B. E. Law

57.2k total citations · 10 hit papers
212 papers, 22.5k citations indexed

About

B. E. Law is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, B. E. Law has authored 212 papers receiving a total of 22.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 188 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 55 papers in Atmospheric Science and 54 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in B. E. Law's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (124 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (61 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (53 papers). B. E. Law is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (124 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (61 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (53 papers). B. E. Law collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. B. E. Law's co-authors include Peter Anthoni, Dennis Baldocchi, Michael G. Ryan, J. E. Irvine, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Philippe Ciais, Steve Van Tuyl, John L. Campbell and Peter Thornton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

B. E. Law

210 papers receiving 21.7k 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.

Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks

2008 1.3k citations B. E. Law et al. profile →
Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

2010 1.3k citations Markus Reichstein, B. E. Law et al. profile →
Modeling and measuring the effects of disturbance history and climate on carbon and water budgets in evergreen needleleaf forests

2002 687 citations Peter Thornton, B. E. Law et al. profile →
Handbook of micrometeorology : a guide for surface flux measurement and analysis

2004 662 citations Xuhui Lee, W. J. Massman et al. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) profile →
Deriving a light use efficiency model from eddy covariance flux data for predicting daily gross primary production across biomes

2007 570 citations Dennis Baldocchi, David Y. Hollinger et al. profile →
Interpreting, measuring, and modeling soil respiration

2005 565 citations B. E. Law et al. profile →
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021

2021 283 citations William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf et al. BioScience profile →
Within‐species patterns challenge our understanding of the leaf economics spectrum

2018 208 citations Logan T. Berner, B. E. Law et al. profile →
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory

2023 98 citations William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf et al. BioScience profile →
The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth

2024 98 citations William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf et al. BioScience profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
B. E. Law	17.1k	6.5k	5.2k	4.8k	4.0k	212	22.5k
Michael L. Goulden	15.0k 0.9×	6.3k 1.0×	3.7k 0.7×	5.7k 1.2×	2.0k 0.5×	183	20.2k
David Schimel	13.0k 0.8×	8.8k 1.3×	4.0k 0.8×	5.0k 1.0×	6.2k 1.6×	227	23.2k
R. A. Houghton	19.6k 1.1×	8.0k 1.2×	7.5k 1.4×	4.9k 1.0×	4.1k 1.0×	197	29.8k
Patrick Meir	10.9k 0.6×	4.7k 0.7×	5.6k 1.1×	3.5k 0.7×	3.5k 0.9×	214	17.3k
Christopher J. Kucharik	12.0k 0.7×	6.7k 1.0×	3.3k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	2.8k 0.7×	157	21.8k
Michael G. Ryan	14.3k 0.8×	4.4k 0.7×	8.6k 1.7×	5.3k 1.1×	4.9k 1.2×	236	21.5k
Paul J. Hanson	10.3k 0.6×	5.5k 0.8×	3.6k 0.7×	4.4k 0.9×	4.5k 1.1×	226	17.4k
Nina Buchmann	15.6k 0.9×	8.1k 1.2×	9.5k 1.8×	5.9k 1.2×	7.2k 1.8×	354	29.6k
Guirui Yu	14.9k 0.9×	9.1k 1.4×	4.7k 0.9×	5.2k 1.1×	8.6k 2.2×	803	29.2k
David D. Breshears	20.9k 1.2×	7.1k 1.1×	11.0k 2.1×	9.8k 2.0×	3.1k 0.8×	180	28.6k

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

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mildrexler, David J., Logan T. Berner, B. E. Law, Richard A. Birdsey, & William R. Moomaw. (2024). Response: Commentary: Large Trees Dominate Carbon Storage in Forests East of the Cascade Crest in the United States Pacific Northwest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 7.

