Mark J. Lara

4.1k citations

33 papers · 1.0k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 18

Atmospheric Science top 2%
Ecology top 5%
Global and Planetary Change top 10%
Environmental Chemistry top 10%
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 10%

Co-authors: C. E. Tweedie Guido Grosse Feng Sheng Hu Ingmar Nitze A. David McGuire M. Torre Jorgenson Christian Andresen Gerald V. Frost
Topics: Climate change and permafrost (31 papers)Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers)Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers)
Cited by: Atmospheric Science Ecology Global and Planetary Change
Journals: Nature CommunicationsSHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaThe Science of The Total Environment
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

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Mark J. Lara

29 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost

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1	A 20 m spatial resolution peatland extent map of Alaska 2025 ·Scientific Data ·Mark J. Lara,Roger Michaelides,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Umakant Mishra,(unknown)	0
2	Quantifying retrogressive thaw slump mass wasting and carbon mobilisation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using multi-modal remote sensing 2025 ·The cryosphere ·(unknown),(unknown),Lin Liu,Mark J. Lara,Jurjen van der Sluijs,(unknown),Irena Hajnsek	0
3	Ecological Insights from Transferable Plant Biomass Mapping across the Arctic using Highresolution Structure-from-Motion and LiDAR Data 2025 ·Dedi Yang,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Logan T. Berner,Andrew M. Cunliffe,(unknown),Mark J. Lara,Shawn Serbin,Daniel J. Hayes,Fernanda Santos,(unknown),Colleen M. Iversen	0
4	DARTS: Multi-year database of AI-detected retrogressive thaw slumps in the circum-arctic permafrost region 2025 ·Scientific Data ·Ingmar Nitze,Konrad Heidler,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),T. L. Holzer,(unknown),Mark J. Lara,Anna Liljedahl,Guido Grosse	2
5	A Labeling Intercomparison of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps by a Diverse Group of Domain Experts 2024 ·Permafrost and Periglacial Processes ·Ingmar Nitze,Jurjen van der Sluijs,(unknown),(unknown),Lingcao Huang,Alexander Kizyakov,Mark J. Lara,(unknown),(unknown),Alexandra Veremeeva,Melissa Ward Jones,Chandi Witharana,(unknown),Anna Liljedahl	9
6	Tundra fires and surface subsidence increase spectral diversity on the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown),Roger Michaelides,(unknown),Gerald V. Frost,Matthew J. Macander,Mark J. Lara	1
7	Nitrogen fixing shrubs advance the pace of tall-shrub expansion in low-Arctic tundra 2023 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown),Jennifer M. Fraterrigo,Verity Salmon,Dedi Yang,Mark J. Lara	11
8	Impacts of abiotic and biotic factors on tundra productivity near Utqiaġvik, Alaska 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Qingyuan Zhang,(unknown),Mark J. Lara,Zhengpeng Li,Jingfeng Xiao,Kaiguang Zhao,Tongxi Hu	0
9	Topographical Controls on Hillslope‐Scale Hydrology Drive Shrub Distributions on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Z. A. Mekonnen,W. J. Riley,R. F. Grant,Verity Salmon,Colleen M. Iversen,Sébastien Biraud,Amy Breen,Mark J. Lara	17
10	Resilience and sensitivity of ecosystem carbon stocks to fire-regime change in Alaskan tundra 2021 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Yaping Chen,Ryan Kelly,Hélène Genet,Mark J. Lara,M. L. Chipman,A. D. McGuire,Feng Sheng Hu	7
11	Recent warming reverses forty-year decline in catastrophic lake drainage and hastens gradual lake drainage across northern Alaska 2021 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Mark J. Lara,Yaping Chen,Benjamin Jones	19
12	Identifying historical and future potential lake drainage events on the western Arctic coastal plain of Alaska 2020 ·Permafrost and Periglacial Processes ·Benjamin Jones,Christopher D. Arp,Guido Grosse,Ingmar Nitze,Mark J. Lara,Matthew S. Whitman,Louise Farquharson,Mikhail Kanevskiy,A. Parsekian,Amy Breen,N. Ohara,(unknown),Kenneth M. Hinkel	35
13	Local-scale Arctic tundra heterogeneity affects regional-scale carbon dynamics 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Mark J. Lara,A. David McGuire,E. S. Euskirchen,Hélène Genet,Shuhua Yi,(unknown),Colleen M. Iversen,Victoria Sloan,Stan D. Wullschleger	33
14	Divergent shrub‐cover responses driven by climate, wildfire, and permafrost interactions in Arctic tundra ecosystems 2020 ·Global Change Biology ·(unknown),Feng Sheng Hu,Mark J. Lara	45
15	Alder Distribution and Expansion Across a Tundra Hillslope: Implications for Local N Cycling 2019 ·Frontiers in Plant Science ·Verity Salmon,Amy Breen,Jitendra Kumar,Mark J. Lara,Peter Thornton,Stan D. Wullschleger,Colleen M. Iversen	48
16	Reduced arctic tundra productivity linked with landform and climate change interactions 2018 ·Scientific Reports ·Mark J. Lara,Ingmar Nitze,Guido Grosse,Philip D. Martin,A. D. McGuire	101
17	Tundra landform and vegetation productivity trend maps for the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska 2018 ·Scientific Data ·Mark J. Lara,Ingmar Nitze,Guido Grosse,A. David McGuire	32
18	Thermokarst rates intensify due to climate change and forest fragmentation in an Alaskan boreal forest lowland 2015 ·Global Change Biology ·Mark J. Lara,Hélène Genet,A. David McGuire,E. S. Euskirchen,Yujin Zhang,Dana R. N. Brown,M. Torre Jorgenson,V. E. Romanovsky,Amy Breen,William Bolton	65
19	Implications of decade time scale Arctic plant community change on ecosystem function 2012 ·scholarworks - UTEP (The University of Texas at El Paso) ·Mark J. Lara	1
20	Tundra vegetation change near Barrow, Alaska (1972–2010) 2012 ·Environmental Research Letters ·(unknown),Robert D. Hollister,David R. Johnson,Mark J. Lara,P. J. Webber,C. E. Tweedie	60

About Mark J. Lara

Mark J. Lara is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 33 papers that have together received 1.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate change and permafrost (31 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (895 citations), Ecology (284 citations) and Global and Planetary Change (200 citations). Mark J. Lara has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include C. E. Tweedie, Guido Grosse, Feng Sheng Hu, Ingmar Nitze, A. David McGuire, M. Torre Jorgenson, Christian Andresen, Gerald V. Frost, A. D. McGuire and Hélène Genet. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

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