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Overview

Robert F. Stallard is affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Their research contributions span primarily environmental science, with a focus on several subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, water science and technology, soil science, and molecular biology.

The scientist has authored multiple papers addressing diverse topics within hydrology, watershed management, sediment transport, flood risk management, and microbial community ecology. Key thematic areas of their research include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Stallard's recent publications reflect an emphasis on tropical watershed hydrology, land use impacts on microbial communities, and organic carbon export in humid tropical river systems. Notable papers include:

  • Land use influences stream bacterial communities in lowland tropical watersheds, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • The influence of land cover and storm magnitude on hydrologic flowpath activation and runoff generation in steep tropical catchments of central Panama, 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • Extreme rainstorms drive exceptional organic carbon export from forested humid-tropical rivers in Puerto Rico, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Precipitation Characteristics and Land Cover Control Wet Season Runoff Source and Rainfall Partitioning in Three Humid Tropical Catchments in Central Panama, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • Applied science facilitates the large-scale expansion of protected areas in an Amazonian hot spot, 2021, Science Advances

The scientist frequently collaborates with a consistent group of coauthors, including Jefferson S. Hall, Jason Regina, Fred L. Ogden, Holly Barnard, and Andrew L. Birch.

The venues where Stallard most often publishes their work comprise HydroShare Resources, Hydrological Processes, Scientific Reports, Journal of Hydrology, and Nature Communications. The majority of their publications appear in HydroShare Resources and Hydrological Processes, indicating a specialized engagement with hydrological data sharing platforms and methodological developments in hydrology.

Best Publications

  • Geochemistry of the Amazon: 2. The influence of geology and weathering environment on the dissolved load

    R. F. Stallard;J. M. Edmond

  • Soil nutrients influence spatial distributions of tropical tree species

    Robert John;James W. Dalling;James W. Dalling;Kyle Edward Harms;Kyle Edward Harms;Joseph B. Yavitt

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

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

  • Terrestrial sedimentation and the carbon cycle: Coupling weathering and erosion to carbon burial

    Robert F. Stallard

  • Formation of the Isthmus of Panama

    Aaron O’Dea;Harilaos A. Lessios;Anthony G. Coates;Ron I. Eytan

  • Denudation rates determined from the accumulation of in situ-produced 10Be in the luquillo experimental forest, Puerto Rico

    Erik Thorson Brown;Robert F. Stallard;Matthew C. Larsen;Grant M. Raisbeck

  • On the chemical mass-balance in estuaries

    E. Boyle;R. Collier;A.T. Dengler;J.M. Edmond

  • Geochemistry of the Amazon: 1. Precipitation chemistry and the marine contribution to the dissolved load at the time of peak discharge

    R. F. Stallard;J. M. Edmond

  • Geochemistry of the Amazon: 3. Weathering chemistry and limits to dissolved inputs

    R. F. Stallard;J. M. Edmond

  • The fluvial geochemistry and denudation rate of the Guayana Shield in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil

    J.M. Edmond;M.R. Palmer;C.I. Measures;B. Grant

  • Major ion chemistry of some large Chinese rivers

    Hu Ming-Hui;R. F. Stallard;R. F. Stallard;J. M. Edmond

  • Methane emission by bubbling from Gatun Lake, Panama

    Michael Keller;Robert F. Stallard

  • Dynamics of soil carbon during deglaciation of the laurentide ice sheet.

    Jennifer W. Harden;Robert K. Mark;Eric T. Sundquist;Robert F. Stallard

  • First-Cycle Quartz Arenites in the Orinoco River Basin, Venezuela and Colombia

    Mark J. Johnsson;Robert F. Stallard;Robert H. Meade

  • Consumption of atmospheric methane in soils of central Panama: Effects of agricultural development

    Michael Keller;Martin E. Mitre;Robert F. Stallard

  • Dissolution at dislocation etch pits in quartz

    Susan L. Brantley;Stephanie R. Crane;David A. Crerar;Roland Hellmann

  • Effect of land cover and use on dry season river runoff, runoff efficiency, and peak storm runoff in the seasonal tropics of Central Panama

    Fred L. Ogden;Trey D. Crouch;Robert F. Stallard;Jefferson S. Hall

  • The chemical mass balance in the Amazon plume I: The nutrients

    J.M. Edmond;E.A. Boyle;B. Grant;R.F. Stallard

  • Controls on the composition of fluvial sands from a tropical weathering environment: Sands of the Orinoco River drainage basin, Venezuela and Colombia

    Mark J. Johnsson;Robert F. Stallard;Neil Lundberg

  • Radium and barium at GEOSECS stations in the Atlantic and Pacific

    L.H. Chan;J.M. Edmond;R.F. Stallard;W.S. Broecker

Frequent Co-Authors

Jefferson S. Hall
Jefferson S. Hall Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Fred L. Ogden
Fred L. Ogden National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Helmut Elsenbeer
Helmut Elsenbeer University of Potsdam
Robert M. Key
Robert M. Key Princeton University
Jeffrey E. Richey
Jeffrey E. Richey University of Washington
Patricia Balvanera
Patricia Balvanera National Autonomous University of Mexico
Richard J. Murnane
Richard J. Murnane Harvard University
Susan L. Brantley
Susan L. Brantley Pennsylvania State University
S. Joseph Wright
S. Joseph Wright Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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