Michael E. Loik

8.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
85 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Michael E. Loik is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael E. Loik has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 35 papers in Plant Science and 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Michael E. Loik's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (49 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (21 papers). Michael E. Loik is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (49 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (21 papers). Michael E. Loik collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Michael E. Loik's co-authors include Travis E. Huxman, David T. Tissue, John Harte, Stanley D. Smith, Karen D. Holl, Jayne Belnap, Melinda D. Smith, Alan K. Knapp, John C. Zak and David D. Breshears and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Michael E. Loik

82 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

2004 979 citations Travis E. Huxman, Melinda D. Smith et al. Nature profile →
Assessing the Response of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Potential Changes in Precipitation

2003 704 citations Jake F. Weltzin, Michael E. Loik et al. BioScience profile →
Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes

2014 331 citations Greg A. Barron‐Gafford, Travis E. Huxman et al. profile →
Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures

2021 157 citations Michael J. Osland, Philip W. Stevens et al. Global Change Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael E. Loik United States	36	3.5k	2.3k	1.8k	1.7k	1.1k	85	6.2k
Jesse B. Nippert United States	36	3.0k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	804 0.7×	126	5.2k
Philip A. Fay United States	37	4.5k 1.3×	2.6k 1.1×	2.4k 1.3×	2.0k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	114	8.0k
Susanne Schwinning United States	30	2.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	53	5.0k
Jüergen Kreyling Germany	49	3.1k 0.9×	2.8k 1.2×	2.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	1.6k 1.4×	136	7.1k
Jennifer S. Powers United States	45	3.4k 1.0×	3.4k 1.5×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	863 0.8×	136	7.2k
Damien Bonal France	43	3.8k 1.1×	2.8k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	926 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	108	5.6k
Claus Beier Denmark	47	4.0k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	2.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.4×	131	7.9k
Kiona Ogle United States	40	4.7k 1.4×	2.5k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	2.4k 2.1×	115	7.0k
Steven F. Oberbauer United States	47	2.9k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	2.2k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	2.7k 2.4×	138	6.9k
H. Wayne Polley United States	47	3.3k 1.0×	2.6k 1.1×	2.5k 1.4×	3.1k 1.8×	1.2k 1.1×	143	8.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael E. Loik

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Nguyen, Phuong The, et al.. (2025). Soil biome variation of Lupinus nipomensis in wet‐cool vs. dry‐warm microhabitats and greenhouse. American Journal of Botany. 112(4). e70020–e70020.

Dralle, David, et al.. (2024). Aspect Differences in Vegetation Type Drive Higher Evapotranspiration on a Pole‐Facing Slope in a California Oak Savanna. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(7). 3 indexed citations

Yang, Xuechen, et al.. (2024). Drought and vegetation restoration lead to shifts in soil microbial diversity and co-occurrence networks in California coastal prairie. Plant and Soil. 512(1-2). 175–189. 5 indexed citations

Boardman, Leigh, Julie L. Lockwood, Michael J. Angilletta, et al.. (2022). The Future of Invasion Science Needs Physiology. BioScience. 72(12). 1204–1219. 10 indexed citations

Osland, Michael J., Philip W. Stevens, Margaret M. Lamont, et al.. (2021). Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures. Global Change Biology. 27(13). 3009–3034. 157 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhong, Shangzhi, et al.. (2019). Nitrogen Addition Increases the Sensitivity of Photosynthesis to Drought and Re-watering Differentially in C3 Versus C4 Grass Species. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 815–815. 45 indexed citations

Loik, Michael E., et al.. (2016). Water relations and photosynthesis along an elevation gradient for Artemisia tridentata during an historic drought. Oecologia. 181(1). 65–76. 19 indexed citations

Loik, Michael E., et al.. (2015). Using Coastal Fog to Support Sustainable Water Use in a California Agricultural System. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 1 indexed citations

Loik, Michael E., et al.. (2015). Impact of intra- versus inter-annual snow depth variation on water relations and photosynthesis for two Great Basin Desert shrubs. Oecologia. 178(2). 403–414. 7 indexed citations

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Vasey, Michael C., Michael E. Loik, & V. Thomas Parker. (2012). Influence of summer marine fog and low cloud stratus on water relations of evergreen woody shrubs (Arctostaphylos: Ericaceae) in the chaparral of central California. Oecologia. 170(2). 325–337. 35 indexed citations

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Holl, Karen D. & Michael E. Loik. (2011). There's no place like home. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 9(6). 318–318. 1 indexed citations

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Loik, Michael E., et al.. (2010). Variaciones climáticas en la Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Toluca, Estado de México: 1960-2007. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 17(2). 143–153.

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Griffith, Alden B. & Michael E. Loik. (2010). Effects of climate and snow depth on Bromus tectorum population dynamics at high elevation. Oecologia. 164(3). 821–832. 40 indexed citations

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Cable, Jessica M., Daniel L. Potts, Danielle D. Ignace, et al.. (2006). Effects of an increase in summer precipitation on leaf, soil, and ecosystem fluxes of CO2 and H2O in a sotol grassland in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Oecologia. 151(4). 704–718. 75 indexed citations

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Lambrecht, Susan C., Michael E. Loik, David W. Inouye, & John Harte. (2006). Reproductive and physiological responses to simulated climate warming for four subalpine species. New Phytologist. 173(1). 121–134. 48 indexed citations

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Huxman, Travis E., Melinda D. Smith, Philip A. Fay, et al.. (2004). Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency. Nature. 429(6992). 651–654. 979 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huxman, Travis E., Erik P. Hamerlynck, Michael E. Loik, & Stanley D. Smith. (1998). Gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence responses of three south‐westernYuccaspecies to elevated CO₂and high temperature. Plant Cell & Environment. 21(12). 1275–1283. 60 indexed citations

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Loik, Michael E. & John Harte. (1996). High-temperature tolerance of Artemisia tridentata and Potentilla gracilis under a climate change manipulation. Oecologia. 108(2). 224–231. 37 indexed citations

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Loik, Michael E. & Park S. Nobel. (1991). Water relations and mucopolysaccharide increases for a winter hardy cactus during acclimation to subzero temperatures. Oecologia. 88(3). 340–346. 27 indexed citations

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Nobel, Park S. & Michael E. Loik. (1990). Thermal analysis, cell viability, and CO2 uptake of a widely distributed North American cactus, Opuntia humifusa, at subzero temepratures. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 28(4). 429–436. 9 indexed citations

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