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D-Index
40
Citations
6409
World Ranking
6108
National Ranking
2078

Adrian V. Rocha publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adrian V. Rocha sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 108 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Adrian V. Rocha D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adrian V. Rocha sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Adrian V. Rocha is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, Rocha's subfields of study cover:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

The primary research topics addressed by Rocha involve:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Rocha has contributed to several recent papers, highlighting different aspects of their research interests:

  • Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth (2022, Science)
  • Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems (2020, Environmental Research Letters)
  • Active layer thickness as a function of soil water content (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene (2022, PNAS Nexus)
  • Soil respiration strongly offsets carbon uptake in Alaska and Northwest Canada (2021, Environmental Research Letters)

Frequently publishing in Environmental Research Letters, Rocha has also appeared in Global Change Biology, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Earth System Science Data, and Science.

Rocha's frequent coauthors include:

  • E. S. Euskirchen
  • Gerald V. Frost
  • M. M. Loranty
  • Susan M. Natali
  • Oliver Sonnentag

Best Publications

  • Patterns of NPP, GPP, Respiration and NEP During Boreal Forest Succession

    Michael L. Goulden;Andrew McMillan;Greg Winston;Adrian Rocha

  • Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence is strongly correlated with terrestrial photosynthesis for a wide variety of biomes: First global analysis based on OCO‐2 and flux tower observations

    Xing Li;Xing Li;Jingfeng Xiao;Binbin He;M. Altaf Arain

  • Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales

    James B. Heffernan;James B. Heffernan;Patricia A. Soranno;Patricia A. Soranno;Michael J. Angilletta;Michael J. Angilletta;Lauren B. Buckley;Lauren B. Buckley

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth

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  • Advantages of a two band EVI calculated from solar and photosynthetically active radiation fluxes

    Adrian V. Rocha;Gaius R. Shaver

  • Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions

    Michael M. Loranty;Benjamin W. Abbott;Daan Blok;Thomas A. Douglas

  • Arctic tundra fires: natural variability and responses to climate change

    Feng Sheng Hu;Philip E Higuera;Paul Duffy;Melissa L Chipman

  • An eddy covariance mesonet to measure the effect of forest age on land–atmosphere exchange

    Michael L. Goulden;Gregory C. Winston;Andrew M. S. McMILLAN;Marcy E. Litvak;Marcy E. Litvak

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Evaluation of Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) snow albedo product (MCD43A) over tundra

    Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang;Crystal B. Schaaf;Crystal B. Schaaf;Mark J. Chopping;Alan H. Strahler

  • Phenological response of tundra plants to background climate variation tested using the International Tundra Experiment

    S F Oberbauer;S C Elmendorf;T G Troxler;R D Hollister

  • CO 2 の純生態系交換量の環北極モデリング

    G R Shaver;E B Rastetter;V Salmon;L E Street

  • The footprint of Alaskan tundra fires during the past half-century: implications for surface properties and radiative forcing

    Adrian V. Rocha;Michael M. Loranty;Philip E. Higuera;Michelle C. Mack

  • Cross-system comparisons elucidate disturbance complexities and generalities

    Debra P. C. Peters;Ariel E. Lugo;F. Stuart Chapin;Steward T. A. Pickett

  • On linking interannual tree ring variability with observations of whole-forest CO 2 flux

    Adrian V. Rocha;Michael L. Goulden;Allison L. Dunn;Steven C. Wofsy

  • Postfire energy exchange in arctic tundra: the importance and climatic implications of burn severity

    Adrian V. Rocha;Gaius R. Shaver

  • Photosynthetic and Water Use Efficiency Responses to Diffuse Radiation by an Aspen-Dominated Northern Hardwood Forest

    Adrian V. Rocha;Hong-Bing Su;Christoph S. Vogel;Hans Peter Schmid

  • Why is marsh productivity so high? New insights from eddy covariance and biomass measurements in a Typha marsh

    Adrian V. Rocha;Michael L. Goulden

  • Disturbance legacies and climate jointly drive tree growth and mortality in an intensively studied boreal forest.

    Benjamin Bond-Lamberty;Adrian Rocha;Katherine V. Calvin;Bruce Holmes

  • Burn severity influences postfire CO2 exchange in arctic tundra.

    Adrian V. Rocha;Gaius R. Shaver

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Gaius R. Shaver
Gaius R. Shaver Marine Biological Laboratory
Edward B. Rastetter
Edward B. Rastetter Marine Biological Laboratory
Eugénie S. Euskirchen
Eugénie S. Euskirchen University of Alaska Fairbanks
Michael L. Goulden
Michael L. Goulden University of California, Irvine
Benjamin W. Abbott
Benjamin W. Abbott Brigham Young University
Donatella Zona
Donatella Zona San Diego State University
Susan M. Natali
Susan M. Natali Woods Hole Research Center
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Masahito Ueyama
Masahito Ueyama Osaka Metropolitan University
Peter M. Lafleur
Peter M. Lafleur Trent University

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