Jérôme Chave

52.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
178 papers, 17.2k citations indexed

About

Jérôme Chave is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jérôme Chave has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 17.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 62 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 49 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Jérôme Chave's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (67 papers), Forest ecology and management (54 papers) and Plant and animal studies (44 papers). Jérôme Chave is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (67 papers), Forest ecology and management (54 papers) and Plant and animal studies (44 papers). Jérôme Chave collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and French Guiana. Jérôme Chave's co-authors include Simon L. Lewis, David A. Coomes, Amy E. Zanne, Nathan G. Swenson, Steven Jansen, Bernard Riéra, Christopher Baraloto, Simon A. Levin, Suzanne Lao and Richard Condit and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jérôme Chave

172 papers receiving 16.6k 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.

Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests

2005 2.6k citations Jérôme Chave et al. profile →
Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

2009 2.3k citations Jérôme Chave, David A. Coomes et al. profile →
Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

2013 681 citations Jérôme Chave, Wilfried Thuiller et al. profile →
Error propagation and scaling for tropical forest biomass estimates

2004 665 citations Jérôme Chave et al. profile →
The Ecology and Evolution of Seed Dispersal: A Theoretical Perspective

2003 625 citations Jérôme Chave et al. profile →
Continental-scale patterns of canopy tree composition and function across Amazonia

2006 516 citations Jérôme Chave, Álvaro Duque et al. profile →
Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon

2020 344 citations Jérôme Chave et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
biomass: an r package for estimating above‐ground biomass and its uncertainty in tropical forests

2017 285 citations Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, Camille Piponiot et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Jérôme Chave	10.5k	7.3k	4.3k	3.4k	3.4k	178	17.2k
David A. Coomes	11.6k 1.1×	8.7k 1.2×	6.0k 1.4×	3.5k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	248	19.4k
David B. Clark	7.5k 0.7×	4.5k 0.6×	4.4k 1.0×	2.6k 0.8×	3.3k 1.0×	128	12.2k
Helene C. Muller‐Landau	10.0k 1.0×	4.3k 0.6×	4.2k 1.0×	4.9k 1.5×	1.3k 0.4×	121	13.7k
Oliver L. Phillips	11.6k 1.1×	11.4k 1.6×	6.6k 1.5×	4.6k 1.4×	2.3k 0.7×	227	24.4k
Richard Condit	11.6k 1.1×	5.1k 0.7×	4.2k 1.0×	5.3k 1.6×	789 0.2×	148	15.6k
Herman H. Shugart	8.1k 0.8×	9.5k 1.3×	6.3k 1.5×	1.7k 0.5×	3.0k 0.9×	273	17.7k
Arturo Sánchez‐Azofeifa	3.2k 0.3×	5.6k 0.8×	5.3k 1.2×	2.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	233	11.9k
Sassan Saatchi	5.7k 0.5×	10.4k 1.4×	8.1k 1.9×	995 0.3×	7.3k 2.2×	269	20.0k
Melinda D. Smith	8.3k 0.8×	8.4k 1.2×	6.5k 1.5×	3.4k 1.0×	394 0.1×	199	17.7k
Juli G. Pausas	13.2k 1.3×	14.1k 1.9×	6.8k 1.6×	5.1k 1.5×	541 0.2×	241	23.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jérôme Chave

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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

Schmitt, Sylvain, Patrick Heuret, Valérie Troispoux, et al.. (2024). Low-frequency somatic mutations are heritable in tropical trees Dicorynia guianensis and Sextonia rubra. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(10). e2313312121–e2313312121. 14 indexed citations

Ciais, Philippe, Yitong Yao, Simon Besnard, et al.. (2024). The global carbon balance of forests based on flux towers and forest age data. Research Square.

