Ethan E. Butler

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Ethan E. Butler is a scholar working on Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ethan E. Butler has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Plant Science, 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Ethan E. Butler's work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (9 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (7 papers). Ethan E. Butler is often cited by papers focused on Climate change impacts on agriculture (9 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (7 papers). Ethan E. Butler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Ethan E. Butler's co-authors include Peter Huybers, Nathaniel D. Mueller, James Gerber, Kyungdahm Yun, Vangimalla R. Reddy, Jonathan P. Resop, Dennis Timlin, Soo‐Hyung Kim, David H. Fleisher and N. Michele Holbrook and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ethan E. Butler

24 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Random Forests for Global and Regional Crop Yield Predictions

2016 535 citations Jonathan P. Resop, Nathaniel D. Mueller et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation

2024 52 citations James Gerber, D. K. Ray et al. Nature Food profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ethan E. Butler United States	12	711	591	544	321	202	24	1.6k
Daniela Semerádová Czechia	27	669 0.9×	888 1.5×	591 1.1×	282 0.9×	249 1.2×	58	1.9k
Jan Bálek Czechia	22	634 0.9×	778 1.3×	489 0.9×	213 0.7×	268 1.3×	57	1.7k
Stefan Olin Sweden	20	424 0.6×	740 1.3×	528 1.0×	330 1.0×	192 1.0×	52	1.5k
Florian Zabel Germany	20	468 0.7×	752 1.3×	505 0.9×	434 1.4×	187 0.9×	36	1.9k
Bettina Baruth Italy	17	554 0.8×	518 0.9×	530 1.0×	372 1.2×	156 0.8×	39	1.3k
Xuebiao Pan China	21	534 0.8×	438 0.7×	375 0.7×	203 0.6×	184 0.9×	54	1.2k
Gen Sakurai Japan	19	746 1.0×	503 0.9×	660 1.2×	186 0.6×	116 0.6×	41	1.8k
Fabio Micale Italy	10	622 0.9×	477 0.8×	565 1.0×	240 0.7×	279 1.4×	22	1.5k
Yousay Hayashi Japan	16	667 0.9×	617 1.0×	749 1.4×	275 0.9×	167 0.8×	32	1.5k
S.G.K. Adiku Ghana	25	670 0.9×	523 0.9×	395 0.7×	624 1.9×	302 1.5×	61	1.8k

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Butler, Ethan E., et al.. (2025). Elevated CO ₂ and enriched nitrogen proportionally decrease species richness most at small spatial scales in a grassland experiment. Journal of Ecology. 113(10). 2800–2812. 2 indexed citations

Stefański, Artur, Ethan E. Butler, Laura Williams, et al.. (2025). All the light we cannot see: Climate manipulations leave short and long‐term imprints in spectral reflectance of trees. Ecology. 106(5). e70048–e70048. 2 indexed citations

Williams, Laura, Kyle R. Kovach, J. Antonio Guzmán Q., et al.. (2025). Tree diversity shapes the spectral signature of light transmittance in developing forests. Ecology. 106(3). e70032–e70032. 1 indexed citations

Cabon, Antoine, Richard L. Peters, Patrick Fonti, et al.. (2025). Generalized Stomatal Optimization of Evolutionary Fitness Proxies for Predicting Plant Gas Exchange Under Drought, Heatwaves, and Elevated CO₂. Global Change Biology. 31(1). e70049–e70049. 4 indexed citations

Gerber, James, D. K. Ray, David Makowski, et al.. (2024). Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation. Nature Food. 5(2). 125–135. 52 indexed citations breakdown →

Reich, Peter B., et al.. (2024). High CO2 dampens then amplifies N-induced diversity loss over 24 years. Nature. 635(8038). 370–375. 6 indexed citations

Stefański, Artur, Ethan E. Butler, Raimundo Bermúdez, Rebecca Montgomery, & Peter B. Reich. (2023). Stomatal behaviour moderates the water cost of CO₂ acquisition for 21 boreal and temperate species under experimental climate change. Plant Cell & Environment. 46(10). 3102–3119. 9 indexed citations

Butler, Ethan E., Kirk R. Wythers, Habacuc Flores‐Moreno, et al.. (2022). Increasing Functional Diversity in a Global Land Surface Model Illustrates Uncertainties Related to Parameter Simplification. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(3). 9 indexed citations

Williams, Laura, Ethan E. Butler, Jeannine Cavender‐Bares, et al.. (2021). Enhanced light interception and light use efficiency explain overyielding in young tree communities. Ecology Letters. 24(5). 996–1006. 38 indexed citations

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Butler, Ethan E., Kirk R. Wythers, Habacuc Flores‐Moreno, et al.. (2021). Updated respiration routines alter spatio-temporal patterns of carbon cycling in a global land surface model. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 104015–104015. 4 indexed citations

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Sloat, Lindsey, Ethan E. Butler, N. Michele Holbrook, et al.. (2021). Evaluating the benefits of chlorophyll fluorescence for in-season crop productivity forecasting. Remote Sensing of Environment. 260. 112478–112478. 21 indexed citations

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Butler, Ethan E., Ming Chen, Daniel Ricciuto, et al.. (2020). Seeing the Canopy for the Branches: Improved Within Canopy Scaling of Leaf Nitrogen. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(10). 4 indexed citations

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Butler, Ethan E.. (2020). Heavy rain, come today. Nature Climate Change. 10(9). 805–806. 6 indexed citations

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Butler, Ethan E., Nathaniel D. Mueller, & Peter Huybers. (2018). Peculiarly pleasant weather for US maize. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(47). 11935–11940. 94 indexed citations

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Huntingford, Chris, Owen K. Atkin, Alberto Martínez-de la Torre, et al.. (2017). Implications of improved representations of plant respiration in a changing climate. Nature Communications. 8(1). 98 indexed citations

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Resop, Jonathan P., Nathaniel D. Mueller, David H. Fleisher, et al.. (2016). Random Forests for Global and Regional Crop Yield Predictions. PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0156571–e0156571. 535 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mueller, Nathaniel D., Ethan E. Butler, Karen A. McKinnon, et al.. (2015). Cooling of US Midwest summer temperature extremes from cropland intensification. Nature Climate Change. 6(3). 317–322. 220 indexed citations

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Guedes, Jade d’Alpoim & Ethan E. Butler. (2014). Modeling constraints on the spread of agriculture to Southwest China with thermal niche models. Quaternary International. 349. 29–41. 64 indexed citations

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Butler, Ethan E. & Peter Huybers. (2013). Reply to 'US maize adaptability'. Nature Climate Change. 3(8). 691–692. 1 indexed citations

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Butler, Ethan E. & Peter Huybers. (2012). Adaptation of US maize to temperature variations. Nature Climate Change. 3(1). 68–72. 244 indexed citations

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