Rebecca Montgomery

12.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
106 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Rebecca Montgomery is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebecca Montgomery has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 58 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 27 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Rebecca Montgomery's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (50 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (35 papers) and Plant and animal studies (22 papers). Rebecca Montgomery is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (50 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (35 papers) and Plant and animal studies (22 papers). Rebecca Montgomery collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Rebecca Montgomery's co-authors include Peter B. Reich, Robin L. Chazdon, Artur Stefański, Roy Rich, Danielle A. Way, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kerrie M. Sendall, Thomas J. Givnish, Jeannine Cavender‐Bares and Karen E. Rice and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rebecca Montgomery

100 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Effects of climate warming on photosynthesis in boreal tree species depend on soil moisture

2018 333 citations Peter B. Reich, Kerrie M. Sendall et al. profile →
Even modest climate change may lead to major transitions in boreal forests

2022 108 citations Peter B. Reich, Raimundo Bermúdez et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rebecca Montgomery United States	39	2.5k	2.4k	1.5k	1.3k	1.1k	106	5.0k
Μαργαρίτα Αριανούτσου Greece	30	2.5k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	917 0.9×	84	4.3k
Richard K. Kobe United States	34	2.9k 1.2×	4.7k 2.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	57	6.0k
Sean T. Michaletz United States	33	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	583 0.6×	71	3.8k
Zhanqing Hao China	39	1.6k 0.6×	2.8k 1.2×	768 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	162	4.1k
Alex Fajardo Chile	36	2.0k 0.8×	2.7k 1.1×	937 0.6×	808 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	91	4.1k
Martin Kopecký Czechia	34	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	761 0.5×	765 0.6×	689 0.7×	76	3.2k
Jonathan Proctor United States	14	1.6k 0.6×	2.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	871 0.8×	50	4.5k
Dan F. B. Flynn United States	28	1.7k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	1.5k 1.5×	58	5.2k
Alessandro Chiarucci Italy	39	1.4k 0.6×	2.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	1.9k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	238	5.4k
Stephen H. Roxburgh Australia	33	1.8k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	549 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	866 0.8×	110	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Rebecca Montgomery

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rebecca Montgomery

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rebecca Montgomery

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Stefański, Artur, Ethan E. Butler, Laura Williams, et al.. (2025). All the light we cannot see: Climate manipulations leave short and long‐term imprints in spectral reflectance of trees. Ecology. 106(5). e70048–e70048. 2 indexed citations

Cabon, Antoine, Richard L. Peters, Patrick Fonti, et al.. (2025). Generalized Stomatal Optimization of Evolutionary Fitness Proxies for Predicting Plant Gas Exchange Under Drought, Heatwaves, and Elevated CO₂. Global Change Biology. 31(1). e70049–e70049. 4 indexed citations

Liang, Guopeng, Artur Stefański, William C. Eddy, et al.. (2024). Soil respiration response to decade-long warming modulated by soil moisture in a boreal forest. Nature Geoscience. 17(9). 905–911. 15 indexed citations

Cavender‐Bares, Jeannine, Jake J. Grossman, J. Antonio Guzmán Q., et al.. (2024). Forest and Biodiversity 2: A tree diversity experiment to understand the consequences of multiple dimensions of diversity and composition for long‐term ecosystem function and resilience. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(12). 2400–2414. 1 indexed citations

Sapes, Gerard, Allison Scott, Jennifer Juzwik, et al.. (2024). Mechanistic links between physiology and spectral reflectance enable previsual detection of oak wilt and drought stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(7). e2316164121–e2316164121. 19 indexed citations

Ward, Samuel, et al.. (2023). The effects of chilling and forcing temperatures on spring synchrony between larch casebearer and tamarack. Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 25(4). 658–668. 2 indexed citations

Fernandez, Christopher W., Artur Stefański, Raimundo Bermúdez, et al.. (2023). Climate change–induced stress disrupts ectomycorrhizal interaction networks at the boreal–temperate ecotone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(34). e2221619120–e2221619120. 22 indexed citations

Dusenge, Mirindi Eric, J. M. Warren, Peter B. Reich, et al.. (2023). Boreal conifers maintain carbon uptake with warming despite failure to track optimal temperatures. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4667–4667. 15 indexed citations

Clark, Peter W., Anthony W. D’Amato, Brian J. Palik, et al.. (2023). A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change. BioScience. 73(8). 575–586. 14 indexed citations

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Kothari, Shan, Rebecca Montgomery, & Jeannine Cavender‐Bares. (2021). Physiological responses to light explain competition and facilitation in a tree diversity experiment. Journal of Ecology. 109(5). 2000–2018. 38 indexed citations

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Pellegrini, Adam F. A., Andrew M. Hein, Jeannine Cavender‐Bares, et al.. (2021). Disease and fire interact to influence transitions between savanna–forest ecosystems over a multi‐decadal experiment. Ecology Letters. 24(5). 1007–1017. 15 indexed citations

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Reich, Peter B., Artur Stefański, Roy Rich, et al.. (2021). Assessing the relevant time frame for temperature acclimation of leaf dark respiration: A test with 10 boreal and temperate species. Global Change Biology. 27(12). 2945–2958. 13 indexed citations

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Montgomery, Rebecca, Karen E. Rice, Artur Stefański, Roy Rich, & Peter B. Reich. (2020). Phenological responses of temperate and boreal trees to warming depend on ambient spring temperatures, leaf habit, and geographic range. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(19). 10397–10405. 75 indexed citations

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Wright, Alexandra J., Nicholas A. Fisichelli, Karen E. Rice, et al.. (2018). Biodiversity bottleneck: seedling establishment under changing climatic conditions at the boreal–temperate ecotone. Plant Ecology. 219(6). 691–704. 16 indexed citations

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Kothari, Shan, Jeannine Cavender‐Bares, Amy Verhoeven, et al.. (2018). Community-wide consequences of variation in photoprotective physiology among prairie plants. Photosynthetica. 56(SPECIAL ISSUE). 455–467. 19 indexed citations

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Mittge, Erika, et al.. (2016). Strategies to Mitigate a Mycobacterium marinum Outbreak in a Zebrafish Research Facility. Zebrafish. 13(S1). S–77. 37 indexed citations

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Wei, Xiaorong, Kerrie M. Sendall, Artur Stefański, et al.. (2016). Consistent leaf respiratory response to experimental warming of three North American deciduous trees: a comparison across seasons, years, habitats and sites. Tree Physiology. 37(3). 285–300. 13 indexed citations

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Reich, Peter B., Kerrie M. Sendall, Karen E. Rice, et al.. (2015). Geographic range predicts photosynthetic and growth response to warming in co-occurring tree species. Nature Climate Change. 5(2). 148–152. 185 indexed citations

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Kern, Christel C., Rebecca Montgomery, Peter B. Reich, & Terry F. Strong. (2012). Canopy gap size influences niche partitioning of the ground-layer plant community in a northern temperate forest. Journal of Plant Ecology. 6(1). 101–112. 65 indexed citations

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Montgomery, Rebecca, et al.. (2005). Use and cost of Best Management Practices (BMPs) and BMP-related sustainable forestry initiative guidelines to Arkansas timber producers. Forest Products Journal. 55(9). 67–73. 9 indexed citations

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