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D-Index
47
Citations
10851
World Ranking
4368
National Ranking
1522

Sean M. McMahon 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 Sean M. McMahon sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 142 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Sean M. McMahon 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 Sean M. McMahon sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sean M. McMahon is affiliated with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant body of work contributing to areas such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, Ecological Modeling, and Plant Science.

The main topics covered in their research include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Plant and Animal Studies, and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

Several recent publications illustrate the scope of their research interests and contributions:

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2, 2020, New Phytologist
  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Tropical tree mortality has increased with rising atmospheric water stress, 2022, Nature
  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database, 2021, Earth system science data
  • Hydraulically-vulnerable trees survive on deep-water access during droughts in a tropical forest, 2021, New Phytologist

Sean M. McMahon frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
  • Stuart J. Davies
  • Chia-Hao Chang-Yang
  • James A. Lutz
  • I-Fang Sun

Their work is published repeatedly in respected scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • What do we gain from simplicity versus complexity in species distribution models

    Cory Merow;Cory Merow;Cory Merow;Matthew J. Smith;Thomas C. Edwards;Antoine Guisan

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • Climate change and the future of California's endemic flora.

    Scott R. Loarie;Benjamin E. Carter;Benjamin E. Carter;Katharine Hayhoe;Sean McMahon

  • Drivers and Mechanisms of Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Paulo M. Brando

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Evidence for a recent increase in forest growth

    Sean M. McMahon;Geoffrey G. Parker;Dawn R. Miller

  • Improving assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on global terrestrial biodiversity

    Sean M. McMahon;Sandy P. Harrison;W. Scott Armbruster;W. Scott Armbruster;W. Scott Armbruster;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: A practical guide

    Cory Merow;Cory Merow;Johan P. Dahlgren;Johan P. Dahlgren;C. Jessica E. Metcalf;C. Jessica E. Metcalf;Dylan Z. Childs

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • Tropical tree mortality has increased with rising atmospheric water stress

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  • Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment

    Scott C Stark;Veronika Leitold;Jin L Wu;Maria O Hunter

  • Forecasting species range dynamics with process-explicit models: matching methods to applications

    Natalie J. Briscoe;Jane Elith;Roberto Salguero‐Gómez;Roberto Salguero‐Gómez;Roberto Salguero‐Gómez;José J. Lahoz‐Monfort

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • High‐dimensional coexistence based on individual variation: a synthesis of evidence

    James S. Clark;David Bell;Chengjin Chu;Benoit Courbaud

  • On using integral projection models to generate demographically driven predictions of species' distributions: development and validation using sparse data

    Cory Merow;Cory Merow;Andrew M. Latimer;Adam M. Wilson;Sean M. McMahon

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

    Rafael Poyatos;Víctor Granda;Víctor Flo;Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

  • Towards Process-based Range Modeling of Many Species

    Margaret E.K. Evans;Cory Merow;Sydne Record;Sean M. McMahon

  • Scales of association: hierarchical linear models and the measurement of ecological systems

    Sean M. McMahon;Jeffrey M. Diez

  • Conceptual ecology and invasion biology : reciprocal approaches to nature

    Marc William Cadotte;Sean M. McMahon;Tadashi Fukami

  • The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography

    Diego P. Vázquez;Sean M. McMahon;Norris Z. Muth;Michael D. Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Geoffrey G. Parker
Geoffrey G. Parker Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Cory Merow
Cory Merow University of Connecticut
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
James A. Lutz
James A. Lutz Utah State University
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Matteo Detto
Matteo Detto Princeton University
William J. McShea
William J. McShea Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

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