin–Madison
Navin Ramankutty
Navin Ramankutty University of British Columbia
Catherine Potvin
Catherine Potvin McGill University
Doyle McKey
Doyle McKey University of Montpellier
Tim R. Moore
Tim R. Moore McGill University
François Massol
François Massol University of Lille
Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Jean-Paul Chavas
Jean-Paul Chavas University of Wisconsin–Madison
Nancy A. Ross
Nancy A. Ross Queen's University
Jianchu Xu
Jianchu Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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