Benjamin L. Turner

40.7k citations

380 papers · 26.6k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 89

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.01%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Environmental Chemistry top 0.02%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Papers in

Soil Science 145
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 134
Environmental Chemistry 104
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics 96

Co-authors: P. M. Haygarth Leo M. Condron Étienne Laliberté S. Joseph Wright‬Hans Lambers Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht N. Mahieu Ian D. McKelvie
Journals: Journal of Ecology (26 papers)Soil Biology and Biochemistry (21 papers)Biogeochemistry (21 papers)Plant and Soil (18 papers)Ecology (15 papers)
Partner nations: Panama United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Benjamin L. Turner

368 papers receiving 25.9k citations

Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

Nitrogen deposition accelerates soil carbon sequestration in tropical forests 2021 · 199 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020 Nature
2020 Science Advances
2018 Nature
2018 Ecology
2017 Science
2016 Ecological Monographs
2014 Nature
2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2011 Ecology
2007 Nature
2002 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

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1	Interspecific and intraspecific variations in root phosphatase activity among tropical tree species with different soil phosphorus associations Journal of Ecology ·Ryota Aoyagi, Fiorella De La Sota Castro, Benjamin L. Turner	2025	2
2	Organic amendments promote soil phosphorus related functional genes and microbial phosphorus cycling Geoderma ·Wenchao Wu, Yangjian Zhang, Benjamin L. Turner, Tiryadi Tiryadi, Xiaohong Chen, Rongxiao Che, Xiaoyong Cui, Xuejun Liu, Lin Jiang, Juntao Zhu	2025	2
3	Phytate-Mediated Arsenic Hyperaccumulation in Pteris vittata : Synthesis, Sequestration, and Exudation Environmental Science & Technology ·Chunyan Hu, Hebatallah Emam, Ran Han, Xiang Zhang, Dan Sun, Yue Cao, Benjamin L. Turner, Chenjing Liu, Q. Lena	2025	0
4	Iron fertilization and soil carbon sequestration in rice paddies Biogeochemistry ·Lin C. Liu, T Kudo, Isabele Kusznir dos [UNIFESP] Santos, Mindy Kaplan, Muhammad Israr Khan, Benjamin L. Turner, Pil Joo Kim	2024	0
5	Microbial nutrient limitation along a 2-million-year dune chronosequence Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Benjamin L. Turner, Hans Lambers, Zhihui Wen, Jenson D. Aaron, Ellen Kandeler	2024	7
6	Sediment depth and accretion shape belowground mangrove carbon stocks across a range of climatic and geologic settings Limnology and Oceanography ·Matthew T. Costa, Exequiel Ezcurra, Paula Ezcurra, Pelayo Salinas‐de‐León, Benjamin L. Turner, Сергій Вікторович Поспєлов, James J. Leichter, Octavio Aburto‐Oropeza	2022	7
7	A shift from phenol to silica‐based leaf defences during long‐term soil and ecosystem development Ecology Letters ·Félix de Tombeur, Étienne Laliberté, Hans Lambers, Michel‐Pierre Faucon, Graham Zemunik, Benjamin L. Turner, Jean‐Thomas Cornelis, Grégory Mahy	2021	44
8	Demographic consequences of foraging ecology explain genetic diversification in Neotropical bird species Ecology Letters ·Matthew J. Miller, Eldredge Bermingham, Benjamin L. Turner, Justin C. Touchon, A.B. Johnson, Kevin Winker	2021	17
9	The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems Science Advances ·Angela Oliverio, Stefan Geisen, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Fernando T. Maestre, Benjamin L. Turner, Noah Fierer Hit paper breakdown →	2020	347
10	Soil abiotic and biotic properties constrain the establishment of a dominant temperate tree into boreal forests Journal of Ecology ·Alexis Carteron, 晋史山本, 郭红波, Benno Ring, Benjamin L. Turner, Mark Vellend, Étienne Laliberté	2020	48
11	Soil drivers of local‐scale tree growth in a lowland tropical forest Ecology ·Graham Zemunik, Stuart J. Davies, Benjamin L. Turner	2018	23
12	Soil nutrients and dispersal limitation shape compositional variation in secondary tropical forests across multiple scales Journal of Ecology ·Michiel van Breugel, Dylan Craven, Hao Ran Lai, მღვდელმონაზონი სერაფიმ როუზი, Benjamin L. Turner, Jefferson S. Hall	2018	76
13	Plant-soil feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate shrublands Science ·François P. Teste, Paul Kardol, Benjamin L. Turner, David A. Wardle, Graham Zemunik, Michael Renton, Étienne Laliberté Hit paper breakdown →	2017	310
14	Increasing plant species diversity and extreme species turnover accompany declining soil fertility along a long‐term chronosequence in a biodiversity hotspot Journal of Ecology ·Graham Zemunik, Benjamin L. Turner, Hans Lambers, Étienne Laliberté	2016	86
15	Assessment of bioavailable organic phosphorus in tropical forest soils by organic acid extraction and phosphatase hydrolysis Geoderma ·Tegan Darch, M. S. A. Blackwell, David R. Chadwick, P. M. Haygarth, J. M. B. Hawkins, Benjamin L. Turner	2016	60
16	Diversity of plant nutrient-acquisition strategies increases during long-term ecosystem development Nature Plants ·Graham Zemunik, Benjamin L. Turner, Hans Lambers, Étienne Laliberté	2015	220
17	Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients Science ·Étienne Laliberté, Graham Zemunik, Benjamin L. Turner	2014	228
18	Preferences or plasticity in nitrogen acquisition by understorey palms in a tropical montane forest Journal of Ecology ·Kelly M. Andersen, Benjamin L. Turner	2013	47
19	Transpiration efficiency of a tropical pioneer tree (Ficus insipida) in relation to soil fertility Journal of Experimental Botany ·Lucas A. Cernusak, Klaus Winter, Jorge Aranda, Benjamin L. Turner, John D. Marshall	2007	88
20	Organic phosphorus characterisation by phosphatase hydrolysable phosphorus techniques: applications to soil extracts and runoff waters Rothamsted Repository (Rothamsted Repository) ·Benjamin L. Turner, P. M. Haygarth	2001	2

About Benjamin L. Turner

Benjamin L. Turner is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Plant Science, having authored 380 papers that have together received 26.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (134 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (96 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (94 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (51 papers), Phosphorus and nutrient management (40 papers), Forest ecology and management (37 papers), Phytase and its Applications (35 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (34 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (10.7k citations), Environmental Chemistry (6.6k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (6.2k citations), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (2.8k citations) and Ecology (6.5k citations). Benjamin L. Turner has collaborated with scholars based in Panama, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include P. M. Haygarth, Leo M. Condron, Étienne Laliberté, S. Joseph Wright‬, Hans Lambers, Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht, N. Mahieu, Ian D. McKelvie, Graham Zemunik and Klaus Winter. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Ecology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Biogeochemistry, Plant and Soil and Ecology.

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