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Bryan C. Pijanowski publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bryan C. Pijanowski sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 199 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Bryan C. Pijanowski D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bryan C. Pijanowski sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bryan C. Pijanowski is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a notable presence in subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Developmental Biology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Speech and Hearing.

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

  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Music and Audio Processing

Among their recent papers are:

  • The number of tree species on Earth, 2022, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Spatial identification and determinants of trade-offs among multiple land use functions in Jiangsu Province, China, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Dynamics of spatial associations among multiple land use functions and their driving mechanisms: A case study of the Yangtze River Delta region, China, 2022, Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Frequent co-authors working with Bryan C. Pijanowski include:

  • Benjamin L. Gottesman
  • Dante Francomano
  • Javier G. P. Gamarra
  • Peter B. Reich
  • Thomas W. Crowther

Publication venues where their work often appears include:

  • Ecological Indicators
  • Habitat International
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The Science of The Total Environment

In addition to journal publications, Bryan C. Pijanowski has contributed to book publications through Purdue University Press, with a forthcoming work titled Listening to Place expected in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Soundscape Ecology: The Science of Sound in the Landscape

    Bryan C. Pijanowski;Luis J. Villanueva-Rivera;Sarah L. Dumyahn;Almo Farina

  • Comparing the input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change

    Robert Gilmore Pontius;Wideke Boersma;Jean-Christophe Castella;Keith Clarke

  • Using neural networks and GIS to forecast land use changes: a Land Transformation Model

    Bryan C Pijanowski;Daniel G Brown;Bradley A Shellito;Gaurav A Manik

  • What is soundscape ecology? An introduction and overview of an emerging new science

    Bryan C. Pijanowski;Almo Farina;Stuart H. Gage;Sarah L. Dumyahn

  • Forecasting land use change and its environmental impact at a watershed scale.

    Z. Tang;B.A. Engel;B.C. Pijanowski;K.J. Lim

  • Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

    Michael C. Dietze;Andrew Fox;Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Modeling the relationships between land use and land cover on private lands in the Upper Midwest, USA

    D. G. Brown;B. C. Pijanowski;Jiunn-Der Duh

  • The effects of China's cultivated land balance program on potential land productivity at a national scale

    Wei Song;Bryan C. Pijanowski

  • A primer of acoustic analysis for landscape ecologists

    Luis J. Villanueva-Rivera;Bryan C. Pijanowski;Jarrod Doucette;Burak Pekin

  • An urban growth boundary model using neural networks, GIS and radial parameterization: An application to Tehran, Iran

    Amin Tayyebi;Bryan Christopher Pijanowski;Amir Hossein Tayyebi

  • A big data urban growth simulation at a national scale: Configuring the GIS and neural network based Land Transformation Model to run in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment

    Bryan C. Pijanowski;Amin Tayyebi;Jarrod Doucette;Burak K. Pekin

  • The number of tree species on Earth

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  • Calibrating a neural network‐based urban change model for two metropolitan areas of the Upper Midwest of the United States

    Bryan C. Pijanowski;Snehal Pithadia;Bradley Shellito;Konstantinos T. Alexandridis

  • Automated content analysis: Addressing the big literature challenge in ecology and evolution

    Gabriela C. Nunez-Mir;Basil V. Iannone;Bryan C. Pijanowski;Ningning Kong

  • Urban expansion and its consumption of high-quality farmland in Beijing, China

    Wei Song;Bryan C. Pijanowski;Amin Tayyebi;Amin Tayyebi

  • Modeling multiple land use changes using ANN, CART and MARS: Comparing tradeoffs in goodness of fit and explanatory power of data mining tools

    Amin Tayyebi;Amin Tayyebi;Bryan C. Pijanowski

  • Identifying relationships between baseflow geochemistry and land use with synoptic sampling and R-mode factor analysis

    Karen G. Wayland;David T. Long;David W. Hyndman;Bryan C. Pijanowski

  • Soundscape conservation

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  • Evidence for increased monoculture cropping in the Central United States

    James D. Plourde;Bryan C. Pijanowski;Burak K. Pekin

  • The environmental and economic costs of sprawling parking lots in the United States

    Amélie Y. Davis;Amélie Y. Davis;Bryan C. Pijanowski;Kimberly Robinson;Bernard Engel

  • The impact of urban development on hydrologic regime from catchment to basin scales

    Guoxiang Yang;Laura C. Bowling;Keith A. Cherkauer;Bryan C. Pijanowski

  • Exploring the effects of urban and agricultural land use on surface water chemistry, across a regional watershed, using multivariate statistics

    M.L. Fitzpatrick;D.T. Long;B.C. Pijanowski

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Hyndman
David W. Hyndman The University of Texas at Dallas
David T. Long
David T. Long Michigan State University
Stuart H. Gage
Stuart H. Gage Michigan State University
Dennis C. Flanagan
Dennis C. Flanagan Agricultural Research Service
Laura C. Bowling
Laura C. Bowling Purdue University West Lafayette
Bernard A. Engel
Bernard A. Engel Purdue University West Lafayette
Andrew M. Liebhold
Andrew M. Liebhold Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Philip K. Thornton
Philip K. Thornton Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
R. Jan Stevenson
R. Jan Stevenson Michigan State University

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