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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
125
Citations
67863
World Ranking
80
National Ranking
29

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2006 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography. Princeton University Press, 2001
  • 2004 - Marsh Award for Ecology, British Ecological Society
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1983 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society
  • Honorary Member of the British Ecological Society

Overview

Stephen P. Hubbell is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable contributions in several subfields including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and ecology.

Their main topics of work encompass ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and management, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, fire effects on ecosystems, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, and mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Stuart J. Davies, Jill Thompson, Salomón Aguilar, Jess K. Zimmerman, and María Uriarte.

Stephen P. Hubbell has published extensively in various academic journals, with repeated contributions to Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Communications, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission (2022, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics (2020, Science)
  • The interspecific growth-mortality trade-off is not a general framework for tropical forest community structure (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide (2021, Nature Communications)

Throughout their career, Stephen P. Hubbell has received several awards and honors, including Fellow of the Ecological Society of America in 2012, the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2006 for their work "The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography," the Marsh Award for Ecology from the British Ecological Society in 2004, Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1983, Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1981, and an Honorary Membership of the British Ecological Society.

Best Publications

  • The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography

    Stephen P. Hubbell;Luís Borda-de-Água

  • Light-Gap Disturbances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree Diversity in a Neotropical Forest

    S. P. Hubbell;R. B. Foster;S. T. O'Brien;K. E. Harms

  • Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forest Trees

    Richard Condit;Nigel Pitman;Egbert G. Leigh;Jérôme Chave

  • Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species

    Richard S. Condit;Peter S. Ashton;Patrick J. Baker;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin

  • Tree Dispersion, Abundance, and Diversity in a Tropical Dry Forest

    Stephen P. Hubbell

  • Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests.

    Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Liza S. Comita;Richard S. Condit;Thomas A. Kursar;Thomas A. Kursar

  • The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative: An Ecological Research Agenda: A Report from the Ecological Society of America

    Jane Lubchenco;Annette M. Olson;Linda B. Brubaker;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Soil nutrients influence spatial distributions of tropical tree species

    Robert John;James W. Dalling;James W. Dalling;Kyle Edward Harms;Kyle Edward Harms;Joseph B. Yavitt

  • Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

    S. Joseph Wright;Kaoru Kitajima;Kaoru Kitajima;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Peter B. Reich

  • Neutral theory in community ecology and the hypothesis of functional equivalence

    Stephen P. Hubbell

  • Habitat associations of trees and shrubs in a 50-ha neotropical forest plot

    Kyle Edward Harms;Richard S. Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell;Robin B. Foster

  • Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size.

    N. L. Stephenson;A. J. Das;Richard S. Condit;S. E. Russo

  • Neutral theory and relative species abundance in ecology.

    Igor Volkov;Jayanth R. Banavar;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell;Amos Maritan

  • The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (MPB-32)

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  • Mortality Rates of 205 Neotropical Tree and Shrub Species and the Impact of a Severe Drought

    Richard S. Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell;Robin B. Foster

  • The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography at Age Ten

    James Rosindell;James Rosindell;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell;Rampal S. Etienne;Rampal S. Etienne

  • The sustainable biosphere initiative: An ecological research agenda

    J. Lubchenco;A.M. Olson;L.B. Brubaker;S.R. Carpenter

  • Asymmetric density dependence shapes species abundances in a tropical tree community.

    Liza S. Comita;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Salomo´n Aguilar;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell

  • NEUTRAL THEORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF ECOLOGICAL EQUIVALENCE

    Stephen P. Hubbell

  • SPECIES-AREA AND SPECIES-INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIPS FOR TROPICAL TREES : A COMPARISON OF THREE 50-HA PLOTS

    Richard Condit;Stephen P. Hubbell;James V. Lafrankie;R. Sukumar

  • Microbes on Mountainsides: Contrasting Elevational Patterns of Bacterial and Plant Diversity

    John C. Avise;Stephen P. Hubbell;Francisco J. Ayala

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Robin B. Foster
Robin B. Foster Field Museum of Natural History
Fangliang He
Fangliang He University of Alberta
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Helene C. Muller-Landau
Helene C. Muller-Landau Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Liza S. Comita
Liza S. Comita Yale University
James W. Dalling
James W. Dalling University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John C. Avise
John C. Avise University of California, Irvine
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala University of California, Irvine

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