N. G. McDowell

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

N. G. McDowell is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, N. G. McDowell has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in N. G. McDowell's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (21 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (13 papers) and Forest ecology and management (8 papers). N. G. McDowell is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (21 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (13 papers) and Forest ecology and management (8 papers). N. G. McDowell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Spain. N. G. McDowell's co-authors include Craig D. Allen, Amy C. Bennett, Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira, David D. Breshears, Clifton W. Meyer, William T. Pockman, Maosheng Zhao, Steven W. Running, Qiaozhen Mu and John S. Kimball and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and Nature Reviews Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

N. G. McDowell

29 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

2015 661 citations Amy C. Bennett, N. G. McDowell et al. Nature Plants profile →
Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

2015 567 citations N. G. McDowell, Craig D. Allen Nature Climate Change profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
N. G. McDowell United States	20	2.8k	1.4k	1.4k	705	591	31	3.4k
Charlotte Grossiord Switzerland	28	3.1k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	508 0.9×	70	3.8k
Lucy Rowland United Kingdom	30	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	936 0.7×	705 1.0×	536 0.9×	71	3.0k
Rafael Poyatos Spain	28	2.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	716 1.0×	509 0.9×	79	3.2k
Clifton W. Meyer United States	9	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	974 0.7×	457 0.6×	768 1.3×	13	2.8k
Nicolas Martin‐StPaul France	33	3.1k 1.1×	954 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	488 0.8×	69	3.7k
Jean‐Marc Limousin France	28	2.1k 0.7×	961 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	781 1.1×	368 0.6×	55	2.5k
Ze‐Xin Fan China	33	2.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.4×	464 0.7×	241 0.4×	116	3.1k
Leander D. L. Anderegg United States	29	3.4k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	926 1.3×	848 1.4×	53	4.3k
Robert E. Pangle United States	22	2.0k 0.7×	927 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	751 1.1×	503 0.9×	32	2.5k
Antônio C. L. da Costa Brazil	32	3.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	772 1.1×	924 1.6×	73	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of N. G. McDowell

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Hewins, Daniel B., Hanna Lee, Paul W. Barnes, et al.. (2019). Early exposure to UV radiation overshadowed by precipitation and litter quality as drivers of decomposition in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0210470–e0210470. 7 indexed citations

Bennett, Katrina E., T. J. Bohn, Kurt Solander, et al.. (2018). Climate-driven disturbances in the San Juan River sub-basin of the Colorado River. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(1). 709–725. 35 indexed citations

Munson, Seth M., Sasha C. Reed, Josep Peñuelas, N. G. McDowell, & Osvaldo E. Sala. (2018). Ecosystem thresholds, tipping points, and critical transitions. New Phytologist. 218(4). 1315–1317. 24 indexed citations

Mao, Jun J., Beizhan Yan, R. E. Dickinson, et al.. (2017). Spatially and seasonally asymmetric responses of Amazon forests to El Niño. AGUFM. 2017.

Bennett, Katrina E., T. J. Bohn, Kurt Solander, et al.. (2017). Climate change and climate-driven disturbances in the San Juan River sub-basin of the Colorado River. 3 indexed citations

Popović, Milica, Dominik Vodnik, Mitja Ferlan, et al.. (2017). Identification of stress biomarkers for drought and increased soil temperature in seedlings of European beech (Fagus sylvatica). Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 47(11). 1517–1526. 2 indexed citations

Miralles, Diego G., Raquel Nieto, N. G. McDowell, et al.. (2016). Contribution of water-limited ecoregions to their own supply of rainfall. Environmental Research Letters. 11(12). 124007–124007. 63 indexed citations

Hartmann, Henrik, N. G. McDowell, & Susan Trumbore. (2015). Allocation to carbon storage pools in Norway spruce saplings under drought and low CO2. Tree Physiology. 35(3). 243–252. 67 indexed citations

Bennett, Amy C., N. G. McDowell, Craig D. Allen, & Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira. (2015). Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide. Nature Plants. 1(10). 15139–15139. 661 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rauscher, Sara A., et al.. (2015). Sea Surface Temperature Warming Patterns and Future Vegetation Change. Journal of Climate. 28(20). 7943–7961. 9 indexed citations

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Kayler, Zachary, Hans J. De Boeck, Simone Fatichi, et al.. (2015). Experiments to confront the environmental extremes of climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 13(4). 219–225. 71 indexed citations

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Pockman, William T. & N. G. McDowell. (2015). Ecosystem-Scale Rainfall Manipulation in a Piñon-Juniper Forest at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico: Volumetric Water Content (VWC) at 5 cm Depth Data (2006- ). UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico). 2 indexed citations

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Pockman, William T. & N. G. McDowell. (2015). Ecosystem-scale rainfall manipulation in a Pinon-Juniper woodland: Tree Sapwood and Leaf Area Data (2011). UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico). 1 indexed citations

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McDowell, N. G., Park Williams, Chonggang Xu, et al.. (2015). Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise. Nature Climate Change. 6(3). 295–300. 313 indexed citations

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Tague, C., N. G. McDowell, & Craig D. Allen. (2013). An Integrated Model of Environmental Effects on Growth, Carbohydrate Balance, and Mortality of Pinus ponderosa Forests in the Southern Rocky Mountains. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e80286–e80286. 41 indexed citations

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Xu, Chonggang, Chao Liang, Stan D. Wullschleger, Cathy J. Wilson, & N. G. McDowell. (2011). Importance of feedback loops between soil inorganic nitrogen and microbial communities in the heterotrophic soil respiration response to global warming. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 9(3). 222–222. 18 indexed citations

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Breshears, David D., et al.. (2008). FOLIAR ABSORPTION OF INTERCEPTED RAINFALL IMPROVES WOODY PLANT WATER STATUS MOST DURING DROUGHT. Ecology. 89(1). 41–47. 165 indexed citations

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Calvo‐Alvarado, Julio, N. G. McDowell, & Richard H. Waring. (2008). Allometric relationships predicting foliar biomass and leaf area:sapwood area ratio from tree height in five Costa Rican rain forest species. Tree Physiology. 28(11). 1601–1608. 43 indexed citations

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Breshears, David D., Orrin Myers, Clifton W. Meyer, et al.. (2008). Tree die‐off in response to global change‐type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential measurements. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 7(4). 185–189. 429 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nathan, B. J. Bond, N. G. McDowell, Michael G. Ryan, & Andrew J. Schauer. (2003). Leaf area compounds height‐related hydraulic costs of water transport in Oregon White Oak trees. Functional Ecology. 17(6). 832–840. 49 indexed citations

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