Michael T. Coe

29.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
110 papers, 21.0k citations indexed

About

Michael T. Coe is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael T. Coe has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 21.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 37 papers in Water Science and Technology and 22 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Michael T. Coe's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (37 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (31 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (18 papers). Michael T. Coe is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (37 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (31 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (18 papers). Michael T. Coe collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Germany. Michael T. Coe's co-authors include Jonathan A. Foley, Navin Ramankutty, Ruth DeFries, I. Colin Prentice, E. A. Howard, Christopher J. Kucharik, Gregory P. Asner, Gordon B. Bonan, P. K. Snyder and Stephen R. Carpenter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael T. Coe

108 papers receiving 20.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Global Consequences of Land Use

2005 9.4k citations Jonathan A. Foley, Gordon B. Bonan et al. profile →
The Amazon basin in transition

2012 861 citations Mercedes Bustamante, Michael T. Coe et al. profile →
Cracking Brazil's Forest Code

2014 797 citations Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Raoni Rajão et al. profile →
Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions

2014 592 citations Paulo Brando, Douglas C. Morton et al. profile →
Testing the performance of a dynamic global ecosystem model: Water balance, carbon balance, and vegetation structure

2000 562 citations Jonathan A. Foley, Christine Delire et al. profile →
The vulnerability of Amazon freshwater ecosystems

2013 364 citations Michael T. Coe, Márcia N. Macedo et al. profile →
The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate

2022 146 citations Deborah Lawrence, Michael T. Coe et al. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael T. Coe United States	58	12.9k	6.1k	3.9k	3.4k	2.7k	110	21.0k
Paolo D’Odorico United States	79	8.9k 0.7×	5.0k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	4.5k 1.3×	2.9k 1.1×	325	20.5k
Zhiyun Ouyang China	75	12.9k 1.0×	6.3k 1.0×	2.8k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	519	24.8k
Christopher J. Kucharik United States	54	12.0k 0.9×	6.7k 1.1×	3.3k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	157	21.8k
Alberte Bondeau Germany	49	9.7k 0.8×	4.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	2.5k 0.9×	89	15.9k
Jiquan Chen United States	80	15.5k 1.2×	8.6k 1.4×	6.7k 1.7×	2.5k 0.7×	4.2k 1.5×	500	26.3k
Carlos A. Nobre Brazil	60	12.0k 0.9×	4.2k 0.7×	2.4k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	3.6k 1.3×	174	16.8k
Wolfgang Lucht Germany	57	11.2k 0.9×	5.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.5×	2.6k 0.8×	4.1k 1.5×	144	19.9k
Richard Betts United Kingdom	59	15.6k 1.2×	4.0k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	2.6k 0.8×	7.2k 2.6×	165	23.9k
Daniel C. Nepstad United States	68	14.8k 1.1×	5.5k 0.9×	5.3k 1.4×	1.1k 0.3×	1.8k 0.7×	148	20.5k
Estéban G. Jobbágy Argentina	61	8.8k 0.7×	6.5k 1.1×	4.4k 1.1×	2.7k 0.8×	3.0k 1.1×	216	20.3k

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Coe, Michael T., Christopher Neill, Leonardo Maracahipes‐Santos, et al.. (2025). Deep Soil Water Reservoirs Modulate Land Use and Drought Effects on the Water Budget of Amazon Headwaters. Water Resources Research. 61(9).

Silvério, Divino Vicente, Márcia N. Macedo, Michael T. Coe, et al.. (2024). Droughts Amplify Soil Moisture Losses in Burned Forests of Southeastern Amazonia. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(10). 1 indexed citations

Coe, Michael T., et al.. (2023). Net loss of biomass predicted for tropical biomes in a changing climate. Nature Climate Change. 13(3). 274–281. 29 indexed citations

Banerjee, Onil, Martín Cicowiez, Márcia N. Macedo, et al.. (2022). Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs. Environmental Research Letters. 17(12). 125005–125005. 13 indexed citations

Lawrence, Deborah, Michael T. Coe, Wayne Walker, Louis Verchot, & Karen L. Vandecar. (2022). The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5. 146 indexed citations breakdown →

Macedo, Márcia N., Divino Vicente Silvério, Leandro Maracahipes, et al.. (2022). Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 28(22). 6807–6822. 70 indexed citations

Koriche, Sifan A., Matthias Prange, Joy Singarayer, et al.. (2021). Impacts of Variations in Caspian Sea Surface Area on Catchment‐Scale and Large‐Scale Climate. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(18). 23 indexed citations

Brando, Paulo, Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Douglas C. Morton, et al.. (2020). The gathering firestorm in southern Amazonia. Science Advances. 6(2). eaay1632–eaay1632. 151 indexed citations

Lathuillière, Michael J., Michael T. Coe, Andrea Castanho, Jordan Graesser, & Mark S. Johnson. (2018). Evaluating Water Use for Agricultural Intensification in Southern Amazonia Using the Water Footprint Sustainability Assessment. Water. 10(4). 349–349. 39 indexed citations

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Brando, Paulo, Susan Trumbore, Divino Vicente Silvério, et al.. (2016). Climate impacts of expanded soy agriculture in the arc of deforestation in Brazil. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2 indexed citations

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Lathuillière, Michael J., Michael T. Coe, & Mark S. Johnson. (2016). What could irrigated agriculture mean for Amazonia? A review of green and blue water resources and their trade-offs for future agricultural production in the Amazon Basin. 3 indexed citations

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Lathuillière, Michael J., Michael T. Coe, & Mark S. Johnson. (2016). A review of green- and blue-water resources and their trade-offs for future agricultural production in the Amazon Basin: what could irrigated agriculture mean for Amazonia?. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(6). 2179–2194. 51 indexed citations

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Coe, Michael T., Divino Vicente Silvério, Mercedes Bustamante, et al.. (2016). Feedbacks between land cover and climate changes in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado biomes. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Castanho, Andrea, Michael T. Coe, Marcos Heil Costa, et al.. (2013). Improving simulated Amazon forest biomass and productivity by including spatial variation in biophysical parameters. Biogeosciences. 10(4). 2255–2272. 48 indexed citations

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Macedo, Márcia N., Michael T. Coe, Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Laerte Guimarães Ferreira, & P. K. Panday. (2013). Hydrological impacts of land-use change and agricultural policy in the Brazilian Cerrado. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Coe, Michael T., et al.. (2010). Reconstructing paleo-precipitation amounts using a terrestrial hydrologic model: Lake Titicaca and the Salar de Uyuni, Peru and Bolivia. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 2 indexed citations

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Coe, Michael T. & C. M. Birkett. (2004). Calculation of River Discharge and Prediction of Lake Height from Satellite Radar Altimetry: Example for the Lake Chad Basin. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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Coe, Michael T. & Sandy P. Harrison. (2002). The water balance of northern Africa during the mid-Holocene: an evaluation of the 6 ka BP PMIP simulations. Climate Dynamics. 19(2). 155–166. 28 indexed citations

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Delire, Christine, Samuel Levis, Gordon B. Bonan, et al.. (2002). Comparison of the climate simulated by the CCM3 coupled to two different land-surface models. Climate Dynamics. 19(8). 657–669. 36 indexed citations

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Coe, Michael T.. (1997). Global simulation of lakes and river transport in climate models, and investigations of lake/climate feedbacks during the middle Holocene. PhDT. 3094. 2 indexed citations

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