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Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Utah State University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
9122
World Ranking
5473
National Ranking
1873

Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 182 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh 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 Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh is affiliated with Utah State University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Soil Science.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics related to environmental dynamics and resource management. Prominent themes include Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Transboundary Water Resource Management, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, and Heavy Metals in the Environment.

Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh has authored several papers, notable among them:

  • "40-years of Lake Urmia restoration research: Review, synthesis and next steps" (2022) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Contrasting Management and Fates of Two Sister Lakes: Great Salt Lake (USA) and Lake Urmia (Iran)" (2022) published in Water
  • "Managing Lake Urmia, Iran for diverse restoration objectives: Moving beyond a uniform target lake level" (2021) published in Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • "It Takes Two to Tango: When and Where Dual Nutrient (N & P) Reductions Are Needed to Protect Lakes and Downstream Ecosystems" (2020) published in UNC Libraries
  • "Effects of a century of mining and industrial production on metal contamination of a model saline ecosystem, Great Salt Lake, Utah" (2020) published in Environmental Pollution

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Environmental Pollution

Collaborations have been made with several researchers, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Somayeh Sima
  • David E. Rosenberg
  • Sarah E. Null
  • Masoud Parsinejad
  • Yusuf Alizade Govarchin Ghale

Best Publications

  • Nutrients, eutrophication and harmful algal blooms along the freshwater to marine continuum

    Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;Hans W. Paerl;Walter K. Dodds

  • It Takes Two to Tango: When and Where Dual Nutrient (N & P) Reductions Are Needed to Protect Lakes and Downstream Ecosystems

    Hans W. Paerl;J. Thad Scott;Mark J. McCarthy;Silvia E. Newell

  • Rationale for Control of Anthropogenic Nitrogen and Phosphorus to Reduce Eutrophication of Inland Waters

    William M. Lewis;Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;Hans W. Paerl

  • Decline of the world's saline lakes

    Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;Craig Miller;Sarah E. Null;R. Justin DeRose

  • Control of Lacustrine Phytoplankton by Nutrients: Erosion of the Phosphorus Paradigm

    William M. Lewis;Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

  • Food-web modification by an invertebrate predator in the Great Salt Lake (USA).

    Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

  • Limnological control of brine shrimp population dynamics and cyst production in the Great Salt Lake, Utah

    Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;Z. Maciej Gliwicz

  • Cascading Effects of Decreased Salinity on the Plankton Chemistry, and Physics of the Great Salt Lake (Utah)

    Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;Therese Smith Berry

  • Research in Thermal Biology: Burning Questions for Coldwater Stream Fishes

    Dale A. McCullough;John M. Bartholow;Henriëtte I. Jager;Robert L. Beschta

  • Post-feeding Thermotaxis and Daily Vertical Migration in a Larval Fish

    Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;Darcy Neverman;Darcy Neverman

  • Effects of temperature and ration level on the growth and food conversion efficiency of Salmo gairdneri, Richardson

    Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;Gerald E. Davis

  • An Empirical Model of Gastric Evacuation Rates for Fish and an Analysis of Digestion in Piscivorous Brown Trout

    Enqiang He;Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

  • Growth and Reproduction of the Mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis, in Relation to Temperature and Ration Level: Consequences for Life History

    Bruce Vondracek;Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;Joseph J. Cech

  • The Thermoregulatory Function of Diel Vertical Migration for a Juvenile Fish, Cottus extensus

    D. Neverman;Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

  • Seasonal Dynamics of Nutrient Limitation in a Tropical High-Altitude Lake (Lake Titicaca, Peru-Bolivia): Application of Physiological Bioassays

    Warwick F. Vincent;Wayne Wurtsbaugh;Connie L. Vincent;P. J. Richerson

  • Predation risk and the importance of cover for juvenile rainbow trout in lentic systems

    Roger A. Tabor;Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

  • Iron in Eutrophic Clear Lake, California: Its Importance for Algal Nitrogen Fixation and Growth

    Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;A. J. Horne

  • Effects of Moonlight and Daylight on Hydroacoustic Estimates of Pelagic Fish Abundance

    Chris Luecke;Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

  • Summer Habitat Use by Littoral-Zone Fishes in Lake Tahoe and the Effects of Shoreline Structures

    David A. Beauchamp;Earl R. Byron;Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

  • Temperature and nutrient supply interact to control nitrogen fixation in oligotrophic streams: An experimental examination

    Amy M. Marcarelli;Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher D. Arp
Christopher D. Arp University of Alaska Fairbanks
Joseph J. Cech
Joseph J. Cech University of California, Davis
David A. Beauchamp
David A. Beauchamp United States Geological Survey
Peter R. Leavitt
Peter R. Leavitt University of Regina
Peter Richard Wilcock
Peter Richard Wilcock Utah State University
Patrick J. Neale
Patrick J. Neale Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Warwick F. Vincent
Warwick F. Vincent Université Laval
Karin M. Kettenring
Karin M. Kettenring Utah State University
William M. Lewis
William M. Lewis University of Colorado Boulder
Hans W. Paerl
Hans W. Paerl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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