Melanie K. Taylor

923 total citations
17 papers, 531 citations indexed

About

Melanie K. Taylor is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Melanie K. Taylor has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 531 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Melanie K. Taylor's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (8 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 papers). Melanie K. Taylor is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (8 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 papers). Melanie K. Taylor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Melanie K. Taylor's co-authors include Mac A. Callaham, Nina Wurzburger, Richard A. Lankau, John H. Campbell, David R. Coyle, Carly Phillips, Jacqueline E. Mohan, Katherine Helmick, Elizabeth Hughes and Peter Baas and has published in prestigious journals such as Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Journal of Ecology and Soil Science Society of America Journal.

In The Last Decade

Melanie K. Taylor

16 papers receiving 521 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melanie K. Taylor United States 8 253 161 156 147 132 17 531
Xuedong Lang China 15 166 0.7× 136 0.8× 276 1.8× 66 0.4× 127 1.0× 32 565
Dulce Flores‐Rentería Mexico 12 158 0.6× 71 0.4× 147 0.9× 69 0.5× 116 0.9× 23 430
Katherina A. Pietsch Germany 8 157 0.6× 96 0.6× 307 2.0× 188 1.3× 151 1.1× 11 585
Rahayu Widyastuti Indonesia 12 163 0.6× 195 1.2× 116 0.7× 90 0.6× 285 2.2× 72 651
Brian S. Steidinger United States 7 487 1.9× 143 0.9× 237 1.5× 263 1.8× 106 0.8× 13 694
Courtney M. Patterson United States 6 298 1.2× 210 1.3× 131 0.8× 57 0.4× 216 1.6× 11 599
Riina Jalonen Italy 12 197 0.8× 73 0.5× 199 1.3× 63 0.4× 117 0.9× 25 640
Oleksandra Kuchma Germany 6 119 0.5× 81 0.5× 174 1.1× 71 0.5× 87 0.7× 10 476
Konrad Martin Germany 16 182 0.7× 51 0.3× 113 0.7× 210 1.4× 258 2.0× 36 659
Deborah Schäfer Switzerland 14 173 0.7× 109 0.7× 344 2.2× 88 0.6× 183 1.4× 19 569

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melanie K. Taylor

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Bernal, Alexis A., Scott L. Stephens, Mac A. Callaham, et al.. (2025). The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: Effects of fuel treatments in the Western and Eastern United States after 20 years. Ecological Applications. 35(1). e70003–e70003. 3 indexed citations
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Taylor, Melanie K., Donald L. Hagan, T. Adam Coates, et al.. (2025). Reducing resilience debt: Mechanical felling and repeated prescribed fires may sustain eastern oak forests. Ecological Applications. 35(7). e70125–e70125. 1 indexed citations
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Dossa, Gbadamassi G. O., Douglas Schaefer, Juan Zuo, et al.. (2024). The effects of invertebrates on wood decomposition across the world. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 100(1). 158–171. 3 indexed citations
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Taylor, Melanie K., et al.. (2024). Variation in the contribution of macroinvertebrates to wood decomposition as it progresses. Ecosphere. 15(2). 1 indexed citations
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Hurteau, Matthew D., Randall Baker, Melanie K. Taylor, et al.. (2024). Changing climate and disturbance effects on southwestern US forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 575. 122388–122388. 2 indexed citations
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Taylor, Melanie K., et al.. (2023). Fire-excluded and frequently burned longleaf pine forests have contrasting soil microbial communities. Forest Ecology and Management. 551. 121519–121519. 6 indexed citations
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Sánchez‐López, Nuria, Andrew T. Hudak, Luigi Boschetti, et al.. (2023). A spatially explicit model of tree leaf litter accumulation in fire maintained longleaf pine forests of the southeastern US. Ecological Modelling. 481. 110369–110369. 14 indexed citations
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Taylor, Melanie K., et al.. (2022). Fire exclusion reduces A‐horizon thickness in a long‐term prescribed fire experiment in Spodosols of northern Florida, USA. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 87(2). 425–429. 3 indexed citations
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Taylor, Melanie K., Mac A. Callaham, J. Kevin Hiers, et al.. (2020). Benefit or Liability? The Ectomycorrhizal Association May Undermine Tree Adaptations to Fire After Long-term Fire Exclusion. Ecosystems. 24(5). 1059–1074. 23 indexed citations
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Taylor, Melanie K., et al.. (2019). Temperature Affects Hatching Success of Cocoons in the Invasive Asian Earthworm Amynthas agrestis from the Southern Appalachians. Southeastern Naturalist. 18(2). 270–270. 4 indexed citations
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Gao, Meixiang, Melanie K. Taylor, & Mac A. Callaham. (2017). Trophic dynamics in a simple experimental ecosystem: Interactions among centipedes, Collembola and introduced earthworms. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 115. 66–72. 10 indexed citations
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Coyle, David R., et al.. (2017). Soil fauna responses to natural disturbances, invasive species, and global climate change: Current state of the science and a call to action. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 110. 116–133. 160 indexed citations
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Ulyshen, Michael D., Richard P. Shefferson, Scott Horn, et al.. (2017). Below‐ and above‐ground effects of deadwood and termites in plantation forests. Ecosphere. 8(8). 9 indexed citations
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Taylor, Melanie K., Richard A. Lankau, & Nina Wurzburger. (2016). Mycorrhizal associations of trees have different indirect effects on organic matter decomposition. Journal of Ecology. 104(6). 1576–1584. 65 indexed citations
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Mohan, Jacqueline E., Charles C. Cowden, Peter Baas, et al.. (2014). Mycorrhizal fungi mediation of terrestrial ecosystem responses to global change: mini-review. Fungal ecology. 10. 3–19. 206 indexed citations
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Herrera, Richard & Melanie K. Taylor. (1994). The Structure of Opinion in American Political Parties. Political Studies. 42(4). 676–689. 21 indexed citations

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