David Olefeldt

13.1k citations

68 papers · 7.3k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 32

Co-authors: Merritt R. Turetsky Gustaf Hugelius A. David McGuire Edward A. G. Schuur Peter Kuhry Guido Grosse Charles D. Koven David M. Lawrence
Topics: Climate change and permafrost (53 papers)Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (34 papers)Cryospheric studies and observations (29 papers)
Cited by: Atmospheric Science Environmental Chemistry Ecology
Journals: Nature Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nature Communications
Partner nations: Canada United States Sweden

In The Last Decade

David Olefeldt

64 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

2015 2.5k citations Edward A. G. Schuur, Guido Grosse et al. profile →
Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources

2021 623 citations Peter A. Raymond, David Olefeldt et al. profile →
Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw

2020 576 citations Merritt R. Turetsky, Benjamin W. Abbott et al. profile →
Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw

2020 405 citations Gustaf Hugelius, Julie Loisel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes

2016 405 citations David Olefeldt, Santonu Goswami et al. Nature Communications profile →
A synthesis of methane emissions from 71 northern, temperate, and subtropical wetlands

2014 394 citations Merritt R. Turetsky, David Olefeldt et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

2019 285 citations Merritt R. Turetsky, Benjamin W. Abbott et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Olefeldt

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Large Carbon Losses From Burned Permafrost Peatlands During Post‐Fire Succession 2025 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown),(unknown),Craig A. Emmerton,Lorna I. Harris,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Sara Knox,Rosie Howard,(unknown),Paul Moore,Zoran Nesic,David Olefeldt	1
2	Changing climatic controls on the greenhouse gas balance of thermokarst bogs during succession after permafrost thaw 2024 ·Global Change Biology ·Liam Heffernan,Cristian Estop‐Aragonés,McKenzie A. Kuhn,(unknown),David Olefeldt	2
3	Impact of Peat Extraction on Downstream Concentrations and Attenuation of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Nutrients 2024 ·Water Resources Research ·Rebecca J. Frei,(unknown),Ming Cao,Benjamin W. Abbott,David Olefeldt	0
4	Composition of Stream Dissolved Organic Matter Across Canadian Forested Ecozones Varies in Three Dimensions Linked to Landscape and Climate 2024 ·Water Resources Research ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Jim Buttle,(unknown),Chad W. Cuss,K. J. Devito,Monica B. Emelko,William C. Floyd,David E. Foster,Ryan Hutchins,Rob Jamieson,Mark S. Johnson,(unknown),U. Silins,Suzanne E. Tank,Lauren Thompson,Kara L. Webster,C. Williams,David Olefeldt	6
5	Permafrost thaw causes large carbon loss in boreal peatlands while changes to peat quality are limited 2023 ·Global Change Biology ·Lorna I. Harris,David Olefeldt,Nicolas Pelletier,Christian Blodau,Klaus‐Holger Knorr,Julie Talbot,Liam Heffernan,Merritt R. Turetsky	17
6	Concentrations and Yields of Mercury, Methylmercury, and Dissolved Organic Carbon From Contrasting Catchments in the Discontinuous Permafrost Region, Western Canada 2023 ·Water Resources Research ·Lauren Thompson,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Oliver Sonnentag,Suzanne E. Tank,David Olefeldt	5
7	Controls on methylmercury concentrations in lakes and streams of peatland‐rich catchments along a 1700 km permafrost gradient 2023 ·Limnology and Oceanography ·Lauren Thompson,McKenzie A. Kuhn,(unknown),Lucas P. P. Braga,Ryan Hutchins,Andrew J. Tanentzap,Vincent L. St. Louis,David Olefeldt	16
8	Characteristics of methane emissions from alpine thermokarst lakes on the Tibetan Plateau 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Guibiao Yang,(unknown),Benjamin W. Abbott,David Olefeldt,Christian Knoblauch,Yutong Song,Luyao Kang,Shuqi Qin,Yunfeng Peng,Yuanhe Yang	44
9	Climate warming has direct and indirect effects on microbes associated with carbon cycling in northern lakes 2023 ·Global Change Biology ·(unknown),Lucas P. P. Braga,McKenzie A. Kuhn,Lauren Thompson,David Olefeldt,Andrew J. Tanentzap	7
