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Miguel D. Mahecha

Miguel D. Mahecha

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
61
Citations
23282
World Ranking
2700
National Ranking
177

Miguel D. Mahecha publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miguel D. Mahecha sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 220 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Miguel D. Mahecha D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miguel D. Mahecha sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Miguel D. Mahecha is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and has a research focus within the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Artificial Intelligence.

The researcher's primary topics of investigation include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Plant and animal studies.

They have co-authored extensively with several colleagues, notably:

  • Markus Reichstein
  • Guido Kraemer
  • Gustau Camps-Valls
  • Mirco Migliavacca
  • David Montero

Miguel D. Mahecha's recent papers cover diverse topics and have appeared in prominent scientific journals. Some of these publications include:

  • "A typology of compound weather and climate events", 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere", 2021, Science Advances
  • "A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements", 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation", 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function", 2021, Nature

The venues where Miguel D. Mahecha frequently publishes include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • The "international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences

Best Publications

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function

    Sandra Myrna Díaz;Jens Kattge;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Ian J. Wright

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

    Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Philippe Ciais;Dorothea Frank

  • A typology of compound weather and climate events

    Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Olivia Martius;Olivia Martius;Seth Westra;Emanuele Bevacqua

  • Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

    Dorothe A. Frank;Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Kirsten Thonicke

  • Inferring causation from time series in Earth system sciences

    Jakob Runge;Jakob Runge;Sebastian Bathiany;Erik Bollt;Gustau Camps-Valls

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere.

    Gustau Camps-Valls;Manuel Campos-Taberner;Álvaro Moreno-Martínez;Álvaro Moreno-Martínez;Sophia Walther

  • Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level

    Miguel D. Mahecha;Markus Reichstein;Nuno Carvalhais;Gitta Lasslop

  • Trend Change Detection in NDVI Time Series: Effects of Inter-Annual Variability and Methodology

    Matthias Forkel;Nuno Carvalhais;Jan Verbesselt;Miguel D. Mahecha

  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

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  • Linking plant and ecosystem functional biogeography

    Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jens Kattge

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications ─ confronting product characteristics with user requirements

    Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

  • A framework for benchmarking land models

    Yiqi Luo;J. Randerson;G. Abramowitz;C. Bacour

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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  • Impact of large‐scale climate extremes on biospheric carbon fluxes: An intercomparison based on MsTMIP data

    Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anna M. Michalak;Christopher Schwalm;Miguel D. Mahecha

  • A few extreme events dominate global interannual variability in gross primary production

    Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Miguel D Mahecha;Jannis von Buttlar;Stefan Harmeling

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

    Mirco Migliavacca;Talie Musavi;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jacob A. Nelson

  • Drought, Heat, and the Carbon Cycle: a Review

    Sebastian Sippel;Markus Reichstein;Xuanlong Ma;Miguel D. Mahecha

  • Impacts of droughts and extreme-temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones

    Jannis von Buttlar;Jannis von Buttlar;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anja Rammig;Sebastian Sippel

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications

    Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

  • Impact of Large-Scale Climate Extremes on Biospheric Carbon Fluxes: An Intercomparison Based on MsTMIP Data

    J. Zscheischler;A. M. Michalak;M. D. Mahecha;M. Reichstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jakob Zscheischler
Jakob Zscheischler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Nuno Carvalhais
Nuno Carvalhais Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Martin Jung
Martin Jung Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Anja Rammig
Anja Rammig Technical University of Munich
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Joachim Denzler
Joachim Denzler Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University

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