James R. Kellner

6.2k citations

55 papers · 3.6k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 25

Impact in

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.5%
- Forest ecology and management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Environmental Engineering top 0.5%
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Papers in ⓘ

Ecological Modeling 13
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 13
Nature and Landscape Conservation 30
- Forest ecology and management 18
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 17

Co-authors: John Armston (12 shared papers)Laura Duncanson (12 shared papers)David B. Clark (9 shared papers)Ralph Dubayah (10 shared papers)Steven Hancock (9 shared papers)M. A. Hofton (7 shared papers)Gregory P. Asner (10 shared papers)Hao Tang (6 shared papers)
Journals: PLoS ONE (7 papers)Environmental Research Letters (3 papers)Ecological Applications (3 papers)Ecology (3 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Czechia

In The Last Decade

James R. Kellner

54 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space 2022 · 137 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Environmental Research Letters
2020 SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Ralph Dubayah, J. B. Blair, S. J. Goetz, Temilola Fatoyinbo, Matthew C. Hansen, Sean P. Healey, M. A. Hofton, G. C. Hurtt, James R. Kellner, S. B. Luthcke, John Armston, Hao Tang, Laura Duncanson, Steven Hancock, Patrick Jantz, Suzanne Marselis, Paul L. Patterson, Wenlu Qi, Carlos Silva Hit paper breakdown →	2020	764
2	Poleward expansion of mangroves is a threshold response to decreased frequency of extreme cold events Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kyle C. Cavanaugh, James R. Kellner, Alexander J. Forde, Daniel S. Gruner, John D. Parker, Wilfrid Rodriguez, Ilka C. Feller Hit paper breakdown →	2013	422
3	Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ·James B. Heffernan, Patricia A. Soranno, Michael J. Angilletta, Lauren B. Buckley, Daniel S. Gruner, Tim Keitt, James R. Kellner, John S. Kominoski, Adrian V. Rocha, Jingfeng Xiao, Tamara K. Harms, Simon Goring, Lauren Koenig, William H. McDowell, Heather M. Powell, Andrew D. Richardson, Craig A. Stow, Rodrigo Vargas, Kathleen C. Weathers	2014	257
4	The GEDI Simulator: A Large‐Footprint Waveform Lidar Simulator for Calibration and Validation of Spaceborne Missions Earth and Space Science ·Steven Hancock, John Armston, M. A. Hofton, Xiaoli Sun, Hao Tang, Laura Duncanson, James R. Kellner, Ralph Dubayah	2019	205
5	How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Stephen P. Hubbell, Fangliang He, Richard Condit, Luís Borda‐de‐Água, James R. Kellner, Hans ter Steege	2008	199
6	Biomass estimation from simulated GEDI, ICESat-2 and NISAR across environmental gradients in Sonoma County, California Remote Sensing of Environment ·Laura Duncanson, Amy Neuenschwander, Steven Hancock, Nathan Thomas, Temilola Fatoyinbo, Marc Simard, Carlos Alberto Silva, John Armston, S. B. Luthcke, M. A. Hofton, James R. Kellner, Ralph Dubayah	2020	197
7	Tropical forest biomass estimation and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness Journal of Vegetation Science ·David B. Clark, James R. Kellner	2012	145
8	GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space Environmental Research Letters ·Ralph Dubayah, John Armston, Sean P. Healey, Jamis M. Bruening, Paul L. Patterson, James R. Kellner, Laura Duncanson, Svetlana Saarela, Göran Ståhl, Zhiqiang Yang, Hao Tang, J. B. Blair, Temilola Fatoyinbo, S. J. Goetz, Steven Hancock, Matthew C. Hansen, M. A. Hofton, G. C. Hurtt, S. B. Luthcke Hit paper breakdown →	2022	137
9	New Opportunities for Forest Remote Sensing Through Ultra-High-Density Drone Lidar Surveys in Geophysics ·James R. Kellner, John Armston, Markus Birrer, K. C. Cushman, Laura Duncanson, Christoph Eck, Christoph Falleger, Benedikt Imbach, Kamil Král, Martin Krůček, Jan Trochta, Tomáš Vrška, Carlo Zgraggen	2019	125
