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Biology and Biochemistry
Korea
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
111
Citations
42760
World Ranking
942
National Ranking
4

Benjamin L. Turner publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin L. Turner sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 421 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Benjamin L. Turner D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin L. Turner sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 111 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
  • 2016 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients. Science 345: 1602–1605 (2014)

Overview

Benjamin L. Turner is affiliated with Gyeongsang National University in South Korea. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to environmental science. Key subfields include plant science, soil science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology
  • Silicon effects in agriculture
  • Forest ecology and management

Benjamin L. Turner has published in several frequent venues including:

  • Plant and Soil
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Among their recent papers are:

  • "The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "Nitrogen deposition accelerates soil carbon sequestration in tropical forests" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Soil carbon loss by experimental warming in a tropical forest" (2020, Nature)
  • "Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests" (2021, Science)
  • "The Role of Phosphorus Limitation in Shaping Soil Bacterial Communities and Their Metabolic Capabilities" (2020, mBio)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Benjamin L. Turner include:

  • Hans Lambers
  • Pil Joo Kim
  • Étienne Laliberté
  • Q. Lena
  • Hyeon Ji Song

Turner has received recognition through awards such as the Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) in 2018 and the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2016, which cited work on environmental filtering and plant diversity along resource gradients.

Best Publications

  • Drought sensitivity shapes species distribution patterns in tropical forests.

    Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Liza S. Comita;Richard S. Condit;Thomas A. Kursar;Thomas A. Kursar

  • Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage

    Colin Averill;Benjamin L. Turner;Adrien C. Finzi

  • Inositol phosphates in the environment.

    Benjamin Luke Turner;Michael J Paphazy;Philip M Haygarth;Ian D McKelvie

  • Potassium, phosphorus, or nitrogen limit root allocation, tree growth, or litter production in a lowland tropical forest

    S. Joseph Wright;Joseph B. Yavitt;Nina Wurzburger;Nina Wurzburger;Benjamin L. Turner

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectral assignments of phosphorus compounds in soil NaOH–EDTA extracts

    Benjamin L. Turner;Nathalie Mahieu;Leo M. Condron

  • Chemistry and dynamics of soil organic phosphorus.

    Leo M. Condron;Benjamin L. Turner;Barbara J. Cade-Menun

  • Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

    Richard Condit;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Delicia Pino;Rolando Pérez

  • Extraction of soil organic phosphorus.

    Benjamin L. Turner;Barbara J. Cade-Menun;Leo M. Condron;Susan Newman

  • Stoichiometry of microbial carbon use efficiency in soils

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Benjamin L. Turner;Jennifer M. Talbot;Bonnie G. Waring

  • The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems

    Angela M. Oliverio;Angela M. Oliverio;Stefan Geisen;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Fernando T. Maestre;Fernando T. Maestre

  • Linkages of plant traits to soil properties and the functioning of temperate grassland

    Kate H. Orwin;Sarah M. Buckland;David Johnson;Benjamin L. Turner

  • Changes in enzyme activities and soil microbial community composition along carbon and nutrient gradients at the Franz Josef chronosequence, New Zealand

    V.J. Allison;L.M. Condron;D.A. Peltzer;S.J. Richardson

  • Biogeochemistry. Phosphorus solubilization in rewetted soils.

    Benjamin L. Turner;Philip M. Haygarth

  • Plant-soil feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate shrublands

    François P. Teste;François P. Teste;Paul Kardol;Benjamin L. Turner;Benjamin L. Turner;David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle

  • Understanding ecosystem retrogression

    Duane A. Peltzer;David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle;Victoria J. Allison;W. Troy Baisden

  • Resource partitioning for soil phosphorus: a hypothesis

    Benjamin L. Turner

  • The phosphorus transfer continuum : linking source to impact with an interdisciplinary and multi-scaled approach

    Phillip M. Haygarth;Leo M. Condron;A. L. Heathwaite;Benjamin L. Turner

  • Soil Organic Phosphorus Transformations During Pedogenesis

    Benjamin L. Turner;Leo M. Condron;Sarah J. Richardson;Duane A. Peltzer

  • Variation in pH optima of hydrolytic enzyme activities in tropical rain forest soils.

    Benjamin L. Turner

Frequent Co-Authors

James W. Dalling
James W. Dalling University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Etienne Laliberté
Etienne Laliberté University of Montreal
Leo M. Condron
Leo M. Condron Lincoln University
Philip M. Haygarth
Philip M. Haygarth Lancaster University
Klaus Winter
Klaus Winter Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Sofie Sjögersten
Sofie Sjögersten University of Nottingham
S. Joseph Wright
S. Joseph Wright Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Kyle E. Harms
Kyle E. Harms Louisiana State University
Hans Lambers
Hans Lambers University of Western Australia

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AgResearch

Publications: 57

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