2026 Jérôme Chave: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	115	130	123	7	7	331	66827

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

4479
Citations
Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

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

3584
Citations
The global spectrum of plant form and function

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

3228
Citations
Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

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

3158
Citations
TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

2885
Citations
Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

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

2086
Citations
Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forest Trees

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

1731
Citations
Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

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

1579
Citations
Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

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

1396
Citations
Neutral theory and community ecology

J. Chave

1300
Citations
Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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

1268
Citations
Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates.

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

1150
Citations
Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2456 Neotropical tree species.

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

1075
Citations
Rare species support vulnerable functions in high-diversity ecosystems

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

1057
Citations
The Ecology and Evolution of Seed Dispersal: A Theoretical Perspective

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

973
Citations
Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia

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

835
Citations
The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests

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

803
Citations
The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

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

690
Citations
Comparing classical community models: theoretical consequences for patterns of diversity.

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

676
Citations
Global wood density database

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

672
Citations
The problem of pattern and scale in ecology: what have we learned in 20 years?

Jérôme Chave

477
Citations
Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds

Christopher Baraloto Florida International University

Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds

Simon L. Lewis University College London

Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford

Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter

William F. Laurance James Cook University

Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center

John Terborgh Duke University

Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre

External Links

Personal website of Jérôme Chave

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