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Jonathan D. Phillips

Jonathan D. Phillips

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Earth Science

D-Index
69
Citations
12899
World Ranking
1092
National Ranking
503

Overview

Jonathan D. Phillips is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Soil Science.

The scientist's work covers main topics that include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, and Coastal and Marine Dynamics.

Jonathan D. Phillips has published in several scholarly venues. The most frequent among these are:

  • Geomorphology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Hydrology
  • Geoderma

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Phillips include:

  • Amy Blank Wilson
  • Melissa L. Villodas
  • Pavel Šamonil
  • Anna Parisi
  • Ehren Dohler

Recent publications by Jonathan D. Phillips illustrate diversity in research topics and contribution to different journals:

  • "Climate change impacts on agricultural suitability and yield reduction in a Mediterranean region" (2020, Geoderma)
  • "CRISPR-Cas9 in vivo gene editing for transthyretin amyloidosis" (2022, Yearbook of pediatric endocrinology)
  • "Soil, regolith, and weathered rock: Theoretical concepts and evolution in old-growth temperate forests, Central Europe" (2020, Geoderma)
  • "Store and pour: Evolution of flow systems in landscapes" (2022, CATENA)
  • "Geomorphic impacts of Hurricane Florence on the lower Neuse River: Portents and particulars" (2021, Geomorphology)

Best Publications

  • Sources of nonlinearity and complexity in geomorphic systems

    Jonathan D. Phillips

  • Evolutionary geomorphology: thresholds and nonlinearity in landform response to environmental change

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  • The perfect landscape

    Jonathan D. Phillips

  • Divergence, convergence, and self-organization in landscapes

    Jonathan D. Phillips

  • Earth Surface Systems: Complexity, Order and Scale

    Jonathan D. Phillips

  • Biogeomorphic Impacts of Invasive Species

    Songlin Fei;Jonathan Phillips;Michael Shouse

  • Fluvial sediment budgets in the North Carolina Piedmont

    Jonathan D. Phillips

  • Roots, rock, and regolith: Biomechanical and biochemical weathering by trees and its impact on hillslopes—A critical literature review

    Łukasz Pawlik;Jonathan D. Phillips;Pavel Šamonil

  • Channel adjustments of the lower Trinity River, Texas, downstream of Livingston Dam

    Jonathan D. Phillips;Michael C. Slattery;Zachary A. Musselman

  • Graph theory-recent developments of its application in geomorphology

    Tobias Heckmann;Wolfgang Schwanghart;Jonathan D. Phillips

  • Changes, perturbations, and responses in geomorphic systems:

    Jonathan D. Phillips

  • Graph theory in the geosciences

    Jonathan D. Phillips;Wolfgang Schwanghart;Tobias Heckmann

  • Quantifying downstream impacts of impoundment on flow regime and channel planform, lower Trinity River, Texas

    Jessica L. Wellmeyer;Michael C. Slattery;Jonathan D. Phillips

  • Deterministic chaos and historical geomorphology: A review and look forward

    Jonathan D. Phillips

  • Geomorphic and Sedimentological Controls on the Effectiveness of an Extreme Flood

    Francis J. Magilligan;Jonathan D. Phillips;L. Allan James;Basil Gomez

  • FLUVIAL SEDIMENT STORAGE IN WETLANDS

    Jonathan D. Phillips

  • An evaluation of the factors determining the effectiveness of water quality buffer zones

    Jonathan D. Phillips

  • Dam-to-delta sediment inputs and storage in the lower trinity river, Texas

    Jonathan D. Phillips;Michael C. Slattery;Zachary A. Musselman

  • Alluvial storage and the long‐term stability of sediment yields

    Jonathan Phillips

  • Sediment characteristics of an extreme flood: 1993 upper Mississippi River valley

    Basil Gomez;L. A. K. Mertes;J. D. Phillips;F. J. Magilligan

  • Development of texture contrast soils by a combination of bioturbation and translocation

    Jonathan D. Phillips

  • Climate change impacts on agricultural suitability and yield reduction in a Mediterranean region

    Sameh K. Abd-Elmabod;Miriam Muñoz-Rojas;Miriam Muñoz-Rojas;Antonio Jordán;Mariá Anaya-Romero

Frequent Co-Authors

Basil Gomez
Basil Gomez University of Hawaii at Manoa
Pavel Šamonil
Pavel Šamonil Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Francis J. Magilligan
Francis J. Magilligan Dartmouth College
Miriam Muñoz-Rojas
Miriam Muñoz-Rojas University of New South Wales
Antonio Jordán
Antonio Jordán University of Seville
Peter H. Santschi
Peter H. Santschi Texas A&M University
Wolfgang Schwanghart
Wolfgang Schwanghart University of Potsdam
L. Allan James
L. Allan James University of South Carolina
Heather E. Golden
Heather E. Golden Environmental Protection Agency
Hans-Jörg Vogel
Hans-Jörg Vogel Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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