David A. Coomes

42.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
248 papers, 19.4k citations indexed

About

David A. Coomes is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Coomes has authored 248 papers receiving a total of 19.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 165 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 113 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 92 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David A. Coomes's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (112 papers), Forest ecology and management (82 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (58 papers). David A. Coomes is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (112 papers), Forest ecology and management (82 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (58 papers). David A. Coomes collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand. David A. Coomes's co-authors include P. J. Grubb, Robert B. Allen, Amy E. Zanne, Simon L. Lewis, Nathan G. Swenson, Jérôme Chave, Steven Jansen, Tommaso Jucker, Mindy M. Syfert and Olivier Bouriaud and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David A. Coomes

243 papers receiving 18.8k citations

Hit Papers

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum 2000 2026 2008 2017 2009 2010 2000 2013 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum
    2009 2.3k citations Jérôme Chave, David A. Coomes et al. profile →
  2. Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges Beyond 2010
    2010 816 citations David A. Coomes et al. profile →
  3. IMPACTS OF ROOT COMPETITION IN FORESTS AND WOODLANDS: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND REVIEW OF EXPERIMENTS
    2000 535 citations David A. Coomes et al. profile →
  4. The Effects of Sampling Bias and Model Complexity on the Predictive Performance of MaxEnt Species Distribution Models
    2013 460 citations David A. Coomes et al. profile →
  5. Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature
    2013 345 citations David A. Coomes et al. Journal of Ecology profile →
  6. Crown plasticity enables trees to optimize canopy packing in mixed‐species forests
    2015 299 citations Tommaso Jucker, Olivier Bouriaud et al. profile →
  7. Topography shapes the structure, composition and function of tropical forest landscapes
    2018 263 citations Tommaso Jucker, Michele Dalponte et al. profile →
  8. Advances in Microclimate Ecology Arising from Remote Sensing
    2019 258 citations Florian Zellweger, David A. Coomes et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David A. Coomes United Kingdom 70 11.6k 8.7k 6.0k 3.5k 2.7k 248 19.4k
Oliver L. Phillips United Kingdom 71 11.6k 1.0× 11.4k 1.3× 6.6k 1.1× 4.6k 1.3× 2.3k 0.8× 227 24.4k
Jérôme Chave France 57 10.5k 0.9× 7.3k 0.8× 4.3k 0.7× 3.4k 1.0× 3.4k 1.2× 178 17.2k
Robin L. Chazdon United States 81 13.4k 1.2× 11.6k 1.3× 7.4k 1.2× 6.3k 1.8× 1.9k 0.7× 232 25.6k
Herman H. Shugart United States 67 8.1k 0.7× 9.5k 1.1× 6.3k 1.1× 1.7k 0.5× 3.0k 1.1× 273 17.7k
Charles D. Canham United States 76 13.0k 1.1× 8.6k 1.0× 5.3k 0.9× 3.4k 0.9× 778 0.3× 158 18.7k
Kris Verheyen Belgium 65 9.0k 0.8× 5.9k 0.7× 4.5k 0.7× 4.6k 1.3× 809 0.3× 547 18.2k
Christian Messier Canada 65 10.5k 0.9× 10.3k 1.2× 3.5k 0.6× 2.0k 0.6× 1.1k 0.4× 364 17.7k
Jerry F. Franklin United States 75 14.6k 1.3× 17.3k 2.0× 10.0k 1.7× 3.0k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 222 27.1k
Rupert Seidl Germany 64 8.1k 0.7× 11.4k 1.3× 5.4k 0.9× 1.3k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 185 16.6k
Martin Hermy Belgium 71 10.3k 0.9× 4.8k 0.6× 5.2k 0.9× 5.9k 1.7× 1.7k 0.6× 410 18.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Swinfield, Tom, David A. Coomes, Patrick Ferris, et al.. (2025). Learning lessons from over-crediting to ensure additionality in forest carbon credits. 1 indexed citations
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Bonnet, Pierre, et al.. (2025). Using reflectance spectra and Pl@ntNet to identify herbarium specimens: a case study with Lithocarpus. New Phytologist. 1 indexed citations
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Jackson, Toby, Fabian Jörg Fischer, Grégoire Vincent, et al.. (2024). Tall Bornean forests experience higher canopy disturbance rates than those in the eastern Amazon or Guiana shield. Global Change Biology. 30(9). e17493–e17493. 6 indexed citations
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Máliš, Frantíšek, Karol Ujházy, Lucia Hederová, et al.. (2023). Microclimate variation and recovery time in managed and old-growth temperate forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 342. 109722–109722. 15 indexed citations
