Daniel R. Schlaepfer

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Daniel R. Schlaepfer is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel R. Schlaepfer has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 42 papers in Ecology and 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Daniel R. Schlaepfer's work include Rangeland and Wildlife Management (36 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (29 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers). Daniel R. Schlaepfer is often cited by papers focused on Rangeland and Wildlife Management (36 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (29 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers). Daniel R. Schlaepfer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and China. Daniel R. Schlaepfer's co-authors include John B. Bradford, William K. Lauenroth, Markus Fischer, Mark van Kleunen, Kyle A. Palmquist, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Wayne Dawson, Michael C. Duniway, Britta Tietjen and Sonia A. Hall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Ecology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Daniel R. Schlaepfer

64 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils

2017 304 citations Daniel R. Schlaepfer, John B. Bradford et al. profile →

Peers

Daniel R. Schlaepfer

GPC

ECOLO

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Barton D. Clinton United States

Maria C. Caldeira Portugal

Vânia Regina Pivello Brazil

Darren R. Sandquist United States

Susan Schwinning United States

Rebecca A. Sherry United States

Susan Cordell United States

Laureano Gherardi United States

Jürgen Homeier Germany

Michiel van Breugel Panama

Barton D. Clinton United States

Daniel R. Schlaepfer

1.9k ×1.3

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1.8k ×1.4

ECOLO

1.9k ×1.5

NLC

576 ×0.9

EEBS

841 ×1.5

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Countries citing papers authored by Daniel R. Schlaepfer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel R. Schlaepfer

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ogle, Kiona, et al.. (2025). Filling the Gaps: A Bayesian Mixture Model for Imputing Missing Soil Water Content Data. Ecohydrology. 18(1).

Schlaepfer, Daniel R., et al.. (2025). Shifts in suitability of pinyon-juniper communities: A climate adaptation framework for range-wide management of arid woodland resources. Forest Ecology and Management. 596. 123075–123075.

Higgens, Rebecca Finger, David L. Hoover, Anna C. Knight, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, & Michael C. Duniway. (2025). Flexible Phenology of a C₄ Grass Linked to Resiliency to Seasonal and Multiyear Drought Events in the American Southwest. Ecology and Evolution. 15(5). e71435–e71435. 2 indexed citations

Holdrege, Martin C., Kyle A. Palmquist, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, et al.. (2024). Climate Change Amplifies Ongoing Declines in Sagebrush Ecological Integrity. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 97. 25–40. 9 indexed citations

Schlaepfer, Daniel R., et al.. (2024). Estimating multivariate ecological variables at high spatial resolution using a cost‐effective matching algorithm. Ecosphere. 15(3). 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Fangyue, Joel A. Biederman, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, et al.. (2024). Increasing Soil Water Drought in Response to Altered Precipitation Timing Across the Western United States. Ecohydrology. 18(2).

Urza, Alexandra K., David I. Board, John B. Bradford, et al.. (2024). Disentangling drivers of annual grass invasion: Abiotic susceptibility vs. fire-induced conversion to cheatgrass dominance in the sagebrush biome. Biological Conservation. 297. 110737–110737. 3 indexed citations

Schlaepfer, Daniel R., et al.. (2024). Most Pinyon–Juniper Woodland Species Distributions Are Projected to Shrink Rather Than Shift Under Climate Change. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 98. 454–466. 1 indexed citations

Holdrege, Martin C., Daniel R. Schlaepfer, Kyle A. Palmquist, et al.. (2024). Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 12 indexed citations

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Copeland, Stella M., Owen W. Baughman, John B. Bradford, et al.. (2024). Managing to survive despite the weather: seeding decisions affecting simulated dryland restoration outcomes. Restoration Ecology. 33(6). 2 indexed citations

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Chambers, Jeanne C., et al.. (2024). Indicators of ecological resilience and invasion resistance − accounting for precipitation seasonality and climate change in southwestern U.S. drylands. Ecological Indicators. 168. 112749–112749. 1 indexed citations

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Schlaepfer, Daniel R., Jeanne C. Chambers, Alexandra K. Urza, et al.. (2024). Declining ecological resilience and invasion resistance under climate change in the sagebrush region, United States. Ecological Applications. 35(1). e3065–e3065. 1 indexed citations

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Chambers, Jeanne C., Jessi L. Brown, John B. Bradford, et al.. (2023). Combining resilience and resistance with threat‐based approaches for prioritizing management actions in sagebrush ecosystems. Conservation Science and Practice. 5(11). 16 indexed citations

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Palmquist, Kyle A., et al.. (2023). Plant community predictions support the potential for big sagebrush range expansion adjacent to the leading edge. Regional Environmental Change. 23(1). 1 indexed citations

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Schlaepfer, Daniel R., et al.. (2021). Allometric Modeling of Bunchgrasses in Big Sagebrush Plant Communities. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 79. 77–86. 4 indexed citations

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Bradford, John B., Daniel R. Schlaepfer, William K. Lauenroth, & Kyle A. Palmquist. (2020). Robust ecological drought projections for drylands in the 21st century. Global Change Biology. 26(7). 3906–3919. 174 indexed citations

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Palmquist, Kyle A., et al.. (2018). STEPWAT2: an individual‐based model for exploring the impact of climate and disturbance on dryland plant communities. Ecosphere. 9(8). 22 indexed citations

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Curtis, Caroline A., Andrew R. Kleinhesselink, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, et al.. (2017). Multi‐model comparison highlights consistency in predicted effect of warming on a semi‐arid shrub. Global Change Biology. 24(1). 424–438. 42 indexed citations

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Bradford, John B., Daniel R. Schlaepfer, & William K. Lauenroth. (2013). The impact of changing climate and climate variability on ecosystem water balance in dryland regions. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 2 indexed citations

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Kleunen, Mark van, Wayne Dawson, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, Jonathan M. Jeschke, & Markus Fischer. (2010). Are invaders different? A conceptual framework of comparative approaches for assessing determinants of invasiveness. Ecology Letters. 13(8). 947–958. 405 indexed citations

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