John D. Aber

50.1k citations

187 papers · 37.6k indexed · 14 hit papers · h-index 92

Soil Science top 0.01%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 69
Environmental Chemistry top 0.01%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics 70
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.05%
- Forest ecology and management 29
Ecology top 0.01%
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology 45
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 22
Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 42
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 20
Plant Science
- Plant responses to elevated CO2 18

Co-authors: Jerry M. Melillo Knute J. Nadelhoffer Paul A. Steudler Alison H. Magill Robert W. Howarth John F. Muratore Charles McClaugherty Gene E. Likens
Cited by: Soil Science Environmental Chemistry Nature and Landscape Conservation
Journals: Ecological Applications (23 papers)BioScience (14 papers)Ecology (13 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

John D. Aber

184 papers receiving 34.2k citations

Hit Papers

14 papers align trajectories log scale

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.

2003 BioScience
2003 Remote Sensing of Environment
2003 BioScience
2003 BioScience
2002 Science
1998 Ecological Applications
1998 BioScience
1997 Ecological Applications
1989 Nature
1989 Plant and Soil
1989 BioScience
1985 Ecology
1984 Ecology
1982 Ecology

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1	An Integrated Tool for Calculating and Reducing Institution Carbon and Nitrogen Footprints Sustainability The Journal of Record ·Allison M. Leach,James N. Galloway,Elizabeth A. Castner,Ruth Rodríguez Gallegos,Neil Leary,John D. Aber	2017	19
2	Spruce-fir forest changes during a 30-year nitrogen saturation experiment The Science of The Total Environment ·Steven G. McNulty,Johnny Boggs,John D. Aber,Lindsey E. Rustad	2017	13
3	Heat Recovery from Composting: A Comprehensive Review of System Design, Recovery Rate, and Utilization Compost Science & Utilization ·승현 천,John D. Aber,Robert Rynk	2016	41
4	Environmental variation is directly responsible for short‐ but not long‐term variation in forest‐atmosphere carbon exchange Global Change Biology ·Andrew D. Richardson,David Y. Hollinger,John D. Aber,Scott V. Ollinger,B. H. Braswell	2007	199
5	Is Nitrogen Deposition Altering the Nitrogen Status of Northeastern Forests University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester) ·John D. Aber,Christine L. Goodale,Scott V. Ollinger,M. A. L. Smith,A. Magill,Ming-Shium Pan,Richard A. Hallett,John L. Stoddard,恒臣鍵山	2002	2
6	Reaching Scientific Consensus and Informing Public Policy BioScience ·John D. Aber	2001	1
7	Dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen relationships in forest litter as affected by nitrogen deposition Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Alison H. Magill,John D. Aber	2000	132
8	Leaching of nutrient cations from the forest floor: effects of nitrogen saturation in two long-term manipulations Canadian Journal of Forest Research ·William S. Currie,John D. Aber,Charles T. Driscoll	1999	4
9	Effects of Chronic Nitrogen Amendments on Production of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Nitrogen in Forest Soils Water Air & Soil Pollution ·William H. McDowell,William S. Currie,John D. Aber,Yuriko Yano	1998	107
10	A 15 N tracer technique for assessing fine root production and mortality Oecologia ·Joseph J. Hendricks,Knute J. Nadelhoffer,John D. Aber	1997	19
11	Forest Response to Disturbance and Anthropogenic Stress BioScience ·David R. Foster,John D. Aber,Jerry M. Melillo,Richard D. Bowden,Fakhri A. Bazzaz	1997	153
12	The fate of 15N-labelled nitrate additions to a northern hardwood forest in eastern Maine, USA Oecologia ·Knute J. Nadelhoffer,Martha R. Downs,Brian Fry,John D. Aber,Alison H. Magill,Jerry M. Melillo	1995	123
13	Analyses of Forest Foliage I: Laboratory Procedures for Proximate Carbon Fractionation and Nitrogen Determination Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy ·Stephen D. Newman,Paul A. Carter,John D. Aber,Bradley Dewey,Soleiman A. Soleiman	1994	24
14	Assessing the role of fine roots in carbon and nutrient cycling Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Joseph J. Hendricks,Knute J. Nadelhoffer,John D. Aber	1993	198
15	Nitrogen cycling and nitrogen saturation in temperate forest ecosystems Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·John D. Aber	1992	335
16	A generalized, lumped-parameter model of photosynthesis, evapotranspiration and net primary production in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems Oecologia ·John D. Aber,C. A. Federer	1992	463
17	Nitrogen cycling in high elevation forests of the northeastern US in relation to nitrogen deposition. AMBIO ·Steven G. McNulty,John D. Aber,Domininc Harmon,Achirina	1990	64
18	Fine root turnover in forest ecosystems in relation to quantity and form of nitrogen availability: a comparison of two methods Oecologia ·John D. Aber,Jerry M. Melillo,Knute J. Nadelhoffer,Charles McClaugherty,John Pastor	1985	290
19	The influence of substrate quality and stream size on wood decomposition dynamics Oecologia ·Jerry M. Melillo,Robert J. Naiman,John D. Aber,Keith N. Eshleman	1983	88
20	Predicting the Effects of Rotation Length, Harvest Intensity, and Fertilization on Fiber Yield From Northern Hardwood Forests in New England Forest Science ·John D. Aber,Jerry M. Melillo,C. A. Federer	1982	68

About John D. Aber

John D. Aber is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, having authored 187 papers that have together received 37.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (70 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (69 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (45 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (42 papers), Forest ecology and management (29 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (22 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (15.4k citations), Environmental Chemistry (11.4k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (8.2k citations), Ecology (15.9k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (12.1k citations). John D. Aber has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Jerry M. Melillo, Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Paul A. Steudler, Alison H. Magill, Robert W. Howarth, John F. Muratore, Charles McClaugherty, Gene E. Likens, Pamela A. Matson and Peter M. Vitousek. Their work appears in journals such as Ecological Applications, BioScience, Ecology, Forest Ecology and Management and Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

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