Mildrexler, David J., Logan T. Berner, B. E. Law, Richard A. Birdsey, & William R. Moomaw. (2023). Protect large trees for climate mitigation, biodiversity, and forest resilience. Conservation Science and Practice. 5(7). 13 indexed citations

Ripple, William J., Christopher Wolf, Jillian W. Gregg, et al.. (2023). The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory. BioScience. 73(12). 841–850. 98 indexed citations breakdown →

Moomaw, William R., B. E. Law, & S. J. Goetz. (2020). Focus on the role of forests and soils in meeting climate change mitigation goals: summary. Environmental Research Letters. 15(4). 45009–45009. 73 indexed citations

Seyednasrollah, Bijan, D. R. Bowling, Rui Cheng, et al.. (2020). Seasonal variation in the canopy color of temperate evergreen conifer forests. New Phytologist. 229(5). 2586–2600. 38 indexed citations

Kwon, Hyojung, et al.. (2018). Influence of concurrence of extreme drought and heat events on carbon and energy fluxes in dominant ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest region. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 4 indexed citations

Berner, Logan T., B. E. Law, & T. W. Hudiburg. (2017). Water availability limits tree productivity, carbon stocks, and carbon residence time in mature forests across the western US. Biogeosciences. 14(2). 365–378. 46 indexed citations

Ruehr, Nadine K., B. E. Law, Dietmar Quandt, & Mathew Williams. (2014). Effects of heat and drought on carbon and water dynamics in a regenerating semi-arid pine forest: a combined experimental and modeling approach. Biogeosciences. 11(15). 4139–4156. 25 indexed citations

Verma, Manish, M. A. Friedl, Andrew D. Richardson, et al.. (2014). Remote sensing of annual terrestrial gross primary productivity from MODIS: an assessment using the FLUXNET La Thuile data set. Biogeosciences. 11(8). 2185–2200. 69 indexed citations

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Kathilankal, J. C., T. L. O’Halloran, Andres Schmidt, Chad Hanson, & B. E. Law. (2014). Development of a semi-parametric PAR (Photosynthetically Active Radiation) partitioning model for the United States, version 1.0. Geoscientific model development. 7(5). 2477–2484. 13 indexed citations

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Gonçalves, F. G., Mikhail Yatskov, Joáo Roberto dos Santos, R. N. Treuhaft, & B. E. Law. (2010). Relating LANDSAT ETM+ and forest inventory data for mapping successional stages in a tropical wet forest / Relacionando LANDSAT ETM+ e dados de inventário florestal para mapeamento estádios sucessionais em uma floresta tropical úmida. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Law, B. E., et al.. (2010). Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions. AGUFM. 2010. 6 indexed citations

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O’Halloran, T. L., B. E. Law, Dennis Baldocchi, Gordon B. Bonan, & J. T. Randerson. (2009). Potential biogeochemical and biogeophysical consequences of afforestation in North America. AGUFM. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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Stoy, Paul C., Andrew D. Richardson, Dennis Baldocchi, et al.. (2009). Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of CO ₂ in relation to climate: a cross-biome analysis across multiple time scales. Biogeosciences. 6(10). 2297–2312. 119 indexed citations

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Turner, David P., William D. Ritts, B. E. Law, et al.. (2007). Scaling net ecosystem production and net biome production over a heterogeneous region in the western United States. Biogeosciences. 4(4). 597–612. 63 indexed citations

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Lee, Xuhui, W. J. Massman, & B. E. Law. (2004). Handbook of micrometeorology : a guide for surface flux measurement and analysis. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 662 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kurpius, M. R., J. E. Irvine, B. E. Law, & M. H. Unsworth. (2003). The Influence of Stand Development on Annual Carbon Exchange in Ponderosa Pine in Eastern Oregon. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 2 indexed citations

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Thornton, Peter & B. E. Law. (2001). Modeling the effects of disturbance history and climate on carbon and water budgets in evergreen needleleaf forests. AGUFM. 2001. 6 indexed citations

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Law, B. E., Kurt H. Riitters, & Lewis F. Ohmann. (1992). Growth in Relation to Canopy Light Interception in a Red Pine (Pinus resinosa) Thinning Study. Forest Science. 38(1). 199–202. 3 indexed citations

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Law, B. E., Kurt H. Riitters, & Lewis F. Ohmann. (1992). Growth in relation to canopy light interception in a red pine (Pinus resinosa) thinning study. Forest Science. 38(1). 199–202. 19 indexed citations

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