David E. Busch

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

David E. Busch is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, David E. Busch has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in David E. Busch's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (6 papers), Diatoms and Algae Research (4 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (3 papers). David E. Busch is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (6 papers), Diatoms and Algae Research (4 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (3 papers). David E. Busch collaborates with scholars based in United States. David E. Busch's co-authors include Stanley D. Smith, Stuart G. Fisher, Nancy B. Grimm, Lawrence J. Gray, Neil L. Ingraham, Anna Sala, James Cleverly, D. A. Devitt, Oron L. Bass and William F. Loftus and has published in prestigious journals such as Oecologia, Ecological Monographs and Ecological Applications.

In The Last Decade

David E. Busch

16 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Temporal Succession in a Desert Stream Ecosystem Followin... 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Temporal Succession in a Desert Stream Ecosystem Following Flash Flooding
    1982 598 citations Stuart G. Fisher, Lawrence J. Gray et al. Ecological Monographs profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David E. Busch United States 11 1.2k 750 619 353 335 17 1.7k
W. J. Junk 5 1.3k 1.1× 993 1.3× 372 0.6× 425 1.2× 376 1.1× 7 2.0k
Claude Amoros France 23 1.5k 1.2× 627 0.8× 281 0.5× 317 0.9× 478 1.4× 37 1.9k
Ralph W. Tiner United States 17 1.1k 0.9× 296 0.4× 547 0.9× 290 0.8× 279 0.8× 43 1.6k
P. V. Bolstad United States 13 963 0.8× 834 1.1× 1.0k 1.6× 222 0.6× 222 0.7× 20 2.0k
Kathleen A. Dwire United States 20 1.5k 1.2× 408 0.5× 748 1.2× 302 0.9× 175 0.5× 39 2.0k
Robert Stottlemyer United States 21 674 0.6× 324 0.4× 444 0.7× 361 1.0× 645 1.9× 45 1.7k
Frank P. Day United States 28 1.2k 1.0× 606 0.8× 947 1.5× 136 0.4× 386 1.2× 71 2.4k
Ralph E. Good United States 24 927 0.8× 596 0.8× 382 0.6× 109 0.3× 268 0.8× 43 1.6k
Anne‐Marie Planty‐Tabacchi France 16 1.3k 1.1× 818 1.1× 377 0.6× 426 1.2× 255 0.8× 22 1.9k
Robert C. Wissmar United States 17 2.0k 1.7× 1.5k 2.0× 472 0.8× 592 1.7× 417 1.2× 39 2.7k

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Busch, David E.. (2019). Analyses of the structure and function of lower Colorado River riparian plant communities. Digital Scholarship - UNLV (University of Nevada Reno).
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Busch, David E., et al.. (2011). Natural resource mitigation, adaptation and research needs related to climate change in the Great Basin and Mojave Desert. Scientific investigations report. i–34. 1 indexed citations
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Ewe, Sharon M. L., Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg, & David E. Busch. (1999). Water-use patterns of woody species in pineland and hammock communities of South Florida. Forest Ecology and Management. 118(1-3). 139–148. 42 indexed citations
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Busch, David E., William F. Loftus, & Oron L. Bass. (1998). Long-term hydrologic effects on marsh plant community structure in the southern Everglades. Wetlands. 18(2). 230–241. 61 indexed citations
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Smith, Stanley D., D. A. Devitt, Anna Sala, James Cleverly, & David E. Busch. (1998). Water relations of riparian plants from warm desert regions. Wetlands. 18(4). 687–696. 170 indexed citations
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Busch, David E. & Stanley D. Smith. (1995). Mechanisms Associated With Decline of Woody Species in Riparian Ecosystems of the Southwestern U.S.. Ecological Monographs. 65(3). 347–370. 370 indexed citations
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Busch, David E. & Stanley D. Smith. (1993). Effects of fire on water and salinity relations of riparian woody taxa. Oecologia. 94(2). 186–194. 91 indexed citations
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Busch, David E., et al.. (1992). Diatoms of Northeastern Iowa Fens. UNI ScholarWorks (University of Northern Iowa). 99(1). 15–22. 1 indexed citations
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Busch, David E., Neil L. Ingraham, & Stanley D. Smith. (1992). Water Uptake in Woody Riparian Phreatophytes of the Southwestern United States: A Stable Isotope Study. Ecological Applications. 2(4). 450–459. 238 indexed citations
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Smith, Stanley D. & David E. Busch. (1992). Fire in a riparian shrub community: Postburn water relations in the Tamarix-Salix association along the lower Colorado River. Digital Scholarship - UNLV (University of Nevada Reno). 52. 5 indexed citations
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Busch, David E., et al.. (1991). The use of the freshwater mussel Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas) for biomonitoring heavy metals in limnic ecosystems: The Weser (FRG). SIL Proceedings 1922-2010. 24(4). 2261–2264. 11 indexed citations
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Fisher, Stuart G., Lawrence J. Gray, Nancy B. Grimm, & David E. Busch. (1982). Temporal Succession in a Desert Stream Ecosystem Following Flash Flooding. Ecological Monographs. 52(1). 93–110. 598 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fisher, Stuart G., David E. Busch, & Nancy B. Grimm. (1981). Diel Feeding Chronologies in Two Sonoran Desert Stream Fishes, Agosia chrysogaster (Cyprinidae) and Pantosteus clarki (Catostomidae). The Southwestern Naturalist. 26(1). 31–31. 17 indexed citations
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Busch, David E. & Stuart G. Fisher. (1981). Metabolism of a desert stream. Freshwater Biology. 11(4). 301–307. 99 indexed citations
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Busch, David E., et al.. (1980). Diatoms from desert playas in southern California. Journal of Arid Environments. 3(1). 55–62. 7 indexed citations
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Lowe, Rex L. & David E. Busch. (1975). Morphological Observations on Two Species of the Diatom Genus Thalassiosira from Fresh-Water Habitats in Ohio. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 94(1). 118–118. 26 indexed citations
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Busch, David E.. (1974). ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE FILAMENTOUS HABIT IN THE DIATOM NAVICULA CONFERVACEA (KÜTZ.) GRUN.1. Journal of Phycology. 10(2). 241–243. 5 indexed citations

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