Joshua P. Schimel

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
• 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• NITROGEN MINERALIZATION: CHALLENGES OF A CHANGING PARADIGM

  Joshua P. Schimel;Jennifer Bennett;Jennifer Bennett

  2831
  Citations

• The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

  Chao Liang;Joshua P. Schimel;Julie D. Jastrow

  2758
  Citations

• MICROBIAL STRESS‐RESPONSE PHYSIOLOGY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION

  Joshua Schimel;Teri C. Balser;Matthew Wallenstein

  2658
  Citations

• Variations in microbial community composition through two soil depth profiles

  Noah Fierer;Joshua P Schimel;Patricia A Holden

  2077
  Citations

• The implications of exoenzyme activity on microbial carbon and nitrogen limitation in soil: a theoretical model

  Joshua P. Schimel;Michael N. Weintraub

  1752
  Citations

• Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming

  F. S. Chapin;M. Sturm;Mark C. Serreze;J.P. McFadden

  1662
  Citations

• Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil.

  Joshua Schimel;Sean Michael Schaeffer

  1491
  Citations

• Effects of drying–rewetting frequency on soil carbon and nitrogen transformations

  Noah Fierer;Joshua P. Schimel

  1312
  Citations

• Responses of soil microbial communities to water stress: results from a meta-analysis

  Stefano Manzoni;Joshua P. Schimel;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato

  1185
  Citations

• Life in Dry Soils: Effects of Drought on Soil Microbial Communities and Processes

  Joshua P. Schimel

  968
  Citations

• LITTER QUALITY AND THE TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY OF DECOMPOSITION

  Noah Fierer;Joseph M. Craine;Kendra McLauchlan;Joshua P. Schimel

  901
  Citations

• A Proposed Mechanism for the Pulse in Carbon Dioxide Production Commonly Observed Following the Rapid Rewetting of a Dry Soil

  Noah Fierer;Joshua P. Schimel

  897
  Citations

• Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

  Johannes Lehmann;Johannes Lehmann;Colleen M. Hansel;Christina Kaiser;Markus Kleber

  846
  Citations

• Winter Biological Processes Could Help Convert Arctic Tundra to Shrubland

  Matthew Sturm;Josh Schimel;Gary Michaelson;Jeffrey M. Welker

  845
  Citations

• Influence of drying-rewetting frequency on soil bacterial community structure.

  N. Fierer;J.P. Schimel;P.A. Holden

  836
  Citations

• Controls over carbon storage and turnover in high-latitude soils

  Sarah E. Hobbie;Joshua P. Schimel;Susan E. Trumbore;James R. Randerson

  777
  Citations

• Increased snow depth affects microbial activity and nitrogen mineralization in two Arctic tundra communities

  Joshua P Schimel;Carol Bilbrough;Jeffery M Welker

  753
  Citations

• Beyond clay: Towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

  Craig Rasmussen;Katherine Heckman;William R. Wieder;Marco Keiluweit

  745
  Citations

• The impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure and function

  Nancy B Grimm;F Stuart Chapin;Britta Bierwagen;Patrick Gonzalez

  716
  Citations

• The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks

  Laurent Philippot;Siv G. E. Andersson;Tom J. Battin;James I. Prosser

  670
  Citations

• Drying and rewetting effects on C and N mineralization and microbial activity in surface and subsurface California grassland soils

  Shu-Rong Xiang;Shu-Rong Xiang;Allen Doyle;Patricia A. Holden;Joshua P. Schimel

  642
  Citations

• Microbial response to freeze-thaw cycles in tundra and taiga soils

  Joshua P. Schimel;Joy S. Clein

  633
  Citations

• Temperature controls of microbial respiration in arctic tundra soils above and below freezing

  Carl J Mikan;Joshua P Schimel;Allen P Doyle

  626
  Citations

• Evidence for negative effects of TiO2 and ZnO nanoparticles on soil bacterial communities.

  Yuan Ge;Joshua P. Schimel;Patricia A. Holden

  561
  Citations