Fan, Lei, Philippe Ciais, Rasmus Fensholt, et al.. (2023). First assessment of optical and microwave remotely sensed vegetation proxies in monitoring aboveground carbon in tropical Asia. Remote Sensing of Environment. 293. 113619–113619. 16 indexed citations

Fortunel, Claire, Clément Stahl, Sabrina Coste, et al.. (2023). Thresholds for persistent leaf photochemical damage predict plant drought resilience in a tropical rainforest. New Phytologist. 239(2). 576–591. 10 indexed citations

Peguero, Guille, Jordi Sardans, Dolores Asensio, et al.. (2023). Nutrient‐based species selection is a prevalent driver of community assembly and functional trait space in tropical forests. Journal of Ecology. 111(6). 1218–1230. 16 indexed citations

Brandt, Martin, Thomas Nord‐Larsen, Jérôme Chave, et al.. (2023). The overlooked contribution of trees outside forests to tree cover and woody biomass across Europe. Science Advances. 9(37). eadh4097–eadh4097. 54 indexed citations

Fouquet, Antoine, Miguel Tréfaut Rodrigues, Santiago R. Ron, et al.. (2022). Diversification of the Pristimantis conspicillatus group (Anura: Craugastoridae) within distinct neotropical areas throughout the Neogene. Systematics and Biodiversity. 20(1). 1–16. 6 indexed citations

Iribar, Amaia, et al.. (2022). Soil environmental DNA metabarcoding can quantify local plant diversity for biomonitoring across varied environments. Restoration Ecology. 31(4). 2 indexed citations

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Marcourt, Laurence, Emerson Ferreira Queiroz, Luis-Manuel Quirós-Guerrero, et al.. (2021). Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing Inhibitors from the Endophyte Lasiodiplodia venezuelensis and Evaluation of Their Antivirulence Effects by Metabolomics. Microorganisms. 9(9). 1807–1807. 7 indexed citations

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Urbina, Ifigenia, Oriol Grau, Jordi Sardans, et al.. (2021). High foliar K and P resorption efficiencies in old‐growth tropical forests growing on nutrient‐poor soils. Ecology and Evolution. 11(13). 8969–8982. 26 indexed citations

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Rodrigues, Miguel Tréfaut, Andrew J. Crawford, Santiago Castroviejo‐Fisher, et al.. (2020). Historical biogeography identifies a possible role of Miocene wetlands in the diversification of the Amazonian rocket frogs (Aromobatidae: Allobates). Journal of Biogeography. 47(11). 2472–2482. 32 indexed citations

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Roy, Mélanie, et al.. (2020). A test of community assembly rules using foliar endophytes from a tropical forest canopy. Journal of Ecology. 108(4). 1605–1616. 18 indexed citations

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Meyer, Victoria, Sassan Saatchi, António Ferraz, et al.. (2019). Forest degradation and biomass loss along the Chocó region of Colombia. Carbon Balance and Management. 14(1). 2–2. 30 indexed citations

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Fan, Lei, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2019). Satellite-observed pantropical carbon dynamics. Nature Plants. 5(9). 944–951. 160 indexed citations

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Réjou‐Méchain, Maxime, Nicolas Barbier, Pierre Couteron, et al.. (2019). Upscaling Forest Biomass from Field to Satellite Measurements: Sources of Errors and Ways to Reduce Them. Surveys in Geophysics. 40(4). 881–911. 88 indexed citations

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Zinger, Lucie, Pierre Taberlet, Heidy Schimann, et al.. (2018). Body size determines soil community assembly in a tropical forest. Molecular Ecology. 28(3). 528–543. 136 indexed citations

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Meyer, Victoria, Sassan Saatchi, David B. Clark, et al.. (2018). Canopy area of large trees explains aboveground biomass variations across neotropical forest landscapes. Biogeosciences. 15(11). 3377–3390. 45 indexed citations

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Réjou‐Méchain, Maxime, et al.. (2017). biomass: an r package for estimating above‐ground biomass and its uncertainty in tropical forests. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 8(9). 1163–1167. 285 indexed citations breakdown →

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Feeley, Kenneth J., Stuart J. Davies, Peter S. Ashton, et al.. (2007). The role of gap phase processes in the biomass dynamics of tropical forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 274(1627). 2857–2864. 37 indexed citations

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