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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
68
Citations
16047
World Ranking
1876
National Ranking
784

Best Publications

  • Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle

    Edward A. G. Schuur;James Bockheim;Josep G. Canadell;Eugenie Euskirchen

  • Patterns of soil temperature and moisture in the active layer and upper permafrost at Barrow, Alaska: 1993 1999

    K.M. Hinkel;F. Paetzold;F.E. Nelson;J.G. Bockheim

  • Spatial Extent, Age, and Carbon Stocks in Drained Thaw Lake Basins on the Barrow Peninsula, Alaska

    Kenneth M. Hinkel;Wendy R. Eisner;James G. Bockheim;Frederick E. Nelson

  • Estimating active-layer thickness over a large region: Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska, U.S.A

    F.E. Nelson;N.I. Shiklomanov;G.R. Mueller;K.M. Hinkel

  • Late Wisconsin and early Holocene glacial history, inner Ross Embayment, Antarctica

    George H. Denton;James G. Bockheim;Scott C. Wilson;Minze Stuiver

  • Tropospheric O3 moderates responses of temperate hardwood forests to elevated CO2: a synthesis of molecular to ecosystem results from the Aspen FACE project

    D. F. Karnosky;D. R. Zak;K. S. Pregitzer;K. S. Pregitzer;C. S. Awmack

  • Solution and use of chronofunctions in studying soil development

    J.G. Bockheim

  • Thermal state of permafrost and active-layer monitoring in the Antarctic: advances during the International Polar Year 2007-2009

    Gonçalo Vieira;James Bockheim;Mauro Guglielmin;Megan Balks

  • The role of soil-forming processes in the definition of taxa in Soil Taxonomy and the World Soil Reference Base

    J.G. Bockheim;A.N. Gennadiyev

  • World Soil Resources Reports No. 84. World reference base for soil resources. IUSS Working Group WRB. FAO

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  • Historical development of key concepts in pedology

    J.G. Bockheim;A.N. Gennadiyev;R.D. Hammer;J.P. Tandarich

  • Recognition of cryoturbation for classifying permafrost-affected soils

    J.G Bockheim;C Tarnocai

  • Methods for studying treefall gaps: A review

    Sarah A. Schliemann;James G. Bockheim

  • Detection of subsurface permafrost features with ground‐penetrating radar, Barrow, Alaska

    K. M. Hinkel;J. A. Doolittle;J. G. Bockheim;F. E. Nelson

  • Climate warming and permafrost dynamics in the Antarctic Peninsula region

    J. Bockheim;Goncalo Vieira;M. Ramos;J. López-Martínez

  • Characteristics of cryogenic soils along a latitudinal transect in arctic Alaska

    C. L. Ping;J. G. Bockheim;J. M. Kimble;G. J. Michaelson

  • Decadal variations of active-layer thickness in moisture-controlled landscapes, Barrow, Alaska

    Nikolay I. Shiklomanov;Dmitry A. Streletskiy;Frederick E. Nelson;Robert D. Hollister

  • Importance of Cryoturbation in Redistributing Organic Carbon in Permafrost‐Affected Soils

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  • Impacts of forest gaps on soil properties and processes in old growth northern hardwood-hemlock forests

    B. C. Scharenbroch;J. G. Bockheim

  • Energy and trace-gas fluxes across a soil pH boundary in the Arctic

    D. A. Walker;N. A. Auerbach;J. G. Bockheim;F. S. Chapin

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