Thomas E. Kolb

20.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
182 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

Thomas E. Kolb is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas E. Kolb has authored 182 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 91 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 68 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Thomas E. Kolb's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (108 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (60 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (58 papers). Thomas E. Kolb is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (108 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (60 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (58 papers). Thomas E. Kolb collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and China. Thomas E. Kolb's co-authors include Nate G. McDowell, Enrico A. Yépez, Stephen C. Hart, William T. Pockman, Jennifer A. Plaut, John S. Sperry, Neil S. Cobb, Craig D. Allen, David D. Breshears and Adam G. West and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thomas E. Kolb

181 papers receiving 11.9k citations

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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.

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

2008 3.4k citations Nate G. McDowell, William T. Pockman et al. New Phytologist profile →
Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States

2016 294 citations Thomas E. Kolb et al. Forest Ecology and Management profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas E. Kolb United States	57	9.7k	5.1k	4.3k	3.6k	2.9k	182	12.5k
Neil S. Cobb United States	32	9.8k 1.0×	6.2k 1.2×	4.9k 1.1×	3.1k 0.9×	3.0k 1.0×	74	13.4k
Edward H. Hogg Canada	42	9.6k 1.0×	5.6k 1.1×	5.0k 1.2×	3.4k 1.0×	2.1k 0.7×	72	12.7k
Andreas Rigling Switzerland	56	10.3k 1.1×	7.2k 1.4×	6.9k 1.6×	2.3k 0.7×	2.9k 1.0×	177	13.8k
Thomas Kitzberger Argentina	49	9.2k 0.9×	6.4k 1.2×	4.3k 1.0×	3.6k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	129	13.0k
Dominique Bachelet United States	31	7.4k 0.8×	3.8k 0.8×	3.0k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	66	10.0k
Richard H. Waring United States	62	9.8k 1.0×	7.0k 1.4×	3.2k 0.7×	4.7k 1.3×	3.4k 1.2×	147	14.7k
Sylvain Delzon France	65	10.5k 1.1×	6.0k 1.2×	5.3k 1.2×	2.8k 0.8×	5.7k 1.9×	206	14.7k
Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta Spain	64	10.0k 1.0×	6.3k 1.2×	5.8k 1.4×	1.6k 0.5×	3.4k 1.2×	185	12.6k
Seppo Kellomäki Finland	56	7.3k 0.8×	5.0k 1.0×	2.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.4×	3.4k 1.2×	333	11.4k
George W. Koch United States	44	6.2k 0.6×	3.3k 0.7×	2.7k 0.6×	2.5k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	123	9.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kolb, Thomas E., Joel A. Biederman, Martín Venturas, et al.. (2024). Mitigating drought mortality by incorporating topography into variable forest thinning strategies. Environmental Research Letters. 19(3). 34035–34035. 3 indexed citations

Rodman, Kyle C., John B. Bradford, Peter Z. Fulé, et al.. (2024). Restoration treatments enhance tree growth and alter climatic constraints during extreme drought. Ecological Applications. 35(1). e3072–e3072. 7 indexed citations

Sekhwal, Manoj K., et al.. (2023). Differences in heat tolerance, water use efficiency and growth among Douglas-fir families and varieties evidenced by GWAS and common garden studies. AoB Plants. 15(2). plad008–plad008. 8 indexed citations

Fulé, Peter Z., Andrew J. Sánchez Meador, Margaret M. Moore, et al.. (2022). Forest restoration treatments increased growth and did not change survival of ponderosa pines in severe drought, Arizona. Ecological Applications. 32(8). e2717–e2717. 10 indexed citations

Sankey, Temuulen Tsagaan, et al.. (2022). Soil moisture response to seasonal drought conditions and post‐thinning forest structure. Ecohydrology. 15(5). 23 indexed citations

Mahmud, Kashif, Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, et al.. (2021). Optimizing Carbon Cycle Parameters Drastically Improves Terrestrial Biosphere Model Underestimates of Dryland Mean Net CO₂ Flux and its Inter‐Annual Variability. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(10). 8 indexed citations

Doughty, Christopher E., et al.. (2021). Forest Thinning in Ponderosa Pines Increases Carbon Use Efficiency and Energy Flow From Primary Producers to Primary Consumers. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(3). 4 indexed citations

Knowles, John F., Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, et al.. (2020). Montane forest productivity across a semiarid climatic gradient. Global Change Biology. 26(12). 6945–6958. 22 indexed citations

MacBean, Natasha, Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, et al.. (2020). Testing water fluxes and storage from two hydrology configurations within the ORCHIDEE land surface model across US semi-arid sites. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(11). 5203–5230. 16 indexed citations

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Rodman, Kyle C., Thomas T. Veblen, Mike A. Battaglia, et al.. (2020). A changing climate is snuffing out post‐fire recovery in montane forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(11). 2039–2051. 73 indexed citations

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MacBean, Natasha, Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, et al.. (2019). Multi-variable, multi-configuration testing of ORCHIDEE land surface model water flux and storage estimates across semi-arid sites in the southwestern US. 2 indexed citations

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Anderegg, William R. L., Adam Wolf, Adriana Arango‐Velez, et al.. (2017). Plant water potential improves prediction of empirical stomatal models. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0185481–e0185481. 91 indexed citations

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Wagle, Pradeep, Xiangming Xiao, Russell L. Scott, et al.. (2015). Biophysical controls on carbon and water vapor fluxes across a grassland climatic gradient in the United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 214-215. 293–305. 68 indexed citations

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Franz, Trenton E., Marek Zreda, Rafael Rosolem, et al.. (2013). Ecosystem‐scale measurements of biomass water using cosmic ray neutrons. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(15). 3929–3933. 57 indexed citations

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Waring, Kristen M., et al.. (2010). Ponderosa Pine Characteristics Associated with Attack by the Roundheaded Pine Beetle. Forest Science. 56(5). 473–483. 8 indexed citations

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McDowell, Nate G., William T. Pockman, Craig D. Allen, et al.. (2008). Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?. New Phytologist. 178(4). 719–739. 3350 indexed citations breakdown →

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Simonin, Kevin A., Thomas E. Kolb, M. Montes‐Helu, & George W. Koch. (2006). Restoration thinning and influence of tree size and leaf area to sapwood area ratio on water relations of Pinus ponderosa. Tree Physiology. 26(4). 493–503. 57 indexed citations

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Galuszka, D. & Thomas E. Kolb. (2002). Tree growth and regeneration response to climate and stream flow in a species-rich southwestern riparian forest. Western North American Naturalist. 62(3). 2. 14 indexed citations

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Fischer, Dylan G., Thomas E. Kolb, & Laura E. DeWald. (2002). Changes in whole-tree water relations during ontogeny of Pinus flexilis and Pinus ponderosa in a high-elevation meadow. Tree Physiology. 22(10). 675–685. 37 indexed citations

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Kolb, Thomas E., Kim C. Steiner, Larry H. McCormick, & Todd W. Bowersox. (1990). Growth response of northern red-oak and yellow-poplar seedlings to light, soil moisture and nutrients in relation to ecological strategy. Forest Ecology and Management. 38(1-2). 65–78. 116 indexed citations

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