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48
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9758
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5493
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2011

Christine V. Hawkes 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 Christine V. Hawkes sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 95 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christine V. Hawkes 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 Christine V. Hawkes sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christine V. Hawkes is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a primary focus on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine. They have contributed extensively to subfields including Plant Science, Cell Biology, Neurology, Ecology, and Soil Science.

Their research topics center on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Gut Microbiota and Health, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, as well as Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications.

Christine V. Hawkes has published in a variety of scientific journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Ecology
  • Phytobiomes Journal
  • Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Ecology

They have collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Stephanie N. Kivlin
  • Serita D. Frey
  • Kathryn L. Cottingham
  • Nicholas J. Gotelli
  • Joseph B. Yavitt

Some of their recent publications include:

  • "Plant-soil feedback under drought: does history shape the future?", 2023, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Drought legacy affects microbial community trait distributions related to moisture along a savannah grassland precipitation gradient", 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • "Microbes, memory and moisture: Predicting microbial moisture responses and their impact on carbon cycling", 2022, Functional Ecology
  • "Historical climate legacies on soil respiration persist despite extreme changes in rainfall", 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Symbiosis and stress: how plant microbiomes affect host evolution", 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Plant invasion alters nitrogen cycling by modifying the soil nitrifying community

    Christine Veronica Hawkes;Ian F. Wren;Donald J. Herman;Mary K. Firestone

  • THE IMPACT OF HERBIVORY ON PLANTS IN DIFFERENT RESOURCE CONDITIONS: A META-ANALYSIS

    Christine V. Hawkes;Jon J. Sullivan

  • Global diversity and distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    Stephanie N. Kivlin;Christine Veronica Hawkes;Kathleen K. Treseder

  • Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

    Rachel J. Standish;Richard J. Hobbs;Margaret M. Mayfield;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer

  • Differences in fungal and bacterial physiology alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycling: insights from meta-analysis and theoretical models

    Bonnie G. Waring;Colin Averill;Christine V. Hawkes

  • Fungal community responses to precipitation

    Christine V. Hawkes;Stephanie N. Kivlin;Jennifer D. Rocca;Valerie Huguet

  • Ectomycorrhizal fungi slow soil carbon cycling

    Colin Averill;Christine V. Hawkes

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal assemblages in native plant roots change in the presence of invasive exotic grasses

    Christine Veronica Hawkes;Jayne Belnap;Carla D'Antonio;Mary K. Firestone

  • Resilience vs. historical contingency in microbial responses to environmental change.

    Christine Veronica Hawkes;Timothy H Keitt

  • Are invaders moving targets? The generality and persistence of advantages in size, reproduction, and enemy release in invasive plant species with time since introduction.

    Christine V. Hawkes

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

    Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards;Andy F.S. Taylor

  • Biological soil crusts in a xeric Florida shrubland: composition, abundance, and spatial heterogeneity of crusts with different disturbance histories.

    Christine Veronica Hawkes;V. R. Flechtner

  • INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF FIRE AND MICROHABITAT ON PLANTS OF FLORIDA SCRUB

    Eric S. Menges;Christine Veronica Hawkes

  • Soil temperature affects carbon allocation within arbuscular mycorrhizal networks and carbon transport from plant to fungus

    Christine V. Hawkes;Iain P. Hartley;Phil Ineson;Alastair H. Fitter

  • Plant neighborhood control of arbuscular mycorrhizal community composition

    Natasha Teutsch Hausmann;Christine V. Hawkes

  • Biotic plant–soil feedbacks across temporal scales

    Paul Kardol;Gerlinde B. De Deyn;Etienne Laliberté;Pierre Mariotte

  • Embracing Variability in the Application of Plant–Soil Interactions to the Restoration of Communities and Ecosystems

    Valerie T. Eviner;Christine Veronica Hawkes

  • Historical climate controls soil respiration responses to current soil moisture

    Christine V. Hawkes;Bonnie G. Waring;Bonnie G. Waring;Jennifer D. Rocca;Jennifer D. Rocca;Stephanie N. Kivlin;Stephanie N. Kivlin

  • The relationship between open space and fire for species in a xeric Florida shrubland

    Christine V. Hawkes;Eric S. Menges

  • Boundaries in Miniature: Two Examples from Soil

    Jayne Belnap;Christine Veronica Hawkes;Mary K. Firestone

  • PERSPECTIVE Resilience vs. historical contingency in microbial responses to environmental change

    Christine V. Hawkes;Timothy H. Keitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip A. Fay
Philip A. Fay Agricultural Research Service
Thomas E. Juenger
Thomas E. Juenger The University of Texas at Austin
Kathleen K. Treseder
Kathleen K. Treseder University of California, Irvine
Timothy H. Keitt
Timothy H. Keitt The University of Texas at Austin
Eric S. Menges
Eric S. Menges Archbold Biological Station
Valerie T. Eviner
Valerie T. Eviner University of California, Davis
Mary K. Firestone
Mary K. Firestone University of California, Berkeley
James R. Kiniry
James R. Kiniry Agricultural Research Service
Johannes Rousk
Johannes Rousk Lund University
Jason E. Stajich
Jason E. Stajich University of California, Riverside

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