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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
8351
World Ranking
6017
National Ranking
4

Thomas A. Nagel publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas A. Nagel sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 121 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas A. Nagel 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 Thomas A. Nagel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Slovenia Leader Award

Overview

Thomas A. Nagel is affiliated with the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant number of publications spanning these fields.

Their major subfields of study include Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. This range indicates a broad interest in ecological and environmental processes across scales and organisms.

The main topics covered by their work involve studies in Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Forest Ecology and Management, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Miroslav Svoboda, Martin Mikoláš, Daniel Kozák, Radek Bače, and Pavel Janda, highlighting ongoing partnerships that have contributed to the breadth of their scientific output.

Publications by Nagel have appeared in a variety of scholarly venues, with frequent contributions to Forest Ecology and Management, Science, Journal of Ecology, Global Change Biology, and Ecology Letters. These journals reflect their engagement with ecological and environmental research communities.

Recent papers provide insight into recent developments in their research:

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming, 2020, Science
  • Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe's temperate forest biome, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats, 2021, Ecology Letters

Best Publications

  • Forest disturbances under climate change

    Rupert Seidl;Dominik Thom;Markus Kautz;Dario Martin-Benito;Dario Martin-Benito

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

    Florian Zellweger;Florian Zellweger;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Pieter Vangansbeke

  • A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems

    Dominik Kulakowski;Rupert Seidl;Jan Holeksa;Timo Kuuluvainen

  • Regeneration patterns after intermediate wind disturbance in an old-growth Fagus-Abies forest in southeastern Slovenia

    Thomas A. Nagel;Miroslav Svoboda;Jurij Diaci

  • Intermediate wind disturbance in an old-growth beech-fir forest in southeastern Slovenia

    Thomas A. Nagel;Jurij Diaci

  • 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

  • Fire and persistence of montane chaparral in mixed conifer forest landscapes in the northern Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe Basin, California, USA1

    Thomas A. Nagel;Alan H. Taylor

  • Gap regeneration and replacement patterns in an old-growth Fagus – Abies forest of Bosnia–Herzegovina

    Thomas A. Nagel;Miroslav Svoboda;Tihomir Rugani;Jurij Diaci

  • Disturbance history and dynamics of an old-growth mixed species mountain forest in the Slovenian Alps

    Dejan Firm;Thomas A. Nagel;Jurij Diaci

  • Disturbance, life history traits, and dynamics in an old-growth forest landscape of southeastern Europe

    Thomas A. Nagel;Miroslav Svoboda;Milan Kobal

  • Gap disturbance regime in an old-growth Fagus-Abies forest in the Dinaric Mountains, Bosnia-Herzegovina

    Thomas A. NagelT.A. Nagel;Thomas A. NagelT.A. Nagel;Miroslav SvobodaM. Svoboda;Miroslav SvobodaM. Svoboda

  • The historical disturbance regime of mountain Norway spruce forests in the Western Carpathians and its influence on current forest structure and composition.

    Pavel Janda;Volodymyr Trotsiuk;Martin Mikoláš;Radek Bače

  • The natural disturbance regime in forests of the Dinaric Mountains: A synthesis of evidence

    Thomas A. Nagel;Stjepan Mikac;Mojca Dolinar;Matija Klopcic

  • 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

  • Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe’s temperate forest biome

    Ingmar R. Staude;Donald M. Waller;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Anne D. Bjorkman

  • Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats.

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  • Contrasting effects of environmental change on the radial growth of co-occurring beech and fir trees across Europe.

    Michal Bosela;Martin Lukac;Daniele Castagneri;Róbert Sedmák

  • A dendroecological reconstruction of disturbance in an old-growth Fagus-Abies forest in Slovenia

    Thomas Andrew Nagel;Tom Levanič;Jurij Diaci

  • Gap disturbances and regeneration patterns in a Bosnian old-growth forest: a multispectral remote sensing and ground-based approach

    Matteo Garbarino;Enrico Borgogno Mondino;Emanuele Lingua;Thomas A. Nagel

  • More ways than one: Mixed-severity disturbance regimes foster structural complexity via multiple developmental pathways

    Garrett W. Meigs;Robert C. Morrissey;Radek Bače;Oleh Chaskovskyy

  • Gap-Phase Dynamics in the Old-Growth Forest of Lom, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Alessandra Bottero;Matteo Garbarino;Vojislav Dukic;Zoran Govedar

Frequent Co-Authors

Miroslav Svoboda
Miroslav Svoboda Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Volodymyr Trotsiuk
Volodymyr Trotsiuk Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Martin Kopecký
Martin Kopecký Czech Academy of Sciences
Tzvetan Zlatanov
Tzvetan Zlatanov Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Hans Pretzsch
Hans Pretzsch Technical University of Munich
Miren del Río
Miren del Río University of Valladolid
David I. Forrester
David I. Forrester Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Bogdan Jaroszewicz
Bogdan Jaroszewicz University of Warsaw
Roberto Tognetti
Roberto Tognetti University of Molise

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