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Susan G. Laurance

Susan G. Laurance

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
74
Citations
32946
World Ranking
1090
National Ranking
91

Overview

Susan G. Laurance is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Their recent publications highlight a focus on tree mortality and ecological dynamics in tropical and Amazonian forests. These include:

  • "Tropical tree mortality has increased with rising atmospheric water stress", 2022, Nature
  • "Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa", 2020, Ecology
  • "Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora", 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Successional theories", 2023, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Susan G. Laurance frequently collaborates with several researchers, including William F. Laurance, Oliver L. Phillips, José Luís Camargo, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, and Ben Hur Marimon, indicating strong partnerships within ecological and environmental research networks.

Their work is often published in venues such as Forest Ecology and Management, Zenodo, Nature Communications, Global Change Biology, and Nature Ecology & Evolution, which are notable journals and repositories in the fields of ecology and environmental science.

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem Decay of Amazonian Forest Fragments: a 22-Year Investigation

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;Thomas E. Lovejoy;Heraldo L. Vasconcelos;Emilio M. Bruna

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Impacts of roads and linear clearings on tropical forests.

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;Miriam Goosem;Susan G.W. Laurance;Susan G.W. Laurance

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

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

  • Changes in the carbon balance of tropical forests: evidence from long-term plots

    Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Niro Higuchi;William F. Laurance

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;José L.C. Camargo;Regina C.C. Luizão;Susan G. Laurance;Susan G. Laurance

  • RAIN FOREST FRAGMENTATION AND THE DYNAMICS OF AMAZONIAN TREE COMMUNITIES

    William F. Laurance;Leandro V. Ferreira;Judy M. Rankin-de Merona;Susan G. Laurance

  • Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • Biomass Collapse in Amazonian Forest Fragments

    William F. Laurance;Susan G. Laurance;Leandro V. Ferreira;Judy M. Rankin-de Merona

  • Rainforest fragmentation kills big trees

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;Patricia Delamônica;Susan G. Laurance;Heraldo L. Vasconcelos

  • The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Daniel Wood;Timothy R. Baker;James Wright

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

    Yadvinder Malhi;Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Samuel Almeida

  • Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots.

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001.

    O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker;T. R. Baker;L. Arroyo;N. Higuchi

  • Habitat fragmentation, variable edge effects, and the landscape-divergence hypothesis.

    William F. Laurance;Henrique E. M. Nascimento;Susan G. Laurance;Ana Andrade

  • Relationship between soils and Amazon forest biomass: a landscape-scale study

    William F Laurance;Philip M Fearnside;Susan G Laurance;Patricia Delamonica

  • Rapid decay of tree-community composition in Amazonian forest fragments

    William F. Laurance;Henrique E. M. Nascimento;Susan G. Laurance;Ana C. S. Andrade

  • RAIN FOREST FRAGMENTATION AND THE PROLIFERATION OF SUCCESSIONAL TREES

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;Henrique E. M. Nascimento;Susan G. Laurance;Susan G. Laurance;Ana C. S. Andrade

  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Ana Andrade
Ana Andrade National Institute of Amazonian Research
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University

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