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44
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7934
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5050
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546

Katharine Abernethy 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 Katharine Abernethy sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 92 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Katharine Abernethy 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 Katharine Abernethy sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Katharine Abernethy is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom and specializes in Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology. Their research spans several subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their recent publications cover topics related to forest ecosystems, biomass modeling, wildlife ecology, and environmental resource management. Notable papers include:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests (2020) published in Nature
  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission (2022) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Wild Meat Is Still on the Menu: Progress in Wild Meat Research, Policy, and Practice from 2002 to 2020 (2021) published in Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Long-term collapse in fruit availability threatens Central African forest megafauna (2020) published in Science
  • COVID-19, Systemic Crisis, and Possible Implications for the Wild Meat Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020) published in Environmental and Resource Economics

Their body of work often intersects with key topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health.

Katharine Abernethy collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Lee White, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Robin C. Whytock, Stephen Adu-Bredu, and Donald Midoko Iponga. These collaborations reflect a consistent engagement with colleagues active in related ecological and conservation sciences.

Publication venues where Katharine Abernethy regularly contributes include the African Journal of Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Remote Sensing of Environment, and Science. The diversity of these venues highlights involvement in both ecological field studies and remote sensing methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

    William J. Ripple;Katharine Abernethy;Matthew G. Betts;Guillaume Chapron

  • Role of prices and wealth in consumer demand for bushmeat in Gabon, central Africa

    David S Wilkie;Malcolm Starkey;Katharine Abernethy;Ernestine Nsame Effa

  • Extent and ecological consequences of hunting in Central African rainforests in the twenty-first century

    Katharine Abernethy;Lauren M Coad;Lauren M Coad;Gemma Taylor;Michelle Lee

  • Western gorilla diet: a synthesis from six sites.

    M Elizabeth Rogers;Katharine Abernethy;Magdalena Bermejo;Chloe Cipolletta

  • Mapping tropical forest biomass with radar and spaceborne LiDAR in Lopé National Park, Gabon: Overcoming problems of high biomass and persistent cloud

    Edward T A Mitchard;Sassan S Saatchi;Lee White;Katharine Abernethy

  • The role of Pleistocene refugia and rivers in shaping gorilla genetic diversity in central Africa.

    Nicola M Anthony;Nicola M Anthony;Mireille Johnson-Bawe;Kathryn Jane Jeffery;Kathryn Jane Jeffery;Stephen L Clifford

  • Leopard prey choice in the Congo Basin rainforest suggests exploitative competition with human bushmeat hunters

    Philipp Henschel;Luke T B Hunter;Lauren M Coad;Katharine Abernethy

  • Hordes of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx): extreme group size and seasonal male presence

    K. A. Abernethy;L. J. T. White;E. J. Wickings

  • Leopard food habits in the Lopé National Park, Gabon, Central Africa

    Philipp Henschel;Katharine Abernethy;Lee White

  • Protected Areas in Tropical Africa: Assessing Threats and Conservation Activities

    Sandra Tranquilli;Michael Abedi-Lartey;Katharine Abernethy;Fidèle Amsini

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Wild Mandrillus sphinx Are Carriers of Two Types of Lentivirus

    S. Souquiere;F. Bibollet-Ruche;D. L. Robertson;M. Makuwa

  • Wild Meat Is Still on the Menu: Progress in Wild Meat Research, Policy, and Practice from 2002 to 2020

    D.J. Ingram;L. Coad;L. Coad;E.G. Milner-Gulland;L. Parry

  • The establishment of a hybrid zone between red and sika deer (genus Cervus).

    K. Abernethy

  • Assessing Africa-Wide Pangolin Exploitation by Scaling Local Data

    Daniel J. Ingram;Lauren Coad;Lauren Coad;Lauren Coad;Katharine A. Abernethy;Fiona Maisels;Fiona Maisels

  • Environmental Issues in Central Africa

    Katharine Abernethy;Fiona Maisels;Lee J.T. White

  • Long-term collapse in fruit availability threatens Central African forest megafauna.

    Emma R Bush;Emma R Bush;Robin C Whytock;Laila Bahaa-el-din;Stéphanie Bourgeois

  • Distribution and Use of Income from Bushmeat in a Rural Village, Central Gabon

    Lauren M Coad;Lauren M Coad;Katharine Abernethy;Andrew Balmford;Andrea Manica

  • Molecular evidence for deep phylogenetic divergence in Mandrillus sphinx

    Paul T. Telfer;S. Souquière;S. L. Clifford;K. A. Abernethy

  • Social and Ecological Change over a Decade in a Village Hunting System, Central Gabon

    Lauren M Coad;Judith Schleicher;Judith Schleicher;Eleanor J Milner-Gulland;Toby R Marthews

  • Synthesising bushmeat research effort in West and Central Africa: A new regional database

    G. Taylor;J. P. W. Scharlemann;J. P. W. Scharlemann;M. Rowcliffe;N. Kümpel

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee J. T. White
Lee J. T. White University of Stirling
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Caroline E. G. Tutin
Caroline E. G. Tutin University of Stirling
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Nils Bunnefeld
Nils Bunnefeld University of Stirling
Fiona Maisels
Fiona Maisels Wildlife Conservation Society
Imma Oliveras
Imma Oliveras University of Oxford
John R. Poulsen
John R. Poulsen Duke University
Michael William Bruford
Michael William Bruford Cardiff University
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh

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