Jennifer L. Baltzer

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Jennifer L. Baltzer is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer L. Baltzer has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Atmospheric Science, 46 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 32 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jennifer L. Baltzer's work include Climate change and permafrost (37 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (26 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers). Jennifer L. Baltzer is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (37 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (26 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers). Jennifer L. Baltzer collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and New Zealand. Jennifer L. Baltzer's co-authors include William L. Quinton, Sean C. Thomas, Merritt R. Turetsky, Nicola J. Day, Jill F. Johnstone, Michelle C. Mack, Stuart J. Davies, Xanthe J. Walker, L. Chasmer and Anastasia E. Sniderhan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer L. Baltzer

85 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils

2019 339 citations Xanthe J. Walker, Jennifer L. Baltzer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jennifer L. Baltzer Canada	26	1.5k	1.2k	790	728	327	88	2.7k
Clifton W. Meyer United States	9	2.1k 1.4×	974 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	768 1.1×	457 1.4×	13	2.8k
Imma Oliveras Menor United Kingdom	30	1.9k 1.3×	521 0.4×	1.2k 1.5×	688 0.9×	517 1.6×	92	2.7k
Logan T. Berner United States	26	1.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	805 1.0×	887 1.2×	169 0.5×	58	3.0k
Xiangtao Xu United States	26	1.6k 1.1×	574 0.5×	690 0.9×	753 1.0×	375 1.1×	53	2.2k
Gregory Starr United States	30	1.6k 1.1×	984 0.8×	505 0.6×	974 1.3×	284 0.9×	83	2.6k
M. Lisa Floyd United States	14	2.2k 1.5×	847 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	1.2k 1.6×	324 1.0×	34	2.8k
Ze‐Xin Fan China	33	2.4k 1.6×	1.9k 1.6×	1.2k 1.5×	241 0.3×	464 1.4×	116	3.1k
Trevor Q. Murdock Canada	17	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	460 0.6×	334 0.5×	135 0.4×	24	2.5k
Allan Buras Germany	27	2.1k 1.4×	1.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.7×	454 0.6×	353 1.1×	79	2.8k
José Raventós Spain	29	1.9k 1.3×	881 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	502 0.7×	477 1.5×	69	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jennifer L. Baltzer

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20 of 20 papers shown

Baltzer, Jennifer L., et al.. (2025). Factors and mechanisms driving among-lake variability of mercury concentrations in a benthivorous fish in the canadian subarctic. Chemosphere. 372. 144078–144078. 1 indexed citations

Baltzer, Jennifer L., M. Razu Ahmed, Suzanne Carrière, et al.. (2025). Impacts of novel wildfire disturbance on landcover and wildlife in boreal North America. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 13.

Alfaro‐Sánchez, Raquel, Jill F. Johnstone, & Jennifer L. Baltzer. (2024). Low-severity fires in the boreal region: reproductive implications for black spruce stands in between stand-replacing fire events. Annals of Botany. 135(1-2). 329–340. 5 indexed citations

Alfaro‐Sánchez, Raquel, Andrew D. Richardson, Sharon L. Smith, et al.. (2024). Permafrost instability negates the positive impact of warming temperatures on boreal radial growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(50). e2411721121–e2411721121. 2 indexed citations

Cumming, Steven G., et al.. (2023). Permafrost thaw induces short‐term increase in vegetation productivity in northwestern Canada. Global Change Biology. 29(18). 5352–5366. 11 indexed citations

Baltzer, Jennifer L., et al.. (2023). Spatial and temporal variation in forest transpiration across a forested boreal peatland complex. Hydrological Processes. 37(2). 4 indexed citations

Day, Nicola J., Raquel Alfaro‐Sánchez, Jill F. Johnstone, et al.. (2023). Black spruce (Picea mariana) seed availability and viability in boreal forests after large wildfires. Annals of Forest Science. 80(1). 10 indexed citations

Walker, Xanthe J., Jennifer L. Baltzer, Nicola J. Day, et al.. (2023). Drivers of legacy soil organic matter decomposition after fire in boreal forests. Ecosphere. 14(11). 3 indexed citations

Sonnentag, Oliver, et al.. (2023). Reviews and syntheses: Recent advances in microwave remote sensing in support of terrestrial carbon cycle science in Arctic–boreal regions. Biogeosciences. 20(14). 2941–2970. 5 indexed citations

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Nehemy, Magali F., Christoforos Pappas, Oliver Sonnentag, et al.. (2022). Snowmelt Water Use at Transpiration Onset: Phenology, Isotope Tracing, and Tree Water Transit Time. Water Resources Research. 58(9). 24 indexed citations

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Baltzer, Jennifer L., et al.. (2021). Seasonal thaw and landscape position determine foliar functional traits and whole‐plant water use in tall shrubs on the low arctic tundra. New Phytologist. 231(1). 94–107. 7 indexed citations

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Patankar, Rajit, et al.. (2020). Permafrost thaw in boreal peatlands is rapidly altering forest community composition. Journal of Ecology. 109(3). 1452–1467. 25 indexed citations

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Walker, Xanthe J., Brendan M. Rogers, Sander Veraverbeke, et al.. (2020). Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions. Nature Climate Change. 10(12). 1130–1136. 119 indexed citations

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Day, Nicola J., Alison L. White, Jill F. Johnstone, et al.. (2020). Fire characteristics and environmental conditions shape plant communities via regeneration strategy. Ecography. 43(10). 1464–1474. 29 indexed citations

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Pappas, Christoforos, Ashley M. Matheny, Jennifer L. Baltzer, et al.. (2018). Boreal tree hydrodynamics: asynchronous, diverging, yet complementary. Tree Physiology. 38(7). 953–964. 50 indexed citations

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Sniderhan, Anastasia E., Gordon G. McNickle, & Jennifer L. Baltzer. (2018). Assessing local adaptation vs. plasticity under different resource conditions in seedlings of a dominant boreal tree species. AoB Plants. 10(1). ply004–ply004. 10 indexed citations

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Walker, Xanthe J., Brendan M. Rogers, Jennifer L. Baltzer, et al.. (2018). Cross‐scale controls on carbon emissions from boreal forest megafires. Global Change Biology. 24(9). 4251–4265. 78 indexed citations

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Helbig, Manuel, Christoforos Pappas, Oliver Sonnentag, et al.. (2016). Contribution of black spruce (Picea mariana) transpiration to growing season evapotranspiration in a subarctic discontinuous permafrost peatland complex. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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McNickle, Gordon G., et al.. (2016). Why do mosses have height? Moss production as a tragedy of the commons game. Evolutionary ecology research. 17(1). 75–93. 2 indexed citations

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Kasischke, E. S., Evan S. Kane, Hélène Genet, et al.. (2014). A Geographic Perspective on Factors Controlling Post-Fire Succession in Boreal Black Spruce Forests in Western North America. AGUFM. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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