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D-Index
45
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7247
World Ranking
4884
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1684

Egbert Schwartz publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Egbert Schwartz sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 139 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Egbert Schwartz D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Egbert Schwartz sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 44th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Egbert Schwartz is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research predominantly lies in the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Ecology and Molecular Biology within these broader disciplines.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including Soil Science, Plant Science, and Atmospheric Science. The primary topics of research they focus on are Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Gut Microbiota and Health, and Polar Research and Ecology.

Egbert Schwartz has published extensively in reputed academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The ISME Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Nature Communications
  • mSystems

Among recent research outputs, notable papers include:

  • "Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry" (2022), Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "The temperature sensitivity of soil: microbial biodiversity, growth, and carbon mineralization" (2021), The ISME Journal
  • "Life history strategies among soil bacteria-dichotomy for few, continuum for many" (2023), The ISME Journal
  • "Nutrients cause consolidation of soil carbon flux to small proportion of bacterial community" (2021), Nature Communications
  • "Taxon-specific microbial growth and mortality patterns reveal distinct temporal population responses to rewetting in a California grassland soil" (2020), The ISME Journal

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers in the field. Common coauthors include:

  • Bruce A. Hungate
  • Paul Dijkstra
  • Michaela Hayer
  • Benjamin J. Koch
  • Jennifer Pett-Ridge

Best Publications

  • Accelerated microbial turnover but constant growth efficiency with warming in soil

    Shannon B. Hagerty;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Steven D. Allison;Bruce A. Hungate

  • 13C and 15N natural abundance of the soil microbial biomass

    Paul Dijkstra;Ayaka Ishizu;Richard Doucett;Stephen C. Hart

  • Quantitative Microbial Ecology through Stable Isotope Probing

    Bruce A. Hungate;Rebecca L. Mau;Egbert Schwartz;J. Gregory Caporaso

  • Effect of temperature on metabolic activity of intact microbial communities: Evidence for altered metabolic pathway activity but not for increased maintenance respiration and reduced carbon use efficiency

    Paul Dijkstra;Scott C. Thomas;Paul L. Heinrich;George W. Koch

  • Evidence that Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea are More Abundant than Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria in Semiarid Soils of Northern Arizona, USA

    Karen L. Adair;Egbert Schwartz

  • Growth and death of bacteria and fungi underlie rainfall-induced carbon dioxide pulses from seasonally dried soil

    Steven J. Blazewicz;Egbert Schwartz;Mary K. Firestone

  • The temperature sensitivity of soil: microbial biodiversity, growth, and carbon mineralization

    Chao Wang;Ember M. Morrissey;Rebecca L. Mau;Michaela Hayer

  • Linking soil bacterial biodiversity and soil carbon stability

    Rebecca L Mau;Cindy M Liu;Maliha Aziz;Egbert Schwartz

  • 15N enrichment as an integrator of the effects of C and N on microbial metabolism and ecosystem function

    Paul Dijkstra;Corinne M. LaViolette;Jeffrey S. Coyle;Richard R. Doucett

  • Bacterial carbon use plasticity, phylogenetic diversity and the priming of soil organic matter.

    Ember M Morrissey;Rebecca L Mau;Egbert Schwartz;Theresa A McHugh;Theresa A McHugh

  • Labile carbon input determines the direction and magnitude of the priming effect

    Xiao Jun Allen Liu;Jingran Sun;Rebecca L. Mau;Brianna K. Finley

  • Life history strategies among soil bacteria—dichotomy for few, continuum for many

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  • Phylogenetic organization of bacterial activity.

    Ember M Morrissey;Rebecca L Mau;Egbert Schwartz;J Gregory Caporaso

  • Taxon-specific microbial growth and mortality patterns reveal distinct temporal population responses to rewetting in a California grassland soil.

    Steven J. Blazewicz;Bruce A. Hungate;Benjamin J. Koch;Erin E. Nuccio

  • Characterization of growing microorganisms in soil by stable isotope probing with H218O.

    Egbert Schwartz

  • Nutrients cause consolidation of soil carbon flux to small proportion of bacterial community.

    Bram W. Stone;Junhui Li;Benjamin J. Koch;Steven J. Blazewicz

  • The soil priming effect: Consistent across ecosystems, elusive mechanisms

    Xiao Jun Allen Liu;Xiao Jun Allen Liu;Brianna K. Finley;Rebecca L. Mau;Egbert Schwartz

  • Water from air: an overlooked source of moisture in arid and semiarid regions

    Theresa A. McHugh;Theresa A. McHugh;Ember M. Morrissey;Sasha C. Reed;Bruce A. Hungate

  • Geologic controls of soil carbon cycling and microbial dynamics in temperate conifer forests

    Katherine Heckman;Amy Welty-Bernard;Craig Rasmussen;Egbert Schwartz

  • Estimating taxon-specific population dynamics in diverse microbial communities

    Benjamin J. Koch;Theresa A. McHugh;Michaela Hayer;Egbert Schwartz

  • Evolutionary history constrains microbial traits across environmental variation.

    Ember M. Morrissey;Rebecca L. Mau;Michaela Hayer;Xiao Jun Allen Liu;Xiao Jun Allen Liu

  • Chromium diffusion and reduction in soil aggregates

    Tetsu K. Tokunaga;Jiamin Wan;Mary K. Firestone;Terry C. Hazen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce A. Hungate
Bruce A. Hungate Northern Arizona University
Paul Dijkstra
Paul Dijkstra Northern Arizona University
Jennifer Pett-Ridge
Jennifer Pett-Ridge Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Kirsten S. Hofmockel
Kirsten S. Hofmockel Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mary K. Firestone
Mary K. Firestone University of California, Berkeley
Stephen C. Hart
Stephen C. Hart University of California, Merced
George W. Koch
George W. Koch Northern Arizona University
Lance B. Price
Lance B. Price George Washington University
Kees Jan van Groenigen
Kees Jan van Groenigen University of Exeter
Kate M. Scow
Kate M. Scow University of California, Davis

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