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D-Index
74
Citations
37602
World Ranking
1088
National Ranking
406

Nathan G. Swenson 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 Nathan G. Swenson sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 210 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Nathan G. Swenson 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 Nathan G. Swenson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Nathan G. Swenson is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research primarily centers on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and ecology.

The main topics addressed in Swenson's work include:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Remote sensing in agriculture
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis

Swenson has contributed to research published in several scientific venues with notable frequency, including:

  • Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecology Letters

Selected recent papers authored by Swenson are:

  • "Alternative designs and tropical tree seedling growth performance landscapes," 2020, Ecology
  • "Trade-offs in above- and below-ground biomass allocation influencing seedling growth in a tropical forest," 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • "Topography and Traits Modulate Tree Performance and Drought Response in a Tropical Forest," 2020, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • "Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait-climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities," 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Intraspecific variation in tree growth responses to neighbourhood composition and seasonal drought in a tropical forest," 2020, Journal of Ecology

Frequent collaborators with whom Swenson has published extensively include:

  • María Natalia Umaña
  • Min Cao
  • Jie Yang
  • Samantha J. Worthy
  • Vanessa E. Rubio

In 2014, Swenson was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

    Jerome Chave;David Coomes;Steven Jansen;Simon L. Lewis

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

  • Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

    Marti J. Anderson;Thomas O. Crist;Jonathan M. Chase;Mark Vellend

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

    Amy E. Zanne;David C. Tank;William K. Cornwell;Jonathan M. Eastman

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano

  • Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling and ecological response to global change

    James Elser;W. F. Fagan;A. J. Kerkhoff;N. G. Swenson

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

    Georges Kunstler;Georges Kunstler;Daniel Falster;David A. Coomes;Francis Hui

  • Global patterns in plant height

    Angela T. Moles;David I. Warton;Laura Warman;Nathan G. Swenson

  • Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama

    W. John Kress;David L. Erickson;F. Andrew Jones;Nathan G. Swenson

  • Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders

  • Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

    Robin L. Chazdon;Robin L. Chazdon;Eben N. Broadbent;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers

  • Global wood density database

    AE Zanne;G Lopez-Gonzalez;DA Coomes;J Ilic

  • Functional and Phylogenetic Ecology in R

    Nathan G. Swenson

  • Ecological and evolutionary determinants of a key plant functional trait: wood density and its community-wide variation across latitude and elevation

    Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist

  • Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

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

  • Clustering of Contact Zones, Hybrid Zones, and Phylogeographic Breaks in North America

    Nathan G. Swenson;Daniel J. Howard

  • Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

    Angela T. Moles;Sarah E. Perkins;Shawn W. Laffan;Habacuc Flores-Moreno

  • THE PROBLEM AND PROMISE OF SCALE DEPENDENCY IN COMMUNITY PHYLOGENETICS

    Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist;Jason Pither;Jill Thompson

  • Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

    Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
María Uriarte
María Uriarte Columbia University
Jess K. Zimmerman
Jess K. Zimmerman University of Puerto Rico
Jill Thompson
Jill Thompson University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Min Cao
Min Cao Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Robert Muscarella
Robert Muscarella Uppsala University
James C. Stegen
James C. Stegen Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Amy E. Zanne
Amy E. Zanne University of Miami
W. John Kress
W. John Kress Smithsonian Institution
Keping Ma
Keping Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences

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