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41
Citations
8239
World Ranking
5754
National Ranking
457

Overview

Daniel J. Metcalfe is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. The research focuses on multiple ecological and environmental topics with an emphasis on impacts of environmental change, ecosystem dynamics, and species distribution.

Metcalfe's recent publications include the following:

  • Rapid assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the 2019-2020 Australian megafires to guide urgent management intervention and recovery and lessons for other regions (2021, Diversity and Distributions)
  • Damage to tropical forests caused by cyclones is driven by wind speed but mediated by topographical exposure and tree characteristics (2024, Global Change Biology)
  • Issue Information (2020, Ecology)
  • Issue Information (2020, Ecology)
  • Issue Information (2020, Ecology)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Metcalfe include:

  • Kathryn L. Cottingham
  • Nicholas J. Gotelli
  • Joseph B. Yavitt
  • William K. Michener
  • Karen Abbott

Publication venues where Metcalfe's work has appeared include:

  • Ecology
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Global Change Biology
  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open

Metcalfe's work spans several scientific subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Earth-Surface Processes

The main research topics addressed are:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Tree Root and Stability Studies
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • African Botany and Ecology Studies

Best Publications

  • Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities

    Etienne Laliberté;Jessie A. Wells;Fabrice DeClerck;Daniel J. Metcalfe

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

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

  • 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

  • Value of long-term ecological studies

    David B. Lindenmayer;Gene E. Likens;Gene E. Likens;Alan Andersen;David Bowman

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • An Evaluation of the ALOS PALSAR L-Band Backscatter—Above Ground Biomass Relationship Queensland, Australia: Impacts of Surface Moisture Condition and Vegetation Structure

    Richard Lucas;John Armston;Russell Fairfax;Rod Fensham

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

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

  • Global effects of non-native tree species on multiple ecosystem services

    Pilar Castro-Díez;Ana Sofia Vaz;Joaquim S. Silva;Joaquim S. Silva;Marcela van Loo

  • An analysis of trade-offs between multiple ecosystem services and stakeholders linked to land use and water quality management in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    James R.A. Butler;Grace Y. Wong;Daniel J. Metcalfe;Miroslav Honzák

  • Hedera helix L.

    Daniel J. Metcalfe

  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora.

    Daniel Falster;Rachael Gallagher;Rachael Gallagher;Elizabeth H. Wenk;Ian J. Wright

  • Ecological mechanisms underpinning climate adaptation services

    Sandra Lavorel;Matthew J. Colloff;Sue Mcintyre;Michael D. Doherty

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

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

  • Leaf chemical and spectral diversity in Australian tropical forests

    Gregory P. Asner;Roberta E. Martin;Andrew J. Ford;Daniel J. Metcalfe

  • Seed mass and light requirements for regeneration in Southeast Asian rain forest

    D. J. Metcalfe;P. J. Grubb

  • Untangling the roles of fire, grazing and rainfall on small mammal communities in grassland ecosystems

    R. W. Yarnell;D. M. Scott;C. T. Chimimba;D. J. Metcalfe

  • A catchment-based approach to mapping hydrological ecosystem services using riparian habitat: A case study from the Wet Tropics, Australia

    P.L. Pert;J.R.A. Butler;J.E. Brodie;C. Bruce

  • Cyclone damage to tropical rain forests: Species‐ and community‐level impacts

    Daniel J. Metcalfe;Matt G. Bradford;Andrew J. Ford

  • Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?

    E Veenendaal;M. Torello-Raventos;T.R. Feldpausch;T.F. Domingues

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
David A. Keith
David A. Keith University of New South Wales
Gustavo Saiz
Gustavo Saiz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
John W. Morgan
John W. Morgan La Trobe University
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Margaret M. Mayfield
Margaret M. Mayfield University of Queensland
Tomas F. Domingues
Tomas F. Domingues Universidade de São Paulo
Peter J. Grubb
Peter J. Grubb University of Cambridge
Michael I. Bird
Michael I. Bird James Cook University

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