Sasha C. Reed

17.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
166 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Sasha C. Reed is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sasha C. Reed has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 59 papers in Ecology and 57 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Sasha C. Reed's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (53 papers), Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (51 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (49 papers). Sasha C. Reed is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (53 papers), Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (51 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (49 papers). Sasha C. Reed collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Sasha C. Reed's co-authors include Cory C. Cleveland, Alan R. Townsend, Jayne Belnap, Scott Ferrenberg, William K. Smith, Peter M. Vitousek, Tana E. Wood, Molly A. Cavaleri, Duncan N. L. Menge and Matthew A. Bowker and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Sasha C. Reed

161 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems

2013 554 citations Peter M. Vitousek, Sasha C. Reed et al. profile →
Functional Ecology of Free-Living Nitrogen Fixation: A Contemporary Perspective

2011 483 citations Sasha C. Reed, Cory C. Cleveland et al. profile →
Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

2019 274 citations William K. Smith, Matthew P. Dannenberg et al. profile →
The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands

2020 193 citations David J. Eldridge, Sasha C. Reed et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers

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ECOLO

GPC

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Joseph B. Yavitt United States

Xingliang Xu China

Hannu Fritze Finland

Cindy E. Prescott Canada

Björn Berg Sweden

Amy T. Austin Argentina

Matthew A. Bowker United States

Nick Ostle United Kingdom

Sébastien Barot France

Stefano Manzoni Sweden

Joseph B. Yavitt United States

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ECOLO

2.4k ×0.8

GPC

1.3k ×0.5

EEBS

1.7k ×0.7

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sasha C. Reed

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sasha C. Reed. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sasha C. Reed based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sasha C. Reed. Sasha C. Reed is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Barger, Nichole N., et al.. (2025). Developing biocrust field cultivation techniques for soil restoration: An assessment of bacterial communities. Applied Soil Ecology. 206. 105861–105861.

Monson, Russell K., Shuai Li, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, et al.. (2025). C₄ photosynthesis, trait spectra, and the fast‐efficient phenotype. New Phytologist. 246(3). 879–893. 2 indexed citations

Reis, Carla Roberta Gonçalves, Steven S. Perakis, Cory C. Cleveland, et al.. (2025). A global dataset of terrestrial biological nitrogen fixation. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1362–1362. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Fangyue, Joel A. Biederman, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, et al.. (2024). Increasing Soil Water Drought in Response to Altered Precipitation Timing Across the Western United States. Ecohydrology. 18(2).

Biederman, Joel A., Fangyue Zhang, Matthew P. Dannenberg, et al.. (2024). Reply to Comment on “Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States”. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(1). 2 indexed citations

Higgens, Rebecca Finger, et al.. (2024). Seasonal drought treatments impact plant and microbial uptake of nitrogen in a mixed shrub grassland on the Colorado Plateau. Ecology. 105(9). e4393–e4393. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Fangyue, et al.. (2024). Direct and Legacy Effects of Varying Cool‐Season Precipitation Totals on Ecosystem Carbon Flux in a Semi‐Arid Mixed Grassland. Plant Cell & Environment. 48(2). 943–952. 2 indexed citations

Higgens, Rebecca Finger, Jayne Belnap, Erika L. Geiger, et al.. (2023). Droughting a megadrought: Ecological consequences of a decade of experimental drought atop aridification on the Colorado Plateau. Global Change Biology. 29(12). 3364–3377. 16 indexed citations

Deemer, Bridget R., et al.. (2023). Storms and pH of dam releases affect downstream phosphorus cycling in an arid regulated river. Biogeochemistry. 165(1). 57–74. 2 indexed citations

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Osborne, Brooke B., et al.. (2022). Biogeochemical and ecosystem properties in three adjacent semi‐arid grasslands are resistant to nitrogen deposition but sensitive to edaphic variability. Journal of Ecology. 110(7). 1615–1631. 20 indexed citations

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Osborne, Brooke B., Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Courtney M. Currier, et al.. (2022). The consequences of climate change for dryland biogeochemistry. New Phytologist. 236(1). 15–20. 23 indexed citations

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Cui, Haiying, Peter M. Vitousek, Sasha C. Reed, et al.. (2022). Environmental filtering controls soil biodiversity in wet tropical ecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 166. 108571–108571. 8 indexed citations

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Carter, Kelsey, et al.. (2021). Experimental warming across a tropical forest canopy height gradient reveals minimal photosynthetic and respiratory acclimation. Plant Cell & Environment. 44(9). 2879–2897. 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fangyue, Joel A. Biederman, Matthew P. Dannenberg, et al.. (2021). Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7). 128 indexed citations

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Reed, Sasha C., et al.. (2021). Plant growth and biocrust-fire interactions across five North American deserts. Geoderma. 401. 115325–115325. 8 indexed citations

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Bachelot, Bénédicte, et al.. (2020). Altered climate leads to positive density‐dependent feedbacks in a tropical wet forest. Global Change Biology. 26(6). 3417–3428. 23 indexed citations

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Eldridge, David J., Sasha C. Reed, Samantha K. Travers, et al.. (2020). The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands. Global Change Biology. 26(10). 6003–6014. 193 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kimball, Bruce A., et al.. (2018). Infrared heater system for warming tropical forest understory plants and soils. Ecology and Evolution. 8(4). 1932–1944. 47 indexed citations

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Clark, Deborah A., Shinichi Asao, Rosie A. Fisher, et al.. (2017). Field data to benchmark the carbon-cycle models for tropical forests. 5 indexed citations

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Pett‐Ridge, Jennifer, Karis J. McFarlane, Katherine Heckman, et al.. (2016). Digging a Little Deeper: Microbial Communities, Molecular Composition and Soil Organic Matter Turnover along Tropical Forest Soil Depth Profiles. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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