James R. Ehleringer

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
• 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
• 2016 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
• 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2008 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• Carbon Isotope Discrimination and Photosynthesis

  G D Farquhar;J R Ehleringer;K T Hubick

  8551
  Citations

• A global analysis of root distributions for terrestrial biomes

  R. B. Jackson;J. Canadell;J. R. Ehleringer;H. A. Mooney

  3612
  Citations

• Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary

  Thure E. Cerling;John M. Harris;Bruce J. MacFadden;Meave G. Leakey

  2593
  Citations

• Maximum rooting depth of vegetation types at the global scale.

  J. Canadell;R. B. Jackson;J. R. Ehleringer;H. A. Mooney

  2395
  Citations

• C 4 photosynthesis, atmospheric CO 2 , and climate

  James R. Ehleringer;Thure E. Cerling;Brent R. Helliker

  1686
  Citations

• Water uptake by plants: perspectives from stable isotope composition

  J. R. Ehleringer;T. E. Dawson

  1336
  Citations

• Stable isotopes and plant carbon-water relations.

  James R. Ehleringer;A. E. Hall;G. D. Farquhar

  1217
  Citations

• Streamside trees that do not use stream water

  Todd E. Dawson;Todd E. Dawson;James R. Ehleringer

  1150
  Citations

• Quantum Yields for CO(2) Uptake in C(3) and C(4) Plants: Dependence on Temperature, CO(2), and O(2) Concentration.

  James Ehleringer;Olle Björkman

  1137
  Citations

• Evolutionary and Ecological Aspects of Photosynthetic Pathway Variation

  James R. Ehleringer;Russell K. Monson

  1007
  Citations

• Plant Physiological Ecology-Field Methods and Instrumentation.

  S. B. Chapman;R. W. Pearcy;J. R. Ehleringer;H. A. Mooney

  971
  Citations

• Carbon isotope ratios in belowground carbon cycle processes

  James R. Ehleringer;Nina Buchmann;Lawrence B. Flanagan

  924
  Citations

• A mechanistic model for interpretation of hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in tree-ring cellulose

  John S. Roden;Guanghui Lin;James R. Ehleringer

  892
  Citations

• The application and interpretation of Keeling plots in terrestrial carbon cycle research

  D. E. Pataki;J. R. Ehleringer;L. B. Flanagan;D. Yakir

  810
  Citations

• Scaling physiological processes: leaf to globe.

  James R. Ehleringer;Christopher B. Field

  793
  Citations

• Climate change and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis

  James R. Ehleringer;Rowan F. Sage;Lawrence B. Flanagan;Robert W. Pearcy

  770
  Citations

• Comparative ecophysiology of C3 and C4 plants

  R. W. Pearcy;J. Ehleringer

  734
  Citations

• Differential utilization of summer rains by desert plants

  James R. Ehleringer;Susan L. Phillips;William S. F. Schuster;Darren R. Sandquist

  662
  Citations

• Correlations between carbon isotope ratio and microhabitat in desert plants.

  James R. Ehleringer;Tamsie A. Cooper

  657
  Citations

• Carbon isotope fractionation between diet, breath CO2, and bioapatite in different mammals

  Benjamin H. Passey;Todd F. Robinson;Linda K. Ayliffe;Thure E. Cerling

  641
  Citations

• Plant Physiological Ecology

  Robert W. Pearcy;James R. Ehleringer;Harold A. Mooney;Philip W. Rundel

  401
  Citations