2026 Evan H. DeLucia: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	95	209	196	74	69	308	28093
Environmental Sciences	96	463	438	212	196	344	28596

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
2015 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Evan H. DeLucia is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these disciplines, they have focused extensively on several subfields including Soil Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics centered on soil and plant systems. Key areas of study include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Bioenergy Crop Production and Management, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Biofuel Production and Bioconversion, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Plant Responses to Elevated CO2, and Soil Geostatistics and Mapping.

Frequent publication venues for their research include GCB Bioenergy, Global Change Biology, Ecosphere, Geoderma, and Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Evan H. DeLucia are:

Towards a multiscale crop modelling framework for climate change adaptation assessment (2020, Nature Plants)
The soil microbial carbon pump: From conceptual insights to empirical assessments (2020, Global Change Biology)
Soils' dirty little secret: Depth-based comparisons can be inadequate for quantifying changes in soil organic carbon and other mineral soil properties (2020, Global Change Biology)
Effects of mineralogy, chemistry and physical properties of basalts on carbon capture potential and plant-nutrient element release via enhanced weathering (2021, Applied Geochemistry)
21st-century biogeochemical modeling: Challenges for Century-based models and where do we go from here? (2020, GCB Bioenergy)

They have collaborated extensively with several coauthors, among whom are Carl J. Bernacchi, Wendy H. Yang, N. Gomez-Casanovas, Elena Blanc-Betes, and I. B. Kantola.

Evan H. DeLucia has been recognized as a Fellow of both the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2015 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005.

Best Publications

Forest response to elevated CO2 is conserved across a broad range of productivity.

Richard J. Norby;Evan H. DeLucia;Birgit Gielen;Carlo Calfapietra

1201
Citations
Net primary production of a forest ecosystem with experimental CO2 enrichment

Evan H. DeLucia;Jason G. Hamilton;Shawna L. Naidu;Richard B. Thomas

691
Citations
Biotic stress globally downregulates photosynthesis genes.

Damla D. Bilgin;Jorge A. Zavala;Jin Zhu;Steven J. Clough;Steven J. Clough

663
Citations
The carbon–nutrient balance hypothesis: its rise and fall

J.G. Hamilton;A.R. Zangerl;E.H. DeLucia;M.R. Berenbaum

594
Citations
Excessive rainfall leads to maize yield loss of a comparable magnitude to extreme drought in the United States

Yan Li;Yan Li;Kaiyu Guan;Gary D Schnitkey;Evan H Delucia

560
Citations
Forest carbon use efficiency: is respiration a constant fraction of gross primary production?

Evan H. DeLUCIA;John E. Drake;Richard B. Thomas;Miquel Gonzalez-Meler

547
Citations
Primary productivity of planet earth: biological determinants and physical constraints in terrestrial and aquatic habitats

Richard J. Geider;Evan H. Delucia;Paul G. Falkowski;Adrien C. Finzi

499
Citations
Increases in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long‐term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO2

John E. Drake;Anne Gallet-Budynek;Anne Gallet-Budynek;Kirsten S. Hofmockel;Emily S. Bernhardt

495
Citations
Changes in soil organic carbon under biofuel crops.

Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Sarah C. Davis;Michael D. Masters;Evan H. Delucia

475
Citations
Leaf Form and Photosynthesis

William K. Smith;Thomas C. Vogelmann;Evan H. DeLucia;David T. Bell

470
Citations
Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security.

David J. Beerling;Jonathan R. Leake;Stephen P. Long;Stephen P. Long;Julie D. Scholes

467
Citations
Photosynthetic inhibition after long-term exposure to elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Evan H. Delucia;Thomas W. Sasek;Boyd R. Strain

449
Citations
Climate change: Resetting plant-insect interactions

Evan H. DeLucia;Paul D. Nabity;Jorge A. Zavala;May R. Berenbaum

424
Citations
Altered dynamics of forest recovery under a changing climate

Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Adam D. Miller;Jacqueline E. Mohan;Tara W. Hudiburg

372
Citations
Forest carbon balance under elevated CO2

Jason G. Hamilton;Evan H. DeLucia;Kate George;Shawna L. Naidu

348
Citations
Are some plant life forms more effective than others in screening out ultraviolet-B radiation?

T. A. Day;T. C. Vogelmann;E. H. DeLucia

340
Citations
Life-cycle analysis and the ecology of biofuels.

Sarah C. Davis;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Evan H. DeLucia

334
Citations
Indirect suppression of photosynthesis on individual leaves by arthropod herbivory.

Paul D. Nabity;Jorge A. Zavala;Evan H. DeLucia

312
Citations
PROGRESSIVE NITROGEN LIMITATION OF ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES UNDER ELEVATED CO2 IN A WARM-TEMPERATE FOREST

Adrien C. Finzi;David J.P. Moore;Evan H. DeLucia;John Lichter

300
Citations
The soil microbial carbon pump: From conceptual insights to empirical assessments.

Xuefeng Zhu;Randall D. Jackson;Evan H. DeLucia;James M. Tiedje

295
Citations
Forest litter production, chemistry and decomposition following two years of Free-Air CO2 Enrichment

Adrien C. Finzi;Andrew S. Allen;Evan H. DeLucia;David S. Ellsworth

289
Citations
Anthropogenic increase in carbon dioxide compromises plant defense against invasive insects.

Jorge A. Zavala;Clare L. Casteel;Evan H. DeLucia;May R. Berenbaum

286
Citations
Comparative Biogeochemical Cycles of Bioenergy Crops Reveal Nitrogen-Fixation and Low Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Miscanthus × giganteus Agro-Ecosystem

Sarah C. Davis;William J. Parton;Frank G. Dohleman;Candice M. Smith

273
Citations
Elevated CO2 reduces leaf damage by insect herbivores in a forest community

Rachel G. Knepp;Jason G. Hamilton;Jacqueline E. Mohan;Arthur R. Zangerl

128
Citations