2026 Sophie Fauset: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	30	8299	8032	806	775	54	7390

Overview

Sophie Fauset is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on tropical forest ecosystems and ecological dynamics.

Their main fields of study are:

Environmental Science
Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broader disciplines, their subfields of study include:

Nature and Landscape Conservation
Global and Planetary Change
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Ecological Modeling
Plant Science

The primary topics of Sophie Fauset's work cover:

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Plant and Animal Studies
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Species Distribution and Climate Change
Forest Ecology and Management
Fire Effects on Ecosystems
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Sophie Fauset has contributed to a number of recent papers. Selected publications include:

"Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests," 2020, Nature
"Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests," 2020, Science
"Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds," 2023, Nature
"Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests," 2020, Nature Communications
"Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity," 2020, Nature Communications

The frequent co-authors with whom Sophie Fauset has collaborated include:

Beatriz Schwantes Marimon
Timothy R. Baker
Ted R. Feldpausch
James A. Comiskey
Ben Hur Marimon

Fauset's research has been published predominantly in the following venues:

Nature Communications
Nature
Science
Ecology
Global Ecology and Biogeography

Best Publications

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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

1268
Citations
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

885
Citations
Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

504
Citations
Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

436
Citations
Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

414
Citations
Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

Sophie Fauset;Michelle O Johnson;Manuel Gloor;Timothy R Baker

346
Citations
Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

330
Citations
Drought‐induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana

Sophie Fauset;Timothy R. Baker;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Ted R. Feldpausch

308
Citations
Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

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

298
Citations
Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro)

Bradley O. Christoffersen;Bradley O. Christoffersen;Manuel Gloor;Sophie Fauset;Nikolaos M. Fyllas

264
Citations
Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models

Michelle O. Johnson;David Galbraith;Manuel Gloor;Hannes De Deurwaerder

184
Citations
Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

164
Citations
Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Oliver L. Phillips;Roel J.W. Brienen;Sophie Fauset

140
Citations
Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa

Danaë M.A. Rozendaal;Oliver L. Phillips;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

139
Citations
Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity.

Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez;Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez;Yadvinder Malhi;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Sophie Fauset

133
Citations
Using repeated small-footprint LiDAR acquisitions to infer spatial and temporal variations of a high-biomass Neotropical forest

Maxime Réjou-Méchain;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;Blaise Tymen;Lilian Blanc;Sophie Fauset

125
Citations
Differences in leaf thermoregulation and water use strategies between three co-occurring Atlantic forest tree species

Sophie Fauset;Helber C. Freitas;David R. Galbraith;Martin J.P. Sullivan

125
Citations
Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long-term drought

Jesus Aguirre-Gutierrez;Jesus Aguirre-Gutierrez;Imma Oliveras;Sami Rifai;Sophie Fauset

115
Citations
The global abundance of tree palms

Robert Muscarella;Robert Muscarella;Thaise Emilio;Thaise Emilio;Oliver L. Phillips;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

114
Citations
Evidence for arrested succession in a liana‐infested Amazonian forest

Blaise Tymen;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;James W. Dalling;James W. Dalling;Sophie Fauset

111
Citations
Floristics and Biogeography of Vegetation in Seasonally Dry Tropical Regions

K. G. Dexter;B. Smart;C. Baldauf;S. Fauset;S. Fauset

88
Citations
Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

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

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon L. Lewis University College London

Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter

Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds

Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds

Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford

David W. Galbraith University of Arizona

Beatriz Schwantes Marimon Mato Grosso State University

Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

John Terborgh Duke University

External Links

Personal website of Sophie Fauset

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