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Eric J. Gustafson

Eric J. Gustafson

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
9915
World Ranking
5454
National Ranking
1860

Eric J. Gustafson 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 Eric J. Gustafson sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 130 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Eric J. Gustafson 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 Eric J. Gustafson sits on this spectrum.

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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.

Overview

Eric J. Gustafson is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States and has contributed extensively to environmental science, with a particular focus on forest ecology and management under changing climatic conditions.

Their research covers a variety of topics including fire effects on ecosystems, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest management and policy, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate change and permafrost, and plant and fungal interactions research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eric J. Gustafson include Brian R. Sturtevant, Brian R. Miranda, А. Shvidenko, Melissa S. Lucash, and Dmitry Schepaschenko.

Publications have appeared mainly in venues such as Forest Ecology and Management, Ecosphere, Ecological Modelling, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Global Change Biology.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Gustafson include:

  • "Beyond blight: Phytophthora root rot under climate change limits populations of reintroduced American chestnut" (2022, Ecosphere)
  • "Climate adaptive silviculture strategies: How do they impact growth, yield, diversity and value in forested landscapes?" (2020, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • "Desired REgeneration through Assisted Migration (DREAM): Implementing a research framework for climate-adaptive silviculture" (2023, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • "Can assisted tree migration today sustain forest ecosystem goods and services for the future?" (2022, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • "What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?" (2022, Global Change Biology)

Best Publications

  • Quantifying Landscape Spatial Pattern: What Is the State of the Art?

    Eric J. Gustafson

  • Relationships between landcover proportion and indices of landscape spatial pattern

    Eric J. Gustafson;George R. Parker

  • The Effect of Landscape Heterogeneity on the Probability of Patch Colonization

    Eric J. Gustafson;Robert H. Gardner

  • Design, development, and application of LANDIS-II, a spatial landscape simulation model with flexible temporal and spatial resolution

    Robert M. Scheller;James B. Domingo;Brian R. Sturtevant;Jeremy S. Williams

  • Spatial simulation of forest succession and timber harvesting using LANDIS.

    Eric J. Gustafson;Stephen R. Shifley;David J. Mladenoff;Kevin K. Nimerfro

  • Using an index of habitat patch proximity for landscape design

    Eric J. Gustafson;George R. Parker

  • Spatial patterns of modern period human-caused fire occurrence in the Missouri Ozark Highlands

    Jian Yang;Hong S. Healy;Stephen R. Shifley;Eric J. Gustafson

  • Predicting global change effects on forest biomass and composition in south-central Siberia

    Eric J. Gustafson;Anatoly Z. Shvidenko;Brian R. Sturtevant;Robert M. Scheller

  • When relationships estimated in the past cannot be used to predict the future: using mechanistic models to predict landscape ecological dynamics in a changing world

    Eric J. Gustafson

  • Modeling biological disturbances in LANDIS: a module description and demonstration using spruce budworm

    Brian R. Sturtevant;Eric J. Gustafson;Wei Li;Hong S. He

  • The past and future of modeling forest dynamics: from growth and yield curves to forest landscape models

    Stephen R. Shifley;Hong S. He;Heike Lischke;Wen J. Wang

  • Study of landscape change under forest harvesting and climate warming-induced fire disturbance

    Hong S He;David J Mladenoff;Eric J Gustafson

  • Simulating the Effects of Alternative Forest Management Strategies on Landscape Structure

    Eric J. Gustafson;Thomas R. Crow

  • Modeling forest mortality caused by drought stress: implications for climate change

    Eric J. Gustafson;Brian R. Sturtevant

  • How disturbance, competition and dispersal interact to prevent tree range boundaries from keeping pace with climate change

    Yu Liang;Yu Liang;Matthew J. Duveneck;Eric J. Gustafson;Josep M. Serra-Diaz;Josep M. Serra-Diaz

  • Modeling the effects of forest harvesting on landscape structure and the spatial distribution of cowbird brood parasitism

    Eric J. Gustafson;Thomas R. Crow

  • Simulating forest fuel and fire risk dynamics across landscapes—LANDIS fuel module design

    Hong S. He;Bo Z. Shang;Thomas R. Crow;Eric J. Gustafson

  • Simulating dispersal of reintroduced species within heterogeneous landscapes

    Robert H. Gardner;Eric J. Gustafson

  • Toward more robust projections of forest landscape dynamics under novel environmental conditions: Embedding PnET within LANDIS-II

    Arjan de Bruijn;Arjan de Bruijn;Eric J. Gustafson;Brian R. Sturtevant;Jane R. Foster

  • Influence of forest management alternatives and land type on susceptibility to fire in northern Wisconsin, USA

    Eric J. Gustafson;Patrick A. Zollner;Brian R. Sturtevant;Hong S. He

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian R. Sturtevant
Brian R. Sturtevant US Forest Service
Hong S. He
Hong S. He University of Missouri
Robert M. Scheller
Robert M. Scheller North Carolina State University
Anatoly Shvidenko
Anatoly Shvidenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
David J. Mladenoff
David J. Mladenoff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas R. Crow
Thomas R. Crow US Forest Service
Daniel G. Brown
Daniel G. Brown University of Washington
Volker C. Radeloff
Volker C. Radeloff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Douglass F. Jacobs
Douglass F. Jacobs Purdue University West Lafayette
Mark E. Kubiske
Mark E. Kubiske US Forest Service

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