Heather E. Erickson

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

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Heather E. Erickson is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather E. Erickson has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 10 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Heather E. Erickson's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (9 papers) and Forest ecology and management (7 papers). Heather E. Erickson is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (9 papers) and Forest ecology and management (7 papers). Heather E. Erickson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Puerto Rico and Sudan. Heather E. Erickson's co-authors include Michael Keller, Eric A. Davidson, Louis Verchot, Edzo Veldkamp, Ilse L. Ackerman, José Henrique Cattãnio, Robert L. Edmonds, C. E. Peterson, Amy L. Downing and John Pastor and has published in prestigious journals such as Global Change Biology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry and Journal of Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Heather E. Erickson

26 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

Testing a Conceptual Model of Soil Emissions of Nitrous and Nitric Oxides

2000 723 citations Eric A. Davidson, Michael Keller et al. BioScience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heather E. Erickson United States	15	1.0k	604	601	589	261	26	1.7k
Michael Bredemeier Germany	22	622 0.6×	477 0.8×	494 0.8×	531 0.9×	270 1.0×	51	1.5k
Ralph H. Riley United States	13	958 0.9×	396 0.7×	632 1.1×	910 1.5×	602 2.3×	24	2.0k
Norbert Lamersdorf Germany	25	748 0.7×	492 0.8×	328 0.5×	576 1.0×	282 1.1×	75	1.7k
M. Hornung United Kingdom	29	599 0.6×	376 0.6×	849 1.4×	640 1.1×	401 1.5×	72	1.9k
Yasuhito Shirato Japan	23	1.2k 1.1×	354 0.6×	379 0.6×	560 1.0×	170 0.7×	55	1.9k
Douglas F. Ryan United States	10	709 0.7×	348 0.6×	589 1.0×	516 0.9×	379 1.5×	14	1.6k
Jannette MacDonald United Kingdom	17	631 0.6×	567 0.9×	488 0.8×	694 1.2×	95 0.4×	25	1.5k
Paul W. Hazlett Canada	25	693 0.7×	758 1.3×	586 1.0×	675 1.1×	492 1.9×	75	2.2k
Eugenio Díaz‐Pinés Germany	26	1.0k 1.0×	656 1.1×	250 0.4×	604 1.0×	314 1.2×	56	1.9k
J. D. Reeder United States	17	1.2k 1.2×	369 0.6×	292 0.5×	744 1.3×	331 1.3×	35	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather E. Erickson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Erickson, Heather E., Grizelle González, William H. McDowell, & Jody D. Potter. (2025). Increasingly conservative N cycling in a wet tropical forest: Litter and stream N concentrations decline over 29 years despite surges from hurricanes. Journal of Ecology. 113(9). 2476–2496. 1 indexed citations

Lawner, Benjamin J., et al.. (2019). Interfacility Critical Care Transport of an Elderly Patient With Confirmed Tricyclic Antidepressant Toxicity and Hemodynamic Collapse. Air Medical Journal. 38(5). 377–381. 1 indexed citations

Helmer, Eileen H., Thomas S. Ruzycki, Barry T. Wilson, et al.. (2018). Tropical Deforestation and Recolonization by Exotic and Native Trees: Spatial Patterns of Tropical Forest Biomass, Functional Groups, and Species Counts and Links to Stand Age, Geoclimate, and Sustainability Goals. Remote Sensing. 10(11). 1724–1724. 12 indexed citations

Erickson, Heather E. & Steven S. Perakis. (2014). Soil fluxes of methane, nitrous oxide, and nitric oxide from aggrading forests in coastal Oregon. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 76. 268–277. 15 indexed citations

Erickson, Heather E., Eileen H. Helmer, Thomas J. Brandeis, & Ariel E. Lugo. (2014). Controls on fallen leaf chemistry and forest floor element masses in native and novel forests across a tropical island. Ecosphere. 5(4). 1–28. 24 indexed citations

Erickson, Heather E., Constance A. Harrington, & David D. Marshall. (2009). Tree growth at stand and individual scales in two dual-species mixture experiments in southern Washington State, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 39(6). 1119–1132. 30 indexed citations

Erickson, Heather E. & Constance A. Harrington. (2006). Conifer–Ceanothus interactions influence tree growth before and after shrub removal in a forest plantation in the western Cascade Mountains, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 229(1-3). 183–194. 8 indexed citations

Erickson, Heather E., et al.. (2005). Effects of Vegetation Patches on Soil Nutrient Pools and Fluxes within a Mixed-Conifer Forest. Forest Science. 51(3). 211–220. 29 indexed citations

Erickson, Heather E., et al.. (2004). Hurricane‐induced nitrous oxide fluxes from a wet tropical forest. Global Change Biology. 10(7). 1155–1162. 19 indexed citations

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Ma, Siyan, et al.. (2004). Short-Term Effects of Experimental Burning and Thinning on Soil Respiration in an Old-Growth, Mixed-Conifer Forest. Environmental Management. 33(S1). 55 indexed citations

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Erickson, Heather E., Eric A. Davidson, & Michael Keller. (2002). Former land-use and tree species affect nitrogen oxide emissions from a tropical dry forest. Oecologia. 130(2). 297–308. 63 indexed citations

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Erickson, Heather E., Michael Keller, & Eric A. Davidson. (2001). Nitrogen Oxide Fluxes and Nitrogen Cycling during Postagricultural Succession and Forest Fertilization in the Humid Tropics. Ecosystems. 4(1). 67–84. 134 indexed citations

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Davidson, Eric A., Michael Keller, Heather E. Erickson, Louis Verchot, & Edzo Veldkamp. (2000). Testing a Conceptual Model of Soil Emissions of Nitrous and Nitric Oxides. BioScience. 50(8). 667–667. 723 indexed citations breakdown →

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Veldkamp, Edzo, Eric A. Davidson, Heather E. Erickson, Michael Keller, & A. Weitz. (1999). Soil nitrogen cycling and nitrogen oxide emissions along a pasture chronosequence in the humid tropics of Costa Rica. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 31(3). 387–394. 47 indexed citations

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Verchot, Louis, Eric A. Davidson, José Henrique Cattãnio, et al.. (1999). Land use change and biogeochemical controls of nitrogen oxide emissions from soils in eastern Amazonia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 13(1). 31–46. 252 indexed citations

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Hinckley, Thomas M., Douglas G. Sprugel, Linda B. Brubaker, et al.. (1996). Use of the jabowa family of individual-tree based models for exploration of forest responses to global climate change. 1–54. 7 indexed citations

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Pastor, John, Amy L. Downing, & Heather E. Erickson. (1996). Species-Area Curves and Diversity-Productivity Relationships in Beaver Meadows of Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, USA. Oikos. 77(3). 399–399. 60 indexed citations

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Erickson, Heather E. & Robert L. Edmonds. (1994). Influence of Mount St. Helens ash on litter decomposition. II. Experimental studies with Douglas-fir needles. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 24(4). 832–838. 5 indexed citations

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Erickson, Heather E., Robert L. Edmonds, & C. E. Peterson. (1985). Decomposition of logging residues in Douglas-fir, western hemlock, Pacific silver fir, and ponderosa pine ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 15(5). 914–921. 83 indexed citations

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Erbach, D. C., et al.. (1983). Large-scale evaluation of a till plant system.. 1 indexed citations

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