10	Operational Tree Species Mapping in a Diverse Tropical Forest with Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy PLoS ONE ·Claire A. Baldeck, Gregory P. Asner, Roberta E. Martin, Christopher B. Anderson, David Knapp, James R. Kellner, S. Joseph Wright‬	2015	100
11	Forest Canopy Gap Distributions in the Southern Peruvian Amazon PLoS ONE ·Gregory P. Asner, James R. Kellner, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, David Knapp, Christopher B. Anderson, Roberta E. Martin	2013	100
12	Convergent structural responses of tropical forests to diverse disturbance regimes Ecology Letters ·James R. Kellner, Gregory P. Asner	2009	98
13	Integrating physiological threshold experiments with climate modeling to project mangrove species’ range expansion Global Change Biology ·Kyle C. Cavanaugh, John D. Parker, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Ilka C. Feller, Park Williams, James R. Kellner	2014	96
14	Statistical properties of hybrid estimators proposed for GEDI—NASA’s global ecosystem dynamics investigation Environmental Research Letters ·Paul L. Patterson, Sean P. Healey, Göran Ståhl, Svetlana Saarela, Sören Holm, Hans‐Erik Andersen, Ralph Dubayah, Laura Duncanson, Steven Hancock, John Armston, James R. Kellner, Warren B. Cohen, Zhiqiang Yang	2019	84
15	Pervasive canopy dynamics produce short‐term stability in a tropical rain forest landscape Ecology Letters ·James R. Kellner, David B. Clark, Stephen P. Hubbell	2008	67
16	The Ontogeny of Fluctuating Asymmetry The American Naturalist ·James R. Kellner, Ross A. Alford	2003	66
17	Mapping habitat suitability for at‐risk plant species and its implications for restoration and reintroduction Ecological Applications ·Erin J. Questad, James R. Kellner, Kealoha M. Kinney, Susan Cordell, Gregory P. Asner, Jarrod M. Thaxton, Jennifer Diep, Amanda Uowolo, Sam Brooks, Nikhil Inman-Narahari, Steven A. Evans, Brian Tucker	2013	46
18	Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for GEDI Footprint Aboveground Biomass Density Earth and Space Science ·James R. Kellner, John Armston, Laura Duncanson	2022	44
19	Lasers Without Lost Cities: Using Drone Lidar to Capture Architectural Complexity at Kuelap, Amazonas, Peru Journal of Field Archaeology ·Parker VanValkenburgh, K. C. Cushman, Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, Carol Rojas Vega, Carson Roberts, Charles Kepler, James R. Kellner	2020	37
20	GEDI L4A Footprint Level Aboveground Biomass Density, Version 1 Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics ·Ralph Dubayah, John Armston, James R. Kellner, Laura Duncanson, Sean P. Healey, Paul L. Patterson, Steven Hancock, Hao Tang, Hofton, J. B. Blair, S. B. Luthcke	2021	36

About James R. Kellner

James R. Kellner is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Engineering, Horticulture and Ecology, having authored 55 papers that have together received 3.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (19 papers), Forest ecology and management (18 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (17 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (16 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (5 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.6k citations), Environmental Engineering (1.7k citations), Ecological Modeling (437 citations), Ecology (1.9k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (1.3k citations). James R. Kellner has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Czechia. Frequent co-authors include John Armston, Laura Duncanson, David B. Clark, Ralph Dubayah, Steven Hancock, M. A. Hofton, Gregory P. Asner, Hao Tang, Stephen P. Hubbell and John D. Parker. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, Environmental Research Letters, Ecological Applications, Ecology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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