2026 Jonathan R. Leake: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	78	475	438	42	35	160	18612

Overview

Jonathan R. Leake is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on soil and plant interactions in various ecological and agricultural contexts.

Their work involves several subfields of study including Soil Science, Ecology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Agronomy and Crop Science. The main topics addressed in their research encompass Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Clay minerals and soil interactions, Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, and Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology.

Jonathan R. Leake has contributed research published in a number of venues, among which the most frequent are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The Science of The Total Environment
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Global Change Biology

Their frequent collaborators include Martin Lappage, David J. Beerling, Duncan D. Cameron, Mark E. Hodson, and Joseph Holden, each having coauthored multiple publications with them.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jonathan R. Leake include:

Increased yield and CO₂ sequestration potential with the C₄ cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil, 2020, Global Change Biology
Effects of mineralogy, chemistry and physical properties of basalts on carbon capture potential and plant-nutrient element release via enhanced weathering, 2021, Applied Geochemistry
The hidden potential of urban horticulture, 2020, Nature Food
Legume-microbiome interactions unlock mineral nutrients in regrowing tropical forests, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Estimating food production in an urban landscape, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

The biology of myco‐heterotrophic (‘saprophytic’) plants

Jonathan R. Leake

963
Citations
Networks of power and influence: the role of mycorrhizal mycelium in controlling plant communities and agroecosystem functioning

Jonathan Leake;David Johnson;Damian Donnelly;Gemma Muckle

855
Citations
Mapping an urban ecosystem service: quantifying above‐ground carbon storage at a city‐wide scale

Zoe G. Davies;Zoe G. Davies;Jill L. Edmondson;Andreas Heinemeyer;Jonathan R. Leake

668
Citations
Mycorrhizal fungi as drivers of ecosystem processes in heathland and boreal forest biomes

David J Read;Jonathan R Leake;Jesus Perez-Moreno

629
Citations
Plant communities affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and community composition in grassland microcosms

David Johnson;David Johnson;Philippe J. Vandenkoornhuyse;Jonathan R. Leake;Lucy Gilbert

478
Citations
Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security.

David J. Beerling;Jonathan R. Leake;Stephen P. Long;Stephen P. Long;Julie D. Scholes

467
Citations
Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition: responses of multiple plant and soil parameters across contrasting ecosystems in long‐term field experiments

Gareth K. Phoenix;Bridget A. Emmett;Andrea J. Britton;Simon J. M. Caporn

445
Citations
In situ13CO2 pulse-labelling of upland grassland demonstrates a rapid pathway of carbon flux from arbuscular mycorrhizal mycelia to the soil

David Johnson;J. R. Leake;N. Ostle;P. Ineson

434
Citations
Mutualistic mycorrhiza in orchids: evidence from plant–fungus carbon and nitrogen transfers in the green‐leaved terrestrial orchid Goodyera repens

Duncan D. Cameron;Jonathan R. Leake;David J. Read

385
Citations
Biological weathering and the long-term carbon cycle: integrating mycorrhizal evolution and function into the current paradigm.

L. L. Taylor;J. R. Leake;J. Quirk;K. Hardy

371
Citations
Epiparasitic plants specialized on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Martin I. Bidartondo;Dirk Redecker;Isabelle Hijri;Andres Wiemken

358
Citations
Positive responses to Zn and Cd by roots of the Zn and Cd hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens

Steven N. Whiting;Jonathan R. Leake;Steve P. McGRATH;Alan J. M. Baker

310
Citations
Symbiotic germination and development of the myco‐heterotrophic orchid Neottia nidus‐avis in nature and its requirement for locally distributed Sebacina spp.

S. L. McKendrick;J. R. Leake;D. Lee Taylor;D. J. Read

276
Citations
Mutualistic mycorrhiza-like symbiosis in the most ancient group of land plants

Claire P. Humphreys;Peter J. Franks;Peter J. Franks;Mark Rees;Martin I. Bidartondo

270
Citations
Soil microbial biomass and the fate of phosphorus during long-term ecosystem development

Benjamin L. Turner;Benjamin L. Turner;Hans Lambers;Leo M. Condron;Michael D. Cramer;Michael D. Cramer

253
Citations
Symbiotic germination and development of myco-heterotrophic plants in nature: transfer of carbon from ectomycorrhizal Salix repens and Betula pendula to the orchid Corallorhiza trifida through shared hyphal connections.

SL Mckendrick;JR Leake;David Read

248
Citations
Mycorrhizal Specificity and Function in Myco-heterotrophic Plants

D. L. Taylor;T. D. Bruns;J. R. Leake;D. J. Read

242
Citations
Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil.

Mike E. Kelland;Peter W. Wade;Amy L. Lewis;Lyla L. Taylor

242
Citations
Base cation depletion, eutrophication and acidification of species-rich grasslands in response to long-term simulated nitrogen deposition

Paul Horswill;Odhran O'Sullivan;Gareth K. Phoenix;John A. Lee

241
Citations
Organic carbon hidden in urban ecosystems

Jill L. Edmondson;Zoe G. Davies;Nicola McHugh;Kevin J. Gaston

239
Citations
Rates and quantities of carbon flux to ectomycorrhizal mycelium following 14C pulse labeling of Pinus sylvestris seedlings: effects of litter patches and interaction with a wood-decomposer fungus.

J. R. Leake;D. P. Donnelly;E. M. Saunders;L. Boddy

229
Citations