10	Influence of Wildfire on Downstream Transport of Dissolved Carbon, Nutrients, and Mercury in the Permafrost Zone of Boreal Western Canada 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Ryan Hutchins,Suzanne E. Tank,David Olefeldt,William L. Quinton,Christopher Spence,(unknown),S. G. Mengistu	4
11	Simulated heat wave events increase CO2 and N2O emissions from cropland and forest soils in an incubation experiment 2022 ·Biology and Fertility of Soils ·Zhengfeng An,Edward W. Bork,David Olefeldt,Cameron N. Carlyle,Scott X. Chang	4
12	Characterizing Methane Emission Hotspots From Thawing Permafrost 2021 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Clayton D. Elder,David R. Thompson,Andrew K. Thorpe,Hrishikesh A. Chandanpurkar,(unknown),(unknown),S. R. James,Burke J. Minsley,Neal J. Pastick,David Olefeldt,Katey Walter Anthony,Charles E. Miller	30
13	Opposing Effects of Climate and Permafrost Thaw on CH₄ and CO₂ Emissions From Northern Lakes 2021 ·AGU Advances ·McKenzie A. Kuhn,Lauren Thompson,(unknown),Lucas P. P. Braga,Andrew J. Tanentzap,David Bastviken,David Olefeldt	23
14	Assessing the Potential for Mobilization of Old Soil Carbon After Permafrost Thaw: A Synthesis of ¹⁴C Measurements From the Northern Permafrost Region 2020 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Cristian Estop‐Aragonés,David Olefeldt,Benjamin W. Abbott,Jeffrey P. Chanton,C. I. Czimczik,Joshua Dean,J. E. Egan,Laure Gandois,Mark H. Garnett,Iain P. Hartley,Alison M. Hoyt,Massimo Lupascu,Susan M. Natali,Jonathan A. O’Donnell,Peter A. Raymond,Andrew J. Tanentzap,Suzanne E. Tank,Edward A. G. Schuur,Merritt R. Turetsky,Katey Walter Anthony	53
15	Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thawbreakdown → 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Gustaf Hugelius,Julie Loisel,Sarah Chadburn,Robert B. Jackson,Miriam C. Jones,Glen M. MacDonald,Maija E. Marushchak,David Olefeldt,Maara Packalen,Matthias Siewert,Claire C. Treat,Merritt R. Turetsky,Carolina Voigt,Zicheng Yu	405
16	A synthesis of three decades of hydrological research at Scotty Creek, NWT, Canada 2019 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·William L. Quinton,Aaron Berg,(unknown),(unknown),L. Chasmer,Ryan Connon,James R. Craig,Élise Devoie,Masaki Hayashi,(unknown),David Olefeldt,Alain Pietroniro,Fereidoun Rezanezhad,Robert A. Schincariol,Oliver Sonnentag	43
17	Fire in the Arctic: The effect of wildfire across diverse aquatic ecosystems of the Northwest Territories 2019 ·Suzanne E. Tank,David Olefeldt,William L. Quinton,Christopher Spence,(unknown),(unknown),Caren Ackley,(unknown),Ryan Hutchins,S. G. Mengistu	7
18	Seasonal shifts in export of DOC and nutrients from burned and unburned peatland-rich catchments, Northwest Territories, Canada 2018 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·(unknown),Suzanne E. Tank,(unknown),William L. Quinton,Christopher Spence,Andrew J. Tanentzap,David Olefeldt	55
19	Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapesbreakdown → 2016 ·Nature Communications ·David Olefeldt,Santonu Goswami,Guido Grosse,Daniel J. Hayes,Gustaf Hugelius,Peter Kuhry,A. D. McGuire,V. E. Romanovsky,A. Britta K. Sannel,Edward A. G. Schuur,Merritt R. Turetsky	405
20	Carbon budget estimation of a subarctic catchment using a dynamic ecosystem model at high spatial resolution 2015 ·Biogeosciences ·Jing Tang,Paul Miller,Anders Persson,David Olefeldt,Petter Pilesjö,Michal Heliasz,M. Jackowicz-Korczyński,Zhenlin Yang,Benjamin Smith,Terry V. Callaghan,Torben R. Christensen	19

About David Olefeldt

David Olefeldt is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 68 papers that have together received 7.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate change and permafrost (53 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (34 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (29 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (5.1k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.5k citations) and Ecology (2.8k citations). David Olefeldt has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Merritt R. Turetsky, Gustaf Hugelius, A. David McGuire, Edward A. G. Schuur, Peter Kuhry, Guido Grosse, Charles D. Koven, David M. Lawrence, Daniel J. Hayes and V. E. Romanovsky. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

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