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Coomes, David A., et al.. (2023). Computational tools for assessing forest recovery with GEDI shots and forest change maps. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 100106–100106. 9 indexed citations
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Kalamandeen, Michelle, et al.. (2023). Reconstructing 34 Years of Fire History in the Wet, Subtropical Vegetation of Hong Kong Using Landsat. Remote Sensing. 15(6). 1489–1489. 9 indexed citations
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Ball, James, Toby Jackson, William I. Jay, et al.. (2023). Accurate delineation of individual tree crowns in tropical forests from aerial RGB imagery using Mask R‐CNN. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(5). 641–655. 29 indexed citations
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Bicknell, Jake E., J.R. O’Hanley, Paul R. Armsworth, et al.. (2023). Enhancing the ecological value of oil palm agriculture through set-asides. Nature Sustainability. 6(5). 513–525. 14 indexed citations
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Coomes, David A., et al.. (2023). Unsupervised Diffusion and Volume Maximization-Based Clustering of Hyperspectral Images. Remote Sensing. 15(4). 1053–1053. 12 indexed citations
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Ball, James, David A. Coomes, Nikolai Knapp, et al.. (2023). Benchmarking airborne laser scanning tree segmentation algorithms in broadleaf forests shows high accuracy only for canopy trees. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 123. 103490–103490. 17 indexed citations
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Ball, James, et al.. (2022). Using deep convolutional neural networks to forecast spatial patterns of Amazonian deforestation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(11). 2622–2634. 15 indexed citations
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Görgens, Eric Bastos, Matheus Henrique Nunes, Toby Jackson, et al.. (2020). Resource availability and disturbance shape maximum tree height across the Amazon. Global Change Biology. 27(1). 177–189. 42 indexed citations
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Jucker, Tommaso, Julia Koricheva, Leena Finér, et al.. (2020). Good things take time—Diversity effects on tree growth shift from negative to positive during stand development in boreal forests. Journal of Ecology. 108(6). 2198–2211. 34 indexed citations
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Stereńczak, Krzysztof, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Gherardo Chirici, et al.. (2020). Global Airborne Laser Scanning Data Providers Database (GlobALS)—A New Tool for Monitoring Ecosystems and Biodiversity. Remote Sensing. 12(11). 1877–1877. 18 indexed citations
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Bernard, Henry, Marc Ancrenaz, David A. Coomes, et al.. (2019). Densities of Bornean orang‐utans (Pongo pygmaeus morio) in heavily degraded forest and oil palm plantations in Sabah, Borneo. American Journal of Primatology. 81(8). e23030–e23030. 21 indexed citations
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Aubry‐Kientz, Mélaine, António Ferraz, Sassan Saatchi, et al.. (2019). A Comparative Assessment of the Performance of Individual Tree Crowns Delineation Algorithms from ALS Data in Tropical Forests. Remote Sensing. 11(9). 1086–1086. 79 indexed citations
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Morris, Hugh, Mark A. F. Gillingham, Lenka Plavcová, et al.. (2017). Vessel diameter is related to amount and spatial arrangement of axial parenchyma in woody angiosperms. Plant Cell & Environment. 41(1). 245–260. 96 indexed citations
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Smale, M. C., et al.. (2016). Post‐volcanic forest succession on New Zealand's North Island: an appraisal from long‐term plot data. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 54(1). 11–29. 3 indexed citations
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Jucker, Tommaso, Olivier Bouriaud, Daniel Avăcăriței, et al.. (2014). Competition for light and water play contrasting roles in driving diversity–productivity relationships in Iberian forests. Journal of Ecology. 102(5). 1202–1213. 170 indexed citations
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Forsyth, David M., David A. Coomes, Graham Nugent, & Graeme M. J. Hall. (2002). Diet and diet preferences of introduced ungulates (Order: Artiodactyla) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 29(4). 323–343. 86 indexed citations

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