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D-Index
60
Citations
16904
World Ranking
2260
National Ranking
264

Lee J. T. White 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 Lee J. T. White sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 134 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lee J. T. White 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 Lee J. T. White sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lee J. T. White is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom. Their research centers around environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecology and conservation. Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this broad field, they have contributed extensively to several subfields, including:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Their research topics cover diverse ecological and environmental dynamics, such as:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Plant and animal studies

Lee J. T. White has contributed to numerous publications, with papers appearing in prominent scientific journals. Some recent papers include:

  • "Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests," 2020, Nature
  • "Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa," 2020, Ecology
  • "Long-term collapse in fruit availability threatens Central African forest megafauna," 2020, Science
  • "Resistance of African tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent publication venues for Lee include:

  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Nature
  • Global Change Biology
  • Global Ecology and Conservation
  • African Journal of Ecology

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a number of peers, their frequent co-authors being:

  • Katharine Abernethy
  • Kathryn J. Jeffery
  • Simon L. Lewis
  • Yadvinder Malhi
  • John R. Poulsen

Best Publications

  • Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents.

    Sassan S Saatchi;Nancy L Harris;Sandra Brown;Michael A Lefsky

  • Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

    Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez;Bonaventure Sonké;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • 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

  • Catastrophic ape decline in western equatorial Africa

    Péter D. Walsh;Kate A. Abernethy;Magdalena Bermejo;René Beyers

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

    T.R. Feldpausch;L. Banin;O.L. Phillips;T.R. Baker

  • Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

    T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

  • Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • The Primate Community of the Lopé Reserve, Gabon: Diets, Responses to Fruit Scarcity, and Effects on Biomass

    Caroline E. G. Tutin;Rebecca M. Ham;Lee J. T. White;Michael J. S. Harrison

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • The number of tree species on Earth

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  • 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

  • What controls tropical forest architecture: testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

    L. Banin;L. Banin;T. R. Feldpausch;O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker

  • Biomass of rain forest mammals in the Lopé Reserve, Gabon

    Lee J. T. White

  • 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

  • Nest building by lowland gorillas in the Lopé Reserve, Gabon: Environmental influences and implications for censusing

    Caroline E. G. Tutin;Richard J. Parnell;Lee J. T. White;Michel Fernandez

  • Why Don't Chimpanzees in Gabon Crack Nuts?

    W. C. McGrew;R. M. Ham;R. M. Ham;L. J. T. White;L. J. T. White;C. E. G. Tutin

  • What It Will Take to Monitor Forest Elephant Populations

    Peter D. Walsh;Lee J. T. White

  • Group composition and diet of forest elephants, Loxodonta africana cyclotis Matschie 1900, in the Lopé Reserve, Gabon

    Lee J. T. White;Caroline E. G. Tutin;Michel Fernandez

  • Climatic and cultural changes in the west Congo Basin forests over the past 5000 years

    Richard Oslisly;Lee White;Ilham Bentaleb;Charly Favier

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Katharine Abernethy
Katharine Abernethy University of Stirling
John R. Poulsen
John R. Poulsen Duke University
Caroline E. G. Tutin
Caroline E. G. Tutin University of Stirling
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Bonaventure Sonké
Bonaventure Sonké Université de Yaoundé I
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology

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