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D-Index
49
Citations
25987
World Ranking
3935
National Ranking
1370

Ronald P. Neilson 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 Ronald P. Neilson sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 94 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ronald P. Neilson 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 Ronald P. Neilson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1987 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Biogeography of two southwest American oaks in relation to atmospheric dynamics. Journal of Biogeography 10:275–297.

Overview

Ronald P. Neilson is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research career encompasses ecological and biogeographical studies, with a focus on the interaction between species distribution and environmental factors.

Among the recognitions received, Neilson was awarded the William S. Cooper Award by The Ecological Society of America in 1987 for the work titled Biogeography of two southwest American oaks in relation to atmospheric dynamics, published in the Journal of Biogeography, volume 10, pages 275-297.

Best Publications

  • A Statistical-Topographic Model for Mapping Climatological Precipitation over Mountainous Terrain

    Christopher Daly;Ronald P. Neilson;Donald L. Phillips

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Climate Change and Forest Disturbances

    Virginia H. Dale;Linda A. Joyce;Steve Mcnulty;Ronald P. Neilson

  • Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California

    Katharine Hayhoe;Daniel Cayan;Christopher B. Field;Peter C. Frumhoff

  • Global Warming and Extinctions of Endemic Species from Biodiversity Hotspots

    Jay R. Malcolm;Canran Liu;Canran Liu;Ronald P. Neilson;Lara Hansen

  • Contribution of increasing CO2 and climate to carbon storage by ecosystems in the United States

    David S. Schimel;Jerry M. Melillo;Hanqin Tian;A. D. McGuire

  • A Model for Predicting Continental‐Scale Vegetation Distribution and Water Balance

    Ronald P. Neilson

  • Global patterns in the vulnerability of ecosystems to vegetation shifts due to climate change.

    Patrick Gonzalez;Ronald P. Neilson;James M. Lenihan;Raymond J. Drapek

  • Global change in forests: responses of species, communities, and biomes

    Andrew J. Hansen;Ronald P. Neilson;Virginia H. Dale;Curtis H. Flather

  • Climate Change Effects on Vegetation Distribution and Carbon Budget in the United States

    Dominique Bachelet;Ronald P. Neilson;James M. Lenihan;Raymond J. Drapek

  • BELOWGROUND CONSEQUENCES OF VEGETATION CHANGE AND THEIR TREATMENT IN MODELS

    R. B. Jackson;H. J. Schenk;H. J. Schenk;E. G. Jobbágy;J. Canadell

  • Predicting climate‐induced range shifts: model differences and model reliability

    Joshua J. Lawler;Denis White;Ronald P. Neilson;Andrew R. Blaustein

  • Estimated migration rates under scenarios of global climate change

    Jay R. Malcolm;Adam Markham;Ronald P. Neilson;Michael Garaci

  • High-Resolution Climatic Analysis and Southwest Biogeography

    Ronald P. Neilson

  • Forecasting Regional to Global Plant Migration in Response to Climate Change

    Ronald P. Neilson;Louis F. Pitelka;Allen M. Solomon;Ran Nathan

  • Climate change effects on vegetation distribution, carbon, and fire in California

    James M. Lenihan;Raymond Drapek;Dominique Bachelet;Ronald P. Neilson

  • Forest Processes and Global Environmental Change: Predicting the Effects of Individual and Multiple Stressors

    John Aber;Ronald P. Neilson;Steve McNULTY;James M. Lenihan

  • Forest service large fire area burned and suppression expenditure trends, 1970-2002

    David E. Calkin;Krista M. Gebert;J. Greg Jones;Ronald P. Neilson

  • Transient Ecotone Response to Climatic Change: Some Conceptual and Modelling Approaches

    Ronald P. Neilson

  • The interplay between climate change, forests, and disturbances

    Virginia H. Dale;Linda A. Joyce;Steve McNulty;Ronald P. Neilson

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