Jonathan M. Adams

12.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
191 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Jonathan M. Adams is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan M. Adams has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Ecology, 55 papers in Molecular Biology and 54 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Jonathan M. Adams's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (84 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (43 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (31 papers). Jonathan M. Adams is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (84 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (43 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (31 papers). Jonathan M. Adams collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and United States. Jonathan M. Adams's co-authors include Binu M. Tripathi, Haiyan Chu, Ke Dong, Yu Shi, H. Faure, Gianluca Piovesan, Mincheol Kim, Yangjian Zhang, Dharmesh Singh and Yoo Kyung Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan M. Adams

184 papers receiving 8.8k 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.

Soil pH mediates the balance between stochastic and deterministic assembly of bacteria

2018 767 citations Binu M. Tripathi, Ke Dong et al. profile →
Spatial scale affects the relative role of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial communities in wheat fields across the North China Plain

2018 355 citations Jonathan M. Adams, Haiyan Chu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan M. Adams China	46	4.5k	2.5k	2.1k	2.0k	1.4k	191	9.0k
Diana R. Nemergut United States	44	5.2k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	2.3k 1.1×	2.2k 1.1×	980 0.7×	64	8.5k
Aimée T. Classen United States	47	3.6k 0.8×	2.7k 1.1×	3.3k 1.6×	704 0.4×	1.6k 1.2×	118	9.1k
Thomas W. Crowther Switzerland	49	3.7k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	3.1k 1.5×	757 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	177	11.1k
Lin Jiang United States	53	3.8k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	2.5k 1.8×	187	9.2k
Alexandre Buttler Switzerland	53	4.0k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	507 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	205	7.7k
Teri C. Balser United States	42	4.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	4.8k 2.3×	1.1k 0.5×	669 0.5×	77	7.9k
Kirsten Hofmockel United States	37	3.5k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	3.4k 1.6×	1.5k 0.8×	579 0.4×	130	7.3k
Nick Ostle United Kingdom	60	7.6k 1.7×	4.6k 1.9×	5.9k 2.8×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	175	14.5k
Pascal A. Niklaus Switzerland	51	2.7k 0.6×	2.9k 1.2×	3.0k 1.4×	491 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	144	8.0k
James Stegen United States	46	8.9k 2.0×	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	4.8k 2.4×	1.8k 1.3×	147	14.2k

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Fang, Jie, et al.. (2025). Soil salinity and moisture have contrasting effects on deterministic versus stochastic assembly of bacterial communities in alpine lake shores. Applied Soil Ecology. 211. 106115–106115.

Shi, Junxiang, Ying Zhu, Jonathan M. Adams, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the Role of Wetland Strategies in Antibiotic Risk Reduction across China by Machine Learning. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(30). 15865–15876.

Liu, Jie, et al.. (2025). Divergent biotic-abiotic mechanisms of soil organic carbon storage between bulk and rhizosphere soils of rice paddies in the Yangtze River Delta. Journal of Environmental Management. 389. 126179–126179. 1 indexed citations

Shen, Congcong, Michael K. Borregaard, Marcell K. Peters, et al.. (2025). Climate and microbial community composition drive shifts in ecosystem function along three parallel elevational gradients. Ecography. 2025(12).

Song, Bin, Jie Fang, Zhenhua Yu, et al.. (2024). The development of biological soil crust along the time series is mediated by archaeal communities. Geoderma. 449. 117022–117022. 6 indexed citations

Brearley, Francis Q., Hokyung Song, Binu M. Tripathi, et al.. (2024). Wild pigs influence tropical forest soil microbial communities in a forest-agriculture mosaic landscape. Forest Ecology and Management. 572. 122320–122320. 1 indexed citations

Fang, Jie, et al.. (2024). Key microbial taxa play essential roles in maintaining soil muti-nutrient cycling following an extreme drought event in ecological buffer zones along the Yangtze River. Frontiers in Plant Science. 15. 1460462–1460462. 2 indexed citations

Tripathi, Binu M., et al.. (2024). Bacterial community network complexity and role of stochasticity decrease during primary succession. Soil Ecology Letters. 6(3). 3 indexed citations

Song, Bin, Yansheng Li, Zhenhua Yu, et al.. (2024). Changes in enzyme activity, structure and growth strategies of the rhizosphere microbiome influenced by elevated temperature and CO2. The Science of The Total Environment. 954. 176522–176522. 3 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhenhua, Bin Song, Yansheng Li, et al.. (2023). Elevated CO2 and temperature increase arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity, but decrease root colonization, in maize and wheat. The Science of The Total Environment. 873. 162321–162321. 8 indexed citations

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Kerfahi, Dorsaf, et al.. (2023). pH is the major predictor of soil microbial network complexity in Chinese forests along a latitudinal gradient. CATENA. 234. 107595–107595. 28 indexed citations

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Yang, Yaru, Weiguo Liu, Jonathan M. Adams, & Bin Song. (2023). Snow-cover loss attenuates the effects of N addition on desert nutrient cycling and microbial community. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1166897–1166897. 1 indexed citations

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Song, Bin, Feng Cai, Jie Fang, et al.. (2023). Microbial resistance in rhizosphere hotspots under biodegradable and conventional microplastic amendment: Community and functional sensitivity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 180. 108989–108989. 72 indexed citations

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Kerfahi, Dorsaf, Ben P. Harvey, Hyoki Kim, et al.. (2022). Whole community and functional gene changes of biofilms on marine plastic debris in response to ocean acidification. Microbial Ecology. 85(4). 1202–1214. 5 indexed citations

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Moroenyane, Itumeleng, et al.. (2020). Slope aspect influences soil microbial community structure and composition in the Israel arid Mediterranean. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution. 67(1-2). 23–28. 4 indexed citations

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Shen, Feixue, Lin Yang, Xianglin He, Chenghu Zhou, & Jonathan M. Adams. (2020). Understanding the spatial–temporal variation of human footprint in Jiangsu Province, China, its anthropogenic and natural drivers and potential implications. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 13316–13316. 19 indexed citations

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Dong, Ke, Binu M. Tripathi, Itumeleng Moroenyane, et al.. (2016). Soil fungal community development in a high Arctic glacier foreland follows a directional replacement model, with a mid-successional diversity maximum. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 26360–26360. 41 indexed citations

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Su, Tao, Jonathan M. Adams, Torsten Wappler, et al.. (2015). Resilience of plant-insect interactions in an oak lineage through Quaternary climate change. Paleobiology. 41(1). 174–186. 32 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yangjian, Ming Xu, Jonathan M. Adams, & Xiaochun Wang. (2009). Can Landsat imagery detect tree line dynamics?. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 30(5). 1327–1340. 35 indexed citations

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Adams, Jonathan M., Mark Maslin, & Ellen Thomas. (1999). Sudden climate transitions during the Quaternary. Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment. 23(1). 1–36. 142 indexed citations

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