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Robert G. Haight

Robert G. Haight

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
48
Citations
9856
World Ranking
4201
National Ranking
1462

Robert G. Haight 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 Robert G. Haight sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 159 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert G. Haight 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 Robert G. Haight sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Robert G. Haight is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to subfields such as ecology, global and planetary change, insect science, economics and econometrics, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics covered in their work include forest insect ecology and management, forest management and policy, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, economic and environmental valuation, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, species distribution and climate change, and fish ecology and management studies.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Denys Yemshanov, Nicholas B. D. Phelps, Frank Koch, İ. Esra Büyüktahtakın, and Amy C. Kinsley.

Robert G. Haight has published extensively in several journals, with notable repeated contributions to:

  • Ecological Economics
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Natural Resource Modeling
  • Forests

Selected recent papers by Robert G. Haight demonstrate a focus on the surveillance and management of forest insect infestations, particularly invasive species:

  • "Risk-averse multi-stage stochastic optimization for surveillance and operations planning of a forest insect infestation" (2021, European Journal of Operational Research)
  • "Optimizing surveillance and management of emerald ash borer in urban environments" (2020, Natural Resource Modeling)
  • "Optimal invasive species surveillance in the real world: practical advances from research" (2020, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences)
  • "Tree cover and property values in the United States: A national meta-analysis" (2022, Ecological Economics)
  • "A Multistage Stochastic Programming Approach to the Optimal Surveillance and Control of the Emerald Ash Borer in Cities" (2020, INFORMS journal on computing)

Best Publications

  • A Regional Landscape Analysis and Prediction of Favorable Gray Wolf Habitat in the Northern Great Lakes Region

    David J. Mladenoff;Theodore A. Sickley;Robert G. Haight;Adrian P. Wydeven

  • Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns

    Stephen Polasky;Erik Nelson;Jeff Camm;Blair Csuti

  • Economic impacts of non-native forest insects in the continental United States.

    Juliann E. Aukema;Brian Leung;Kent Kovacs;Corey Chivers

  • Cost of potential emerald ash borer damage in U.S communities, 2009-2019

    Kent F. Kovacs;Robert G. Haight;Deborah G. McCullough;Rodrigo J. Mercader

  • The value of urban tree cover: A hedonic property price model in Ramsey and Dakota Counties, Minnesota, USA

    Heather Sander;Stephen Polasky;Robert G. Haight

  • Optimal detection and control strategies for invasive species management

    Shefali V. Mehta;Robert G. Haight;Frances R. Homans;Stephen Polasky

  • Population harvesting: demographic models of fish, forest, and animal resources.

    Wayne Marcus Getz;Robert G. Haight

  • Estimating the economic value of cultural ecosystem services in an urbanizing area using hedonic pricing.

    Heather A. Sander;Robert G. Haight

  • Optimal surveillance and eradication of invasive species in heterogeneous landscapes.

    Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell;Robert G. Haight;Ludek Berec;John M. Kean

  • Cost of potential emerald ash borer damage in U.S

    Kent F. Kovacs;Robert G. Haight;Andrew M. Liebhold;Deborah G. McCullough

  • Assessing fire risk in the wildland-urban interface

    Robert G. Haight;David T. Cleland;Roger B. Hammer;Volker C. Radeloff

  • Operations Research challenges in forestry: 33 open problems

    Mikael Rönnqvist;Mikael Rönnqvist;Sophie D'Amours;Andrés Weintraub;Alejandro Jofré

  • Stochastic Price Models and Optimal Tree Cutting: Results for Loblolly Pine

    Robert G. Haight;Thomas P. Holmes

  • Optimizing any-aged management of mixed-species stands: II. effects of decision criteria

    Robert G. Haight;Robert A. Monserud

  • An Integer Optimization Approach to a Probabilistic Reserve Site Selection Problem

    Robert G. Haight;Charles S. Revelle;Stephanie A. Snyder

  • Causes and Implications of Species Restoration in Altered Ecosystems

    David J. Mladenoff;Robert G. Haight;Theodore A. Sickley;Adrian P. Wydeven

  • Not Getting Burned: The Importance of Fire Prevention in Forest Management

    Gregory S. Amacher;Arun S. Malik;Robert G. Haight

  • Deploying wildland fire suppression resources with a scenario-based standard response model

    Robert G. Haight;Jeremy S. Fried

  • Evaluating the efficiency of even-aged and uneven-aged stand management

    Robert G. Haight

  • The influence of satellite populations of emerald ash borer on projected economic costs in U.S. communities, 2010-2020.

    Kent F. Kovacs;Rodrigo J. Mercader;Robert G. Haight;Nathan W. Siegert

  • Optimizing the sequence of diameter distributions and selection harvests for uneven-aged stand management

    Robert G. Haight;J. Douglas Brodie;Darius M. Adams

  • Comparing Extinction Risk and Economic Cost in Wildlife Conservation Planning

    Robert G. Haight

  • Modeling Disjunct Gray Wolf Populations in Semi-Wild Landscapes

    Robert G. Haight;David J. Mladenoff;Adrian P. Wydeven

  • Population Harvesting-Demographic Models of Fish, Forest, and Animal Resources.

    P. Rothery;Wayne M. Getz;Robert G. Haight

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
Robert C. Venette
Robert C. Venette University of Minnesota
Deborah G. McCullough
Deborah G. McCullough Michigan State University
Charles ReVelle
Charles ReVelle Johns Hopkins University
Andrew M. Liebhold
Andrew M. Liebhold Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Wayne M. Getz
Wayne M. Getz University of California, Berkeley
Robert A. Monserud
Robert A. Monserud US Forest Service
Thomas P. Holmes
Thomas P. Holmes United States Department of Agriculture
David J. Mladenoff
David J. Mladenoff University of Wisconsin–Madison
James R. Miller
James R. Miller University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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