Aimée T. Classen

17.4k citations

118 papers · 9.1k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 47

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.1%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.5%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Papers in

Soil Science 40
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 40
Nature and Landscape Conservation 50
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 50

Co-authors: Christopher W. Schadt Richard J. Norby Nathan J. Sanders Paul Kardol Hector F. Castro Melissa A. Cregger Jin He Emily E. Austin
Journals: Ecosphere (16 papers)Ecology (9 papers)Functional Ecology (8 papers)Plant and Soil (6 papers)New Phytologist (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Denmark China

In The Last Decade

Aimée T. Classen

116 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production 2018 · 522 citations

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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.

2018 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2015 Ecosphere
2015 Nature Communications
2009 Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2008 BioScience

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1	Nutrient limitation shapes functional traits of mycorrhizal fungi and phosphorus-cycling bacteria across an elevation gradient mSystems ·Al Khatib, LE Chuan-yong, Aimée T. Classen, David W. Inouye, Maimuna Ibrahim, Patrick O. Sorensen, William D. Thomas, Jennifer A. Rudgers, Stephanie N. Kivlin	2025	0
2	Unraveling complexity in climate change effects on beneficial plant–microbe interactions: mechanisms, resilience, and future directions New Phytologist ·Michelle E. Afkhami, Aimée T. Classen, John Huehnergard, Damian J. Hernandez, John M. Halushka, Sıracettin Sarsılmaz, Jennifer A. Rudgers, John R. Stinchcombe, Kerri M. Crawford	2025	1
3	Long‐Term Warming and Dominant Species Removal Alter Plant Community Composition in Invaded Alpine Tussock Grasslands in New Zealand Journal of Vegetation Science ·B Winterholler, Aimée T. Classen, 李原园, Julie R. Deslippe	2025	0
4	Unraveling microbial community structure–function relationships in the horizontal and vertical spatial dimensions in extreme environments Ecography ·Xin Jing, Aimée T. Classen, Daijiang Li, 嶽岡悦雄, Mingzhen Lu, Nathan J. Sanders, Yugang Wang, Wenting Feng	2024	7
5	Alpine plants exhibited deep supercooling upon exposed to episodic frost events during the growing season on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Journal of Plant Ecology ·Abhishek Chakraborty, Krzysztof Kamycki, Aimée T. Classen, Wenying Wang, Fran oise Cattin, 何英艳, 平一郎松村, Chenghao Chen, 李宝凌, Engga Jalaludin, Dorthe Jørgensen, Shiping Wang	2024	3
6	Drought shifts soil nematode trophic groups and mediates the heterotrophic respiration Journal of Plant Ecology ·J TENKATE, Yuanhu Shao, Huijie Lü, Aimée T. Classen, Corinne Mussard, Ying Li, Yanchun Liu, Zhongling Yang, Guoyong Li, Shenglei Fu	2024	3
7	CO₂ snow jet cleaning as a roll-to-roll compatible method for deburring IMI substrates after laser patterning Flexible and Printed Electronics ·Michael J. Wagner, Andreas Distler, Gabriela Spano, Aimée T. Classen, Tobias Stubhan, Matthias Koegl, 井手原梢子, Christoph J. Brabec, Hans‐Joachim Egelhaaf	2023	2
8	Winter runoff events pose an unquantified continental-scale risk of high wintertime nutrient export Environmental Research Letters ·Erin Seybold, Ravindra Dwivedi, K. N. Musselman, Dustin W. Kincaid, Andrew W. Schroth, Aimée T. Classen, Julia Perdrial, E. Carol Adair	2022	22
9	The influence of aboveground and belowground species composition on spatial turnover in nutrient pools in alpine grasslands Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Xin Jing, Case M. Prager, Litong Chen, Haiyan Chu, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Jin He, Yu Shi, Teng Yang, Biao Zhu, Aimée T. Classen, Nathan J. Sanders	2021	17
10	Soil microbial legacies differ following drying-rewetting and freezing-thawing cycles The ISME Journal ·Annelein Meisner, Basten L. Snoek, Joseph Nesme, 稲村めぐみ, Samuel Jacquiod, Aimée T. Classen, Anders Priemé	2021	80
