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D-Index
40
Citations
7536
World Ranking
6043
National Ranking
2058

Michael F. Piehler publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael F. Piehler sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 124 publications — 35th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Michael F. Piehler D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael F. Piehler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael F. Piehler is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on marine and coastal systems.

Their publication record includes research on topics such as marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and soil and water nutrient dynamics. These topics illustrate a broad engagement with coastal and marine environmental processes and their ecological dynamics.

Key recent publications include:

  • Inundation of Stormwater Infrastructure Is Common and Increases Risk of Flooding in Coastal Urban Areas Along the US Atlantic Coast (2022), published in Earth's Future
  • Urbanization alters coastal plain stream carbon export and dissolved oxygen dynamics (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Seasonal Variation in Nitrate Removal Mechanisms in Coastal Stormwater Ponds (2021), published in Water Resources Research
  • Reframing the contribution of pelagic Sargassum epiphytic N2 fixation (2023), published in PLoS ONE
  • Environmental gradients influence biogeographic patterns of nonconsumptive predator effects on oysters (2020), published in Ecosphere

Frequent collaborators with Michael Piehler include Suzanne P. Thompson, Adam Gold, Jonathan H. Grabowski, David L. Kimbro, and James E. Byers. This network supports a multidisciplinary approach spanning ecology, marine biology, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work is published predominantly through UNC Libraries, along with other venues such as Zenodo, Ecosphere, Estuaries and Coasts, and Earth's Future. These platforms reflect their engagement with open-access and specialized environmental science literature.

Their areas of subfield expertise comprise oceanography, global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, and environmental chemistry. This multidisciplinary foundation underpins their research into environmental processes affecting coastal and marine ecosystems.

Major research topics addressed in their work are:

  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Marine and Coastal Plant Biology
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Best Publications

  • Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services Provided by Oyster Reefs

    Jonathan H. Grabowski;Robert D. Brumbaugh;Robert F. Conrad;Andrew G. Keeler

  • Warming and resource availability shift food web structure and metabolism.

    Mary I. O'Connor;Michael F. Piehler;Dina M. Leech;Andrea Anton

  • Engineering away our natural defenses: an analysis of shoreline hardening in the US

    Rachel K Gittman;Rachel K Gittman;F Joel Fodrie;Alyssa M Popowich;Danielle A Keller

  • Microbial indicators of aquatic ecosystem change: current applications to eutrophication studies

    Hans W. Paerl;Julianne Dyble;Pia H. Moisander;Rachel T. Noble

  • Phytoplankton photopigments as indicators of estuarine and coastal eutrophication

    Hans W. Paerl;Lexia M. Valdes;James L. Pinckney;Michael F. Piehler

  • Habitat-specific distinctions in estuarine denitrification affect both ecosystem function and services

    M. F. Piehler;A. R. Smyth

  • Living shorelines can enhance the nursery role of threatened estuarine habitats

    Rachel Kelley Gittman;Charles H. Peterson;Carolyn A. Currin;F. Joel Fodrie

  • Solving problems resulting from solutions: evolution of a dual nutrient management strategy for the eutrophying Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina.

    Hans W. Paerl;Lexia M. Valdes;and Alan R. Joyner;Michael F. Piehler

  • Use of oysters to mitigate eutrophication in coastal waters

    M. Lisa Kellogg;Ashley R. Smyth;Mark W. Luckenbach;Ruth H. Carmichael

  • Guidelines for evaluating performance of oyster habitat restoration

    Lesley P. Baggett;Sean P. Powers;Robert D. Brumbaugh;Loren D. Coen

  • DENITRIFICATION IN A CONSTRUCTED WETLAND RECEIVING AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF

    Amy C. Poe;Michael F. Piehler;Suzanne P. Thompson;Hans W. Paerl

  • Impacts of inorganic nutrient enrichment on phytoplankton community structure and function in Pamlico Sound, NC, USA

    Michael F. Piehler;Luke J. Twomey;Nathan S. Hall;Hans W. Paerl

  • Oyster reefs as carbon sources and sinks.

    F. Joel Fodrie;Antonio B. Rodriguez;Rachel K. Gittman;Jonathan H. Grabowski

  • Long-term temporal and spatial trends in phytoplankton biomass and class-level taxonomic composition in the hydrologically variable Neuse-Pamlico estuarine continuum, North Carolina, U.S.A.

    Lexia M. Valdes-Weaver;Michael F. Piehler;James L. Pinckney;Karin E. Howe

  • Ecological Response to Hurricane Events in the Pamlico Sound System, North Carolina, and Implications for Assessment and Management in a Regime of Increased Frequency

    Hans W. Paerl;Lexia M. Valdes;Alan R. Joyner;Benjamin L. Peierls

  • Assessing Nitrogen Dynamics Throughout the Estuarine Landscape

    Ashley R. Smyth;Suzanne P. Thompson;Kaylyn N. Siporin;Wayne S. Gardner

  • Ocean acidification impairs crab foraging behaviour.

    Luke F. Dodd;Jonathan H. Grabowski;Michael F. Piehler;Isaac Westfield;Isaac Westfield

  • Denitrification potential of the eastern oyster microbiome using a 16S rRNA gene based metabolic inference approach.

    Ann Arfken;Bongkeun Song;Jeff S. Bowman;Michael F Piehler

  • Facultative diazotrophy increases Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii competitiveness under fluctuating nitrogen availability

    Pia H. Moisander;Pia H. Moisander;Lou Anne Cheshire;Jeremy Braddy;Elizabeth S. Calandrino

  • Phytoplankton uptake of ammonium, nitrate and urea in the Neuse River Estuary, NC, USA

    Luke J. Twomey;Michael F. Piehler;Hans W. Paerl

  • Oyster-mediated benthic-pelagic coupling modifies nitrogen pools and processes

    Ashley R. Smyth;Ashley R. Smyth;Nathan R. Geraldi;Michael F. Piehler

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans W. Paerl
Hans W. Paerl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan H. Grabowski
Jonathan H. Grabowski Northeastern University
A. Randall Hughes
A. Randall Hughes Northeastern University
Pia H. Moisander
Pia H. Moisander University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Craig R. Tobias
Craig R. Tobias University of Connecticut
James E. Byers
James E. Byers University of Georgia
Charles H. Peterson
Charles H. Peterson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James L. Pinckney
James L. Pinckney University of South Carolina
Martin W. Doyle
Martin W. Doyle Duke University
Antonio B. Rodriguez
Antonio B. Rodriguez University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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