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39
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12765
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6241
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Carol K. Augspurger 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 Carol K. Augspurger sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 62 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.

Carol K. Augspurger 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 Carol K. Augspurger sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Carol K. Augspurger is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions to ecological modeling, ecology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and broader ecological, evolutionary, behavioral, and systematic studies.

The scientist's research addresses multiple topics, notably species distribution and climate change, remote sensing in agriculture, ecology and vegetation dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, plant and animal studies, land use and ecosystem services, and remote sensing and LiDAR applications.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Concordance of long-term shifts with climate warming varies among phenological events and herbaceous species," 2020, Ecological Monographs
  • "Monitoring spring leaf phenology of individual trees in a temperate forest fragment with multi-scale satellite time series," 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "A satellite-field phenological bridging framework for characterizing community-level spring forest phenology using multi-scale satellite imagery," 2024, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • "Understory plants evade shading in a temperate deciduous forest amid climate variability by shifting phenology in synchrony with canopy trees," 2024, PLoS ONE
  • "Growing Season Lengthens in a North American Deciduous Woody Community From 1993 to 2021," 2025, Ecology and Evolution

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • David N. Zaya
  • Yilun Zhao
  • Chunyuan Diao
  • Carl Salk
  • Zijun Yang

Augspurger's studies have appeared in a variety of publication venues, such as:

  • Ecological Monographs
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • PLoS ONE
  • Ecology and Evolution

The scientist's body of work integrates field observations with remote sensing techniques to investigate phenological shifts and the impacts of climate variability on plant communities. Research often utilizes multi-scale satellite imagery combined with ground-based data to analyze seasonal changes and ecological responses in temperate forest ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Seedling Survival of Tropical Tree Species: Interactions of Dispersal Distance, Light-Gaps, and Pathogens

    Carol K. Augspurger

  • Pathogen mortality of tropical tree seedlings: experimental studies of the effects of dispersal distance, seedling density, and light conditions

    Carol K. Augspurger;Colleen K. Kelly

  • Seed dispersal of the tropical tree, Platypodium elegans, and the escape of its seedlings from fungal pathogens

    Carol K. Augspurger

  • Reproductive Synchrony of a Tropical Shrub: Experimental Studies on Effects of Pollinators and Seed Predators in Hybanthus Prunifolius (Violaceae)

    Carol K. Augspurger

  • Light requirements of neotropical tree seedlings: a comparative study of growth and survival

    Carol K. Augspurger

  • Vegetation and microclimatic edge effects in two mixed-mesophytic forest fragments

    Sophia M. Gehlhausen;Mark W. Schwartz;Carol K. Augspurger

  • The Effect of Leaf Litter on Early Seedling Establishment in a Tropical Forest

    Jane Molofsky;Carol K. Augspurger

  • Reconstructing patterns of temperature, phenology, and frost damage over 124 years: Spring damage risk is increasing

    Carol K. Augspurger

  • Phenology, flowering synchrony, and fruit set of six neotropical shrubs

    Carol K. Augspurger

  • MORPHOLOGY AND DISPERSAL POTENTIAL OF WIND-DISPERSED DIASPORES OF NEOTROPICAL TREES

    Carol K. Augspurger

  • Arrival and Survival in Tropical Treefall Gaps

    Eugene W. Schupp;Henry F. Howe;Carol K. Augspurger;Douglas J. Levey

  • Leaf phenology in 22 North American tree species during the 21st century

    Xavier Morin;Xavier Morin;Martin J. Lechowicz;Carol K Augspurger;John O'keefe

  • Mass-flowering of a tropical shrub (Hybanthus prunifolius): influence on pollinator attraction and movement.

    Carol K. Augspurger

  • INCORPORATING ANIMAL BEHAVIOR INTO SEED DISPERSAL MODELS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SEED SHADOWS

    Sabrina E. Russo;Stephen Portnoy;Carol K. Augspurger

  • PROCESS‐BASED MODELING OF SPECIES' DISTRIBUTIONS: WHAT LIMITS TEMPERATE TREE SPECIES' RANGE BOUNDARIES?

    Xavier Morin;Carol Augspurger;Isabelle Chuine

  • Offspring recruitment around tropical trees: changes in cohort distance with time

    Carol K. Augspurger

  • Wind Dispersal of Artifical Fruits Varying in Mass, Area, and Morphology

    Carol K. Augspurger;Susan E. Franson

  • Experimental Studies of Seedling Recruitment from Contrasting Seed Distributions

    Carol K. Augspurger;Kaoru Kitajima

  • Spring 2007 warmth and frost: phenology, damage and refoliation in a temperate deciduous forest

    Carol K. Augspurger

  • Differences in leaf phenology between juvenile and adult trees in a temperate deciduous forest.

    Carol K. Augspurger;Elizabeth A. Bartlett

  • Aggregated Seed Dispersal by Spider Monkeys Limits Recruitment to Clumped Patterns in Virola calophylla

    Sabrina E. Russo;Carol K. Augspurger

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaoru Kitajima
Kaoru Kitajima Kyoto University
Xavier Morin
Xavier Morin University of Montpellier
Isabelle Chuine
Isabelle Chuine Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Rakan A. Zahawi
Rakan A. Zahawi University of California, Santa Cruz
Stephen Portnoy
Stephen Portnoy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David S. Wilcove
David S. Wilcove Princeton University
Martin J. Lechowicz
Martin J. Lechowicz McGill University
Helene C. Muller-Landau
Helene C. Muller-Landau Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Douglas J. Levey
Douglas J. Levey National Science Foundation
Eugene W. Schupp
Eugene W. Schupp Utah State University

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