John Dighton

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
144 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

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John Dighton is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, John Dighton has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Plant Science, 35 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 29 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in John Dighton's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (53 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (24 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (23 papers). John Dighton is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (53 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (24 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (23 papers). John Dighton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. John Dighton's co-authors include P. Mason, James W. Baxter, William J. Landesman, Karl Ritz, Dennis M. Gray, Liliane Rueß, J. Poskitt, Georgia Arbuckle‐Keil, Andrew L. Herczeg and Peter G. Cook and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

John Dighton

141 papers receiving 5.9k citations

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The Rhizosphere: Biochemistry and Organic Substances at the Soil-Plant Interface

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Dighton United States	42	3.2k	1.7k	1.3k	1.3k	1.2k	144	6.4k
Hiroshi Takeda Japan	42	1.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	215	5.5k
Håkan Wallander Sweden	46	5.0k 1.6×	2.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.3×	2.6k 2.0×	1.5k 1.2×	120	7.5k
Erik A. Hobbie United States	37	3.9k 1.2×	2.7k 1.6×	2.5k 1.9×	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	103	7.6k
Mark Tibbett United Kingdom	41	2.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	683 0.6×	203	6.0k
Douglas L. Godbold United Kingdom	51	5.3k 1.7×	2.9k 1.7×	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	822 0.7×	189	9.1k
Anders Tunlid Sweden	41	3.1k 1.0×	2.7k 1.6×	2.6k 1.9×	1.5k 1.2×	894 0.8×	89	8.0k
J. F. FARRAR United Kingdom	44	5.5k 1.7×	2.3k 1.4×	2.1k 1.5×	959 0.7×	1.6k 1.4×	153	9.2k
Alf Ekblad Sweden	40	3.5k 1.1×	3.6k 2.1×	2.4k 1.7×	1.5k 1.1×	937 0.8×	79	7.8k
Clare H. Robinson United Kingdom	30	2.3k 0.7×	680 0.4×	1.4k 1.1×	646 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	71	4.6k
Claude Plassard France	42	4.5k 1.4×	1.9k 1.1×	716 0.5×	785 0.6×	569 0.5×	118	6.3k

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Caplan, Joshua S., Bram WG Stone, Thomas J. Mozdzer, et al.. (2016). Nutrient foraging strategies are associated with productivity and population growth in forest shrubs. Annals of Botany. 119(6). mcw271–mcw271. 22 indexed citations

Dighton, John, et al.. (2013). Atomic force microscopy and micro-ATR-FT-IR imaging reveals fungal enzyme activity at the hyphal scale of resolution. Mycology: An International Journal on Fungal Biology. 4(1). 44–53. 7 indexed citations

Vanderzalm, Joanne, et al.. (2013). Using elemental profiles in the sediment of a lake used to supply drinking water to understand the impacts of urban stormwater recharge. Marine and Freshwater Research. 64(6). 493–506. 2 indexed citations

Zinati, Gladis M., et al.. (2011). Fertilizer, Irrigation, and Natural Ericaceous Root and Soil Inoculum (NERS): Effects on Container-grown Ericaceous Nursery Crop Biomass, Tissue Nutrient Concentration, and Leachate Nutrient Quality. HortScience. 46(5). 799–807. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Yanping, Eric S. Boyd, Patricia Lu‐Irving, et al.. (2011). Environmental Conditions Constrain the Distribution and Diversity of Archaeal merA in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A.. Microbial Ecology. 62(4). 739–752. 34 indexed citations

Dighton, John, et al.. (2010). Growth responses to and accumulation of mercury by ectomycorrhizal fungi. Fungal Biology. 114(10). 873–880. 31 indexed citations

Dighton, John, T.I. Tugay, & N.N. Zhdanova. (2008). Fungi and ionizing radiation from radionuclides. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 281(2). 109–120. 104 indexed citations

Dighton, John, et al.. (2007). Effects of Propagule Density and Survival Strategies on Establishment and Growth: Further Investigations in the Phylloplane Fungal Model System. Microbial Ecology. 55(1). 38–44. 14 indexed citations

Gray, Dennis M. & John Dighton. (2006). Mineralization of forest litter nutrients by heat and combustion. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 38(6). 1469–1477. 85 indexed citations

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Dighton, John, et al.. (2006). Comparative responses of microscopic fungi to ionizing radiation and light. Folia Microbiologica. 51(1). 45–9. 6 indexed citations

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Tugay, T.I., et al.. (2006). The influence of ionizing radiation on spore germination and emergent hyphal growth response reactions of microfungi. Mycologia. 98(4). 521–527. 30 indexed citations

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Baxter, James W. & John Dighton. (2001). Ectomycorrhizal diversity alters growth and nutrient acquisition of grey birch (Betula populifolia) seedlings in host–symbiont culture conditions. New Phytologist. 152(1). 139–149. 138 indexed citations

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Baxter, James W., et al.. (1999). Ectomycorrhizal diversity and community structure in oak forest stands exposed to contrasting anthropogenic impacts. Canadian Journal of Botany. 77(6). 771–782. 23 indexed citations

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Jones, David R., W. R. Eason, & John Dighton. (1998). Foliar leaching of 137Cs from Eriophorum vaginatum L., Scirpus caespitosus L. and Erica tetralix L.. Environmental Pollution. 99(2). 247–254. 3 indexed citations

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Gray, Simon, John Dighton, & David Jennings. (1996). The physiology of basidiomycete linear organs. New Phytologist. 132(3). 471–482. 20 indexed citations

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Rueß, Liliane, et al.. (1996). Acid deposition in a spruce forest soil: effects on nematodes, mycorrhizas and fungal biomass. Pedobiologia. 40(1). 51–66. 35 indexed citations

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Dighton, John. (1994). The influence of silviculture on soil structure stability and nutrition. Metabolic Brain Disease. 30(1). 247–247. 1 indexed citations

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Dighton, John & David C. Coleman. (1992). Phosphorus relations of roots and mycorrhizas of Rhododendron maximum L. in the southern Appalachians, North Carolina. Mycorrhiza. 1(4). 175–184. 39 indexed citations

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Jones, Kevin C., et al.. (1988). The distribution of metals in the forest floor of aged conifer stands at a plantation in Northern England. Environmental Pollution. 51(1). 31–47. 10 indexed citations

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Last, F. T., John Dighton, & P. Mason. (1987). Successions of sheathing mycorrhizal fungi. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2(6). 157–161. 138 indexed citations

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