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2026

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115
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World Ranking
128
National Ranking
7

Jérôme Chave 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 Jérôme Chave sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 331 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jérôme Chave 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 Jérôme Chave sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 115 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in France Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jérôme Chave is affiliated with Paul Sabatier University in France and has an extensive publication record primarily in environmental sciences and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research contributions cover various subfields, including global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's work addresses topics such as forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, remote sensing in agriculture, plant and animal studies, and species distribution and climate change.

Among notable recent publications are:

  • Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel (2020, Nature)
  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission (2022, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests (2020, Science)
  • The erosion of biodiversity and biomass in the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot (2020, Nature Communications)

Frequent co-authors in their research include Philippe Ciais, Sassan Saatchi, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, and Jean-Pierre Wigneron.

Jérôme Chave has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Change Biology, and Earth System Science Data.

The researcher's book publications include "Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol" (2021, Ghent University) and "The World Atlas of Trees and Forests" (2022, Princeton University Press).

In 2014, Jérôme Chave became a member of Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

  • Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests

    J. Chave;C. Andalo;S. Brown;M. A. Cairns

  • Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

    Jerome Chave;David Coomes;Steven Jansen;Simon L. Lewis

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function

    Sandra Myrna Díaz;Jens Kattge;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Ian J. Wright

  • Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

    Jérôme Chave;Maxime Réjou‐Méchain;Alberto Búrquez;Emmanuel Chidumayo

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

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

  • Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forest Trees

    Richard Condit;Nigel Pitman;Egbert G. Leigh;Jérôme Chave

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

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

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Neutral theory and community ecology

    J. Chave

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates.

    Jerome Chave;Richard S. Condit;Salomo´n Aguilar;Andres Hernandez

  • Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2456 Neotropical tree species.

    Jérôme Chave;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Timothy R. Baker;Tomás A. Easdale

  • Rare species support vulnerable functions in high-diversity ecosystems

    David Mouillot;David Mouillot;David R. Bellwood;Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto;Jerome Chave

  • The Ecology and Evolution of Seed Dispersal: A Theoretical Perspective

    Simon Asher Levin;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Ran Nathan;Jérôme Chave

  • Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia

    Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Oliver L. Phillips;Jerome Chave

  • The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Daniel Wood;Timothy R. Baker;James Wright

  • The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

    Yadvinder Malhi;Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Samuel Almeida

  • Comparing classical community models: theoretical consequences for patterns of diversity.

    Jérôme Chave;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Simon Asher Levin

  • Global wood density database

    AE Zanne;G Lopez-Gonzalez;DA Coomes;J Ilic

  • The problem of pattern and scale in ecology: what have we learned in 20 years?

    Jérôme Chave

  • 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
Christopher Baraloto
Christopher Baraloto Florida International University
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre

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