Margaret Torn

37.1k citations

211 papers · 22.4k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 75

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.01%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Environmental Chemistry top 0.05%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Papers in

Soil Science 85
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 83
Global and Planetary Change 102
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 55
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 49
- Climate variability and models 25

Co-authors: Markus Kleber Susan Trumbore Michael W. Schmidt W. J. Riley Samuel Abiven Ivan A. Janssens Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner Johannes Lehmann
Journals: Global Change Biology (14 papers)Biogeochemistry (12 papers)Biogeosciences (8 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (8 papers)Nature Communications (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Switzerland Germany

In The Last Decade

Margaret Torn

207 papers receiving 21.8k citations

Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

The Deep Soil Organic Carbon Response to Global Change 2023 · 79 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
2022 Nature Communications
2021 Environmental Research Letters
2021 SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
2021 Science Advances
2020 Nature Geoscience
2019 Global Change Biology
2017 Science
2011 Nature
2011 Science
2006 Biogeochemistry
1997 Nature

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	Large emissions of CO2 and CH4 due to active-layer warming in Arctic tundra Nature Communications ·Margaret Torn, Rose Abramoff, Lydia J. S. Vaughn, J C Schuhl, M. Sanchez-Campillo, Biao Zhu	2025	2
2	Soil management practices can contribute to net carbon neutrality in California Environmental Research Letters ·Alan Di Vittorio, M Gasiorowski, Andrew D. Jones, Whendee L. Silver, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Margaret Torn, Maya Almaraz, Peter Nico	2024	1
3	Large Divergence of Projected High Latitude Vegetation Composition and Productivity Due To Functional Trait Uncertainty Earth s Future ·Yanlan Liu, Jennifer A. Holm, Charles D. Koven, Verity Salmon, Alistair Rogers, Margaret Torn	2024	2
4	Rapid loss of complex polymers and pyrogenic carbon in subsoils under whole-soil warming Nature Geoscience ·Lizhi Du, Nicholas O. E. Ofiti, Margaret Torn, Guido L. B. Wiesenberg, Michael W. Schmidt	2023	41
5	Dispersal and fire limit Arctic shrub expansion Nature Communications ·Yanlan Liu, W. J. Riley, Trevor F. Keenan, Z. A. Mekonnen, Jennifer A. Holm, Qing Zhu, Margaret Torn	2022	14
6	How much carbon can be added to soil by sorption? Biogeochemistry ·Rose Abramoff, Katerina Georgiou, Bertrand Guenet, Margaret Torn, Yuanyuan Huang, Haicheng Zhang, Wenting Feng, Sindhu Jagadamma, Klaus Kaiser, Dolly N. Kothawala, Melanie A. Mayes, Philippe Ciais	2021	34
7	Carbon‐Neutral Pathways for the United States SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·James H. Williams, Ryan Jones, Ben Haley, Go Kawai, Jeremy Hargreaves, Jamil Farbes, Margaret Torn Hit paper breakdown →	2021	288
8	Modeling Climate Change Impacts on an Arctic Polygonal Tundra: 2. Changes in CO₂ and CH₄ Exchange Depend on Rates of Permafrost Thaw as Affected by Changes in Vegetation and Drainage Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·R. F. Grant, Z. A. Mekonnen, W. J. Riley, Bhavna Arora, Margaret Torn	2019	18
9	Landscape topography structures the soil microbiome in arctic polygonal tundra Nature Communications ·Neslihan Taş, Emmanuel Prestat, Wang Shi, Yuxin Wu, Craig Ulrich, Timothy J. Kneafsey, Susannah G. Tringe, Margaret Torn, Susan S. Hubbard, Janet Jansson	2018	85
10	Mathematical Modelling of Arctic Polygonal Tundra with Ecosys: 2. Microtopography Determines How CO₂ and CH₄ Exchange Responds to Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·R. F. Grant, Z. A. Mekonnen, W. J. Riley, Bhavna Arora, Margaret Torn	2017	48
