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48
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24940
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5384
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Anthony P. Walker publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony P. Walker sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 130 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Anthony P. Walker D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony P. Walker sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anthony P. Walker is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their scholarly work predominantly addresses environmental science, with a focus on global and planetary change as well as plant science, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science.

The research topics covered by Walker include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, plant responses to elevated CO2, fire effects on ecosystems, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Walker has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Global Carbon Budget 2020, 2020, Earth System Science Data
  • Global Carbon Budget 2022, 2022, Earth System Science Data
  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world, 2020, Science
  • Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach, 2020, Biogeosciences

Frequent coauthors of Walker include Stephen Sitch, Julia Pongratz, Pierre Friedlingstein, Hanqin Tian, and Sönke Zaehle.

Their publications most commonly appear in these venues:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Biogeosciences
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

    Corinne Le Quéré;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Matthew W. Jones;Michael O'Sullivan;Robbie Andrew

  • Global Carbon Budget 2017

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Brian H. Aukema

  • Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach

    Martin Jung;Christopher Schwalm;Mirco Migliavacca;Sophia Walther

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits – Vcmax and Jmax – to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: a meta-analysis and modeling study

    Anthony P. Walker;Anthony P. Walker;Andrew P. Beckerman;Lianhong Gu;Jens Kattge

  • Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

    Chris Huntingford;Przemyslaw Zelazowski;David Galbraith;David Galbraith;Lina M. Mercado

  • Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon–nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free‐Air CO2 Enrichment studies

    Soenke Zaehle;Belinda E. Medlyn;Martin G. De Kauwe;Anthony P. Walker

  • Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2: a model‐data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Belinda E. Medlyn;Soenke Zaehle;Anthony P. Walker

  • Forest expansion dominates China’s land carbon sink since 1980

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  • Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

    Belinda E Medlyn;Belinda E Medlyn;Sonke Zaehle;Martin G De Kauwe;Anthony P Walker

  • The unseen iceberg: plant roots in arctic tundra

    Colleen M. Iversen;Victoria L. Sloan;Patrick F. Sullivan;Eugenie S. Euskirchen

  • Root structural and functional dynamics in terrestrial biosphere models – evaluation and recommendations

    Jeffrey M. Warren;Paul J. Hanson;Colleen M. Iversen;Jitendra Kumar

  • Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition

    Katrin Fleischer;Anja Rammig;Martin G. De Kauwe;Anthony P. Walker

  • Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites.

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Belinda E. Medlyn;Sönke Zaehle;Anthony P. Walker

  • Model–data synthesis for the next generation of forest free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments

    Richard J. Norby;Martin G. De Kauwe;Tomas F. Domingues;Remko A. Duursma

  • Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: Synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach. In open review for Biogeosciences. doi 10.5194/bg-2019-368

    Martin Jung;Christopher Schwalm;Mirco Migliavacca;Sophia Walther

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Norby
Richard J. Norby University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Belinda E. Medlyn
Belinda E. Medlyn Western Sydney University
Sönke Zaehle
Sönke Zaehle Max Planck Society
Martin G. De Kauwe
Martin G. De Kauwe University of Bristol
Jeffrey M. Warren
Jeffrey M. Warren Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Paul J. Hanson
Paul J. Hanson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Colleen M. Iversen
Colleen M. Iversen Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ram Oren
Ram Oren Duke University

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