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Arshad Ali

Arshad Ali

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2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
34
Citations
3251
World Ranking
895
National Ranking
293

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
4459
World Ranking
6227
National Ranking
127

Arshad Ali publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arshad Ali sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 105 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Arshad Ali D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arshad Ali sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Arshad Ali is affiliated with Hebei University in China and specializes in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on topics such as ecology, forest management, plant water relations, and biodiversity. The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of ecology and vegetation dynamics, forest ecology and management, and land use and ecosystem services among other related topics.

The main fields of study for Arshad Ali include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broad fields, the scientist has worked in several subfields, including:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science

Their recent research papers demonstrate a focus on forest ecosystems, biodiversity, and the application of machine learning methods in ecological studies. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Above- and below-ground biodiversity jointly regulate temperate forest multifunctionality along a local-scale environmental gradient" (2020), Journal of Ecology
  • "Machine learning and geostatistical approaches for estimating aboveground biomass in Chinese subtropical forests" (2020), Forest Ecosystems
  • "Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database" (2022), Global Change Biology
  • "Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats" (2021), Journal of Vegetation Science
  • "Divergent above- and below-ground biodiversity pathways mediate disturbance impacts on temperate forest multifunctionality" (2021), Global Change Biology

Arshad Ali frequently publishes in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Journal of Forestry Research
  • Global Change Biology

The scientist has also authored books, including a publication titled Plant Diversity and Biomass Dynamics under Environmental Variation (2023), published by Frontiers Media.

Collaborations form an essential part of their work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Anvar Sanaei
  • Zuoqiang Yuan
  • Zhanqing Hao
  • Xugao Wang
  • Ji Ye

Best Publications

  • Forest stand structure and functioning: Current knowledge and future challenges

    Arshad Ali

  • Stand structural diversity rather than species diversity enhancesaboveground carbon storage in secondary subtropical forests in Eastern China

    Arshad Ali;En-Rong Yan;Han Y. H. Chen;Scott X. Chang

  • Climate and soils determine aboveground biomass indirectly via species diversity and stand structural complexity in tropical forests

    Arshad Ali;Si-Liang Lin;Jie-Kun He;Fan-Mao Kong

  • Above- and below-ground biodiversity jointly regulate temperate forest multifunctionality along a local-scale environmental gradient

    Zuoqiang Yuan;Arshad Ali;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Tommaso Jucker

  • Aboveground carbon storage is driven by functional trait composition and stand structural attributes rather than biodiversity in temperate mixed forests recovering from disturbances

    Zuoqiang Yuan;Shaopeng Wang;Arshad Ali;Antonio Gazol

  • Community-weighted mean of leaf traits and divergence of wood traits predict aboveground biomass in secondary subtropical forests.

    Arshad Ali;En-Rong Yan;Scott X. Chang;Jun-Yang Cheng

  • Big-sized trees overrule remaining trees' attributes and species richness as determinants of aboveground biomass in tropical forests.

    Arshad Ali;Si‐Liang Lin;Jie‐Kun He;Fan‐Mao Kong

  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database

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  • Allometric biomass equations for shrub and small tree species in subtropical China.

    Arshad Ali;Ming-Shan Xu;Yan-Tao Zhao;Qing-Qing Zhang

  • Machine learning and geostatistical approaches for estimating aboveground biomass in Chinese subtropical forests

    Huiyi Su;Wenjuan Shen;Jingrui Wang;Arshad Ali

  • Multiple abiotic and biotic pathways shape biomass demographic processes in temperate forests

    Zuoqiang Yuan;Arshad Ali;Tommaso Jucker;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Paloma Ruiz-Benito

  • The forest strata-dependent relationship between biodiversity and aboveground biomass within a subtropical forest

    Arshad Ali;En-Rong Yan

  • Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

    Idoia Biurrun;Remigiusz Pielech;Iwona Dembicz;Iwona Dembicz;François Gillet

  • Divergent above- and below-ground biodiversity pathways mediate disturbance impacts on temperate forest multifunctionality.

    Zuoqiang Yuan;Arshad Ali;Michel Loreau;Fang Ding

  • Topography and forest diversity facets regulate overstory and understory aboveground biomass in a temperate forest of South Korea

    Jung-Hwa Chun;Arshad Ali;Chang-Bae Lee

  • Multiple abiotic and biotic drivers of aboveground biomass shift with forest stratum

    Arshad Ali;Arshad Ali;Han Y.H. Chen;Wen-Hui You;En-Rong Yan

  • Stand structure determines aboveground biomass across temperate forest types and species mixture along a local-scale elevational gradient

    Farman Ullah;Hammad Gilani;Anvar Sanaei;Kiramat Hussain

  • Soil moisture and salinity as main drivers of soil respiration across natural xeromorphic vegetation and agricultural lands in an arid desert region

    Xiao-Dong Yang;Arshad Ali;Yi-Lu Xu;La-Mei Jiang

  • Abiotic and biotic determinants of coarse woody productivity in temperate mixed forests.

    Zuoqiang Yuan;Arshad Ali;Shaopeng Wang;Antonio Gazol

  • Abiotic and biotic drivers of aboveground biomass in semi-steppe rangelands

    Anvar Sanaei;Mohammad Ali Zare Chahouki;Arshad Ali;Arshad Ali;Mohammad Jafari

  • Functional identity of overstorey tree height and understorey conservative traits drive aboveground biomass in a subtropical forest.

    Arshad Ali;En-Rong Yan

  • Climatic water availability is the main limiting factor of biotic attributes across large-scale elevational gradients in tropical forests

    Arshad Ali;Si-Liang Lin;Jie-Kun He;Fan-Mao Kong

  • Individual tree size inequality enhances aboveground biomass in homegarden agroforestry systems in the dry zone of Sri Lanka.

    Arshad Ali;Eskil Mattsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Xugao Wang
Xugao Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhanqing Hao
Zhanqing Hao Northwestern Polytechnical University
Michel Loreau
Michel Loreau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Paloma Ruiz-Benito
Paloma Ruiz-Benito University of Alcalá
Sebastião Venâncio Martins
Sebastião Venâncio Martins Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Tommaso Jucker
Tommaso Jucker University of Bristol
Han Y. H. Chen
Han Y. H. Chen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Juha M. Alatalo
Juha M. Alatalo Qatar University
Karsten Wesche
Karsten Wesche Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
Scott X. Chang
Scott X. Chang University of Alberta

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