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48
Citations
13286
World Ranking
4139
National Ranking
320

Overview

Patrick J. Baker is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and contributes extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology. Their research portfolio includes work in Atmospheric Science and Ecological Modeling as well.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of ecological and environmental dynamics. Key areas include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Patrick J. Baker has published research in a range of venues, with multiple papers appearing in Forest Ecology and Management and Fire Ecology, as well as contributions to Journal of Ecology, Remote Sensing, and Natural Hazards.

Frequent collaborators include Craig R. Nitschke, Raphaël Trouvé, Kathryn Allen, Benjamin Wagner, and Edward R. Cook.

Their recent papers demonstrate engagement with current ecological challenges and understanding of forest and fire ecology as well as climate impacts:

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Climate change drives habitat contraction of a nocturnal arboreal marsupial at its physiological limits, 2020, Ecosphere
  • Evaluating the dendroclimatological potential of blue intensity on multiple conifer species from Tasmania and New Zealand, 2021, Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species

    Richard S. Condit;Peter S. Ashton;Patrick J. Baker;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • The conservation status of the world's reptiles

    Monika Böhm;Ben Collen;Jonathan E.M. Baillie;Philip Bowles

  • Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size.

    N. L. Stephenson;A. J. Das;Richard S. Condit;S. E. Russo

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers

    Kendra K. McLauchlan;Philip E. Higuera;Jessica Miesel;Brendan M. Rogers

  • DISTURBANCE HISTORY AND HISTORICAL STAND DYNAMICS OF A SEASONAL TROPICAL FOREST IN WESTERN THAILAND

    Patrick John Baker;Patrick John Baker;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin;Chadwick D Oliver;Chadwick D Oliver;Peter S Ashton

  • Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire.

    Jason J. Sharples;Geoffrey J. Cary;Paul Fox-Hughes;Scott Mooney

  • Balancing the environmental benefits of reforestation in agricultural regions

    S.C. Cunningham;S.C. Cunningham;R. Mac Nally;P.J. Baker;T.R. Cavagnaro

  • Leaf flushing during the dry season: the paradox of Asian monsoon forests

    Stephen Elliott;Patrick John Baker;Rolf Borchert

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Drought variability in the eastern Australia and New Zealand summer drought atlas (ANZDA, CE 1500-2012) modulated by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

    Jonathan G Palmer;Edward R Cook;Chris S M Turney;Kathy Allen

  • Long‐term increases in intrinsic water‐use efficiency do not lead to increased stem growth in a tropical monsoon forest in western Thailand

    Charles A. Nock;Patrick J. Baker;Wolfgang Wanek;Albrecht Leis

  • Tropical forests and global change: filling knowledge gaps

    Pieter A. Zuidema;Patrick J. Baker;Peter Groenendijk;Peter Schippers

  • Landscape management through integration of existing tools and emerging technologies

    James B. McCarter;Jeremy S. Wilson;Patrick J. Baker;Jeffrey L. Moffett

  • Deciduousness in a seasonal tropical forest in western Thailand: interannual and intraspecific variation in timing, duration and environmental cues

    Laura Williams;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin;Patrick John Baker

  • Temperature and rainfall strongly drive temporal growth variation in Asian tropical forest trees

    Mart Vlam;Patrick J. Baker;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin;Pieter A. Zuidema

  • Dynamics of Murray-Darling floodplain forests under multiple stressors: The past, present, and future of an Australian icon

    Ralph Mac Nally;Shaun C. Cunningham;Patrick J. Baker;Gillis J. Horner

  • Temporal variability of forest communities: empirical estimates of population change in 4000 tree species

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Ryan A. Chisholm;Richard Condit;K. Abd. Rahman;Patrick J. Baker

  • Spatial distribution patterns of the dominant canopy dipterocarp species in a seasonal dry evergreen forest in western Thailand

    Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin;James V LaFrankie;Patrick John Baker;Mamoru Kanzaki

  • Mortality of developing floodplain forests subjected to a drying climate and water extraction

    Gillis John Horner;Patrick John Baker;Ralph Charles Mac Nally;Shaun Cameron Cunningham

  • Experimental reconstruction of monsoon drought variability for Australasia using tree rings and corals

    Rosanne D'Arrigo;Patrick John Baker;Jonathan Palmer;Kevin Anchukaitis

  • Tropical forest community ecology

    Patrick Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun C. Cunningham
Shaun C. Cunningham Deakin University
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Royal Forest Department
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
James Robertson Thomson
James Robertson Thomson Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
Ralph Charles Mac Nally
Ralph Charles Mac Nally University of Canberra
Timothy R. Cavagnaro
Timothy R. Cavagnaro University of Adelaide
Jonathan G. Palmer
Jonathan G. Palmer University of New South Wales
Richard E. Lee
Richard E. Lee Miami University
Peter S. Ashton
Peter S. Ashton Harvard University
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles

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