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Environmental Sciences

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55
Citations
8477
World Ranking
3923
National Ranking
137

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
8269
World Ranking
15290
National Ranking
420

Pauline F. Grierson 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 Pauline F. Grierson sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 169 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pauline F. Grierson 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 Pauline F. Grierson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pauline F. Grierson is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia, focusing on environmental science with particular expertise in ecology, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, and mechanical engineering.

Their research spans multiple subfields, including:

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

Main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Rangeland and wildlife management

Recent research contributions by Grierson include the following papers:

  • Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Fire severity impacts on tree mortality and post-fire recruitment in tall eucalypt forests of southwest Australia, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Megadroughts and pluvials in southwest Australia: 1350-2017 CE, 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • Controls on Interactions Between Surface Water, Groundwater, and Riverine Vegetation Along Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams in Arid Regions, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Soil moisture evaporative losses in response to wet-dry cycles in a semiarid climate, 2020, Journal of Hydrology

Grierson frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Water Resources Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • Aquatic Sciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Several recurring collaborators appear throughout their work, including:

  • Alison J. O'Donnell
  • Neil E. Pettit
  • Kathryn Allen
  • Shawan Dogramaci
  • Jake Eckersley

Best Publications

  • Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis

    Cory C. Cleveland;Alan R. Townsend;Philip Taylor;Silvia Alvarez-Clare

  • Long-term impacts of prescribed burning on regional extent and incidence of wildfires : evidence from 50 years of active fire management in SW Australian forests

    Matthias M Boer;Matthias M Boer;Rohan J Sadler;Roy S Wittkuhn;Roy S Wittkuhn;W. Lachlan McCaw;W. Lachlan McCaw

  • Estimation of evaporative loss based on the stable isotope composition of water using Hydrocalculator

    Grzegorz Skrzypek;Adam Mydłowski;Shawan Dogramaci;Shawan Dogramaci;Paul Hedley

  • Protocol for sampling tree and stand biomass.

    P. Snowdon;J. Raison;H. Keith;K. Montagu

  • Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire.

    Jason J. Sharples;Geoffrey J. Cary;Paul Fox-Hughes;Scott Mooney

  • Stable isotope and hydrochemical evolution of groundwater in the semi-arid Hamersley Basin of subtropical northwest Australia

    Shawan Dogramaci;Shawan Dogramaci;Grzegorz Skrzypek;Wade Dodson;Pauline F. Grierson

  • Organic acids in the rhizosphere of Banksia integrifolia L.f.

    P. F. Grierson

  • Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene

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  • Plant species affect acid phosphatase, ergosterol and microbial P in a Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata Donn ex Sm.) forest in south-western Australia.

    P.F Grierson;M.A Adams

  • Drought variability in the eastern Australia and New Zealand summer drought atlas (ANZDA, CE 1500-2012) modulated by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

    Jonathan G Palmer;Edward R Cook;Chris S M Turney;Kathy Allen

  • Phosphorus mobilization in agroforestry: Organic anions, phosphatase activity and phosphorus fractions in the rhizosphere

    Simone Radersma;Pauline F. Grierson

  • On the long-term context of the 1997–2009 ‘Big Dry’ in South-Eastern Australia: insights from a 206-year multi-proxy rainfall reconstruction

    Joëlle Gergis;Ailie Jane Eyre Gallant;Karl Braganza;David John Karoly

  • Stable Isotopes at Natural Abundance in Terrestrial Plant Ecology and Ecophysiology: An Update

    M.A. Adams;Pauline Grierson

  • Bioavailability and composition of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in a near coastal catchment of south-western Australia

    Kevin C. Petrone;Jayne S. Richards;Pauline F. Grierson

  • Mapping burned areas and burn severity patterns in SW Australian eucalypt forest using remotely-sensed changes in leaf area index

    Matthias M Boer;Craig Macfarlane;Jaymie Norris;Jaymie Norris;Rohan J Sadler

  • Multi-decadal scale variability in autumn-winter rainfall in south-western Australia since 1655 AD as reconstructed from tree rings of Callitris columellaris

    Louise E. Cullen;Pauline F. Grierson

  • Phosphorus mineralization kinetics and response of microbial phosphorus to drying and rewetting in a Florida Spodosol

    P.F. Grierson;N.B. Comerford;E.J. Jokela

  • Source, biogeochemical cycling, and fluorescence characteristics of dissolved organic matter in an agro‐urban estuary

    Jason B. Fellman;Kevin C. Petrone;Pauline F. Grierson

  • Estimates of carbon storage in the above-ground biomass of Victoria's forests

    PF Grierson;MA Adams;PM Attiwill

  • Facilitating adaptation of biodiversity to climate change: a conceptual framework applied to the world’s largest Mediterranean-climate woodland

    Suzanne Mary Prober;Kevin R Thiele;Philip W Rundel;Colin J Yates

  • Rewetting and litter addition influence mineralisation and microbial communities in soils from a semi-arid intermittent stream

    Rebecca E.S. McIntyre;Mark A. Adams;Douglas J. Ford;Pauline F. Grierson

  • Hydrologic control of dissolved organic matter biogeochemistry in pools of a subtropical dryland river

    Jason B. Fellman;Shawan Dogramaci;Grzegorz Skrzypek;Wade Dodson

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias M. Boer
Matthias M. Boer Western Sydney University
Neil E. Pettit
Neil E. Pettit University of Western Australia
Jason B. Fellman
Jason B. Fellman University of Alaska Southeast
Chris S. M. Turney
Chris S. M. Turney Heriot-Watt University
Jonathan G. Palmer
Jonathan G. Palmer University of New South Wales
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mark Brundrett
Mark Brundrett University of Western Australia
Shaun P. Collin
Shaun P. Collin La Trobe University
Gary A. Kendrick
Gary A. Kendrick University of Western Australia
Nicholas B. Comerford
Nicholas B. Comerford University of Florida

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