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Benjamin D. Stocker

Benjamin D. Stocker

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
32739
World Ranking
4844
National Ranking
121

Benjamin D. Stocker 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 Benjamin D. Stocker sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 132 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Benjamin D. Stocker 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 Benjamin D. Stocker sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Benjamin D. Stocker is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and is primarily engaged in research within Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries, 2023, published in Nature
  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2, 2021, published in Nature
  • The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass, 2021, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics, 2020, published in Nature Plants
  • Eco-evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land-surface models, 2021, published in New Phytologist

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Benjamin D. Stocker include:

  • I. Colin Prentice
  • César Terrer
  • Trevor F. Keenan
  • Sara Vicca
  • Martin G. De Kauwe

Benjamin D. Stocker has contributed to a variety of academic venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature
  • Biogeosciences

The primary research topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

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

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • Global carbon budget 2013

    C. Le Quere;G.P. Peters;R.J. Andres;Robbie M Andrew

  • Aromatic-dependent Salmonella typhimurium are non-virulent and effective as live vaccines.

    Susan K. Hoiseth;B. A. D. Stocker

  • Greening of the Earth and its drivers

    Zaichun Zhu;Zaichun Zhu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Ranga B. Myneni;Mengtian Huang

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

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

  • The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

    Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Michael R. Raupach;Guy Schurgers;Benjamin Smith

  • Global Carbon Budget 2017

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

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries

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  • The global carbon budget 1959-2011

    C. Le Quere;R.J. Andres;T.A. Boden;T. Conway

  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2.

    C. Terrer;C. Terrer;R. P. Phillips;B. A. Hungate;J. Rosende

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

    César Terrer;César Terrer;César Terrer;Robert B. Jackson;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan

  • Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed

    Almut Arneth;Stephen Sitch;Julia Pongratz;B. D. Stocker

  • Drought impacts on terrestrial primary production underestimated by satellite monitoring

    Benjamin D. Stocker;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;I. Colin Prentice

  • Quantifying soil moisture impacts on light use efficiency across biomes.

    Benjamin D. Stocker;Jakob Zscheischler;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;I. Colin Prentice

  • Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate

    David C. Frank;Jan Esper;Christoph C. Raible;Christoph C. Raible;Ulf Büntgen

  • Multiple greenhouse-gas feedbacks from the land biosphere under future climate change scenarios

    Benjamin D. Stocker;Raphael Roth;Fortunat Joos;Renato Spahni

  • Effects of global change during the 21st century on the nitrogen cycle

    D. Fowler;C. E. Steadman;D. Stevenson;M. Coyle

  • Disentangling the role of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance on rising forest water-use efficiency.

    Rossella Guerrieri;Rossella Guerrieri;Soumaya Belmecheri;Scott V. Ollinger;Heidi Asbjornsen

  • Global Carbon Budget 2017 (in open review for Earth System Science Data). doi: 10.5194/essd-2017-123

    C. Le Quéré;R. M. Andrew;P. Friedlingstein;S. Sitch

Frequent Co-Authors

Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Renato Spahni
Renato Spahni University of Bern
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Etsushi Kato
Etsushi Kato Institute of Applied Energy
Andy Wiltshire
Andy Wiltshire Met Office
Sönke Zaehle
Sönke Zaehle Max Planck Society
Nicolas Viovy
Nicolas Viovy French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC

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