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Barbara J. Bentz

Barbara J. Bentz

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
56
Citations
13019
World Ranking
2811
National Ranking
992

Barbara J. Bentz 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 Barbara J. Bentz sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 155 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Barbara J. Bentz 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 Barbara J. Bentz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Barbara J. Bentz is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on forest ecosystems, with significant contributions to the study of forest insect ecology and management, fire effects on ecosystems, and insect-plant interactions and control.

The scientist's work spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable subfields including Ecology, Insect Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science. Their research topics include forest insect ecology and management, fire effects on ecosystems, insect and pesticide research, entomological studies and ecology, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and horticultural and viticultural research.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Western North American Naturalist
  • Environmental Entomology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Barbara J. Bentz has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • E. Matthew Hansen (11 joint publications)
  • David N. Soderberg (6 joint publications)
  • James C. Vandygriff (6 joint publications)
  • Gregory J. Ragland (5 joint publications)
  • Sharon M. Hood (4 joint publications)

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • Changes in tree drought sensitivity provided early warning signals to the California drought and forest mortality event, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Susceptibility of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) to gene silencing through RNAi provides potential as a novel management tool, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • The Fire and Tree Mortality Database, for empirical modeling of individual tree mortality after fire, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Scientific response to intensifying bark beetle outbreaks in Europe and North America, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Seasonality of forest insects: why diapause matters, 2024, Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Best Publications

  • Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

    Kenneth F. Raffa;Brian H. Aukema;Barbara J. Bentz;Allan L. Carroll

  • Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects

    Barbara J. Bentz;Jacques Régnière;Christopher J Fettig;E. Matthew Hansen

  • Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

    William R.L. Anderegg;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rosie A. Fisher;Craig D. Allen

  • Effects of temperature on development, survival and reproduction of insects: experimental design, data analysis and modeling.

    Jacques Régnière;James Powell;Barbara Bentz;Vincent Nealis

  • Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States

    Thomas E. Kolb;Christopher J. Fettig;Matthew P. Ayres;Barbara J. Bentz

  • Climate drivers of bark beetle outbreak dynamics in Norway spruce forests

    Lorenzo Marini;Bjørn Økland;Anna Maria Jönsson;Barbara Bentz

  • Temperature-dependent development of the mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera : Scolytidae) and simulation of its phenology

    Barbara J. Bentz;Jesse A. Logan;Gene D. Amman

  • Forest health in a changing world: Effects of globalization and climate change on forest insect and pathogen impacts

    T. D. Ramsfield;Barbara Bentz;M. Faccoli;H. Jactel

  • Model Analysis of Mountain Pine Beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) Seasonality

    Jesse A. Logan;Jesse A. Logan;Barbara J. Bentz

  • Modeling cold tolerance in the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae.

    Jacques Régnière;Barbara Bentz

  • Estimating the probability of mountain pine beetle red-attack damage

    Michael A Wulder;J. C. White;Barbara J Bentz;M. F. Alvarez

  • Temperature determines symbiont abundance in a multipartite bark beetle-fungus ectosymbiosis.

    Diana L. Six;B. J. Bentz

  • Interactions among the Mountain Pine Beetle, Fires, and Fuels

    Michael J. Jenkins;Justin B. Runyon;Christopher J. Fettig;Wesley G. Page

  • Ergosterol content of fungi associated with Dendroctonus ponderosae and Dendroctonus rufipennis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

    Barbara J. Bentz;Diana L. Six

  • Bark beetle outbreaks in western North America: Causes and consequences

    Barbara Bentz;Jesse Logan;Jim MacMahon;Craig D. Allen

  • Ecology of mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera : Scolytidae) cold hardening in the intermountain West

    B. J. Bentz;D. E. Mullins

  • Model Analysis of Spatial Patterns in Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks.

    Jesse A. Logan;Peter White;Barbara J. Bentz;Barbara J. Bentz;James A. Powell

  • Landscape‐scale genetic variation in a forest outbreak species, the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)

    Karen E. Mock;B. J. Bentz;E. M. O'Neill;J. P. Chong

  • Latitudinal variation in Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) development time and adult size

    B.J. Bentz;J.A. Logan;J.C. Vandygriff

  • Changing climates, changing forests: A western North American perspective

    Christopher J. Fettig;Mary L. Reid;Barbara J. Bentz;Sanna Sevanto

Frequent Co-Authors

Jesse A. Logan
Jesse A. Logan US Forest Service
Kenneth F. Raffa
Kenneth F. Raffa University of Wisconsin–Madison
Karen E. Mock
Karen E. Mock Utah State University
Jacques Régnière
Jacques Régnière Natural Resources Canada
Diana L. Six
Diana L. Six University of Montana
Jeffrey A. Hicke
Jeffrey A. Hicke University of Idaho
Allan L. Carroll
Allan L. Carroll University of British Columbia
Matthew P. Ayres
Matthew P. Ayres Dartmouth College
Steven J. Seybold
Steven J. Seybold US Forest Service
Michael E. Pfrender
Michael E. Pfrender University of Notre Dame

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