Craig D. Allen

43.6k total citations · 18 hit papers
158 papers, 29.1k citations indexed

About

Craig D. Allen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Craig D. Allen has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 29.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 63 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 54 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Craig D. Allen's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (66 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (55 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (47 papers). Craig D. Allen is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (66 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (55 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (47 papers). Craig D. Allen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Germany. Craig D. Allen's co-authors include David D. Breshears, Nate G. McDowell, Neil S. Cobb, Thomas W. Swetnam, N. G. McDowell, Alison K. Macalady, Julio L. Betancourt, William T. Pockman, R. J. Fensham and Thomas Kitzberger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Craig D. Allen

154 papers receiving 27.9k 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.

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

2009 5.7k citations Craig D. Allen, Alison K. Macalady et al. profile →
Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

2008 3.4k citations Nate G. McDowell, Craig D. Allen et al. New Phytologist profile →
On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

2015 1.9k citations Craig D. Allen, David D. Breshears et al. profile →
Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought

2005 1.7k citations David D. Breshears, Craig D. Allen et al. profile →
Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

2012 1.5k citations Park Williams, Craig D. Allen et al. profile →
APPLIED HISTORICAL ECOLOGY: USING THE PAST TO MANAGE FOR THE FUTURE

1999 1.1k citations Thomas W. Swetnam, Craig D. Allen et al. profile →
Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

2016 998 citations Craig D. Allen et al. profile →
Drought-induced shift of a forest–woodland ecotone: Rapid landscape response to climate variation

1998 866 citations Craig D. Allen, David D. Breshears profile →
ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION OF SOUTHWESTERN PONDEROSA PINE ECOSYSTEMS: A BROAD PERSPECTIVE

2002 745 citations Craig D. Allen, Donald A. Falk et al. profile →
Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

2015 661 citations Craig D. Allen et al. Nature Plants profile →
Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

2015 648 citations William R. L. Anderegg, Jeffrey A. Hicke et al. New Phytologist profile →
Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

2015 567 citations Craig D. Allen et al. profile →
The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

2016 409 citations Craig D. Allen et al. profile →
Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area

2017 374 citations Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta, Francisco Lloret et al. profile →
Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests

2022 373 citations William M. Hammond, Park Williams et al. Nature Communications profile →
Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide

2022 280 citations Henrik Hartmann, Adrian J. Das et al. profile →
Structural overshoot of tree growth with climate variability and the global spectrum of drought‐induced forest dieback

2017 276 citations Alistair S. Jump, Craig D. Allen et al. profile →
Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening

