Robert J. Scholes

55.9k citations
257 papers · 26.0k indexed · 13 hit papers · h-index 77

Impact in

    • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
    • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
    • Fire effects on ecosystems
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
    • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Papers in

    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 30
    • Land Use and Ecosystem Services 25
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 21
    • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 18
    • Fire effects on ecosystems 17

Robert J. Scholes

247 papers receiving 24.3k citations

Hit Papers

Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts 2023 · 237 citations
237199320262004201550010001.5k2.0k

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Robert J. Scholes
Comparison fields: 5 of 202
  • Global and Planetary Change 13.6k
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 5.8k
  • Soil Science 3.6k
  • Ecological Modeling 1.4k
  • Ecology 8.2k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20241
2 20223
3 202285
4
Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate
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2022110
5 202044
6
First Validation of GEDI Vegetation Structure Metrics in South African Savannas.
20201
7 20196
8 201823
9 20189
10 201522
11
Determinants of Soil Respiration in a Semi-Arid Savanna Ecosystem, Kruger National Park, South Africa
20122
12
Biodiversity in Southern Africa. Volume 1-3, Norbert Jürgens, Daniela H. Haarmeyer, Jona Luther-Mosebach, Jürgen Dengler, Manfred Finckh, Ute Schmiedel, M. Timm Hoffman : book review
20121
13
Elephant management: A Scientific Assessment for South Africa
2008126
14
The Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000) : wet season campaigns
200235
15
Environmental effects of mining coastal dunes: conjectures and refutations
199830
16
Greenhouse gas emissions from South Africa
19968
17
The IGBP terrestrial transects: science plan
199559
18
An initial approach to predicting the sensitivity of the South African grassland biome to climate change
199139
19
Change in nature and the nature of change: interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere.
19907
20
Acoustic cues for constituent structure : a series of experiments on the nature of spoken sentence structures
19713

About Robert J. Scholes

Robert J. Scholes is a scholar working on Forestry, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Soil Science, having authored 257 papers that have together received 26.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (36 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (30 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (25 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (21 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (18 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (18 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (17 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (13.6k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (5.8k citations), Soil Science (3.6k citations), Ecological Modeling (1.4k citations) and Ecology (8.2k citations). Robert J. Scholes has collaborated with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Steve Archer, Neville Ash, B. H. Walker, Sally Archibald, Reinette Biggs, Harold A. Mooney, Brian Walker, Ruth DeFries, Kenneth M. Heilman and David P. Roy. Their work appears in journals such as South African Journal of Science, Language and Speech, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Science and Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

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