Joel A. Biederman

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Joel A. Biederman is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel A. Biederman has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 24 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Joel A. Biederman's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (61 papers), Climate variability and models (24 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (18 papers). Joel A. Biederman is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (61 papers), Climate variability and models (24 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (18 papers). Joel A. Biederman collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Joel A. Biederman's co-authors include Russell L. Scott, William K. Smith, D. J. Moore, M. E. Litvak, A. A. Harpold, P. D. Brooks, Greg A. Barron‐Gafford, P. D. Broxton, Paul B. Hook and Otto R. Stein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Joel A. Biederman

86 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

2019 274 citations William K. Smith, Matthew P. Dannenberg et al. profile →
Plant responses to changing rainfall frequency and intensity

2024 59 citations 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						Papers	Cites
Joel A. Biederman United States	31	2.3k	968	955	699	417	94	3.4k
Chuanyan Zhao China	30	1.8k 0.8×	780 0.8×	700 0.7×	541 0.8×	315 0.8×	131	3.2k
Changchun Xu China	28	1.4k 0.6×	447 0.5×	917 1.0×	1.2k 1.8×	427 1.0×	64	2.8k
Qichun Yang United States	29	1.2k 0.5×	833 0.9×	422 0.4×	692 1.0×	293 0.7×	62	2.5k
Yanqing Lian China	26	1.6k 0.7×	667 0.7×	697 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	523 1.3×	81	3.1k
Yuecun Ma China	7	2.0k 0.9×	845 0.9×	723 0.8×	887 1.3×	427 1.0×	9	3.5k
Carl Trettin United States	33	1.5k 0.6×	2.5k 2.6×	511 0.5×	640 0.9×	385 0.9×	159	3.9k
U. Silins Canada	34	2.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	634 0.7×	739 1.1×	273 0.7×	81	3.2k
Nicolas Vuichard France	34	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	794 0.8×	330 0.5×	365 0.9×	77	3.7k
Todd M. Scanlon United States	32	1.9k 0.8×	704 0.7×	603 0.6×	802 1.1×	462 1.1×	77	3.2k
Hao Guo China	29	2.6k 1.1×	946 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	605 0.9×	404 1.0×	89	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joel A. Biederman

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Zhang, Fangyue, et al.. (2026). Widespread enhancement of ecosystem carbon fluxes during post moisture pulse. Communications Earth & Environment. 7(1).

Biederman, Joel A., Ravindra Dwivedi, P. D. Broxton, et al.. (2025). Statistical emulation of hyper-resolution mechanistic snow modeling assesses forest management and the importance of tree arrangement. Journal of Hydrology. 662. 133886–133886.

Zhang, Fangyue, Joel A. Biederman, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, et al.. (2024). Increasing Soil Water Drought in Response to Altered Precipitation Timing Across the Western United States. Ecohydrology. 18(2).

Zheng, Zhenzhen, Joel A. Biederman, Muyesaier Tudi, et al.. (2024). Methane uptake responses to extreme droughts regulated by seasonal timing and plant composition. CATENA. 237. 107822–107822. 3 indexed citations

Biederman, Joel A., Fangyue Zhang, Matthew P. Dannenberg, et al.. (2024). Reply to Comment on “Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States”. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(1). 2 indexed citations

Gallo, Erika L., Russell L. Scott, & Joel A. Biederman. (2024). Two decades of riparian woodland water vapor and carbon dioxide flux responses to environmental variability. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 355. 110147–110147.

Li, Linfeng, Yanbin Hao, Weijin Wang, et al.. (2023). Effects of extra-extreme precipitation variability on multi-year cumulative nitrous oxide emission in a semiarid grassland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 343. 109761–109761. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Fangyue, Joel A. Biederman, Dong Yan, et al.. (2023). Using high frequency digital repeat photography to quantify the sensitivity of a semi-arid grassland ecosystem to the temporal repackaging of precipitation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 338. 109539–109539. 4 indexed citations

Dannenberg, Matthew P., Dong Yan, Mallory L. Barnes, et al.. (2022). Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought. Global Change Biology. 28(16). 4794–4806. 91 indexed citations

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Biederman, Joel A., Marcos D. Robles, Russell L. Scott, & John F. Knowles. (2022). Streamflow Response to Wildfire Differs With Season and Elevation in Adjacent Headwaters of the Lower Colorado River Basin. Water Resources Research. 58(3). 19 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fangyue, Joel A. Biederman, Matthew P. Dannenberg, et al.. (2021). Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7). 128 indexed citations

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Mahmud, Kashif, Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, et al.. (2021). Optimizing Carbon Cycle Parameters Drastically Improves Terrestrial Biosphere Model Underestimates of Dryland Mean Net CO₂ Flux and its Inter‐Annual Variability. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(10). 8 indexed citations

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Broxton, P. D., Willem van Leeuwen, & Joel A. Biederman. (2020). Forest cover and topography regulate the thin, ephemeral snowpacks of the semiarid Southwest United States. Ecohydrology. 13(4). 24 indexed citations

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Robles, Marcos D., John C. Hammond, Stephanie K. Kampf, Joel A. Biederman, & Eleonora Demaria. (2020). Winter Inputs Buffer Streamflow Sensitivity to Snowpack Losses in the Salt River Watershed in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Water. 13(1). 3–3. 21 indexed citations

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Fellows, Aaron W., G. N. Flerchinger, M. S. Seyfried, Joel A. Biederman, & Kathleen A. Lohse. (2020). Winter CO₂ Efflux From Sagebrush Shrublands Distributed Across the Rain‐to‐Snow Transition Zone. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(2). 5 indexed citations

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Li, Linfeng, Zhenzhen Zheng, Joel A. Biederman, et al.. (2019). Ecological responses to heavy rainfall depend on seasonal timing and multi‐year recurrence. New Phytologist. 223(2). 647–660. 47 indexed citations

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Castellanos, Alejandro E., et al.. (2019). Native shrubland and managed buffelgrass savanna in drylands: Implications for ecosystem carbon and water fluxes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 268. 269–278. 21 indexed citations

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Smith, William K., Joel A. Biederman, Russell L. Scott, et al.. (2018). Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(2). 748–757. 121 indexed citations

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Goodrich, D. C., Philip Heilman, Russell L. Scott, et al.. (2015). The Walnut Gulch - Santa Rita Wildland Watershed-Scale LTAR Sites. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015.

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Stein, Otto R., et al.. (1996). Constructed wetlands for the treatment of wastewater. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 2 indexed citations

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