Colin Averill

7.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
36 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Colin Averill is a scholar working on Soil Science, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Averill has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Soil Science, 17 papers in Plant Science and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Colin Averill's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (21 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (13 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers). Colin Averill is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (21 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (13 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers). Colin Averill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and China. Colin Averill's co-authors include Bonnie G. Waring, Adrien C. Finzi, Christine V. Hawkes, Benjamin L. Turner, Thomas W. Crowther, Johan van den Hoogen, Daniel S. Maynard, Jennifer Bhatnagar, Melanie A. Mayes and Michael C. Dietze and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Colin Averill

35 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry

2019 796 citations Thomas W. Crowther, Johan van den Hoogen et al. profile →
Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage

2014 717 citations Colin Averill, Benjamin L. Turner et al. Nature profile →
Nitrogen limitation of decomposition and decay: How can it occur?

2017 351 citations Colin Averill, Bonnie G. Waring Global Change Biology profile →
Differences in fungal and bacterial physiology alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycling: insights from meta‐analysis and theoretical models

2013 337 citations Bonnie G. Waring, Colin Averill et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Global imprint of mycorrhizal fungi on whole-plant nutrient economics

2019 193 citations Colin Averill, Jennifer Bhatnagar et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin Averill United States	21	2.1k	1.7k	1.5k	893	765	36	3.9k
Zhiqun Huang China	36	2.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	514 0.6×	920 1.2×	125	4.1k
Daniel S. Maynard United States	27	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	821 0.9×	851 1.1×	42	3.7k
Martina Štursová Czechia	22	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	717 0.8×	350 0.5×	27	3.2k
Lucia Fuchslueger Austria	25	2.8k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	322 0.4×	539 0.7×	55	4.3k
Qingkui Wang China	32	2.8k 1.3×	1.0k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	354 0.4×	822 1.1×	120	4.1k
R. M. Miller United States	33	2.0k 1.0×	3.0k 1.7×	972 0.6×	851 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	67	4.8k
Edward Brzostek United States	31	2.9k 1.4×	2.5k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	942 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	57	4.9k
Stephanie N. Kivlin United States	28	1.1k 0.5×	2.2k 1.3×	992 0.7×	665 0.7×	893 1.2×	72	3.6k
G. F. Veen Netherlands	31	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	398 0.4×	1.3k 1.7×	78	3.5k
Liliane Rueß Germany	41	1.7k 0.8×	2.0k 1.2×	2.2k 1.4×	625 0.7×	498 0.7×	118	4.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Averill

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Colin Averill. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Colin Averill based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Colin Averill. Colin Averill is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Yu, Kailiang, Lei He, Shuli Niu, et al.. (2025). Nonlinear microbial thermal response and its implications for abrupt soil organic carbon responses to warming. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2763–2763. 6 indexed citations

Werden, Leland K., Rebecca J. Cole, Karen D. Holl, et al.. (2024). Assessing innovations for upscaling forest landscape restoration. One Earth. 7(9). 1515–1528. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Peng, Gabriel Reuben Smith, Lingyan Hu, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen redistribution and seasonal trait fluctuation facilitate plant N conservation and ecosystem N retention. Journal of Ecology. 112(3). 501–513. 7 indexed citations

Averill, Colin, Mark Anthony, Petr Baldrián, et al.. (2022). Defending Earth’s terrestrial microbiome. Nature Microbiology. 7(11). 1717–1725. 90 indexed citations

Werden, Leland K., Colin Averill, Thomas W. Crowther, et al.. (2022). Below-ground traits mediate tree survival in a tropical dry forest restoration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1867). 20210067–20210067. 13 indexed citations

Averill, Colin, Claire Fortunel, Daniel S. Maynard, et al.. (2022). Alternative stable states of the forest mycobiome are maintained through positive feedbacks. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(4). 375–382. 38 indexed citations

Busby, Posy E., et al.. (2022). Facilitating Reforestation Through the Plant Microbiome: Perspectives from the Phyllosphere. Annual Review of Phytopathology. 60(1). 337–356. 18 indexed citations

Averill, Colin, et al.. (2021). Soil microbiome predictability increases with spatial and taxonomic scale. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(6). 747–756. 35 indexed citations

Anthony, Mark, Thomas W. Crowther, Daniel S. Maynard, Johan van den Hoogen, & Colin Averill. (2020). Distinct Assembly Processes and Microbial Communities Constrain Soil Organic Carbon Formation. One Earth. 2(4). 349–360. 120 indexed citations

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Wooliver, Rachel, Adam F. A. Pellegrini, Bonnie G. Waring, et al.. (2019). Changing perspectives on terrestrial nitrogen cycling: The importance of weathering and evolved resource‐use traits for understanding ecosystem responses to global change. Functional Ecology. 33(10). 1818–1829. 16 indexed citations

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Averill, Colin, Michael C. Dietze, & Jennifer Bhatnagar. (2018). Continental‐scale nitrogen pollution is shifting forest mycorrhizal associations and soil carbon stocks. Global Change Biology. 24(10). 4544–4553. 130 indexed citations

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Carrara, Joseph E., Christopher A. Walter, Jennifer Hawkins, et al.. (2018). Interactions among plants, bacteria, and fungi reduce extracellular enzyme activities under long‐term N fertilization. Global Change Biology. 24(6). 2721–2734. 148 indexed citations

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Averill, Colin, Benjamin L. Turner, & Adrien C. Finzi. (2014). Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage. Nature. 505(7484). 543–545. 717 indexed citations breakdown →

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Giasson, Marc‐André, Colin Averill, & Adrien C. Finzi. (2014). Correction factors for dissolved organic carbon extracted from soil, measured using the Mn(III)-pyrophosphate colorimetric method adapted for a microplate reader. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 78. 284–287. 14 indexed citations

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Averill, Colin. (2014). Divergence in plant and microbial allocation strategies explains continental patterns in microbial allocation and biogeochemical fluxes. Ecology Letters. 17(10). 1202–1210. 37 indexed citations

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Kivlin, Stephanie N., Bonnie G. Waring, Colin Averill, & Christine V. Hawkes. (2013). Tradeoffs in microbial carbon allocation may mediate soil carbon storage in future climates. Frontiers in Microbiology. 4. 261–261. 13 indexed citations

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Averill, Colin & Adrien C. Finzi. (2011). Plant regulation of microbial enzyme production in situ. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 43(12). 2457–2460. 23 indexed citations

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Averill, Colin & Adrien C. Finzi. (2010). Increasing plant use of organic nitrogen with elevation is reflected in nitrogen uptake rates and ecosystem δ ¹⁵ N. Ecology. 92(4). 883–891. 92 indexed citations

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Garay, M. J., et al.. (2005). Analysis of Satellite Time-lapse and Sunglint Imagery of Tsunami Waves from the 26 December 2004 Great Sumatra-Andaman Islands Earthquake. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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Fromm, M. D., Omar Torres, Jennifer A. Logan, et al.. (2004). New Satellite Observations of Upper Tropospheric/Lower Stratospheric Aerosols: Case Studies over the U.S. and Canada. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 5 indexed citations

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