Michael C. Duniway

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
124 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Michael C. Duniway is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael C. Duniway has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Ecology, 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 42 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Michael C. Duniway's work include Rangeland and Wildlife Management (53 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (39 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (26 papers). Michael C. Duniway is often cited by papers focused on Rangeland and Wildlife Management (53 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (39 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (26 papers). Michael C. Duniway collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Michael C. Duniway's co-authors include Jeffrey E. Herrick, Travis Nauman, Jayne Belnap, John B. Bradford, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Seth M. Munson, David L. Hoover, Stephen E. Fick, Nichole N. Barger and Colby Brungard and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Michael C. Duniway

118 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils

2017 304 citations Daniel R. Schlaepfer, John B. Bradford et al. profile →
Wind erosion and dust from US drylands: a review of causes, consequences, and solutions in a changing world

2019 184 citations Michael C. Duniway, Alix A. Pfennigwerth et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael C. Duniway United States	33	1.8k	1.5k	999	842	705	124	3.9k
Seth M. Munson United States	32	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	643 0.8×	252 0.4×	105	3.2k
Juan Puigdefábregas Spain	37	2.1k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	1.7k 2.0×	438 0.6×	81	4.9k
Julia Jones United States	36	2.1k 1.2×	2.6k 1.7×	1.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.5×	393 0.6×	97	5.1k
Jiaojun Zhu China	40	2.3k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	2.1k 2.1×	1.4k 1.6×	473 0.7×	252	5.0k
Honglin He China	34	2.6k 1.5×	1.7k 1.1×	609 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	566 0.8×	129	4.6k
Erik Cammeraat Netherlands	38	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	473 0.5×	2.9k 3.5×	419 0.6×	118	4.9k
Juan Bellot Spain	31	1.9k 1.1×	780 0.5×	1.4k 1.4×	957 1.1×	292 0.4×	82	3.7k
Jorge Mendes de Jesus Netherlands	5	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	659 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	1.8k 2.5×	9	4.8k
M. Ruiperez González Netherlands	5	1.2k 0.7×	947 0.6×	605 0.6×	1.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.8×	12	4.2k
John A. Ludwig Australia	35	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	1.0k 1.2×	241 0.3×	73	4.0k

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Schlaepfer, Daniel R., et al.. (2025). Shifts in suitability of pinyon-juniper communities: A climate adaptation framework for range-wide management of arid woodland resources. Forest Ecology and Management. 596. 123075–123075.

Higgens, Rebecca Finger, David L. Hoover, Anna C. Knight, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, & Michael C. Duniway. (2025). Flexible Phenology of a C₄ Grass Linked to Resiliency to Seasonal and Multiyear Drought Events in the American Southwest. Ecology and Evolution. 15(5). e71435–e71435. 2 indexed citations

McCord, Sarah E., Nicholas P. Webb, Justin W. Van Zee, et al.. (2025). Optimizing sampling across transect‐based methods improves the power of agroecological monitoring data. Journal of Environmental Quality. 54(3). 706–719. 1 indexed citations

Chappell, Adrian, Miguel L. Villarreal, Michael C. Duniway, et al.. (2024). Oil and gas development influences potential for dust emission from the Upper Colorado River Basin, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 49(11). 3292–3307. 1 indexed citations

Schlaepfer, Daniel R., et al.. (2024). Most Pinyon–Juniper Woodland Species Distributions Are Projected to Shrink Rather Than Shift Under Climate Change. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 98. 454–466. 1 indexed citations

Higgens, Rebecca Finger, et al.. (2024). Seasonal drought treatments impact plant and microbial uptake of nitrogen in a mixed shrub grassland on the Colorado Plateau. Ecology. 105(9). e4393–e4393. 1 indexed citations

Munson, Seth M., et al.. (2024). Natural resource management confronts the growing scale and severity of ecosystem responses to drought and wildfire. Ecology and Society. 29(4).

Duniway, Michael C., Miguel L. Villarreal, Anna C. Knight, et al.. (2023). Biophysical factors control invasive annual grass hot spots in the Mojave Desert. Biological Invasions. 25(12). 3839–3858. 4 indexed citations

Higgens, Rebecca Finger, Jayne Belnap, Erika L. Geiger, et al.. (2023). Droughting a megadrought: Ecological consequences of a decade of experimental drought atop aridification on the Colorado Plateau. Global Change Biology. 29(12). 3364–3377. 16 indexed citations

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Duniway, Michael C., Rebecca Finger Higgens, Erika L. Geiger, et al.. (2023). Ecosystem resilience to invasion and drought: Insights after 24 years in a rare never‐grazed grassland. Global Change Biology. 29(20). 5866–5880. 8 indexed citations

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McCord, Sarah E., Nicholas P. Webb, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, et al.. (2023). The Landscape Data Commons: A system for standardizing, accessing, and applying large environmental datasets for agroecosystem research and management. Agricultural & Environmental Letters. 8(2). 6 indexed citations

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McNellis, Brandon E., Anna C. Knight, Travis Nauman, et al.. (2023). Livestock removal increases plant cover across a heterogeneous dryland landscape on the Colorado Plateau. Environmental Research Letters. 2 indexed citations

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Nauman, Travis, et al.. (2023). Synergistic soil, land use, and climate influences on wind erosion on the Colorado Plateau: Implications for management. The Science of The Total Environment. 893. 164605–164605. 15 indexed citations

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Monroe, Adrian P., Travis Nauman, Cameron L. Aldridge, et al.. (2022). Assessing vegetation recovery from energy development using a dynamic reference approach. Ecology and Evolution. 12(2). e8508–e8508. 11 indexed citations

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Higgens, Rebecca Finger, Michael C. Duniway, Stephen E. Fick, et al.. (2022). Decline in biological soil crust N-fixing lichens linked to increasing summertime temperatures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(16). e2120975119–e2120975119. 30 indexed citations

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Hoover, David L., Alix A. Pfennigwerth, & Michael C. Duniway. (2021). Drought resistance and resilience: The role of soil moisture–plant interactions and legacies in a dryland ecosystem. Journal of Ecology. 109(9). 3280–3294. 91 indexed citations

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Carter, Sarah K., David S. Pilliod, Cameron L. Aldridge, et al.. (2020). Bridging the research-management gap: landscape science in practice on public lands in the western United States. Landscape Ecology. 35(3). 545–560. 33 indexed citations

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Naftz, David L., et al.. (2020). Natural and anthropogenic processes affecting radon releases during mining and early stage reclamation activities, Pinenut uranium mine, Arizona, USA. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 220-221. 106266–106266. 2 indexed citations

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Gremer, Jennifer R., et al.. (2018). Increasing temperature seasonality may overwhelm shifts in soil moisture to favor shrub over grass dominance in Colorado Plateau drylands. Oecologia. 188(4). 1195–1207. 25 indexed citations

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Okin, Gregory S., Finn C. Pillsbury, Michael C. Duniway, et al.. (2011). Modifying patch-scale connectivity to initiate landscape change: an experimental approach to link scales. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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