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D-Index
31
Citations
4869
World Ranking
8198
National Ranking
2719

Rakan A. Zahawi 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 Rakan A. Zahawi sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 88 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rakan A. Zahawi 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 Rakan A. Zahawi sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 31 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Rakan A. Zahawi is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a specific emphasis on fields such as nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecology, and ecological modeling.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Frequently published work appears in the following venues:

  • Biotropica
  • Restoration Ecology
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biological Conservation

Rakan A. Zahawi has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including Karen D. Holl, Leland K. Werden, Juan Abel Rosales, J. Leighton Reid, and Federico Oviedo-Brenes.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Proximity and abundance of mother trees affects recruitment patterns in a long-term tropical forest restoration study, 2021, Ecography
  • How feasible are global forest restoration commitments?, 2020, Conservation Letters
  • Applied nucleation facilitates tropical forest recovery: Lessons learned from a 15-year study, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Ex situ conservation of threatened plant species in island biodiversity hotspots: A case study from Hawai'i, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Effects of dispersal- and niche-based factors on tree recruitment in tropical wet forest restoration, 2020, Ecological Applications

Best Publications

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • Using lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor tropical forest recovery

    Rakan A. Zahawi;Jonathan P. Dandois;Karen D. Holl;Dana Nadwodny

  • Direct seeding of late-successional trees to restore tropical montane forest

    R.J. Cole;K.D. Holl;C.L. Keene;R.A. Zahawi

  • Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

    C.E. Thimothy Paine;Lucy Amissah;Lucy Amissah;Harald Auge;Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto

  • Testing applied nucleation as a strategy to facilitate tropical forest recovery

    Rakan A. Zahawi;Karen D. Holl;Rebecca J. Cole;J. Leighton Reid

  • Hidden Costs of Passive Restoration

    Rakan A. Zahawi;John L. Reid;Karen D. Holl

  • Tropical Forest Restoration: Tree Islands As Recruitment Foci In Degraded Lands Of Honduras

    R. A. Zahawi;C. K. Augspurger

  • Planting Seedlings in Tree Islands Versus Plantations as a Large-Scale Tropical Forest Restoration Strategy

    Karen D. Holl;Rakan A. Zahawi;Rebecca J. Cole;Rebecca Ostertag

  • Seed rain under tree islands planted to restore degraded lands in a tropical agricultural landscape.

    R. J. Cole;K. D. Holl;R. A. Zahawi

  • How feasible are global forest restoration commitments

    Matthew E. Fagan;J. Leighton Reid;Margaret B. Holland;Justin G. Drew

  • Early Plant Succession in Abandoned Pastures in Ecuador1

    R. A. Zahawi;C. K. Augspurger

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

  • Positive site selection bias in meta-analyses comparing natural regeneration to active forest restoration

    J. Leighton Reid;Matthew E. Fagan;Rakan A. Zahawi

  • Establishment and Growth of Living Fence Species: An Overlooked Tool for the Restoration of Degraded Areas in the Tropics

    R. A. Zahawi

  • Seed dispersal limitations shift over time in tropical forest restoration

    J. Leighton Reid;J. Leighton Reid;Karen D. Holl;Rakan A. Zahawi

  • Litterfall Dynamics Under Different Tropical Forest Restoration Strategies in Costa Rica

    Danielle Celentano;Rakan A. Zahawi;Bryan Finegan;Rebecca Ostertag

  • Local tropical forest restoration strategies affect tree recruitment more strongly than does landscape forest cover

    Karen D. Holl;John Leighton Reid;José Miguel Chaves‐Fallas;Federico Oviedo‐Brenes

  • Applied nucleation facilitates tropical forest recovery: Lessons learned from a 15-year study

    Karen D. Holl;J. Leighton Reid;J. Leighton Reid;Rebecca J. Cole;Federico Oviedo‐Brenes

  • 'Nucleating’ succession in recovering neotropical wet forests: The legacy of remnant trees

    Justin R. Schlawin;R.A. Zahawi

  • The ephemerality of secondary forests in southern Costa Rica

    J. Leighton Reid;Matthew E. Fagan;James Lucas;Joshua Slaughter

  • Factors explaining variability in woody above-ground biomass accumulation in restored tropical forest

    Karen D. Holl;Rakan A. Zahawi

  • Sixty-Seven Years of Land-Use Change in Southern Costa Rica.

    Rakan A. Zahawi;Guillermo Duran;Urs Kormann

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen D. Holl
Karen D. Holl University of California, Santa Cruz
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Serge A. Wich
Serge A. Wich Liverpool John Moores University
Patrick A. Jansen
Patrick A. Jansen Wageningen University & Research
Patricia Balvanera
Patricia Balvanera National Autonomous University of Mexico
Lourens Poorter
Lourens Poorter Wageningen University & Research
Richard Field
Richard Field University of Nottingham
Rhett D. Harrison
Rhett D. Harrison World Agroforestry, Zambia
Robert K. Colwell
Robert K. Colwell University of Connecticut
Campbell O. Webb
Campbell O. Webb Harvard University

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