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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
78
Citations
43555
World Ranking
888
National Ranking
331

Billie Turner publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Billie Turner sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 180 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Billie Turner 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 Billie Turner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1969 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Billie Turner is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Global and Planetary Change. Their research spans topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, as well as urban-related themes including Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Urban Green Space and Health, and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability.

The scientist has contributed extensively to these fields through multiple recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • "Ten facts about land systems for sustainability" (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Challenges, tasks, and opportunities in modeling agent-based complex systems" (2021) published in Ecological Modelling
  • "From land-use/land-cover to land system science" (2021) published in AMBIO
  • "Demystifying Collapse: Climate, environment, and social agency in pre-modern societies" (2020) published in Millennium
  • "More urbanization, more polarization: evidence from two decades of urban expansion in China" (2024) published in npj Urban Sustainability

Key frequent co-authors include:

  • Volker Grimm
  • Jianguo Liu
  • Li An
  • Michelle Stuhlmacher
  • Yujia Zhang

Turner regularly publishes in venues such as Ecological Modelling, World Development, and the Journal of Land Use Science, with multiple papers appearing in each, as well as contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Their book publications include titles from Agenda Publishing eBooks and Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks, with works such as "The Anthropocene" (2022) and "Guide to Mobility for Livable Pacific Cities: Part 1" (2024).

Billie Turner's work also intersects with subfields like Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Economics and Econometrics.

Awards recognizing their career achievements include:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 1969 and again in 2002
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, awarded in 1998

Best Publications

  • A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science

    B. L. Turner;Roger E. Kasperson;Roger E. Kasperson;Pamela A. Matson;James J. McCarthy

  • The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

    Eric F. Lambin;B.L. Turner;Helmut J. Geist;Samuel B. Agbola

  • Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development

    James F. Reynolds;D. Mark Stafford Smith;Eric F. Lambin;B. L. Turner

  • The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability

    B. L. Turner;Eric F. Lambin;Anette Reenberg

  • Land-use and land-cover change. Science/research plan

    B.L. Turner;D.L. Skole;S. Sanderson;G. Fischer

  • The Earth as transformed by human action : global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years

    Billie Turner;W. C. Clark;R. W. Kates;J. F. Richards

  • HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH AND GLOBAL LAND-USE/COVER CHANGE

    William B. Meyer;B. L. Turner

  • Developing a science of land change: challenges and methodological issues.

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;Stephen J. Walsh;B. L. Turner;Jefferson Fox

  • Changes in land use and land cover: a global perspective

    Williams Meyer;B. L. Turner

  • Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

    Elena M. Bennett;Wolfgang Cramer;Alpina Begossi;Georgina Cundill

  • Illustrating the coupled human-environment system for vulnerability analysis: three case studies.

    B. L. Turner;Pamela A. Matson;James J. McCarthy;Robert W. Corell

  • Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005

    Thomas K. Rudel;Laura Schneider;Maria Uriarte;Billie Turner

  • LAND USE CHANGE AROUND PROTECTED AREAS: MANAGEMENT TO BALANCE HUMAN NEEDS AND ECOLOGICAL FUNCTION

    Ruth DeFries;Andrew Hansen;B. L. Turner;Robin Reid

  • Maritime Hunter-Gatherers: Ecology and Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]

    David R. Yesner;William S. Ayres;David L. Carlson;Richard S. Davis

  • Vulnerability and resilience: Coalescing or paralleling approaches for sustainability science?

    Billie Turner

  • The global impact of land-use change

    D. S. Ojima;K. A. Galvin;B. L.I.I. Turner

  • Middle-range theories of land system change

    P. Meyfroidt;R. Roy Chowdhury;A. de Bremond;A. de Bremond;E.C. Ellis

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

    Unknown

  • Global land-use/land-cover change: towards an integrated study

    Billie Turner;W. B. Meyer;D. L. Skole

  • Relating land use and global land-cover change

    Billie Turner;R. H. Moss;D. L. Skole

  • Paying for Ecosystem Services—Promise and Peril

    A. P. Kinzig;C. Perrings;F. S. Chapin;Stephen Polasky

  • Two types of global environmental change: Definitional and spatial-scale issues in their human dimensions

    B.L. Turner;Roger E. Kasperson;William B. Meyer;Kirstin M. Dow

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution.@@@The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere Over the Past 300 Years.

    A. Mowle;Steve Jones;Robert Martin;David Pilbeam

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Robert W. Kates
Robert W. Kates Clark University
Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Rinku Roy Chowdhury Clark University
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
David L. Skole
David L. Skole Michigan State University
Emilio F. Moran
Emilio F. Moran Michigan State University
Rik Leemans
Rik Leemans Wageningen University & Research
Deborah Lawrence
Deborah Lawrence University of Virginia
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
David R. Foster
David R. Foster Harvard University

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