Michael L. Pace

34.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
246 papers, 24.9k citations indexed

About

Michael L. Pace is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael L. Pace has authored 246 papers receiving a total of 24.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Oceanography, 133 papers in Ecology and 97 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Michael L. Pace's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (117 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (79 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (73 papers). Michael L. Pace is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (117 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (79 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (73 papers). Michael L. Pace collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Canada. Michael L. Pace's co-authors include Jonathan J. Cole, Stephen R. Carpenter, Stuart Findlay, James F. Kitchell, David Bastviken, David L. Strayer, Stephen B. Baines, Hélène Cyr, David A. Seekell and Nina F. Caraco and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael L. Pace

243 papers receiving 23.1k citations

Hit Papers

Bacterial production in fresh and saltwater ecosystems: a... 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 1999 2004 2006 2011 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Bacterial production in fresh and saltwater ecosystems: a cross-system overview
    1988 1.2k citations Michael L. Pace et al. profile →
  2. Trophic cascades revealed in diverse ecosystems
    1999 1.1k citations Michael L. Pace, Jonathan J. Cole et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
  3. Methane emissions from lakes: Dependence of lake characteristics, two regional assessments, and a global estimate
    2004 942 citations David Bastviken, Michael L. Pace et al. profile →
  4. Understanding the long-term effects of species invasions
    2006 787 citations Michael L. Pace et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
  5. Early Warnings of Regime Shifts: A Whole-Ecosystem Experiment
    2011 676 citations Stephen R. Carpenter, Michael L. Pace et al. profile →
  6. Ecosystem size determines food-chain length in lakes
    2000 572 citations Michael L. Pace et al. profile →
  7. The production of dissolved organic matter by phytoplankton and its importance to bacteria: Patterns across marine and freshwater systems
    1991 560 citations Michael L. Pace et al. profile →
  8. Rising stream and river temperatures in the United States
    2010 495 citations Sujay S. Kaushal, Gene E. Likens et al. profile →
  9. Freshwater salinization syndrome on a continental scale
    2018 416 citations Sujay S. Kaushal, Gene E. Likens et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael L. Pace United States 81 14.3k 11.1k 8.5k 6.8k 6.2k 246 24.9k
John Downing United States 68 10.0k 0.7× 7.8k 0.7× 9.6k 1.1× 5.8k 0.9× 5.4k 0.9× 199 22.4k
James J. Elser United States 91 16.6k 1.2× 8.9k 0.8× 13.7k 1.6× 10.4k 1.5× 6.0k 1.0× 307 39.9k
William H. McDowell United States 77 10.6k 0.7× 6.0k 0.5× 12.3k 1.4× 5.4k 0.8× 5.4k 0.9× 283 26.9k
David W. Schindler Canada 52 7.5k 0.5× 4.1k 0.4× 8.3k 1.0× 3.6k 0.5× 3.1k 0.5× 124 20.3k
Dag O. Hessen Norway 61 7.4k 0.5× 6.8k 0.6× 7.4k 0.9× 3.3k 0.5× 2.3k 0.4× 290 15.9k
John M. Mélack United States 80 9.6k 0.7× 7.7k 0.7× 7.5k 0.9× 3.5k 0.5× 9.0k 1.5× 343 25.2k
James F. Kitchell United States 69 11.4k 0.8× 4.2k 0.4× 5.6k 0.7× 10.4k 1.5× 7.0k 1.1× 171 19.3k
Erik Jeppesen Denmark 102 22.7k 1.6× 15.0k 1.4× 28.0k 3.3× 12.0k 1.8× 5.1k 0.8× 776 44.3k
Helmut Hillebrand Germany 68 12.4k 0.9× 7.6k 0.7× 6.5k 0.8× 8.4k 1.2× 4.3k 0.7× 224 24.4k
Robert W. Sterner United States 56 8.5k 0.6× 5.3k 0.5× 7.2k 0.9× 5.0k 0.7× 2.6k 0.4× 112 17.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael L. Pace

