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D-Index
39
Citations
9171
World Ranking
6271
National Ranking
2123

Daniel G. Gavin 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 Daniel G. Gavin sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 116 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daniel G. Gavin 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 Daniel G. Gavin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

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

Daniel G. Gavin is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States, contributing extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their published work spans 26 papers related to Environmental Science and 25 concerning Earth and Planetary Sciences, indicating a dual focus on these disciplines.

Their research encompasses several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Anthropology, and Paleontology. These areas reflect a broad interest in understanding environmental processes and historical ecological conditions.

Key topics covered in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Their recent significant publications are:

  • "A new hypothesis for the origin of Amazonian Dark Earths", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "The oldest extant tropical peatland in the world: a major carbon reservoir for at least 47,000 years", 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "A multiproxy database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records", 2021, Earth system science data
  • "A tale of two conifers: Migration across a dispersal barrier outpaced regional expansion from refugia", 2021, Journal of Biogeography
  • "New Insights into Paleoseismic Age Models on the Northern San Andreas Fault: Charcoal Inbuilt Ages and Updated Earthquake Correlations", 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Frequent collaborators in their research include Lauren Hendricks, Gusti Z. Anshari, Lucas C. R. Silva, Chantel V. Saban, and Monika Ruwaimana.

Their publications often appear in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Nature Communications, Quaternary Research, Environmental Research Letters, and Earth system science data.

Best Publications

  • Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia

    J. R. Marlon;P. J. Bartlein;C. Carcaillet;D. G. Gavin

  • Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

    Mitch J. Power;J. Marlon;N. Ortiz;P. J. Bartlein

  • Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA

    Jennifer R. Marlon;Patrick J. Bartlein;Daniel G. Gavin;Colin J. Long

  • A rapid upward shift of a forest ecotone during 40 years of warming in the Green Mountains of Vermont

    Brian Beckage;Ben Osborne;Daniel G. Gavin;Carolyn Pucko

  • Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography

    Daniel G. Gavin;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Paul F. Gugger;Katy D. Heath

  • Drought induces lagged tree mortality in a subalpine forest in the Rocky Mountains

    Christof Bigler;Daniel G. Gavin;Charles Gunning;Thomas T. Veblen

  • Understanding the origin and analysis of sediment-charcoal records with a simulation model

    Philip E. Higuera;Philip E. Higuera;Matthew E. Peters;Linda B. Brubaker;Daniel G. Gavin

  • Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

    A.L. Daniau;P.J. Bartlein;S.P. Harrison;S.P. Harrison;I.C. Prentice;I.C. Prentice;I.C. Prentice

  • Peak detection in sediment–charcoal records: impacts of alternative data analysis methods on fire-history interpretations

    Philip E. Higuera;Daniel G. Gavin;Patrick J. Bartlein;Douglas J. Hallett;Douglas J. Hallett

  • Weak climatic control of stand-scale fire history during the late holocene.

    Daniel G. Gavin;Feng Sheng Hu;Kenneth Lertzman;Peter Corbett

  • Estimation of inbuilt age in radiocarbon ages of soil charcoal for fire history studies.

    Daniel G Gavin

  • HOLOCENE FIRE HISTORY OF A COASTAL TEMPERATE RAIN FOREST BASED ON SOIL CHARCOAL RADIOCARBON DATES

    Daniel G. Gavin;Linda B. Brubaker;Kenneth P. Lertzman

  • A statistical approach to evaluating distance metrics and analog assignments for pollen records

    Daniel G Gavin;W.Wyatt Oswald;Eugene R Wahl;John W Williams

  • Forest fire and climate change in western North America: insights from sediment charcoal records

    Daniel G. Gavin;Douglas J. Hallett;Feng Sheng Hu;Kenneth P. Lertzman

  • Forest structure and species traits mediate projected recruitment declines in western US tree species

    Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Alan K. Swanson;John T. Abatzoglou;Zachary A. Holden

  • An 1800-year record of the spatial and temporal distribution of fire from the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada

    Daniel G Gavin;Linda B Brubaker;Kenneth P Lertzman

  • Highly episodic fire and erosion regime over the past 2,000 y in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon

    Daniele Colombaroli;Daniel G. Gavin

  • Climatic control of the biomass-burning decline in the Americas after ad 1500

    Mitchell J. Power;F. E. Mayle;P. J. Bartlein;J. R. Marlon

  • Long-Term Fire Regime Estimated from Soil Charcoal in Coastal Temperate Rainforests

    Ken Lertzman;Daniel Gavin;Douglas Hallett;Linda Brubaker

  • Frost for the trees: Did climate increase erosion in unglaciated landscapes during the late Pleistocene?

    Jill A. Marshall;Jill A. Marshall;Joshua J. Roering;Patrick J. Bartlein;Daniel G. Gavin

Frequent Co-Authors

Feng Sheng Hu
Feng Sheng Hu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Patrick J. Bartlein
Patrick J. Bartlein University of Oregon
Linda B. Brubaker
Linda B. Brubaker University of Washington
Daniele Colombaroli
Daniele Colombaroli Royal Holloway University of London
Philip E. Higuera
Philip E. Higuera University of Montana
Jennifer R. Marlon
Jennifer R. Marlon Yale University
Joshua J. Roering
Joshua J. Roering University of Oregon
Darryl E. Granger
Darryl E. Granger Purdue University West Lafayette
Solomon Z. Dobrowski
Solomon Z. Dobrowski University of Montana
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading

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