Greg A. Barron‐Gafford

9.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
126 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Greg A. Barron‐Gafford is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Greg A. Barron‐Gafford has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 35 papers in Plant Science and 32 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Greg A. Barron‐Gafford's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (80 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (26 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers). Greg A. Barron‐Gafford is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (80 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (26 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers). Greg A. Barron‐Gafford collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Colombia. Greg A. Barron‐Gafford's co-authors include Travis E. Huxman, Russell L. Scott, David D. Breshears, Chris B. Zou, Juan Camilo Villegas, Henry D. Adams, Erik P. Hamerlynck, G. Darrel Jenerette, Maite Guardiola‐Claramonte and R. L. Minor and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Greg A. Barron‐Gafford

119 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2019 2014 2019 250 500 750
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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. Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought
    2009 795 citations Greg A. Barron‐Gafford, Juan Camilo Villegas et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Agrivoltaics provide mutual benefits across the food–energy–water nexus in drylands
    2019 577 citations Greg A. Barron‐Gafford, Mitchell Pavao‐Zuckerman et al. profile →
  3. Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes
    2014 331 citations Greg A. Barron‐Gafford, Travis E. Huxman et al. profile →
  4. Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities
    2019 274 citations Greg A. Barron‐Gafford, Joel A. Biederman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Greg A. Barron‐Gafford United States 41 3.8k 1.6k 1.4k 1.4k 1.2k 126 6.3k
William K. Smith United States 43 4.5k 1.2× 1.6k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 918 0.7× 633 0.5× 117 6.8k
Sibyll Schaphoff Germany 39 3.4k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 537 0.4× 1.0k 0.7× 764 0.6× 80 6.9k
Anja Rammig Germany 38 4.6k 1.2× 1.6k 1.0× 1.9k 1.3× 730 0.5× 494 0.4× 116 6.2k
Christian Beer Germany 35 4.6k 1.2× 2.3k 1.5× 876 0.6× 793 0.6× 873 0.7× 90 7.4k
Alexander Knohl Germany 42 5.7k 1.5× 1.9k 1.2× 1.8k 1.2× 1.4k 1.0× 759 0.6× 142 7.6k
Nathan Phillips United States 42 6.3k 1.6× 3.6k 2.3× 2.3k 1.6× 2.1k 1.5× 611 0.5× 84 7.4k
G. Darrel Jenerette United States 52 4.7k 1.2× 1.0k 0.6× 777 0.5× 1.2k 0.9× 2.4k 1.9× 131 7.6k
Tao Wang China 48 5.0k 1.3× 2.9k 1.8× 947 0.7× 845 0.6× 788 0.6× 171 8.3k
Shufen Pan United States 45 3.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 612 0.4× 712 0.5× 817 0.7× 127 6.4k
Sara Vicca Belgium 40 4.5k 1.2× 1.7k 1.0× 1.9k 1.4× 2.2k 1.6× 839 0.7× 112 9.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Barron‐Gafford, Greg A., et al.. (2025). Agrivoltaics as a climate-smart and resilient solution for midday depression in photosynthesis in dryland regions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 6 indexed citations
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Gerlak, Andrea K., et al.. (2025). Cultivating engagement: Public participation in agrivoltaics planning and design. Energy Research & Social Science. 127. 104273–104273.
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Webb, Ryan, John F. Knowles, Greg A. Barron‐Gafford, et al.. (2024). Energy‐Water Asynchrony Principally Determines Water Available for Runoff From Snowmelt in Continental Montane Forests. Hydrological Processes. 38(10).
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Xia, Zhang, Zhenghui Xie, Zhuguo Ma, et al.. (2022). A Microbial‐Explicit Soil Organic Carbon Decomposition Model (MESDM): Development and Testing at a Semiarid Grassland Site. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(1). 11 indexed citations
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Ravi, Sujith, Darin J. Law, Joshua S. Caplan, et al.. (2021). Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other’s effects on dryland degradation. Global Change Biology. 28(1). 285–295. 33 indexed citations
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Dwivedi, Ravindra, John F. Knowles, Christopher J. Eastoe, et al.. (2020). Ubiquitous Fractal Scaling and Filtering Behavior of Hydrologic Fluxes and Storages from A Mountain Headwater Catchment. Water. 12(2). 613–613. 2 indexed citations
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Knowles, John F., Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, et al.. (2020). Montane forest productivity across a semiarid climatic gradient. Global Change Biology. 26(12). 6945–6958. 22 indexed citations
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Monson, Russell K., Barbro Winkler, Todd N. Rosenstiel, et al.. (2020). High productivity in hybrid-poplar plantations without isoprene emission to the atmosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(3). 1596–1605. 35 indexed citations
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Zeng, Xubin, M. Ďurčík, Luke Pangle, et al.. (2020). Highly sampled measurements in a controlled atmosphere at the Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory. Scientific Data. 7(1). 306–306. 2 indexed citations
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Barron‐Gafford, Greg A., Isaiah Barnett-Moreno, R. L. Minor, et al.. (2019). Co-locating agriculture and solar power renewables (agrivoltaics) to create a more sustainable food, energy, and water future. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019.
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Elshall, Ahmed S., Ming Ye, Guo‐Yue Niu, & Greg A. Barron‐Gafford. (2019). Bayesian inference and predictive performance of soil respiration models in the presence of model discrepancy. Geoscientific model development. 12(5). 2009–2032. 7 indexed citations
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Dwivedi, Ravindra, Christopher J. Eastoe, John F. Knowles, et al.. (2019). Vegetation source water identification using isotopic and hydrometric observations from a subhumid mountain catchment. Ecohydrology. 13(1). 10 indexed citations
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Elshall, Ahmed S., Ming Ye, Guo‐Yue Niu, & Greg A. Barron‐Gafford. (2018). Bayesian Inference and Predictive Performance of Soil Respiration Models in the Presence of Model Discrepancy. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations
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Dwivedi, Ravindra, T. Meixner, Jennifer C. McIntosh, et al.. (2018). Hydrologic functioning of the deep critical zone and contributions to streamflow in a high‐elevation catchment: Testing of multiple conceptual models. Hydrological Processes. 33(4). 476–494. 26 indexed citations
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Minor, R. L., et al.. (2016). The Photovoltaic Heat Island Effect: Larger solar power plants increase local temperatures. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations
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Lipson, David A., et al.. (2006). Relationships Between Microbial Community Structure and Soil Processes Under Elevated Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. Microbial Ecology. 51(3). 302–314. 46 indexed citations
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