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106
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202
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87

John Terborgh 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 Terborgh sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 250 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John Terborgh 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 Terborgh sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 106 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 United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 1992 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1989 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1987 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John Terborgh is a researcher affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology.

The main topics of Terborgh's research include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Forest ecology and management

Terborgh has published multiple recent papers in several well-known scientific venues. These papers include:

  • Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa (2020, Ecology)
  • Amazon tree dominance across forest strata (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests (2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia (2023, Science)
  • Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora (2023, Communications Biology)

Frequent publication venues for Terborgh's work include:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Communications Biology
  • Ecology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Journal of Biogeography

Terborgh has collaborated frequently with fellow researchers, with notable co-authors including:

  • Oliver L. Phillips
  • Nigel C. A. Pitman
  • Ted R. Feldpausch
  • Beatriz Schwantes Marimon
  • Ben Hur Marimon

Over the course of their career, Terborgh has received recognition through several awards and fellowships, including:

  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2012
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1992
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1989
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1984
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1981

Best Publications

  • Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

    James A. Estes;John Terborgh;Justin S. Brashares;Mary E. Power

  • Five New World primates

    John Terborgh

  • Five New World Primates: A Study in Comparative Ecology

    John Terborgh

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

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

  • Ecological Meltdown in Predator-Free Forest Fragments

    John Terborgh;Lawrence Lopez;Percy Nuñez;Madhu Rao;Madhu Rao

  • The Phenology of Tropical Forests: Adaptive Significance and Consequences for Primary Consumers*

    Carel P. van Schaik;John W. Terborgh;S. Joseph Wright

  • 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

  • Requiem for Nature

    John Terborgh

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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

  • Collapse of the world's largest herbivores.

    William J Ripple;Thomas M Newsome;Thomas M Newsome;Christopher Wolf;Rodolfo Dirzo

  • Structure and Organization of an Amazonian Forest Bird Community

    John Terborgh;Scott K. Robinson;Theodore A. Parker;Charles A. Munn

  • Where Have All the Birds Gone? Essays on the Biology and Conservation of Birds That Migrate to the American Tropics

    John Terborgh

  • Oddity and the ‘confusion effect’ in predation

    Laurie Landeau;John Terborgh

  • Bird Species Diversity on an Andean Elevational Gradient

    John Terborgh

  • DOMINANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF TREE SPECIES IN UPPER AMAZONIAN TERRA FIRME FORESTS

    Nigel C. A. Pitman;John W. Terborgh;Miles R. Silman;V Percy Nunez

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

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

  • Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;O. L. Phillips;M. Schwarz;C. I. Czimczik

  • Preservation of Natural Diversity: The Problem of Extinction Prone Species

    John Terborgh

  • 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

Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre

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