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Plant Science and Agronomy

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70
Citations
18456
World Ranking
709
National Ranking
70

Ecology and Evolution

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Citations
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National Ranking
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Elise Pendall publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elise Pendall sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 235 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Elise Pendall D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elise Pendall sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Elise Pendall is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research predominantly addresses global and planetary change, ecology, soil science, plant science, and nature and landscape conservation. Pendall's work spans multiple subfields, reflecting a broad engagement with environmental processes at ecosystem and landscape scales.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

Elise Pendall has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Nature
  • Geoderma
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Some recent papers by Pendall include:

  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2, 2021, Nature
  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment, 2020, Nature
  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function, 2021, Nature
  • Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils, 2022, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Frequent collaborators throughout Pendall's work include:

  • Sally A. Power
  • Yolima Carrillo
  • Mark G. Tjoelker
  • Jeff R. Powell
  • Jinquan Li

Elise Pendall's scholarly output reflects a consistent focus on understanding the interactions between vegetation, soil, and atmospheric processes, especially under changing environmental conditions such as elevated CO2. The breadth of their studies illustrates a holistic approach to ecosystem function and the role of carbon dynamics in environmental change.

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs

    Alan K. Knapp;John M. Briggs;Scott L. Collins;Steven R. Archer

  • Rhizosphere priming: a nutrient perspective.

    Feike Auke Dijkstra;Yolima Carrillo;Elise Pendall;Jack A Morgan

  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2.

    C. Terrer;C. Terrer;R. P. Phillips;B. A. Hungate;J. Rosende

  • C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland.

    Jack A. Morgan;Daniel R. LeCain;Elise Pendall;Dana M. Blumenthal

  • Below-ground process responses to elevated CO2 and temperature: a discussion of observations, measurement methods, and models

    Elise Pendall;Scott Bridgham;Paul J. Hanson;Bruce Hungate

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment

    Mingkai Jiang;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;John E. Drake;Remko A. Duursma

  • Oxygen-18 concentrations in recent precipitation and ice cores on the Tibetan Plateau

    L. Tian;T. Yao;P.F. Schuster;J.W.C. White

  • Cascading impacts of bark beetle‐caused tree mortality on coupled biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes

    Steven L. Edburg;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Paul D. Brooks;Elise G. Pendall

  • Climate change alters stoichiometry of phosphorus and nitrogen in a semiarid grassland

    Feike A. Dijkstra;Elise Pendall;Jack A. Morgan;Dana M. Blumenthal

  • Paleohydrologic reconstruction based on n-alkane distributions in ombrotrophic peat

    Jonathan E. Nichols;Robert K. Booth;Stephen T. Jackson;Elise G. Pendall

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

    Mirco Migliavacca;Talie Musavi;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jacob A. Nelson

  • Rhizosphere stoichiometry: are C : N : P ratios of plants, soils, and enzymes conserved at the plant species-level?

    Colin W Bell;Yolima Carrillo;Yolima Carrillo;Claudia M Boot;Jennifer D Rocca

  • An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network - OzFlux

    Jason Beringer;Lindsay B Hutley;Ian McHugh;Stefan K Arndt

  • Altered root traits due to elevated CO2: a meta-analysis

    Ming Nie;Meng Lu;Jennifer Bell;Swastika Raut

  • Does declining carbon‐use efficiency explain thermal acclimation of soil respiration with warming?

    Colin L. Tucker;Jennifer Bell;Elise Pendall;Kiona Ogle

  • Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

    Andrew Bissett;Anna Fitzgerald;Thys Meintjes;Pauline M. Mele

  • Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils

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  • Coordinated approaches to quantify long-term ecosystem dynamics in response to global change

    Yiqi Luo;Jerry Melillo;Shuli Niu;Claus Beier

  • Tree water uptake in a tropical plantation varying in tree diversity: interspecific differences, seasonal shifts and complementarity

    Luitgard Schwendenmann;Elise Pendall;Rut Sanchez-Bragado;Norbert Kunert

Frequent Co-Authors

Brent E. Ewers
Brent E. Ewers University of Wyoming
Jack A. Morgan
Jack A. Morgan Agricultural Research Service
Feike A. Dijkstra
Feike A. Dijkstra University of Sydney
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
David G. Williams
David G. Williams University of Wyoming
Dana M. Blumenthal
Dana M. Blumenthal Agricultural Research Service
Daniel R. LeCain
Daniel R. LeCain Agricultural Research Service
Craig V. M. Barton
Craig V. M. Barton Western Sydney University
Stefan K. Arndt
Stefan K. Arndt University of Melbourne
Kiona Ogle
Kiona Ogle Northern Arizona University

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