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D-Index
59
Citations
18014
World Ranking
2374
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845

Jennifer S. Powers 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 S. Powers sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 181 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jennifer S. Powers 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 S. Powers sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jennifer S. Powers is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a notable emphasis on interdisciplinary areas within these fields.

The main fields of study associated with their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields that Jennifer explores cover various aspects of ecological and environmental dynamics:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science
  • Soil Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The research topics further detail their focus and specialized areas of interest as follows:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Plant and animal studies

Jennifer S. Powers has contributed to several recent publications, demonstrating engagement with various environmental and ecological challenges:

  • "Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought," 2020, Science
  • "Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide," 2022, Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • "Multidimensional tropical forest recovery," 2021, Science
  • "Deforestation and reforestation impacts on soils in the tropics," 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions," 2020, BioScience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jennifer include:

  • German Vargas G.
  • David Medvigy
  • Lúcia G. Lohmann
  • Chris M. Smith-Martin
  • Juan Manuel Dupuy

Publication venues where Jennifer has repeatedly contributed include:

  • Biotropica
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Global Change Biology
  • New Phytologist
  • Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Christian L. Lauber;Michael N. Weintraub;Bony Ahmed

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano

  • Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought

    Timothy J. Brodribb;Jennifer Powers;Hervé Cochard;Brendan Choat

  • Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

    Robin L. Chazdon;Robin L. Chazdon;Eben N. Broadbent;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers

  • Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide.

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  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

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  • Stoichiometry of microbial carbon use efficiency in soils

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Benjamin L. Turner;Jennifer M. Talbot;Bonnie G. Waring

  • Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

    Danaë Rozendaal;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Esteban Álvarez-Dávila

  • Succession and management of tropical dry forests in the Americas: review and new perspectives.

    Mauricio Quesada;G. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa;Mariana Alvarez-Añorve;Kathryn E. Stoner

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • Decomposition in tropical forests: a pan‐tropical study of the effects of litter type, litter placement and mesofaunal exclusion across a precipitation gradient

    Jennifer S Powers;Rebecca A Montgomery;E Carol Adair;Francis Q Brearley

  • Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

    Xiangtao Xu;David Medvigy;Jennifer S. Powers;Justin M. Becknell

  • Will seasonally dry tropical forests be sensitive or resistant to future changes in rainfall regimes

    Kara Allen;Juan Manuel Dupuy;Maria G Gei;Catherine Hulshof

  • Geographic bias of field observations of soil carbon stocks with tropical land-use changes precludes spatial extrapolation

    Jennifer S. Powers;Marife D. Corre;Tracy E. Twine;Edzo Veldkamp

  • Relationships among soil carbon distributions and biophysical factors at nested spatial scales in rain forests of northeastern Costa Rica

    Jennifer S. Powers;William H. Schlesinger

  • Diversity and structure of regenerating tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: Geographic patterns and environmental drivers

    Jennifer S. Powers;Justin M. Becknell;Jennifer Irving;Daniel Pèrez-Aviles

  • Deforestation and reforestation impacts on soils in the tropics

    Edzo Veldkamp;Marcus Schmidt;Jennifer S. Powers;Marife D. Corre

  • Stand age and soils as drivers of plant functional traits and aboveground biomass in secondary tropical dry forest

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  • Aboveground biomass in mature and secondary seasonally dry tropical forests: A literature review and global synthesis

    Justin M. Becknell;Lisa Kissing Kucek;Jennifer S. Powers

  • Changes in Soil Carbon and Nitrogen after Contrasting Land-use Transitions in Northeastern Costa Rica

    Jennifer S. Powers;Jennifer S. Powers

  • Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon

    Bruno Locatelli;Carla P. Catterall;Pablo Imbach;Chetan Kumar

  • The effect of overstory composition on understory woody regeneration and species richness in 7-year-old plantations in Costa Rica

    Jennifer Sarah Powers;Jeremy P Haggar;Richard F Fisher

  • Increased Litterfall in Tropical Forests Boosts the Transfer of Soil CO2 to the Atmosphere

    Emma J. Sayer;Emma J. Sayer;Jennifer S. Powers;Edmund V. J. Tanner

  • Plant functional type classifications in tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: leaf habit versus taxonomic approaches

    Jennifer S Powers;Peter L Tiffin

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan A. Schnitzer
Stefan A. Schnitzer Marquette University
David Medvigy
David Medvigy University of Notre Dame
Michiel van Breugel
Michiel van Breugel National University of Singapore
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa University of Alberta
Patricia Balvanera
Patricia Balvanera National Autonomous University of Mexico
Robin L. Chazdon
Robin L. Chazdon University of Connecticut
Saara J. DeWalt
Saara J. DeWalt Clemson University
Juan Manuel Dupuy
Juan Manuel Dupuy Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán
Lourens Poorter
Lourens Poorter Wageningen University & Research
Emma J. Sayer
Emma J. Sayer Lancaster University

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