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Tomonori Kume

Tomonori Kume

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
3660
World Ranking
7929
National Ranking
60

Tomonori Kume 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 Tomonori Kume sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 164 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tomonori Kume 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 Tomonori Kume sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tomonori Kume is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan and contributes to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on topics such as Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest ecology and management, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Fire effects on ecosystems, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Tree-ring climate responses, and Bamboo properties and applications.

Recent publications by Tomonori Kume include:

  • Modeling of evapotranspiration changes with forest management practices: A genealogical review (2020, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Changes in the factors contributing to the reduction of landslide fatalities between 1945 and 2019 in Japan (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Differences in net primary production allocation and nitrogen use efficiency between Moso bamboo and Japanese cedar forests along a slope (2021, Journal of Forest Research)
  • Soil erosion under forest hampers beech growth: Impacts of understory vegetation degradation by sika deer (2023, CATENA)
  • Short communication: Concentrated impacts by tree canopy drips - hotspots of soil erosion in forests (2023, Earth Surface Dynamics)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tomonori Kume include:

  • Ayumi Katayama
  • Kazuho Matsumoto
  • Yoshinori Shinohara
  • Seonghun Jeong
  • Takuo Hishi

Their research is regularly published in several venues, including:

  • Ecological Research (4 publications)
  • CATENA (2 publications)
  • Journal of Forest Research (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (2 publications)
  • Journal of Agricultural Meteorology (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Sapflow characteristics and climatic responses in three forest species in the semiarid Loess Plateau region of China

    Sheng Du;Yi Long Wang;Tomonori Kume;Jian Guo Zhang

  • Do coniferous forests evaporate more water than broad-leaved forests in Japan?

    Hikaru Komatsu;Nobuaki Tanaka;Tomonori Kume;Tomonori Kume

  • A review of evapotranspiration estimates from tropical forests in Thailand and adjacent regions

    Nobuaki Tanaka;Tomonori Kume;Natsuko Yoshifuji;Katsunori Tanaka

  • Impact of soil drought on sap flow and water status of evergreen trees in a tropical monsoon forest in northern Thailand

    Tomonori Kume;Tomonori Kume;Hideki Takizawa;Natsuko Yoshifuji;Katsunori Tanaka

  • Ten-year evapotranspiration estimates in a Bornean tropical rainforest

    Tomonori Kume;Nobuaki Tanaka;Koichiro Kuraji;Hikaru Komatsu

  • Effect of forest structure on the spatial variation in soil respiration in a Bornean tropical rainforest

    Ayumi Katayama;Tomonori Kume;Hikaru Komatsu;Mizue Ohashi

  • The effect of converting a native broad-leaved forest to a coniferous plantation forest on annual water yield: A paired-catchment study in northern Japan

    Hikaru Komatsu;Tomonori Kume;Kyoichi Otsuki

  • Comparison of soil moisture dynamics between a tropical rain forest and a tropical seasonal forest in Southeast Asia: Impact of seasonal and year-to-year variations in rainfall

    Tomo'omi Kumagai;Natsuko Yoshifuji;Nobuaki Tanaka;Masakazu Suzuki

  • Spatial variation in sap flow velocity in semiarid region trees: its impact on stand-scale transpiration estimates

    Tomonori Kume;Kyoichi Otsuki;Sheng Du;Norikazu Yamanaka

  • Relationship between annual rainfall and interception ratio for forests across Japan

    Hikaru Komatsu;Yoshinori Shinohara;Tomonori Kume;Kyoichi Otsuki

  • Stand-scale transpiration estimates in a Moso bamboo forest: (I) Applicability of sap flux measurements

    Tomonori Kume;Yuka Onozawa;Hikaru Komatsu;Kenji Tsuruta

  • Stand-scale transpiration estimates in a Moso bamboo forest: II. Comparison with coniferous forests

    Hikaru Komatsu;Yuka Onozawa;Tomonori Kume;Kenji Tsuruta

  • Less than 20-min time lags between transpiration and stem sap flow in emergent trees in a Bornean tropical rainforest

    Tomonori Kume;Hikaru Komatsu;Koichiro Kuraji;Masakazu Suzuki

  • Impact of rooting depth and soil hydraulic properties on the transpiration peak of an evergreen forest in northern Thailand in the late dry season

    Katsunori Tanaka;Hideki Takizawa;Tomonori Kume;Jianqing Xu

  • Canopy conductance for a Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) forest in western Japan

    Hikaru Komatsu;Hikaru Komatsu;Yuka Onozawa;Tomonori Kume;Kenji Tsuruta

  • Estimating water use of a black locust plantation by the thermal dissipation probe method in the semiarid region of Loess Plateau, China

    Yi Long Wang;Guo Bin Liu;Tomonori Kume;Kyoichi Otsuki

  • Characteristics of soil CO2 efflux variability in an aseasonal tropical rainforest in Borneo Island

    Mizue Ohashi;Tomo’omi Kumagai;Tomonori Kume;Koichiro Gyokusen

  • Seasonality of vertically partitioned soil CO2 production in temperate and tropical forest

    Shoji Hashimoto;Nobuaki Tanaka;Tomonori Kume;Natsuko Yoshifuji

  • Transpiration from a Cryptomeria japonica plantation, part 2: responses of canopy conductance to meteorological factors

    Hikaru Komatsu;Yihuei Kang;Tomonori Kume;Natsuko Yoshifuji

  • Comparison of conventionally observed interception evaporation in a 100-m2 subplot with that estimated in a 4-ha area of the same Bornean lowland tropical forest

    Odair J. Manfroi;Koichiro Kuraji;Masakazu Suzuki;Nobuaki Tanaka

  • Estimation of annual suspended sediment yield from a Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) plantation considering antecedent rainfalls

    Jun’ichiro Ide;Tomonori Kume;Yoshifumi Wakiyama;Naoko Higashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyoichi Otsuki
Kyoichi Otsuki Kyushu University
Tomo'omi Kumagai
Tomo'omi Kumagai University of Tokyo
Masakazu Suzuki
Masakazu Suzuki University of Tokyo
Tohru Nakashizuka
Tohru Nakashizuka Tohoku University
Yoshiko Kosugi
Yoshiko Kosugi Kyoto University
Guobin Liu
Guobin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kentaro Shimizu
Kentaro Shimizu University of Zurich
Nobuhito Ohte
Nobuhito Ohte Kyoto University
Tetsuzo Yasunari
Tetsuzo Yasunari Nagoya University
Chih-hao Hsieh
Chih-hao Hsieh National Taiwan University

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