David B. McWethy

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

David B. McWethy is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David B. McWethy has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 29 papers in Atmospheric Science and 25 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David B. McWethy's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (32 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). David B. McWethy is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (32 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). David B. McWethy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and New Zealand. David B. McWethy's co-authors include Cathy Whitlock, Philip E. Higuera, Christy E. Briles, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Matt S. McGlone, Xun Li, Camille S. Stevens‐Rumann, Penelope Morgan, George L. W. Perry and Andrés Holz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

David B. McWethy

56 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Rethinking resilience to wildfire

2019 219 citations David B. McWethy, Tania Schoennagel et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David B. McWethy United States	21	1.4k	801	748	488	290	58	2.1k
Michael‐Shawn Fletcher Australia	26	972 0.7×	606 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	347 0.7×	189 0.7×	60	2.0k
Christopher I. Roos United States	18	1.3k 1.0×	595 0.7×	442 0.6×	324 0.7×	266 0.9×	30	1.9k
Christelle Hély France	30	1.8k 1.3×	714 0.9×	1.6k 2.1×	593 1.2×	394 1.4×	86	3.1k
Mitchell J. Power United States	22	1.9k 1.4×	736 0.9×	2.0k 2.7×	268 0.5×	494 1.7×	64	3.1k
Jason A. Lynch United States	13	843 0.6×	606 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	419 0.9×	175 0.6×	17	1.9k
Kenneth P. Lertzman Canada	18	1.3k 0.9×	525 0.7×	646 0.9×	867 1.8×	247 0.9×	29	2.2k
Scott Mooney Australia	23	663 0.5×	538 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	121 0.2×	172 0.6×	61	1.8k
Danièle Colombaroli Switzerland	35	1.5k 1.1×	783 1.0×	2.5k 3.4×	457 0.9×	425 1.5×	73	3.8k
Amy Hessl United States	27	1.8k 1.3×	567 0.7×	1.2k 1.6×	740 1.5×	322 1.1×	64	2.4k
Andrés Holz United States	25	1.6k 1.2×	767 1.0×	554 0.7×	772 1.6×	220 0.8×	61	2.0k

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Argiriadis, Elena, et al.. (2024). A 2000-year record of fecal biomarkers reveals past herbivore presence and impacts in a catchment in northern Yellowstone National Park, USA. PLoS ONE. 19(10). e0311950–e0311950.

Adeleye, Matthew Adesanya, et al.. (2024). Landscape burning facilitated Aboriginal migration into Lutruwita/Tasmania 41,600 years ago. Science Advances. 10(46). eadp6579–eadp6579. 6 indexed citations

Pederson, Gregory T., Daniel K. Stahle, David B. McWethy, et al.. (2024). Dynamic treeline and cryosphere response to pronounced mid-Holocene climatic variability in the US Rocky Mountains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(2). e2412162121–e2412162121. 5 indexed citations

McWethy, David B., et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal analysis of wildfires and their relationship with climate and land use in the Gran Chaco and Pantanal ecoregions. The Science of The Total Environment. 955. 176823–176823. 1 indexed citations

McWethy, David B., et al.. (2024). Patagonia's Late Holocene lake sediments reveal no major black carbon sources for Antarctica. Anthropocene. 49. 100458–100458.

Lee, Craig M., et al.. (2023). Organic layers preserved in ice patches: A new record of Holocene environmental change on the Beartooth Plateau, USA. The Holocene. 34(3). 338–352. 3 indexed citations

Pederson, Gregory T., et al.. (2023). Increased whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) growth and defense under a warmer and regionally drier climate. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 6. 8 indexed citations

McWethy, David B., et al.. (2023). Past and present biomass consumption by herbivores and fire across productivity gradients in North America. Environmental Research Letters. 18(12). 124038–124038. 2 indexed citations

Trowbridge, Amy M., Kenneth F. Raffa, Sharon M. Hood, et al.. (2021). Growth and defense characteristics of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var latifolia) in a high-elevation, disturbance-prone mixed-conifer forest in northwestern Montana, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 493. 119286–119286. 10 indexed citations

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Beever, Erik A., et al.. (2021). Factors influencing distributional shifts and abundance at the range core of a climate‐sensitive mammal. Global Change Biology. 27(19). 4498–4515. 29 indexed citations

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Roman, Marco, David B. McWethy, Natalie Kehrwald, et al.. (2021). A multi-decadal geochemical record from Rano Aroi (Easter Island/Rapa Nui): Implications for the environment, climate and humans during the last two millennia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 268. 107115–107115. 5 indexed citations

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Argiriadis, Elena, Natalie Kehrwald, Marco Roman, et al.. (2021). Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Rano Raraku crater lake basin: Geochemical characterization and implications for the Ahu-Moai Period. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0254793–e0254793. 2 indexed citations

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McConnell, Joseph R., Nathan Chellman, Robert Mulvaney, et al.. (2021). Hemispheric black carbon increase after the 13th-century Māori arrival in New Zealand. Nature. 598(7879). 82–85. 25 indexed citations

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McWethy, David B., Tania Schoennagel, Philip E. Higuera, et al.. (2019). Rethinking resilience to wildfire. Nature Sustainability. 2(9). 797–804. 219 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, Craig M., et al.. (2019). Drivelines, hunting blinds, effigies and intercept hunting strategies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA. 5(3-4). 187–205. 2 indexed citations

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Argiriadis, Elena, Dario Battistel, David B. McWethy, et al.. (2018). Lake sediment fecal and biomass burning biomarkers provide direct evidence for prehistoric human-lit fires in New Zealand. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 12113–12113. 68 indexed citations

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McWethy, David B., Janet M. Wilmshurst, Cathy Whitlock, Jamie R. Wood, & Matt S. McGlone. (2014). A High-Resolution Chronology of Rapid Forest Transitions following Polynesian Arrival in New Zealand. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e111328–e111328. 62 indexed citations

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McWethy, David B., Cathy Whitlock, Janet M. Wilmshurst, et al.. (2010). Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(50). 21343–21348. 218 indexed citations

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Whitlock, Cathy, Philip E. Higuera, David B. McWethy, & Christy E. Briles. (2010). Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept. 3(1). 121 indexed citations

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Verschuyl, Jake, Andrew J. Hansen, David B. McWethy, Rex Sallabanks, & Richard L. Hutto. (2008). IS THE EFFECT OF FOREST STRUCTURE ON BIRD DIVERSITY MODIFIED BY FOREST PRODUCTIVITY. Ecological Applications. 18(5). 1155–1170. 60 indexed citations

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