Rate My Professor Tim Paine

Dr. C. E. Timothy Paine, commonly known as Tim Paine, is affiliated with the School of Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, within the discipline of Ecosystem Management. He is recognized as a community ecologist studying the structure and dynamics of plant communities. Paine's research interests include succession ecology, practical ecology, community ecology, environmental risk management, and ecological restoration. He addresses challenges in predicting and managing the future of ecological communities. In the Growing Trees on the New England Tablelands project, he investigates the demography of threatened tree species and develops management techniques for their restoration. Paine serves as an adjunct senior lecturer and unit coordinator for courses in the School of Environmental and Rural Science.

Paine's academic contributions are evidenced by over 10,000 citations on Google Scholar. His key publications cover diverse topics in ecology. These include 'Growth rates and the generalised size-number trade-off in tropical forest trees' (Journal of Ecology, 2015, cited by 244), 'Gender differences in peer review outcomes and manuscript impact at an ecology journal' (Ecology and Evolution, 2019, cited by 211), 'First, last, and corresponding authorship vary with gender, country, and citation in ecology' (Ecology and Evolution, 2018, cited by 143), 'Logging and soil nutrients independently explain plant trait expression in a tropical rainforest' (Journal of Ecology, 2018, cited by 100), 'Thinner bark increases sensitivity of wetter Amazonian forest trees to drought' (New Phytologist, 2020, cited by 65), 'Does pyrogenicity protect burning plants?' (Functional Ecology, 2010, cited by 115), 'The effectiveness of journals as arbiters of scientific impact' (Ecology and Evolution, 2018, cited by 26), and 'Niche breadth of Amazonian trees increases with niche optimum across broad edaphic gradients' (Ecology, 2023, cited by 16). He has collaborated on international research involving tropical forests and Australian ecosystems. Paine contributes to public outreach via ecology fieldwork, including presentations at Thalgarrah Environmental Education Centre.