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63
Citations
19670
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2418
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975

Donald R. Cahoon 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 Donald R. Cahoon sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 133 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Donald R. Cahoon 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 Donald R. Cahoon sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 63 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Donald R. Cahoon is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily concentrates on environmental and earth sciences, with an emphasis on coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics and related fields.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader disciplines, their subfields of study focus on:

  • Ecology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science

The primary topics addressed in their work encompass:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Donald R. Cahoon has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Science
  • AGU Advances
  • Wetlands

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Cahoon include:

  • How Plants Influence Resilience of Salt Marsh and Mangrove Wetlands to Sea-Level Rise (2020, Estuaries and Coasts)
  • Constraints on the adjustment of tidal marshes to accelerating sea level rise (2022, Science)
  • Coastal Wetland Resilience, Accelerated Sea-Level Rise, and the Importance of Timescale (2021, AGU Advances)
  • A Tropical Cyclone-Induced Ecological Regime Shift: Mangrove Forest Conversion to Mudflat in Everglades National Park (Florida, USA) (2020, Wetlands)
  • Increasing Rates of Carbon Burial in Southwest Florida Coastal Wetlands (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences)

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • James C. Lynch
  • Ken W. Krauss
  • Glenn R. Guntenspergen
  • Karen L. McKee
  • Nicole Cormier

Best Publications

  • Global carbon sequestration in tidal, saline wetland soils

    Gail L. Chmura;Shimon C. Anisfeld;Donald R. Cahoon;Donald R. Cahoon;James C. Lynch;James C. Lynch

  • RESPONSES OF COASTAL WETLANDS TO RISING SEA LEVEL

    James T. Morris;P. V. Sundareshwar;Christopher T. Nietch;Björn Kjerfve

  • The vulnerability of Indo-Pacific mangrove forests to sea-level rise

    Catherine E. Lovelock;Donald R. Cahoon;Daniel A. Friess;Glenn R. Guntenspergen

  • Caribbean mangroves adjust to rising sea level through biotic controls on change in soil elevation

    Karen L. McKee;Donald R. Cahoon;Ilka C. Feller

  • How mangrove forests adjust to rising sea level

    Ken W. Krauss;Karen L. McKee;Catherine E. Lovelock;Donald R. Cahoon

  • Pattern and Process of Land Loss in the Mississippi Delta: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Wetland Habitat Change

    John W. Day;Louis D. Britsch;Suzanne R. Hawes;Gary P. Shaffer

  • Estimating shallow subsidence in microtidal salt marshes of the southeastern United States: Kaye and Barghoorn revisited

    Donald R. Cahoon;Denise J. Reed;John W. Day

  • Mass tree mortality leads to mangrove peat collapse at Bay Islands, Honduras after Hurricane Mitch

    Donald R. Cahoon;Philippe Hensel;Philippe Hensel;John Rybczyk;John Rybczyk;Karen L. McKee

  • Biomass burning and global change

    Joel S. Levine;Wesley R. Cofer;Donald R. Cahoon;Edward L. Winsted

  • Satellite analysis of the severe 1987 forest fires in northern China and southeastern Siberia

    Donald R. Cahoon;Brian J. Stocks;Joel S. Levine;Wesley R. Cofer

  • Coastal Wetland Vulnerability to Relative Sea-Level Rise: Wetland Elevation Trends and Process Controls

    Donald R. Cahoon;Philippe F. Hensel;Tom Spencer;Denise J. Reed

  • Seasonal distribution of African savanna fires

    Donald R. Cahoon;Brian J. Stocks;Joel S. Levine;Wesley R. Cofer

  • A review of major storm impacts on coastal wetland elevations

    Donald R. Cahoon

  • Determining effects of area burned and fire severity on carbon cycling and emissions in Siberia

    Susan G. Conard;Anatoly I. Sukhinin;Brian J. Stocks;Donald R. Cahoon

  • High-Precision Measurements of Wetland Sediment Elevation: II. The Rod Surface Elevation Table

    Donald R. Cahoon;James C. Lynch;Brian C. Perez;Bradley Segura

  • Elevated CO2 stimulates marsh elevation gain, counterbalancing sea-level rise

    J. Adam Langley;Karen L. McKee;Donald R. Cahoon;Julia A. Cherry

  • a Driver for Global Change

    Joel S. Levine;Wesley R. Cofer;Donald R. Cahoon;Edward L. Winstead

  • Differential rates of vertical accretion and elevation change among aerial root types in Micronesian mangrove forests

    K. W. Krauss;K. W. Krauss;J. A. Allen;Donald R. Cahoon

  • A global standard for monitoring coastal wetland vulnerability to accelerated sea-level rise

    Edward L. Webb;Daniel A. Friess;Ken W. Krauss;Donald R. Cahoon

  • Vegetation death and rapid loss of surface elevation in two contrasting Mississippi delta salt marshes: The role of sedimentation, autocompaction and sea-level rise

    John W. Day;G. Paul Kemp;Denise J. Reed;Donald R. Cahoon

  • Vertical accretion and shallow subsidence in a mangrove forest of southwestern Florida, U.S.A

    Donald R. Cahoon;James C. Lynch

Frequent Co-Authors

Denise J. Reed
Denise J. Reed University of New Orleans
Ken W. Krauss
Ken W. Krauss United States Geological Survey
John W. Day
John W. Day Louisiana State University
Karen L. McKee
Karen L. McKee United States Geological Survey
Glenn R. Guntenspergen
Glenn R. Guntenspergen United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Joel S. Levine
Joel S. Levine Langley Research Center
Catherine E. Lovelock
Catherine E. Lovelock University of Queensland
Brian J. Stocks
Brian J. Stocks Canadian Forest Service
Michael J. Osland
Michael J. Osland United States Geological Survey
Neil Saintilan
Neil Saintilan Macquarie University

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