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98
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54431
World Ranking
299
National Ranking
48

Overview

Simon L. Lewis is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant body of work spanning 147 publications in this field.

Their subfields of study include Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. These areas reflect a broad interest in both theoretical and applied environmental topics.

The primary topics covered by Simon L. Lewis's research include:

  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

They have published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets for Simon L. Lewis are:

  • Nature (10 publications)
  • Nature Communications (6 publications)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment (4 publications)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography (4 publications)
  • Science (3 publications)

Some of Simon L. Lewis's recent papers include:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, 2020, Nature
  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The enduring world forest carbon sink, 2024, Nature
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests, 2020, Science
  • Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet - if we act now, 2021, Nature

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Oliver L. Phillips
  • Timothy R. Baker
  • Yadvinder Malhi
  • Greta C. Dargie
  • Corneille E. N. Ewango

Best Publications

  • A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests

    Yude Pan;Richard A. Birdsey;Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Richard Houghton

  • Defining the Anthropocene

    Simon L. Lewis;Mark A. Maslin

  • Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

    Jerome Chave;David Coomes;Steven Jansen;Simon L. Lewis

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents.

    Sassan S Saatchi;Nancy L Harris;Sandra Brown;Michael A Lefsky

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

    Oliver L. Phillips;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Simon L. Lewis;Joshua B. Fisher

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • The 2010 Amazon Drought

    Simon L. Lewis;Paulo M. Brando;Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje M. F. van der Heijden

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

    Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez;Bonaventure Sonké;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • Functional annotation of a full-length mouse cDNA collection

    J. Kawai;A. Shinagawa;K. Shibata;M. Yoshino

  • Increasing human dominance of tropical forests.

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;David P. Edwards;David W. Galbraith

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

    Simon L. Lewis;Charlotte E. Wheeler;Edward T. A. Mitchard;Alexander Koch

  • The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Daniel Wood;Timothy R. Baker;James Wright

  • An integrated pan‐tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

    Valerio Avitabile;Martin Herold;Gerard B.M. Heuvelink;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests

    O. L. Phillips;R. V. Martínez;L. Arroyo;T. R. Baker

  • The above-ground coarse wood productivity of 104 Neotropical forest plots

    Yadvinder Malhi;Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Samuel Almeida

  • Age, extent and carbon storage of the central Congo Basin peatland complex

    Greta C. Dargie;Greta C. Dargie;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Ian T. Lawson;Edward T. A. Mitchard

  • Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots.

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • Global wood density database

    AE Zanne;G Lopez-Gonzalez;DA Coomes;J Ilic

  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Bonaventure Sonké
Bonaventure Sonké Université de Yaoundé I
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Carlos A. Quesada
Carlos A. Quesada National Institute of Amazonian Research
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden

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