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Bruce C. Forbes

Bruce C. Forbes

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
55
Citations
15070
World Ranking
2923
National Ranking
50

Bruce C. Forbes 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 Bruce C. Forbes sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 191 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bruce C. Forbes 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 Bruce C. Forbes sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Bruce C. Forbes is affiliated with the University of Lapland in Finland. Their primary research fields lie within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science as a subfield. They have contributed to subfields including General Health Professions, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research topics emphasize Climate change and permafrost, Cryospheric studies and observations, Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Arctic and Russian Policy Studies, and Tree-ring climate responses.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bruce C. Forbes include:

  • Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome (2020, Nature Communications)
  • New climate models reveal faster and larger increases in Arctic precipitation than previously projected (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Arctic rain on snow events: bridging observations to understand environmental and livelihood impacts (2021, Environmental Research Letters)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bruce C. Forbes include Logan T. Berner, Marc Macias-Fauria, Howard E. Epstein, S. J. Goetz, and Timo Kumpula.

Key venues where this scientist has published multiple works include Environmental Research Letters, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Nature Communications, Arctic Science, and Nature Climate Change.

In addition to journal publications, Bruce C. Forbes has contributed to book literature, with at least one publication through Cambridge University Press titled Resilience Through Knowledge Co-Production (2022).

Best Publications

  • Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

    Isla H Myers-Smith;Isla H Myers-Smith;Bruce C Forbes;Martin Wilmking;Martin Hallinger

  • Conservation and the Social Sciences

    Michael B. Mascia;J. Peter Brosius;Tracy A. Dobson;Bruce C. Forbes

  • Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Jeffrey T. Kerby;Gareth K. Phoenix;Jarle W. Bjerke

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Pieter S. A. Beck;Martin Wilmking

  • Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands

    L. Xu;R.B. Myneni;F.S. Chapin Iii;T.V. Callaghan

  • Russian Arctic warming and ‘greening’ are closely tracked by tundra shrub willows

    Bruce C. Forbes;Marc Macias Fauria;Marc Macias Fauria;Pentti Zetterberg

  • The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world

    Eric Post;Richard B. Alley;Torben R. Christensen;Marc Macias-Fauria

  • Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

    Logan T. Berner;Richard Massey;Patruc Jantz;Bruce C. Forbes

  • High resilience in the Yamal-Nenets social–ecological system, West Siberian Arctic, Russia

    Bruce C. Forbes;Florian Stammler;Timo Kumpula;Nina Meschtyb

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • New climate models reveal faster and larger increases in Arctic precipitation than previously projected.

    Michelle R. McCrystall;Julienne Stroeve;Mark Serreze;Bruce C. Forbes

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Resilience and vulnerability of northern regions to social and environmental change.

    F.S. Chapin;G. Peterson;F. Berkes;T. V. Callaghan

  • Eurasian Arctic greening reveals teleconnections and the potential for structurally novel ecosystems

    Marc Macias-Fauria;Bruce C. Forbes;Pentti Zetterberg;Timo Kumpula

  • Multiple Effects of Changes in Arctic Snow Cover

    Terry V. Callaghan;Margareta Johansson;Ross D. Brown;Pavel Ya Groisman

  • Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

    Michael M. Loranty;Benjamin W. Abbott;Daan Blok;Thomas A. Douglas

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • Anthropogenic disturbance and patch dynamics in circumpolar arctic ecosystems

    Bruce C. Forbes;James J. Ebersole;Beate Strandberg

  • Sea ice, rain-on-snow and tundra reindeer nomadism in Arctic Russia.

    Bruce C. Forbes;Timo Kumpula;Nina Meschtyb;Roza Laptander

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Macias-Fauria
Marc Macias-Fauria University of Oxford
Howard E. Epstein
Howard E. Epstein University of Virginia
Donald A. Walker
Donald A. Walker University of Alaska Fairbanks
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Martha K. Raynolds
Martha K. Raynolds University of Alaska Fairbanks
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Esther Lévesque
Esther Lévesque Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Scott J. Goetz
Scott J. Goetz Northern Arizona University
Martin Wilmking
Martin Wilmking University of Greifswald
Uma S. Bhatt
Uma S. Bhatt University of Alaska Fairbanks

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