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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
103
Citations
45142
World Ranking
235
National Ranking
99

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

G. Philip Robertson is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States and has made contributions primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Agronomy and Crop Science, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their work covers a variety of topics, notably Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Bioenergy Crop Production and Management, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Several recent publications reflect the scope of their research interests and impact. These include:

  • Long-Term Evidence Shows that Crop-Rotation Diversification Increases Agricultural Resilience to Adverse Growing Conditions in North America (2020) in One Earth
  • Restoring Soil Fertility on Degraded Lands to Meet Food, Fuel, and Climate Security Needs via Perennialization (2021) in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • Machine learning improves predictions of agricultural nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from intensively managed cropping systems (2020) in Environmental Research Letters
  • Long-term research avoids spurious and misleading trends in sustainability attributes of no-till (2020) in Global Change Biology
  • A Research Road Map for Responsible Use of Agricultural Nitrogen (2021) in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Frequent coauthors of G. Philip Robertson include:

  • Jiquan Chen
  • Stephen K. Hamilton
  • Alexandra Kravchenko
  • Bruno Basso
  • Michael Abraha

The main venues in which G. Philip Robertson publishes include:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Journal of Environmental Quality
  • GCB Bioenergy
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Global Change Biology

G. Philip Robertson received the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Climate-smart soils

    Keith Paustian;Johannes Lehmann;Stephen Ogle;David Reay

  • Greenhouse gases in intensive agriculture: contributions of individual gases to the radiative forcing of the atmosphere.

    G. Philip Robertson;Eldor A. Paul;Richard R. Harwood

  • Nutrient Imbalances in agricultural development

    P.M. Vitousek;Rosamond L. Naylor;T. Crews;M.B. David

  • Nitrogen in Agriculture: Balancing the Cost of an Essential Resource

    G. Philip Robertson;Peter M. Vitousek

  • Standard soil methods for long-term ecological research

    G P Robertson;D C Coleman;C S Bledsoe;P Sollins

  • Global metaanalysis of the nonlinear response of soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions to fertilizer nitrogen

    Iurii Shcherbak;Neville Millar;G. Philip Robertson

  • Ecosystem services and agriculture: Cultivating agricultural ecosystems for diverse benefits

    Scott M. Swinton;Frank Lupi;G. Philip Robertson;Stephen K. Hamilton

  • Sustainable bioenergy production from marginal lands in the US Midwest.

    Ilya Gelfand;Ilya Gelfand;Ritvik Sahajpal;Ritvik Sahajpal;Ritvik Sahajpal;Xuesong Zhang;Xuesong Zhang;R. César Izaurralde;R. César Izaurralde;R. César Izaurralde

  • An integrated conceptual framework for long‐term social–ecological research

    Scott L Collins;Stephen R Carpenter;Scott M Swinton;Daniel E Orenstein

  • Nitrous oxide emission from Australian agricultural lands and mitigation options: a review

    Ram C. Dalal;Weijin Wang;G. Philip Robertson;William J. Parton

  • Nitrogen stable isotopic composition of leaves and soil: tropical versus temperate forests

    L. A. Martinelli;M. C. Piccolo;A. R. Townsend;P. M. Vitousek

  • Reconciling agricultural productivity and environmental integrity: A grand challenge for agriculture

    G Philip Robertson;Scott M. Swinton

  • Fixing a critical climate accounting error

    Timothy D. Searchinger;Steven P. Hamburg;Jerry Melillo;William Chameides

  • THERMODYNAMIC CONSTRAINTS ON NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS AND OTHER BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AT SOIL-STREAM INTERFACES

    Lars O Hedin;Joseph C von Fischer;Nathaniel E Ostrom;Brian P Kennedy

  • THERMODYNAMIC CONSTRAINTS ON NITROGENTRANSFORMATIONS AND OTHER BIOGEOCHEMICALPROCESSES AT SOIL–STREAM INTERFACES

    Lars O. Hedin;Joseph C. von Fischer;Nathaniel E. Ostrom;Brian P. Kennedy

  • Nonlinear response of N2O flux to incremental fertilizer addition in a continuous maize (Zea mays L.) cropping system

    Claire P. McSwiney;G. Philip Robertson

  • Carbon Sequestration Potential of Extensive Green Roofs

    Kristin L. Getter;D. Bradley Rowe;G. Philip Robertson;Bert M. Cregg

  • Geostatistics in Ecology: Interpolating With Known Variance

    G. Philip Robertson

  • Perennial grasslands enhance biodiversity and multiple ecosystem services in bioenergy landscapes.

    Ben P. Werling;Timothy L. Dickson;Rufus Isaacs;Hannah Gaines

  • Land-Use Intensity Effects on Soil Organic Carbon Accumulation Rates and Mechanisms

    A. Stuart Grandy;A. Stuart Grandy;G. Philip Robertson

  • Sustainable Biofuels Redux

    G. Philip Robertson;Virginia H. Dale;Otto C. Doering;Steven P. Hamburg

  • Spatial Variability in a Successional Plant Community: Patterns of Nitrogen Availability

    G. Philip Robertson;Michael A. Hutson;Francis C. Evans;James M. Tiedje

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen K. Hamilton
Stephen K. Hamilton Michigan State University
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Randall D. Jackson
Randall D. Jackson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso Michigan State University
Peter Grace
Peter Grace Queensland University of Technology
R. Cesar Izaurralde
R. Cesar Izaurralde University of Maryland, College Park
Kurt D. Thelen
Kurt D. Thelen Michigan State University
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Nathaniel E. Ostrom
Nathaniel E. Ostrom Michigan State University
A. Stuart Grandy
A. Stuart Grandy University of New Hampshire

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