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Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 202 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury is affiliated with the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement in France. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in various subfields and topics.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Forestry
  • Ecology

Key topics addressed in their work are:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • African Botany and Ecology Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Their frequent co-authors include Éric Forni, Jean-Louis Doucet, Adeline Fayolle, Pierre Ploton, and Fabrice Bénédet.

Publication venues often featuring their work include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Scientific Data
  • Journal of Tropical Ecology

Recent publications by Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury demonstrate a focus on tropical forests, ecological modeling, and global change impacts. Notable works include:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, 2020, Nature
  • Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change, 2021, Nature
  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scope of Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury's work integrates ecological data analysis, remote sensing applications, and field studies to better understand forest dynamics and global environmental changes, with a geographical emphasis on African and Amazonian tropical regions.

Best Publications

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

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

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

    Georges Kunstler;Georges Kunstler;Daniel Falster;David A. Coomes;Francis Hui

  • 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

  • Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

    Francis E. Putz;Francis E. Putz;Pieter A. Zuidema;Pieter A. Zuidema;Timothy Synnott;Marielos Peña-Claros

  • Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models.

    Pierre Ploton;Frédéric Mortier;Maxime Rejou-Mechain;Nicolas Barbier

  • Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change

    Maxime Rejou-Mechain;Frédéric Mortier;Jean-François Bastin;Guillaume Cornu

  • Tropical forest recovery from logging: a 24 year silvicultural experiment from Central Africa

    Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury;Frédéric Mortier;Adeline Fayolle;Fidèle Baya

  • Decrease of L-band SAR backscatter with biomass of dense forests

    Stéphane Mermoz;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;Ludovic Villard;Thuy Le Toan

  • Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

    J. F. Bastin;Nicolas Barbier;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;A. Fayolle

  • The Potential of Sentinel Satellites for Burnt Area Mapping and Monitoring in the Congo Basin Forests

    Astrid Verhegghen;Hugh D. Eva;Guido Ceccherini;Frédéric Achard

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

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Assessing Sustainability of Logging Practices in the Congo Basin’s Managed Forests: the Issue of Commercial Species Recovery

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  • Impact of selective logging on genetic composition and demographic structure of four tropical tree species

    Bernd Degen;Lilian Blanc;Henri Caron;Laurent Maggia

  • Modelling diameter increment in a lowland evergreen rain forest in French Guiana

    Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury;François Houllier

  • Geological Substrates Shape Tree Species and Trait Distributions in African Moist Forests

    Adeline Fayolle;Adeline Fayolle;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Vincent Freycon;Frederic Mortier

  • Environmental filtering of dense‐wooded species controls above‐ground biomass stored in African moist forests

    Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury;Vivien Rossi;Maxime Rejou-Mechain;Vincent Freycon

  • Patterns of tree species composition across tropical African forests

    Adeline Fayolle;Michael D. Swaine;Jean-François Bastin;Jean-François Bastin;Jean-François Bastin;Nils Bourland

  • Vegetation structure and greenness in Central Africa from Modis multi-temporal data

    Valéry Gond;Adeline Fayolle;Alexandre Pennec;Guillaume Cornu

  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database

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  • Tracking land-cover changes with sedimentary charcoal in the Afrotropics.

    Julie Aleman;Olivier Blarquez;Ilham Bentaleb;Philippe Bonté

  • Grouping species for predicting mixed tropical forest dynamics: looking for a strategy

    Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury;Lilian Blanc;Nicolas Picard;Plinio Sist

  • Sustainable cutting cycle and yields in a lowland mixed dipterocarp forest of Borneo

    Plinio Sist;Nicolas Picard;Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Louis Doucet
Jean-Louis Doucet Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Maxime Réjou-Méchain
Maxime Réjou-Méchain Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Hans Beeckman
Hans Beeckman Royal Museum for Central Africa
Bruno Hérault
Bruno Hérault University of Montpellier
Robert Nasi
Robert Nasi Center for International Forestry Research
Bonaventure Sonké
Bonaventure Sonké Université de Yaoundé I
Francis E. Putz
Francis E. Putz University of Florida
Raphaël Pélissier
Raphaël Pélissier University of Montpellier
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
John R. Healey
John R. Healey Bangor University

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