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D-Index
62
Citations
22727
World Ranking
2018
National Ranking
734

Jill S. Baron 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 Jill S. Baron sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 252 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jill S. Baron 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 Jill S. Baron sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jill S. Baron is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses multiple subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's work primarily focuses on topics related to aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydrology and watershed management studies, soil and water nutrient dynamics, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, as well as fish ecology and management studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Ecological Applications, where they have published six papers, Water Research and Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences with two papers each, and single contributions to BioScience and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Jill S. Baron has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably Isabella A. Oleksy, David Schimel, Paul C. Cross, Timothy E. Essington, and Andrew O. Finley.

Recent published papers include:

  • Blue Waters, Green Bottoms: Benthic Filamentous Algal Blooms Are an Emerging Threat to Clear Lakes Worldwide (2021, BioScience)
  • Nutrients and warming interact to force mountain lakes into unprecedented ecological states (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Nutrients and warming alter mountain lake benthic algal structure and function (2020, Freshwater Science)
  • The role of warm, dry summers and variation in snowpack on phytoplankton dynamics in mountain lakes (2020, Ecology)
  • Persistent Nitrate in Alpine Waters with Changing Atmospheric Deposition and Warming Trends (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)

In 2016, Jill S. Baron was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order

    Richard J. Hobbs;Salvatore Arico;James Aronson;Jill S. Baron

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • Ecological Thresholds: The Key to Successful Environmental Management or an Important Concept with No Practical Application?

    Peter M. Groffman;Jill S. Baron;Tamara Blett;Arthur J. Gold

  • Nitrogen excess in North American ecosystems: Predisposing factors, ecosystem responses, and management strategies

    Mark E. Fenn;Mark A. Poth;John D. Aber;Jill S. Baron

  • Shifts in Lake N:P Stoichiometry and Nutrient Limitation Driven by Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition

    James J. Elser;Tom Andersen;Jill S. Baron;Ann Kristin Bergström

  • MEETING ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIETAL NEEDS FOR FRESHWATER

    Jill S. Baron;N. LeRoy Poff;Paul L. Angermeier;Clifford N. Dahm

  • Ecological Effects of Nitrogen Deposition in the Western United States

    Mark E. Fenn;Jill S. Baron;Edith B. Allen;Heather M. Rueth

  • Coupled Atmosphere–Biophysics–Hydrology Models for Environmental Modeling

    Robert L. Walko;Larry E. Band;Jill Baron;Timothy G. F. Kittel

  • Negative impact of nitrogen deposition on soil buffering capacity

    William D. Bowman;Cory C. Cleveland;Ĺuboš Halada;Juraj Hreško

  • Nitrogen Emissions, Deposition, and Monitoring in the Western United States

    Mark E. Fenn;Richard Haeuber;Gail S. Tonnesen;Jill S. Baron

  • POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SURFACE‐WATER QUALITY IN NORTH AMERICA

    Peter S. Murdoch;Jill S. Baron;Timothy L. Miller

  • Effects of nitrogen deposition and empirical nitrogen critical loads for ecoregions of the United States

    Linda H. Pardo;Mike E. Fenn;Christine L. Goodale;Linda. H. Geiser

  • Ecosystem Responses to Nitrogen Deposition in the Colorado Front Range

    Jill S. Baron;Heather M. Rueth;Alexander M. Wolfe;Koren R. Nydick

  • Nonlinear dynamics in ecosystem response to climatic change: Case studies and policy implications

    Virginia R. Burkett;Douglas A. Wilcox;Robert Stottlemyer;Wylie Barrow

  • Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change

    T.L. Greaver;C.M. Clark;J.E. Compton;D. Vallano

  • Evidence that local land use practices influence regional climate, vegetation, and stream flow patterns in adjacent natural areas.

    Thomas J. Stohlgren;Thomas N. Chase;Roger A. Pielke;Timothy G. F. Kittel

  • Nitrogen saturation in the Rocky Mountains

    Mark W. Williams;Jill S. Baron;Nel Caine;Richard Sommerfeld

  • Mountain lakes: Eyes on global environmental change

    K. A. Moser;J. S. Baron;J. Brahney;I. A. Oleksy

  • Evaluating landscape health: integrating societal goals and biophysical process

    D.J. Rapport;C. Gaudet;J.R. Karr;Jill Baron

  • Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition induces rapid ecological changes in alpine lakes of the Colorado Front Range (USA)

    Alexander P. Wolfe;Jill S. Baron;R. Jack Cornett

  • Riverine macrosystems ecology: sensitivity, resistance, and resilience of whole river basins with human alterations

    Kevin E McCluney;Kevin E McCluney;Kevin E McCluney;N LeRoy Poff;Margaret A Palmer;James H Thorp

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy G. F. Kittel
Timothy G. F. Kittel University of Colorado Boulder
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Dennis S. Ojima
Dennis S. Ojima Colorado State University
Charles T. Driscoll
Charles T. Driscoll Syracuse University
William D. Bowman
William D. Bowman University of Colorado Boulder
Mark E. Fenn
Mark E. Fenn US Forest Service
Richard B. Lammers
Richard B. Lammers University of New Hampshire
Alexander P. Wolfe
Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta
Lawrence E. Band
Lawrence E. Band University of Virginia
A. Scott Denning
A. Scott Denning Colorado State University

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