H. Wayne Polley

14.6k citations

143 papers · 8.0k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 47

Impact in

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.5%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Soil Science top 0.5%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Papers in

Forestry 19
- Pasture and Agricultural Systems 18
Nature and Landscape Conservation 49
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 47

Co-authors: Brian J. Wilsey Hyrum B. Johnson Herman S. Mayeux Forest Isbell Justin Derner Philip A. Fay Robert B. Jackson C. R. Tischler
Journals: Global Change Biology (14 papers)Functional Ecology (8 papers)Rangeland Ecology & Management (8 papers)Plant Ecology (8 papers)Ecology (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States France Australia

In The Last Decade

H. Wayne Polley

140 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon 2022 · 478 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Nature Communications
2017 Journal of Ecology
2013 The American Naturalist

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1	Performance of Johnsongrass and switchgrass from seeds and rhizome fragments in a mature switchgrass stand Plant Ecology ·Susanne Schwinning, Philip A. Fay, H. Wayne Polley	2025	0
2	Biodiversity: Net primary productivity relationships are eliminated by invasive species dominance Ecology Letters ·Brian J. Wilsey, Leanne M. Martin, Xia Xu, Forest Isbell, H. Wayne Polley	2023	7
3	Multiple constraints cause positive and negative feedbacks limiting grassland soil CO₂efflux under CO₂enrichment Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Philip A. Fay, Dafeng Hui, Robert B. Jackson, Harold P. Collins, Lara G. Reichmann, Michael J. Aspinwall, Virginia L. Jin, Albina Khasanova, Robert W. Heckman, H. Wayne Polley	2020	3
4	CO₂ enrichment and soil type additively regulate grassland productivity New Phytologist ·H. Wayne Polley, Michael J. Aspinwall, Harold P. Collins, Miyuzu Suzuki, Richard Gill, Robert B. Jackson, Virginia L. Jin, Albina Khasanova, Lara G. Reichmann, Philip A. Fay	2018	12
5	Flowering in grassland predicted by CO ₂ and resource effects on species aboveground biomass Global Change Biology ·Philip A. Fay, Michael J. Aspinwall, Harold P. Collins, Miyuzu Suzuki, Richard Gill, Robert B. Jackson, Virginia L. Jin, Albina Khasanova, Lara G. Reichmann, H. Wayne Polley	2017	1
6	Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems Journal of Ecology ·Forest Isbell, Paul R. Adler, Nico Eisenhauer, Dario Fornara, Kaitlin Kimmel, Claire Kremen, Deborah K. Letourneau, Matt Liebman, H. Wayne Polley, Sandra Quijas, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen Hit paper breakdown →	2017	401
7	Traits of an invasive grass conferring an early growth advantage over native grasses Journal of Plant Ecology ·Lara G. Reichmann, Susanne Schwinning, H. Wayne Polley, Philip A. Fay	2016	27
8	Plant community change mediates the response of foliar δ15N to CO2 enrichment in mesic grasslands Oecologia ·H. Wayne Polley, Justin Derner, Robert B. Jackson, Richard Gill, І. Шаргородська, Philip A. Fay	2015	7
9	Biodiversity, photosynthetic mode, and ecosystem services differ between native and novel ecosystems Oecologia ·Leanne M. Martin, H. Wayne Polley, Pedram P. Daneshgar, Mary A. Harris, Brian J. Wilsey	2014	33
10	Impacts of climate change drivers on C4 grassland productivity: scaling driver effects through the plant community Journal of Experimental Botany ·H. Wayne Polley, Justin Derner, Robert B. Jackson, Brian J. Wilsey, Philip A. Fay	2014	34
11	Species Richness and the Temporal Stability of Biomass Production: A New Analysis of Recent Biodiversity Experiments The American Naturalist ·Kevin Gross, Bradley J. Cardinale, Jeremy W. Fox, Andrew Gonzalez, Michel Loreau, H. Wayne Polley, Peter B. Reich, Jasper van Ruijven Hit paper breakdown →	2013	292
12	Productivity of well-watered Panicum virgatum does not increase with CO2 enrichment Journal of Plant Ecology ·Philip A. Fay, H. Wayne Polley, Virginia L. Jin, Michael J. Aspinwall	2012	8
13	Biodiversity, productivity and the temporal stability of productivity: patterns and processes Ecology Letters ·Forest Isbell, H. Wayne Polley, Brian J. Wilsey	2009	394
14	Leaf isoprene emission rate as a function of atmospheric CO ₂ concentration Global Change Biology ·M. J. Wilkinson, Russell K. Monson, N. A. Trahan, David Berger, M. Tabò, Robert B. Jackson, H. Wayne Polley, Philip A. Fay, Ray Fall	2008	128
15	Water relations in grassland and desert ecosystems exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2 Oecologia ·J. A. Morgan, Diane E. Pataki, Christian Körner, H. Clark, Stephen J. Del Grosso, José M. Grünzweig, Alan K. Knapp, A. R. Mosier, Paul C. D. Newton, Pascal A. Niklaus, Jesse B. Nippert, Robert S. Nowak, William J. Parton, H. Wayne Polley, M. Rebecca Shaw	2004	366
16	Effects of Glacial to Modern CO2 Gradients on Plant Growth, Water Use and Species Composition AGUSM ·Howard E. Johnson, H. Wayne Polley	2002	0
17	Acclimation of whole-plant Acacia farnesiana transpiration to carbon dioxide concentration Tree Physiology ·William A. Dugas, H. Wayne Polley, Herman S. Mayeux, Hyrum B. Johnson	2001	9
18	Genetic variation for carbon isotope composition in honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) Tree Physiology ·Hetty Irawati P. Utaminingrum, C. R. Tischler, Hyrum B. Johnson, H. Wayne Polley	1999	34
19	Carbon dioxide enrichment improves growth, water relations and survival of droughted honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) seedlings Tree Physiology ·H. Wayne Polley, Hyrum B. Johnson, Herman S. Mayeux, C. R. Tischler, Dennis A. Brown	1996	32
20	Herbivory tolerance of Agropyron smithii populations with different grazing histories Oecologia ·H. Wayne Polley, James K. Detling	1988	63

About H. Wayne Polley

H. Wayne Polley is a scholar working on Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science and Ecological Modeling, having authored 143 papers that have together received 8.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (64 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (64 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (47 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (26 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (23 papers), Pasture and Agricultural Systems (18 papers), Plant and animal studies (17 papers) and Climate variability and models (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.6k citations), Soil Science (1.7k citations), Global and Planetary Change (3.3k citations), Forestry (477 citations) and Ecological Modeling (472 citations). H. Wayne Polley has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Brian J. Wilsey, Hyrum B. Johnson, Herman S. Mayeux, Forest Isbell, Justin Derner, Philip A. Fay, Robert B. Jackson, C. R. Tischler, Hafiz Maherali and David D. Briske. Their work appears in journals such as Global Change Biology, Functional Ecology, Rangeland Ecology & Management, Plant Ecology and Ecology.

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