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George B. Chuyong

George B. Chuyong

University of Buea
Cameroon

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
9995
World Ranking
5985
National Ranking
2

George B. Chuyong publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 98 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

George B. Chuyong 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 George B. Chuyong sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

George B. Chuyong is affiliated with the University of Buea in Cameroon. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong emphasis on ecological and forest-related topics.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Their subfields of study encompass:

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

The key topics addressed in their work are:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • African Botany and Ecology Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

George B. Chuyong has contributed to a variety of research articles, including the following recent papers:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, 2020, Nature
  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Consistency of demographic trade-offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests, 2022, Journal of Ecology
  • Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities, 2024, Nature

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • David Kenfack
  • Duncan W. Thomas
  • Corneille E. N. Ewango
  • Jean-Remy Makana
  • Stuart J. Davies

Publication venues featuring their work frequently are:

  • Nature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biological Conservation
  • New Phytologist

Best Publications

  • Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size.

    N. L. Stephenson;A. J. Das;Richard S. Condit;S. E. Russo

  • 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

  • 454 Pyrosequencing and Sanger sequencing of tropical mycorrhizal fungi provide similar results but reveal substantial methodological biases

    Leho Tedersoo;Leho Tedersoo;R. Henrik Nilsson;R. Henrik Nilsson;Kessy Abarenkov;Teele Jairus

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis

    Cory C. Cleveland;Alan R. Townsend;Philip Taylor;Silvia Alvarez-Clare

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • A general framework for the distance–decay of similarity in ecological communities

    Helene Morlon;George B. Chuyong;Richard S. Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell

  • Testing metabolic ecology theory for allometric scaling of tree size, growth and mortality in tropical forests

    Helene C Muller-Landau;Richard S Condit;Jerome Chave;Sean C Thomas

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • Soil resources and topography shape local tree community structure in tropical forests

    Claire A. Baldeck;Kyle E. Harms;Kyle E. Harms;Joseph B. Yavitt;Robert John

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • Comparing tropical forest tree size distributions with the predictions of metabolic ecology and equilibrium models

    Helene C Muller-Landau;Richard S Condit;Kyle E Harms;Kyle E Harms;Christian O Marks

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Annual rainfall and seasonality predict pan-tropical patterns of liana density and basal area.

    Saara J. DeWalt;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Jérôme Chave;Frans Bongers

  • The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots

    Miquel De Cáceres;Pierre Legendre;Renato Valencia;Min Cao

  • Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

    J. F. Bastin;Nicolas Barbier;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;A. Fayolle

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

  • Temporal variability of forest communities: empirical estimates of population change in 4000 tree species

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Ryan A. Chisholm;Richard Condit;K. Abd. Rahman;Patrick J. Baker

  • Habitat filtering across tree life stages in tropical forest communities.

    C. A. Baldeck;K. E. Harms;K. E. Harms;J. B. Yavitt;R. John

  • How Effective Are DNA Barcodes in the Identification of African Rainforest Trees

    Ingrid Parmentier;Jérôme Duminil;Jérôme Duminil;Maria Kuzmina;Morgane Philippe

Frequent Co-Authors

David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Renato Valencia
Renato Valencia Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Royal Forest Department
Sylvester Tan
Sylvester Tan Smithsonian Institution
I-Fang Sun
I-Fang Sun National Dong Hwa University
Kyle E. Harms
Kyle E. Harms Louisiana State University
Raman Sukumar
Raman Sukumar Indian Institute of Science

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