Katherine A. McCulloh

12.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
81 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

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Katherine A. McCulloh is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine A. McCulloh has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 39 papers in Atmospheric Science and 28 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Katherine A. McCulloh's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (66 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (39 papers) and Forest ecology and management (18 papers). Katherine A. McCulloh is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (66 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (39 papers) and Forest ecology and management (18 papers). Katherine A. McCulloh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and France. Katherine A. McCulloh's co-authors include Frederick C. Meinzer, John S. Sperry, David R. Woodruff, Daniel M. Johnson, Barbara Lachenbruch, Uwe G. Hacke, William T. Pockman, Stephen D. Davis, Frederick R. Adler and Jean‐Christophe Domec and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Katherine A. McCulloh

80 papers receiving 6.9k citations

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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.

Trends in wood density and structure are linked to prevention of xylem implosion by negative pressure

2001 1.2k citations John S. Sperry, Katherine A. McCulloh et al. Oecologia profile →
Xylem hydraulic safety margins in woody plants: coordination of stomatal control of xylem tension with hydraulic capacitance

2009 496 citations Frederick C. Meinzer, Daniel M. Johnson et al. Functional Ecology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katherine A. McCulloh United States	43	5.5k	3.2k	2.7k	2.6k	1.0k	81	7.0k
David R. Woodruff United States	44	5.1k 0.9×	2.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	2.3k 0.9×	583 0.6×	61	6.3k
Andrea Nardini Italy	57	6.7k 1.2×	2.9k 0.9×	5.7k 2.1×	2.0k 0.8×	802 0.8×	177	9.0k
Eero Nikinmaa Finland	46	4.7k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	2.4k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	580 0.6×	142	6.3k
Maciej A. Zwieniecki United States	54	4.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	5.3k 2.0×	1.4k 0.5×	724 0.7×	140	8.5k
Uwe G. Hacke Canada	50	8.8k 1.6×	4.7k 1.5×	5.1k 1.9×	3.8k 1.5×	1.9k 1.8×	79	11.2k
Brendan Choat Australia	61	9.6k 1.7×	4.8k 1.5×	5.9k 2.2×	3.4k 1.3×	949 0.9×	127	11.9k
Sanna Sevanto United States	43	4.5k 0.8×	2.3k 0.7×	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	278 0.3×	94	6.0k
Craig R. Brodersen United States	46	4.4k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	3.9k 1.5×	1.4k 0.5×	425 0.4×	113	6.6k
Frank W. Ewers United States	45	5.2k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	3.7k 1.4×	2.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	105	7.5k
Roman Zweifel Switzerland	38	4.4k 0.8×	3.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	2.5k 1.0×	553 0.5×	80	5.1k

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Thompson, R. Alex, Pak S. Chow, Simon M. Landhäusser, et al.. (2024). Water, not carbon, drives drought‐constraints on stem terpene defense against simulated bark beetle attack in Pinus edulis. New Phytologist. 245(1). 318–331. 4 indexed citations

Keen, Rachel M., Brent R. Helliker, Katherine A. McCulloh, & Jesse B. Nippert. (2024). Save or spend? Diverging water‐use strategies of grasses and encroaching clonal shrubs. Journal of Ecology. 112(4). 870–885. 6 indexed citations

Krieg, Christopher P., Courtney Campany, James E. Watkins, et al.. (2023). Functional traits and trait coordination change over the life of a leaf in a tropical fern species. American Journal of Botany. 110(4). e16151–e16151. 2 indexed citations

Smith, Duncan D., et al.. (2023). Linking stem rehydration kinetics to hydraulic traits using a novel method and mechanistic model. Annals of Botany. 131(7). 1121–1131. 1 indexed citations

Henn, Jonathan J., et al.. (2021). Mistletoes and their eucalypt hosts differ in the response of leaf functional traits to climatic moisture supply. Oecologia. 195(3). 759–771. 11 indexed citations

