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Bradford P. Wilcox

Bradford P. Wilcox

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Earth Science

D-Index
50
Citations
10527
World Ranking
3367
National Ranking
1340

Overview

Bradford P. Wilcox is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research focuses on a range of topics within this domain, particularly related to plant water relations, soil processes, and ecosystem dynamics in dryland environments.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management

Bradford P. Wilcox has contributed to various subfields of Environmental Science, with the following areas prominently represented in their publication record:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

Their scholarly output includes papers published in frequent venues such as:

  • Ecohydrology
  • Ecological Applications
  • Reading Psychology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Rangeland Ecology & Management

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Keith Smettem
  • Steven P. Loheide
  • Pedro A. M. Leite
  • Shishir Basant
  • Horia G. Olariu

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Bradford P. Wilcox include:

  • Saving imperiled grassland biomes by recoupling fire and grazing: a case study from the Great Plains (2021) published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Ecohydrological connectivity: A unifying framework for understanding how woody plant encroachment alters the water cycle in drylands (2022) published in Frontiers in Environmental Science

Other notable recent works featuring Bradford P. Wilcox's research interests, although not as the primary author, are:

  • Woody plant encroachment enhances soil infiltrability of a semiarid karst savanna (2020) published in Environmental Research Communications
  • Woody Plant Encroachment: Evaluating Methodologies for Semiarid Woody Species Classification from Drone Images (2022) published in Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • VEGETATION PATCHES AND RUNOFF–EROSION AS INTERACTING ECOHYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES IN SEMIARID LANDSCAPES

    John A. Ludwig;Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;David J. Tongway

  • ECOHYDROLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT

    Travis E. Huxman;Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;Russell L. Scott

  • Ecohydrology of water-limited environments: A scientific vision

    Brent D. Newman;Bradford P. Wilcox;Steven R. Archer;David D. Breshears

  • Effects of woody plants on microclimate in a semiarid woodland: soil temperature and evaporation in canopy and intercanopy patches

    David D. Breshears;John W. Nyhan;Christopher E. Heil;Bradford P. Wilcox

  • ECOHYDROLOGY OF A RESOURCE‐CONSERVING SEMIARID WOODLAND: EFFECTS OF SCALE AND DISTURBANCE

    Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;Craig D. Allen

  • Scale and the Nature of Spatial Variability: Field Examples Having Implications for Hydrologic Modeling

    M. S. Seyfried;B. P. Wilcox

  • Viewpoint: Sustainability of pinon-juniper ecosystems - A unifying perspective of soil erosion thresholds

    David W. Davenport;David D. Breshears;Bradford P. Wilcox;Bradford P. Wilcox;Craig D. Allen

  • Runoff and Erosion in a Piñon–Juniper Woodland Influence of Vegetation Patches

    Kevin D. Reid;Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;Lee MacDonald

  • Predicting Runoff From Rangeland Catchments: A Comparison of Two Models

    Bradford P. Wilcox;W. J. Rawls;D. L. Brakensiek;J. Ross Wight

  • Plot‐scale effects on runoff and erosion along a slope degradation gradient

    Mariano Moreno-de las Heras;José M. Nicolau;Luis Merino-Martín;Bradford P. Wilcox

  • Factors influencing infiltrability of semiarid mountain slopes

    B.P. Wilcox;M.K. Wood;J.M. Tromble

  • Evaluation of the Penman-Monteith (FAO 56 PM) Method for Calculating Reference Evapotranspiration Using Limited Data

    Mario Córdova;Galo Carrillo-Rojas;Galo Carrillo-Rojas;Patricio Crespo;Bradford Wilcox

  • Shrub control and streamflow on rangelands: a process based viewpoint.

    Bradford P. Wilcox

  • Emerging Issues in Rangeland Ecohydrology: Vegetation Change and the Water Cycle

    Bradford P. Wilcox;Thomas L. Thurow

  • Lateral subsurface flow pathways in a semiarid Ponderosa pine hillslope

    Brent D. Newman;Andrew R. Campbell;Bradford P. Wilcox

  • Successional stage of biological soil crusts: an accurate indicator of ecohydrological condition

    Jayne Belnap;Bradford P. Wilcox;Matthew W. Van Scoyoc;Susan L. Phillips

  • Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem state change in drylands.

    Laura Turnbull;Brad P. Wilcox;Jayne Belnap;S. Ravi

  • Runoff from a semiarid Ponderosa pine hillslope in New Mexico

    Bradford P. Wilcox;Brent D. Newman;David Brandes;David W. Davenport

  • Woody plant encroachment paradox: Rivers rebound as degraded grasslands convert to woodlands

    Bradford P. Wilcox;Yun Huang

  • Runoff from tropical alpine grasslands increases with areal extent of wetlands

    Giovanny M. Mosquera;Patricio X. Lazo;Rolando Célleri;Bradford P. Wilcox

  • Water erosion monitoring and experimentation for global change studies

    Jean Poesen;J Boardman;B Wilcox;C Valentin

  • Runoff and erosion in intercanopy zones of pinyon-juniper woodlands

    Bradford P. Wilcox

Frequent Co-Authors

David D. Breshears
David D. Breshears University of Arizona
Chris B. Zou
Chris B. Zou Oklahoma State University
Binayak P. Mohanty
Binayak P. Mohanty Texas A&M University
Craig D. Allen
Craig D. Allen University of New Mexico
Mark S. Seyfried
Mark S. Seyfried Agricultural Research Service
John Pitlick
John Pitlick University of Colorado Boulder
Michael H. Young
Michael H. Young The University of Texas at Austin
Russell L. Scott
Russell L. Scott Agricultural Research Service
Steven R. Archer
Steven R. Archer University of Arizona
Urs P. Kreuter
Urs P. Kreuter Texas A&M University

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