M. E. Litvak

10.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
120 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

M. E. Litvak is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, M. E. Litvak has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 35 papers in Atmospheric Science and 32 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in M. E. Litvak's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (87 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (22 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (21 papers). M. E. Litvak is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (87 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (22 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (21 papers). M. E. Litvak collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. M. E. Litvak's co-authors include Russell K. Monson, Michael L. Goulden, Scott L. Collins, Kiona Ogle, William R. L. Anderegg, Russell L. Scott, Christopher R. Schwalm, Park Williams, George W. Koch and John D. Shaw and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

M. E. Litvak

115 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

2015 956 citations William R. L. Anderegg, Christopher R. Schwalm et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. E. Litvak United States	42	4.2k	2.3k	1.8k	1.4k	1.2k	120	6.3k
Greg A. Barron‐Gafford United States	41	3.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	126	6.3k
Tao Wang China	48	5.0k 1.2×	2.9k 1.3×	2.1k 1.2×	947 0.7×	845 0.7×	171	8.3k
Alexander Knohl Germany	42	5.7k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	2.3k 1.3×	1.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	142	7.6k
Rosie A. Fisher United States	39	6.5k 1.5×	2.4k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	2.5k 1.8×	1.7k 1.4×	96	8.1k
Christian Beer Germany	35	4.6k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	2.5k 1.4×	876 0.6×	793 0.7×	90	7.4k
D. J. Moore United States	38	4.2k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	120	6.2k
George L. Vourlitis United States	38	3.0k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.2×	934 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	130	5.6k
Denis Loustau France	43	4.7k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.5×	1.9k 1.6×	100	6.0k
Jérôme Ogée France	34	4.2k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	872 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	78	5.3k
A. D. Friend United Kingdom	38	4.6k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	73	6.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. E. Litvak

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Ogle, Kiona, et al.. (2025). Filling the Gaps: A Bayesian Mixture Model for Imputing Missing Soil Water Content Data. Ecohydrology. 18(1).

Webb, Ryan, John F. Knowles, Greg A. Barron‐Gafford, et al.. (2024). Energy‐Water Asynchrony Principally Determines Water Available for Runoff From Snowmelt in Continental Montane Forests. Hydrological Processes. 38(10).

Rudgers, Jennifer A., Lauren E. Baur, Scott L. Collins, et al.. (2023). Infrastructure to factorially manipulate the mean and variance of precipitation in the field. Ecosphere. 14(7). 5 indexed citations

Hwang, Kyotaek, A. A. Harpold, C. Tague, et al.. (2023). Seeing the Disturbed Forest for the Trees: Remote Sensing Is Underutilized to Quantify Critical Zone Response to Unprecedented Disturbance. Earth s Future. 11(8). 1 indexed citations

Webb, Ryan, M. E. Litvak, & P. D. Brooks. (2023). The role of terrain-mediated hydroclimate in vegetation recovery after wildfire. Environmental Research Letters. 18(6). 64036–64036. 7 indexed citations

Dannenberg, Matthew P., Dong Yan, Mallory L. Barnes, et al.. (2022). Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought. Global Change Biology. 28(16). 4794–4806. 91 indexed citations

Cunliffe, Andrew M., Robert Clement, Stephen Sitch, et al.. (2022). Strong Correspondence in Evapotranspiration and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Between Different Eddy Covariance Systems Enables Quantification of Landscape Heterogeneity in Dryland Fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(8). 16 indexed citations

Novick, Kimberly A., Stefan Metzger, William R. L. Anderegg, et al.. (2022). Informing Nature‐based Climate Solutions for the United States with the best‐available science. Global Change Biology. 28(12). 3778–3794. 50 indexed citations

Mahmud, Kashif, Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, et al.. (2021). Optimizing Carbon Cycle Parameters Drastically Improves Terrestrial Biosphere Model Underestimates of Dryland Mean Net CO₂ Flux and its Inter‐Annual Variability. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(10). 8 indexed citations

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Barnes, Mallory L., Martha M. Farella, Russell L. Scott, et al.. (2021). Improved dryland carbon flux predictions with explicit consideration of water-carbon coupling. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 28 indexed citations

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Knowles, John F., Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, et al.. (2020). Montane forest productivity across a semiarid climatic gradient. Global Change Biology. 26(12). 6945–6958. 22 indexed citations

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Senay, G. B., Naga Manohar Velpuri, R. K. Singh, et al.. (2019). Long-Term (1986–2015) Crop Water Use Characterization over the Upper Rio Grande Basin of United States and Mexico Using Landsat-Based Evapotranspiration. Remote Sensing. 11(13). 1587–1587. 28 indexed citations

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Cunliffe, Andrew M., Robert Clement, Stephen Sitch, et al.. (2019). Quantification of the spatial variability of CO2/H2O fluxes in dryland ecosystems using low-cost EC systems. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7757. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, William K., Joel A. Biederman, Russell L. Scott, et al.. (2018). Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(2). 748–757. 121 indexed citations

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Anderegg, William R. L., Franco Biondi, George W. Koch, et al.. (2018). Conifer radial growth response to recent seasonal warming and drought from the southwestern USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 418. 55–62. 33 indexed citations

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Smith, William K., Joel A. Biederman, Russell L. Scott, et al.. (2017). Evidence of a robust relationship between solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary productivity across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 2 indexed citations

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Warnock, Daniel D., et al.. (2015). Root-associated fungal community response to drought-associated changes in vegetation community. Mycologia. 107(6). 1089–1104. 12 indexed citations

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Berryman, E., James D. Marshall, T. Rahn, & M. E. Litvak. (2010). Soil moisture, temperature, and carbon substrate influences on soil respiration in a piñon-juniper woodland. AGUFM. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Yasuor, Hagai, et al.. (2000). Influence of glyphosate (Roundup Ultra®) rate and time of application on weed control and performance of DP5415RR cotton in Israel: field and laboratory experiments.. 2. 1480–1483. 7 indexed citations

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Lerdau, Manuel, M. E. Litvak, & R. K. Monson. (1995). Controls over hydrocarbon emissions from boreal forest conifers. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 76(2). 1 indexed citations

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