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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
109
Citations
52378
World Ranking
186
National Ranking
79

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • President’s Medal, British Ecological Society
  • President’s Medal, British Ecological Society

Overview

Robin L. Chazdon is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong emphasis on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, insect science, and general ecology.

Their work covers multiple key topics including conservation, biodiversity, and resource management; ecology and vegetation dynamics studies; forest management and policy; land use and ecosystem services; forest ecology and management; plant and animal studies; and forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Robin L. Chazdon include Pedro H. S. Brancalion, John Herbohn, Frans Bongers, Renato Crouzeilles, and Ricardo G. César.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, particularly in Nature, Restoration Ecology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, and Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Among recent papers, some notable publications include:

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration, 2020, Nature
  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth, 2020, Nature
  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery, 2021, Science
  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential, 2023, Nature

Robin L. Chazdon has contributed to book publications, including a technical manual on soil management titled Recarbonizing global soils - A technical manual of recommended management practices published by FAO eBooks in 2021, and the work La regeneración natural del bosque en tierras abandonadas como estrategia de restauración published by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) eBooks in 2020.

They have been recognized with the President's Medal from the British Ecological Society.

Best Publications

  • Models and estimators linking individual-based and sample-based rarefaction, extrapolation and comparison of assemblages

    Robert K. Colwell;Anne Chao;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Shang Yi Lin

  • A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data

    Anne Chao;Robin L. Chazdon;Robert K. Colwell;Tsung-Jen Shen

  • Beyond deforestation: restoring forests and ecosystem services on degraded lands

    Robin L. Chazdon

  • Tropical forest recovery: legacies of human impact and natural disturbances

    Robin L. Chazdon

  • Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world.

    Toby A. Gardner;Jos Barlow;Robin Chazdon;Robert M. Ewers

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano

  • Light Environments of Tropical Forests

    R. L. Chazdon;N. Fetcher

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Alvaro Iribarrem;Alvaro Iribarrem;Hawthorne L. Beyer;Carlos Leandro Cordeiro;Carlos Leandro Cordeiro

  • Statistical methods for estimating species richness of woody regeneration in primary and secondary rain forests of northeastern Costa Rica

    R.L. Chazdon;R.K. Colwell;J.S. Denslow;M.R. Guariguata

  • Photosynthetic light environments in a lowland tropical rain forest in Costa Rica.

    Robin L. Chazdon;Ned Fetcher

  • Genera Palmarum: A Classification of Palms Based on the Work of Harold E. Moore, Jr.

    Robin L. Chazdon;N. W. Uhl;J. Dransfield;Harold E. Moore

  • The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

    Robin L. Chazdon;Carlos A. Peres;Daisy H. Dent;Douglas Sheil

  • Estimation of tropical forest structural characteristics using large-footprint lidar

    Jason B. Drake;Ralph O. Dubayah;David B. Clark;Robert G. Knox

  • Sunflecks and Their Importance to Forest Understorey Plants

    Robin L. Chazdon

  • Abundance-based similarity indices and their estimation when there are unseen species in samples.

    Anne Chao;Robin L. Chazdon;Robert K. Colwell;Tsung-Jen Shen

  • Rates of change in tree communities of secondary Neotropical forests following major disturbances

    Robin L Chazdon;Susan G Letcher;Michiel van Breugel;Michiel van Breugel;Miguel Martínez-Ramos

  • Multiple successional pathways in human-modified tropical landscapes: New insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research

    Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Felipe P. L. Melo;Miguel Martínez-Ramos;Frans Bongers

  • Beyond Reserves: A Research Agenda for Conserving Biodiversity in Human‐modified Tropical Landscapes

    Robin L. Chazdon;Celia A. Harvey;Oliver Komar;Daniel M. Griffith

  • Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

    Robin L. Chazdon;Robin L. Chazdon;Eben N. Broadbent;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers

  • Integrating Agricultural Landscapes with Biodiversity Conservation in the Mesoamerican Hotspot

    Celia A. Harvey;Oliver Komar;Robin Chazdon;Bruce G. Ferguson

  • Second growth : the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation

    Robin Lee Chazdon

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro H. S. Brancalion
Pedro H. S. Brancalion Universidade de São Paulo
Michiel van Breugel
Michiel van Breugel National University of Singapore
Robert K. Colwell
Robert K. Colwell University of Connecticut
María Uriarte
María Uriarte Columbia University
Bernardo B. N. Strassburg
Bernardo B. N. Strassburg International Institute for Sustainability (IIS)
Bryan Finegan
Bryan Finegan Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center
Miguel Martínez-Ramos
Miguel Martínez-Ramos National Autonomous University of Mexico
Anne Chao
Anne Chao National Tsing Hua University
Juan Manuel Dupuy
Juan Manuel Dupuy Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán

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