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D-Index
62
Citations
12921
World Ranking
2087
National Ranking
753

Feng Sheng Hu 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 Feng Sheng Hu sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 155 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Feng Sheng Hu 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 Feng Sheng Hu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% 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

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Feng Sheng Hu is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with a specific emphasis on the interactions between climate change, ecosystems, and microbial ecology.

The scientist's work spans several main fields of study, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these disciplines, Hu has contributed to multiple subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Pollution

Research topics covered by Hu include:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Hu has published in a variety of journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Global Change Biology
  • The ISME Journal
  • One Earth

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Divergent shrub-cover responses driven by climate, wildfire, and permafrost interactions in Arctic tundra ecosystems," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Benzo[a]pyrene stress impacts adaptive strategies and ecological functions of earthworm intestinal viromes," 2023, The ISME Journal
  • "The formation of specific bacterial communities contributes to the enrichment of antibiotic resistance genes in the soil plastisphere," 2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Thermokarst acceleration in Arctic tundra driven by climate change and fire disturbance," 2021, One Earth
  • "Arctic and boreal paleofire records reveal drivers of fire activity and departures from Holocene variability," 2020, Ecology

Collaborations are a significant part of Hu's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Guillaume de Lafontaine
  • Mark J. Lara
  • Mingming Sun
  • José Luís Balcázar
  • Joseph D. Napier

In recognition of their contributions, Hu was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0-180°W)

    D. S. Kaufman;T.A. Ager;N.J. Anderson;P.M. Anderson

  • Vegetation mediated the impacts of postglacial climate change on fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska

    Philip E. Higuera;Linda B. Brubaker;Patricia M. Anderson;Feng Sheng Hu

  • Recent burning of boreal forests exceeds fire regime limits of the past 10,000 years

    Ryan Kelly;Melissa L. Chipman;Philip E. Higuera;Ivanka Stefanova

  • Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography

    Daniel G. Gavin;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Paul F. Gugger;Katy D. Heath

  • Cyclic variation and solar forcing of Holocene climate in the Alaskan subarctic.

    Feng Sheng Hu;Darrell Kaufman;Sumiko Yoneji;David Nelson

  • Forests of the past: a window to future changes.

    Rémy J. Petit;Rémy J. Petit;Feng Sheng Hu;Christopher W. Dick;Christopher W. Dick

  • Weak climatic control of stand-scale fire history during the late holocene.

    Daniel G. Gavin;Feng Sheng Hu;Kenneth Lertzman;Peter Corbett

  • Size parameters, size-class distribution and area-number relationship of microscopic charcoal: relevance for fire reconstruction

    Willy Tinner;Feng Sheng Hu

  • Ice-age endurance: DNA evidence of a white spruce refugium in Alaska

    Lynn L. Anderson;Feng Sheng Hu;David M. Nelson;Rémy J. Petit

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Frequent Fires in Ancient Shrub Tundra: Implications of Paleorecords for Arctic Environmental Change

    Philip E. Higuera;Linda B. Brubaker;Patricia M. Anderson;Thomas A. Brown

  • Climatic thresholds shape northern high‐latitude fire regimes and imply vulnerability to future climate change

    Adam M. Young;Philip E. Higuera;Paul A. Duffy;Feng Sheng Hu

  • Tundra burning in Alaska: Linkages to climatic change and sea ice retreat

    Feng Sheng Hu;Philip E. Higuera;Philip E. Higuera;John E. Walsh;John E. Walsh;William L. Chapman

  • A signal-to-noise index to quantify the potential for peak detection in sediment–charcoal records

    Ryan F. Kelly;Philip E. Higuera;Carolyn M. Barrett;Feng Sheng Hu

  • Arctic tundra fires: natural variability and responses to climate change

    Feng Sheng Hu;Philip E Higuera;Paul Duffy;Melissa L Chipman

  • GENETICALLY DEPAUPERATE BUT WIDESPREAD: THE CASE OF AN EMBLEMATIC MEDITERRANEAN PINE

    Giovanni G. Vendramin;Bruno Fady;Santiago C. González-Martínez;Feng Sheng Hu;Feng Sheng Hu

  • Forest fire and climate change in western North America: insights from sediment charcoal records

    Daniel G. Gavin;Douglas J. Hallett;Feng Sheng Hu;Kenneth P. Lertzman

  • Holocene climate changes in eastern Beringia (NW North America) – A systematic review of multi-proxy evidence

    Darrell S. Kaufman;Yarrow L. Axford;Andrew C.G. Henderson;Nicholas P. McKay

  • Pollen‐based biomes for Beringia 18,000, 6000 and 0 14C yr bp†

    M.E. Edwards;P.M. Anderson;L.B. Brubaker;T.A. Ager

  • Abrupt changes in North American climate during early Holocene times

    F. S. Hu;D. Slawinski;H. E. Wright;E. Ito

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda B. Brubaker
Linda B. Brubaker University of Washington
Philip E. Higuera
Philip E. Higuera University of Montana
Daniel G. Gavin
Daniel G. Gavin University of Oregon
Willy Tinner
Willy Tinner University of Bern
Patricia M. Anderson
Patricia M. Anderson University of Washington
Thomas A. Brown
Thomas A. Brown Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Darrell S. Kaufman
Darrell S. Kaufman Northern Arizona University
Arndt Hampe
Arndt Hampe University of Bordeaux
Rémy J. Petit
Rémy J. Petit University of Bordeaux
Ian R. Walker
Ian R. Walker University of British Columbia

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