David M. Bell

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

David M. Bell is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David M. Bell has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 37 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 25 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David M. Bell's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (24 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (21 papers). David M. Bell is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (24 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (21 papers). David M. Bell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Sweden. David M. Bell's co-authors include John B. Bradford, James S. Clark, William K. Lauenroth, Emily Moran, Michelle H. Hersh, Florian Härtig, Warren B. Cohen, Kai Zhu, Daniel R. Schlaepfer and Matthew J. Gregory and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, Remote Sensing of Environment and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David M. Bell

66 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

2016 409 citations James S. Clark, David M. Bell et al. Global Change Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David M. Bell United States	27	1.9k	1.5k	1.0k	687	603	72	2.9k
Heike Lischke Switzerland	31	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	752 0.8×	805 1.2×	816 1.4×	77	3.1k
Stephen N. Matthews United States	25	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	460 0.7×	949 1.6×	82	2.8k
David L. Spittlehouse Canada	27	2.5k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	844 0.8×	988 1.4×	382 0.6×	51	3.5k
Achilleas Psomas Switzerland	22	976 0.5×	788 0.5×	900 0.9×	394 0.6×	608 1.0×	42	2.2k
Christian Piedallu France	19	912 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	561 0.6×	409 0.6×	752 1.2×	40	2.1k
K. Krämer Netherlands	30	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	896 0.9×	631 0.9×	477 0.8×	69	2.8k
Paola Mairota Italy	19	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	388 0.6×	466 0.8×	34	3.1k
Jonathan A. Greenberg United States	26	1.3k 0.7×	884 0.6×	1.6k 1.6×	514 0.7×	864 1.4×	66	3.2k
Tommaso Jucker United Kingdom	32	1.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.4×	990 1.0×	344 0.5×	391 0.6×	74	3.4k
Lara M. Kueppers United States	35	2.5k 1.4×	949 0.6×	759 0.8×	1.2k 1.8×	303 0.5×	86	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by David M. Bell

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David M. Bell

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Krawchuk, Meg A., et al.. (2025). Fire refugia in forest ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, USA : Science and applications for conservation, adaptation, and stewardship. Conservation Science and Practice. 8(1).

Garbarino, Matteo, David M. Bell, Clinton W. Epps, et al.. (2025). Leveraging long‐term data to improve biodiversity monitoring with species distribution models. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(11). 2914–2929.

Lucash, Melissa S., et al.. (2025). Moderate-resolution mapping of aboveground biomass stocks, forest structure, and composition in coastal Alaska and British Columbia. Forest Ecology and Management. 583. 122576–122576. 1 indexed citations

Perret, Daniel, David M. Bell, & Harold S. J. Zald. (2025). Reducing Fire Severity and Extent Bolsters Subalpine Forest Resilience to Global Change Through Key Demographic Pathways. Global Change Biology. 31(2). e70052–e70052. 3 indexed citations

Bell, David M., Matthew J. Gregory, & Zhiqiang Yang. (2024). Hindcasting and updating Landsat-based forest structure mapping across years to support forest management and planning. Forest Ecology and Management. 572. 122239–122239. 5 indexed citations

Myroniuk, Viktor, et al.. (2024). Nationwide remote sensing framework for forest resource assessment in war-affected Ukraine. Forest Ecology and Management. 569. 122156–122156. 9 indexed citations

Li, Yuanheng, Christian Devenish, Mingjie Luo, et al.. (2024). Combining environmental DNA and remote sensing for efficient, fine-scale mapping of arthropod biodiversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1904). 20230123–20230123. 6 indexed citations

Acker, Steven A., et al.. (2023). Classification and Assessment of Riparian Ecosystems in Northwest Oregon for Restoration Planning. Northwest Science. 96(3-4).

Poortinga, Ate, Biplov Bhandari, N. H. Quyen, et al.. (2023). Near Real-Time Mapping of Tropical Forest Disturbance Using SAR and Semantic Segmentation in Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 15(21). 5223–5223. 9 indexed citations

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Perret, Daniel, David M. Bell, Andrew N. Gray, John D. Shaw, & Harold S. J. Zald. (2023). Range-wide population assessments for subalpine fir indicate widespread disturbance-driven decline. Forest Ecology and Management. 542. 121128–121128. 4 indexed citations

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Bell, David M., et al.. (2022). Examining k-Nearest Neighbor Small Area Estimation Across Scales Using National Forest Inventory Data. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5. 7 indexed citations

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Bradford, John B., Robert K. Shriver, Marcos D. Robles, et al.. (2021). Tree mortality response to drought‐density interactions suggests opportunities to enhance drought resistance. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(2). 549–559. 47 indexed citations

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Bell, David M., et al.. (2020). Bridging the Flux Gap: Sap Flow Measurements Reveal Species‐Specific Patterns of Water Use in a Tallgrass Prairie. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(2). 20 indexed citations

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Petrie, Matthew D., John B. Bradford, William K. Lauenroth, et al.. (2020). Non-analog increases to air, surface, and belowground temperature extreme events due to climate change. Climatic Change. 163(4). 2233–2256. 19 indexed citations

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Gaiser, Evelyn E., David M. Bell, Max C. N. Castorani, et al.. (2019). Long-Term Ecological Research and Evolving Frameworks of Disturbance Ecology. BioScience. 70(2). 141–156. 48 indexed citations

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Bell, David M., et al.. (2017). Species interactions weakly modify climate‐induced tree co‐occurrence patterns. Journal of Vegetation Science. 29(1). 52–61. 9 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Robert E., Janet L. Ohmann, Matthew A. Gregory, et al.. (2017). An empirical, integrated forest biomass monitoring system. Environmental Research Letters. 13(2). 25004–25004. 66 indexed citations

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Ward, Eric J., Ram Oren, David M. Bell, et al.. (2012). The effects of elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization on stomatal conductance estimated from 11 years of scaled sap flux measurements at Duke FACE. Tree Physiology. 33(2). 135–151. 52 indexed citations

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Clark, James S., David M. Bell, Michelle H. Hersh, et al.. (2011). Individual-scale variation, species-scale differences: inference needed to understand diversity. Ecology Letters. 14(12). 1273–1287. 130 indexed citations

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Clark, James S., David M. Bell, Chengjin Chu, et al.. (2010). High‐dimensional coexistence based on individual variation: a synthesis of evidence. Ecological Monographs. 80(4). 569–608. 129 indexed citations

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