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William R. Wieder

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
58
Citations
18900
World Ranking
2506
National Ranking
888

William R. Wieder publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 153 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William R. Wieder 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 William R. Wieder sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 58 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

William R. Wieder is a researcher affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science with a strong emphasis on agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's research spans several subfields including global and planetary change, soil science, atmospheric science, ecology, and environmental chemistry. This broad disciplinary engagement reflects in their exploration of complex earth system processes.

Key topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

William R. Wieder has authored impactful papers published in various scientific venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity (2020, Nature Geoscience)
  • Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability (2021, Earth System Dynamics)
  • The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements (2020, Nature Geoscience)
  • Simulating Agriculture in the Community Land Model Version 5 (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences)
  • Moisture-driven divergence in mineral-associated soil carbon persistence (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent co-authors working alongside William R. Wieder include:

  • Danica Lombardozzi
  • A. Stuart Grandy
  • Katerina Georgiou
  • Derek Pierson
  • Melannie D. Hartman

The researcher's publications have appeared in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geoscientific Model Development, Global Change Biology, Biogeochemistry, and the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. These outlets reflect a strong focus on both the development of scientific models and empirical studies related to earth systems.

Best Publications

  • The Community Land Model version 5 : description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

    David M. Lawrence;Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;Keith W. Oleson

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

    William R. Wieder;Gordon B. Bonan;Steven D. Allison

  • Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

    Johannes Lehmann;Johannes Lehmann;Colleen M. Hansel;Christina Kaiser;Markus Kleber

  • Managing uncertainty in soil carbon feedbacks to climate change

    Mark A. Bradford;William R. Wieder;William R. Wieder;Gordon B. Bonan;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  • Beyond clay: Towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

    Craig Rasmussen;Katherine Heckman;William R. Wieder;Marco Keiluweit

  • Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability

    William R. Wieder;William R. Wieder;Cory C. Cleveland;W. Kolby Smith;W. Kolby Smith;Katherine Todd-Brown;Katherine Todd-Brown

  • Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition

    Mark A. Bradford;Björn Berg;Daniel S. Maynard;William R. Wieder

  • Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis

    Cory C. Cleveland;Alan R. Townsend;Philip Taylor;Silvia Alvarez-Clare

  • Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

    Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Steven D. Allison;Niels H. Batjes

  • Large divergence of satellite and Earth system model estimates of global terrestrial CO2 fertilization

    W. Kolby Smith;W. Kolby Smith;Sasha C. Reed;Cory C. Cleveland;Ashley P. Ballantyne

  • Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models

    William R. Wieder;Steven D. Allison;Eric A. Davidson;Katerina Georgiou;Katerina Georgiou

  • Climate fails to predict wood decomposition at regional scales

    Mark A. Bradford;Robert J. Warren;Petr Baldrian;Thomas W. Crowther

  • Integrating microbial physiology and physio-chemical principles in soils with the MIcrobial-MIneral Carbon Stabilization (MIMICS) model

    W. R. Wieder;A. S. Grandy;C. M. Kallenbach;G. B. Bonan

  • Higher climatological temperature sensitivity of soil carbon in cold than warm climates

    Charles D. Koven;Gustaf Hugelius;Gustaf Hugelius;David M. Lawrence;William R. Wieder;William R. Wieder

  • Addressing agricultural nitrogen losses in a changing climate

    Timothy M. Bowles;Shady S. Atallah;Eleanor E. Campbell;Amélie C. M. Gaudin

  • Plot-scale manipulations of organic matter inputs to soils correlate with shifts in microbial community composition in a lowland tropical rain forest

    Diana R. Nemergut;Diana R. Nemergut;Cory C. Cleveland;William R. Wieder;William R. Wieder;Christopher L. Washenberger

  • A test of the hierarchical model of litter decomposition

    Mark A Bradford;G F Ciska Veen;Anne Bonis;Ella M Bradford

  • Multiple models and experiments underscore large uncertainty in soil carbon dynamics

    Benjamin N. Sulman;Benjamin N. Sulman;Jessica A. M. Moore;Jessica A. M. Moore;Rose Abramoff;Colin Averill

  • The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements

    Zheng Shi;Steven D. Allison;Yujie He;Paul A. Levine

  • Controls over leaf litter decomposition in wet tropical forests

    William R. Wieder;Cory C. Cleveland;Alan R. Townsend

  • Evaluating litter decomposition in earth system models with long-term litterbag experiments: an example using the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4).

    Gordon B. Bonan;Melannie D. Hartman;William J. Parton;William R. Wieder

Frequent Co-Authors

Cory C. Cleveland
Cory C. Cleveland University of Montana
Gordon B. Bonan
Gordon B. Bonan National Center for Atmospheric Research
Alan R. Townsend
Alan R. Townsend University of Montana
Danica Lombardozzi
Danica Lombardozzi National Center for Atmospheric Research
David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research
Mark A. Bradford
Mark A. Bradford Yale University
Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joshua P. Schimel
Joshua P. Schimel University of California, Santa Barbara
Stephen A. Wood
Stephen A. Wood Yale University
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe University of California, Merced

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