Elyn Humphreys

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Elyn Humphreys is a scholar working on Ecology, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Elyn Humphreys has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Ecology, 49 papers in Atmospheric Science and 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Elyn Humphreys's work include Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (56 papers), Climate change and permafrost (31 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (26 papers). Elyn Humphreys is often cited by papers focused on Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (56 papers), Climate change and permafrost (31 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (26 papers). Elyn Humphreys collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Finland. Elyn Humphreys's co-authors include Peter M. Lafleur, Nigel T. Roulet, Tim R. Moore, Jill L. Bubier, T. Andrew Black, Zoran Nesic, G. Drewitt, Pierre J. H. Richard, Kai Morgenstern and R. F. Grant and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Environmental Science & Technology and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Elyn Humphreys

89 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Contemporary carbon balance and late Holocene carbon accumulation in a northern peatland

2006 534 citations Nigel T. Roulet, Peter M. Lafleur et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elyn Humphreys Canada	34	2.4k	2.1k	1.6k	752	319	95	4.0k
Thomas Friborg Denmark	35	1.7k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	466 0.6×	160 0.5×	72	4.1k
Annalea Lohila Finland	34	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	878 0.6×	490 0.7×	137 0.4×	136	3.0k
George Burba United States	28	1.2k 0.5×	3.0k 1.4×	899 0.6×	840 1.1×	208 0.7×	51	3.7k
Evan S. Kane United States	30	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	327 0.4×	250 0.8×	97	3.2k
Olaf Kolle Germany	40	1.0k 0.4×	3.7k 1.7×	2.1k 1.3×	780 1.0×	634 2.0×	105	4.7k
Pasi Kolari Finland	39	961 0.4×	3.0k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	695 2.2×	127	3.9k
Tomomichi Kato Japan	28	955 0.4×	1.9k 0.9×	684 0.4×	363 0.5×	443 1.4×	68	2.8k
Nobuko Saigusa Japan	37	1.1k 0.4×	3.1k 1.5×	1.0k 0.7×	659 0.9×	590 1.8×	110	3.9k
Bernard Longdoz France	22	1.2k 0.5×	2.7k 1.2×	779 0.5×	519 0.7×	405 1.3×	35	3.3k
Richard M. Petrone Canada	29	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	661 0.4×	370 0.5×	115 0.4×	134	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Elyn Humphreys

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elyn Humphreys

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gauci, Charles G., et al.. (2025). Rare or Rarely Sampled? Electrofishing and Environmental DNA Surveys of the Imperilled Freckled Darter Percina lenticula . Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 35(7).

Curasi, Salvatore R., et al.. (2025). High-resolution Canada domain disturbance forcings suitable for land surface modeling applications. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1469–1469. 1 indexed citations

Curasi, Salvatore R., Joe R. Melton, Elyn Humphreys, Txomin Hermosilla, & Michael A. Wulder. (2024). Implementing a dynamic representation of fire and harvest including subgrid-scale heterogeneity in the tile-based land surface model CLASSIC v1.45. Geoscientific model development. 17(7). 2683–2704. 3 indexed citations

Curasi, Salvatore R., Joe R. Melton, Vivek K. Arora, Elyn Humphreys, & Cynthia Whaley. (2024). Global climate change below 2 °C avoids large end century increases in burned area in Canada. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 228–228. 5 indexed citations

Curasi, Salvatore R., Joe R. Melton, Elyn Humphreys, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the Performance of the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC) Tailored to the Pan‐Canadian Domain. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(4). 8 indexed citations

Rezanezhad, Fereidoun, et al.. (2022). The definition of the non-growing season matters: a case study of net ecosystem carbon exchange from a Canadian peatland. Environmental Research Communications. 4(2). 21003–21003. 4 indexed citations

Curasi, Salvatore R., Joe R. Melton, Elyn Humphreys, et al.. (2022). Evaluating the performance of the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC) tailored to the pan-Canadian domain. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Rezanezhad, Fereidoun, et al.. (2021). Non-growing season carbon emissions in a northern peatland are projected to increase under global warming. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 25 indexed citations

Scott, Neal A., et al.. (2021). Interannual Variability of Summer Net Ecosystem CO₂ Exchange in High Arctic Tundra. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(8). 4 indexed citations

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Meyer, Gesa, Elyn Humphreys, Joe R. Melton, Alex J. Cannon, & Peter M. Lafleur. (2021). Simulating shrubs and their energy and carbon dioxide fluxes in Canada's Low Arctic with the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC). Biogeosciences. 18(11). 3263–3283. 11 indexed citations

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Burdun, Iuliia, Michel Bechtold, Valentina Sagris, et al.. (2020). Satellite Determination of Peatland Water Table Temporal Dynamics by Localizing Representative Pixels of A SWIR-Based Moisture Index. Remote Sensing. 12(18). 2936–2936. 28 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Elyn, et al.. (2020). Low methane emissions from a boreal wetland constructed on oil sand mine tailings. Biogeosciences. 17(3). 667–682. 9 indexed citations

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Louis, Vincent L. St., Jennifer A. Graydon, Igor Lehnherr, et al.. (2019). Atmospheric Concentrations and Wet/Dry Loadings of Mercury at the Remote Experimental Lakes Area, Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(14). 8017–8026. 35 indexed citations

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Kalácska, Margaret, J. Pablo Arroyo‐Mora, Raymond Soffer, et al.. (2018). Estimating Peatland Water Table Depth and Net Ecosystem Exchange: A Comparison between Satellite and Airborne Imagery. Remote Sensing. 10(5). 687–687. 45 indexed citations

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Helbig, Manuel, et al.. (2015). Effects of biased CO2 flux measurements by open-path sensors on the interpretation of CO2 flux dynamics at contrasting ecosystems. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 281. 1 indexed citations

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Lund, Magnus, Mika Aurela, Torben R. Christensen, et al.. (2014). Assessing the spatial variability in peak season CO ₂ exchange characteristics across the Arctic tundra using a light response curve parameterization. Biogeosciences. 11(17). 4897–4912. 22 indexed citations

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Brown, M., Elyn Humphreys, Nigel T. Roulet, Tim R. Moore, & Peter M. Lafleur. (2013). Divergent effects of drought on peatland methane emissions. AGUFM. 2013. 2 indexed citations

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Humphreys, Elyn & Peter M. Lafleur. (2011). Does earlier snowmelt lead to greater CO ₂ sequestration in two low Arctic tundra ecosystems?. Geophysical Research Letters. 38(9). 60 indexed citations

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Connolly, J.P., Nigel T. Roulet, Jonathan Seaquist, et al.. (2009). Using MODIS derived fPAR with ground based flux tower measurements to derive the light use efficiency for two Canadian peatlands. Carleton University's Institutional Repository (MacOdrum Library, Carleton University). 26 indexed citations

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Morgenstern, K., Alan W. Black, Timothy J. Griffis, et al.. (2002). Effects of Climate Variability on Estimates of Annual NEP for a Coniferous West Coast Forest During an El Niño/La Niña Cycle. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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