2026 Benjamin L. Turner: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	111	942	835	4	4	421	42760

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

1238
Citations
Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage

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

1145
Citations
Inositol phosphates in the environment.

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

942
Citations
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

691
Citations
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

651
Citations
Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectral assignments of phosphorus compounds in soil NaOH–EDTA extracts

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

616
Citations
Chemistry and dynamics of soil organic phosphorus.

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

583
Citations
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

567
Citations
Extraction of soil organic phosphorus.

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

504
Citations
Stoichiometry of microbial carbon use efficiency in soils

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

498
Citations
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

478
Citations
Linkages of plant traits to soil properties and the functioning of temperate grassland

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

452
Citations
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

440
Citations
Biogeochemistry. Phosphorus solubilization in rewetted soils.

Benjamin L. Turner;Philip M. Haygarth

440
Citations
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

428
Citations
Understanding ecosystem retrogression

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

428
Citations
Resource partitioning for soil phosphorus: a hypothesis

Benjamin L. Turner

367
Citations
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

354
Citations
Soil Organic Phosphorus Transformations During Pedogenesis

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

353
Citations
Variation in pH optima of hydrolytic enzyme activities in tropical rain forest soils.

Benjamin L. Turner

348
Citations