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D-Index
90
Citations
31810
World Ranking
474
National Ranking
167

Overview

Francis E. Putz is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and specializes in environmental science with a focus on forest ecology and management. Their contributions span several key areas related to ecology, conservation, and resource management.

They have published extensively in leading scientific journals, particularly in venues such as Forest Ecology and Management, Forests, Current Biology, American Journal of Botany, and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Sustained timber yield claims, considerations, and tradeoffs for selectively logged forests, 2022, PNAS Nexus
  • Biodiversity conservation in certified forests, 2022, FSC® Open Knowledge Repository (FSCOKR)
  • Sustainability of Brazilian forest concessions, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Underground carbohydrate stores and storage organs in fire-maintained longleaf pine savannas in Florida, USA, 2021, American Journal of Botany
  • Thinning temporarily stimulates tree regeneration in a restored tropical forest, 2021, Ecological Engineering

Their main fields of study align with environmental science, documenting 70 publications, with substantial emphasis in the subfields of nature and landscape conservation and global and planetary change. Additional subfields include plant science, economics and econometrics, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The topics covered in their research mainly involve:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Conservation, biodiversity, and resource management
  • Forest management and policy
  • Economic and environmental valuation
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Francis E. Putz include Claudia Romero, Anand Roopsind, Peter W. Ellis, Emma Mackintosh, and Andrew R. Marshall. These collaborations reflect consistent teamwork within the field of forest ecology and related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Natural climate solutions

    Bronson W. Griscom;Bronson W. Griscom;Justin Adams;Peter W. Ellis;Richard A. Houghton

  • The natural history of lianas on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

    Francis E. Putz

  • Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions.

    Paulo Monteiro Brando;Paulo Monteiro Brando;Jennifer K. Balch;Daniel C. Nepstad;Douglas C. Morton

  • 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

  • Retaining Forest Biomass By Reducing Logging Damage

    Michelle A. Pinard;Francis E. Putz

  • Reduced-impact logging : Challenges and opportunities

    F.E. Putz;P. Sist;T. Fredericksen;D. Dykstra

  • The dynamics of tree populations in tropical forest: a review.

    M. D. Swaine;Diana Lieberman;F. E. Putz

  • Uprooting and snapping of trees: structural determinants and ecological consequences

    Francis E. Putz;Phyllis D. Coley;Karen Lu;Arlee Montalvo

  • Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Joseph W. Veldman;Gerhard E. Overbeck;Daniel Negreiros;Gregory Mahy

  • Toward an old-growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands

    Joseph W Veldman;Elise Buisson;Giselda Durigan;G Wilson Fernandes;G Wilson Fernandes

  • Critical need for new definitions of “forest” and “forest degradation” in global climate change agreements

    Nophea Sasaki;Nophea Sasaki;Francis E. Putz

  • Treefall Pits and Mounds, Buried Seeds, and the Importance of Soil Disturbance to Pioneer Trees on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

    Francis E. Putz

  • Liana biomass and leaf area of a «Tierra Firme» forest in the Rio Negro Basin, Venezuela

    Francis E. Putz

  • Natural Disturbance and Gap-Phase Regeneration in a Wind-Exposed Tropical Cloud Forest

    Robert O. Lawton;Francis E. Putz

  • Tropical forest management and conservation of biodiversity: an overview

    Francis E. Putz;Geoffrey M. Blate;Kent H. Redford;Robert Fimbel

  • The Biology of Vines

    Francis E. Putz;Harold A. Mooney

  • Tree growth, dynamics and productivity in a mature mangrove forest in Malaysia

    Francis E. Putz;H.T. Chan

  • Sustainable forestry in the tropics: panacea or folly?

    David W Pearce;Francis E Putz;Jerome K Vanclay

  • Ecological studies of lianas in Lambir National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia

    Francis E. Putz;Paul Chai

  • Silvicultural alternatives to conventional even-aged forest management - what limits global adoption?

    Klaus J Puettmann;Scott McG Wilson;Susan C Baker;Pablo J Donoso

  • The Importance of Defining ‘Forest’: Tropical Forest Degradation, Deforestation, Long‐term Phase Shifts, and Further Transitions

    Francis E. Putz;Kent H. Redford

Frequent Co-Authors

Marielos Peña-Claros
Marielos Peña-Claros Wageningen University & Research
Todd S. Fredericksen
Todd S. Fredericksen Ferrum College
Alexander Shenkin
Alexander Shenkin Northern Arizona University
Bronson W. Griscom
Bronson W. Griscom Conservation International
Stefan A. Schnitzer
Stefan A. Schnitzer Marquette University
Paulo M. Brando
Paulo M. Brando University of California, Irvine
Robert Nasi
Robert Nasi Center for International Forestry Research
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Jerome K. Vanclay
Jerome K. Vanclay Southern Cross University
Erin O. Sills
Erin O. Sills North Carolina State University

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