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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
155
Citations
100216
World Ranking
22
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2016 - Marsh Award for Climate Change Research, British Ecological Society

Overview

Yadvinder Malhi is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with substantial contributions spanning 398 publications in this field. Key subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work addresses multiple topics, notably Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant and Animal Studies, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Among recent significant papers authored by Yadvinder Malhi is "Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions" published in 2020 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. Other notable publications from 2020 include:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, published in Nature
  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2, published in New Phytologist
  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth, published in Nature
  • Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity, published in Nature Communications

Yadvinder Malhi frequently collaborates with co-authors such as Terhi Riutta, Imma Oliveras Menor, Oliver L. Phillips, Alexander Shenkin, and Noreen Majalap. These collaborators have contributed to a significant number of joint publications, with counts ranging from 27 to 41 papers each.

The scientist's publications appear consistently in prominent venues, including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Nature, and Global Change Biology.

In addition to journal articles, Yadvinder Malhi has contributed to book publications, including the work titled "Tropical Montane Forests in a Changing Environment," published by Frontiers Media in 2021.

Recognition of their contributions includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2017 and receiving the Marsh Award for Climate Change Research from the British Ecological Society in 2016.

Best Publications

  • FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

    Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

  • Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon

    Yadvinder Malhi;J. Timmons Roberts;Richard A. Betts;Timothy J. Killeen

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

    Oliver L. Phillips;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Simon L. Lewis;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Changes in the carbon balance of tropical forests: evidence from long-term plots

    Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Niro Higuchi;William F. Laurance

  • The carbon balance of tropical, temperate and boreal forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;D. D. Baldocchi;P. G. Jarvis

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • Collapse of the world's largest herbivores.

    William J Ripple;Thomas M Newsome;Thomas M Newsome;Christopher Wolf;Rodolfo Dirzo

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

    Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez;Bonaventure Sonké;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Variation in wood density determines spatial patterns in Amazonian forest biomass

    Timothy R. Baker;Timothy R. Baker;Oliver L. Phillips;Yadvinder Malhi;Samuel Almeida

  • Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest.

    Yadvinder Malhi;Luiz E O C Aragão;David Galbraith;Chris Huntingford

  • Photosynthesis: from Light to Biosphere

    John Moncrieff;J. M. Massheder;Yadvinder Malhi;Patrick Meir

  • State of the World's Forests 2001

    A. Hellier;Patrick Meir;Yadvinder Malhi;W. McGhee

  • Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

    William J. Sutherland;Robert P. Freckleton;H. Charles J. Godfray;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Spatial patterns and recent trends in the climate of tropical rainforest regions

    Yadvinder Malhi;James Wright;James Wright

  • Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions.

    Yadvinder Malhi;Janet Franklin;Nathalie Seddon;Martin Solan

  • Tropical forests and atmospheric carbon dioxide

    Yadvinder Malhi;John Grace

  • 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

  • 21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions

    Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Liana O. Anderson;Marisa G. Fonseca;Thais M. Rosan

  • Seasonality of ecosystem respiration and gross primary production as derived from FLUXNET measurements

    Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;John Tenhunen;Marc Aubinet

  • The regional variation of aboveground live biomass in old‐growth Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Daniel Wood;Timothy R. Baker;James Wright

  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Carlos A. Quesada
Carlos A. Quesada National Institute of Amazonian Research
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London

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