Parkinson, Dilworth Y., et al.. (2021). Revisiting the Source of Wilt Symptoms: X-Ray Microcomputed Tomography Provides Direct Evidence That Ralstonia Biomass Clogs Xylem Vessels. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 41–51. 25 indexed citations

Bell, David M., et al.. (2020). Bridging the Flux Gap: Sap Flow Measurements Reveal Species‐Specific Patterns of Water Use in a Tallgrass Prairie. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(2). 20 indexed citations

Smith, Duncan D., et al.. (2020). Limited physiological acclimation to recurrent heatwaves in two boreal tree species. Tree Physiology. 40(12). 1680–1696. 16 indexed citations

McCulloh, Katherine A., Jean‐Christophe Domec, Daniel M. Johnson, Duncan D. Smith, & Frederick C. Meinzer. (2019). A dynamic yet vulnerable pipeline: Integration and coordination of hydraulic traits across whole plants. Plant Cell & Environment. 42(10). 2789–2807. 82 indexed citations

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Roddy, Adam B., Kevin A. Simonin, Katherine A. McCulloh, Craig R. Brodersen, & Todd E. Dawson. (2018). Water relations of Calycanthus flowers: Hydraulic conductance, capacitance, and embolism resistance. Plant Cell & Environment. 41(10). 2250–2262. 40 indexed citations

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Johnson, Daniel M., et al.. (2018). Leaf hydraulic parameters are more plastic in species that experience a wider range of leaf water potentials. Functional Ecology. 32(4). 894–903. 55 indexed citations

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McCulloh, Katherine A., et al.. (2015). A comparison of hydraulic architecture in three similarly sized woody species differing in their maximum potential height. Tree Physiology. 35(7). 723–731. 25 indexed citations

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Barnard, David M., Barbara Lachenbruch, Katherine A. McCulloh, Peter Kitin, & Frederick C. Meinzer. (2013). Do ray cells provide a pathway for radial water movement in the stems of conifer trees?. American Journal of Botany. 100(2). 322–331. 30 indexed citations

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Smith, Duncan D., John S. Sperry, Brian J. Enquist, et al.. (2013). Deviation from symmetrically self‐similar branching in trees predicts altered hydraulics, mechanics, light interception and metabolic scaling. New Phytologist. 201(1). 217–229. 55 indexed citations

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Renninger, Heidi J., Katherine A. McCulloh, & Nathan Phillips. (2013). A comparison of the hydraulic efficiency of a palm species (Iriartea deltoidea) with other wood types. Tree Physiology. 33(2). 152–160. 14 indexed citations

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McCulloh, Katherine A., John S. Sperry, Barbara Lachenbruch, et al.. (2010). Moving water well: comparing hydraulic efficiency in twigs and trunks of coniferous, ring‐porous, and diffuse‐porous saplings from temperate and tropical forests. New Phytologist. 186(2). 439–450. 138 indexed citations

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Johnson, Daniel M., Frederick C. Meinzer, David R. Woodruff, & Katherine A. McCulloh. (2009). Leaf xylem embolism, detected acoustically and by cryo‐SEM, corresponds to decreases in leaf hydraulic conductance in four evergreen species. Plant Cell & Environment. 32(7). 828–836. 83 indexed citations

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Domec, Jean‐Christophe, Barbara Lachenbruch, Frederick C. Meinzer, et al.. (2008). Maximum height in a conifer is associated with conflicting requirements for xylem design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(33). 12069–12074. 177 indexed citations

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Sperry, John S., Frederick C. Meinzer, & Katherine A. McCulloh. (2007). Safety and efficiency conflicts in hydraulic architecture: scaling from tissues to trees. Plant Cell & Environment. 31(5). 632–645. 368 indexed citations

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McCulloh, Katherine A., John S. Sperry, & Frederick R. Adler. (2003). Water transport in plants obeys Murray's law. Nature. 421(6926). 939–942. 354 indexed citations

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