Christopher E. Doughty

10.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
95 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Christopher E. Doughty is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher E. Doughty has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 44 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 34 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Christopher E. Doughty's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (38 papers), Forest ecology and management (31 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers). Christopher E. Doughty is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (38 papers), Forest ecology and management (31 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers). Christopher E. Doughty collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Brazil. Christopher E. Doughty's co-authors include Yadvinder Malhi, Michael L. Goulden, Adam Wolf, David Galbraith, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Patrick Meir, Mauro Galetti, Antônio C. L. da Costa, Oliver L. Phillips and Felisa A. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher E. Doughty

89 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

  1. Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation
    2015 493 citations Lucy Rowland, Antônio C. L. da Costa et al. profile →
  2. Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia
    2015 462 citations Christopher E. Doughty, Cécile Girardin et al. profile →
  3. Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements
    2014 359 citations Manuel Gloor, J. B. Miller et al. profile →
  4. Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
    2016 356 citations Yadvinder Malhi, Christopher E. Doughty et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Global nutrient transport in a world of giants
    2015 315 citations Christopher E. Doughty, Joe Roman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds
    2023 123 citations Christopher E. Doughty, Yadvinder Malhi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher E. Doughty United States 39 3.6k 2.5k 2.3k 1.0k 857 95 6.2k
Sally Archibald South Africa 43 5.6k 1.6× 3.8k 1.5× 3.4k 1.5× 1.1k 1.0× 759 0.9× 108 8.2k
Christopher J. Still United States 43 4.4k 1.2× 1.5k 0.6× 2.0k 0.9× 2.0k 1.9× 1.1k 1.3× 124 7.2k
A. Carla Staver United States 34 3.0k 0.8× 2.5k 1.0× 1.7k 0.7× 559 0.5× 475 0.6× 74 4.5k
Garry D. Cook Australia 37 3.3k 0.9× 2.1k 0.8× 2.1k 0.9× 796 0.8× 434 0.5× 99 5.0k
Antonio Lara Chile 44 3.3k 0.9× 1.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 2.0k 2.0× 503 0.6× 129 5.7k
Patrick J. Baker Australia 37 2.8k 0.8× 2.2k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 1.4k 1.3× 525 0.6× 138 4.7k
Hugh D. Safford United States 48 5.0k 1.4× 3.1k 1.2× 3.3k 1.4× 785 0.8× 589 0.7× 138 7.1k
Miles R. Silman United States 34 1.8k 0.5× 1.6k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 852 0.8× 451 0.5× 69 5.0k
Marco Conedera Switzerland 47 3.6k 1.0× 1.6k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 2.5k 2.4× 1.4k 1.6× 256 7.6k
Adam G. West South Africa 31 4.8k 1.3× 2.4k 1.0× 2.1k 0.9× 2.7k 2.6× 1.9k 2.2× 68 7.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher E. Doughty

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Roman, Joe, Andrew J. Abraham, Jérémy J. Kiszka, et al.. (2025). Migrating baleen whales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical and subtropical ecosystems. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2125–2125. 7 indexed citations
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Gehring, Catherine A., Kevin R. Hultine, Bradley C. Posch, et al.. (2025). Remote sensing reveals inter‐ and intraspecific variation in riparian cottonwood ( Populus spp) response to drought. Journal of Ecology. 113(7). 1760–1779. 2 indexed citations
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Posch, Bradley C., L. M. T. Aparecido, Owen K. Atkin, et al.. (2025). High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants. New Phytologist. 249(3). 1108–1123.
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Posch, Bradley C., S. E. Bush, Dan F. Koepke, et al.. (2024). Intensive leaf cooling promotes tree survival during a record heatwave. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(43). e2408583121–e2408583121. 15 indexed citations
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Burns, Patrick, Andrew J. Abraham, Patrick Jantz, et al.. (2024). Using multiscale lidar to determine variation in canopy structure from African forest elephant trails. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 10(5). 655–667. 3 indexed citations
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Doughty, Christopher E., Patrick Burns, Yadvinder Malhi, et al.. (2024). Satellite Derived Trait Data Slightly Improves Tropical Forest Biomass, NPP and GPP Estimates. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(7).
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Abraham, Andrew J., et al.. (2022). Understanding anthropogenic impacts on zoogeochemistry is essential for ecological restoration. Restoration Ecology. 31(3). 17 indexed citations
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Abraham, Andrew J., et al.. (2021). Large predators can mitigate nutrient losses associated with off‐site removal of animals from a wildlife reserve. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(7). 1360–1369. 12 indexed citations
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Doughty, Christopher E., et al.. (2021). Forest Thinning in Ponderosa Pines Increases Carbon Use Efficiency and Energy Flow From Primary Producers to Primary Consumers. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(3). 4 indexed citations
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Doughty, Christopher E., Andrew J. Abraham, James Windsor, et al.. (2020). Distinguishing multicellular life on exoplanets by testing Earth as an exoplanet. International Journal of Astrobiology. 19(6). 492–499. 2 indexed citations
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Berzaghi, Fabio, Marcos Longo, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2019). Carbon stocks in central African forests enhanced by elephant disturbance. Nature Geoscience. 12(9). 725–729. 69 indexed citations
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Enquist, Brian J., Lisa Patrick Bentley, Alexander Shenkin, et al.. (2017). Assessing trait‐based scaling theory in tropical forests spanning a broad temperature gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 26(12). 1357–1373. 57 indexed citations
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Malhi, Yadvinder, Cécile Girardin, Gregory R. Goldsmith, et al.. (2016). The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: a whole carbon budget perspective. New Phytologist. 214(3). 1019–1032. 116 indexed citations
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Doughty, Christopher E., Daniel B. Metcalfe, Cécile Girardin, et al.. (2015). Source and sink carbon dynamics and carbon allocation in the Amazon basin. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29(5). 645–655. 37 indexed citations
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Cleveland, Cory C., Philip Taylor, K. Dana Chadwick, et al.. (2015). A comparison of plot‐based satellite and Earth system model estimates of tropical forest net primary production. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29(5). 626–644. 56 indexed citations
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Rowland, Lucy, Anna Harper, Bradley Christoffersen, et al.. (2015). Modelling climate change responses in tropical forests: similar productivity estimates across five models, but different mechanisms and responses. Geoscientific model development. 8(4). 1097–1110. 32 indexed citations
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Miller, J. B., Manuel Gloor, Christopher E. Doughty, et al.. (2013). Atmospheric CO2 measurements reveal strong drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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Doughty, Christopher E., Daniel B. Metcalfe, Cécile Girardin, & Yadvinder Malhi. (2013). Impact of the 2010 drought on Amazonian carbon dynamics and fluxes. AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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Doughty, Christopher E., Adam Wolf, & Christopher B. Field. (2010). Biophysical feedbacks between the Pleistocene megafauna extinction and climate: The first human‐induced global warming?. Geophysical Research Letters. 37(15). 79 indexed citations

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