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D-Index
42
Citations
7529
World Ranking
7360
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2624

David Medvigy 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 David Medvigy sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 140 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Medvigy 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 David Medvigy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David Medvigy is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research primarily engages with the field of Environmental Science, focusing on understanding ecosystem dynamics, plant function, and climate interactions within tropical and terrestrial environments.

Their work covers a range of subfields including:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Plant Science
  • Soil Science

Medvigy's main topics of research include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Tree-ring Climate Responses
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

They have published extensively in scientific journals and venues such as:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Biogeosciences
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Nature Climate Change

Their recent papers include:

  • "A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Reduced net methane emissions due to microbial methane oxidation in a warmer Arctic," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Beyond leaf habit: generalities in plant function across 97 tropical dry forest tree species," 2021, New Phytologist
  • "Above-ground net primary productivity in regenerating seasonally dry tropical forest: Contributions of rainfall, forest age and soil," 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • "Reduced ecosystem resilience quantifies fine-scale heterogeneity in tropical forest mortality responses to drought," 2021, Global Change Biology

David Medvigy often collaborates with a number of frequent co-authors such as:

  • Jennifer S. Powers
  • German Vargas G.
  • Daniel Peréz-Aviles
  • Bonnie G. Waring
  • Naomi B. Schwartz

Best Publications

  • Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities.

    Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;William R. L. Anderegg;Bradley O. Christoffersen

  • Mechanistic scaling of ecosystem function and dynamics in space and time: Ecosystem Demography model version 2

    D. Medvigy;D. Medvigy;S. C. Wofsy;J. W. Munger;D. Y. Hollinger

  • Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

    Kaiyu Guan;Kaiyu Guan;Ming Pan;Haibin Li;Adam Wolf

  • A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Zhenzhong Zeng;Alan D. Ziegler;Timothy Searchinger;Long Yang

  • Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

    Xiangtao Xu;David Medvigy;Jennifer S. Powers;Justin M. Becknell

  • Will seasonally dry tropical forests be sensitive or resistant to future changes in rainfall regimes

    Kara Allen;Juan Manuel Dupuy;Maria G Gei;Catherine Hulshof

  • Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought-kill and recovery patterns.

    A. T. Trugman;M. Detto;M. K. Bartlett;D. Medvigy

  • Regional dry-season climate changes due to three decades of Amazonian deforestation

    Jaya Khanna;Jaya Khanna;David Medvigy;David Medvigy;Stephan Andreas Fueglistaler;Robert Walko

  • The contributions of land-use change, CO 2 fertilization, and climate variability to the Eastern US carbon sink

    Marco Albani;David Medvigy;George C. Hurtt;Paul R. Moorcroft

  • Soil Moisture Stress as a Major Driver of Carbon Cycle Uncertainty

    A. T. Trugman;D. Medvigy;J. S. Mankin;J. S. Mankin;W. R. L. Anderegg

  • A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species

    Jennifer S. Powers;G German Vargas;Timothy J. Brodribb;Naomi B. Schwartz

  • Terrestrial hydrological controls on land surface phenology of African savannas and woodlands

    Kaiyu Guan;Kaiyu Guan;Eric F. Wood;David Medvigy;John S Kimball

  • Responses of terrestrial ecosystems and carbon budgets to current and future environmental variability

    D. Medvigy;Steven Charles Wofsy;J. William Munger;Paul R Moorcroft

  • Uncertainties in terrestrial carbon budgets related to spring phenology

    Su-Jong Jeong;David Medvigy;Elena Shevliakova;Elena Shevliakova;Sergey Malyshev;Sergey Malyshev

  • Macroscale prediction of autumn leaf coloration throughout the continental United States

    Su‐Jong Jeong;David Medvigy

  • An active atmospheric methane sink in high Arctic mineral cryosols

    M C Y Lau;B T Stackhouse;A C Layton;A Chauhan

  • Reduced net methane emissions due to microbial methane oxidation in a warmer Arctic

    Youmi Oh;Qianlai Zhuang;Licheng Liu;Lisa R. Welp

  • Seasonal carbon dynamics and water fluxes in an Amazon rainforest

    Yeonjoo Kim;Ryan G. Knox;Marcos Longo;David Medvigy

  • Effects of Deforestation on Spatiotemporal Distributions of Precipitation in South America

    David Medvigy;Robert L. Walko;Roni Avissar

  • Predicting ecosystem dynamics at regional scales: an evaluation of a terrestrial biosphere model for the forests of northeastern North America

    David Medvigy;Paul R. Moorcroft

  • The biophysics, ecology, and biogeochemistry of functionally diverse, vertically and horizontally heterogeneous ecosystems: the Ecosystem Demography model, version 2.2 – Part 1: Model description

    Marcos Longo;Marcos Longo;Marcos Longo;Ryan G. Knox;Ryan G. Knox;David M. Medvigy;Naomi M. Levine

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer S. Powers
Jennifer S. Powers University of Minnesota
Robert L. Walko
Robert L. Walko University of Miami
Roni Avissar
Roni Avissar University of Miami
Anna T. Trugman
Anna T. Trugman University of California, Santa Barbara
Tullis C. Onstott
Tullis C. Onstott Princeton University
Marcos Longo
Marcos Longo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kaiyu Guan
Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul R. Moorcroft
Paul R. Moorcroft Harvard University
William R. L. Anderegg
William R. L. Anderegg University of Utah
Su-Jong Jeong
Su-Jong Jeong Seoul National University

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