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Trent W. Biggs publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Trent W. Biggs sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 133 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Trent W. Biggs D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Trent W. Biggs sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Trent W. Biggs is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of Environmental Science. The scientist's work spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Soil Science, and Water Science and Technology.

The core research topics addressed by Trent W. Biggs include:

  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

The scientist has contributed to a number of recent research publications, some of which are:

  • "A novel ensemble computational intelligence approach for the spatial prediction of land subsidence susceptibility," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Land use and land cover changes and their impacts on surface-atmosphere interactions in Brazil: A systematic review," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Transformation of Brazil's biomes: The dynamics and fate of agriculture and pasture expansion into native vegetation," 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Satellite-based precipitation estimates using a dense rain gauge network over the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon: Implication for identifying trends in dry season rainfall," 2021, Atmospheric Research
  • "Forests Mitigate Drought in an Agricultural Region of the Brazilian Amazon: Atmospheric Moisture Tracking to Identify Critical Source Areas," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Trent W. Biggs include:

  • Natalie Mladenov
  • Stephany Garcia
  • Alexandra Grant
  • Elise Piazza
  • Ye Mu

Publications have been featured predominantly in venues such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Machine learning approaches for spatial modeling of agricultural droughts in the south-east region of Queensland Australia

    Omid Rahmati;Fatemeh Falah;Kavina Shaanu Dayal;Ravinesh C. Deo

  • Irrigated area mapping in heterogeneous landscapes with MODIS time series, ground truth and census data, Krishna Basin, India

    Trent W. Biggs;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Murali K. Gumma;Christopher A. Scott

  • Land subsidence modelling using tree-based machine learning algorithms.

    Omid Rahmati;Fatemeh Falah;Seyed Amir Naghibi;Trent Biggs

  • Effects of irrigation and vegetation activity on early Indian summer monsoon variability

    Eungul Lee;Eungul Lee;Eungul Lee;Thomas N. Chase;Thomas N. Chase;Balaji Rajagopalan;Balaji Rajagopalan;Roger G. Barry;Roger G. Barry

  • Sponge city : Water balance of Mega-city water use and wastewater use in Hyderabad, India

    Daan J. Van Rooijen;Hugh Turral;Trent Wade Biggs

  • Natural controls and human impacts on stream nutrient concentrations in a deforested region of the Brazilian Amazon basin

    T.W. Biggs;T. Dunne;L.A. Martinelli

  • Land subsidence hazard modeling: Machine learning to identify predictors and the role of human activities.

    Omid Rahmati;Ali Golkarian;Trent Biggs;Saskia Keesstra

  • A sweet deal? Sugarcane, water and agricultural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

    T. M. Hess;J. Sumberg;T. Biggs;Matei Georgescu

  • Urban growth, wastewater production and use in irrigated agriculture: a comparative study of Accra, Addis Ababa and Hyderabad

    Daniel J. Van Rooijen;Daniel J. Van Rooijen;Trent W. Biggs;Ian K. Smout;Pay Drechsel

  • A novel ensemble computational intelligence approach for the spatial prediction of land subsidence susceptibility.

    Alireza Arabameri;Sunil Saha;Jagabandhu Roy;John P. Tiefenbacher

  • Hyperspectral narrowband and multispectral broadband indices for remote sensing of crop evapotranspiration and its components (transpiration and soil evaporation)

    Michael T. Marshall;Michael T. Marshall;Prasad S. Thenkabail;Trent Biggs;Kirk Post

  • The downstream externalities of harvesting rainwater in semi-arid watersheds: an Indian case study

    Jetske A. Bouma;Trent W. Biggs;Laurens M. Bouwer

  • Closing of the Krishna Basin: irrigation, streamflow depletion and macroscale hydrology

    Trent W. Biggs;Anju Gaur;C. Scott;Prasad S. Thenkabail

  • Relative influence of natural watershed properties and human disturbance on stream solute concentrations in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon basin

    Trent Wade Biggs;Thomas Dunne;Tomas Ferreira Domingues;Luiz Antonio Martinelli

  • Water Scarcity Effects on Equitable Water Distribution and Land Use in a Major Irrigation Project—Case Study in India

    A. Gaur;T. W. Biggs;M. K. Gumma;G. Parthasaradhi

  • Application of SEBAL approach and MODIS time-series to map vegetation water use patterns in the data scarce Krishna river basin of India

    M.-D. Ahmad;T. Biggs;H. Turral;C.A. Scott

  • Transport of water, solutes and nutrients from a pasture hillslope, southwestern Brazilian Amazon

    Trent Wade Biggs;Thomas Dunne;Takashi Muraoka

  • Land use land cover changes and their impacts on surface-atmosphere interactions in Brazil: A systematic review

    Cassia Brocca Caballero;Anderson Ruhoff;Trent Biggs

  • Deuterium-excess determination of evaporation to inflow ratios of an alpine lake: Implications for water balance and modeling

    Jiangpeng Cui;Lide Tian;Lide Tian;Trent W. Biggs;Rong Wen

  • Soil salinity and exchangeable cations in a wastewater irrigated area, India.

    Trent W. Biggs;BinBin Jiang

  • Land cover following rapid urbanization on the US-Mexico border: implications for conceptual models of urban watershed processes.

    Trent Wade Biggs;Emily Atkinson;Rebecca Powell;Lina Ojeda-Revah

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh Turral
Hugh Turral International Water Management Institute
Eddy J. Langendoen
Eddy J. Langendoen Agricultural Research Service
Christopher A. Scott
Christopher A. Scott University of Arizona
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas Dunne
Thomas Dunne University of California, Santa Barbara
Murali Krishna Gumma
Murali Krishna Gumma International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Erin O. Sills
Erin O. Sills North Carolina State University
Prasad S. Thenkabail
Prasad S. Thenkabail United States Geological Survey
Laurens M. Bouwer
Laurens M. Bouwer Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Omid Rahmati
Omid Rahmati Agricultural Research Education And Extention Organization

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