Logan T. Berner

8.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
58 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Logan T. Berner is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Logan T. Berner has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Atmospheric Science, 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Logan T. Berner's work include Climate change and permafrost (23 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (22 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (20 papers). Logan T. Berner is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (23 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (22 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (20 papers). Logan T. Berner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Russia. Logan T. Berner's co-authors include S. J. Goetz, B. E. Law, Pieter S. A. Beck, Andrew G. Bunn, M. M. Loranty, Eran Hood, Polly C. Buotte, Andrea H. Lloyd, T. W. Hudiburg and Alessandro Baccini and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Logan T. Berner

54 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

2020 265 citations Logan T. Berner, Richard Massey et al. Nature Communications profile →
Within‐species patterns challenge our understanding of the leaf economics spectrum

2018 208 citations Logan T. Berner, B. E. Law et al. profile →
Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

2021 196 citations Logan T. Berner, Isla H. Myers‐Smith et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Logan T. Berner United States	26	1.7k	1.6k	887	805	263	58	3.0k
Adrian V. Rocha United States	29	2.1k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	525 0.7×	295 1.1×	55	3.2k
N. M. Tchebakova Russia	30	2.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	741 0.8×	832 1.0×	142 0.5×	73	3.1k
Gregory Starr United States	30	1.6k 0.9×	984 0.6×	974 1.1×	505 0.6×	207 0.8×	83	2.6k
M. M. Loranty United States	26	1.3k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	697 0.8×	295 0.4×	327 1.2×	61	2.8k
Ngar-Cheung Lau United States	11	2.9k 1.7×	2.0k 1.2×	553 0.6×	411 0.5×	153 0.6×	11	3.7k
Allan Buras Germany	27	2.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.0×	454 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	183 0.7×	79	2.8k
T. Scott Rupp United States	38	2.3k 1.3×	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	600 0.7×	132 0.5×	59	3.6k
Jennifer Velez United States	4	1.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	531 0.6×	424 0.5×	112 0.4×	5	2.3k
Trevor Q. Murdock Canada	17	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	334 0.4×	460 0.6×	191 0.7×	24	2.5k
Lars Bärring Sweden	26	2.0k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	628 0.7×	370 0.5×	358 1.4×	63	3.1k

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Walker, Xanthe J., et al.. (2026). Increased deciduous tree dominance reduces wildfire carbon losses in boreal forests. Nature Climate Change. 16(2). 187–192.

Yang, Dedi, Logan T. Berner, Andrew M. Cunliffe, et al.. (2025). Ecological Insights from Transferable Plant Biomass Mapping across the Arctic using Highresolution Structure-from-Motion and LiDAR Data.

Mildrexler, David J., Logan T. Berner, B. E. Law, Richard A. Birdsey, & William R. Moomaw. (2024). Response: Commentary: Large Trees Dominate Carbon Storage in Forests East of the Cascade Crest in the United States Pacific Northwest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 7.

Berner, Logan T., et al.. (2024). Pixel walking along the boreal forest–Arctic tundra ecotone: Large scale ground‐truthing of satellite‐derived greenness ( NDVI ). Global Change Biology. 30(6). e17374–e17374. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Dong, Cheng Fu, Liza K. Jenkins, et al.. (2024). Regional fire–greening positive feedback loops in Alaskan Arctic tundra. Nature Plants. 10(12). 1886–1891. 3 indexed citations

Burrell, Arden, Stefano Potter, Logan T. Berner, et al.. (2024). The predictability of near‐term forest biomass change in boreal North America. Ecosphere. 15(1). 1 indexed citations

Mildrexler, David J., Logan T. Berner, B. E. Law, Richard A. Birdsey, & William R. Moomaw. (2023). Protect large trees for climate mitigation, biodiversity, and forest resilience. Conservation Science and Practice. 5(7). 13 indexed citations

Walker, Xanthe J., Kunihiro Okano, Logan T. Berner, et al.. (2023). Shifts in Ecological Legacies Support Hysteresis of Stand Type Conversions in Boreal Forests. Ecosystems. 26(8). 1796–1805. 9 indexed citations

Massey, Richard, Brendan M. Rogers, Logan T. Berner, et al.. (2023). Forest composition change and biophysical climate feedbacks across boreal North America. Nature Climate Change. 13(12). 1368–1375. 20 indexed citations

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Berner, Logan T., Jakob J. Assmann, Signe Normand, & S. J. Goetz. (2023). ‘LandsatTS': an R package to facilitate retrieval, cleaning, cross‐calibration, and phenological modeling of Landsat time series data. Ecography. 2023(9). 13 indexed citations

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Law, B. E., Logan T. Berner, Christopher Wolf, et al.. (2023). Southern Alaska's Forest Landscape Integrity, Habitat, and Carbon Are Critical for Meeting Climate and Conservation Goals. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(6). 4 indexed citations

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Berner, Logan T. & S. J. Goetz. (2022). Satellite observations document trends consistent with a boreal forest biome shift. Global Change Biology. 28(10). 3275–3292. 97 indexed citations

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Macander, Matthew J., et al.. (2022). Plant functional type aboveground biomass change within Alaska and northwest Canada mapped using a 35-year satellite time series from 1985 to 2020. Environmental Research Letters. 17(11). 115010–115010. 13 indexed citations

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Gaglioti, Benjamin V., Logan T. Berner, Benjamin Jones, et al.. (2021). Tussocks Enduring or Shrubs Greening: Alternate Responses to Changing Fire Regimes in the Noatak River Valley, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(4). 16 indexed citations

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Berner, Logan T., Richard Massey, Patrick Jantz, et al.. (2020). Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4621–4621. 265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Andreu‐Hayles, Laia, Benjamin V. Gaglioti, Logan T. Berner, et al.. (2020). A narrow window of summer temperatures associated with shrub growth in Arctic Alaska. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). 105012–105012. 29 indexed citations

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Berner, Logan T., Patricia Doak, S. J. Goetz, et al.. (2019). Impacts of climate and insect herbivory on productivity and physiology of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) in Alaskan boreal forests. Environmental Research Letters. 14(8). 85010–85010. 26 indexed citations

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Law, B. E., T. W. Hudiburg, Logan T. Berner, et al.. (2018). Land use strategies to mitigate climate change in carbon dense temperate forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(14). 3663–3668. 178 indexed citations

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Massey, Richard, S. J. Goetz, Logan T. Berner, Michelle C. Mack, & Brendan M. Rogers. (2018). Mapping boreal forest deciduous fractional cover across Alaska and Western Canada. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018.

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Berner, Logan T., et al.. (2007). Providing a virtual tour of a glacial watershed. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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