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David Kenfack 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 David Kenfack sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 146 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Kenfack 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 David Kenfack sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 51 D-Index — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences

Overview

David Kenfack is affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work involves several subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecological Modeling. The main topics of David Kenfack's studies cover Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.

David Kenfack has contributed to several recent papers, notably:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests (2020) published in Nature
  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission (2022) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network (2020) published in Biological Conservation
  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests (2021) published in Nature
  • The NASA AfriSAR campaign: Airborne SAR and lidar measurements of tropical forest structure and biomass in support of current and future space missions (2021) published in Remote Sensing of Environment

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • George B. Chuyong
  • Duncan W. Thomas
  • Stuart J. Davies
  • Chia-Hao Chang-Yang
  • Jill Thompson

David Kenfack's frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Diversity
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Ecology

In addition to journal articles, David Kenfack has contributed to book publications. One notable work is titled Tree Species of the Rabi Forest Monitoring Plot, Gabon: International Collaboration for Research and Conservation, which is forthcoming in 2025 from Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press.

Recognition for their work includes being named a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

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

  • A general framework for the distance–decay of similarity in ecological communities

    Helene Morlon;George B. Chuyong;Richard S. Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell

  • Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests

    Helene C Muller-Landau;Richard S Condit;Jerome Chave;Sean C Thomas

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

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  • A Standard Protocol for Liana Censuses

    Jeffrey J. Gerwing;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Robyn J. Burnham;Frans Bongers

  • Soil resources and topography shape local tree community structure in tropical forests

    Claire A. Baldeck;Kyle E. Harms;Kyle E. Harms;Joseph B. Yavitt;Robert John

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models

    Helene C Muller-Landau;Richard S Condit;Kyle E Harms;Kyle E Harms;Christian O Marks

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Annual rainfall and seasonality predict pan-tropical patterns of liana density and basal area.

    Saara J. DeWalt;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Jérôme Chave;Frans Bongers

  • Why do microbes exhibit weak biogeographic patterns

    Kyle M. Meyer;Hervé Memiaghe;Lisa Korte;David Kenfack

  • The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots

    Miquel De Cáceres;Pierre Legendre;Renato Valencia;Min Cao

  • A Standard Protocol for Liana Censuses 1

    Jeffrey J. Gerwing;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Robyn J. Burnham;Frans Bongers

  • Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

    J. F. Bastin;Nicolas Barbier;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;A. Fayolle

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Temporal variability of forest communities: empirical estimates of population change in 4000 tree species

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Ryan A. Chisholm;Richard Condit;K. Abd. Rahman;Patrick J. Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

George B. Chuyong
George B. Chuyong University of Buea
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Renato Valencia
Renato Valencia Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Royal Forest Department
Alfonso Alonso
Alfonso Alonso Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Sylvester Tan
Sylvester Tan Smithsonian Institution
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Bonaventure Sonké
Bonaventure Sonké Université de Yaoundé I

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