B. E. Ewers

13.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
123 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

B. E. Ewers is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, B. E. Ewers has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 41 papers in Atmospheric Science and 36 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in B. E. Ewers's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (85 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (30 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (25 papers). B. E. Ewers is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (85 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (30 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (25 papers). B. E. Ewers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and South Korea. B. E. Ewers's co-authors include Ram Oren, John S. Sperry, Gabriel G. Katul, Nathan Phillips, Diane E. Pataki, Elise Pendall, D. S. Mackay, Karina V. R. Schäfer, Cynthia Weinig and K. V. Schäfer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

B. E. Ewers

123 papers receiving 8.0k 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.

Survey and synthesis of intra‐ and interspecific variation in stomatal sensitivity to vapour pressure deficit

1999 984 citations Ram Oren, John S. Sperry et al. Plant Cell & Environment profile →
Soil fertility limits carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems in a CO2-enriched atmosphere

2001 839 citations Ram Oren, David S. Ellsworth et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
B. E. Ewers United States	46	6.3k	3.2k	2.6k	2.3k	1.6k	123	8.2k
Jean‐Christophe Domec United States	55	6.8k 1.1×	3.4k 1.1×	2.9k 1.1×	2.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	157	8.6k
George W. Koch United States	44	6.2k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	2.6k 1.0×	3.3k 1.4×	2.5k 1.6×	123	9.9k
Rosie A. Fisher United States	39	6.5k 1.0×	2.4k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	96	8.1k
Lucas A. Cernusak Australia	47	5.9k 0.9×	3.0k 1.0×	3.4k 1.3×	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	147	8.4k
Guillermo Goldstein United States	65	8.0k 1.3×	3.7k 1.2×	5.0k 1.9×	5.0k 2.2×	1.9k 1.2×	172	12.3k
Remko A. Duursma Australia	47	6.8k 1.1×	2.5k 0.8×	3.9k 1.5×	2.8k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	84	9.1k
Stanley D. Smith United States	49	5.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	3.3k 1.2×	2.6k 1.1×	2.8k 1.8×	109	9.1k
Denis Loustau France	43	4.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	100	6.0k
J. Grace United Kingdom	46	5.0k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	2.4k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	96	8.3k
Kiona Ogle United States	40	4.7k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	2.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	115	7.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B. E. Ewers

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20 of 20 papers shown

Knapp, Corrine Nöel, Jewell Lund, Weston M. Eaton, et al.. (2025). Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity?: A framework for evaluation. Environmental Science & Policy. 164. 104008–104008. 2 indexed citations

Caetano-Anollés, Kelsey, B. E. Ewers, Shilpa Iyer, et al.. (2021). A Minimal Framework for Describing Living Systems: A Multi-Dimensional View of Life Across Scales. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 61(6). 2053–2065. 2 indexed citations

Guadagno, Carmela R., et al.. (2019). Hydraulic and photosynthetic responses of big sagebrush to the 2017 total solar eclipse. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8839–8839. 4 indexed citations

Brock, Marcus T., et al.. (2017). The plant circadian clock influences rhizosphere community structure and function. The ISME Journal. 12(2). 400–410. 92 indexed citations

Guadagno, Carmela R., et al.. (2017). Dead or Alive? Using Membrane Failure and Chlorophyll a Fluorescence to Predict Plant Mortality from Drought. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 175(1). 223–234. 84 indexed citations

Brock, Marcus T., et al.. (2017). Allocation to male vs female floral function varies by currency and responds differentially to density and moisture stress. Heredity. 119(5). 349–359. 6 indexed citations

Edwards, Christine E., B. E. Ewers, & Cynthia Weinig. (2016). Genotypic variation in biomass allocation in response to field drought has a greater affect on yield than gas exchange or phenology. BMC Plant Biology. 16(1). 185–185. 28 indexed citations

Xie, Qiguang, Ping Lou, Victor Hermand, et al.. (2015). Allelic polymorphism of GIGANTEA is responsible for naturally occurring variation in circadian period in Brassica rapa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(12). 3829–3834. 54 indexed citations

Ewers, B. E., et al.. (2014). Sensitivity of Photosynthetic Gas Exchange and Growth of Lodgepole Pine to Climate Variability Depends on the Age of Pleistocene Glacial Surfaces. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 2 indexed citations

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Weinig, Cynthia, B. E. Ewers, & Stephen M. Welch. (2014). Ecological genomics and process modeling of local adaptation to climate. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 18. 66–72. 22 indexed citations

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Brooks, P. D., A. A. Harpold, P. A. Troch, et al.. (2010). Quantifying the effects of mountain pine beetle infestation on water and biogeochemical cycles at multiple spatial and temporal scales. AGUFM. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Edwards, Christine E., et al.. (2009). Genotypes of Brassica rapa respond differently to plant-induced variation in air CO2 concentration in growth chambers with standard and enhanced venting. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 119(6). 991–1004. 11 indexed citations

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Ewers, B. E., et al.. (2008). Use of temporal patterns in vapor pressure deficit to explain spatial autocorrelation dynamics in tree transpiration. Tree Physiology. 28(4). 647–658. 41 indexed citations

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Ewers, B. E., Stith T. Gower, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, & Chuankuan Wang. (2005). Effects of stand age and tree species on canopy transpiration and average stomatal conductance of boreal forests. Plant Cell & Environment. 28(5). 660–678. 225 indexed citations

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Ewers, B. E., et al.. (2002). Interactive Effects of Time Since Fire and Tree Species Composition on Stand Transpiration and Canopy Conductance of Boreal Black Spruce Forest. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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Ewers, B. E., Ram Oren, N. Phillips, Monika Strömgren, & Sune Linder. (2001). Mean canopy stomatal conductance responses to water and nutrient availabilities in Picea abies and Pinus taeda. Tree Physiology. 21(12-13). 841–850. 111 indexed citations

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Oren, Ram, John S. Sperry, B. E. Ewers, et al.. (2001). Sensitivity of mean canopy stomatal conductance to vapor pressure deficit in a flooded Taxodium distichum L. forest: hydraulic and non-hydraulic effects. Oecologia. 126(1). 21–29. 148 indexed citations

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Hacke, Uwe G., John S. Sperry, B. E. Ewers, et al.. (2000). Influence of soil porosity on water use in Pinus taeda. Oecologia. 124(4). 495–505. 282 indexed citations

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Ewers, B. E. & Ram Oren. (2000). Analyses of assumptions and errors in the calculation of stomatal conductance from sap flux measurements. Tree Physiology. 20(9). 579–589. 252 indexed citations

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Oren, Ram, Nathan Phillips, B. E. Ewers, Diane E. Pataki, & J. Patrick Megonigal. (1999). Sap-flux-scaled transpiration responses to light, vapor pressure deficit, and leaf area reduction in a flooded Taxodium distichum forest. Tree Physiology. 19(6). 337–347. 221 indexed citations

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