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Elmar M. Veenendaal 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 Elmar M. Veenendaal sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 129 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Elmar M. Veenendaal 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 Elmar M. Veenendaal sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 50 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Elmar M. Veenendaal is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research is situated within multiple subfields including global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, soil science, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics mainly centered on ecological and vegetation dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, fire effects on ecosystems, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, and species distribution related to climate change.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Elmar M. Veenendaal include:

  • Environment-sensitivity functions for gross primary productivity in light use efficiency models, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Experimental light at night has a negative long-term impact on macro-moth populations, 2020, Current Biology
  • Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Expanding tropical forest monitoring into Dry Forests: The DRYFLOR protocol for permanent plots, 2020, Plants People Planet
  • MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields tree cover needs calibrating in tropical savannas, 2022, Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Elmar M. Veenendaal include:

  • Vincent Logah
  • Oliver L. Phillips
  • Jon Lloyd
  • Tomas F. Domingues
  • Luciano Paganucci de Queiroz

Elmar M. Veenendaal publishes regularly in the following venues:

  • Plant and Soil
  • Biotropica
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Current Biology

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

    Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

  • Stability of elemental carbon in a savanna soil

    M. I. Bird;C. Moyo;E. M. Veenendaal;J. Lloyd

  • Patterns and controls of the variability of radiation use efficiency and primary productivity across terrestrial ecosystems

    Martín F. Garbulsky;Martín F. Garbulsky;Josep Peñuelas;Dario Papale;Jonas Ardö

  • Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands.

    Thomas Ferreira Domingues;Patrick Meir;Ted R. Feldpausch;Gustavo Saiz

  • Release of CO2 and CH4 from lakes and drainage ditches in temperate wetlands

    A. P. Schrier-Uijl;A. J. Veraart;P. A. Leffelaar;F. Berendse

  • The uncertain climate footprint of wetlands under human pressure

    Ana Maria Roxana Petrescu;Annalea Lohila;Juha-Pekka Tuovinen;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Effect of fire and soil texture on soil carbon in a sub-humid savanna (Matopos, Zimbabwe)

    Michael Bird;E.M. Veenendaal;C Moyo;Jonathan Lloyd

  • Responses of West African Forest Tree Seedlings to Irradiance and Soil Fertility

    E.M. Veenendaal;Swaine;R.T. Lecha;M.F. Walsh

  • Reduced plant–soil feedback of plant species expanding their range as compared to natives

    Roy H. A. Van Grunsven;Wim H. Van Der Putten;T. Martijn Bezemer;Wil L. M. Tamis

  • Seasonal variation in energy fluxes and carbon dioxide exchange for a broad‐leaved semi‐arid savanna (Mopane woodland) in Southern Africa

    Elmar M. Veenendaal;Olaf Kolle;Jon Lloyd

  • Evaluation of MODIS gross primary productivity for Africa using eddy covariance data

    Martin Sjöström;M. Zhao;S. Archibald;Almut Arneth

  • Differences in plant and soil water relations in and around a forest gap in West Africa during the dry season may influence seedling establishment and survival

    E. M. Veenendaal;M. D. Swaine;V. K. Agyeman;D. Blay

  • Exploring the potential of MODIS EVI for modeling gross primary production across African ecosystems

    Martin Sjöström;Jonas Ardö;Almut Arneth;N. Boulain

  • Precipitation as driver of carbon fluxes in 11 African ecosystems

    L. Merbold;J. Ardo;A. Arneth;R.J. Scholes

  • Contributions of woody and herbaceous vegetation to tropical savanna ecosystem productivity: a quasi-global estimate.

    Jonathan Lloyd;Michael Bird;Lins Vellen;Antonio Carlos Miranda

  • Artificial light at night inhibits mating in a Geometrid moth

    Koert G. van Geffen;Emiel van Eck;Rens A. de Boer;Roy H.A. van Grunsven

  • Artificial light at night causes diapause inhibition and sex-specific life history changes in a moth.

    Koert G van Geffen;Roy H A van Grunsven;Jasper van Ruijven;Frank Berendse

  • Response of bats to light with different spectra: light-shy and agile bat presence is affected by white and green, but not red light.

    Kamiel Spoelstra;Roy H. A. van Grunsven;Jip J. C. Ramakers;Kim B. Ferguson

  • On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

    Mireia Torello-Raventos;Ted R. Feldpausch;Elmar Veenendaal;Franziska Schrodt

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

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Comparison of chamber and eddy covariance-based CO2 and CH4 emission estimates in a heterogeneous grass ecosystem on peat

    A.P. Schrier-Uijl;P.S. Kroon;A. Hensen;P.A. Leffelaar

  • Use and accuracy of the filter-paper technique for measurement of soil matric potential

    R.N. Deka;M. Wairiu;P.W. Mtakwa;C.E. Mullins

  • Winners and losers: tropical forest tree seedling survival across a West African forest-savanna transition.

    Anabelle W. Cardoso;José A. Medina‐Vega;Yadvinder Malhi;Stephen Adu‐Bredu

  • Winners and losers

    Anabelle W. Cardoso;José A. Medina-Vega;Yadvinder Malhi;Stephen Adu-Bredu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Frank Berendse
Frank Berendse Wageningen University & Research
Frank van Langevelde
Frank van Langevelde Wageningen University & Research
Michael I. Bird
Michael I. Bird James Cook University
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Gustavo Saiz
Gustavo Saiz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Tomas F. Domingues
Tomas F. Domingues Universidade de São Paulo
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Olaf Kolle
Olaf Kolle Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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