Cory C. Cleveland

29.2k citations

121 papers · 22.0k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 62

Co-authors: Alan R. Townsend Daniel Liptzin Sasha C. Reed William R. Wieder Gregory P. Asner Diana R. Nemergut Steven K. Schmidt Robert W. Howarth
Topics: Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (70 papers)Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (32 papers)Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (24 papers)
Cited by: Soil Science Environmental Chemistry Ecology
Journals: Nature Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Partner nations: United States Australia Canada

In The Last Decade

Cory C. Cleveland

121 papers receiving 21.5k 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.

Nitrogen Cycles: Past, Present, and Future

2004 4.0k citations Robert W. Howarth, Cory C. Cleveland et al. profile →
C:N:P stoichiometry in soil: is there a “Redfield ratio” for the microbial biomass?

2007 1.8k citations Cory C. Cleveland et al. profile →
Global patterns in belowground communities

2009 886 citations Noah Fierer, Cory C. Cleveland et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Global patterns of terrestrial biological nitrogen (N₂) fixation in natural ecosystems

1999 736 citations Cory C. Cleveland, Alan R. Townsend et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation

2002 668 citations Peter M. Vitousek, Cory C. Cleveland et al. profile →
Negative impact of nitrogen deposition on soil buffering capacity

2008 558 citations Cory C. Cleveland et al. profile →
Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems

2013 554 citations Peter M. Vitousek, Duncan N. L. Menge et al. profile →
Future productivity and carbon storage limited by terrestrial nutrient availability

2015 544 citations William R. Wieder, Cory C. Cleveland et al. profile →
Functional Ecology of Free-Living Nitrogen Fixation: A Contemporary Perspective

2011 483 citations Sasha C. Reed, Cory C. Cleveland et al. profile →
Biochar additions alter phosphorus and nitrogen availability in agricultural ecosystems: A meta-analysis

2018 383 citations Si Gao, Thomas H. DeLuca et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance

2013 351 citations Steven K. Schmidt, Alan R. Townsend et al. The ISME Journal profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A global dataset of terrestrial biological nitrogen fixation 2025 ·Scientific Data ·Carla Roberta Gonçalves Reis,Steven S. Perakis,Cory C. Cleveland,(unknown),Sasha C. Reed,Sarah A. Batterman,Timothy E. Crews,Katherine A. Dynarski,(unknown),Michael J. Gundale,Sarah Jovan,Sian Kou‐Giesbrecht,Mark B. Peoples,Emilio Rodríguez‐Caballero,Verity Salmon,Fiona M. Soper,(unknown),Benton N. Taylor,Bettina Weber,Nina Wurzburger	2
2	Reburning Before Recovery: Effects of Short-Interval Fire on Subalpine Forest Nitrogen Stocks and Fluxes 2025 ·Ecosystems ·Monica G. Turner,Rolf Heumann,(unknown),J. M. Warren,Cory C. Cleveland	1
3	Long‐term efficacy of fuel reduction and restoration treatments inNorthernRockies dry forests 2024 ·Ecological Applications ·Sharon M. Hood,Justin S. Crotteau,Cory C. Cleveland	9
4	Flexible Foliar Stoichiometry Reduces the Magnitude of the Global Land Carbon Sink 2023 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown),William R. Wieder,Gordon B. Bonan,Cory C. Cleveland	5
5	Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models 2023 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Katherine S. Rocci,Cory C. Cleveland,(unknown),Katerina Georgiou,A. Stuart Grandy,Melannie D. Hartman,(unknown),Hannah Holland‐Moritz,Emily Kyker‐Snowman,Derek Pierson,Peter B. Reich,(unknown),William R. Wieder	14
6	Acquisition and evolution of enhanced mutualism—an underappreciated mechanism for invasive success? 2022 ·The ISME Journal ·Min Sheng,Christoph Rosche,Mohammad Al‐Gharaibeh,Lorinda Bullington,Ragan M. Callaway,(unknown),Cory C. Cleveland,Wenyan Duan,S. Luke Flory,Damase P. Khasa,John N. Klironomos,(unknown),Miki Okada,Róbert W. Pál,Manzoor A. Shah,Ylva Lekberg	31
7	Exploring the Role of Cryptic Nitrogen Fixers in Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Frontier in Nitrogen Cycling Research 2022 ·Ecosystems ·Cory C. Cleveland,Carla Roberta Gonçalves Reis,Steven S. Perakis,Katherine A. Dynarski,Sarah A. Batterman,Timothy E. Crews,(unknown),Michael J. Gundale,Duncan N. L. Menge,Mark B. Peoples,Sasha C. Reed,Verity Salmon,Fiona M. Soper,Benton N. Taylor,Monica G. Turner,Nina Wurzburger	25
8	Biochar additions alter phosphorus and nitrogen availability in agricultural ecosystems: A meta-analysisbreakdown → 2018 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Si Gao,Thomas H. DeLuca,Cory C. Cleveland	383
9	A comparison of plot‐based satellite and Earth system model estimates of tropical forest net primary production 2015 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Cory C. Cleveland,Philip Taylor,K. Dana Chadwick,Kyla M. Dahlin,Christopher E. Doughty,Yadvinder Malhi,William K. Smith,Benjamin W. Sullivan,William R. Wieder,Alan R. Townsend	56
10	How do Soil Microbial Enzyme Activities Respond to Changes in Temperature, Carbon, and Nutrient Additions across Gradients in Mineralogy and Nutrient Availability? 2013 ·AGUFM ·(unknown),Daniela Cusack,Sasha C. Reed,William R. Wieder,Phillip Taylor,Cory C. Cleveland,Oliver A. Chadwick,Peter M. Vitousek	1
11	Patterns of new versus recycled primary production in the terrestrial biosphere 2013 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Cory C. Cleveland,Benjamin Z. Houlton,William K. Smith,Alison Marklein,Sasha C. Reed,William J. Parton,Stephen J. Del Grosso,Steven W. Running	283
12	Experimental litterfall manipulation drives large and rapid changes in soil carbon cycling in a wet tropical forest 2012 ·Global Change Biology ·Jonathan Leff,William R. Wieder,Philip G. Taylor,Alan R. Townsend,Diana R. Nemergut,A. Stuart Grandy,Cory C. Cleveland	154
13	Stoichiometric patterns in foliar nutrient resorption across multiple scales 2012 ·New Phytologist ·Sasha C. Reed,Alan R. Townsend,Eric A. Davidson,Cory C. Cleveland	206
14	Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan‐tropical analysis 2011 ·Ecology Letters ·Cory C. Cleveland,Alan R. Townsend,Philip Taylor,Silvia Álvarez-Clare,Mercedes Bustamante,George B. Chuyong,Solomon Z. Dobrowski,Pauline F. Grierson,Kyle E. Harms,Benjamin Z. Houlton,Alison Marklein,William J. Parton,Stephen Porder,Sasha C. Reed,Carlos A. Sierra,Whendee L. Silver,Edmund V. J. Tanner,William R. Wieder	373
15	Global patterns in the biogeography of bacterial taxa 2010 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Diana R. Nemergut,Elizabeth K. Costello,Micah Hamady,Catherine Lozupone,Lin Jiang,Steven K. Schmidt,Noah Fierer,Alan R. Townsend,Cory C. Cleveland,Lee F. Stanish,Rob Knight	337
16	Linking environmental nutrient enrichment and disease emergence in humans and wildlife 2010 ·Ecological Applications ·Pieter T. J. Johnson,Alan R. Townsend,Cory C. Cleveland,Patricia M. Glibert,Robert W. Howarth,Valerie J. McKenzie,Eliška Rejmánková,Mary H. Ward	201
17	Functional shifts in unvegetated, perhumid, recently-deglaciated soils do not correlate with shifts in soil bacterial community composition 2009 ·The Journal of Microbiology ·Sarah Sattin,Cory C. Cleveland,Eran Hood,Sasha C. Reed,Andrew J. King,Steven K. Schmidt,Michael S. Robeson,Nataly Ascarrunz,Diana R. Nemergut	72
18	Nitrogen and phosphorus additions cause substantial losses of soil carbon from a lowland tropical rain forest 2006 ·Proc Natl Acad Sci USA ·Cory C. Cleveland	53
19	NUTRIENT REGULATION OF ORGANIC MATTER DECOMPOSITION IN A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST 2006 ·Ecology ·Cory C. Cleveland,Sasha C. Reed,Alan R. Townsend	229
20	Energy and the environment. 2001 ·Energy & Environment ·Cory C. Cleveland,(unknown),Prabir Ghosh,(unknown)	1

About Cory C. Cleveland

Cory C. Cleveland is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology, having authored 121 papers that have together received 22.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (70 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (32 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (24 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (10.7k citations), Environmental Chemistry (5.0k citations) and Ecology (9.3k citations). Cory C. Cleveland has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Alan R. Townsend, Daniel Liptzin, Sasha C. Reed, William R. Wieder, Gregory P. Asner, Diana R. Nemergut, Steven K. Schmidt, Robert W. Howarth, Elisabeth A. Holland and Frank Dentener. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

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