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Dieter Mueller-Dombois 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 Dieter Mueller-Dombois 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.

Dieter Mueller-Dombois 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 Dieter Mueller-Dombois sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1965 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dieter Mueller-Dombois is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research spans primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with focused subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work addresses key topics such as forest ecology and management, forest management and policy, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, conservation, biodiversity, resource management, as well as remote sensing and LiDAR applications. They have contributed to the geological and paleoclimatology research domain as well.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by them include:

  • Aboveground biomass in primary and second-growth forests in Hawai'i (2021), Forest Service Research Data Archive
  • Aboveground carbon accumulation by second-growth forests after deforestation in Hawai'i (2022), Ecological Applications
  • Aboveground Carbon Accumulation by Second-Growth Forests After Deforestation in Hawaii (2022), Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
  • A 60-Year Record of Plant Colonization on Alpine Lava Flows, Maunaloa, Hawai'i: Climate Change, Substrate Control, and Human Disturbance (2024), Pacific Science
  • Shrub Dieback and El Niño Drought in Hawai'i: Life Stage Demography and Population Rejuvenation (2024), Pacific Science

Their work has been published in venues such as Pacific Science, Ecological Applications, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, and the Forest Service Research Data Archive.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Dennis Grossman, Travis G. Sowards, Jonathan D. Marshall, Richard Flint Hughes, and R. Flint Hughes.

Dieter Mueller-Dombois was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1965.

Best Publications

  • Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology

    Dieter Mueller-Dombois;Heinz Ellenberg

  • Biological Invasion by Myrica faya Alters Ecosystem Development in Hawaii

    Peter M. Vitousek;Lawrence R. Walker;Louis D. Whiteaker;Dieter Mueller-Dombois

  • Changes in soil phosphorus fractions and ecosystem dynamics across a long chronosequence in Hawaii.

    Timothy E. Crews;Kanehiro Kitayama;James H. Fownes;Ralph H. Riley

  • Vegetation of the tropical Pacific islands

    Dieter Mueller-Dombois;F. R. Fosberg

  • Physiological and morphological variation in Metrosideros polymorpha, a dominant Hawaiian tree species, along an altitudinal gradient: the role of phenotypic plasticity

    S. Cordell;G. Goldstein;D. Mueller-Dombois;D. Webb

  • Climate-diagram Maps

    Heinrich Walter;Elisabeth Harnickell;Dieter Mueller-Dombois

  • Natural Dieback in Forests

    Dieter Mueller-Dombois

  • Perspectives for an Etiology of Stand-Level Dieback

    D Mueller-Dombois

  • Climate-diagram Maps: of the Individual Continents and the Ecological Climatic Regions of the Earth

    D. Mueller-Dombois;E. Harnickell;H. Walter

  • RESPONSE OF METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA SEEDLINGS TO EXPERIMENTAL CANOPY OPENING

    Philip J. Burton;Dieter Mueller-Dombois

  • Population Development of Rain Forest Trees on a Chronosequence of Hawaiian Lava Flows

    Donald R. Drake;Dieter Mueller-Dombois

  • Primary succession of Hawaiian montane rain forest on a chronosequence of eight lava flows

    Kanehiro Kitayama;Dieter Mueller-Dombois;Peter M. Vitousek

  • Soil development and nitrogen turnover, in montane rainforest soils on Hawaii

    Peter M. Vitousek;Keith Van Cleve;Nadarajah Balakrishnan;Dieter Mueller-Dombois

  • Transpiration and forest structure in relation to soil waterlogging in a Hawaiian montane cloud forest

    Louis S. Santiago;Guillermo Goldstein;Frederick C. Meinzer;James H. Fownes

  • Litterfall and nutrient cycling in four Hawaiian montane rainforests.

    Peter M. Vitousek;Grant Gerrish;Douglas R. Turner;Lawrence R. Walker

  • Vegetation changes along gradients of long-term soil development in the Hawaiian montane rainforest zone

    Kanehiro Kitayama;Dieter Mueller-Dombois

  • Invasion and Recovery of Vegetation After a Volcanic Eruption in Hawaii

    Garrett A. Smathers;Dieter Mueller-Dombois

  • Island ecosystems : biological organization in selected Hawaiian communities

    Dieter Mueller-Dombois;Kent W. Bridges;Hampton L. Carson

  • Vegetation Science in Forestry

    Dieter Mueller-Dombois

  • Biological invasion on an oceanic island mountain: do alien plant species have wider ecological ranges than native species?

    Kanehiro Kitayama;Dieter Mueller-Dombois

  • Ecology of Tropical and Subtropical Vegetation.

    P. J. Grubb;H. Walter;D. Mueller-Dombois;J. H. Burnett

Frequent Co-Authors

Kanehiro Kitayama
Kanehiro Kitayama Kyoto University
Peter M. Vitousek
Peter M. Vitousek Stanford University
James H. Fownes
James H. Fownes University of Massachusetts Amherst
Curtis C. Daehler
Curtis C. Daehler University of Hawaii at Manoa
Lawrence R. Walker
Lawrence R. Walker University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Edward A. G. Schuur
Edward A. G. Schuur Northern Arizona University
Guillermo Goldstein
Guillermo Goldstein University of Miami
Louis S. Santiago
Louis S. Santiago University of California, Riverside
Frederick C. Meinzer
Frederick C. Meinzer Oregon State University
Philip J. Burton
Philip J. Burton University of Northern British Columbia

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