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Jennifer L. Baltzer

Jennifer L. Baltzer

Wilfrid Laurier University
Canada

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
8841
World Ranking
6004
National Ranking
379

Earth Science

D-Index
31
Citations
4344
World Ranking
8893
National Ranking
450

Jennifer L. Baltzer publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jennifer L. Baltzer sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 159 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Jennifer L. Baltzer D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jennifer L. Baltzer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jennifer L. Baltzer is affiliated with Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant emphasis on atmospheric science and global and planetary change.

The main topics of Baltzer's work include:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology

Key recent papers authored by Baltzer include:

  • Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Other frequently cited papers in related fields, although not authored by Baltzer, represent the broader research context:

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Impact of wildfire on permafrost landscapes: A review of recent advances and future prospects, 2020, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Climate-change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Baltzer has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Merritt R. Turetsky
  • Nicola J. Day
  • Jill F. Johnstone
  • Xanthe J. Walker
  • Michelle C. Mack

Their work has been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • Ecosphere
  • Ecosystems
  • Global Change Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils

    Xanthe J. Walker;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Steven G. Cumming;Nicola J. Day

  • Forests on thawing permafrost: fragmentation, edge effects, and net forest loss

    Jennifer L. Baltzer;Tyler Veness;Laura E. Chasmer;Anastasia E. Sniderhan

  • Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest.

    Jennifer L. Baltzer;Nicola J. Day;Xanthe J. Walker;David Greene

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • The role of desiccation tolerance in determining tree species distributions along the Malay–Thai Peninsula

    Jennifer L. Baltzer;Stuart James Davies;Stuart James Davies;Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin;Nur Supardi Noor

  • Determinants of whole‐plant light requirements in Bornean rain forest tree saplings

    Jennifer L. Baltzer;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Sean C. Thomas

  • Impact of wildfire on permafrost landscapes: A review of recent advances and future prospects

    Jean E. Holloway;Antoni G. Lewkowicz;Thomas A. Douglas;Xiaoying Li

  • BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

    Daniel S. Falster;Remko A. Duursma;Masae I. Ishihara;Diego R. Barneche

  • Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions

    X. J. Walker;B. M. Rogers;S. Veraverbeke;J. F. Johnstone;J. F. Johnstone

  • Climate-change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?

    Diana Stralberg;Dominique Arseneault;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Quinn E. Barber

  • The active-layer hydrology of a peat plateau with thawing permafrost (Scotty Creek, Canada)

    W. L. Quinton;J. L. Baltzer

  • EDAPHIC SPECIALIZATION IN TROPICAL TREES: PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES AND RESPONSES TO RECIPROCAL TRANSPLANTATION

    Jennifer L. Baltzer;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Sean C. Thomas;R. Nilus;D.F.R.P. Burslem

  • Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

    Chengjin Chu;James A. Lutz;Kamil Král;Tomáš Vrška

  • A decision-tree classification for low-lying complex land cover types within the zone of discontinuous permafrost

    L. Chasmer;L. Chasmer;C. Hopkinson;T. Veness;W. Quinton

  • Leaf optical responses to light and soil nutrient availability in temperate deciduous trees.

    Jennifer L. Baltzer;Sean C. Thomas

  • Wildfire severity reduces richness and alters composition of soil fungal communities in boreal forests of western Canada.

    Nicola J. Day;Kari E. Dunfield;Jill F. Johnstone;Michelle C. Mack

  • Cross‐scale controls on carbon emissions from boreal forest megafires

    Xanthe J. Walker;Brendan M. Rogers;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Steven G. Cumming

  • Quantification of uncertainties in conifer sap flow measured with the thermal dissipation method

    Richard L. Peters;Richard L. Peters;Patrick Fonti;David C. Frank;David C. Frank;Rafael Poyatos

Frequent Co-Authors

Jill F. Johnstone
Jill F. Johnstone University of Saskatchewan
Merritt R. Turetsky
Merritt R. Turetsky University of Colorado Boulder
Michelle C. Mack
Michelle C. Mack Northern Arizona University
Brendan M. Rogers
Brendan M. Rogers Woodwell Climate Research Center
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Scott J. Goetz
Scott J. Goetz Northern Arizona University
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Steven G. Cumming
Steven G. Cumming Université Laval
Sean M. McMahon
Sean M. McMahon Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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