Stephen C. Hart

University of California, Merced — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

76h-index26.6kcitations314works15.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics(119), Fire effects on ecosystems(57), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics(53), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology(46), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(45)

Publications314 total

Contrasting Depth Dependencies of Plant Root Presence and Mass Across Biomes Underscore Prolific Root‐Regolith Interactions
AGU Advances·2025Open Access
Enhancing carbon storage through proactively managing fire-prone coniferous mountain forests
Ecological Modelling·2025Open Access
Microbial transformation and mineral adsorption control chemical evolution of soil organic matter during semi-arid ecosystem development
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta·2025Open Access
Soil microbial genomic responses to aridity-driven elemental imbalance across global biomes
2025Open Access
Energy Burden in the United States: An Analysis Using Decision Trees
Energies·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Substrate Origin Controls Phosphorus Availability in Globally Distributed Long-Term Chronosequences
Ecosystems·2025Open Access
A global atlas of soil viruses reveals unexplored biodiversity and potential biogeochemical impacts
Nature Microbiology·2024· 69 citedOpen Access
Dual role of silt and clay in the formation and accrual of stabilized soil organic carbon
Soil Biology and Biochemistry·2024· 96 cited
Depth dependence of climatic controls on soil microbial community activity and composition
2024Open Access
The Median Isn’t the Message: soil nutrient hot spots have a disproportionate influence on biogeochemical structure across years, seasons, and depths
Biogeochemistry·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Soil Organic Matter Dynamics in the Critical Zone
Advances in critical zone science·2024
The Median Isn’t the Message: Elucidating Soil Nutrient Hot Spots
Research Square (Research Square)·2023Open Access
Standardized Data to Improve Understanding and Modeling of Soil Nitrogen at Continental Scale
Earth s Future·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Climatic controls on soil and saprock nitrogen distribution and persistence in the Sierra Nevada
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Climate Warming Alters Nutrient Storage in Seasonally Dry Forests: Insights From a 2,300 m Elevation Gradient
Global Biogeochemical Cycles·2022· 11 citedOpen Access
Leaf endophytic microbiomes of different almond cultivars grafted to the same rootstock
Journal of Applied Microbiology·2022· 4 citedOpen Access
ADAMANT: A Pipeline for Adaptable Manipulation Tasks
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022Open Access
Impacts of climate and forest management on suspended sediment source and transport in montane headwater catchments
Hydrological Processes·2022· 6 cited
Landscape Topography and Regional Drought Alters Dust Microbiomes in the Sierra Nevada of California
Frontiers in Microbiology·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
Ecological and genomic responses of soil microbiomes to high-severity wildfire: linking community assembly to functional potential
The ISME Journal·2022· 92 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Thomas G. Whitham(7), Jennifer A. Schweitzer(7), Joseph K. Bailey(6), Thomas E. Kolb(6), George W. Koch(6), Whendee L. Silver(5), Benjamin W. Sullivan(5), Mary K. Firestone(5), Jason P. Kaye(5), Bruce A. Hungate(5), Ingrid C. Burke(4), Mark E. Harmon(4), Asmeret Asefaw Berhe(4), Samantha Chapman(4), Nicholas C. Dove(4), Emilio Mayorga(3), William J. Parton(3), William S. Currie(3), Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo(3), David J. Eldridge(3)