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D-Index
31
Citations
4112
World Ranking
8218
National Ranking
152

Wanhui Ye 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 Wanhui Ye sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 136 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wanhui Ye 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 Wanhui Ye sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wanhui Ye is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular engagement in nature and landscape conservation, ecology, plant science, and related subfields.

The main topics of Wanhui Ye's work include:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Forest ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Remote sensing in agriculture
  • Microbial community ecology and physiology

Wanhui Ye has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Changes in assembly processes of soil microbial communities during secondary succession in two subtropical forests, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Consequences of spatial patterns for coexistence in species-rich plant communities, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Phyllosphere bacterial and fungal communities vary with host species identity, plant traits and seasonality in a subtropical forest, 2022, Environmental Microbiome
  • Diversity and biogeography of plant phyllosphere bacteria are governed by latitude-dependent mechanisms, 2023, New Phytologist

Frequent coauthors of Wanhui Ye include:

  • Juyu Lian (32 collaborations)
  • Xiangcheng Mi (12 collaborations)
  • Chengjin Chu (11 collaborations)
  • Xugao Wang (11 collaborations)
  • Guangze Jin (11 collaborations)

Their frequent publication venues reflect a broad engagement with biodiversity science and ecological research:

  • Biodiversity Science (5 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5 publications)
  • Forests (4 publications)
  • Functional Ecology (3 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • Seeing the forest from drones: Testing the potential of lightweight drones as a tool for long-term forest monitoring

    Jian Zhang;Jian Zhang;Jianbo Hu;Juyu Lian;Zongji Fan

  • Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

    Nathan G. Swenson;David L. Erickson;Xiangcheng Mi;Norman Alan Bourg

  • Mikania micrantha H. B. K. in China - an overview

    L Y Zhang;W H Ye;H L Cao;H L Feng

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Spatial distributions of tree species in a subtropical forest of China

    Lin Li;Zhongliang Huang;Wanhui Ye;Honglin Cao

  • The variation of tree beta diversity across a global network of forest plots

    Miquel De Cáceres;Pierre Legendre;Renato Valencia;Min Cao

  • Genetic uniformity of Alternanthera philoxeroides in South China

    W H Ye;J Li;H L Cao;X J Ge

  • Changes in assembly processes of soil microbial communities during secondary succession in two subtropical forests

    Lan Liu;Lan Liu;Kai Zhu;Sascha M.B. Krause;Shaopeng Li

  • Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

    Chengjin Chu;James A. Lutz;Kamil Král;Tomáš Vrška

  • Multispecies coexistence of trees in tropical forests: spatial signals of topographic niche differentiation increase with environmental heterogeneity

    Calum Brown;D. F. R. P. Burslem;J. B. Illian;L. Bao

  • Exploring Tree-Habitat Associations in a Chinese Subtropical Forest Plot Using a Molecular Phylogeny Generated from DNA Barcode Loci

    Nancai Pei;Ju-Yu Lian;David L. Erickson;Nathan G. Swenson

  • Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach

    David L. Erickson;Frank A. Jones;Frank A. Jones;Nathan G. Swenson;Nancai Pei

  • The Contribution of Rare Species to Community Phylogenetic Diversity across a Global Network of Forest Plots

    Xiangcheng Mi;Nathan G. Swenson;Renato Valencia;W. John Kress

  • The influence of the holoparasitic plant Cuscuta campestris on the growth and photosynthesis of its host Mikania micrantha.

    Hao Shen;Lan Hong;Wanhui Ye;Honglin Cao

  • Species–topography association in a species-rich subtropical forest of China

    Zhigao Wang;Zhigao Wang;Wanhui Ye;Honglin Cao;Zhongliang Huang

  • Gas Exchange Characteristics of the Invasive Species Mikania Micrantha and its Indigenous Congener M. Cordata (Asteraceae) in South China

    Xiong Deng;Wan-Hui Ye;Hui-Ling Feng;Qi-He Yang

  • Influence of the obligate parasite Cuscuta campestris on growth and biomass allocation of its host Mikania micrantha

    Hao Shen;Wanhui Ye;Lan Hong;Honglin Cao

  • Genetic structure of the invasive Chromolaena odorata in China.

    W H Ye;H P Mu;H L Cao;X J Ge

  • Using functional trait diversity patterns to disentangle the scale-dependent ecological processes in a subtropical forest

    Hui Zhang;Han Y. H. Chen;Juyu Lian;Robert John

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide

    Yonglin Zhong;Chengjin Chu;Jonathan A. Myers;Gregory S. Gilbert

  • Genetic diversity of Pueraria lobata (kudzu) and closely related taxa as revealed by inter-simple sequence repeat analysis

    J. H. Sun;Z.-C. Li;D. K. Jewett;K. O. Britton

  • Separating the effects of environment and space on tree species distribution: from population to community

    Guojun Lin;Diana Stralberg;Guiquan Gong;Zhongliang Huang

  • Consequences of spatial patterns for coexistence in species-rich plant communities

    Thorsten Wiegand;Xugao Wang;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Norman A. Bourg

  • Phyllosphere bacterial and fungal communities vary with host species identity, plant traits and seasonality in a subtropical forest

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  • Tree aboveground carbon storage correlates with environmental gradients and functional diversity in a tropical forest.

    Yong Shen;Shixiao Yu;Juyu Lian;Hao Shen

  • Forest dynamics of a subtropical monsoon forest in Dinghushan, China: recruitment, mortality and the pace of community change

    Yong Shen;Louis S. Santiago;Lei Ma;Guo-Jun Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhanqing Hao
Zhanqing Hao Northwestern Polytechnical University
Keping Ma
Keping Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Min Cao
Min Cao Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Xiangcheng Mi
Xiangcheng Mi Institute of Botany
I-Fang Sun
I-Fang Sun National Dong Hwa University
Fangliang He
Fangliang He University of Alberta
Richard Condit
Richard Condit Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Xue-Jun Ge
Xue-Jun Ge Chinese Academy of Sciences

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