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Environmental Sciences
USA
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
115
Citations
81414
World Ranking
153
National Ranking
70

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award

Best Publications

  • HUMAN ALTERATION OF THE GLOBAL NITROGEN CYCLE: SOURCES AND CONSEQUENCES

    Peter M. Vitousek;John D. Aber;Robert W. Howarth;Gene E. Likens

  • Forecasting agriculturally driven global environmental change

    David Tilman;Joseph Fargione;Brian Wolff;Carla D'Antonio

  • The global carbon dioxide flux in soil respiration and its relationship to vegetation and climate

    James W. Raich;W.H. Schlesinger

  • A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2

    Elizabeth Mcleod;Gail L Chmura;Steven Bouillon;Rodney Salm

  • Biological Feedbacks in Global Desertification

    William H. Schlesinger;James F. Reynolds;Gary L. Cunningham;Laura F. Huenneke

  • Natural climate solutions

    Bronson W. Griscom;Bronson W. Griscom;Justin Adams;Peter W. Ellis;Richard A. Houghton

  • Soil respiration and the global carbon cycle

    William H. Schlesinger;Jeffrey A. Andrews

  • Forest Ecosystems: Concepts and Management

    Richard H. Waring;William H. Schlesinger

  • The global carbon dioxide flux in soil respiration and its relationship to vegetation and climate

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  • Carbon Balance in Terrestrial Detritus

    William H. Schlesinger

  • A literature review and evaluation of the. Hedley fractionation: Applications to the biogeochemical cycle of soil phosphorus in natural ecosystems

    Anne Fernald Cross;William H. Schlesinger

  • ON THE SPATIAL PATTERN OF SOIL NUTRIENTS IN DESERT ECOSYSTEMS

    William H. Schlesinger;Jane A. Raikes;Anne E. Hartley;Anne F. Cross

  • Nitrogen fixation: Anthropogenic enhancement‐environmental response

    James N. Galloway;William H. Schlesinger;Hiram Levy;Anthony Michaels

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • Forest response to elevated CO2 is conserved across a broad range of productivity.

    Richard J. Norby;Evan H. DeLucia;Birgit Gielen;Carlo Calfapietra

  • Evidence from chronosequence studies for a low carbon-storage potential of soils

    William H. Schlesinger

  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative.

    James S. Clark;Steven R. Carpenter;Mary Barber;Scott Collins

  • On the fate of anthropogenic nitrogen

    William H. Schlesinger

  • Transpiration in the global water cycle

    William H. Schlesinger;Scott Jasechko

  • Carbon Sequestration in Soils

    William H. Schlesinger

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