Amy Breen

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Amy Breen is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy Breen has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Atmospheric Science, 18 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Amy Breen's work include Climate change and permafrost (48 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (28 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers). Amy Breen is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (48 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (28 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers). Amy Breen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Amy Breen's co-authors include E. S. Euskirchen, Michelle C. Mack, Benjamin Jones, S. J. Goetz, Colleen M. Iversen, Verity Salmon, Hélène Genet, Guido Grosse, Mark J. Lara and Adrian V. Rocha and has published in prestigious journals such as New Phytologist, Global Change Biology and Journal of Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Amy Breen

46 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

2021 196 citations Z. A. Mekonnen, W. J. Riley et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amy Breen United States	18	923	346	320	79	71	57	1.2k
Monika P. Calef United States	13	506 0.5×	569 1.6×	321 1.0×	45 0.6×	75 1.1×	17	952
Janet C. Jorgenson United States	14	946 1.0×	180 0.5×	282 0.9×	39 0.5×	69 1.0×	22	1.2k
Christer Jonasson Sweden	16	737 0.8×	251 0.7×	264 0.8×	38 0.5×	94 1.3×	30	945
Z. A. Mekonnen United States	16	682 0.7×	460 1.3×	283 0.9×	34 0.4×	38 0.5×	31	1000
Matthias Siewert Sweden	17	765 0.8×	208 0.6×	445 1.4×	132 1.7×	60 0.8×	32	1.1k
D. A. Walker United States	13	960 1.0×	171 0.5×	344 1.1×	60 0.8×	39 0.5×	23	1.2k
H. A. Maier United States	10	630 0.7×	134 0.4×	352 1.1×	53 0.7×	32 0.5×	13	856
Martha K. Raynolds United States	7	1.0k 1.1×	179 0.5×	459 1.4×	50 0.6×	27 0.4×	9	1.3k
R. C. Zulueta United States	15	779 0.8×	552 1.6×	437 1.4×	75 0.9×	13 0.2×	23	1.3k
Randi Jandt United States	14	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 3.2×	469 1.5×	48 0.6×	166 2.3×	32	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amy Breen

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Kumar, Jitendra, Amy Breen, Forrest M. Hoffman, et al.. (2025). PAVC: The foundation for a Pan-Arctic Vegetation Cover database. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1271–1271.

Gould, William A., Sarah C. Elmendorf, Jeremy L. May, et al.. (2025). Tundra Plant Canopies Gradually Close Over Three Decades While Cryptogams Persist. Global Change Biology. 31(4). e70155–e70155.

Kade, Anja, et al.. (2024). Landscape patterns of carbon fluxes in natural and disturbed ice-wedge-polygon tundra. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 56(1).

Shirley, Ian, Stijn Wielandt, Sebastian Uhlemann, et al.. (2024). Local-scale heterogeneity of soil thermal dynamics and controlling factors in a discontinuous permafrost region. Environmental Research Letters. 19(3). 34030–34030. 6 indexed citations

Wolter, Juliane, Benjamin Jones, Matthias Fuchs, et al.. (2024). Post-drainage vegetation, microtopography and organic matter in Arctic drained lake basins. Environmental Research Letters. 19(4). 45001–45001. 5 indexed citations

Heikoop, Jeffrey M., Brent D. Newman, Chonggang Xu, et al.. (2023). Environmental controls on observed spatial variability of soil pore water geochemistry in small headwater catchments underlain with permafrost. The cryosphere. 17(9). 3987–4006. 2 indexed citations

Jones, Benjamin, Guido Grosse, Louise Farquharson, et al.. (2022). Lake and drained lake basin systems in lowland permafrost regions. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 3(1). 85–98. 82 indexed citations

Hollingsworth, Teresa N., Amy Breen, Rebecca E. Hewitt, & Michelle C. Mack. (2021). Does fire always accelerate shrub expansion in Arctic tundra? Examining a novel grass-dominated successional trajectory on the Seward Peninsula. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 53(1). 93–109. 11 indexed citations

Parsekian, A., Louise Farquharson, Benjamin Jones, et al.. (2021). Geophysical Observations of Taliks Below Drained Lake Basins on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 126(3). 18 indexed citations

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Sulman, Benjamin N., Verity Salmon, Colleen M. Iversen, et al.. (2021). Integrating Arctic Plant Functional Types in a Land Surface Model Using Above‐ and Belowground Field Observations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(4). 33 indexed citations

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Yang, Dedi, Amy Breen, Andrew McMahon, et al.. (2021). Landscape-scale characterization of Arctic tundra vegetation composition, structure, and function with a multi-sensor unoccupied aerial system. Environmental Research Letters. 16(8). 85005–85005. 18 indexed citations

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Mekonnen, Z. A., W. J. Riley, R. F. Grant, et al.. (2021). Topographical Controls on Hillslope‐Scale Hydrology Drive Shrub Distributions on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(2). 17 indexed citations

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Bergstedt, Helena, Benjamin Jones, Kenneth M. Hinkel, et al.. (2021). Remote Sensing-Based Statistical Approach for Defining Drained Lake Basins in a Continuous Permafrost Region, North Slope of Alaska. Remote Sensing. 13(13). 2539–2539. 12 indexed citations

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Yang, Dedi, Ran Meng, Andrew McMahon, et al.. (2020). A Multi-Sensor Unoccupied Aerial System Improves Characterization of Vegetation Composition and Canopy Properties in the Arctic Tundra. Remote Sensing. 12(16). 2638–2638. 34 indexed citations

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Jones, Benjamin, Christopher D. Arp, Guido Grosse, et al.. (2020). Identifying historical and future potential lake drainage events on the western Arctic coastal plain of Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 31(1). 110–127. 35 indexed citations

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Iversen, Colleen M., et al.. (2019). NGEE Arctic Plant Traits: Soil Depth, Kougarok Road Mile Marker 64, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, Beginning 2016. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

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Salmon, Verity, et al.. (2019). NGEE Arctic Plant Traits: Plant Aboveground Biomass, NPP and Traits, Kougarok Road Mile Marker 64, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, beginning 2016. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 4 indexed citations

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He, Yujie, Qianlai Zhuang, A. D. McGuire, et al.. (2017). The Role of Driving Factors in Historical and Projected Carbon Dynamics in Wetland Ecosystems of Alaska. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Breen, Amy, Teresa N. Hollingsworth, Michelle C. Mack, & Benjamin Jones. (2015). Succession Stages of Tundra Plant Communities Following Wildfire Disturbance in Arctic Alaska. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Yuan, Fenghui, A. David McGuire, Shuhua Yi, et al.. (2011). Effects of Future Warming and Fire Regime Change on Boreal Soil Organic Horizons and Permafrost Dynamics in Interior Alaska. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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