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John P. Caspersen

John P. Caspersen

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
7566
World Ranking
7758
National Ranking
473

John P. Caspersen 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 John P. Caspersen sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 98 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John P. Caspersen 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 John P. Caspersen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

John P. Caspersen is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with specific expertise in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science, Mechanics of Materials, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics in forest ecology and management, including Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Fire effects on ecosystems, and Forest Biomass Utilization and Management.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • The Forestry Chronicle
  • Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent publications encompass a variety of topics related to forest science and ecology:

  • The changing culture of silviculture, 2021, Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research
  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Opportunities and limitations of thinning to increase resistance and resilience of trees and forests to global change, 2022, Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research
  • Tree Foliage is a Methane Sink in Upland Temperate Forests, 2022, Ecosystems
  • Impacts of Climatic Variation on the Growth of Black Spruce Across the Forest-Tundra Ecotone: Positive Effects of Warm Growing Seasons and Heat Waves Are Offset by Late Spring Frosts, 2020, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Collaborators frequently working with John P. Caspersen include:

  • Guillaume Moreau
  • Alexis Achim
  • Malcolm J.L. Cecil-Cockwell
  • Steve Bédard
  • Adam Gorgolewski

Best Publications

  • Consistent land- and atmosphere-based U.S. carbon sink estimates.

    S. W. Pacala;G. C. Hurtt;D. Baker;P. Peylin

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

    Georges Kunstler;Georges Kunstler;Daniel Falster;David A. Coomes;Francis Hui

  • Contributions of Land-Use History to Carbon Accumulation in U.S. Forests

    John P. Caspersen;Stephen W. Pacala;Jennifer C. Jenkins;George C. Hurtt

  • Spatial and temporal variation of biomass in a tropical forest: results from a large census plot in Panama

    Jerome Chave;Jerome Chave;Richard S. Condit;Suzanne Lao;John P. Caspersen;John P. Caspersen

  • Carbon cycling under 300 years of land use change: Importance of the secondary vegetation sink

    Elena Shevliakova;Stephen Wilson Pacala;Sergey Malyshev;George C. Hurtt

  • Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes.

    Tommaso Jucker;John Caspersen;Jérôme Chave;Cécile Antin;Cécile Antin

  • Projecting the future of the U.S. carbon sink

    G. C. Hurtt;S. W. Pacala;Paul R Moorcroft;J. Caspersen

  • Successional diversity and forest ecosystem function

    John P. Caspersen;Stephen Wilson Pacala

  • Seedling recruitment in a northern temperate forest: the relative importance of supply and establishment limitation

    John P Caspersen;Megan Saprunoff

  • Interspecific variation in sapling mortality in relation to growth and soil moisture

    John P. Caspersen;Richard K. Kobe

  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database

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  • The changing culture of silviculture

    Alexis Achim;Guillaume Moreau;Nicholas C Coops;Jodi N Axelson

  • Removing bias from LiDAR-based estimates of canopy height: Accounting for the effects of pulse density and footprint size

    Jean-Romain Roussel;John Peter Caspersen;Martin Béland;Sean Thomas

  • TREE MORTALITY FOLLOWING PARTIAL HARVESTS IS DETERMINED BY SKIDDING PROXIMITY

    H. C. Thorpe;S. C. Thomas;J. P. Caspersen

  • Opportunities and limitations of thinning to increase resistance and resilience of trees and forests to global change

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  • Quantifying the influence of live crown ratio on the mechanical properties of clear wood

    Adam Kuprevicius;David Auty;Alexis Achim;John P. Caspersen

  • Human‐induced changes in US biogenic volatile organic compound emissions: evidence from long‐term forest inventory data

    Drew W. Purves;John P. Caspersen;Paul R. Moorcroft;George C. Hurtt

  • Floral free fall in the Swiss lowlands: environmental determinants of local plant extinction in a peri-urban landscape

    Ivana Stehlik;John P. Caspersen;Lea Wirth;Rolf Holderegger

  • Residual-tree growth responses to partial stand harvest in the black spruce (Picea mariana) boreal forestThis article is one of a selection of papers published in the Special Forum IUFRO 1.05 Uneven-Aged Silvicultural Research Group Conference on Natural Disturbance-Based Silviculture: Managing for Complexity.

    H. C. Thorpe;S. C. Thomas;J. P. Caspersen

  • Region merging using local spectral angle thresholds: A more accurate method for hybrid segmentation of remote sensing images

    Jian Yang;Yuhong He;John Caspersen

  • Snag dynamics in partially harvested and unmanaged northern hardwood forests

    Mark C Vanderwel;John P Caspersen;Murray E Woods

  • LARGE ONTOGENETIC DECLINES IN INTRA‐CROWN LEAF AREA INDEX IN TWO TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS TREE SPECIES

    C. A. Nock;J. P. Caspersen;S. C. Thomas

  • The North American carbon budget past and present

    Stephen Pacala;Richard A. Birdsey;Scott D. Bridgham;Richard T. Conant

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen W. Pacala
Stephen W. Pacala Princeton University
Sean C. Thomas
Sean C. Thomas University of Toronto
Nathan Basiliko
Nathan Basiliko Laurentian University
George C. Hurtt
George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park
Elena Shevliakova
Elena Shevliakova Princeton University
David A. Coomes
David A. Coomes University of Cambridge
Alexis Achim
Alexis Achim Université Laval
Richard A. Houghton
Richard A. Houghton Woods Hole Research Center
Berrien Moore
Berrien Moore University of Oklahoma
Paul Treitz
Paul Treitz Queen's University

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