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D-Index
43
Citations
5715
World Ranking
5084
National Ranking
255

Patrick N.J. Lane publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick N.J. Lane sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 170 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Patrick N.J. Lane D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick N.J. Lane sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Patrick N.J. Lane is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change. Additional subfields include Water Science and Technology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Soil Science.

The scientist's work encompasses a variety of main topics, particularly Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems. Other key areas of research include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Landslides and Related Hazards, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, and Forest Ecology and Management.

Frequent co-authors with whom Patrick N.J. Lane has collaborated include Gary Sheridan, Assaf Inbar, Petter Nyman, Richard G. Benyon, and Philip J. Noske.

Their research has been published extensively in several academic journals. The most frequent publication venues are the Journal of Hydrology, Australasian Journal of Water Resources, and Water Resources Research. Other venues include Remote Sensing and Geomorphology.

Recent papers include:

  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database (2021, Earth System Science Data)
  • Individual tree detection and crown delineation from Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) LiDAR in structurally complex mixed species eucalypt forests (2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing)
  • Explaining changes in rainfall-runoff relationships during and after Australia's Millennium Drought: a community perspective (2022, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences)
  • Performance of GEDI Space-Borne LiDAR for Quantifying Structural Variation in the Temperate Forests of South-Eastern Australia (2022, Remote Sensing)
  • Seasonal forecast of soil moisture over Mediterranean-climate forest catchments using a machine learning approach (2023, Journal of Hydrology)

Best Publications

  • Wildfire effects on water quality in forest catchments: A review with implications for water supply

    Hugh G. Smith;Gary J. Sheridan;Patrick N.J. Lane;Petter Nyman

  • Evidence of debris flow occurrence after wildfire in upland catchments of south-east Australia

    Petter Nyman;Gary J. Sheridan;Hugh G. Smith;Patrick N.J. Lane

  • Changes in sediment loads and discharge from small mountain catchments following wildfire in south eastern Australia

    Patrick N.J. Lane;Gary J. Sheridan;Philip J. Noske

  • Quantification of hillslope runoff and erosion processes before and after wildfire in a wet Eucalyptus forest

    Gary J. Sheridan;Patrick N.J. Lane;Philip J. Noske

  • The response of flow duration curves to afforestation

    Patrick N.J. Lane;Patrick N.J. Lane;Alice E. Best;Alice E. Best;Alice E. Best;Klaus Hickel;Klaus Hickel;Lu Zhang;Lu Zhang

  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

    Rafael Poyatos;Víctor Granda;Víctor Flo;Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

  • Impact of an unsealed forest road stream crossing: water quality and sediment sources

    Patrick N. J. Lane;Gary J. Sheridan

  • Water balance of tropical eucalypt plantations in south-eastern China

    Patrick N.J. Lane;Jim Morris;Zhang Ningnan;Zhou Guangyi

  • Synergistic effects of water repellency and macropore flow on the hydraulic conductivity of a burned forest soil, south‐east Australia

    Petter Nyman;Gary Sheridan;Patrick N. J. Lane

  • Extracting LiDAR indices to characterise multilayered forest structure using mixture distribution functions

    Dominik Jaskierniak;Patrick N.J. Lane;Patrick N.J. Lane;Andrew Robinson;Arko Lucieer

  • Surface runoff and erosion after prescribed burning and the effect of different fire regimes in forests and shrublands: a review

    J. G. Cawson;J. G. Cawson;G. J. Sheridan;G. J. Sheridan;H. G. Smith;H. G. Smith;P. N. J. Lane;P. N. J. Lane

  • Streamflow response of mixed-species eucalypt forests to patch cutting and thinning treatments

    Patrick N.J Lane;Stephen M Mackay

  • Phosphorus and nitrogen exports from SE Australian forests following wildfire

    Patrick N.J. Lane;Gary J. Sheridan;Philip J. Noske;Christopher B. Sherwin

  • Effects of fire severity and burn patchiness on hillslope-scale surface runoff, erosion and hydrologic connectivity in a prescribed burn

    J.G. Cawson;J.G. Cawson;G.J. Sheridan;G.J. Sheridan;H.G. Smith;P.N.J. Lane;P.N.J. Lane

  • Predicting sediment delivery from debris flows after wildfire

    Petter Nyman;Petter Nyman;Hugh G. Smith;Christopher B. Sherwin;Christopher B. Sherwin;Christoph Langhans

  • Modeling the effects of surface storage, macropore flow and water repellency on infiltration after wildfire

    Petter Nyman;Petter Nyman;Gary J. Sheridan;Gary J. Sheridan;Hugh G. Smith;Patrick N.J. Lane;Patrick N.J. Lane

  • Changes to sediment sources following wildfire in a forested upland catchment, southeastern Australia

    Hugh G. Smith;Gary J. Sheridan;Patrick N. J. Lane;Philip J. Noske

  • The long term effects of thinning treatments on vegetation structure and water yield

    Sandra N.D. Hawthorne;Patrick N.J. Lane;Leon J. Bren;Neil C. Sims

  • Changes in evapotranspiration following wildfire in resprouting eucalypt forests

    Rachael H. Nolan;Patrick N. J. Lane;Richard G. Benyon;Ross A. Bradstock

  • Responses of evapotranspiration at different topographic positions and catchment water balance following a pronounced drought in a mixed species eucalypt forest, Australia

    Patrick J. Mitchell;Richard G. Benyon;Patrick N.J. Lane

  • Quantifying sources of fine sediment supplied to post-fire debris flows using fallout radionuclide tracers

    Hugh G. Smith;Hugh G. Smith;Gary J. Sheridan;Petter Nyman;David P. Child

  • Modelling the long term water yield impact of wildfire and other forest disturbance in Eucalypt forests

    P. N. J. Lane;P. M. Feikema;C. B. Sherwin;M. C. Peel

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary J. Sheridan
Gary J. Sheridan University of Melbourne
Hugh G. Smith
Hugh G. Smith Landcare Research
Jacky Croke
Jacky Croke Queensland University of Technology
Ross A. Bradstock
Ross A. Bradstock University of Wollongong
George Kuczera
George Kuczera University of Newcastle Australia
Stefan H. Doerr
Stefan H. Doerr Swansea University
Rodger B. Grayson
Rodger B. Grayson University of Melbourne
Yongqiang Zhang
Yongqiang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jai Vaze
Jai Vaze Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Paul V. Bolstad
Paul V. Bolstad University of Minnesota

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