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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
159
Citations
204903
World Ranking
18
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Stephen R. Carpenter is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research topics center on ecosystem dynamics and resilience, marine and coastal ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, sustainability and climate change governance, fish ecology and management studies, land use and ecosystem services, and innovation in sustainability and human-machine systems.

Stephen R. Carpenter has published numerous papers, including:

  • Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere, 2021, AMBIO
  • Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Exit time as a measure of ecological resilience, 2021, Science
  • Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework, 2021, AMBIO

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Carl Folke
  • Marten Scheffer
  • Brian Walker
  • Stephen Polasky
  • Simon A. Levin

Key publication venues where Stephen R. Carpenter has contributed multiple works are:

  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • AMBIO
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Ecosphere

Awards received over the course of the career include:

  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), 2012
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2001

Best Publications

  • Global Consequences of Land Use

    Jonathan A. Foley;Ruth DeFries;Gregory P. Asner;Carol Barford

  • Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Katherine Richardson;Johan Rockström;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social–ecological Systems

    Brian Walker;C. S. Holling;Stephen R. Carpenter;Ann P. Kinzig

  • Solutions for a cultivated planet

    Jonathan A. Foley;Navin Ramankutty;Kate A. Brauman;Emily S. Cassidy

  • Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems.

    Marten Scheffer;Steve Carpenter;Jonathan A. Foley;Carl Folke

  • NONPOINT POLLUTION OF SURFACE WATERS WITH PHOSPHORUS AND NITROGEN

    Stephen R. Carpenter;N. F. Caraco;D. L. Correll;R. W. Howarth

  • Resilience thinking: integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability

    Carl Folke;Stephen R. Carpenter;Brian Walker;Marten Scheffer

  • Early-warning signals for critical transitions

    Marten Scheffer;Jordi Bascompte;William A. Brock;Victor Brovkin

  • From Metaphor to Measurement: Resilience of What to What?

    Stephen R Carpenter;Barbara Louise Endemano Walker;J. Marty Anderies;Nick Abel

  • Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

    James A. Estes;John Terborgh;Justin S. Brashares;Mary E. Power

  • Complexity of coupled human and natural systems

    Jianguo Liu;Thomas Dietz;Stephen R. Carpenter;Marina Alberti

  • Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters

    W. Neil Adger;Terry P. Hughes;Carl Folke;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Cascading Trophic Interactions and Lake Productivity

    Stephen R. Carpenter;James F. Kitchell;James R. Hodgson

  • Catastrophic regime shifts in ecosystems: linking theory to observation

    Marten Scheffer;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Harold A. Mooney;John Agard;Doris Capistrano

  • Resilience Management in Social-ecological Systems: a Working Hypothesis for a Participatory Approach

    Brian Walker;Stephen R. Carpenter;John M. Anderies;Nick Abel

  • Anticipating Critical Transitions

    Marten Scheffer;Marten Scheffer;Stephen R. Carpenter;Timothy M. Lenton;Jordi Bascompte

  • Scenario Planning: a Tool for Conservation in an Uncertain World

    Garry D. Peterson;Graeme S. Cumming;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Trophic cascades revealed in diverse ecosystems.

    Michael L. Pace;Jonathan J. Cole;Stephen R. Carpenter;James F. Kitchell

  • Stability and Diversity of Ecosystems

    Anthony R. Ives;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Effects of submersed macrophytes on ecosystem processes

    Stephen R. Carpenter;David M. Lodge

Frequent Co-Authors

James F. Kitchell
James F. Kitchell University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael L. Pace
Michael L. Pace University of Virginia
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Jonathan J. Cole
Jonathan J. Cole New York Botanical Garden
William A. Brock
William A. Brock University of Wisconsin–Madison
Monica G. Turner
Monica G. Turner University of Wisconsin–Madison
Marten Scheffer
Marten Scheffer Wageningen University & Research
Richard C. Lathrop
Richard C. Lathrop University of Wisconsin–Madison
Reinette Biggs
Reinette Biggs Stellenbosch University
Elena M. Bennett
Elena M. Bennett McGill University

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