Reuben Nilus

7.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Reuben Nilus is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Reuben Nilus has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 17 papers in Ecology and 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Reuben Nilus's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (32 papers), Forest ecology and management (23 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). Reuben Nilus is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (32 papers), Forest ecology and management (23 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). Reuben Nilus collaborates with scholars based in Malaysia, United Kingdom and United States. Reuben Nilus's co-authors include David F. R. P. Burslem, Edgar C. Turner, Marion Pfeifer, Robert M. Ewers, Ralf Toumi, Stephen R. Hardwick, David A. Coomes, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis and Lindsay F. Banin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Reuben Nilus

56 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The relationship between leaf area index and microclimate in tropical forest and oil palm plantation: Forest disturbance drives changes in microclimate

2014 315 citations Stephen R. Hardwick, Ralf Toumi et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →
Topography shapes the structure, composition and function of tropical forest landscapes

2018 263 citations David F. R. P. Burslem, Reuben Nilus et al. profile →
Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity

2021 210 citations Martin Ehbrecht, Dominik Seidel et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Reuben Nilus Malaysia	25	1.6k	1.1k	853	545	533	59	2.6k
Abel Monteagudo United Kingdom	17	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	432 0.5×	317 0.6×	457 0.9×	23	2.3k
Julio Calvo‐Alvarado Costa Rica	23	991 0.6×	965 0.9×	825 1.0×	324 0.6×	459 0.9×	47	2.2k
Rolando Pérez United States	17	1.6k 1.0×	927 0.9×	442 0.5×	389 0.7×	534 1.0×	28	2.1k
Juan Manuel Dupuy Mexico	24	1.2k 0.8×	823 0.8×	622 0.7×	284 0.5×	373 0.7×	62	2.0k
Christophe Andalo France	19	2.2k 1.4×	1.5k 1.5×	792 0.9×	792 1.5×	635 1.2×	31	3.6k
Adeline Fayolle Belgium	28	1.6k 1.0×	1000 0.9×	520 0.6×	324 0.6×	608 1.1×	99	2.5k
Lilian Blanc France	28	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	610 0.7×	574 1.1×	302 0.6×	66	2.3k
Tommaso Jucker United Kingdom	32	2.1k 1.3×	1.7k 1.7×	990 1.2×	602 1.1×	435 0.8×	74	3.4k
Shin‐ichiro Aiba Japan	24	1.7k 1.1×	856 0.8×	566 0.7×	169 0.3×	513 1.0×	62	2.5k
Lauren T. Bennett Australia	33	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	990 1.2×	278 0.5×	205 0.4×	90	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Reuben Nilus

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Shenkin, Alexander, Phil Wilkes, Mathias Disney, et al.. (2025). Investigating the accuracy of tropical woody stem CO ₂ efflux estimates: scaling methods, and vertical and diel variation. New Phytologist. 246(5). 2004–2014. 1 indexed citations

Quintela‐Sabarís, Celestino, Michel‐Pierre Faucon, Sukaibin Sumail, et al.. (2025). Nickel hyperaccumulation is independent of the leaf economics spectrum, although it may be linked to plant water balance in an ultramafic plant community from Sabah (Malaysia). Plant and Soil. 513(2). 2501–2517.

Bartholomew, David C., David F. R. P. Burslem, Paulo Bittencourt, et al.. (2024). Bornean tropical forests recovering from logging at risk of regeneration failure. Global Change Biology. 30(3). e17209–e17209. 6 indexed citations

Nilus, Reuben, et al.. (2023). A Demi-decade of Mammal Research: A Rapid Assessment within the Heart of Borneo in Sabah. Tropical Life Sciences Research. 34(1). 261–277.

Riutta, Terhi, et al.. (2023). Radial and vertical variation of wood nutrients in Bornean tropical forest trees. Biotropica. 55(5). 1019–1032. 6 indexed citations

Waite, Catherine E., Geertje van der Heijden, Richard Field, et al.. (2022). Landscape‐scale drivers of liana load across a Southeast Asian forest canopy differ to the Neotropics. Journal of Ecology. 111(1). 77–89. 7 indexed citations

Bartholomew, David C., Lindsay F. Banin, Paulo Bittencourt, et al.. (2022). Differential nutrient limitation and tree height control leaf physiology, supporting niche partitioning in tropical dipterocarp forests. Functional Ecology. 36(8). 2084–2103. 18 indexed citations

Malhi, Yadvinder, Terhi Riutta, Oliver R. Wearn, et al.. (2022). Logged tropical forests have amplified and diverse ecosystem energetics. Nature. 612(7941). 707–713. 42 indexed citations

Banin, Lindsay F., David F. R. P. Burslem, Daniel S. Chapman, et al.. (2021). Three decades of post-logging tree community recovery in naturally regenerating and actively restored dipterocarp forest in Borneo. Forest Ecology and Management. 488. 119036–119036. 25 indexed citations

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Heijden, Geertje van der, Doreen S. Boyd, Mark Cutler, et al.. (2021). Remote sensing liana infestation in an aseasonal tropical forest: addressing mismatch in spatial units of analyses. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 7(3). 397–410. 7 indexed citations

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Ehbrecht, Martin, Dominik Seidel, Peter Annighöfer, et al.. (2021). Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity. Nature Communications. 12(1). 519–519. 210 indexed citations breakdown →

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Khoo, Eyen, John B. Sugau, Reuben Nilus, et al.. (2020). Conservation assessment and spatial distribution of endemic orchids in Sabah, Borneo. Nature Conservation Research. 5(Suppl.1). 19 indexed citations

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Qie, Lan, et al.. (2019). Impending Regeneration Failure of the IUCN Vulnerable Borneo Ironwood ( Eusideroxylon zwageri ). Tropical Conservation Science. 12. 5 indexed citations

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Quintela‐Sabarís, Celestino, Jean‐François Masfaraud, Geoffroy Séré, et al.. (2019). Effects of reclamation effort on the recovery of ecosystem functions of a tropical degraded serpentinite dump site. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 200. 139–151. 12 indexed citations

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Quintela‐Sabarís, Celestino, Sukaibin Sumail, Jean‐François Masfaraud, et al.. (2019). Recovery of ultramafic soil functions and plant communities along an age-gradient of the actinorhizal tree Ceuthostoma terminale (Casuarinaceae) in Sabah (Malaysia). Plant and Soil. 440(1-2). 201–218. 3 indexed citations

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Hardwick, Stephen R., Ralf Toumi, Marion Pfeifer, et al.. (2014). The relationship between leaf area index and microclimate in tropical forest and oil palm plantation: Forest disturbance drives changes in microclimate. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 201. 187–195. 315 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chung, Arthur Y. C., Colin R. Maycock, Eyen Khoo, et al.. (2013). New records of insects associated with Bornean endemic dipterocarp seedlings.. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL FOREST SCIENCE. 25(1). 5–11. 2 indexed citations

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Nilus, Reuben, Colin R. Maycock, Noreen Majalap‐Lee, & David F. R. P. Burslem. (2011). Nutrient limitation of tree seedling growth in three soil types found in Sabah.. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL FOREST SCIENCE. 23(2). 133–142. 7 indexed citations

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Eichhorn, Markus P., Reuben Nilus, Stephen G. Compton, Susan E. Hartley, & David F. R. P. Burslem. (2010). Herbivory of tropical rain forest tree seedlings correlates with future mortality. Ecology. 91(4). 1092–1101. 60 indexed citations

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Edwards, David P., et al.. (2009). The Value of Rehabilitating Logged Rainforest for Birds. Conservation Biology. 23(6). 1628–1633. 54 indexed citations

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