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84
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Herman H. Shugart 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 Herman H. Shugart sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 371 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Herman H. Shugart 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 Herman H. Shugart sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 84 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% 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

  • 1983 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Herman H. Shugart is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a notable focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's main topics of work cover a range of ecological and environmental areas, notably:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Examples of recent papers authored or coauthored by Herman H. Shugart include:

  • "Using climate-driven leaf phenology and growth to improve predictions of gross primary productivity in North American forests," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Integrating forest structural diversity measurement into ecological research," 2023, Ecosphere
  • "Forest Greening Increases Land Surface Albedo During the Main Growing Period Between 2002 and 2019 in China," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Reply to 'Height-related changes in forest composition explain increasing tree mortality with height during an extreme drought'," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Gap models across micro- to mega-scales of time and space: examples of Tansley's ecosystem concept," 2020, Forest Ecosystems

Herman H. Shugart has frequently collaborated with coauthors such as Xiaodong Yan, Jing Fang, James A. Lutz, Hao Yan, and Feng Liu.

Their publications often appear in scientific venues including Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Forests, Global Change Biology, and Ecosphere.

Among their contributions to academic literature, Shugart has authored several books published by Princeton University Press, including "The World Atlas of Trees and Forests" (2022) and multiple editions of "The Little Book of Trees" (2024).

Shugart was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1983.

Best Publications

  • A Theory of Forest Dynamics: The Ecological Implications of Forest Succession Models

    Herman H. Shugart

  • A Theory of Forest Dynamics

    Herman H. Shugart

  • Tree Death as an Ecological Process

    Jerry F. Franklin;H. H. Shugart;Mark E. Harmon

  • Environmental Factors and Ecological Processes in Boreal Forests

    Gordon B. Bonan;Herman H. Shugart

  • Climate-induced boreal forest change: Predictions versus current observations

    Amber J. Soja;Nadezda M. Tchebakova;Nancy H.F. French;Michael D. Flannigan

  • Climatic change and the broad-scale distribution of terrestrial ecosystem complexes

    William R. Emanuel;Herman H. Shugart;Mary P. Stevenson

  • The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle

    T. Le Toan;S. Quegan;M.W.J. Davidson;Heiko Balzter

  • Surface lidar remote sensing of basal area and biomass in deciduous forests of eastern Maryland, USA

    M. A. Lefsky;D. Harding;W. B. Cohen;Geoffrey G. Parker

  • Global tests of biodiversity concordance and the importance of endemism

    John F. Lamoreux;John C. Morrison;Taylor H. Ricketts;David M. Olson

  • Microhabitats in a Forest-Floor Small Mammal Fauna

    Raymond D. Dueser;H. H. Shugart

  • Plant functional types : their relevance to ecosystem properties and global change

    T. M. Smith;Herman H. Shugart;F. I. Woodward

  • Forest succession. Concepts and application.

    Darrell C. West;Herman H. Shugart;Daniel B. Botkin

  • A systems analysis of the global boreal forest

    Herman H. Shugart;Rik Leemans;Gordon B. Bonan

  • Forest disturbance and recovery: A general review in the context of spaceborne remote sensing of impacts on aboveground biomass and canopy structure

    Steve Frolking;Michael W Palace;Michael W Palace;D B Clark;Jeffrey Q Chambers

  • HABITAT SELECTION OF BREEDING BIRDS IN AN EAST TENNESSEE DECIDUOUS FOREST

    Stanley H. Anderson;Herman H. Shugart

  • Insights into nitrogen and carbon dynamics of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi from isotopic evidence.

    Erik A. Hobbie;Stephen A. Macko;Herman H. Shugart

  • Forest Succession Models

    H. H. Shugart;D. C. West

  • Responses of net ecosystem exchanges of carbon dioxide to changes in cloudiness: Results from two North American deciduous forests

    Lianhong Gu;Jose D. Fuentes;Herman H. Shugart;Ralf M. Staebler

  • Terrestrial Ecosystems in Changing Environments

    Herman H. Shugart

  • Nitrogen cycling in the soil–plant system along a precipitation gradient in the Kalahari sands

    Julieta N. Aranibar;Luanne Otter;Stephen A. Macko;Chris J. W. Feral

  • Plant Functional Types

    T. M. Smith;H. H. Shugart;F. I. Woodward;P. J. Burton

Frequent Co-Authors

Kelly K. Caylor
Kelly K. Caylor University of California, Santa Barbara
Dean L. Urban
Dean L. Urban Duke University
Stephen A. Macko
Stephen A. Macko University of Virginia
Christelle Hély
Christelle Hély University of Montpellier
Manuel T. Lerdau
Manuel T. Lerdau University of Virginia
Andreas Huth
Andreas Huth Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Shamil Maksyutov
Shamil Maksyutov National Institute for Environmental Studies
Gordon B. Bonan
Gordon B. Bonan National Center for Atmospheric Research
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Eric S. Kasischke
Eric S. Kasischke University of Maryland, College Park

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