Benjamin Poulter

72.1k total citations · 14 hit papers
231 papers, 17.1k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Poulter is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Poulter has authored 231 papers receiving a total of 17.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 185 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 82 papers in Atmospheric Science and 63 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Poulter's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (99 papers), Climate variability and models (81 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (73 papers). Benjamin Poulter is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (99 papers), Climate variability and models (81 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (73 papers). Benjamin Poulter collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Benjamin Poulter's co-authors include Philippe Ciais, David Frank, Josep G. Canadell, Stephen Sitch, Lucas A. Cernusak, Almut Arneth, Patrick N. Halpin, Kimberly A. Novick, Thomas N. Buckley and Rolf Siegwolf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Poulter

227 papers receiving 16.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit

2020 1.3k citations Benjamin Poulter et al. profile →
Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe

2013 1.1k citations Benjamin Poulter et al. profile →
The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO ₂ sink

2015 1.1k citations Anders Ahlström, Michael Raupach et al. Science profile →
Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

2014 1.1k citations Benjamin Poulter, David Frank et al. Nature profile →
Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years

2014 708 citations Shilong Piao, Shushi Peng et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources

2021 623 citations Benjamin Poulter et al. profile →
Climate change and European forests: What do we know, what are the uncertainties, and what are the implications for forest management?

2014 471 citations Benjamin Poulter et al. profile →
Role of forest regrowth in global carbon sink dynamics

2019 442 citations Benjamin Smith, Benjamin Poulter et al. profile →
Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth

2019 358 citations Flurin Babst, Olivier Bouriaud et al. Science Advances profile →
Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources

2020 344 citations Marielle Saunois, Josep G. Canadell et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane

2022 186 citations Daniel J. Jacob, Daniel Cusworth et al. profile →
Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020

2022 163 citations Shushi Peng, Xin Lin et al. Nature profile →
Recent intensification of wetland methane feedback

2023 87 citations Zhen Zhang, Benjamin Poulter et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Plant responses to changing rainfall frequency and intensity

2024 59 citations Andrew F. Feldman, Benjamin Poulter et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Poulter United States	58	12.4k	5.2k	4.8k	3.2k	1.8k	231	17.1k
Benjamin Smith Sweden	64	13.2k 1.1×	5.7k 1.1×	5.5k 1.1×	5.3k 1.6×	2.6k 1.5×	203	20.6k
Shushi Peng China	59	10.8k 0.9×	4.7k 0.9×	5.0k 1.0×	1.7k 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	189	17.1k
Sönke Zaehle Germany	57	9.2k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	3.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.5×	2.2k 1.2×	169	12.7k
David W. Kicklighter United States	58	9.0k 0.7×	3.8k 0.7×	3.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	111	13.5k
Travis E. Huxman United States	67	10.6k 0.9×	3.9k 0.7×	3.9k 0.8×	4.4k 1.4×	3.7k 2.1×	174	16.2k
Michael L. Goulden United States	70	15.0k 1.2×	5.7k 1.1×	6.3k 1.3×	3.7k 1.1×	3.6k 2.0×	183	20.2k
Almut Arneth Germany	77	15.2k 1.2×	7.3k 1.4×	5.1k 1.1×	2.7k 0.8×	4.6k 2.6×	272	22.4k
Alberte Bondeau Germany	49	9.7k 0.8×	2.5k 0.5×	4.9k 1.0×	2.0k 0.6×	2.0k 1.1×	89	15.9k
Berrien Moore United States	56	11.3k 0.9×	4.4k 0.8×	7.5k 1.6×	1.6k 0.5×	2.1k 1.2×	132	17.5k
Alessandro Cescatti Italy	63	10.5k 0.8×	3.4k 0.7×	5.0k 1.0×	2.3k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	172	14.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Poulter

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Zhu, Qing, Daniel J. Jacob, Kunxiaojia Yuan, et al.. (2025). Advancements and opportunities to improve bottom–up estimates of global wetland methane emissions. Environmental Research Letters. 20(2). 23001–23001. 2 indexed citations