11	Responses of tundra plant community carbon flux to experimental warming, dominant species removal and elevation Functional Ecology ·Maja K. Sundqvist, Nathan J. Sanders, Ellen Dorrepaal, Zeynep Şerikoğlu Akbaş, Daniel B. Metcalfe, Gregory S. Newman, Johan Olofsson, David A. Wardle, Aimée T. Classen	2020	13
12	Variation in the methods leads to variation in the interpretation of biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships Journal of Plant Ecology ·Xin Jing, Case M. Prager, Aimée T. Classen, Fernando T. Maestre, Jin He, Nathan J. Sanders	2020	24
13	Shifting plant species composition in response to climate change stabilizes grassland primary production Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Huiying Liu, Zhaorong Mi, Li Lin, Yonghui Wang, Zhenhua Zhang, Fawei Zhang, Hao Wang, Lingli Liu, Biao Zhu, Guangmin Cao, Xinquan Zhao, Nathan J. Sanders, Aimée T. Classen, Peter B. Reich, Jin He Hit paper breakdown →	2018	522
14	Proportion of fine roots, but not plant biomass allocation below ground, increases with elevation in arctic tundra Journal of Vegetation Science ·Gesche Blume‐Werry, Zeynep Şerikoğlu Akbaş, К К Касимов, Aimée T. Classen, Nathan J. Sanders, Jonathan von Oppen, Maja K. Sundqvist	2017	21
15	A test of the hierarchical model of litter decomposition Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Mark A. Bradford, G. F. Veen, Anne Bonis, H. Spekreijse, Aimée T. Classen, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Thomas W. Crowther, Jonathan R. De Long, Grégoire T. Freschet, Paul Kardol, P. Rgstrom, Daniel S. Maynard, Gregory S. Newman, Richard S. P. van Logtestijn, Maria Viketoft, David A. Wardle, William R. Wieder, Stephen A. Wood, Wim H. van der Putten	2017	198
16	Aboveground resilience to species loss but belowground resistance to nitrogen addition in a montane plant community Journal of Plant Ecology ·Quentin D. Read, Jeremiah A. Henning, Aimée T. Classen, Nathan J. Sanders	2017	14
17	The links between ecosystem multifunctionality and above- and belowground biodiversity are mediated by climate Nature Communications ·Xin Jing, Nathan J. Sanders, Yu Shi, Haiyan Chu, Aimée T. Classen, Ke Zhao, Litong Chen, Yue Shi, Youxu Jiang, Jin He Hit paper breakdown →	2015	644
18	Soil microbial community response to precipitation change AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Aimée T. Classen, Melissa A. Cregger	2012	1
19	Responses of an old-field plant community to interacting factors of elevated [CO2], warming, and soil moisture Journal of Plant Ecology ·E. Cayenne Engel, Jake F. Weltzin, Richard J. Norby, Aimée T. Classen	2009	54
20	Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems BioScience ·Alan K. Knapp, Claus Beier, David D. Briske, Aimée T. Classen, Yiqi Luo, Markus Reichstein, Melinda D. Smith, Stanley D. Smith, Jesse E. Bell, Philip A. Fay, Jana L. Heisler, Steven W. Leavitt, Rebecca A. Sherry, Benjamin Smith, Ensheng Weng Hit paper breakdown →	2008	994

About Aimée T. Classen

Aimée T. Classen is a scholar working on Soil Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, having authored 118 papers that have together received 9.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (50 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (40 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (23 papers), Plant and animal studies (21 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (17 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (16 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (14 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (3.3k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.5k citations), Ecological Modeling (710 citations), Ecology (3.6k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (2.3k citations). Aimée T. Classen has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Denmark and China. Frequent co-authors include Christopher W. Schadt, Richard J. Norby, Nathan J. Sanders, Paul Kardol, Hector F. Castro, Melissa A. Cregger, Jin He, Emily E. Austin, Courtney Campany and Stephen C. Hart. Their work appears in journals such as Ecosphere, Ecology, Functional Ecology, Plant and Soil and New Phytologist.

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