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Bridget A. Emmett 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 Bridget A. Emmett sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 274 publications — 89th percentile

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

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

Bridget A. Emmett 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 Bridget A. Emmett sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 79 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% 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

  • 2016 - Marsh Award for Climate Change Research, British Ecological Society

Overview

Bridget A. Emmett is affiliated with the Natural Environment Research Council in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in Soil Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on soil-related topics, including Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Bridget A. Emmett has co-authored extensively with several researchers, frequently collaborating with David A. Robinson, Amy Thomas, Inma Lebron, Fiona M. Seaton, and Simon M. Smart.

Key recent publications demonstrate the breadth of their research topics and include:

  • Soil quality both increases crop production and improves resilience to climate change, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Analytical modelling of soil porosity and bulk density across the soil organic matter and land-use continuum, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Soil health cluster analysis based on national monitoring of soil indicators, 2020, European Journal of Soil Science
  • An integrated spatio-temporal view of riverine biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Long-Term Drought and Warming Alter Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities in an Upland Heathland, 2021, Ecosystems

Bridget A. Emmett frequently publishes in venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, European Journal of Soil Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, and Journal of Ecology.

In 2016, the scientist received the Marsh Award for Climate Change Research from the British Ecological Society.

Best Publications

  • Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis.

    R. Bobbink;K. Hicks;J. Galloway;T. Spranger

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • Nitrogen deposition makes a minor contribution to carbon sequestration in temperate forests

    Knute J. Nadelhoffer;Bridget A. Emmett;Per Gundersen;O. Janne Kjønaas

  • Impact of nitrogen deposition on nitrogen cycling in forests : a synthesis of NITREX data

    Per Gundersen;BA Emmett;OJ Kjonaas;CJ Koopmans

  • Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

    Claus Beier;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Thomas Wohlgemuth;Josep Penuelas

  • Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming

    Joanna C. Carey;Jianwu Tang;Pamela H. Templer;Kevin D. Kroeger

  • Effects of nitrogen deposition and empirical nitrogen critical loads for ecoregions of the United States

    Linda H. Pardo;Mike E. Fenn;Christine L. Goodale;Linda. H. Geiser

  • Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition: responses of multiple plant and soil parameters across contrasting ecosystems in long‐term field experiments

    Gareth K. Phoenix;Bridget A. Emmett;Andrea J. Britton;Simon J. M. Caporn

  • Novel Approaches to Study Climate Change Effects on Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Field: Drought and Passive Nighttime Warming

    Claus Beier;Bridget Emmett;Per Gundersen;Albert Tietema

  • The Response of Soil Processes to Climate Change: Results from Manipulation Studies of Shrublands Across an Environmental Gradient

    Bridget A. Emmett;Claus Beier;Marc Estiarte;Albert Tietema

  • Modeled interactive effects of precipitation, temperature, and [CO2] on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones

    Yiqi Luo;Dieter Gerten;Guerric Le Maire;William J. Parton

  • UK National Ecosystem Assessment:understanding nature's value to society. Synthesis of key findings

    R. Watson;S. Albon;R. Aspinall;M. Austen

  • Response of plant species richness and primary productivity in shrublands along a north–south gradient in Europe to seven years of experimental warming and drought: reductions in primary productivity in the heat and drought year of 2003

    Josep Peñuelas;Patricia Prieto;Claus Beier;Carla Cesaraccio

  • Nonintrusive Field Experiments Show Different Plant Responses to Warming and Drought Among Sites, Seasons, and Species in a North–South European Gradient

    Josep Peñuelas;Carmen Gordon;Laura Llorens;T. Nielsen

  • UK National Ecosystem Assessment:Technical report

    R Watson;S Albon;R Aspinall;M Austen

  • Acidity promotes degradation of multi-species environmental DNA in lotic mesocosms

    Mathew Seymour;Isabelle Durance;Bernard J. Cosby;Emma Ransom-Jones

  • Sinks for nitrogen inputs in terrestrial ecosystems: a meta‐analysis of 15N tracer field studies

    P. H. Templer;M. C. Mack;F. S. Chapin;L. M. Christenson

  • Predicting the Effects of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in Conifer Stands: Evidence from the NITREX Ecosystem-Scale Experiments

    B. A. Emmett;D. Boxman;M. Bredemeier;P. Gundersen

  • Countryside survey : UK headline messages from 2007

    P. D. Carey;S. M. Wallis;B. Emmett;L. C. Maskell

  • Stocks and flows of natural and human-derived capital in ecosystem services

    L Jones;L Norton;Z Austin;Z Austin;A L Browne;A L Browne

  • Challenges in quantifying biosphere–atmosphere exchange of nitrogen species

    M.A. Sutton;E. Nemitz;J.W Erisman;C. Beier

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert Tietema
Albert Tietema University of Amsterdam
Brian Reynolds
Brian Reynolds Bangor University
Claus Beier
Claus Beier University of Copenhagen
Simon M. Smart
Simon M. Smart Lancaster University
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Marc Estiarte
Marc Estiarte Spanish National Research Council
David A. Robinson
David A. Robinson UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Chris D. Evans
Chris D. Evans UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Inger Kappel Schmidt
Inger Kappel Schmidt University of Copenhagen
Davey L. Jones
Davey L. Jones Bangor University

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