Feldman, Andrew F., Randal D. Koster, Kerry Cawse‐Nicholson, et al.. (2024). Soil Moisture Profiles of Ecosystem Water Use Revealed With ECOSTRESS. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(8). 5 indexed citations

Peng, Shushi, Xin Lin, Rona L. Thompson, et al.. (2022). Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020. Nature. 612(7940). 477–482. 163 indexed citations breakdown →

Raiho, Ann, Kerry Cawse‐Nicholson, Adam Chlus, et al.. (2022). Exploring mission design for imaging spectroscopy retrievals for land and aquatic ecosystems. 4 indexed citations

Xi, Yi, Shushi Peng, Agnès Ducharne, et al.. (2022). Gridded maps of wetlands dynamics over mid-low latitudes for 1980–2020 based on TOPMODEL. Scientific Data. 9(1). 16 indexed citations

Weir, Brad, David Crisp, C. O’Dell, et al.. (2021). Regional impacts of COVID-19 on carbon dioxide detected worldwide from space. Science Advances. 7(45). eabf9415–eabf9415. 48 indexed citations

Chini, Louise, G. C. Hurtt, Ritvik Sahajpal, et al.. (2021). Land-use harmonization datasets for annual global carbon budgets. Earth system science data. 13(8). 4175–4189. 58 indexed citations

Ma, Shuang, John R. Worden, A. Anthony Bloom, et al.. (2021). Satellite Constraints on the Latitudinal Distribution and Temperature Sensitivity of Wetland Methane Emissions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 36 indexed citations

Rollinson, Christine R., Andria Dawson, Ann Raiho, et al.. (2020). Forest responses to last‐millennium hydroclimate variability are governed by spatial variations in ecosystem sensitivity. Ecology Letters. 24(3). 498–508. 9 indexed citations

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Ma, Lei, G. C. Hurtt, Lesley Ott, et al.. (2020). Global Ecosystem Demography Model (ED-global v1.0): Development, Calibration and Evaluation for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI). 4 indexed citations

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Pan, Shufen, Naiqing Pan, Hanqin Tian, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(3). 1485–1509. 203 indexed citations

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Fu, Zheng, Paul C. Stoy, Benjamin Poulter, et al.. (2019). Maximum carbon uptake rate dominates the interannual variability of global net ecosystem exchange. Global Change Biology. 25(10). 3381–3394. 70 indexed citations

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Druckenbrod, Daniel L., Darío Martin‐Benito, David A. Orwig, et al.. (2019). Redefining temperate forest responses to climate and disturbance in the eastern United States: New insights at the mesoscale. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(5). 557–575. 26 indexed citations

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Klesse, Stefan, Flurin Babst, Sebastian Lienert, et al.. (2018). A Combined Tree Ring and Vegetation Model Assessment of European Forest Growth Sensitivity to Interannual Climate Variability. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 32(8). 1226–1240. 54 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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Yu, Zhen, Jingxin Wang, Shirong Liu, et al.. (2016). Decrease in winter respiration explains 25% of the annual northern forest carbon sink enhancement over the last 30 years. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(5). 586–595. 15 indexed citations

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Zhao, Fang, Ning Zeng, Ghassem Asrar, et al.. (2016). Role of CO ₂ , climate and land use in regulating the seasonal amplitudeincrease of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems: a multimodel analysis. Biogeosciences. 13(17). 5121–5137. 26 indexed citations

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Calle, Leonardo, Josep G. Canadell, Prabir K. Patra, et al.. (2016). Regional carbon fluxes from land use and land cover change in Asia, 1980–2009. Environmental Research Letters. 11(7). 74011–74011. 34 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiyan, W. J. Riley, Charles D. Koven, et al.. (2016). A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane emissions in northern wetlands. Biogeosciences. 13(17). 5043–5056. 22 indexed citations

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Ahlström, Anders, Michael Raupach, Guy Schurgers, et al.. (2015). The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO ₂ sink. Science. 348(6237). 895–899. 1109 indexed citations breakdown →

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