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Christopher B. Field

Christopher B. Field

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Ecology and Evolution
USA
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
162
Citations
158983
World Ranking
13
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2013 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Christopher B. Field is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a primary focus on global and planetary change.

The scientist's research spans several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, as well as Renewable Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment. Their work covers a range of topics such as fire effects on ecosystems, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, disaster management and resilience, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, evacuation and crowd dynamics, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Frequent co-authors include Katharine J. Mach, Nona R. Chiariello, Bruce A. Hungate, Peter K. Kitanidis, and Robert B. Jackson.

Christopher B. Field has published regularly in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • PNAS Nexus
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Significant recent papers include:

  • Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests (2020), published in Science
  • The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System (2020), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Barriers and enablers for prescribed burns for wildfire management in California (2020), published in Nature Sustainability
  • Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future (2024), published in PNAS Nexus

The scientist has been recognized with multiple awards and honors throughout their career, including:

  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2014
  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2013
  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2012
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2001

Best Publications

  • Primary Production of the Biosphere: Integrating Terrestrial and Oceanic Components

    Christopher B. Field;Michael J. Behrenfeld;James T. Randerson;Paul Falkowski

  • Climate change 2014 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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  • Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation. Special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente Barros;Thomas F. Stocker;Qin Dahe

  • Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente Barros;Thomas F. Stocker;Qin Dahe

  • Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges

    Elinor Ostrom;Joanna Burger;Christopher B. Field;Richard B. Norgaard

  • Terrestrial ecosystem production: A process model based on global satellite and surface data

    Christopher S. Potter;James T. Randerson;Christopher B. Field;Pamela A. Matson

  • Climate Change 2014: Impacts,Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente R. Barros;Michael D. Mastrandrea;Katharine J. Mach

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks

    Josep G. Canadell;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Christopher B. Field

  • The velocity of climate change

    Scott R. Loarie;Philip B. Duffy;Philip B. Duffy;Healy Hamilton;Gregory P. Asner

  • Energy balance closure at FLUXNET sites

    Kell Wilson;Allen Goldstein;Eva Falge;Marc Aubinet

  • photosynthesis--nitrogen relationship in wild plants

    C. Field;H.A. Mooney

  • Global Scale Climate-Crop Yield Relationships and the Impacts of Recent Warming

    David B Lobell;Christopher B Field

  • A narrow-waveband spectral index that tracks diurnal changes in photosynthetic efficiency

    J.A. Gamon;J. Peñuelas;C.B. Field

  • A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part I: Model Formulation

    P.J. Sellers;D.A. Randall;G.J. Collatz;J.A. Berry

  • Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO2 emissions

    Michael R Raupach;Gregg Marland;Philippe Ciais;Corinne Le Quéré

  • Net-Zero Emissions Energy Systems

    Steven J Davis;Nathan S. Lewis;Matthew Shaner;Sonia Aggarwal

  • Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle

    Edward A. G. Schuur;James Bockheim;Josep G. Canadell;Eugenie Euskirchen

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Crop yield gaps: their importance, magnitudes, and causes.

    David B. Lobell;Kenneth G. Cassman;Christopher B. Field

  • Modeling the Exchanges of Energy, Water, and Carbon Between Continents and the Atmosphere

    P. J. Sellers;R. E. Dickinson;D. A. Randall;A. K. Betts

  • Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

    D. S. Schimel;J. I. House;K. A. Hibbard;P. Bousquet

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold A. Mooney
Harold A. Mooney Stanford University
Katharine J. Mach
Katharine J. Mach University of Miami
David B. Lobell
David B. Lobell Stanford University
James T. Randerson
James T. Randerson University of California, Irvine
Nona R. Chiariello
Nona R. Chiariello Stanford University
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Michael D. Mastrandrea
Michael D. Mastrandrea Stanford University
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University
Bruce A. Hungate
Bruce A. Hungate Northern Arizona University

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