William F. Laurance

Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine — Australia

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

131h-index73.8kcitations637works12.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management(204), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(203), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(107), Forest ecology and management(74), Species Distribution and Climate Change(73)

Publications628 total

Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Increasing tree size across Amazonia
Nature Plants·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Roads imperil South American protected areas
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2025· 4 cited
Scientists' warning on climate change and insects
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
Tiger turnaround as populations grow in India
Nature·2025
Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests
Nature Communications·2025· 11 citedOpen Access
Explosive growth of secondary roads is linked to widespread tropical deforestation
Current Biology·2025· 10 cited
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests
Nature·2025· 17 citedOpen Access
Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests
Communications Biology·2025· 14 citedOpen Access
Forecasting deforestation and carbon loss across New Guinea using machine learning and cellular automata
The Science of The Total Environment·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Aquatic pollution from truck spills: Urgent action needed in Brazil and beyond
Water Biology and Security·2025Open Access
Large‐scale and long‐term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society·2025· 20 citedOpen Access
Measuring forest degradation via ecological-integrity indicators at multiple spatial scales
Biological Conservation·2024· 13 cited
Roads imperil South American protected areas
2024Open Access
Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa
Functional Ecology·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
The pace of life for forest trees
Science·2024· 26 citedOpen Access
The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora
Communications Biology·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
Forest fragmentation effects on mutualistic interactions: frugivorous birds and fruiting trees
Oikos·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Publisher Correction: Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests
Nature·2024Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Susan G. W. Laurance(18), Thomas Ε. Lovejoy(9), Nigel C. A. Pitman(8), Yadvinder Malhi(8), Anthony Di Fiore(7), Oliver L. Phillips(7), Níro Higuchi(7), Rodolfo Vásquez(7), Timothy R. Baker(7), Simon L. Lewis(7), David Neill(7), Luzmila Arroyo(6), Jérôme Chave(6), Ana Andrade(6), Philip M. Fearnside(6), Raphaël K. Didham(5), Oscar Venter(5), Timothy J. Killeen(5), Jon Lloyd(5), Abel Monteagudo(5)