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Henrik Balslev

Henrik Balslev

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
70
Citations
18692
World Ranking
1363
National Ranking
27

Overview

Henrik Balslev is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of main topics including:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
  • Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Annonaceae

Henrik Balslev has published in several journals frequently, with notable recurring venues being:

  • Plants
  • Diversity
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Phytotaxa
  • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a set of co-authors, who have made multiple joint contributions:

  • Angkhana Inta
  • Prateep Panyadee
  • Prasit Wangpakapattanawong
  • Methee Phumthum
  • Gabriel M. Moulatlet

Recent publications by Henrik Balslev include:

  • "Traditional knowledge of wild food plants of Thai Karen and Lawa (Thailand)," 2020, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution
  • "Ethnomedicinal Knowledge of Traditional Healers in Roi Et, Thailand," 2020, Plants
  • "Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities," 2024, Nature
  • "Three Amazonian palms as underestimated and little-known sources of nutrients, bioactive compounds and edible insects," 2021, Food Chemistry
  • "Ethnomedicinal Plant Knowledge of the Karen in Thailand," 2020, Plants

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

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

  • Tree species distributions and local habitat variation in the Amazon: large forest plot in eastern Ecuador

    Renato Valencia;Robin B. Foster;Gorky Villa;Richard Condit;Richard Condit

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

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

  • High tree alpha-diversity in Amazonian Ecuador

    R. Valencia;H. Balslev

  • Medicinal plant knowledge and its erosion among the Mien (Yao) in northern Thailand

    Kamonnate Srithi;Henrik Balslev;Prasit Wangpakapattanawong;Prachaya Srisanga

  • Geographical ecology of the palms (Arecaceae): determinants of diversity and distributions across spatial scales

    Wolf L. Eiserhardt;Jens-Christian Svenning;W. Daniel Kissling;Henrik Balslev

  • Composition and structure of adjacent unflooded and floodplain forest in Amazonian Ecuador

    H. Balslev;J. Luteyn;B. Øllgaard;L.B. Holm-Nielsen

  • Diversity and use of palms in Zahamena, eastern Madagascar

    A. Byg;H. Balslev

  • Patterns of diversity and floristic composition in Neotropical montane forests.

    A. H. Gentry;S. P. Churchill;H. Balslev;E. Forero

  • Diversity and dominance in palm (Arecaceae) communities in terra firme forests in the western Amazon basin

    Jaana Vormisto;Jens-Christian Svenning;Pamela Hall;Henrik Balslev

  • Cenozoic imprints on the phylogenetic structure of palm species assemblages worldwide

    W. Daniel Kissling;Wolf L. Eiserhardt;William J. Baker;Finn Borchsenius

  • Tropical forests : botanical dynamics, speciation and diversity

    Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen;I. C. Nielsen;Henrik Balslev

  • 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

  • Growth and mortality of trees in Amazonian tropical rain forest in Ecuador

    Jørgen Korning;Henrik Balslev

  • Light Converts Endosymbiotic Fungus to Pathogen, Influencing Seedling Survival and Niche-Space Filling of a Common Tropical Tree, Iriartea deltoidea

    Patricia Álvarez-Loayza;James F. White;Mónica S. Torres;Henrik Balslev

  • Determinants of palm species distributions across Africa: the relative roles of climate, non-climatic environmental factors, and spatial constraints

    Anne Blach‐Overgaard;Jens‐Christian Svenning;John Dransfield;Michelle Greve

  • Testing the Water-Energy Theory on American Palms (Arecaceae) Using Geographically Weighted Regression

    Wolf L. Eiserhardt;Stine Bjorholm;Jens-Christian Svenning;Thiago F. Rangel

  • Perceptions, use and availability of woody plants among the Gourounsi in Burkina Faso

    Metus Kristensen;Henrik Balslev

  • Biodiversity and Conservation of Neotropical Montane Forests

    Ghillean T. Prance;Steven P. Churchill;Henrik Balslev;Enrique Forero

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Joost F. Duivenvoorden
Joost F. Duivenvoorden University of Amsterdam
Renato Valencia
Renato Valencia Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Flávia R. C. Costa
Flávia R. C. Costa National Institute of Amazonian Research
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Manuel J. Macía
Manuel J. Macía Autonomous University of Madrid
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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