Scott Ferrenberg

6.2k citations

48 papers · 4.2k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Ecology top 0.5%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Chemical Health and Safety top 1%

Papers in

Nature and Landscape Conservation 19
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 19
Chemical Health and Safety 1

Co-authors: Sasha C. Reed Joseph E. Knelman Diana R. Nemergut Steven K. Schmidt Sean O’Neill Jeffry B. Mitton John L. Darcy Teresa Bilinski
Journals: Forests (4 papers)Journal of Ecology (3 papers)Geoderma (3 papers)Ecosphere (3 papers)BioScience (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Spain China

In The Last Decade

Scott Ferrenberg

47 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands 2020 · 193 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Global Change Biology
2019 Remote Sensing of Environment
2013 Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
2013 The ISME Journal

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Scott Ferrenberg, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Nurse plant shading is more important than soil fertility for dryland plant recruitment and diversity Journal of Ecology ·Scott Ferrenberg, Mai Miyano, Akasha M. Faist, Amin Sharifi	2025	0
2	Diapause, pollen ball incidence, and overwintering energetics in the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Yakovlev O. I. Gerasimov, Arun Rajamohan, Vajirapani De Silva, Michael E. Dillon, Scott Ferrenberg, Joseph P. Rinehart, Julia H. Bowsher	2024	2
3	Effects of global change drivers on the expression of pathogenicity and stress genes in dryland soil fungi mSphere ·Adriana L. Romero‐Olivares, Andrea López, Jovani Catalan‐Dibene, Scott Ferrenberg, H Ghate Varsha, Brooke B. Osborne	2024	2
4	Divergent growth‐differentiation balance strategies and resource competition shape mortality patterns in ponderosa pine Ecosphere ·Scott Ferrenberg, Carla Vázquez‐González, Amin Sharifi, Andreas Setiawan	2023	8
5	A spatiotemporal framework reveals contrasting factors shape biocrust microbial and microfaunal communities in the Chihuahuan Desert Geoderma ·Hyun-Soo 정현수Jeong, Nicole Pietrasiak, Scott Ferrenberg, Michele K. Nishiguchi	2021	8
6	The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands Global Change Biology ·David J. Eldridge, Sasha C. Reed, Samantha K. Travers, Matthew A. Bowker, Fernando T. Maestre, Jingyi Ding, Caroline A. Havrilla, Emilio Rodríguez‐Caballero, Nichole N. Barger, Bettina Weber, Anita J. Antoninka, Jayne Belnap, V. Bala Chaudhary, Akasha M. Faist, Scott Ferrenberg, Elisabeth Huber‐Sannwald, Oumarou Malam Issa, Yunge Zhao Hit paper breakdown →	2020	193
7	Ontogenetic consistency in oak defence syndromes Journal of Ecology ·Xoaquín Moreira, Luis Abdala‐Roberts, Andrea Galmán, Andrew W. Bartlow, Jorge C. Berny Mier y Terán, Elisa Carrari, Felisa Covelo, María de la Fuente, Scott Ferrenberg, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Yasutomo Hoshika, Amin Sharifi, Robert J. Marquis, Masahiro Nakamura, Colleen S. Nell, Mario B. Pesendorfer, Michael A. Steele, Carla Vázquez‐González, Shuang Zhang, Sergio Rasmann	2020	17
8	Resin ducts as resistance traits in conifers: linking dendrochronology and resin-based defences Tree Physiology ·Carla Vázquez‐González, Rafael Zas, Nadir Erbilgin, Scott Ferrenberg, Vicente Rozas, Luís Sampedro	2020	72
9	Modest Residual Effects of Short-Term Warming, Altered Hydration, and Biocrust Successional State on Dryland Soil Heterotrophic Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ·Colin Tucker, Scott Ferrenberg, Sasha C. Reed	2020	11
10	Towards a predictive framework for biocrust mediation of plant performance: A meta‐analysis Journal of Ecology ·Caroline A. Havrilla, V. Bala Chaudhary, Scott Ferrenberg, Anita J. Antoninka, Jayne Belnap, Matthew A. Bowker, David J. Eldridge, Akasha M. Faist, Elisabeth Huber‐Sannwald, Maria Ulfah Kurnia Dewi, Emilio Rodríguez‐Caballero, Yuanming Zhang, Nichole N. Barger	2019	111
11	Biological soil crusts: diminutive communities of potential global importance Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ·Scott Ferrenberg, Colin Tucker, Sasha C. Reed	2017	99
12	Albedo feedbacks to future climate via climate change impacts on dryland biocrusts Scientific Reports ·William A. Rutherford, T. H. Painter, Scott Ferrenberg, Jayne Belnap, Gregory S. Okin, S. Lombardini, Sasha C. Reed	2017	91
13	Aboveground and belowground arthropods experience different relative influences of stochastic versus deterministic community assembly processes following disturbance PeerJ ·Scott Ferrenberg, I.V. Larionova, Akasha M. Faist	2016	14
14	To grow or defend? Pine seedlings grow less but induce more defences when a key resource is limited Tree Physiology ·Scott Ferrenberg, Jeffrey M. Kane, Joseph M. Langenhan	2015	34
15	Soil bacterial community structure remains stable over a 5-year chronosequence of insect-induced tree mortality Frontiers in Microbiology ·Scott Ferrenberg, Joseph E. Knelman, Jennifer Jones, Pambavasan Krishna Prasad, William D. Bowman, Diana R. Nemergut	2014	27
16	Patterns and Processes of Microbial Community Assembly Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews ·Diana R. Nemergut, Steven K. Schmidt, Tadashi Fukami, Sean O’Neill, Teresa Bilinski, Lee F. Stanish, Joseph E. Knelman, John L. Darcy, Ryan C. Lynch, Thomas D Schultz, Scott Ferrenberg Hit paper breakdown →	2013	1361
17	Emissions of BVOC from lodgepole pine in response to mountain pine beetle attack in high and low mortality forest stands Biogeosciences ·T. Duhl, David Gochis, Alex Guenther, Scott Ferrenberg, Elise Pendall	2013	19
18	Resin duct characteristics associated with tree resistance to bark beetles across lodgepole and limber pines Oecologia ·Scott Ferrenberg, Jeffrey M. Kane, Jeffry B. Mitton	2013	121
19	Mountain Pine Beetle Develops an Unprecedented Summer Generation in Response to Climate Warming The American Naturalist ·Jeffry B. Mitton, Scott Ferrenberg	2012	143
20	Fire decreases arthropod abundance but increases diversity: Early and late season prescribed fire effects in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest Fire Ecology ·Scott Ferrenberg, Dylan W. Schwilk, Eric E. Knapp, Wang Shux, Jon E. Keeley	2006	39

About Scott Ferrenberg

Scott Ferrenberg is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Chemical Health and Safety, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Ecology, having authored 48 papers that have together received 4.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Lichen and fungal ecology (13 papers), Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (13 papers), Forest Insect Ecology and Management (12 papers), Plant and animal studies (8 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (7 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (5 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (2.2k citations), Chemical Health and Safety (54 citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (1.2k citations), Environmental Chemistry (566 citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (595 citations). Scott Ferrenberg has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Spain and China. Frequent co-authors include Sasha C. Reed, Joseph E. Knelman, Diana R. Nemergut, Steven K. Schmidt, Sean O’Neill, Jeffry B. Mitton, John L. Darcy, Teresa Bilinski, Ryan C. Lynch and Lee F. Stanish. Their work appears in journals such as Forests, Journal of Ecology, Geoderma, Ecosphere and BioScience.

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