Travis Nauman

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Travis Nauman is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Travis Nauman has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Ecology, 16 papers in Environmental Engineering and 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Travis Nauman's work include Rangeland and Wildlife Management (18 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (16 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers). Travis Nauman is often cited by papers focused on Rangeland and Wildlife Management (18 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (16 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers). Travis Nauman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Travis Nauman's co-authors include Michael C. Duniway, Colby Brungard, James A. Thompson, Nathaniel W. Chaney, Alex B. McBratney, Eric F. Wood, Stephen E. Fick, Jayne Belnap, Alix A. Pfennigwerth and Nichole N. Barger and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Resources Research and Soil Science Society of America Journal.

In The Last Decade

Travis Nauman

35 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Wind erosion and dust from US drylands: a review of causes, consequences, and solutions in a changing world

2019 184 citations Michael C. Duniway, Alix A. Pfennigwerth et al. Ecosphere profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Travis Nauman United States	18	553	426	425	381	189	38	1.3k
Cecilio Oyonarte Spain	22	239 0.4×	563 1.3×	389 0.9×	499 1.3×	182 1.0×	48	1.3k
Maria L. Chu United States	22	229 0.4×	432 1.0×	489 1.2×	278 0.7×	122 0.6×	58	1.3k
Ren‐Min Yang China	18	594 1.1×	234 0.5×	465 1.1×	576 1.5×	68 0.4×	42	1.3k
Claudio Zucca Italy	22	252 0.5×	513 1.2×	476 1.1×	519 1.4×	95 0.5×	61	1.4k
David Thoma United States	21	552 1.0×	362 0.8×	455 1.1×	259 0.7×	130 0.7×	42	1.3k
Wenzhi Zhao China	26	366 0.7×	975 2.3×	383 0.9×	598 1.6×	249 1.3×	89	2.0k
Joaquín Francisco Lavado Contador Spain	16	278 0.5×	424 1.0×	439 1.0×	707 1.9×	118 0.6×	59	1.2k
Pariente Sarah Israel	23	200 0.4×	508 1.2×	522 1.2×	888 2.3×	307 1.6×	53	1.7k
Chaohao Xu China	24	279 0.5×	458 1.1×	417 1.0×	703 1.8×	83 0.4×	47	1.5k
T. I. Dowling Australia	13	553 1.0×	408 1.0×	367 0.9×	343 0.9×	93 0.5×	29	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Travis Nauman

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nauman, Travis, Madlene Nussbaum, Leandro Parente, et al.. (2026). OpenLandMap-soildb: global soil information at 30 m spatial resolution for 2000–2022+ based on spatiotemporal Machine Learning and harmonized legacy soil samples and observations. Earth system science data. 18(2). 989–1036.

Belnap, Jayne, et al.. (2026). Vulnerability of different Colorado plateau land types to drivers of change. Ecological Indicators. 183. 114654–114654.

Nauman, Travis, et al.. (2024). Soil landscapes of the United States (SOLUS): Developing predictive soil property maps of the conterminous United States using hybrid training sets. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 88(6). 2046–2065. 5 indexed citations

Chappell, Adrian, Miguel L. Villarreal, Michael C. Duniway, et al.. (2024). Oil and gas development influences potential for dust emission from the Upper Colorado River Basin, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 49(11). 3292–3307. 1 indexed citations

McNellis, Brandon E., Anna C. Knight, Travis Nauman, et al.. (2023). Livestock removal increases plant cover across a heterogeneous dryland landscape on the Colorado Plateau. Environmental Research Letters. 2 indexed citations

Nauman, Travis, et al.. (2023). Synergistic soil, land use, and climate influences on wind erosion on the Colorado Plateau: Implications for management. The Science of The Total Environment. 893. 164605–164605. 15 indexed citations

Monroe, Adrian P., Travis Nauman, Cameron L. Aldridge, et al.. (2022). Assessing vegetation recovery from energy development using a dynamic reference approach. Ecology and Evolution. 12(2). e8508–e8508. 11 indexed citations

Fick, Stephen E., Travis Nauman, Colby Brungard, & Michael C. Duniway. (2021). What determines the effectiveness of Pinyon-Juniper clearing treatments? Evidence from the remote sensing archive and counter-factual scenarios. Forest Ecology and Management. 505. 119879–119879. 15 indexed citations

Duniway, Michael C., Alix A. Pfennigwerth, Stephen E. Fick, et al.. (2019). Wind erosion and dust from US drylands: a review of causes, consequences, and solutions in a changing world. Ecosphere. 10(3). 184 indexed citations breakdown →

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Maynard, Jonathan J., et al.. (2019). Digital Mapping of Ecological Land Units using a Nationally Scalable Modeling Framework. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 83(3). 666–686. 9 indexed citations

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Ramcharan, Amanda, Tomislav Hengl, Travis Nauman, et al.. (2018). Soil Property and Class Maps of the Conterminous United States at 100‐Meter Spatial Resolution. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 82(1). 186–201. 198 indexed citations

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Fan, Zhaosheng, Skye Wills, Jeffrey E. Herrick, et al.. (2018). Approaches for Improving Field Soil Identification. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 82(4). 871–877. 4 indexed citations

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Waller, Eric K., et al.. (2018). Landsat time series analysis of fractional plant cover changes on abandoned energy development sites. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 73. 407–419. 28 indexed citations

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Nauman, Travis, Amanda Ramcharan, Colby Brungard, et al.. (2017). Soil Properties and Class 100m Grids United States. ScholarSphere (Penn State Libraries). 3 indexed citations

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Nauman, Travis, et al.. (2017). Disturbance automated reference toolset (DART): Assessing patterns in ecological recovery from energy development on the Colorado Plateau. The Science of The Total Environment. 584-585. 476–488. 40 indexed citations

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Duniway, Michael C., et al.. (2016). Generalizing Ecological Site Concepts of the Colorado Plateau for Landscape-Level Applications. Rangelands. 38(6). 342–349. 24 indexed citations

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Nauman, Travis, et al.. (2015). Ghosts of the forest: Mapping pedomemory to guide forest restoration. Geoderma. 247-248. 51–64. 17 indexed citations

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Nauman, Travis & James A. Thompson. (2013). Semi-automated disaggregation of conventional soil maps using knowledge driven data mining and classification trees. Geoderma. 213. 385–399. 82 indexed citations

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Villarreal, Miguel L., Charles van Riper, Robert E. Lovich, et al.. (2011). An inventory and monitoring plan for a Sonoran Desert ecosystem; Barry M. Goldwater Range-West. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 1 indexed citations

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Nauman, Travis. (2009). Digital Soil-Landscape Classification for Soil Survey using ASTER Satellite and Digital Elevation Data in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 23(11). 1391–400. 5 indexed citations

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