I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke

I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke 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 I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species

  Richard S. Condit;Peter S. Ashton;Patrick J. Baker;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin

  1725
  Citations

• 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

  651
  Citations

• Ecological information from spatial patterns of plants: insights from point process theory

  Richard Law;Janine Barbel Illian;David Francis Robert Philip Burslem;Georg Gratzer

  542
  Citations

• An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

  J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  440
  Citations

• 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

  415
  Citations

• 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

  381
  Citations

• Species Associations in a Heterogeneous Sri Lankan Dipterocarp Forest

  Thorsten Wiegand;Savithri Gunatilleke;Nimal Gunatilleke

  373
  Citations

• The importance of demographic niches to tree diversity.

  Richard Condit;Richard Condit;Peter Ashton;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin;H. S. Dattaraja

  327
  Citations

• 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

  327
  Citations

• 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

  311
  Citations

• Analyzing the spatial structure of a Sri Lankan tree species with multiple scales of clustering.

  Thorsten Wiegand;Savitri Gunatilleke;Nimal Gunatilleke;Toshinori Okuda

  295
  Citations

• Restoration pathways for rain forest in southwest Sri Lanka: a review of concepts and models

  Mark S Ashton;C.V.S Gunatilleke;B.M.P Singhakumara;I.A.U.N Gunatilleke

  274
  Citations

• Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

  Jérôme Chave;Richard Condit;Helene C Muller-Landau;Sean C Thomas

  266
  Citations

• Nonrandom Processes Maintain Diversity in Tropical Forests

  Christopher Wills;Kyle E. Harms;Richard Condit;David King

  254
  Citations

• 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

  232
  Citations

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

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

  229
  Citations

• A brief overview of the Western Ghats - Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot

  Nihara R. Gunawardene;A. E. Dulip Daniels;I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke;C. V. S. Gunatilleke

  229
  Citations

• Species-habitat associations in a Sri Lankan dipterocarp forest

  C. V. S. Gunatilleke;I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke;S. Esufali;K. E. Harms

  203
  Citations

• Restoration of a Sri Lankan rainforest : using Caribbean pine Pinus caribaea as a nurse for establishing late-successional tree species

  P. M. S. Ashton;S. Gamage;I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke;C. V. S. Gunatilleke

  202
  Citations

• The Effects of Selective Logging on Inbreeding in Shorea megistophylla (Dipterocarpaceae) from Sri Lanka

  Darlyne A. Murawski;I.A.U. Nimal Gunatilleke;Kamaljit S. Bawa

  201
  Citations