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82
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745
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274

Scott R. Saleska 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 Scott R. Saleska sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 331 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Scott R. Saleska 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 Scott R. Saleska sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Scott R. Saleska is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research output includes 103 publications primarily focused on global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, and plant science. Saleska's work addresses a range of subfields, with particular emphasis on global and planetary change (45 publications), ecology (31 publications), and atmospheric science (30 publications).

The scientist's main topics of research include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate change and permafrost, peatlands and wetlands ecology, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, methane hydrates and related phenomena, climate variability and models, and remote sensing in agriculture.

Saleska has published several recent papers between 2020 and 2021 covering various aspects of environmental and ecological studies. Notable publications include:

  • How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity (2021, Nature)
  • Empirical evidence for resilience of tropical forest photosynthesis in a warmer world (2020, Nature Plants)
  • Impacts of Degradation on Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycling of the Amazon Tropical Forests (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences)
  • Permafrost thaw driven changes in hydrology and vegetation cover increase trace gas emissions and climate forcing in Stordalen Mire from 1970 to 2014 (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences)
  • Ecology and molecular targets of hypermutation in the global microbiome (2021, Nature Communications)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Saleska include Virginia I. Rich, Patrick Crill, R. K. Varner, Natalia Restrepo-Coupé, and Jeffrey P. Chanton, with collaboration counts ranging from 13 to 22 publications.

Saleska's publications have appeared in several venues with multiple occurrences in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Change Biology, Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature.

In recognition of contributions to the scientific community, Saleska was named a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Amazon rainforests green‐up with sunlight in dry season

    Alfredo R. Huete;Kamel Didan;Yosio E. Shimabukuro;Piyachat Ratana

  • Carbon in Amazon Forests: Unexpected Seasonal Fluxes and Disturbance-Induced Losses

    Scott R. Saleska;Scott D. Miller;Daniel M. Matross;Michael L. Goulden

  • Evaluation of MODIS NPP and GPP products across multiple biomes.

    David P. Turner;William D. Ritts;Warren B. Cohen;Stith T. Gower

  • Height Above the Nearest Drainage – a hydrologically relevant new terrain model

    Antônio Donato Nobre;Antônio Donato Nobre;Luz Adriana Cuartas;Martin G. Hodnett;Camilo Daleles Rennó

  • Factors controlling long- and short-term sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in a mid-latitude forest.

    Carol C. Barford;Steven C. Wofsy;Michael L. Goulden;J. William Munger

  • Amazon forests green-up during 2005 drought.

    Scott R. Saleska;Kamel Didan;Alfredo R. Huete;Humberto R. da Rocha

  • Host-linked soil viral ecology along a permafrost thaw gradient

    Joanne B. Emerson;Joanne B. Emerson;Simon Roux;Simon Roux;Jennifer R. Brum;Jennifer R. Brum;Benjamin Bolduc

  • Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests.

    Jin Wu;Loren P. Albert;Aline P. Lopes;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe

  • Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

    Kaiyu Guan;Kaiyu Guan;Ming Pan;Haibin Li;Adam Wolf

  • Methane dynamics regulated by microbial community response to permafrost thaw

    Carmody K. McCalley;Ben J. Woodcroft;Suzanne B. Hodgkins;Richard A. Wehr

  • Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost

    Ben J. Woodcroft;Caitlin M. Singleton;Joel A. Boyd;Paul N. Evans

  • Satellite-based modeling of gross primary production in a seasonally moist tropical evergreen forest

    Xiangming Xiao;Qingyuan Zhang;Scott Saleska;Lucy Hutyra

  • Seasonal controls on the exchange of carbon and water in an Amazonian rain forest

    Lucy R. Hutyra;Lucy R. Hutyra;J. William Munger;Scott R. Saleska;Ellaine W. Gottlieb

  • An international network to monitor the structure, composition and dynamics of Amazonian forests (RAINFOR)

    Y. Malhi;O.L. Phillips;J. Lloyd;T. Baker

  • Changes in peat chemistry associated with permafrost thaw increase greenhouse gas production

    Suzanne B. Hodgkins;Malak M. Tfaily;Carmody K. McCalley;Tyler A. Logan

  • CARBON BALANCE AND VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN AN OLD-GROWTH AMAZONIAN FOREST

    Amy H. Rice;Elizabeth Hammond Pyle;Scott R. Saleska;Lucy Hutyra

  • What drives the seasonality of photosynthesis across the Amazon basin? A cross-site analysis of eddy flux tower measurements from the Brasil flux network

    Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Humberto R. da Rocha;Lucy R. Hutyra;Alessandro C. da Araujo;Alessandro C. da Araujo

  • Sources and properties of Amazonian aerosol particles

    Scot T. Martin;Meinrat O. Andreae;Paulo Artaxo;Darrel Baumgardner

  • INTEGRATING EXPERIMENTAL AND GRADIENT METHODS IN ECOLOGICAL CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH

    Jennifer A. Dunne;Jennifer A. Dunne;Scott R. Saleska;Marc L. Fischer;John Harte;John Harte

  • Soil Viruses Are Underexplored Players in Ecosystem Carbon Processing.

    Gareth Trubl;Ho Bin Jang;Simon Roux;Joanne B. Emerson

Frequent Co-Authors

Natalia Restrepo-Coupe
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe University of Technology Sydney
Patrick M. Crill
Patrick M. Crill Stockholm University
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo Universidade de São Paulo
Scott C. Stark
Scott C. Stark Michigan State University
Lucy R. Hutyra
Lucy R. Hutyra Boston University
Gene W. Tyson
Gene W. Tyson Queensland University of Technology
Jeffrey P. Chanton
Jeffrey P. Chanton Florida State University
Steven C. Wofsy
Steven C. Wofsy Harvard University
Travis E. Huxman
Travis E. Huxman University of California, Irvine
Alfredo Huete
Alfredo Huete University of Technology Sydney

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