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Overview

David A. Coomes is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a substantial focus on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work encompasses several key research topics, notably:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

David A. Coomes has contributed to numerous scientific publications. Representative recent papers include:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests (2020, Nature)
  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming (2020, Science)
  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission (2022, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential (2023, Nature)
  • The number of tree species on Earth (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Their frequent co-authors include Tommaso Jucker, Toby Jackson, Tom Swinfield, Ted R. Feldpausch, and Frans Bongers.

David A. Coomes commonly publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Remote Sensing of Environment, and Global Change Biology.

In addition to articles, they have a book publication with Ghent University titled Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol (2021).

Best Publications

  • Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

    Jerome Chave;David Coomes;Steven Jansen;Simon L. Lewis

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Biodiversity conservation: challenges beyond 2010.

    Michael R. W. Rands;William M. Adams;Leon Bennun;Stuart H. M. Butchart

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size.

    N. L. Stephenson;A. J. Das;Richard S. Condit;S. E. Russo

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

    Georges Kunstler;Georges Kunstler;Daniel Falster;David A. Coomes;Francis Hui

  • Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

    William J. Sutherland;Robert P. Freckleton;H. Charles J. Godfray;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Rapid deforestation and fragmentation of Chilean Temperate Forests

    Cristian Echeverria;Cristian Echeverria;David Coomes;Javier Salas;José María Rey-Benayas

  • IMPACTS OF ROOT COMPETITION IN FORESTS AND WOODLANDS: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND REVIEW OF EXPERIMENTS

    David A. Coomes;Peter J. Grubb

  • Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;David Anthony Coomes;Lander Baeten

  • The Effects of Sampling Bias and Model Complexity on the Predictive Performance of MaxEnt Species Distribution Models

    Mindy M. Syfert;Mindy M. Syfert;Matthew J. Smith;David A. Coomes

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

    Florian Zellweger;Florian Zellweger;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Pieter Vangansbeke

  • Global wood density database

    AE Zanne;G Lopez-Gonzalez;DA Coomes;J Ilic

  • Effects of size, competition and altitude on tree growth

    David A. Coomes;David A. Coomes;Robert B. Allen

  • Global meta‐analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?

    James T. Weedon;William K. Cornwell;Johannes H.C. Cornelissen;Amy E. Zanne;Amy E. Zanne

  • Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity.

    Amy E. Zanne;Mark Westoby;Daniel S. Falster;David D. Ackerly

  • Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Bente J. Graae;Francisco Rodríguez‐Sánchez;Annette Kolb

  • Colonization, tolerance, competition and seed-size variation within functional groups

    David A. Coomes;Peter J. Grubb

Frequent Co-Authors

Tommaso Jucker
Tommaso Jucker University of Bristol
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Robert B. Allen
Robert B. Allen Landcare Research
Andrew J. Tanentzap
Andrew J. Tanentzap University of Cambridge
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Paloma Ruiz-Benito
Paloma Ruiz-Benito University of Alcalá
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
Olivier Bouriaud
Olivier Bouriaud Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava
William G. Lee
William G. Lee Landcare Research

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