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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
48
Citations
7998
World Ranking
4255
National Ranking
1477

Shawn Fraver publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 134 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shawn Fraver 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 Shawn Fraver sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

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

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Overview

Shawn Fraver is affiliated with the University of Maine in the United States. Their research primarily addresses environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular focus on the forest ecosystem and its interactions with climate and atmospheric factors.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broad areas, Fraver's subfields of interest consist of:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Insect Science
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science

Their research topics include:

  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Tree-ring Climate Responses

Frequently appearing publication venues for Fraver's work are:

  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Journal of Ecology

Recent papers associated with Fraver's research include:

  • Low stand density moderates growth declines during hot droughts in semi-arid forests (2020), Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Multi-Decadal Carbon Cycle Measurements Indicate Resistance to External Drivers of Change at the Howland Forest AmeriFlux Site (2021), Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Climate and atmospheric deposition drive the inter-annual variability and long-term trend of dissolved organic carbon flux in the conterminous United States (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Synthesizing Disparate LiDAR and Satellite Datasets through Deep Learning to Generate Wall-to-Wall Regional Inventories for the Complex, Mixed-Species Forests of the Eastern United States (2021), Remote Sensing
  • Forest density intensifies the importance of snowpack to growth in water-limited pine forests (2020), Ecological Applications

Fraver has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Anthony W. D'Amato
  • Christopher W. Woodall
  • Aaron Teets
  • Brian J. Palik
  • David Y. Hollinger

Best Publications

  • Effects of thinning on drought vulnerability and climate response in north temperate forest ecosystems

    Anthony W. D'Amato;John B. Bradford;Shawn Fraver;Shawn Fraver;Brian J. Palik

  • Forest management for mitigation and adaptation to climate change: Insights from long-term silviculture experiments

    Anthony W. D'Amato;John B. Bradford;Shawn Fraver;Brian J. Palik

  • Vegetation Responses along Edge-to-Interior Gradients in the Mixed Hardwood Forests of the Roanoke River Basin, North Carolina

    Shawn Fraver

  • Density‐dependent vulnerability of forest ecosystems to drought

    Alessandra Bottero;Alessandra Bottero;Anthony W. D'Amato;Anthony W. D'Amato;Brian J. Palik;John B. Bradford

  • Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome

    Andreas Sommerfeld;Cornelius Senf;Cornelius Senf;Brian Buma;Anthony W. D’Amato

  • Drought timing and local climate determine the sensitivity of eastern temperate forests to drought

    Loïc D'Orangeville;Loïc D'Orangeville;Justin Maxwell;Daniel Kneeshaw;Neil Pederson

  • Quantifying carbon stores and decomposition in dead wood: A review

    Matthew B. Russell;Shawn Fraver;Tuomas Aakala;Jeffrey H. Gove

  • Dynamics of coarse woody debris following gap harvesting in the Acadian forest of central Maine, U.S.A.

    Shawn Fraver;Robert G Wagner;Michael Day

  • Natural development and regeneration of a Central European montane spruce forest

    Miroslav Svoboda;Shawn Fraver;Pavel Janda;Radek Bače

  • Identifying growth releases in dendrochronological studies of forest disturbance

    Shawn Fraver;Alan S White

  • Competition amplifies drought stress in forests across broad climatic and compositional gradients

    Kelly E. Gleason;John B. Bradford;Alessandra Bottero;Anthony W. D'Amato

  • Disturbance history of an old-growth sub-alpine Picea abies stand in the Bohemian Forest, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Svoboda;Pavel Janda;Thomas A. Nagel;Shawn Fraver

  • Layer stacking: A novel algorithm for individual forest tree segmentation from LiDAR point clouds

    Elias Ayrey;Shawn Fraver;John A. Kershaw;Laura S. Kenefic

  • Residence Times and Decay Rates of Downed Woody Debris Biomass/Carbon in Eastern US Forests

    Matthew B. Russell;Christopher W. Woodall;Shawn Fraver;Anthony W. D’Amato

  • Natural disturbance in an old-growth landscape of northern Maine, USA

    Shawn Fraver;Alan S. White;Robert S. Seymour

  • Refining volume estimates of down woody debris

    Shawn FraverS. Fraver;Shawn FraverS. Fraver;Anna RingvallA. Ringvall;Anna RingvallA. Ringvall;Bengt Gunnar JonssonB.G. Jonsson;Bengt Gunnar JonssonB.G. Jonsson

  • Eighteen years of tree mortality and structural change in an experimentally fragmented Norway spruce forest

    Mari T. Jönsson;Shawn Fraver;Bengt Gunnar Jonsson;Mats Dynesius

  • Salvage logging effects on regulating and supporting ecosystem services – a systematic map

    Alexandro B. Leverkus;José María Rey Benayas;Jorge Castro;Dominique Boucher

  • Landscape‐level variability in historical disturbance in primary Picea abies mountain forests of the Eastern Carpathians, Romania

    Miroslav Svoboda;Pavel Janda;Radek Bače;Shawn Fraver

  • Tree growth and competition in an old‐growth Picea abies forest of boreal Sweden: influence of tree spatial patterning

    Shawn Fraver;Anthony W. D'Amato;John B. Bradford;Bengt Gunnar Jonsson

  • Disturbance dynamics of old-growth Picea rubens forests of northern Maine

    Shawn Fraver;Alan S. White

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony W. D'Amato
Anthony W. D'Amato University of Vermont
Brian J. Palik
Brian J. Palik US Forest Service
John B. Bradford
John B. Bradford United States Geological Survey
Aaron R. Weiskittel
Aaron R. Weiskittel University of Maine
Christopher W. Woodall
Christopher W. Woodall US Forest Service
Daniel J. Hayes
Daniel J. Hayes University of Maine
Bengt Gunnar Jonsson
Bengt Gunnar Jonsson Mid Sweden University
Randall K. Kolka
Randall K. Kolka US Forest Service
Ivan J. Fernandez
Ivan J. Fernandez University of Maine
Volodymyr Trotsiuk
Volodymyr Trotsiuk Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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Best Scientists Citing Shawn Fraver

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Volodymyr Trotsiuk

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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US Forest Service

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Rupert Seidl

Rupert Seidl

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Jörg Müller

Jörg Müller

Heinz Sielmann Foundation

Publications: 33

Yves Bergeron

Yves Bergeron

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Publications: 33

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Thomas A. Nagel

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Publications: 24

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Publications: 22

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J. Julio Camarero

Spanish National Research Council

Publications: 21

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Harvard University

Publications: 21

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Publications: 20

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Bengt Gunnar Jonsson

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Publications: 19

Antonio Lara

Antonio Lara

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