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Robert B. Allen

Robert B. Allen

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
54
Citations
10530
World Ranking
3157
National Ranking
31

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1962 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert B. Allen is affiliated with Landcare Research in New Zealand and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a total of 33 publications focused on this discipline. Their research spans several subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Surgery.

The main topics addressed in Allen's work are diverse and include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Forest Ecology and Management, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Allen has authored and co-authored several scientific papers, notably:

  • 2024 AHA/ACC/ACS/ASNC/HRS/SCA/SCCT/SCMR/SVM Guideline for Perioperative Cardiovascular Management for Noncardiac Surgery: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines, 2024, Circulation
  • Implementing integrated measurements of Essential Biodiversity Variables at a national scale, 2020, Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • Long-term exclusion of invasive ungulates alters tree recruitment and functional traits but not total forest carbon, 2023, Ecological Applications
  • Determining the balance between active and passive indigenous forest restoration after exotic conifer plantation clear-fell, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Stakeholder Values Inform Indigenous Peoples' Governance and Management of a Former National Park in New Zealand, 2020, Human Ecology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Allen include Peter J. Bellingham, David M. Forsyth, Duane A. Peltzer, Sarah J. Richardson, and Larry Burrows.

Key publication venues for Allen's research are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Circulation
  • Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • Ecological Applications
  • Biological Invasions

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Allen was awarded fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1962.

Best Publications

  • Assembly history dictates ecosystem functioning: evidence from wood decomposer communities.

    Tadashi Fukami;Tadashi Fukami;Ian A. Dickie;J. Paula Wilkie;Barbara C. Paulus

  • Effects of size, competition and altitude on tree growth

    David A. Coomes;David A. Coomes;Robert B. Allen

  • Rapid development of phosphorus limitation in temperate rainforest along the Franz Josef soil chronosequence

    Sarah J. Richardson;Duane A. Peltzer;Robert B. Allen;Matt S. McGlone

  • Mortality and tree‐size distributions in natural mixed‐age forests

    David A. Coomes;David A. Coomes;Robert B. Allen

  • COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND FOREST INVASION BY AN EXOTIC HERB OVER 23 YEARS

    Susan K. Wiser;Robert B. Allen;Peter W. Clinton;Kevin H. Platt

  • MASTING BY EIGHTEEN NEW ZEALAND PLANT SPECIES: THE ROLE OF TEMPERATURE AS A SYNCHRONIZING CUE

    Eric M. Schauber;Dave Kelly;Peter Turchin;Chris Simon

  • Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long‐term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

    Norman W. H. Mason;Sarah J. Richardson;Duane A. Peltzer;Francesco de Bello

  • Putting Things in Order: The Advantages of Detrended Correspondence Analysis

    R.K. Peet;R.G. Knox;J.S. Case;R.B. Allen

  • Designing systems to monitor carbon stocks in forests and shrublands

    David A Coomes;Robert B Allen;Neal A Scott;Chris Goulding

  • Disturbances prevent stem size‐density distributions in natural forests from following scaling relationships

    David A. Coomes;David A. Coomes;Richard P. Duncan;Robert B. Allen;James Truscott

  • The hare, the tortoise and the crocodile: the ecology of angiosperm dominance, conifer persistence and fern filtering

    David A. Coomes;Robert B. Allen;Robert B. Allen;Warren A. Bentley;Larry E. Burrows;Larry E. Burrows

  • Factors Preventing the Recovery of New Zealand Forests Following Control of Invasive Deer

    David A. Coomes;David A. Coomes;Robert B. Allen;David M. Forsyth;William G. Lee

  • EVALUATING THE WIND POLLINATION BENEFITS OF MAST SEEDING

    Dave Kelly;Deirdre E. Hart;Robert B. Allen

  • Do assembly history effects attenuate from species to ecosystem properties? A field test with wood-inhabiting fungi

    Ian A. Dickie;Tadashi Fukami;Tadashi Fukami;J. Paula Wilkie;Robert B. Allen

  • RESORPTION PROFICIENCY ALONG A CHRONOSEQUENCE: RESPONSES AMONG COMMUNITIES AND WITHIN SPECIES

    Sarah J. Richardson;Duane A. Peltzer;Robert B. Allen;Matt S. McGlone

  • Effects of biological invasions on forest carbon sequestration

    D. A. Peltzer;R. B. Allen;G. M. Lovett;D. Whitehead

  • Annual seedfall variation in Nothofagus solandri (Fagaceae), Canterbury, New Zealand

    Robert B. Allen;K. H. Platt

  • Biological Invasions in New Zealand

    Robert B Allen;William G. Lee

  • Allometric Theory Explains Self‐Thinning Relationships of Mountain Beech and Red Pine

    Akira Osawa;Robert B. Allen

  • Gradient analysis of forests of the Sangre de Cristo Range, Colorado.

    Robert B. Allen;Robert K. Peet

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Coomes
David A. Coomes University of Cambridge
Sarah J. Richardson
Sarah J. Richardson Landcare Research
Peter J. Bellingham
Peter J. Bellingham Landcare Research
Susan K. Wiser
Susan K. Wiser Landcare Research
Duane A. Peltzer
Duane A. Peltzer Landcare Research
David M. Forsyth
David M. Forsyth New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
Norman W. H. Mason
Norman W. H. Mason Landcare Research
Matt S. McGlone
Matt S. McGlone Landcare Research

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