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Overview

Reuben Nilus is affiliated with the Sabah Forestry Department in Malaysia and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Ecological Modeling.

The main themes of Nilus's work include studies on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Management, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, as well as Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Nilus has published multiple papers in well-regarded scientific journals. Recent papers include:

  • "Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission" (2022), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Logged tropical forests have amplified and diverse ecosystem energetics" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Evaluating the potential of full-waveform lidar for mapping pan-tropical tree species richness" (2020), published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere" (2023), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in Nilus's research include David F. R. P. Burslem, Robert M. Ewers, Terhi Riutta, Yadvinder Malhi, and Edgar C. Turner. These co-authors have contributed significantly to various joint publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Nilus's work appears regularly in specific publication venues, with a notable number of papers published in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

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

  • 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

  • Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

    J.W. Ferry Slik;Gary Paoli;Krista L. McGuire;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • The relationship between leaf area index and microclimate in tropical forest and oil palm plantation: forest disturbance drives changes in microclimate.

    Stephen R. Hardwick;Ralf Toumi;Marion Pfeifer;Edgar C. Turner

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

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

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Topography shapes the structure, composition and function of tropical forest landscapes.

    Tommaso Jucker;Tommaso Jucker;Boris Bongalov;David Frp Burslem;Reuben Nilus

  • Environmental correlates of tree biomass, basal area, wood specific gravity and stem density gradients in Borneo's tropical forests

    J.W.F. Slik;Shin Ichiro Aiba;Francis Q. Brearley;Chuck H. Cannon;Chuck H. Cannon

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity.

    Martin Ehbrecht;Dominik Seidel;Peter Annighöfer;Holger Kreft

  • What controls tropical forest architecture: testing environmental, structural and floristic drivers

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

  • Estimating aboveground biomass in forest and oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo using ALOS PALSAR data

    Alexandra C. Morel;Sassan S. Saatchi;Yadvinder Malhi;Nicholas J. Berry

  • Area-based vs tree-centric approaches to mapping forest carbon in Southeast Asian forests from airborne laser scanning data

    David A. Coomes;Michele Dalponte;Tommaso Jucker;Gregory P. Asner

  • Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest

    Robert M. Ewers;Michael J. W. Boyle;Rosalind A. Gleave;Nichola S. Plowman

  • Long-term carbon sink in Borneo’s forests halted by drought and vulnerable to edge effects

    Lan Qie;Lan Qie;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Liana habitat associations and community structure in a Bornean lowland tropical forest

    Saara J. DeWalt;Kalan Ickes;Kalan Ickes;Reuben Nilus;Kyle E. Harms;Kyle E. Harms

  • Environmental correlates for tropical tree diversity and distribution patterns in Borneo

    J.W.F. Slik;N. Raes;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;F.Q. Brearley

  • EDAPHIC SPECIALIZATION IN TROPICAL TREES: PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES AND RESPONSES TO RECIPROCAL TRANSPLANTATION

    Jennifer L. Baltzer;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Sean C. Thomas;R. Nilus;D.F.R.P. Burslem

  • Tropical forest wood production: a cross-continental comparison

    Lindsay Banin;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez;Timothy R. Baker

  • Mapping the structure of Borneo's tropical forests across a degradation gradient

    M Pfeifer;L Kor;R Nilus;Edgar Clive Turner

  • Soils on exposed Sunda Shelf shaped biogeographic patterns in the equatorial forests of Southeast Asia

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Meredith Bastian;Meredith Bastian;Francis Q. Brearley

  • The Value of Rehabilitating Logged Rainforest for Birds

    David P. Edwards;Felicity A. Ansell;Abdul H. Ahmad;Reuben Nilus

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
David F. R. P. Burslem
David F. R. P. Burslem University of Aberdeen
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Lindsay F. Banin
Lindsay F. Banin UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Shin-ichiro Aiba
Shin-ichiro Aiba Hokkaido University
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Francis Q. Brearley
Francis Q. Brearley Manchester Metropolitan University
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford

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