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William F. Laurance

William F. Laurance publishes mostly in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, on topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

World rank
#3,871
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#89
of 35,497
Works
90
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
17.2

What does William F. Laurance research?

Nature and Landscape Conservation: 21.3%Global and Planetary Change: 18.0%Ecology: 16.9%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7.9%other fields: 35.9%21%top field
Nature and Landscape Conservation21.3%Global and Planetary Change18.0%Ecology16.9%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law7.9%other fields35.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Nature and Landscape Conservation21% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change18% of their works
  3. 3Ecology17% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law8% of their works
  5. 5Ecological Modeling8% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William F. Laurance's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Habitat Fragmentation, Invasive Species, Conservation, Ecosystem, Biodiversity Conservation and Conservation Biology.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodiversity253 topics
  2. Climate Change214 topics
  3. Habitat Fragmentation182 topics
  4. Invasive Species182 topics
  5. Conservation151 topic
  6. Ecosystem151 topic
  7. Biodiversity Conservation143 topics
  8. Conservation Biology102 topics
  9. Animal Movement81 topic
  10. Environmental Services81 topic
  11. Occupancy Rates81 topic
  12. Tropical Deforestation81 topic
  13. Ecological Niche71 topic
  14. Species Distribution Modeling71 topic
  15. Climate Change Impacts31 topic
  16. Drought31 topic
  17. Ecosystem Services31 topic
  18. Forest Carbon Sequestration31 topic
  19. Leadership31 topic
  20. Policy Advocacy31 topic
  21. Pollinator Decline31 topic
  22. Tree Mortality31 topic

Where does William F. Laurance work?

William F. Laurance's main affiliation in the publication record is James Cook University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does William F. Laurance have?

Science Explorer counts 90 works and 1,551 citations for William F. Laurance, ranking #3,871 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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