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Robert M. Kooyman

Robert M. Kooyman

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
5279
World Ranking
8011
National Ranking
627

Robert M. Kooyman 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 M. Kooyman sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 57 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Robert M. Kooyman 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 M. Kooyman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 32 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Robert M. Kooyman is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their research spans multiple areas within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing on topics such as ecology, climate change, and plant and animal studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • Impact of 2019-2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging and associated forest management, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Leaf manganese concentrations as a tool to assess belowground plant functioning in phosphorus-impoverished environments, 2020, Plant and Soil
  • Protect Australia's Gondwana Rainforests, 2020, Science
  • AusTraits - a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The primary research fields include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Subfields of study reflect an interdisciplinary approach with focus areas such as:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology

The researcher has concentrated on several main topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Landslides and related hazards

Kooyman's frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter Wilf
  • James Watson
  • Michelle Ward
  • David B. Lindenmayer
  • Ian J. Wright

Their work has been published in several key journals, most notably:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • New Phytologist
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Plant and Soil
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

    Georges Kunstler;Georges Kunstler;Daniel Falster;David A. Coomes;Francis Hui

  • Global climatic drivers of leaf size.

    Ian J. Wright;Ning Dong;Ning Dong;Vincent Maire;Vincent Maire;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

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

  • Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat

    Michelle Ward;Ayesha I. T. Tulloch;Ayesha I. T. Tulloch;James Q. Radford;Brooke A. Williams

  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora.

    Daniel Falster;Rachael Gallagher;Rachael Gallagher;Elizabeth H. Wenk;Ian J. Wright

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

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

  • Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages

    William K. Cornwell;William K. Cornwell;Mark Westoby;Daniel S. Falster;Richard G. FitzJohn;Richard G. FitzJohn

  • Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests

    Robert Kooyman;Maurizio Rossetto;William Cornwell;William Cornwell;Mark Westoby

  • A Comparison of Techniques Used in a Survey of the Ground-dwelling and Arboreal Mammals in Forests in North-eastern New South Wales

    P. C. Catling;R. J. Burt;R. Kooyman

  • Paleo-Antarctic rainforest into the modern Old World tropics: the rich past and threatened future of the "southern wet forest survivors"

    Robert M. Kooyman;Robert M. Kooyman;Peter Wilf;Viviana Dora Barreda;Raymond J. Carpenter

  • The global abundance of tree palms

    Robert Muscarella;Robert Muscarella;Thaise Emilio;Thaise Emilio;Oliver L. Phillips;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging and associated forest management

    David B. Lindenmayer;Robert M. Kooyman;Chris Taylor;Michelle Ward

  • Dispersal limitations, rather than bottlenecks or habitat specificity, can restrict the distribution of rare and endemic rainforest trees

    Maurizio Rossetto;Robert Kooyman;William Sherwin;Rebecca Jones

  • Leaf manganese concentrations as a tool to assess belowground plant functioning in phosphorus-impoverished environments

    Hans Lambers;Hans Lambers;Ian J. Wright;Caio Guilherme Pereira;Caio Guilherme Pereira;Peter J. Bellingham;Peter J. Bellingham

  • The tension between dispersal and persistence regulates the current distribution of rare palaeo-endemic rain forest flora: a case study

    Maurizio Rossetto;Robert M. Kooyman

  • First South American Agathis (Araucariaceae), Eocene of Patagonia.

    Peter Wilf;Ignacio H. Escapa;N. Rubén Cúneo;Robert M. Kooyman

  • Origins and Assembly of Malesian Rainforests

    Robert M. Kooyman;Robert M. Kooyman;Robert J. Morley;Darren M. Crayn;Elizabeth M. Joyce

  • Ecology of leaf teeth: A multi-site analysis from an Australian subtropical rainforest

    Dana L. Royer;Robert M. Kooyman;Stefan A. Little;Peter Wilf

  • Diameter growth performance varies with species functional-group and habitat characteristics in subtropical rainforests

    Maina Kariuki;Margaret Rolfe;R. G. B. Smith;Jerome K. Vanclay

  • Responses of communities of soil organisms and plants to soil aging at two contrasting long-term chronosequences

    Stef Bokhorst;Paul Kardol;Peter J. Bellingham;Robert M. Kooyman

  • Reconciling species-level vs plastic responses of evergreen leaf structure to light gradients : shade leaves punch above their weight

    Christopher H. Lusk;Yusuke Onoda;Robert Kooyman;Alba Gutiérrez‐Girón

  • Regeneration changes in tree species abundance diversity and structure in logged and unlogged subtropical rainforest over a 36-year period

    Maina Kariuki;Robert M. Kooyman;R.G.B. Smith;Grant Wardell-Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurizio Rossetto
Maurizio Rossetto Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
Mark Westoby
Mark Westoby Macquarie University
William K. Cornwell
William K. Cornwell University of New South Wales
Peter Wilf
Peter Wilf Pennsylvania State University
Serge A. Wich
Serge A. Wich Liverpool John Moores University
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Ian J. Wright
Ian J. Wright Western Sydney University
Peter J. Bellingham
Peter J. Bellingham Landcare Research
Rhett D. Harrison
Rhett D. Harrison World Agroforestry, Zambia
Ülo Niinemets
Ülo Niinemets Estonian University of Life Sciences

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