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Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
11531
World Ranking
2655
National Ranking
1063

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
11435
World Ranking
10985
National Ranking
4752

Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg 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 Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 154 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg 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 Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within environmental and earth sciences, focusing primarily on ecosystem and plant biology dynamics.

The scientist's work concentrates on several core topics including:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Benford's Law and Fraud Detection

Their main fields of study are Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with subfields covering Ecology, Plant Science, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Among recent publications, Sternberg has contributed to works such as:

  • "Salinity legacy: Foliar microbiome's history affects mutualist-conferred salinity tolerance," 2022, published in Ecology
  • "Predictable trajectories of the reduced Collatz iteration and a possible pathway to the proof of the Collatz conjecture (Version 2)," 2022, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Plant water uptake from soil through a vapor pathway," 2020, published in Physiologia Plantarum

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Suresh C. Subedi
  • Preston Allen
  • Rosario Vidales
  • Michael S. Ross
  • Michelle E. Afkhami

Sternberg's publications have appeared in venues such as Ecology, Physiologia Plantarum, and arXiv (Cornell University).

In 2003, they were recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, an award indicating a notable presence in their field.

Best Publications

  • The use of stable isotopes to study ecosystem gas exchange.

    D. Yakir;L. Da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

  • The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest

    D. C. Nepstad;P. Moutinho;M. B. Dias‐Filho;E. Davidson

  • Dynamic changes in hydraulic conductivity in petioles of two savanna tree species: factors and mechanisms contributing to the refilling of embolized vessels

    S. J. Bucci;F. G. Scholz;G. Goldstein;G. Goldstein;F. C. Meinzer

  • Oxygen Isotope Exchange between Metabolites and Water during Biochemical Reactions Leading to Cellulose Synthesis.

    Leonel Da S. L. Sternberg;Michael J. Deniro;Rod A. Savidge

  • Hydrogen isotopic fractionation by plant roots during water uptake in coastal wetland plants.

    Guanghui Lin;Leonel da S. L. Sternberg

  • Seasonal changes in the diets of migrant and non-migrant nectarivorous bats as revealed by carbon stable isotope analysis

    Theodore H. Fleming;Robert A. Nuñez;Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

  • Contribution of transpiration to forest ambient vapour based on isotopic measurements

    Marcelo Zacharias Moreira;Marcelo Zacharias Moreira;L S L Sternberg;Luiz Antonio Martinelli;Reynaldo Luiz Victoria

  • Oxygen stable isotope ratios of tree-ring cellulose: the next phase of understanding.

    Leonel Da Silveira Lobo O.Reilly Sternberg

  • Biogeochemical implications of the isotopic equilibrium fractionation factor between the oxygen atoms of acetone and water

    Leonel da Silveira Lobo O'Reilly Sternberg;Michael Joseph Di Giacomo DeNiro

  • Effect of Growth Form, Salinity, Nutrient and Sulfide on Photosynthesis, Carbon Isotope Discrimination and Growth of Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle L.)

    Guanghui Lin;L. D. S. L. Sternberg

  • Climate-dependent CO2 emissions from lakes.

    Sarian Kosten;Fábio Roland;David M. L. Da Motta Marques;Egbert H. Van Nes

  • Utilization of Freshwater and Ocean Water by Coastal Plants of Southern Florida.

    Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg;Peter Koenraad Swart

  • Sea‐Level Rise and the Reduction in Pine Forests in the Florida Keys

    Michael S. Ross;Joseph J. O'Brien;Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

  • Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Ratios in Plant Cellulose: Mechanisms and Applications

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  • Savanna–forest hysteresis in the tropics

    Leonel Da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

  • Testing plant use of mobile vs immobile soil water sources using stable isotope experiments.

    Ana I. Vargas;Bruce Schaffer;Li Yuhong;Li Yuhong;Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

  • Depth of water uptake in woody plants relates to groundwater level and vegetation structure along a topographic gradient in a neotropical savanna

    Davi Rodrigo Rossatto;Lucas de Carvalho Ramos Silva;Randoll Villalobos-Vega;Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

  • Expansion of gallery forests into central Brazilian savannas

    Lucas C. R. Silva;Lucas C. R. Silva;Leonel Sternberg;Mundayatan Haridasan;William A. Hoffmann

  • D/H ratios of environmental water recorded by D/H ratios of plant lipids

    Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

  • Isotopic Composition of Cellulose from C3, C4, and CAM Plants Growing Near One Another

    Leonel Sternberg;Michael J. DeNiro

  • Using stable isotopes to determine sources of evaporated water to the atmosphere in the Amazon basin

    Luiz Antonio Martinelli;Reynaldo Luiz Victoria;Leonel Silveira Lobo Sternberg;Aristides Ribeiro

  • The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest : Large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in Amazonia (LBA)

    D. C. Nepstad;P. Moutinho;M. B. Dias-Filho;E. Davidson

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcelo Zacharias Moreira
Marcelo Zacharias Moreira Universidade de São Paulo
Donald L. DeAngelis
Donald L. DeAngelis United States Geological Survey
Michael J. Deniro
Michael J. Deniro University of California, Santa Barbara
Lucas C. R. Silva
Lucas C. R. Silva University of Oregon
Guanghui Lin
Guanghui Lin Tsinghua University
Daniel C. Nepstad
Daniel C. Nepstad Woods Hole Research Center
Augusto C. Franco
Augusto C. Franco University of Brasília
Luiz Antonio Martinelli
Luiz Antonio Martinelli Universidade de São Paulo
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria Universidade de São Paulo
Michael S. Ross
Michael S. Ross Florida International University

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