11	Does vapor pressure deficit drive the seasonality of δ¹³C of the net land‐atmosphere CO₂exchange across the United States? Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Brett Raczka, Sébastien Biraud, James R. Ehleringer, Chun‐Ta Lai, J. B. Miller, Diane E. Pataki, S. R. Saleska, Margaret Torn, Bruce H. Vaughn, Richard Wehr, D. R. Bowling	2017	3
12	Using ARM Observations to Evaluate Climate Model Simulations of Land‐Atmosphere Coupling on the U.S. Southern Great Plains Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Thomas J. Phillips, Stephen A. Klein, Hsi‐Yen Ma, Qi Tang, Shaocheng Xie, Ian N. Williams, Joseph A. Santanello, David Cook, Margaret Torn	2017	35
13	Isotopic insights into methane production, oxidation, and emissions in Arctic polygon tundra Global Change Biology ·Lydia J. S. Vaughn, Mark E. Conrad, Markus Bill, Margaret Torn	2016	44
14	Comparison of four EVI-based models for estimating gross primary production of maize and soybean croplands and tallgrass prairie under severe drought Remote Sensing of Environment ·Jinwei Dong, Xiangming Xiao, Pradeep Wagle, Geli Zhang, Yuting Zhou, Cui Jin, Margaret Torn, Tilden P. Meyers, Andrew E. Suyker, Junbang Wang, Huimin Yan, Çhandrashekhar Biradar, Berrien Moore	2015	111
15	Biases in regional carbon budgets from covariation of surface fluxes and weather in transport model inversions Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Ian N. Williams, W. J. Riley, Margaret Torn, Sébastien Biraud, M. L. Fischer	2014	4
16	Global CO ₂ fluxes estimated from GOSAT retrievals of total column CO ₂ Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Sourish Basu, Sandrine Guerlet, A. Butz, Sander Houweling, Otto Hasekamp, Ilse Aben, Paul B. Krummel, P. Steele, R. L. Langenfelds, Margaret Torn, Sébastien Biraud, Britton B. Stephens, A. E. Andrews, D. E. J. Worthy	2013	195
17	A multi-year record of airborne CO ₂ observations in the US Southern Great Plains Atmospheric measurement techniques ·Sébastien Biraud, Margaret Torn, (unknown), Colm Sweeney, W. J. Riley, Pieter P. Tans	2013	37
18	Conifer seedling recruitment across a gradient from forest to alpine tundra: effects of species, provenance, and site Plant Ecology & Diversity ·Cristina Castanha, Margaret Torn, Matthew J. Germino, Bettina Weibel, Lara M. Kueppers	2012	38
19	Missing feedbacks, asymmetric uncertainties, and the underestimation of future warming Geophysical Research Letters ·Margaret Torn, John Harte	2006	57
20	Predicting the Effect of Climate Change on Wildfire Severity and Outcomes in California: Preliminary Analysis eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Jeremy S. Fried, J. Keith Gilless, W. J. Riley, Tadashi Moody, Clara Simón de Blas, Katharine Hayhoe, Max A. Moritz, Scott L. Stephens, Margaret Torn	2006	3

About Margaret Torn

Margaret Torn is a scholar working on Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology, having authored 211 papers that have together received 22.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (83 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (55 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (49 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (45 papers), Climate change and permafrost (36 papers), Climate variability and models (25 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (25 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (11.3k citations), Environmental Chemistry (3.5k citations), Ecology (7.6k citations), Global and Planetary Change (5.9k citations) and Atmospheric Science (4.4k citations). Margaret Torn has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Markus Kleber, Susan Trumbore, Michael W. Schmidt, W. J. Riley, Samuel Abiven, Ivan A. Janssens, Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner, Johannes Lehmann, John Harte and David A.C. Manning. Their work appears in journals such as Global Change Biology, Biogeochemistry, Biogeosciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences and Nature Communications.

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