Ashley P. Ballantyne

7.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
81 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Ashley P. Ballantyne is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ashley P. Ballantyne has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 44 papers in Atmospheric Science and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ashley P. Ballantyne's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (23 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (23 papers). Ashley P. Ballantyne is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (23 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (23 papers). Ashley P. Ballantyne collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Ashley P. Ballantyne's co-authors include L. A. Cooper, Steven W. Running, Pieter P. Tans, J. B. Miller, Michael T. Brett, James W. C. White, Jason C. Neff, Caroline B. Alden, Zhihua Liu and Dörthe C. Müller‐Navarra and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ashley P. Ballantyne

78 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Increase in observed net carbon dioxide uptake by land and oceans during the past 50 years

2012 490 citations Ashley P. Ballantyne, J. B. Miller et al. profile →
Global water use efficiency saturation due to increased vapor pressure deficit

2023 131 citations Ashley P. Ballantyne et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ashley P. Ballantyne United States	34	2.7k	1.9k	1.4k	647	644	81	4.9k
Qiuan Zhu China	42	2.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	2.2k 1.6×	886 1.4×	620 1.0×	145	5.8k
Xiaomei Xu United States	37	2.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.5×	1.3k 1.0×	481 0.7×	828 1.3×	172	5.0k
Guy Schurgers Sweden	35	3.5k 1.3×	2.4k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	581 0.9×	276 0.4×	86	5.6k
Atsuko Sugimoto Japan	34	1.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	810 0.6×	396 0.6×	586 0.9×	127	3.4k
Manuel Gloor United Kingdom	45	5.4k 2.0×	3.3k 1.8×	813 0.6×	753 1.2×	350 0.5×	114	7.0k
Cathy M. Trudinger Australia	34	3.6k 1.3×	3.0k 1.6×	959 0.7×	217 0.3×	391 0.6×	62	5.2k
Pauline F. Grierson Australia	45	2.2k 0.8×	970 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 2.0×	665 1.0×	144	5.7k
Jukka Pumpanen Finland	43	3.4k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	1.8k 1.3×	934 1.4×	605 0.9×	174	6.2k
A. D. McGuire United States	42	3.8k 1.4×	4.7k 2.5×	2.4k 1.7×	631 1.0×	571 0.9×	82	7.8k
Nicola Gedney United Kingdom	29	5.5k 2.0×	3.2k 1.7×	1.1k 0.8×	525 0.8×	407 0.6×	53	7.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Ballantyne, Ashley P., Jon Graham, Zachary A. Holden, et al.. (2025). An ecosystem resilience index that integrates measures of vegetation function, structure, and composition. Ecological Indicators. 171. 113076–113076. 3 indexed citations

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Bond‐Lamberty, Ben, Ashley P. Ballantyne, E. Berryman, et al.. (2024). Twenty Years of Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Measuring and Understanding Soil Respiration. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(2). 35 indexed citations

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Yu, Kailiang, Han Y. H. Chen, Arthur Geßler, et al.. (2024). Forest demography and biomass accumulation rates are associated with transient mean tree size vs. density scaling relations. PNAS Nexus. 3(2). pgae008–pgae008. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhihua, Wen J. Wang, Ashley P. Ballantyne, et al.. (2023). Forest disturbance decreased in China from 1986 to 2020 despite regional variations. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 37 indexed citations

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Yu, Kailiang, Philippe Ciais, A. Anthony Bloom, et al.. (2023). Biogeographic pattern of living vegetation carbon turnover time in mature forests across continents. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(10). 1803–1813. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhihua, John S. Kimball, Ashley P. Ballantyne, et al.. (2022). Respiratory loss during late-growing season determines the net carbon dioxide sink in northern permafrost regions. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5626–5626. 19 indexed citations

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Zhao, Bo, Ashley P. Ballantyne, Shengwang Meng, et al.. (2022). Understory plant removal counteracts tree thinning effect on soil respiration in a temperate forest. Global Change Biology. 28(20). 6102–6113. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhiqiang, Mingcheng Wang, Kailiang Yu, et al.. (2021). Global synthesis for the scaling of soil microbial nitrogen to phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters. 16(4). 44034–44034. 15 indexed citations

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Longstaffe, Fred J., et al.. (2020). Evolution of woodcutting behaviour in Early Pliocene beaver driven by consumption of woody plants. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 13111–13111. 10 indexed citations

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Fletcher, Tamara, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Kendrick J. Brown, et al.. (2019). Evidence for fire in the Pliocene Arctic in response to amplified temperature. Climate of the past. 15(3). 1063–1081. 18 indexed citations

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Fletcher, Tamara, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Kendrick J. Brown, et al.. (2018). The role of elevated atmospheric CO ₂ and increased fire in Arcticamplification of temperature during the Early to mid-Pliocene. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 3 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Philippe Ciais, Yilong Wang, et al.. (2018). Recent Changes in Global Photosynthesis and Terrestrial Ecosystem Respiration Constrained From Multiple Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(2). 1058–1068. 21 indexed citations

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Ballantyne, Ashley P., et al.. (2018). Limited evidence forCO₂‐related growth enhancement in northern Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine populations across climate gradients. Global Change Biology. 24(9). 3922–3937. 35 indexed citations

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Ballantyne, Ashley P., William K. Smith, William R. L. Anderegg, et al.. (2017). Accelerating net terrestrial carbon uptake during the warming hiatus due to reduced respiration. Nature Climate Change. 7(2). 148–152. 158 indexed citations

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Feng, Ran, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Tamara Fletcher, Ashley P. Ballantyne, & Esther C. Brady. (2016). Contributions to Pliocene Arctic warmth from removal of anthropogenic aerosol and enhanced forest fire emissions. AGUFM. 2016. 2 indexed citations

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Fletcher, Tamara, et al.. (2016). Climate-Vegetation-Fire Interactions: Pieces in the Pliocene Polar Puzzle.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Philippe Ciais, Yilong Wang, et al.. (2016). Reducing uncertainties in decadal variability of the global carbon budget with multiple datasets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(46). 13104–13108. 25 indexed citations

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Ballantyne, Ashley P., J. B. Miller, Ian Baker, Pieter P. Tans, & James W. C. White. (2011). Novel applications of carbon isotopes in atmospheric CO ₂ : what can atmospheric measurements teach us about processes in the biosphere?. Biogeosciences. 8(10). 3093–3106. 29 indexed citations

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Ballantyne, Ashley P., J. B. Miller, Ian Baker, Pieter P. Tans, & James W. C. White. (2011). Novel applications of carbon isotopes in atmospheric CO ₂ : what can atmospheric measurements teach us about processes in the biosphere?. 1 indexed citations

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Ballantyne, Ashley P., et al.. (2010). Biogeochemical response of alpine lakes to recent changes in dust deposition. 6 indexed citations

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