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Joost F. Duivenvoorden

Joost F. Duivenvoorden

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
Citations
7484
World Ranking
6777
National Ranking
162

Joost F. Duivenvoorden 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 Joost F. Duivenvoorden sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 109 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joost F. Duivenvoorden 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 Joost F. Duivenvoorden sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Joost F. Duivenvoorden is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple disciplines within agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. The scientist's work primarily focuses on ecological and biological studies related to plant and animal life, with particular attention to diversity, species distribution, and ecosystem dynamics.

The main fields of study covered in their publications include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these areas, their research delves into specialized subfields such as:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Paleontology
  • Environmental Engineering

Joost F. Duivenvoorden's scientific contributions also address a range of topics, including:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior

The scientist has authored several recent papers with focus areas notably on Amazonian biodiversity and forest ecology. These include:

  • "Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Amazon tree dominance across forest strata," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora," 2023, Communications Biology
  • "One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains," 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates," 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Publications by Joost F. Duivenvoorden frequently appear in these venues:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Scientific Reports
  • Communications Biology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has collaborated extensively with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • José Júlio de Toledo
  • Rafael P. Salomão
  • Carolina V. Castilho
  • Oliver L. Phillips
  • Mariana Victória Irume

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

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

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

    L. Poorter;M. T. van der Sande;J. Thompson;E. J. M. M. Arets

  • A spatial model of tree α-diversity and tree density for the Amazon

    Hans Ter Steege;Nigel Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Hernan Castellanos

  • An analysis of the floristic composition and diversity of Amazonian forests including those of the Guiana Shield

    Hans Ter Steege;Daniel Sabatier;Hernan Castellanos;Tinde Van Andel

  • Optimizing land cover classification accuracy for change detection, a combined pixel-based and object-based approach in a mountainous area in Mexico

    Jesus Aguirre-Gutiérrez;Arie C. Seijmonsbergen;Joost F. Duivenvoorden

  • Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

    Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Distribution and ecology of parent taxa of pollen lodged within the Latin American Pollen Database

    Robert Marchant;Lucia Almeida;Hermann Behling;Juan Carlos Berrio

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Ecology. Beta diversity in tropical forests.

    Duivenvoorden Jf;Svenning Jc;Wright Sj

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Different floristic patterns of woody understorey and canopy plants in Colombian Amazonia

    Alvaro Duque;Mauricio Sánchez;Jaime Cavelier;Joost F. Duivenvoorden

  • Challenges in estimating past plant diversity from fossil pollen data: statistical assessment, problems, and possible solutions.

    Chengyu Weng;Henry Hooghiemstra;Joost F. Duivenvoorden

  • Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Latin America at 0, 6000 and 18 000 radiocarbon years ago

    R. Marchant;A. Cleef;S. P. Harrison;H. Hooghiemstra

  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Paulo I. Prado;Renato A.F.de Lima;Renato A.F.de Lima;Edwin Pos

  • Mid- to Late-Holocene pollen-based biome reconstructions for Colombia

    Robert Marchant;Hermann Behling;Juan Carlos Berrio;Antoine Cleef

  • Patterns of tree species richness in rain forests of the Middle Caqueta Area, Colombia, NW Amazonia

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  • A land-ecological study of soils, vegetation, and plant diversity in Colombian Amazonia.

    Joost F. Duivenvoorden;Johanna M. Lips

  • Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Colombia at 3000, 6000, 9000, 12 000, 15 000 and 18 000 14C yr ago: Late Quaternary tropical vegetation dynamics

    Robert Marchant;Hermann Behling;Juan-Carlos Berrio;Antoine Cleef

  • Monitoring land use and land cover change in mountain regions: An example in the Jalca grasslands of the Peruvian Andes

    Carolina Tovar;Arie C. Seijmonsbergen;Joost F. Duivenvoorden

  • A first quantitative census of vascular epiphytes in rain forests of Colombian Amazonia

    D Ana María Benavides;J M Alvaro Duque;Joost F. Duivenvoorden;Alejandra Vasco

  • Vascular plant species counts in the rain forests of the middle Caqueta area, Colombian Amazonia

    J.F. Duivenvoorden

  • A proposal for defining the geographical boundaries of Amazonia

    Hugh D. Eva;Otto Huber;Frédéric Achard;Henrik Balslev

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry Hooghiemstra
Henry Hooghiemstra University of Amsterdam
Henrik Balslev
Henrik Balslev Aarhus University
Alvaro Duque
Alvaro Duque National University of Colombia
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Daniel Sabatier
Daniel Sabatier University of Montpellier
Kyle G. Dexter
Kyle G. Dexter University of Edinburgh
Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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