2026 Yves Basset: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	65	1784	1707	8	8	182	16622

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Panama Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Panama Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Panama Leader Award

Overview

Yves Basset is affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Their research primarily spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a distinctly interdisciplinary approach focusing on ecological and biological diversity.

The scientist's subfields of study include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, and Insect Science. This range highlights a broad engagement with both the theoretical and applied aspects of biological and environmental sciences.

The main topics covered in their work are:

Plant and animal studies
Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Species Distribution and Climate Change
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
Insect and Pesticide Research
Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Yves Basset has contributed to multiple scientific publications and is a frequent author in several venues, including:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Insect Conservation and Diversity
Scientific Reports
Biology Letters
Journal of Animal Ecology

Some of their recent papers include:

"Scientists' warning on climate change and insects" (2022, Ecological Monographs)
"Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward" (2020, Insect Conservation and Diversity)
"International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery" (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
"ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network" (2020, Biological Conservation)
"Comparison of traditional and DNA metabarcoding samples for monitoring tropical soil arthropods (Formicidae, Collembola and Isoptera)" (2022, Scientific Reports)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Greg P. A. Lamarre
Yacksecari Lopez
Héctor Barrios
Filonila Perez
Ricardo Bobadilla

Best Publications

Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest

Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset;Scott E. Miller;George D. Weiblen

832
Citations
Why Are There So Many Species of Herbivorous Insects in Tropical Rainforests

Vojtech Novotny;Pavel Drozd;Scott E. Miller;Miroslav Kulfan

744
Citations
Arthropod diversity in a tropical forest

Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Yves Basset;Lukas Cizek;Lukas Cizek;Philippe Cuenoud;Raphael K. Didham

680
Citations
CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

651
Citations
The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

Matthew L. Forister;Vojtech Novotny;Vojtech Novotny;Anna K. Panorska;Leontine Baje

644
Citations
Rare species in communities of tropical insect herbivores: pondering the mystery of singletons

Vojtech Novotný;Yves Basset

621
Citations
Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

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588
Citations
Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations

Tomas Roslin;Tomas Roslin;Bess Hardwick;Vojtech Novotny;Vojtech Novotny;William K. Petry;William K. Petry

517
Citations
Host specificity of insect herbivores in tropical forests.

Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset

424
Citations
Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward

Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Yves Basset;C. Matilda Collins;Simon R. Leather

422
Citations
Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant–herbivore food webs from a tropical forest

Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Leontine Baje;Solomon Balagawi

380
Citations
Insects on Plants: Diversity of Herbivore Assemblages Revisited

Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset

350
Citations
Low beta diversity of herbivorous insects in tropical forests.

Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Jiri Hulcr;Jiri Hulcr;Richard Arthur Ian Drew

333
Citations
Quantifying uncertainty in estimation of tropical arthropod species richness.

Andrew J. Hamilton;Yves Basset;Kurt K. Benke;Peter S. Grimbacher

329
Citations
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

298
Citations
International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

Jeffrey A. Harvey;Robin Heinen;Inge Armbrecht;Yves Basset

289
Citations
Arthropods of Tropical Forests: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Resource Use in the Canopy

Yves Basset

282
Citations
Phylogenetic dispersion of host use in a tropical insect herbivore community

George D. Weiblen;Campbell O. Webb;Vojtech Novotny;Yves Basset

237
Citations
ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

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

229
Citations
Vertical stratification of arthropod assemblages.

Y. Basset;P. M. Hammond;H. Barrios;J. D. Holloway

221
Citations
Invertebrates in the canopy of tropical rain forests How much do we really know

Yves Basset

189
Citations
Supporting Online Material for Why Are There So Many Species of Herbivorous Insects in Tropical Rainforests

Vojtech Novotny;Pavel Drozd;Scott E. Miller;Miroslav Kulfan

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Vojtech Novotny Czech Academy of Sciences

Scott E. Miller National Museum of Natural History

Raphael K. Didham University of Western Australia

Roger L. Kitching Griffith University

George D. Weiblen University of Minnesota

Lukas Cizek Sewanee: The University of the South

Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University

Owen T. Lewis University of Oxford

Yves Roisin Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruno Corbara University of Clermont Auvergne

External Links

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