2026 Bonaventure Sonké: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	53	1754	1606	1	1	253	14717
Ecology and Evolution	57	2661	2548	1	1	268	15953

Overview

Bonaventure Sonké is affiliated with the Université de Yaoundé I in Cameroon. Their research spans key areas within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing particularly on ecological and botanical studies in tropical environments.

Their work covers various subfields including:

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Global and Planetary Change
Forestry
Ecology

Core topics in their research include:

Plant Diversity and Evolution
Forest ecology and management
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
African Botany and Ecology Studies
Plant and animal studies
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions

Some notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Bonaventure Sonké are:

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, 2020, Nature
Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests, 2020, Science
Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change, 2021, Nature
Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa, 2020, Ecology

Bonaventure Sonké has frequently published in several scientific venues, among them:

Nature
Forest Ecology and Management
Plant Ecology and Evolution
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Taxon

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

Simon L. Lewis
Pierre Ploton
Vincent Droissart
Nicolas Barbier
Jean-Louis Doucet

Best Publications

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

1437
Citations
Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez;Bonaventure Sonké;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

1179
Citations
Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

885
Citations
Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

T.R. Feldpausch;L. Banin;O.L. Phillips;T.R. Baker

662
Citations
Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje van der Heijden;Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela López-González

632
Citations
Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

624
Citations
Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes.

Tommaso Jucker;John Caspersen;Jérôme Chave;Cécile Antin;Cécile Antin

438
Citations
Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

436
Citations
Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

414
Citations
Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

Unknown

379
Citations
Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

330
Citations
The number of tree species on Earth

Unknown

298
Citations
Tropical forest tree mortality, recruitment and turnover rates: calculation, interpretation and comparison when census intervals vary

Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Douglas Sheil;Barbara Vinceti

296
Citations
Measuring biomass changes due to woody encroachment and deforestation/degradation in a forest-savanna boundary region of central Africa using multi-temporal L-band radar backscatter

Edward T.A Mitchard;Sassan S Saatchi;S. L. Lewis;T R Feldpausch

279
Citations
What controls tropical forest architecture: testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

L. Banin;L. Banin;T. R. Feldpausch;O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker

273
Citations
Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

Thomas L.P. Couvreur;Gilles Dauby;Anne Blach‐Overgaard;Vincent Deblauwe

228
Citations
Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change

Maxime Rejou-Mechain;Frédéric Mortier;Jean-François Bastin;Guillaume Cornu

226
Citations
Exploring the floristic diversity of tropical Africa

Marc S.M. Sosef;Gilles Dauby;Gilles Dauby;Anne Blach-Overgaard;Xander van der Burgt

205
Citations
The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree α‐diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests?

Ingrid Parmentier;Ingrid Parmentier;Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Bruno Senterre;Robert J. Whittaker

184
Citations
The impact of land conversion on plant biodiversity in the forest zone of Cameroon

Louis Zapfack;Stefan Engwald;Bonaventure Sonke;Gaston Achoundong

182
Citations
Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

J. F. Bastin;Nicolas Barbier;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;A. Fayolle

176
Citations
On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

Mireia Torello-Raventos;Ted R. Feldpausch;Elmar Veenendaal;Franziska Schrodt

167
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon L. Lewis University College London

Thomas L. P. Couvreur University of Montpellier

Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds

Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter

Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia

Jean-Louis Doucet Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech

Jon Lloyd Imperial College London

Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford

Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds

Nicolas Barbier University of Montpellier

External Links

Personal website of Bonaventure Sonké Google Scholar page

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