Thomas W. Crowther

29.8k total citations · 16 hit papers
177 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas W. Crowther is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas W. Crowther has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Ecology, 60 papers in Plant Science and 52 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Thomas W. Crowther's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (42 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (40 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (39 papers). Thomas W. Crowther is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (42 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (40 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (39 papers). Thomas W. Crowther collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and China. Thomas W. Crowther's co-authors include Mark A. Bradford, Daniel S. Maynard, Constantin M. Zohner, Devin Routh, Johan van den Hoogen, Lidong Mo, Jean‐François Bastin, Yelena Finegold, Claude García and Marcelo Rezende and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas W. Crowther

163 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The global tree restoration potential

2019 1.3k citations Jean‐François Bastin, Yelena Finegold et al. Science profile →
Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population

2019 832 citations Thomas W. Crowther et al. profile →
The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry

2019 796 citations Thomas W. Crowther, Johan van den Hoogen et al. Science profile →
Managing uncertainty in soil carbon feedbacks to climate change

2016 616 citations Mark A. Bradford, Thomas W. Crowther et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses

2019 404 citations Thomas W. Crowther, Peter B. Reich et al. profile →
Increased growing-season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees

2020 254 citations Thomas W. Crowther, Lidong Mo et al. Science profile →
Direct and indirect impacts of urbanization on vegetation growth across the world’s cities

2022 230 citations Lei Zhang, Lin Yang et al. profile →
The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass

2021 190 citations Haozhi Ma, Lidong Mo et al. profile →
Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming

2021 165 citations Pablo García‐Palacios, Thomas W. Crowther et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth

2024 98 citations Thomas W. Crowther et al. profile →
Effect of climate warming on the timing of autumn leaf senescence reverses after the summer solstice

2023 83 citations Constantin M. Zohner, Susanne S. Renner et al. Science profile →
Home‐based microbial solution to boost crop growth in low‐fertility soil

2023 80 citations Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Mengting Yuan et al. New Phytologist profile →
Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates

2024 68 citations Han Hu, Ji Chen et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Reducing the uncertainty in estimating soil microbial-derived carbon storage

2024 68 citations Hu Han, Chao Qian et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Mapping safe drinking water use in low- and middle-income countries

2024 51 citations T. Bruce Lauber, Johan van den Hoogen et al. Science profile →
Accounting for albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration

