2026 Ahjond S. Garmestani: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	54	3186	3062	1127	1071	132	9163

Overview

Ahjond S. Garmestani is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. Their research primarily centers on environmental science, with a significant focus on global and planetary change. They have contributed extensively to areas including sustainability and climate change governance, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, land use and ecosystem services, climate change adaptation and migration, disaster management and resilience, coastal and marine management, and complex systems and decision making.

Garmestani's recent publications encompass a range of environmental and sustainability topics. These include:

Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management (2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment)
Global change scenarios in coastal river deltas and their sustainable development implications (2023, Global Environmental Change)
Coerced regimes: management challenges in the Anthropocene (2020, Ecology and Society)
Social vulnerability, social-ecological resilience and coastal governance (2022, Global Sustainability)
Towards a global sustainable development agenda built on social-ecological resilience (2023, Global Sustainability)

The researcher has published frequently in several academic venues, notably:

Ecology and Society
Global Sustainability
Sustainability Science
Global Environmental Change
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Garmestani often collaborates with other researchers, with notable co-authors including:

Craig R. Allen
David G. Angeler
Lance Gunderson
Tarsha Eason
Murray Scown

The scientist's work explores interdisciplinary intersections of environmental science and policy, emphasizing management, monitoring, policy, and law related to ecosystems and climate resilience. Their publications reflect contributions to both theoretical and applied aspects of environmental governance and ecosystem management within the context of ongoing global changes.

Best Publications

Adaptive management for a turbulent future.

Craig R. Allen;Joseph J. Fontaine;Kevin L. Pope;Ahjond S. Garmestani

684
Citations
Panarchy: Theory and Application

Craig R. Allen;David G. Angeler;Ahjond S. Garmestani;Lance H. Gunderson

557
Citations
Transformative Environmental Governance

Brian C Chaffin;Ahjond S Garmestani;Lance H Gunderson;Melinda Harm Benson

416
Citations
A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Ahjond S Garmestani;Melinda Harm Benson

377
Citations
Red Imported Fire Ant Impacts on Wildlife: A Decade of Research

Craig R. Allen;D.M. Epperson;A.S. Garmestani

301
Citations
Patterns in body mass distributions: sifting among alternative hypotheses.

Craig R. Allen;A. S. Garmestani;T. D. Havlicek;P. A. Marquet

213
Citations
Legal and institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance

Daniel A. DeCaro;Brian C. Chaffin;Edella Schlager;Ahjond S. Garmestani

180
Citations
Adaptive governance to promote ecosystem services in urban green spaces

Olivia Odom Green;Ahjond S. Garmestani;Sandra Albro;Natalie C. Ban

179
Citations
Embracing panarchy, building resilience and integrating adaptive management through a rebirth of the National Environmental Policy Act

Melinda Harm Benson;Ahjond S. Garmestani

160
Citations
Discontinuities, cross-scale patterns, and the organization of ecosystems

Kirsty L. Nash;Craig R. Allen;David G. Angeler;Chris Barichievy;Chris Barichievy

157
Citations
Panarchy, Adaptive Management and Governance: Policy Options for Building Resilience

Ahjond S. Garmestani;Craig R. Allen;Heriberto Cabezas

155
Citations
Panarchy: Discontinuities Reveal Similarities in the Dynamic System Structure of Ecological and Social Systems

Ahjond S. Garmestani;Craig R. Allen;Lance Gunderson

145
Citations
A tale of two rain gardens: Barriers and bridges to adaptive management of urban stormwater in Cleveland, Ohio.

Brian C. Chaffin;William D. Shuster;Ahjond S. Garmestani;Brooke Furio

139
Citations
Managing for resilience

Craig R. Allen;Graeme S. Cumming;Ahjond S. Garmestani;Phillip D. Taylor

136
Citations
A quantitative framework for assessing ecological resilience

Didier L. Baho;Craig R. Allen;Ahjond S. Garmestani;Hannah B. Fried-Petersen

125
Citations
Adaptive management of social-ecological systems

Craig R. Allen;Ahjond S. Garmestani

119
Citations
Balancing stability and flexibility in adaptive governance: An analysis of tools available in U.S. environmental law

Robin Kundis Craig;Ahjond S. Garmestani;Craig R. Allen;Craig R. Allen;Craig Anthony Tony Arnold;Craig Anthony Tony Arnold

119
Citations
Raccoon Removal Reduces Sea Turtle Nest Depredation in the Ten Thousand Islands of Florida

Ahjond S. Garmestani;H. Franklin Percival

117
Citations
Social-ecological resilience and law

Ahjond S. Garmestani;Craig R. Allen

117
Citations
A new framework for urban sustainability assessments: Linking complexity, information and policy

Moira L. Zellner;Thomas L. Theis;Arunprakash T. Karunanithi;Ahjond S. Garmestani

111
Citations
An energy systems view of sustainability: emergy evaluation of the San Luis Basin, Colorado.

Daniel E. Campbell;Ahjond S. Garmestani

108
Citations
Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems.

Lance Gunderson;Barbara Cosens;Barbara Cosens;Brian C. Chaffin;Craig Anthony Arnold;Craig Anthony Arnold

106
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig R. Allen University of Nebraska–Lincoln

David G. Angeler Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Lance Gunderson Emory University

William D. Shuster Environmental Protection Agency

Craig A. Stow National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

J. B. Ruhl Vanderbilt University

Dirac Twidwell University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Kirsty L. Nash University of Tasmania

Edella Schlager University of Arizona

Nicholas A. J. Graham Lancaster University

External Links

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