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33
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3080
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7967
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61

Yasuhiro Kubota 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 Yasuhiro Kubota sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 118 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yasuhiro Kubota 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 Yasuhiro Kubota sits on this spectrum.

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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

Yasuhiro Kubota is affiliated with the University of the Ryukyus in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans various subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics, such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Forest Management and Policy, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Kubota's recent publications include:

  • "Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages" (2020) published in Ecological Research
  • "Natural Disturbance-Based Forest Management: Moving Beyond Retention and Continuous-Cover Forestry" (2021) published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • "Past and future decline of tropical pelagic biodiversity" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Time Machine Biology: Cross-Timescale Integration of Ecology, Evolution, and Oceanography" (2020) published in Oceanography
  • "Multiple drivers of the COVID-19 spread: The roles of climate, international mobility, and region-specific conditions" (2020) published in PLoS ONE

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kubota include:

  • Buntarou Kusumoto
  • Takayuki Shiono
  • Junichi Fujinuma
  • Werner Ulrich
  • Moriaki Yasuhara

Kubota's work has been published repeatedly in several venues, with the most contributions appearing in Ecological Research. Other frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Ecology and Conservation, and Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.

Best Publications

  • Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages

    Anne Chao;Yasuhiro Kubota;David Zelený;Chun Huo Chiu

  • Natural Disturbance-Based Forest Management: Moving Beyond Retention and Continuous-Cover Forestry

    Timo Kuuluvainen;Per Angelstam;Lee E. Frelich;Kalev Jogiste

  • Past and future decline of tropical pelagic biodiversity

    Moriaki Yasuhara;Chih Lin Wei;Michal Kucera;Mark J. Costello;Mark J. Costello

  • Stand structure and growth patterns of understorey trees in a coniferous forest, Taisetsuzan National Park, northern Japan

    Yasuhiro Kubota;Yasuo Konno;Tsutom Hiura

  • Tree Competition and Species Coexistence in a Sub-boreal Forest, Northern Japan

    Yasuhiro Kubota;Toshihiko Hara

  • Role of climate and geohistorical factors in driving plant richness patterns and endemicity on the east Asian continental islands

    Yasuhiro Kubota;Takayuki Shiono;Buntarou Kusumoto

  • Beta diversity of woody plants in the Japanese archipelago: the roles of geohistorical and ecological processes

    Yasuhiro Kubota;Toshihide Hirao;Shin jiro Fujii;Takayuki Shiono

  • The tangled link between β- and γ-diversity: a Narcissus effect weakens statistical inferences in null model analyses of diversity patterns

    Werner Ulrich;Andres Baselga;Buntarou Kusumoto;Takayuki Shiono

  • Secondary succession and effects of clear-logging on diversity in the subtropical forests on Okinawa Island, southern Japan

    Yasuhiro Kubota;Kenji Katsuda;Kihachiro Kikuzawa

  • Effects of competition mode on spatial pattern dynamics in plant communities

    M. Yokozawa;Y. Kubota;T. Hara

  • Pattern of changes in species diversity, structure and dynamics of forest ecosystems along latitudinal gradients in East Asia

    Masaaki Takyu;Yasuhiro Kubota;Shin-ichiro Aiba;Tatsuyuki Seino

  • Time Machine Biology: Cross-Timescale Integration of Ecology, Evolution, and Oceanography

    Moriaki Yasuhara;Huai-Hsuan May Huang;Pincelli Hull;Marina C. Rillo

  • Global distribution of coral diversity: Biodiversity knowledge gradients related to spatial resolution

    Buntarou Kusumoto;Buntarou Kusumoto;Mark J. Costello;Yasuhiro Kubota;Takayuki Shiono

  • Climatic drivers of trait assembly in woody plants in Japan

    Takayuki Shiono;Buntarou Kusumoto;Ryo Maeshiro;Shin Jiro Fujii

  • Phylogenetic properties of Tertiary relict flora in the east Asian continental islands: imprint of climatic niche conservatism and in situ diversification

    Yasuhiro Kubota;Buntarou Kusumoto;Takayuki Shiono;Takayuki Tanaka

  • A global analysis of avian island diversity-area relationships in the Anthropocene.

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  • Functional response of plant communities to clearcutting: management impacts differ between forest vegetation zones

    Buntarou Kusumoto;Takayuki Shiono;Mai Miyoshi;Ryo Maeshiro

  • Species richness correlates of raw and standardized co‐occurrence metrics

    Werner Ulrich;Yasuhiro Kubota;Buntarou Kusumoto;Andres Baselga

  • Climatic and geographic correlates of global forest tree species–abundance distributions and community evenness

    Werner Ulrich;Buntarou Kusumoto;Takayuki Shiono;Yasuhiro Kubota

  • Environmental filters shaping angiosperm tree assembly along climatic and geographic gradients

    Yasuhiro Kubota;Buntarou Kusumoto;Takayuki Shiono;Werner Ulrich

  • Spatial dynamics of regeneration in a conifer/broad‐leaved forest in northern Japan

    Yasuhiro Kubota

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Ulrich
Werner Ulrich Nicolaus Copernicus University
Thomas J. Matthews
Thomas J. Matthews University of Birmingham
Timo Kuuluvainen
Timo Kuuluvainen University of Helsinki
Mark J. Costello
Mark J. Costello Nord University
Toshihiko Hara
Toshihiko Hara Hokkaido University
Moriaki Yasuhara
Moriaki Yasuhara University of Hong Kong
Andrés Baselga
Andrés Baselga University of Santiago de Compostela
Masayuki Yokozawa
Masayuki Yokozawa Waseda University
Evan P. Economo
Evan P. Economo Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Robert J. Whittaker
Robert J. Whittaker University of Oxford

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