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Niro Higuchi

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
69
Citations
28661
World Ranking
1403
National Ranking
16

Niro Higuchi 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 Niro Higuchi sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 335 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Niro Higuchi 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 Niro Higuchi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Niro Higuchi is affiliated with the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a substantial body of work addressing forest ecology and related topics.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, Higuchi has contributed to several subfields such as:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Forestry
  • Atmospheric Science

Their work covers various main topics related to forests and plant ecology, including:

  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Agricultural and Food Sciences
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Niro Higuchi has coauthored extensively with several researchers. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Adriano José Nogueira Lima
  • Bruno Gimenez
  • Jeffrey Q. Chambers
  • Gustavo Spanner
  • Kolby Jardine

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on Amazon forest dynamics, carbon balance, and ecological processes. Notable publications include:

  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests, 2023, Nature
  • Resource availability and disturbance shape maximum tree height across the Amazon, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • The Central Amazon Biomass Sink Under Current and Future Atmospheric CO2: Predictions From Big-Leaf and Demographic Vegetation Models, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Natural recovery of skid trails: a review, 2021, Canadian Journal of Forest Research

In terms of publication venues, Higuchi's research has appeared frequently in:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests

    J. Chave;C. Andalo;S. Brown;M. A. Cairns

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

    Oliver L. Phillips;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Simon L. Lewis;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry

    I R Noble;Michael J Apps;Richard A Houghton;Daniel Lashof

  • Changes in the carbon balance of tropical forests: evidence from long-term plots

    Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Niro Higuchi;William F. Laurance

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Daniel Wood;Timothy R. Baker;James Wright

  • Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;O. L. Phillips;M. Schwarz;C. I. Czimczik

  • The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

    Yadvinder Malhi;Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Samuel Almeida

  • Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots.

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

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

  • Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

    Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje van der Heijden;Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela López-González

  • 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

  • Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001.

    O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker;T. R. Baker;L. Arroyo;N. Higuchi

  • Tree damage, allometric relationships, and above-ground net primary production in central Amazon forest

    Jeffrey Q Chambers;Joaquim dos Santos;Ralfh J Ribeiro;Niro Higuchi

  • Decomposition and carbon cycling of dead trees in tropical forests of the central Amazon.

    Jeffrey Q. Chambers;Niro Higuchi;Joshua P. Schimel;Leandro V. Ferreira

  • Variation in aboveground tree live biomass in a central Amazonian Forest: Effects of soil and topography

    Carolina V. de Castilho;William E. Magnusson;R. Nazaré O. de Araújo;Regina C.C. Luizão

  • Respiration from a tropical forest ecosystem: partitioning of sources and low carbon use efficiency

    Jeffrey Quintin Chambers;Jeffrey Quintin Chambers;Edgard Siza Tribuzy;Ligia C. Toledo;Bianca F. Crispim

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

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

  • Concerted changes in tropical forest structure and dynamics: evidence from 50 South American long-term plots

    S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;O. L. Phillips;T. R. Baker;J. Lloyd

  • An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR)

    Y. Malhi;O.L. Phillips;J. Lloyd;T. Baker

  • Ancient trees in Amazonia

    Jeffrey Q. Chambers;Jeffrey Q. Chambers;Niro Higuchi;Joshua P. Schimel

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey Q. Chambers
Jeffrey Q. Chambers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Luiz Antonio Martinelli
Luiz Antonio Martinelli Universidade de São Paulo
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University

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Best Scientists Citing Niro Higuchi

Oliver L. Phillips

Oliver L. Phillips

University of Leeds

Publications: 110

Simon L. Lewis

Simon L. Lewis

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Yadvinder Malhi

Yadvinder Malhi

University of Oxford

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Timothy R. Baker

Timothy R. Baker

University of Leeds

Publications: 82

Luiz E. O. C. Aragão

Luiz E. O. C. Aragão

National Institute for Space Research

Publications: 58

Carlos A. Quesada

Carlos A. Quesada

National Institute of Amazonian Research

Publications: 58

Philip M. Fearnside

Philip M. Fearnside

National Institute of Amazonian Research

Publications: 55

William F. Laurance

William F. Laurance

James Cook University

Publications: 55

Jérôme Chave

Jérôme Chave

Paul Sabatier University

Publications: 54

Jeffrey Q. Chambers

Jeffrey Q. Chambers

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Publications: 52

Gregory P. Asner

Gregory P. Asner

Arizona State University

Publications: 50

Michael Keller

Michael Keller

US Forest Service

Publications: 50

Ted R. Feldpausch

Ted R. Feldpausch

University of Exeter

Publications: 49

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Jon Lloyd

Imperial College London

Publications: 48

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Patrick Meir

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