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David L. Dilcher publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David L. Dilcher sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 222 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

David L. Dilcher D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David L. Dilcher sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

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
  • 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

  • Cenozoic continental climatic evolution of Central Europe

    Volker Mosbrugger;Torsten Utescher;David L. Dilcher

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

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

  • Archaefructaceae, a New Basal Angiosperm Family

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

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

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

  • Paleoatmospheric Signatures in Neogene Fossil Leaves

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

  • An ammonite trapped in Burmese amber.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Life in the end-Permian dead zone

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

  • 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

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

    David L. Dilcher;Peter R. Crane

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

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

  • Early steps of angiosperm–pollinator coevolution

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

  • Early angiosperm reproduction: An introductory report

    David L. Dilcher

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

    David Dilcher

  • 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

  • Reconstructions of selected seed ferns

    Greg J. Retallack;David L. Dilcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Torsten Utescher
Torsten Utescher University of Bonn
Volker Mosbrugger
Volker Mosbrugger American Museum of Natural History
Steven R. Manchester
Steven R. Manchester Florida Museum of Natural History
Patrick S. Herendeen
Patrick S. Herendeen George Washington University
Henk Visscher
Henk Visscher Utrecht University
Conrad C. Labandeira
Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution
Carlos Jaramillo
Carlos Jaramillo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Wolfram M. Kürschner
Wolfram M. Kürschner University of Oslo
William L. Crepet
William L. Crepet Cornell University
Antónia Monteiro
Antónia Monteiro National University of Singapore

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