Stephen W. Pacala

40.2k citations

182 papers · 26.7k indexed · 17 hit papers · h-index 82

Impact in

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.02%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest ecology and management
Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Fire effects on ecosystems

Papers in

Nature and Landscape Conservation 94
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 84
- Forest ecology and management 23
Global and Planetary Change 101
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 48
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 26
- Fire effects on ecosystems 16

Co-authors: Robert H. Socolow John A. Silander Charles D. Canham David Tilman G. C. Hurtt Benjamin M. Bolker Richard K. Kobe Elena Shevliakova
Journals: The American Naturalist (19 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (17 papers)Science (16 papers)Ecology (10 papers)Ecology Letters (9 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Panama

In The Last Decade

Stephen W. Pacala

179 papers receiving 24.8k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming 2021 · 209 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.

2021 Environmental Research Letters
2020 Science
2018 Nature
2018 Ecology Letters
2015 Science
2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2013 Science
2012 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Science
2004 Science
2002 Nature
1998 BioScience
1998 Science
1996 Ecological Monographs
1995 Ecological Applications
1994 Canadian Journal of Forest Research
1993 The maintenance of species richness in plant communities

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Co-authors

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All Works

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1	The Land Component LM4.1 of the GFDL Earth System Model ESM4.1: Model Description and Characteristics of Land Surface Climate and Carbon Cycling in the Historical Simulation Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Elena Shevliakova, Sergey Malyshev, Isabel Martínez, P. C. D. Milly, Stephen W. Pacala, Paul Ginoux, K. A. Dunne, John P. Dunne, C. Dupuis, Kirsten L. Findell, Khaled Ghannam, Larry W. Horowitz, Thomas R. Knutson, John P. Krasting, Vaishali Naïk, Peter J. Phillipps, Niki Zadeh, Yan Yu, Fanrong Zeng, Yujin Zeng	2024	13
2	Linking physiology, epidemiology, and demography: Understanding how lianas outcompete trees in a changing world Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hannes De Deurwaerder, Matteo Detto, Marco D. Visser, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Stephen W. Pacala	2024	4
3	Integrating conspecifics negative density dependence, successional and evolutionary dynamics: Towards a theory of forest diversity Communications Biology ·Matteo Detto, Stephen W. Pacala	2024	0
4	Detecting and interpreting higher‐order interactions in ecological communities Ecology Letters ·Andrew R. Kleinhesselink, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Stephen W. Pacala, Jonathan M. Levine	2022	36
5	Risk of the hydrogen economy for atmospheric methane Nature Communications ·Matteo B. Bertagni, Stephen W. Pacala, Fabien Paulot, Amilcare Porporato	2022	59
6	Plant hydraulics, stomatal control, and the response of a tropical forest to water stress over multiple temporal scales Global Change Biology ·Matteo Detto, Stephen W. Pacala	2022	17
7	Modeling demographic-driven vegetation dynamics and ecosystem biogeochemical cycling in NASA GISS's Earth system model (ModelE-BiomeE v.1.0) Geoscientific model development ·Ensheng Weng, Igor Aleinov, Ram Singh, Michael J. Puma, Sonali McDermid, Nancy Y. Kiang, Maxwell Kelley, Kevin R. Wilcox, Ray Dybzinski, Caroline E. Farrior, Stephen W. Pacala, Benjamin I. Cook	2022	5
8	Abrupt loss and uncertain recovery from fires of Amazon forests under low climate mitigation scenarios Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Isabel Martínez, Elena Shevliakova, Sergey Malyshev, Jasmin G. John, Yan Yu, Benjamin Smith, Stephen W. Pacala	2022	16
9	Maintenance of high diversity in mechanistic forest dynamics models of competition for light Ecological Monographs ·Matteo Detto, Jonathan M. Levine, Stephen W. Pacala	2021	33
10	Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests Science ·William R. L. Anderegg, Anna T. Trugman, Grayson Badgley, Christa M. Anderson, Ann M. Bartuska, Philippe Ciais, Danny Cullenward, Christopher B. Field, Jeremy Freeman, S. J. Goetz, Jeffrey A. Hicke, D. N. Huntzinger, Robert B. Jackson, J. T. R. Nickerson, Stephen W. Pacala, James T. Randerson Hit paper breakdown →	2020	504
11	Allometric constraints and competition enable the simulation of size structure and carbon fluxes in a dynamic vegetation model of tropical forests (LM3PPA‐TV) Global Change Biology ·Isabel Martínez, Elena Shevliakova, Sergey Malyshev, S. Joseph Wright‬, Matteo Detto, Stephen W. Pacala, Helene C. Muller‐Landau	2020	29
12	Bias in the detection of negative density dependence in plant communities Ecology Letters ·Matteo Detto, Marco D. Visser, S. Joseph Wright‬, Stephen W. Pacala	2019	75
13	Predicting shifts in the functional composition of tropical forests under increased drought and CO₂ from trade‐offs among plant hydraulic traits Ecology Letters ·Megan K. Bartlett, Matteo Detto, Stephen W. Pacala	2018	42
14	Functional groups, species and light interact with nutrient limitation during tropical rainforest sapling bottleneck Journal of Ecology ·Cleo B. Chou, Lars O. Hedin, Stephen W. Pacala	2017	27
15	Global Leaf Trait Relationships: Mass, Area, and the Leaf Economics Spectrum Science ·Jeanne L. D. Osnas, Jeremy W. Lichstein, Peter B. Reich, Stephen W. Pacala Hit paper breakdown →	2013	344
16	Greater focus needed on methane leakage from natural gas infrastructure Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ramón A. Alvarez, Stephen W. Pacala, James J. Winebrake, W. L. Chameides, Steven P. Hamburg Hit paper breakdown →	2012	516
17	A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests Science ·Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey, Jingyun Fang, R. A. Houghton, Pekka E. Kauppi, Werner A. Kurz, Oliver L. Phillips, А. Shvidenko, Simon L. Lewis, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen W. Pacala, A. David McGuire, Shilong Piao, Aapo Rautiainen, Stephen Sitch, Daniel J. Hayes	2011	8
18	Nitrogen cycling and feedbacks in a global dynamic land model Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Stefan Gerber, Lars O. Hedin, Michael Oppenheimer, Stephen W. Pacala, Elena Shevliakova	2009	182
19	The underpinnings of land‐use history: three centuries of global gridded land‐use transitions, wood‐harvest activity, and resulting secondary lands Global Change Biology ·G. C. Hurtt, Steve Frolking, Matthew G. Fearon, Berrien Moore, Elena Shevliakova, Sergey Malyshev, Stephen W. Pacala, R. A. Houghton	2006	393
20	Host–parasitoid associations in patchy environments Nature ·Stephen W. Pacala, M. P. Hassell, Robert M. May	1990	165

About Stephen W. Pacala

Stephen W. Pacala is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science and Ecological Modeling, having authored 182 papers that have together received 26.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (84 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (48 papers), Plant and animal studies (43 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (26 papers), Forest ecology and management (23 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (17 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (16 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (11.5k citations), Global and Planetary Change (12.5k citations), Ecological Modeling (1.8k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (5.0k citations) and Ecology (5.9k citations). Stephen W. Pacala has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Panama. Frequent co-authors include Robert H. Socolow, John A. Silander, Charles D. Canham, David Tilman, G. C. Hurtt, Benjamin M. Bolker, Richard K. Kobe, Elena Shevliakova, Eric Ribbens and William R. L. Anderegg. Their work appears in journals such as The American Naturalist, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, Ecology and Ecology Letters.

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