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D-Index
44
Citations
11824
World Ranking
6606
National Ranking
2356

Linda S. Heath 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 Linda S. Heath sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 138 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Linda S. Heath 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 Linda S. Heath sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Linda S. Heath is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular emphasis on fields such as global and planetary change, environmental engineering, ecology, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their scholarly contributions include works across a range of topics. These encompass fire effects on ecosystems, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, forest ecology and management, remote sensing in agriculture, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and rangeland and wildlife management.

Linda S. Heath has published research in several notable venues. These include:

  • Forests
  • Global Change Biology
  • Climatic Change
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Heath are as follows:

  • Use of Remote Sensing Data to Improve the Efficiency of National Forest Inventories: A Case Study from the United States National Forest Inventory, 2020, Forests
  • Critical land change information enhances the understanding of carbon balance in the United States, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Developing a set of indicators to identify, monitor, and track impacts and change in forests of the United States, 2021, Climatic Change
  • Collaboration can preserve the integrity of gold standard carbon data from forest inventories, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Andrew J. Lister
  • Hans Henrik Andersen
  • Tracey S. Frescino
  • Demetrios Gatziolis
  • Sean P. Healey

Best Publications

  • National scale biomass estimators for United States tree species

    Jennifer C. Jenkins;David C. Chojnacky;Linda S. Heath;Richard A. Birdsey

  • Consistent land- and atmosphere-based U.S. carbon sink estimates.

    S. W. Pacala;G. C. Hurtt;D. Baker;P. Peylin

  • FOREST CARBON SINKS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

    Christine L. Goodale;Michael J. Apps;Richard A. Birdsey;Christopher B. Field

  • Comprehensive database of diameter-based biomass regressions for North American tree species

    Jennifer C. Jenkins;David C. Chojnacky;Linda S. Heath;Richard A. Birdsey

  • A synthesis of current knowledge on forests and carbon storage in the United States

    Duncan C. McKinley;Duncan C. McKinley;Michael G. Ryan;Michael G. Ryan;Richard A. Birdsey;Christian P. Giardina

  • Methods for calculating forest ecosystem and harvested carbon with standard estimates for forest types of the United States

    James E. Smith;Linda S. Heath;Kenneth E. Skog;Richard A. Birdsey

  • Carbon sequestration in the U.S. forest sector from 1990 to 2010

    Peter B. Woodbury;James E. Smith;Linda S. Heath

  • Updated generalized biomass equations for North American tree species

    David C. Chojnacky;Linda S. Heath;Jennifer C. Jenkins

  • The greenhouse gas and energy impacts of using wood instead of alternatives in residential construction in the United States

    Brad Upton;Reid Miner;Mike Spinney;Linda S. Heath

  • Past and prospective carbon storage in United States forests

    Richard A. Birdsey;Andrew J. Plantinga;Linda S. Heath

  • A comparison of alternative methods for estimating the self-thinning boundary line

    Lianjun Zhang;Huiquan Bi;Jeffrey H. Gove;Linda S. Heath

  • Spatial residual analysis of six modeling techniques

    Lianjun Zhang;Jeffrey H. Gove;Linda S. Heath

  • Methods and equations for estimating aboveground volume, biomass, and carbon for trees in the U.S. forest inventory, 2010

    Christopher W. Woodall;Linda S. Heath;Grant M. Domke;Michael C. Nichols

  • A model of forest floor carbon mass for United States forest types

    James E. Smith;Linda S. Heath

  • The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

    John M. Kimble;Rattan Lal;Richard Birdsey;Linda S. Heath

  • Managed Forest Carbon Estimates for the US Greenhouse Gas Inventory, 1990-2008

    Linda S. Heath;James E. Smith;Kenneth E. Skog;David J. Nowak

  • The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity

    Peter Backlund;Anthony C. Janetos;David Schimel;Jerry Hatfield

  • Reconciling estimates of the contemporary North American carbon balance among terrestrial biosphere models, atmospheric inversions, and a new approach for estimating net ecosystem exchange from inventory-based data

    Daniel J. Hayes;David P. Turner;Graham Stinson;A. David McGuire

  • A synthesis of the science on forests and carbon for U.S. Forests

    Michael G. Ryan;Mark E. Harmon;Richard A. Birdsey;Christian P. Giardina

  • Identifying influences on model uncertainty: an application using a forest carbon budget model.

    James E. Smith;Linda S. Heath

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Birdsey
Richard A. Birdsey US Forest Service
Rattan Lal
Rattan Lal The Ohio State University
Judith Kimble
Judith Kimble University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mark E. Harmon
Mark E. Harmon Oregon State University
David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
Thomas R. Loveland
Thomas R. Loveland United States Geological Survey
Richard A. Houghton
Richard A. Houghton Woods Hole Research Center
Christopher W. Woodall
Christopher W. Woodall US Forest Service
R. Scott Tindale
R. Scott Tindale Loyola University Chicago
Michael G. Ryan
Michael G. Ryan Colorado State University

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