2024 49 citations Thomas W. Crowther, Leland K. Werden et al. Nature Communications profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Carry-over effects between spring and autumn phenology differ among the world’s biomes 2026 ·National Science Review ·Zhaofei Wu, (unknown), Thomas W. Crowther, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0
2	Mapping global distributions, environmental controls, and uncertainties of apparent topsoil and subsoil organic carbon turnover times 2025 ·Earth system science data ·Lei Zhang, Lin Yang, Thomas W. Crowther, Constantin M. Zohner, Sebastian Döetterl, G.B.M. Heuvelink, Alexandre M.J.‐C. Wadoux, A‐Xing Zhu, (unknown), Feixue Shen, Haozhi Ma, (unknown), Chenghu Zhou	1
3	Forest edges are globally warmer than interiors and exceed optimal temperatures for vegetation productivity 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Thomas W. Crowther, T. Bruce Lauber, Sebastian Schemm, (unknown), Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Mengtian Huang, Shilong Piao, Constantin M. Zohner, Gabriel Reuben Smith	1
4	An open-source method for spatially and temporally explicit herbivory monitoring in semi-arid savannas 2025 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Thomas W. Crowther, Leland K. Werden	0
5	The importance of distinguishing between natural and managed tree cover gains in the moist tropics 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Peter B. Reich, Jeffrey R. Vincent, Matthew E. Fagan, Robin L. Chazdon, Steffen Fritz, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Matthew D. Potts, Matthew C. Hansen, Martin Jung, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, María Uriarte, Trevor F. Keenan, Thomas W. Crowther, Ralph Dubayah, Myroslava Lesiv, Shunlin Liang, Dongdong Wang	0
6	Regional uniqueness of tree species composition and response to forest loss and climate change 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Fabian Fopp, Philipp Brun, Johan van den Hoogen, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Cecilia M. Casadei, (unknown), Devis Tuia, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Thomas W. Crowther, Loïc Pellissier	13
7	Effects of winter soil warming on crop biomass carbon loss from organic matter degradation 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Haowei Ni, Han Hu, Constantin M. Zohner, Weigen Huang, Ji Chen, (unknown), Jixian Ding, Jizhong Zhou, Xiaoyuan Yan, Jiabao Zhang, Yuting Liang, Thomas W. Crowther	15
8	Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes 2024 ·Nature Climate Change ·Carolina Bello, Thomas W. Crowther, Danielle Leal Ramos, Teresa Morán‐López, Marco Aurélio Pizo, Daisy H. Dent	20
9	Natural forest regeneration is projected to reduce local temperatures 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Édouard L. Davin, Eduardo Eiji Maeda, Miguel B. Araújo, (unknown), Janne Heiskanen, Petri Pellikka, Thomas W. Crowther	10
10	Reducing the uncertainty in estimating soil microbial-derived carbon storage breakdown → 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hu Han, Chao Qian, Ke Xue, (unknown), Marco Keiluweit, Chao Liang, Xuefeng Zhu, Ji Chen, (unknown), Haowei Ni, Jixian Ding, Weigen Huang, Jingdong Mao, (unknown), Jizhong Zhou, Thomas W. Crowther, Zhi‐Hua Zhou, Jiabao Zhang, Yuting Liang	68
11	Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates breakdown → 2024 ·Nature Geoscience ·Han Hu, Ji Chen, Feng Zhou, Ming Nie, Deyi Hou, Huan Liu, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Haowei Ni, Weigen Huang, Jizhong Zhou, Xianwei Song, Xiaofeng Cao, Bo Sun, Jiabao Zhang, Thomas W. Crowther, Yuting Liang	68
12	Improving access and use of climate projections for ecological research through the use of a new Python tool 2024 ·Ecography ·Andrea Paz, T. Bruce Lauber, Thomas W. Crowther, Johan van den Hoogen	1
13	Fungal community dissimilarity predicts plant–soil feedback strength in a lowland tropical forest 2023 ·Ecology ·Camille S. Delavaux, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), John W. Schroeder, Kirk Broders, Edward Allen Herre, James D. Bever, Thomas W. Crowther	6
14	Effect of climate warming on the timing of autumn leaf senescence reverses after the summer solstice breakdown → 2023 ·Science ·Constantin M. Zohner, (unknown), Susanne S. Renner, Lidong Mo, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yann Vitasse, Yongshuo H. Fu, Benjamin D. Stocker, Thomas W. Crowther	83
15	Home‐based microbial solution to boost crop growth in low‐fertility soil breakdown → 2023 ·New Phytologist ·(unknown), Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Mengting Yuan, Jixian Ding, Étienne Yergeau, Jizhong Zhou, Thomas W. Crowther, Yuting Liang	80
16	Links across ecological scales: Plant biomass responses to elevated CO₂ 2022 ·Global Change Biology ·Julia Maschler, Lalasia Bialic‐Murphy, Joe Wan, Louise C. Andresen, Constantin M. Zohner, Peter B. Reich, A. Lüscher, Manuel K. Schneider, Christoph Müller, Gerald M. Moser, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Inger Kappel Schmidt, Mark C. Bilton, Kai Zhu, Thomas W. Crowther	37
17	How changes in spring and autumn phenology translate into growth‐experimental evidence of asymmetric effects 2021 ·Journal of Ecology ·Constantin M. Zohner, Susanne S. Renner, (unknown), Thomas W. Crowther	22
18	Author Correction: Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming 2021 ·Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Pablo García‐Palacios, Thomas W. Crowther, Marina Dacal, Iain P. Hartley, Sabine Reinsch, Riikka Rinnan, Johannes Rousk, Johan van den Hoogen, Jian‐Sheng Ye, Mark A. Bradford	7
19	The global tree restoration potential breakdown → 2019 ·Science ·Jean‐François Bastin, Yelena Finegold, Claude García, Danilo Mollicone, Marcelo Rezende, Devin Routh, Constantin M. Zohner, Thomas W. Crowther	1345
20	Intransitive competition is common across five major taxonomic groups and is driven by productivity, competitive rank and functional traits 2018 ·Journal of Ecology ·Santiago Soliveres, Anika Lehmann, Steffen Boch, Florian Altermatt, Francesco Carrara, Thomas W. Crowther, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Anne Kempel, Daniel S. Maynard, Matthias C. Rillig, Brajesh K. Singh, Pankaj Trivedi, Eric Allan	36

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