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Travis E. Huxman 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 Travis E. Huxman sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 228 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Travis E. Huxman 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 Travis E. Huxman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Travis E. Huxman is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular focus on ecological and vegetation dynamics.

The main fields of study in which they have contributed include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

More specific subfields addressed in their work are:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science

Their research topics cover a wide range of ecological and environmental themes, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Climate variability and models

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Travis E. Huxman include:

  • Empirical evidence for resilience of tropical forest photosynthesis in a warmer world (2020, Nature Plants)
  • Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other's effects on dryland degradation (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Warming as a Driver of Vegetation Loss in the Sonoran Desert of California (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences)
  • A common garden super-experiment: An impossible dream to inspire possible synthesis (2021, Journal of Ecology)
  • A tale of two suburbias: Turning up the heat in Southern California's flammable wildland-urban interface (2020, Cities)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Travis E. Huxman multiple times include:

  • Daniel E. Winkler
  • Kailen A. Mooney
  • Sarah Kimball
  • Megan E. Lulow
  • Benjamin Schlau

The publication venues where their work frequently appears cover a range of journals:

  • Nature Plants
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Cities

Travis E. Huxman has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020 and as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

    Travis E. Huxman;Melinda D. Smith;Melinda D. Smith;Philip A. Fay;Alan K. Knapp

  • Precipitation pulses and carbon fluxes in semiarid and arid ecosystems

    Travis E. Huxman;Keirith A. Snyder;David Tissue;A. Joshua Leffler

  • Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought

    Henry D. Adams;Maite Guardiola-Claramonte;Greg A. Barron-Gafford;Juan Camilo Villegas;Juan Camilo Villegas

  • A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

    Henry D. Adams;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;William R.L. Anderegg;Henrik Hartmann

  • Assessing the Response of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Potential Changes in Precipitation

    Jake F. Weltzin;Michael E. Loik;Susanne Schwinning;David G. Williams

  • ECOHYDROLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT

    Travis E. Huxman;Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;Russell L. Scott

  • Elevated CO2 increases productivity and invasive species success in an arid ecosystem.

    Stanley D. Smith;Travis E. Huxman;Travis E. Huxman;Stephen F. Zitzer;Therese N. Charlet

  • Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

    Guillermo E. Ponce Campos;M. Susan Moran;Alfredo Huete;Yongguang Zhang

  • Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect.

    Amy L. Angert;Travis E. Huxman;Peter Chesson;D. Lawrence Venable

  • 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

  • Scaling metabolism from organisms to ecosystems

    Brian J. Enquist;Evan P. Economo;Travis E. Huxman;Andrew P. Allen

  • Land degradation in drylands: Interactions among hydrologic-aeolian erosion and vegetation dynamics

    Sujith Ravi;David D. Breshears;Travis E. Huxman;Paolo D'Odorico

  • Carbon sequestration in a high‐elevation, subalpine forest

    R. K. Monson;A. A. Turnipseed;J. P. Sparks;P. C. Harley;P. C. Harley

  • Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes

    Kiona Ogle;Jarrett J. Barber;Greg A. Barron-Gafford;Lisa Patrick Bentley

  • Water and climate: Recognize anthropogenic drought.

    Amir AghaKouchak;David Feldman;Martin Hoerling;Travis Huxman

  • AEOLIAN PROCESSES AND THE BIOSPHERE

    Sujith Ravi;Paolo D'Odorico;David D. Breshears;Jason P. Field

  • Ecohydrological consequences of drought- and infestation- triggered tree die-off: insights and hypotheses

    Henry D. Adams;Charles H. Luce;David D. Breshears;Craig D. Allen

  • Response of net ecosystem gas exchange to a simulated precipitation pulse in a semi-arid grassland: the role of native versus non-native grasses and soil texture

    Travis E. Huxman;Jessica M. Cable;Danielle D. Ignace;J. Alex Eilts

  • Nonstructural leaf carbohydrate dynamics of Pinus edulis during drought-induced tree mortality reveal role for carbon metabolism in mortality mechanism

    Henry D. Adams;Henry D. Adams;Matthew J. Germino;Matthew J. Germino;David D. Breshears;Greg A. Barron‐Gafford

  • Ecohydrological impacts of woody‐plant encroachment: seasonal patterns of water and carbon dioxide exchange within a semiarid riparian environment

    Russell L. Scott;Travis E. Huxman;David G. Williams;David C. Goodrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg A. Barron-Gafford
Greg A. Barron-Gafford University of Arizona
David D. Breshears
David D. Breshears University of Arizona
Russell L. Scott
Russell L. Scott Agricultural Research Service
Peter Troch
Peter Troch University of Arizona
Scott R. Saleska
Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona
David G. Williams
David G. Williams University of Wyoming
Stanley D. Smith
Stanley D. Smith University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Amy L. Angert
Amy L. Angert University of British Columbia
David T. Tissue
David T. Tissue Western Sydney University
Jon Chorover
Jon Chorover University of Arizona

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