Seth M. Munson

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
105 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Seth M. Munson is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Seth M. Munson has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Ecology, 61 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 57 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Seth M. Munson's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (54 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (46 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (35 papers). Seth M. Munson is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (54 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (46 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (35 papers). Seth M. Munson collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Seth M. Munson's co-authors include Jayne Belnap, John B. Bradford, Bradley J. Butterfield, William K. Lauenroth, Michael C. Duniway, Gregory S. Okin, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, Britta Tietjen, Sonia A. Hall and Jennifer R. Gremer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Seth M. Munson

100 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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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.

Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils

2017 304 citations Daniel R. Schlaepfer, John B. Bradford et al. profile →
Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening

2024 58 citations Yuchao Yan, Shilong Piao et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Seth M. Munson United States	32	1.6k	1.3k	1.1k	643	578	105	3.2k
Michael C. Duniway United States	33	1.8k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	999 0.9×	842 1.3×	430 0.7×	124	3.9k
Julia Jones United States	36	2.1k 1.3×	2.6k 2.1×	1.4k 1.3×	1.3k 2.0×	750 1.3×	97	5.1k
James B. Heffernan United States	36	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	403 0.6×	293 0.5×	80	4.2k
Nichole N. Barger United States	35	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	853 0.8×	624 1.0×	333 0.6×	79	3.5k
Florian Wittmann Germany	32	1.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.6×	2.0k 1.8×	662 1.0×	361 0.6×	100	4.5k
M. T. Sykes Sweden	13	2.3k 1.4×	924 0.7×	905 0.8×	422 0.7×	871 1.5×	17	3.5k
Zhongming Wen China	24	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	470 0.4×	1.3k 2.1×	396 0.7×	93	3.2k
A. E. Lugo United States	18	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	703 1.1×	328 0.6×	46	3.8k
Keirith Snyder United States	22	2.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	833 0.8×	693 1.1×	747 1.3×	48	3.2k
Honglin He China	34	2.6k 1.6×	1.7k 1.4×	609 0.6×	1.1k 1.7×	1.1k 1.8×	129	4.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Seth M. Munson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kreitler, Jason, et al.. (2025). UAS and high-resolution satellite imagery improve the accuracy of cheatgrass detection across an invaded Yellowstone landscape. Landscape Ecology. 40(10).

Munson, Seth M., et al.. (2025). Short‐term ecological effects of solar energy development depend on plant community, soil type and disturbance intensity. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(4). 945–957. 3 indexed citations

Yan, Yuchao, Songbai Hong, Anping Chen, et al.. (2025). Satellite-based evidence of recent decline in global forest recovery rate from tree mortality events. Nature Plants. 11(4). 731–742. 3 indexed citations

Blackburn, Ryan C., et al.. (2025). UAV-derived models of vegetation characteristics do not transfer to extreme drought and wet conditions across a northern Arizona landscape. Landscape Ecology. 40(3).

Lan, Lihua, Seth M. Munson, Kailiang Yu, et al.. (2025). Seasonal increases in global dryland gross primary production are modulated by root soil moisture and temperature. Global and Planetary Change. 255. 105133–105133.

Wang, Guohua, Seth M. Munson, Elly Morriën, et al.. (2024). Changes in microbial community and network structure precede shrub degradation in a desert ecosystem. CATENA. 242. 108106–108106. 4 indexed citations

Lovich, Jeffrey E., et al.. (2024). Predicting the effects of solar energy development on plants and wildlife in the Desert Southwest, United States. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 205. 114823–114823. 14 indexed citations

Yan, Yuchao, Shilong Piao, William M. Hammond, et al.. (2024). Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(5). 912–923. 58 indexed citations breakdown →

Munson, Seth M., et al.. (2024). Natural resource management confronts the growing scale and severity of ecosystem responses to drought and wildfire. Ecology and Society. 29(4).

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Duniway, Michael C., Miguel L. Villarreal, Anna C. Knight, et al.. (2023). Biophysical factors control invasive annual grass hot spots in the Mojave Desert. Biological Invasions. 25(12). 3839–3858. 4 indexed citations

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Yu, Kailiang, et al.. (2023). Biocrusts modulate carbon losses under warming across global drylands: A bayesian meta-analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 188. 109214–109214. 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Hui, Seth M. Munson, Chris Huntingford, et al.. (2023). The detection and attribution of extreme reductions in vegetation growth across the global land surface. Global Change Biology. 29(8). 2351–2362. 49 indexed citations

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Munson, Seth M., et al.. (2023). Connecting dryland fine-fuel assessments to wildfire exposure and natural resource values at risk. Fire Ecology. 19(1). 1 indexed citations

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Nauman, Travis, et al.. (2023). Synergistic soil, land use, and climate influences on wind erosion on the Colorado Plateau: Implications for management. The Science of The Total Environment. 893. 164605–164605. 15 indexed citations

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Ladouceur, Emma, Lars A. Brudvig, Daniel C. Laughlin, et al.. (2023). Testing the hierarchy of predictability in grassland restoration across a gradient of environmental severity. Ecological Applications. 33(8). e2922–e2922. 2 indexed citations

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Havrilla, Caroline A., John B. Bradford, Charles B. Yackulic, & Seth M. Munson. (2022). Divergent climate impacts on C ₃ versus C ₄ grasses imply widespread 21st century shifts in grassland functional composition. Diversity and Distributions. 29(3). 379–394. 25 indexed citations

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Munson, Seth M., John B. Bradford, Bradley J. Butterfield, & Jennifer R. Gremer. (2022). Primary production responses to extreme changes in North American Monsoon precipitation vary by elevation and plant functional composition through time. Journal of Ecology. 110(9). 2232–2245. 13 indexed citations

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Balazs, Kathleen R., Seth M. Munson, Caroline A. Havrilla, & Bradley J. Butterfield. (2021). Directional selection shifts trait distributions of planted species in dryland restoration. Journal of Ecology. 110(3). 540–552. 9 indexed citations

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Gremer, Jennifer R., et al.. (2018). Increasing temperature seasonality may overwhelm shifts in soil moisture to favor shrub over grass dominance in Colorado Plateau drylands. Oecologia. 188(4). 1195–1207. 25 indexed citations

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Bradford, John B., Daniel R. Schlaepfer, William K. Lauenroth, et al.. (2017). Future soil moisture and temperature extremes imply expanding suitability for rainfed agriculture in temperate drylands. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 12923–12923. 53 indexed citations

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