2024 58 citations Yuchao Yan, Shilong Piao et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Satellite-based evidence of recent decline in global forest recovery rate from tree mortality events 2025 ·Nature Plants ·Yuchao Yan, Songbai Hong, Anping Chen, Josep Peñuelas, Craig D. Allen, William M. Hammond, Seth M. Munson, Ranga B. Myneni, Shilong Piao	3
2	Droughts preceding tree mortality events have increased in duration and intensity, especially in dry biomes 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Antonio Gazol, Manuel Pizarro, William M. Hammond, Craig D. Allen, J. Julio Camarero	3
3	Effects of Niche Marginality on Hotter‐Drought Tree Mortality in Angiosperms and Gymnosperms 2025 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Enric Batllori, William M. Hammond, Alistair S. Jump, (unknown), Craig D. Allen, Francisco Lloret	1
4	Enhanced Drought Exposure Increasingly Threatens More Forests Than Observed 2024 ·Earth s Future ·Chongyang Xu, Hongyan Liu, Philippe Ciais, Henrik Hartmann, J. Julio Camarero, Xiuchen Wu, William M. Hammond, Craig D. Allen, Fahu Chen	4
5	Redistribution of debris‐flow sediment following severe wildfire and floods in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA 2024 ·Earth Surface Processes and Landforms ·Jonathan M. Friedman, Anne C. Tillery, (unknown), (unknown), Patrick B. Shafroth, Craig D. Allen	1
6	Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening breakdown → 2024 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Yuchao Yan, Shilong Piao, William M. Hammond, Anping Chen, Songbai Hong, Hao Xu, Seth M. Munson, Ranga B. Myneni, Craig D. Allen	58
7	Increased hydraulic risk in assemblages of woody plant species predicts spatial patterns of drought-induced mortality 2023 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·(unknown), Maurizio Mencuccini, Raúl García‐Valdés, William M. Hammond, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Wen‐Yong Guo, Ricardo A. Segovia, Kyle G. Dexter, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Craig D. Allen, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta	22
8	Old‐growth structural attributes associated with the last giant subtropical conifers in South America 2022 ·Austral Ecology ·(unknown), Pedro Higuchi, (unknown), Craig D. Allen	3
9	Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests breakdown → 2022 ·Nature Communications ·William M. Hammond, Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, Henry D. Adams, Tamir Klein, Rosana López, Cuauhtémoc Sáenz‐Romero, Henrik Hartmann, David D. Breshears, Craig D. Allen	373
10	CPSDv0: a forest stand structure database for plantation forests in China 2022 ·Big Earth Data ·Xiuchen Wu, Xiaofei Jiang, Hongyan Liu, Craig D. Allen, Xiaoyan Li, Pei Wang, Zongshan Li, Yuting Yang, Shulei Zhang, Fangzhong Shi, Jiaojun Zhu, (unknown), Mei Zhou, (unknown), Yanhui Wang, Chao Yue, Deliang Chen	8
11	Precipitation Gradient Drives Divergent Relationship between Non-Structural Carbohydrates and Water Availability in Pinus tabulaeformis of Northern China 2021 ·Forests ·(unknown), Henrik Hartmann, (unknown), Hongyan Liu, Fangzhong Shi, Kailiang Yu, Xiaoyan Li, Zongshan Li, Pei Wang, Craig D. Allen, Xiuchen Wu	13
12	A hotter-drought fingerprint on Earth’s forest mortality sites–warming accelerates risks 2021 ·William M. Hammond, Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, Henry D. Adams, Tamir Klein, Rosana López, Cuauhtémoc Sáenz‐Romero, Henrik Hartmann, David D. Breshears, Craig D. Allen	1
13	Valleys of fire: historical fire regimes of forest-grassland ecotones across the montane landscape of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, USA 2021 ·Landscape Ecology ·(unknown), Donald A. Falk, Thomas W. Swetnam, Christopher H. Baisan, Craig D. Allen, Robert Parmenter, Ellis Q. Margolis, (unknown)	16
14	Mortality predispositions of conifers across western USA 2020 ·New Phytologist ·Wenzhi Wang, Nathan B. English, Charlotte Grossiord, Arthur Geßler, Adrian J. Das, Nathan L. Stephenson, Christopher H. Baisan, Craig D. Allen, Nate G. McDowell	17
15	A global database of geo-referenced drought and heat-induced tree mortality events reveals climatic drivers of forest die-off. 2020 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·W. C. Hammond, Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Cuauhtémoc Sáenz‐Romero, Heike Hartmann, Craig D. Allen	1
16	A statement of common ground regarding the role of wildfire in forested landscapes of the western United States 2018 ·Final Report ·Max A. Moritz, (unknown), Craig D. Allen, Paul F. Hessburg, Penelope Morgan, Dennis C. Odion, Thomas T. Veblen, Ian M. McCullough	1
17	Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate breakdown → 2015 ·New Phytologist ·William R. L. Anderegg, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Rosie A. Fisher, Craig D. Allen, Juliann E. Aukema, (unknown), Sharon M. Hood, Jeremy W. Lichstein, Alison K. Macalady, Nate G. McDowell, Yude Pan, Kenneth F. Raffa, Anna Sala, John D. Shaw, Nathan L. Stephenson, C. Tague, Melanie Zeppel	648
18	A Historical Chronology of Events and Observations for the Pecos Wilderness in the Territorial Period 2015 ·New Mexico historical review ·(unknown), Craig D. Allen	2
19	A Classification of Recent Widespread Tree Mortality in the Western US 2015 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Jeffrey A. Hicke, William R. L. Anderegg, Craig D. Allen, Nathan L. Stephenson	1
20	Muerte regresiva del bosque inducida por el clima: ¿un fenómeno mundial en aumento? 2009 ·Craig D. Allen	2

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