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Geertje M. F. van der Heijden

Geertje M. F. van der Heijden

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
13533
World Ranking
6237
National Ranking
653

Geertje M. F. van der Heijden 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 Geertje M. F. van der Heijden sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 72 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Geertje M. F. van der Heijden 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 Geertje M. F. van der Heijden sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Geertje M. F. van der Heijden is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's work focuses on several subfields, notably:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution

Van der Heijden has contributed numerous papers, with recent examples including:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, 2020, Nature
  • Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa, 2020, Ecology
  • Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests, 2020, Science
  • Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Global dominance of lianas over trees is driven by forest disturbance, climate and topography, 2024, Global Change Biology

Van der Heijden frequently publishes in venues such as the Journal of Ecology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Ecology, and Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation.

The scientist has collaborated extensively with other researchers, including Stefan A. Schnitzer, Doreen S. Boyd, Oliver L. Phillips, Giles M. Foody, and Chris J. Chandler.

In addition to journal articles, van der Heijden has authored books published by Frontiers Media, including "Lianas, Ecosystems, and Global Change" released in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

    Oliver L. Phillips;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Simon L. Lewis;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • The 2010 Amazon Drought

    Simon L. Lewis;Paulo M. Brando;Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje M. F. van der Heijden

  • 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

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

    Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje van der Heijden;Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela López-González

  • 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

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

    Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • 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

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

    Sophie Fauset;Michelle O Johnson;Manuel Gloor;Timothy R Baker

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

    Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests.

    Geertje M. F. van der Heijden;Geertje M. F. van der Heijden;Geertje M. F. van der Heijden;Jennifer S. Powers;Jennifer S. Powers;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Stefan A. Schnitzer

  • Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models

    Michelle O. Johnson;David Galbraith;Manuel Gloor;Hannes De Deurwaerder

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

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Low stocks of coarse woody debris in a southwest Amazonian forest

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado;Oliver L. Phillips;Jim Martin

  • What controls liana success in Neotropical forests

    Geertje M. F. van der Heijden;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

    Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Oliver L. Phillips;Roel J.W. Brienen;Sophie Fauset

  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Roel J. W. Brienen
Roel J. W. Brienen University of Leeds

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