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Seth J. Wenger

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
7891
World Ranking
7015
National Ranking
2354

Seth J. Wenger 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 Seth J. Wenger sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 138 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Seth J. Wenger 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 Seth J. Wenger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Seth J. Wenger is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their scholarly output includes significant work in various subfields, notably Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of areas with a strong emphasis on freshwater ecosystems and ecological management. These include:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior

Their recent publications reflect these interests and include the following notable papers:

  • "Governance of Payments for Ecosystem Ecosystem services influences social and environmental outcomes in Costa Rica," 2020, Ecological Economics
  • "The potential for nature-based solutions to combat the freshwater biodiversity crisis," 2023, PLOS Water
  • "Toward Improved Understanding of Streamflow Effects on Freshwater Fishes," 2022, Fisheries
  • "Large portion of USA streams lose protection with new interpretation of Clean Water Act," 2020, Freshwater Science
  • "Taxonomic identity best explains variation in body nutrient stoichiometry in a diverse marine animal community," 2020, Scientific Reports

Seth J. Wenger frequently collaborates with other researchers. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Mary C. Freeman
  • Amy D. Rosemond
  • S. Kyle McKay
  • Phillip M. Bumpers
  • Edward S. Stowe

Wenger's work has also been published repeatedly in certain academic venues, reflecting specific research communities within their field. These venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Freshwater Science
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Impediments and Solutions to Sustainable, Watershed-Scale Urban Stormwater Management: Lessons from Australia and the United States

    Allison H Roy;Seth J Wenger;Timothy Fletcher;Christopher John Walsh;Christopher John Walsh

  • Flow regime, temperature, and biotic interactions drive differential declines of trout species under climate change

    Seth J. Wenger;Daniel J. Isaak;Charles H. Luce;Helen M. Neville

  • Outstanding Challenges in the Transferability of Ecological Models.

    Katherine L. Yates;Katherine L. Yates;Phil J. Bouchet;M Julian Caley;Kerrie Mengersen

  • Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation

    Seth J. Wenger;Julian D. Olden

  • Twenty-six key research questions in urban stream ecology: an assessment of the state of the science

    Seth J. Wenger;Allison H. Roy;C. Rhett Jackson;Emily S. Bernhardt

  • The NorWeST Summer Stream Temperature Model and Scenarios for the Western U.S.: A Crowd-Sourced Database and New Geospatial Tools Foster a User Community and Predict Broad Climate Warming of Rivers and Streams

    Daniel J. Isaak;Seth J. Wenger;Erin E. Peterson;Jay M. Ver Hoef

  • ESTIMATING SPECIES OCCURRENCE, ABUNDANCE, AND DETECTION PROBABILITY USING ZERO‐INFLATED DISTRIBUTIONS

    Seth J. Wenger;Mary C. Freeman

  • Modelling dendritic ecological networks in space: an integrated network perspective

    Erin E. Peterson;Jay M. Ver Hoef;Dan J. Isaak;Jeffrey A. Falke

  • Investigating hydrologic alteration as a mechanism of fish assemblage shifts in urbanizing streams

    Allison H. Roy;Mary C. Freeman;Byron J. Freeman;Seth J. Wenger

  • Slow climate velocities of mountain streams portend their role as refugia for cold-water biodiversity

    Daniel J. Isaak;Michael K. Young;Charles H. Luce;Steven W. Hostetler

  • Applications of spatial statistical network models to stream data

    Daniel J. Isaak;Erin E. Peterson;Jay M. Ver Hoef;Seth J. Wenger

  • Potential effects of climate change on streambed scour and risks to salmonid survival in snow-dominated mountain basins

    Jaime R. Goode;Jaime R. Goode;John M. Buffington;Daniele Tonina;Daniel J. Isaak

  • Macroscale hydrologic modeling of ecologically relevant flow metrics

    Seth J. Wenger;Charles H. Luce;Alan F. Hamlet;Daniel J. Isaak

  • Sensitivity of summer stream temperatures to climate variability in the Pacific Northwest

    Charles Luce;Brian Staab;Marc Kramer;Seth Wenger

  • Stream fish occurrence in response to impervious cover, historic land use, and hydrogeomorphic factors

    Seth J. WengerS.J. Wenger;James T. PetersonJ.T. Peterson;Mary C. FreemanM.C. Freeman;Byron J. FreemanB.J. Freeman

  • Probabilistic accounting of uncertainty in forecasts of species distributions under climate change

    Seth J. Wenger;Nicholas A. Som;Daniel C. Dauwalter;Daniel J. Isaak

  • Role of climate and invasive species in structuring trout distributions in the interior Columbia River Basin, USA

    Seth J. Wenger;Daniel J. Isaak;Jason B. Dunham;Kurt D. Fausch

  • Big biology meets microclimatology: defining thermal niches of ectotherms at landscape scales for conservation planning.

    Daniel J. Isaak;Seth J. Wenger;Michael K. Young

  • Metabolic theory and taxonomic identity predict nutrient recycling in a diverse food web

    Jacob Edward Allgeier;Seth J. Wenger;Amy D. Rosemond;Daniel E. Schindler

  • Importance of riparian forests in urban catchments contingent on sediment and hydrologic regimes.

    Allison H. Roy;Allison H. Roy;Mary C. Freeman;Byron J. Freeman;Seth J. Wenger

  • Multi-scale assessment of forest cover in an agricultural landscape of Southeastern Brazil: Implications for management and conservation of stream habitat and water quality

    Felipe Rossetti de Paula;Pedro Gerhard;Silvio Frosini de Barros Ferraz;Seth J. Wenger

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Isaak
Daniel J. Isaak US Forest Service
Charles H. Luce
Charles H. Luce US Forest Service
Mary C. Freeman
Mary C. Freeman United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Jason B. Dunham
Jason B. Dunham United States Geological Survey
Amy D. Rosemond
Amy D. Rosemond University of Georgia
Michael K. Young
Michael K. Young US Forest Service
Steven W. Hostetler
Steven W. Hostetler United States Geological Survey
Christopher J. Walsh
Christopher J. Walsh University of Melbourne
Bruce E. Rieman
Bruce E. Rieman US Forest Service
Daniele Tonina
Daniele Tonina University of Idaho

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