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D-Index
34
Citations
4354
World Ranking
7635
National Ranking
2563

Sally E. Koerner 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 Sally E. Koerner sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 91 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Sally E. Koerner 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 Sally E. Koerner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sally E. Koerner is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the United States. Their research spans primarily across Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a notable focus on interdisciplinary ecological studies.

The scientist's work is concentrated in several subfields of study including:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling

Key topics within their research encompass:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Sally E. Koerner has contributed to various scholarly publications across frequent venues that include:

  • Oecologia
  • Nature Communications
  • Rangeland Ecology & Management
  • Ecology
  • Ecology Letters

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate" (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • "Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Rapid recovery of ecosystem function following extreme drought in a South African savanna grassland" (2020), published in Ecology
  • "Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change" (2021), published in Ecology Letters

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable coauthors including:

  • Kimberly J. Komatsu
  • Kevin R. Wilcox
  • Melinda D. Smith
  • Meghan L. Avolio
  • Scott L. Collins

Best Publications

  • Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments.

    Alan K. Knapp;David L. Hoover;Kevin R. Wilcox;Meghan L. Avolio

  • Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Zheng Shi;Laureano A. Gherardi;Nathan P. Lemoine

  • Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity

    Sally E. Koerner;Melinda D. Smith;Deron E. Burkepile;Niall P. Hanan

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie

    Meghan L. Avolio;Sally E. Koerner;Kimberly J. La Pierre;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • Interactive effects of grazing, drought, and fire on grassland plant communities in North America and South Africa.

    Sally E. Koerner;Scott L. Collins

  • Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Andrew T. Tredennick;Sally E. Koerner;Emily Grman

  • The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

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  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

    Yann Hautier;Pengfei Zhang;Michel Loreau;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves

    Meghan L. Avolio;Ian T. Carroll;Scott L. Collins;Gregory R. Houseman

  • Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity

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  • Poaching empties critical Central African wilderness of forest elephants

    John R. Poulsen;Sally E. Koerner;Sally E. Koerner;Sarah Moore;Vincent P. Medjibe

  • Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19-year increase in growing season precipitation

    Scott L. Collins;Sally E. Koerner;Jennifer A. Plaut;Jordan G. Okie

  • Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands.

    Sally E. Koerner;Deron E. Burkepile;Richard W. S. Fynn;Catherine E. Burns

  • Rapid recovery of ecosystem function following extreme drought in a South African savanna grassland

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Sally E. Koerner;David L. Hoover;Andrea K. Borkenhagen

  • Vertebrate community composition and diversity declines along a defaunation gradient radiating from rural villages in Gabon

    Sally E. Koerner;John R. Poulsen;Emily J. Blanchard;Joseph Okouyi

  • Ecological consequences of forest elephant declines for Afrotropical forests.

    John R. Poulsen;Cooper Rosin;Amelia Meier;Emily Mills

  • Critical climate periods for grassland productivity on China’s Loess Plateau

    Liang Guo;Jimin Cheng;Eike Luedeling;Eike Luedeling;Sally E. Koerner

  • Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change

    Melinda D. Smith;Sally E. Koerner;Alan K. Knapp;Meghan L. Avolio

  • A framework for quantifying the magnitude and variability of community responses to global change drivers

    Meghan L. Avolio;Kimberly J. La Pierre;Gregory R. Houseman;Sally E. Koerner

  • Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity in ecological communities.

    Scott L. Collins;Meghan L. Avolio;Corinna Gries;Lauren M. Hallett

  • Responses to fire differ between South African and North American grassland communities

    Kevin P. Kirkman;Scott L. Collins;Melinda D. Smith;Alan K. Knapp

  • Nutrient additions cause divergence of tallgrass prairie plant communities resulting in loss of ecosystem stability

    Sally E. Koerner;Sally E. Koerner;Meghan L. Avolio;Kimberly J. La Pierre;Kevin R. Wilcox;Kevin R. Wilcox

Frequent Co-Authors

Melinda D. Smith
Melinda D. Smith Colorado State University
Kevin R. Wilcox
Kevin R. Wilcox University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Scott L. Collins
Scott L. Collins University of New Mexico
Alan K. Knapp
Alan K. Knapp Colorado State University
Meghan L. Avolio
Meghan L. Avolio Johns Hopkins University
Forest Isbell
Forest Isbell University of Minnesota
Deron E. Burkepile
Deron E. Burkepile University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Kevin P. Kirkman
Kevin P. Kirkman University of KwaZulu-Natal
Kimberly J. La Pierre
Kimberly J. La Pierre Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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