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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
120
Citations
56368
World Ranking
105
National Ranking
41

Andrew D. Richardson publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 376 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Andrew D. Richardson 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 Andrew D. Richardson sits on this spectrum.

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99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award

Overview

Andrew D. Richardson is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications in the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Richardson's work encompasses a range of main topics, specifically:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Key recent publications include:

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites (2021), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Plant carbon allocation in a changing world - challenges and progress: introduction to a Virtual Issue on carbon allocation (2020), New Phytologist
  • Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • FLUXNET-CH 4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands (2021), Earth system science data
  • Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change (2020), Ecological Monographs

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richardson include:

  • David Y. Hollinger
  • Bijan Seyednasrollah
  • Ankur R. Desai
  • Gil Bohrer
  • M. A. Friedl

Their research has been published extensively in specific academic venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • New Phytologist
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Climate change, phenology, and phenological control of vegetation feedbacks to the climate system

    Andrew D. Richardson;Trevor F. Keenan;Mirco Migliavacca;Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu

  • An evaluation of noninvasive methods to estimate foliar chlorophyll content

    Andrew D. Richardson;Shane P. Duigan;Graeme P. Berlyn

  • Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Hank A. Margolis;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise

    Trevor F. Keenan;David Y. Hollinger;Gil Bohrer;Danilo Dragoni

  • Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming

    Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Peylin

  • Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982-2006

    Michael A. White;Kirsten M. de Beurs;Kamel Didan;David W. Inouye

  • Separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and respiration using a light response curve approach: critical issues and global evaluation

    Gitta Lasslop;Markus Reichstein;Dario Papale;Andrew D. Richardson

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Comprehensive comparison of gap-filling techniques for eddy covariance net carbon fluxes

    Antje M. Moffat;Dario Papale;Markus Reichstein;David Y. Hollinger

  • Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

    Andrew D. Richardson;T. Andy Black;Philippe Ciais;Nicolas Delbart

  • Net carbon uptake has increased through warming-induced changes in temperate forest phenology

    Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Josh Gray;Mark A. Friedl;Michael Toomey

  • Nonstructural carbon in woody plants.

    Michael C. Dietze;Anna Sala;Mariah S. Carbone;Claudia I. Czimczik

  • Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations

    F.A. Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao;S.W. Running;J.S. Kimball

  • Use of digital webcam images to track spring green-up in a deciduous broadleaf forest.

    Andrew D. Richardson;Julian P. Jenkins;Bobby H. Braswell;David Y. Hollinger

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

    Xuhui Lee;Michael L. Goulden;David Y. Hollinger;Alan Barr

  • Digital repeat photography for phenological research in forest ecosystems

    Oliver Sonnentag;Oliver Sonnentag;Koen Hufkens;Cory Teshera-Sterne;Adam M. Young

  • Uncertainty in eddy covariance measurements and its application to physiological models

    D. Y. Hollinger;A. D. Richardson

  • Tracking the rhythm of the seasons in the face of global change: phenological research in the 21st century.

    Jeffrey T Morisette;Andrew D Richardson;Alan K Knapp;Jeremy I Fisher

  • Net Carbon Uptake Has Increased through Warming-Induced Changes in Temperate Forest Phenology

    T. F. Keenan;A. D. Richardson;J. M. Gray;M. A. Friedl

Frequent Co-Authors

David Y. Hollinger
David Y. Hollinger US Forest Service
Koen Hufkens
Koen Hufkens Ghent University
Trevor F. Keenan
Trevor F. Keenan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Mark A. Friedl
Mark A. Friedl Boston University
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
J. William Munger
J. William Munger Harvard University
Steve Frolking
Steve Frolking University of New Hampshire
Scott V. Ollinger
Scott V. Ollinger University of New Hampshire

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