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William W. Hargrove

William W. Hargrove

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
9878
World Ranking
7922
National Ranking
2817

William W. Hargrove 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 William W. Hargrove sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 142 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

William W. Hargrove 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 William W. Hargrove sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

William W. Hargrove is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work primarily addresses topics related to species distribution and climate change, climate change and permafrost, remote sensing in agriculture, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, tree-ring climate responses, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and remote sensing and LiDAR applications.

Their recent papers include:

  • Mapping crops within the growing season across the United States, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Monitoring Broadscale Vegetational Diversity and Change across North American Landscapes Using Land Surface Phenology, 2020, Forests
  • Quantitative Representativeness and Constituency of the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Network and Analysis of Complementarity with Existing Ecological Networks, 2023, Environmental Management
  • Predicting climate change extirpation risk for central and southern Appalachian forest tree species, 2020, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Hyperspectral remote sensing-based plant community map for region around NGEE-Arctic intensive research watersheds at Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2017-2019, 2022, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

William W. Hargrove has worked frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Jitendra Kumar
  • Forrest M. Hoffman
  • Amy Breen
  • Verity Salmon
  • Colleen M. Iversen

Their publications have appeared in venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Forests

Main fields of study represented in William W. Hargrove's work are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Identified subfields of study include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change

Best Publications

  • EFFECTS OF FIRE SIZE AND PATTERN ON EARLY SUCCESSION IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

    Monica G. Turner;William H. Romme;Robert H. Gardner;William W. Hargrove

  • Lacunarity analysis: A general technique for the analysis of spatial patterns

    Roy E. Plotnick;Robert H. Gardner;William W. Hargrove;Karen Prestegaard

  • Effects of fire on landscape heterogeneity in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    Monica G. Turner;William W. Hargrove;Robert H. Gardner;William H. Romme

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Ecological niches as stable distributional constraints on mammal species, with implications for Pleistocene extinctions and climate change projections for biodiversity

    Enrique Martínez-Meyer;A. Townsend Peterson;William W. Hargrove

  • Herbivory in Forested Ecosystems

    T. D. Schowalter;W. W. Hargrove;D. A. Crossley

  • The projection of species distribution models and the problem of non-analog climate

    Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;William W. Hargrove

  • A continental strategy for the National Ecological Observatory Network

    Michael Keller;David S Schimel;William W Hargrove;Forrest M Hoffman

  • Potential of Multivariate Quantitative Methods for Delineation and Visualization of Ecoregions

    William W. Hargrove;Forrest M. Hoffman

  • Simulating fire patterns in heterogeneous landscapes

    W.W Hargrove;R.H Gardner;M.G Turner;W.H Romme

  • Pseudoreplication: a sine qua non for regional ecology

    William W. Hargrove;John Pickering

  • A global framework for monitoring phenological responses to climate change

    Michael A White;Forrest M Hoffman;William Walter Hargrove;Ramakrishna R Nemani

  • Assessment of MODIS NDVI time series data products for detecting forest defoliation by gypsy moth outbreaks

    Joseph P. Spruce;Steven Sader;Robert E. Ryan;James Smoot

  • A rare episode of sexual reproduction in aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) following the 1988 Yellowstone fires

    William H. Romme;Monica G. Turner;Robert H. Gardner;William W. Hargrove

  • Landscape-scale heterogeneity in lodgepole pine serotiny

    Daniel B. Tinker;William H. Romme;William W. Hargrove;Robert H. Gardner

  • Using multivariate clustering to characterize ecoregion borders

    W.W. Hargrove;F.M. Hoffman

  • Mapcurves: a quantitative method for comparing categorical maps

    William Walter Hargrove;Forrest M Hoffman;Paul Hessburg

  • Mapping environments at risk under different global climate change scenarios

    Earl Saxon;Barry Baker;William Hargrove;Chris Zganjar

  • New analysis reveals representativeness of the AmeriFlux network

    William W. Hargrove;Forrest M. Hoffman;Beverly E. Law

  • PREDICTING CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ON APPALACHIAN TROUT: COMBINING GIS AND INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELING

    M. E. Clark;K. A. Rose;D. A. Levine;W. W. Hargrove

Frequent Co-Authors

Forrest M. Hoffman
Forrest M. Hoffman Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Robert H. Gardner
Robert H. Gardner University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Monica G. Turner
Monica G. Turner University of Wisconsin–Madison
William H. Romme
William H. Romme Colorado State University
Eben N. Broadbent
Eben N. Broadbent University of Florida
Michael W. Berry
Michael W. Berry University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Robert J. Oglesby
Robert J. Oglesby University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Nathalie Butt
Nathalie Butt University of Queensland
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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