2026 David L. Dilcher: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	65	921	848	249	218	222	15114
Earth Science	55	2559	2329	1069	949	208	11258

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1989 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1987 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1972 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellow of the Geological Society of America
Fellow of the Geological Society of America
Fellow of the Geological Society of America
Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

David L. Dilcher is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Cell Biology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Plant Diversity and Evolution
Plant and animal studies
Plant Parasitism and Resistance
Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna

Frequent publication venues for David L. Dilcher's work are:

Cretaceous Research
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Data in Brief

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by David L. Dilcher include:

Florivory of Early Cretaceous flowers by functionally diverse insects: implications for early angiosperm pollination, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Ancient noeggerathialean reveals the seed plant sister group diversified alongside the primary seed plant radiation, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Arthropod and fungal herbivory at the dawn of angiosperm diversification: The Rose Creek plant assemblage of Nebraska, U.S.A., 2021, Cretaceous Research
Data, metrics, and methods for arthropod and fungal herbivory at the dawn of angiosperm diversification: The Rose Creek plant assemblage of Nebraska, U.S.A., 2022, Data in Brief
Montsechia vidalii from the Barremian of Spain, the earliest known submerged aquatic angiosperm, and its systematic relationship to Ceratophyllum, 2020, Taxon

Collaborations have frequently involved researchers such as Lifang Xiao, Conrad C. Labandeira, Dong Ren, S. Augusta Maccracken, and Chungkun Shih.

Throughout their career, David L. Dilcher has received several distinctions, including:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1989
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1987
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1972
Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

Approaches to the identification of angiosperm leaf remains

David L. Dilcher

1467
Citations
Cenozoic continental climatic evolution of Central Europe

Volker Mosbrugger;Torsten Utescher;David L. Dilcher

797
Citations
In Search of the First Flower: A Jurassic Angiosperm, Archaefructus, from Northeast China

Ge Sun;David L. Dilcher;Shaoling Zheng;Zhekun Zhou

577
Citations
Archaefructaceae, a New Basal Angiosperm Family

Ge Sun;Qiang Ji;David L. Dilcher;Shaolin Zheng

560
Citations
The impact of Miocene atmospheric carbon dioxide fluctuations on climate and the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems

Wolfram M. Kürschner;Zlatko Kvaček;David L. Dilcher

533
Citations
Paleoatmospheric Signatures in Neogene Fossil Leaves

Johan Van Der Burgh;Henk Visscher;David L. Dilcher;Wolfram M. Kürschner

357
Citations
An ammonite trapped in Burmese amber.

Tingting （俞婷婷） Yu;Richard Kelly;Richard Kelly;Richard Kelly;Lin （牟林） Mu;Andrew Ross

356
Citations
Correlations of climate and plant ecology to leaf size and shape: Potential proxies for the fossil record

Dana L. Royer;Peter Wilf;David A. Janesko;Elizabeth A. Kowalski

339
Citations
Ninety-seven million years of angiosperm-insect association: paleobiological insights into the meaning of coevolution

Conrad C. Labandeira;D. L. Dilcher;Donald R. Davis;D. L. Wagner

334
Citations
Oak leaves as biosensors of late Neogene and early Pleistocene paleoatmospheric CO2 concentrations

Wolfram M. Kürschner;Johan van der Burgh;Henk Visscher;David L. Dilcher

323
Citations
A Probable Pollination Mode Before Angiosperms: Eurasian, Long-Proboscid Scorpionflies

Dong Ren;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Jorge A. Santiago-Blay;Jorge A. Santiago-Blay;Alexandr Rasnitsyn;Alexandr Rasnitsyn

311
Citations
The terminal Paleozoic fungal event: evidence of terrestrial ecosystem destabilization and collapse.

Henk Visscher;Henk Brinkhuis;David L. Dilcher;William C. Elsik

310
Citations
Life in the end-Permian dead zone

Cindy V. Looy;Richard J. Twitchett;David L. Dilcher;Johanna H. A. Van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert

297
Citations
Global CO2 rise leads to reduced maximum stomatal conductance in Florida vegetation

Emmy I. Lammertsma;Hugo Jan de Boer;Stefan C. Dekker;David L. Dilcher

295
Citations
Archaenthus: An Early Angiosperm From the Cenomanian of the Western Interior of North America

David L. Dilcher;Peter R. Crane

285
Citations
The delayed resurgence of equatorial forests after the Permian–Triassic ecologic crisis

C. V. Looy;W. A. Brugman;D. L. Dilcher;H. Visscher

279
Citations
Early steps of angiosperm–pollinator coevolution

Shusheng Hu;David L. Dilcher;David M. Jarzen;David Winship Taylor

245
Citations
Early angiosperm reproduction: An introductory report

David L. Dilcher

229
Citations
Toward a new synthesis: major evolutionary trends in the angiosperm fossil record.

David Dilcher

220
Citations
A Preliminary survey of fossil leaves and well-preserved reproductive structures from the Sentinel Butte Formation (Paleocene) near Almont, North Dakota /

Peter R. Crane;David L. Dilcher;Steven R. Manchester

215
Citations
Reconstructions of selected seed ferns

Greg J. Retallack;David L. Dilcher

185
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