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Reche, Isabel, Michael L. Pace, Ignacio Peralta‐Maraver, et al.. (2025). Calcium and iron promote reversible self-assembly of dissolved organic matter into particles. Biogeochemistry. 168(6).
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Pace, Michael L., et al.. (2024). Evaluating Mentorship in the Aquatic Sciences in the Context of a Global Pandemic (COVID‐19). Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin. 33(3). 97–100. 1 indexed citations
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Walter, Jonathan A., et al.. (2023). Synchronous variation of dissolved organic carbon in Adirondack lakes at multiple timescales. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 8(4). 649–656. 4 indexed citations
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Buelo, Cal D., et al.. (2023). Quantifying Disturbance and Recovery in Estuaries: Tropical Cyclones and High-Frequency Measures of Oxygen and Salinity. Estuaries and Coasts. 47(1). 18–31. 4 indexed citations
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Walter, Jonathan A., et al.. (2022). An algorithm for detecting and quantifying disturbance and recovery in high‐frequency time series. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 20(6). 338–349. 4 indexed citations
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Tassone, Spencer J., et al.. (2022). Increasing heatwave frequency in streams and rivers of the United States. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 8(2). 295–304. 47 indexed citations
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Tassone, Spencer J., et al.. (2021). Co-occurrence of Aquatic Heatwaves with Atmospheric Heatwaves, Low Dissolved Oxygen, and Low pH Events in Estuarine Ecosystems. Estuaries and Coasts. 45(3). 707–720. 29 indexed citations
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Bianchi, Thomas S., Madhur Anand, Chris T. Bauch, et al.. (2021). Ideas and perspectives: Biogeochemistry – some key foci for the future. Biogeosciences. 18(10). 3005–3013. 5 indexed citations
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Walter, Jonathan A., et al.. (2020). Temporal Coherence Between Lake and Landscape Primary Productivity. Ecosystems. 24(3). 502–515. 13 indexed citations
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Geraldi, Nathan R., Alejandra Ortega, Óscar Serrano, et al.. (2019). Fingerprinting Blue Carbon: Rationale and Tools to Determine the Source of Organic Carbon in Marine Depositional Environments. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. 91 indexed citations
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Kaushal, Sujay S., Gene E. Likens, Michael L. Pace, et al.. (2018). Freshwater Salinization Syndrome: Causes, Consequences, and Management. AGUFM. 2018.
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Berg, Peter & Michael L. Pace. (2017). Continuous measurement of air–water gas exchange by underwater eddy covariance. Biogeosciences. 14(23). 5595–5606. 27 indexed citations
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Gephart, Jessica A., Kyle Frankel Davis, Kyle A. Emery, et al.. (2016). The environmental cost of subsistence: Optimizing diets to minimize footprints. The Science of The Total Environment. 553. 120–127. 135 indexed citations
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Leach, Allison M., Kyle A. Emery, Jessica A. Gephart, et al.. (2016). Environmental impact food labels combining carbon, nitrogen, and water footprints. Food Policy. 61. 213–223. 150 indexed citations
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Emery, Kyle A., et al.. (2015). Use of allochthonous resources by zooplankton in reservoirs. Hydrobiologia. 758(1). 257–269. 16 indexed citations
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Cole, Jonathan J., et al.. (2011). Strong evidence for terrestrial support of zooplankton in small lakes based on stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(5). 1975–1980. 287 indexed citations
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Seekell, David A., Stephen R. Carpenter, & Michael L. Pace. (2011). Conditional Heteroscedasticity as a Leading Indicator of Ecological Regime Shifts. The American Naturalist. 178(4). 442–451. 68 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Stephen R., Jonathan J. Cole, Michael L. Pace, et al.. (2005). ECOSYSTEM SUBSIDIES: TERRESTRIAL SUPPORT OF AQUATIC FOOD WEBS FROM 13 C ADDITION TO CONTRASTING LAKES. Ecology. 86(10). 2737–2750. 329 indexed citations
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Pace, Michael L., et al.. (1999). Trophic cascades revealed in diverse ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 14(12). 483–488. 1100 indexed citations breakdown →
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Carpenter, Stephen R., James F. Kitchell, S. R. Carpenter, et al.. (1993). The Trophic Cascade in Lakes. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 414 indexed citations

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