2026 Douglas Sheil: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	90	469	445	18	17	374	35048

Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Douglas Sheil is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a significant concentration on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Atmospheric Science.

Their academic contributions span a wide array of topics, including:

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Species Distribution and Climate Change
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Forest ecology and management
Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Douglas Sheil's frequent coauthors include:

Erik Meijaard
Francesco Rovero
Robert Bitariho
Fernanda Santos
Santiago Espinosa

The scholar publishes in a variety of scientific venues, with the most frequent publication platforms being:

Preprints.org
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Nature
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)

Among their recent papers are:

"Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests," 2020, Nature
"The environmental impacts of palm oil in context," 2020, Nature Plants
"An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when?", 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
"Unprecedented fire activity above the Arctic Circle linked to rising temperatures," 2022, Science
"Slowing deforestation in Indonesia follows declining oil palm expansion and lower oil prices," 2022, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses

Jeffrey Sayer;Terry Sunderland;Jaboury Ghazoul;Jean-Laurent Pfund

1518
Citations
Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

1396
Citations
Assessing forest canopies and understorey illumination: canopy closure, canopy cover and other measures

SB Jennings;ND Brown;D Sheil

1252
Citations
Trees, forests and water : Cool insights for a hot world

David Ellison;Cindy E. Morris;Cindy E. Morris;Bruno Locatelli;Douglas Sheil

1181
Citations
Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez;Bonaventure Sonké;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

1179
Citations
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

885
Citations
The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

Robin L. Chazdon;Carlos A. Peres;Daisy H. Dent;Douglas Sheil

815
Citations
Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

Francis E. Putz;Francis E. Putz;Pieter A. Zuidema;Pieter A. Zuidema;Timothy Synnott;Marielos Peña-Claros

702
Citations
A review of tools for incorporating community knowledge, preferences, and values into decision making in natural resources management

T. Lynam;W. de Jong;Douglas Sheil;T. Kusumanto

696
Citations
The interpretation and misinterpretation of mortality rate measures

D Sheil;David Francis Robert Philip Burslem;D Alder

630
Citations
Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

J.W. Ferry Slik;Gary Paoli;Krista L. McGuire;Iêda Leão Amaral

581
Citations
Four decades of forest persistence, clearance and logging on Borneo.

David L. A. Gaveau;Sean Sloan;Elis Molidena;Husna Yaen

579
Citations
Rapid conversions and avoided deforestation: examining four decades of industrial plantation expansion in Borneo

David L. A. Gaveau;Douglas Sheil;Husnayaen;Mohammad A. Salim

540
Citations
The impacts and opportunities of oil palm in Southeast Asia: What do we know and what do we need to know?

Douglas Sheil;Anne Casson;Erik Meijaard;Meline van Noordwijk

529
Citations
Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network.

Jorge A. Ahumada;Carlos E. F. Silva;Krisna Gajapersad;Chris Hallam

503
Citations
Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests

David P. Edwards;David P. Edwards;Joseph A. Tobias;Douglas Sheil;Douglas Sheil;Douglas Sheil;Erik Meijaard;Erik Meijaard

476
Citations
MORTALITY AND RECRUITMENT RATE EVALUATIONS IN HETEROGENEOUS TROPICAL FORESTS

Douglas Sheil;Robert M. May

449
Citations
An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

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

440
Citations
Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

436
Citations
Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

414
Citations
Disturbing hypotheses in tropical forests

D. Sheil;David Francis Robert Philip Burslem

407
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Meijaard University of Queensland

Antonio D. Nobre National Institute for Space Research

Serge A. Wich Liverpool John Moores University

Patrick A. Jansen Wageningen University & Research

Simon L. Lewis University College London

Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia

Francis Q. Brearley Manchester Metropolitan University

William F. Laurance James Cook University

Francesco Rovero University of Florence

Bai-Lian Li University of California, Riverside

External Links

Personal website of Douglas Sheil

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