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Oliver L. Phillips

Oliver L. Phillips

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Ecology and Evolution
UK
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
128
Citations
77807
World Ranking
73
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Oliver L. Phillips is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology among other related subfields.

The main topics explored by Oliver L. Phillips include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Oliver L. Phillips has published extensively in several scientific venues. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests", 2020, Nature
  • "Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission", 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "The enduring world forest carbon sink", 2024, Nature
  • "Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential", 2023, Nature
  • "Tropical tree mortality has increased with rising atmospheric water stress", 2022, Nature

Oliver L. Phillips frequently collaborates with several co-authors in their research work including:

  • Beatriz Schwantes Marimon
  • Ted R. Feldpausch
  • Ben Hur Marimon
  • Timothy R. Baker
  • Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado

They have also contributed to book publications, notably with Ghent University, publishing the work titled "Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol" in 2021.

Among their honors, Oliver L. Phillips was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Extinction risk from climate change

    Chris D. Thomas;Alison Cameron;Rhys E. Green;Rhys E. Green;Michel Bakkenes

  • A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests

    Yude Pan;Richard A. Birdsey;Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Richard Houghton

  • Biodiversity Conservation: Uncertainty in predictions of extinction risk/Effects of changes in climate and land use/Climate change and extinction risk (reply).

    Chris D. Thomas;Stephen E. Williams;Alison Cameron;Rhys E. Green

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

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

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • The 2010 Amazon Drought

    Simon L. Lewis;Paulo M. Brando;Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje M. F. van der Heijden

  • The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: I. Statistical hypotheses tests with a new quantitative technique

    Oliver Phillips;Alwyn H. Gentry

  • 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

  • Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

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

  • The Structure, Distribution, and Biomass of the World's Forests

    Yude Pan;Richard A. Birdsey;Oliver L. Phillips;Robert B. Jackson

  • Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

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

  • 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

  • 21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions

    Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Liana O. Anderson;Marisa G. Fonseca;Thais M. Rosan

  • Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia

    Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Oliver L. Phillips;Jerome Chave

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

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

  • Quantitative Ethnobotany and Amazonian Conservation

    O. Phillips;A.H. Gentry;C. Reynel;P. Wilkin

  • 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

  • An integrated pan‐tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

    Valerio Avitabile;Martin Herold;Gerard B.M. Heuvelink;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests

    O. L. Phillips;R. V. Martínez;L. Arroyo;T. R. Baker

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • 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

Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Carlos A. Quesada
Carlos A. Quesada National Institute of Amazonian Research
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Roel J. W. Brienen
Roel J. W. Brienen University of Leeds
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History

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