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Charles H. Cannon

Charles H. Cannon

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
9924
World Ranking
4995
National Ranking
1710

Overview

Charles H. Cannon is affiliated with the Morton Arboretum in the United States and works primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans a range of subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, and general Ecology.

Their scientific contributions focus on topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Career Development and Diversity, Higher Education Research Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Recent publications by Charles H. Cannon include the following:

  • Old and ancient trees are life history lottery winners and vital evolutionary resources for long-term adaptive capacity (2022, Nature Plants)

The research venues most frequently publishing their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • CBE-Life Sciences Education
  • Plants People Planet
  • Nature Plants

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts include:

  • Chai-Shian Kua
  • Gianluca Piovesan
  • Sergi Munné-Bosch
  • Olivia A. Erickson
  • Rebecca B. Cole

Their publication record also reflects interdisciplinary cooperation, with coauthors contributing to studies across various disciplines related to plant sciences and ecology.

Charles H. Cannon's work contributes to the understanding of ecological systems through studies on long-lived tree species, their evolutionary significance, and conservation strategies within ecosystems. This is illustrated by the focus on ancient tree life histories and ecosystem restoration in their published research.

Their research intersects with higher education and diversity studies, indicating involvement in academic program development or education-focused investigations, as seen in coauthored papers on remote undergraduate research during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Conservation and divergence of plant microRNA genes

    Baohong Zhang;Xiaoping Pan;Charles H. Cannon;George P. Cobb

  • Borneo and Indochina are Major Evolutionary Hotspots for Southeast Asian Biodiversity

    Mark de Bruyn;Bjorn Stelbrink;Robert J Morley;Robert Hall

  • Tree Species Diversity in Commercially Logged Bornean Rainforest

    Charles H. Cannon;David R. Peart;Mark Leighton

  • Exploiting sparseness in de novo genome assembly

    Chengxi Ye;Chengxi Ye;Chengxi Ye;Zhanshan Sam Ma;Charles H Cannon;Charles H Cannon;Mihai Pop

  • The current refugial rainforests of Sundaland are unrepresentative of their biogeographic past and highly vulnerable to disturbance

    Charles H. Cannon;Robert J. Morley;Andrew B. G. Bush

  • Environmental correlates of tree biomass, basal area, wood specific gravity and stem density gradients in Borneo's tropical forests

    J.W.F. Slik;Shin Ichiro Aiba;Francis Q. Brearley;Chuck H. Cannon;Chuck H. Cannon

  • Systematics of Fagaceae: Phylogenetic tests of reproductive trait evolution

    Paul S. Manos;Zhe‐Kun Zhou;Charles H. Cannon

  • Communities contain closely related species during ecosystem disturbance.

    Matthew R Helmus;Wendel Bill Keller;Michael J Paterson;Norman D Yan

  • The structure of lowland rainforest after selective logging in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Chuck H. Cannon;David R. Peart;Mark Leighton;Kuswata Kartawinata

  • 101 Dothideomycetes genomes: A test case for predicting lifestyles and emergence of pathogens.

    S. Haridas;R. Albert;R. Albert;M. Binder;J. Bloem

  • An assembly and alignment-free method of phylogeny reconstruction from next-generation sequencing data

    Huan Fan;Huan Fan;Huan Fan;Anthony R. Ives;Yann Surget-Groba;Charles H. Cannon;Charles H. Cannon

  • A floristic analysis of the lowland dipterocarp forests of Borneo

    J. W. F. Slik;A. D. Poulsen;P. S. Ashton;C. H. Cannon

  • Using species distribution modeling to improve conservation and land use planning of Yunnan, China

    Ming-Gang Zhang;Ming-Gang Zhang;Zhe-Kun Zhou;Zhe-Kun Zhou;Wen-Yun Chen;J.W. Ferry Slik

  • Phylogeography of the Southeast Asian stone oaks (Lithocarpus)

    Charles H. Cannon;Paul S. Manos

  • Comparative locomotor ecology of gibbons and macaques: Selection of canopy elements for crossing gaps

    Chuck H. Cannon;Mark Leighton

  • Long-term reproductive behaviour of woody plants across seven Bornean forest types in the Gunung Palung National Park (Indonesia): suprannual synchrony, temporal productivity and fruiting diversity.

    Charles H. Cannon;Charles H. Cannon;Lisa M. Curran;Andrew J. Marshall;Mark Leighton

  • Developing indicators of economic value and biodiversity loss for rubber plantations in Xishuangbanna, southwest China: A case study from Menglun township

    Zhuang-Fang Yi;Zhuang-Fang Yi;Zhuang-Fang Yi;Charles H. Cannon;Charles H. Cannon;Jin Chen;Cheng-Xi Ye

  • Developing conservation priorities based on forest type, condition, and threats in a poorly known ecoregion : Sulawesi, Indonesia

    Charles H. Cannon;Marcy Summers;John R. Harting;Paul J.A. Kessler

  • DNA extraction from processed wood: A case study for the identification of an endangered timber species ( Gonystylus bancanus )

    M. J. Asif;Charles H. Cannon;Flint Streets

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Paul S. Manos
Paul S. Manos Duke University
J. W. Ferry Slik
J. W. Ferry Slik Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Niels Raes
Niels Raes Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Campbell O. Webb
Campbell O. Webb Harvard University
Erik Meijaard
Erik Meijaard University of Queensland
Jianchu Xu
Jianchu Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Douglas W. Yu
Douglas W. Yu University of East Anglia
Zhe-Kun Zhou
Zhe-Kun Zhou Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Andrew J. Marshall
Andrew J. Marshall University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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