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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
119
Citations
57206
World Ranking
109
National Ranking
43

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
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

David S. Schimel is affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular emphasis on subfields such as global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, ecological modeling, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Charles E. Miller
  • Benjamin Poulter
  • A. Anthony Bloom
  • K. W. Bowman
  • Junjie Liu

David S. Schimel has published extensively in various venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • AGU Advances
  • Ecological Applications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Among recent papers are:

  • Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century, 2021, Science Advances
  • NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Societal shifts due to COVID-19 reveal large-scale complexities and feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry and climate change, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Carbon Monitoring System Flux Net Biosphere Exchange 2020 (CMS-Flux NBE 2020), 2021, Earth system science data

David S. Schimel has contributed to book publications, including a work titled Natural Resource Management Reimagined, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

The scientist has been recognized by professional societies with several awards, such as:

  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), awarded in 2012
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), awarded in 2010

Best Publications

  • Analysis of factors controlling soil organic matter levels in Great Plains grasslands

    W. J. Parton;D. S. Schimel;C. V. Cole;D. S. Ojima

  • Terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle

    David S. Schimel

  • Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

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

  • Observations and modeling of biomass and soil organic matter dynamics for the grassland biome worldwide

    W. J. Parton;J. M. O. Scurlock;D. S. Ojima;T. G. Gilmanov

  • Climatic, edaphic, and biotic controls over storage and turnover of carbon in soils

    David S. Schimel;B. H. Braswell;Elisabeth A. Holland;Rebecca McKeown

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • Methane and nitrous oxide fluxes in native, fertilized and cultivated grasslands

    A. Mosier;D. Schimel;D. Valentine;K. Bronson

  • Texture, climate, and cultivation effects on soil organic matter content in U.S. grassland soils

    I C Burke;C M Yonker;W J Parton;C V Cole

  • Global patterns of terrestrial biological nitrogen (N2) fixation in natural ecosystems

    Cory C. Cleveland;Alan R. Townsend;David S. Schimel;Hank Fisher

  • Consistent land- and atmosphere-based U.S. carbon sink estimates.

    S. W. Pacala;G. C. Hurtt;D. Baker;P. Peylin

  • Mechanisms of shrubland expansion: land use, climate or CO2?

    Steve Archer;David S. Schimel;Elisabeth A. Holland

  • DAYCENT and its land surface submodel: description and testing

    William J. Parton;Melannie Hartman;Dennis Ojima;David Schimel

  • The future of evapotranspiration: global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources.

    Joshua B. Fisher;Forrest S. Melton;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Christopher Hain;Christopher Hain

  • A general model for soil organic matter dynamics: sensitivity to litter chemistry, texture and management.

    William J. Parton;Dennis S. Ojima;C. Vernon Cole;David S. Schimel

  • Contribution of increasing CO2 and climate to carbon storage by ecosystems in the United States

    David S. Schimel;Jerry M. Melillo;Hanqin Tian;A. D. McGuire

  • Divergence of reproductive phenology under climate warming

    Rebecca A. Sherry;Xuhui Zhou;Shiliang Gu;John A. Arnone

  • Effect of increasing CO2 on the terrestrial carbon cycle

    David Schimel;Britton B. Stephens;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Generalized model for N2 and N2O production from nitrification and denitrification

    W.J. Parton;A.R. Mosier;D.S. Ojima;D.W. Valentine

  • OCO-2 advances photosynthesis observation from space via solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

    Y. Sun;C. Frankenberg;J. D. Wood;D. S. Schimel

  • The response of global terrestrial ecosystems to interannual temperature variability

    B. H. Braswell;B. H. Braswell;D. S. Schimel;D. S. Schimel;E. Linder;E. Linder;B. Moore Iii;B. Moore Iii

  • The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle : Implications for the Kyoto Protocol

    Will Steffen;Ian Noble;Josep Canadell

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy G. F. Kittel
Timothy G. F. Kittel University of Colorado Boulder
Dennis S. Ojima
Dennis S. Ojima Colorado State University
William J. Parton
William J. Parton Colorado State University
Nan Rosenbloom
Nan Rosenbloom National Center for Atmospheric Research
Britton B. Stephens
Britton B. Stephens National Center for Atmospheric Research
Christopher Daly
Christopher Daly Oregon State University
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Russell K. Monson
Russell K. Monson University of Colorado Boulder
Christian Frankenberg
Christian Frankenberg California Institute of Technology

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