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D-Index
63
Citations
12963
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2504
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1004

Lee A. Vierling publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lee A. Vierling sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 198 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Lee A. Vierling D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lee A. Vierling sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Lee A. Vierling is affiliated with the University of Idaho in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences.

Vierling's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

The subfields they focus on encompass:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Their work covers several key topics such as:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring Climate Responses
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Climate Change and Permafrost

Notable recent papers by Vierling include:

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic, 2020, published in Science
  • On the Functional Relationship Between Fluorescence and Photochemical Yields in Complex Evergreen Needleleaf Canopies, 2020, published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • treetop: A Shiny-based application and R package for extracting forest information from LiDAR data for ecologists and conservationists, 2022, published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Remote sensing tracks daily radial wood growth of evergreen needleleaf trees, 2020, published in Global Change Biology
  • A mechanism of expansion: Arctic deciduous shrubs capitalize on warming-induced nutrient availability, 2020, published in Oecologia

Vierling frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Jan U.H. Eitel
  • Natalie T. Boelman
  • Kevin L. Griffin
  • Andrew J. Maguire
  • Stephanie C. Schmiege

Their research is regularly published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Plant Methods

Best Publications

  • Putting the "landscape" in landscape genetics.

    A Storfer;M A Murphy;J S Evans;C S Goldberg

  • Lidar: shedding new light on habitat characterization and modeling

    Kerri T Vierling;Lee A Vierling;William A Gould;Sebastian Martinuzzi

  • Effects of habitat on GPS collar performance: using data screening to reduce location error

    Jesse S. Lewis;Janet L. Rachlow;Edward O. Garton;Lee A. Vierling

  • A simple and effective radiometric correction method to improve landscape change detection across sensors and across time

    Xuexia Chen;Lee Vierling;Don Deering

  • Mapping snags and understory shrubs for a LiDAR-based assessment of wildlife habitat suitability

    Sebastián Martinuzzi;Lee A. Vierling;William A. Gould;Michael J. Falkowski

  • Beyond 3-D: The New Spectrum of Lidar Applications for Earth and Ecological Sciences

    Jan U.H. Eitel;Bernhard Höfle;Lee A. Vierling;Antonio Abellán

  • Broadband, red-edge information from satellites improves early stress detection in a New Mexico conifer woodland

    Jan U.H. Eitel;Lee A. Vierling;Marcy E. Litvak;Dan S. Long

  • Automated estimation of individual conifer tree height and crown diameter via two-dimensional spatial wavelet analysis of lidar data

    Michael J Falkowski;Alistair M.S Smith;Andrew T Hudak;Paul E Gessler

  • Isoprene emission estimates and uncertainties for the central African EXPRESSO study domain

    Alex Guenther;Bill Baugh;Guy Brasseur;Jim Greenberg

  • Quantifying aboveground forest carbon pools and fluxes from repeat LiDAR surveys

    Andrew T. Hudak;Eva K. Strand;Lee A. Vierling;John C. Byrne

  • Imputation of individual longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) tree attributes from field and LiDAR data

    Carlos A. Silva;Andrew T. Hudak;Lee A. Vierling;E. Louise Loudermilk

  • The use of airborne lidar to assess avian species diversity, density, and occurrence in a pine/aspen forest

    Rick Clawges;Kerri Vierling;Lee Vierling;Eric Rowell

  • Evaluating methods to detect bark beetle-caused tree mortality using single-date and multi-date Landsat imagery

    Arjan J. H. Meddens;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Lee A. Vierling;Andrew T. Hudak

  • Isoprene fluxes measured by enclosure, relaxed eddy accumulation, surface layer gradient, mixed layer gradient, and mixed layer mass balance techniques

    Alex Guenther;William Baugh;Ken Davis;Gary Hampton

  • Biogenic volatile organic compound emissions (BVOCs). I. Identifications from three continental sites in the U.S.

    Detlev Helmig;Lee F. Klinger;Alex Guenther;Lee Vierling

  • Estimating aboveground biomass and leaf area of low-stature Arctic shrubs with terrestrial LiDAR

    Heather E. Greaves;Lee A. Vierling;Jan U.H. Eitel;Natalie T. Boelman;Natalie T. Boelman

  • Water Adsorption Capacity of the Solid Adsorbents Tenax TA, Tenax GR, Carbotrap, Carbotrap C, Carbosieve SIII, and Carboxen 569 and Water Management Techniques for the Atmospheric Sampling of Volatile Organic Trace Gases

    Detlev. Helmig;Lee. Vierling

  • Discrete return lidar-based prediction of leaf area index in two conifer forests

    Jennifer L. R. Jensen;Karen S. Humes;Lee A. Vierling;Andrew T. Hudak

  • Using lidar and effective LAI data to evaluate IKONOS and Landsat 7 ETM+ vegetation cover estimates in a ponderosa pine forest

    Xuexia Chen;Lee Vierling;Eric Rowell;Thomas DeFelice

  • LiDAR based biomass and crop nitrogen estimates for rapid, non-destructive assessment of wheat nitrogen status

    Jan U.H. Eitel;Troy S. Magney;Lee A. Vierling;Tabitha T. Brown;Tabitha T. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan U.H. Eitel
Jan U.H. Eitel University of Idaho
Kevin L. Griffin
Kevin L. Griffin Columbia University
Andrew T. Hudak
Andrew T. Hudak US Forest Service
Arjan J. H. Meddens
Arjan J. H. Meddens Washington State University
Bryan Finegan
Bryan Finegan Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center
Alex Guenther
Alex Guenther University of California, Irvine
Alistair M. S. Smith
Alistair M. S. Smith University of Idaho
Patrick R. Zimmerman
Patrick R. Zimmerman National Center for Atmospheric Research
Lisette P. Waits
Lisette P. Waits University of Idaho
Fabrice DeClerck
Fabrice DeClerck Bioversity International

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