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Alan D. Ziegler’s indexed work centers on the environmental consequences of land-cover change in tropical and montane Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on the hydrological and carbon-cycle impacts of shifting cultivation and plantation expansion. His most-cited first/last-author studies include a global assessment of trends and drivers of swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers (624 citations) and a *Science* paper documenting the rapid expansion of rubber plantations and its ecological trade-offs (404 citations). He also led or senior-authored work quantifying carbon stocks in bamboo ecosystems (271 citations) and the carbon and soil-quality outcomes of swidden agriculture’s decline in Southeast Asia (237 and 183 citations), alongside early first-author papers on rural roads as runoff source areas in northern Thailand (209 citations) and landscape fragmentation accelerating overland flow in Vietnam (195 citations). Beyond these lead-author contributions, Ziegler has been a middle author on several high-impact collaborative studies, including a high-spatiotemporal-resolution map of global urban change from 1985 to 2015 (879 citations) and a paper on erosion processes in steep terrain under Southeast Asian forest management (605 citations). He also contributed to work documenting a reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy (514 citations), as well as analyses of rubber plantation expansion threatening biodiversity (427 citations) and highland cropland expansion driving forest loss in Southeast Asia (333 citations). Across these lines of inquiry, Ziegler’s research consistently links land-use transitions—from swidden systems to plantations and urbanization—to measurable changes in hydrology, carbon storage, and ecosystem integrity.
Sidle RC, Ziegler AD, Negishi JN, Nik AR, Siew R, Turkelboom F
Zhenzhong Zeng, Alan D. Ziegler, Timothy D. Searchinger, Long Yang, Anping Chen, Kunlu Ju, Shilong Piao, Laurent Li, Philippe Ciais, Deliang Chen
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Yuen JQ, Fung T, Ziegler AD
Yu Feng, Zhenzhong Zeng, Timothy D. Searchinger, Alan D. Ziegler, Jie Wu, Dashan Wang, Xinyue He, Paul R. Elsen, Philippe Ciais, Rongrong Xu, Zhilin Guo, Liqing Peng, Yiheng Tao, Dominick V. Spracklen, Joseph Holden, Xiaoping Liu, Yi Zheng, Peng Xu, Ji Chen, Xin Jiang, Xiao‐Peng Song, V. Lakshmi, Eric F. Wood, Chunmiao Zheng