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D-Index
35
Citations
7672
World Ranking
7267
National Ranking
92

Bert Gielen 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 Bert Gielen sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 63 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bert Gielen 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 Bert Gielen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Bert Gielen is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Engineering, Insect Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of research covered by Bert Gielen include:

  • Forest ecology and management
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Climate variability and models

Bert Gielen's recent publications reflect their involvement in studies addressing carbon observation systems, biomass estimation, energy partitioning in ecosystems, and environmental data scaling. Recent papers include:

  • "Standards and Open Access are the ICOS Pillars Reply to 'Comments on The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe'" (2023), published in HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe" (2021), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Estimating forest above-ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning: Current status and future directions" (2022), published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X" (2024), published in Biogeosciences

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including Miro Demol, Hans Verbeeck, Nina Buchmann, Ivan A. Janssens, and Marilyn Roland, demonstrating an active engagement in multi-author research projects.

The main publication venues for their work include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Biogeosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

    Adriaan J. Teuling;Adriaan J. Teuling;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Reto Stöckli;Markus Reichstein

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe

    Jouni Heiskanen;Christian Brümmer;Nina Buchmann;Carlo Calfapietra

  • Above‐ground woody carbon sequestration measured from tree rings is coherent with net ecosystem productivity at five eddy‐covariance sites

    Flurin Babst;Olivier Bouriaud;Dario Papale;Bert Gielen

  • Interannual variability of net ecosystem productivity in forests is explained by carbon flux phenology in autumn

    Chaoyang Wu;Jing M. Chen;T. Andrew Black;David T. Price

  • Rainfall interception and the coupled surface water and energy balance

    Albert I.J.M. van Dijk;John H. Gash;Eva van Gorsel;Peter D. Blanken

  • Linking variability in soil solution dissolved organic carbon to climate, soil type, and vegetation type

    Marta Camino-Serrano;Bert Gielen;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Philippe Ciais

  • Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms.

    Shuli Niu;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Shenfeng Fei;Wenping Yuan

  • Standardisation of chamber technique for CO2, N2O and CH4 fluxes measurements from terrestrial ecosystems

    Marian Pavelka;Manuel Acosta;Ralf Kiese;Núria Altimir

  • ICOS eddy covariance flux-station site setup: a review

    Corinna Rebmann;Marc Aubinet;Hape Schmid;Nicola Arriga

  • Estimating forest above‐ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning: Current status and future directions

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  • Redefinition and global estimation of basal ecosystem respiration rate

    Wenping Yuan;Yiqi Luo;Xianglan Li;Shuguang Liu;Shuguang Liu

  • Standardisation of eddy-covariance flux measurements of methane and nitrous oxide

    Eiko Nemitz;Ivan Mammarella;Andreas Ibrom;Mika Aurela

  • Remote sensing of annual terrestrial gross primary productivity from MODIS: an assessment using the FLUXNET La Thuile data set

    M. Verma;M. A. Friedl;A. D. Richardson;G. Kiely

  • Interpreting canopy development and physiology using the EUROPhen camera network at flux sites

    Lisa Wingate;Jerome Ogée;Edoardo Cremonese;Gianluca Filippa

  • Seasonal hysteresis of net ecosystem exchange in response to temperature change: patterns and causes

    Shuli Niu;Yiqi Luo;Shenfeng Fei;Leonardo Montagnani

  • Towards long-term standardised carbon and greenhouse gas observations for monitoring Europe's terrestrial ecosystems: a review

    Daniela Franz;Manuel Acosta;Núria Altimir;Nicola Arriga

  • ORCHIDEE-SOM: Modeling soil organic carbon (SOC) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) dynamics along vertical soil profiles in Europe

    Marta Camino-Serrano;Bertrand Guenet;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Philippe Ciais

  • Estimation of high-resolution terrestrial evapotranspiration from Landsat data using a simple Taylor skill fusion method

    Yunjun Yao;Shunlin Liang;Xianglan Li;Yuhu Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Lutz Merbold
Lutz Merbold Agroscope
Denis Loustau
Denis Loustau International Sleep Products Association
Georg Wohlfahrt
Georg Wohlfahrt University of Innsbruck
Ivan Mammarella
Ivan Mammarella University of Helsinki
Andreas Ibrom
Andreas Ibrom Technical University of Denmark

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