Thure E. Cerling

36.1k total citations · 12 hit papers
262 papers, 26.4k citations indexed

About

Thure E. Cerling is a scholar working on Ecology, Paleontology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thure E. Cerling has authored 262 papers receiving a total of 26.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Ecology, 125 papers in Paleontology and 91 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Thure E. Cerling's work include Isotope Analysis in Ecology (114 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (91 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (81 papers). Thure E. Cerling is often cited by papers focused on Isotope Analysis in Ecology (114 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (91 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (81 papers). Thure E. Cerling collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and United Kingdom. Thure E. Cerling's co-authors include James R. Ehleringer, Jay Quade, John Harris, Benjamin H. Passey, John R. Bowman, Bruce J. MacFadden, Meave G. Leakey, Brent R. Helliker, Naomi E. Levin and Francis H. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thure E. Cerling

256 papers receiving 25.2k 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.

Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary

1997 1.6k citations Thure E. Cerling, John Harris et al. profile →
The stable isotopic composition of modern soil carbonate and its relationship to climate

1984 1.2k citations Thure E. Cerling Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
C 4 photosynthesis, atmospheric CO 2 , and climate

1997 1.1k citations James R. Ehleringer, Thure E. Cerling et al. profile →
Carbon isotope fractionation between diet and bioapatite in ungulate mammals and implications for ecological and paleoecological studies

1999 832 citations Thure E. Cerling, John Harris profile →
Development of Asian monsoon revealed by marked ecological shift during the latest Miocene in northern Pakistan

1989 740 citations Thure E. Cerling et al. profile →
On the isotopic composition of carbon in soil carbon dioxide

1991 627 citations Thure E. Cerling et al. profile →
Expansion of C4 ecosystems as an indicator of global ecological change in the late Miocene

1993 546 citations Thure E. Cerling et al. profile →
Carbon isotopes in soils and palaeosols as ecology and palaeoecology indicators

1989 487 citations Thure E. Cerling et al. profile →
Carbon isotope fractionation between diet, breath CO2, and bioapatite in different mammals

2005 478 citations Benjamin H. Passey, Thure E. Cerling et al. profile →
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; evidence from Cenozoic and Mesozoic Paleosols

1991 458 citations Thure E. Cerling profile →
High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates

2010 369 citations Benjamin H. Passey, Naomi E. Levin et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

2011 360 citations Thure E. Cerling, Jonathan G. Wynn et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Pedogenic carbonate as a transient soil component in a humid, temperate forest (Michigan, USA) 2025 ·Quaternary Research ·Julia R. Kelson, Tyler E. Huth, (unknown), (unknown), Thure E. Cerling, Lixin Jin, (unknown), Naomi E. Levin	2
2	Fifty Years in the Foothills: Ecosystem Evolution in the Neogene Siwalik Record of Pakistan 2025 ·Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences ·Catherine Badgley, John C. Barry, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Thure E. Cerling, (unknown), Michèle E. Morgan, David Pilbeam	0
3	Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow to reconstruct herbivore migrations 2025 ·Communications Biology ·(unknown), (unknown), Kevin T. Uno, Gabriel J. Bowen, Diego P. Fernández, Thure E. Cerling	1
4	BITS: A Bayesian Isotope Turnover and Sampling model for strontium isotopes in proboscideans and its potential utility in movement ecology 2023 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), Gabriel J. Bowen, Kevin T. Uno, (unknown), Nancy Carpenter, Diego P. Fernández, Thure E. Cerling	6
5	14-Carbon demonstrates that some illegal ivory is being taken from government stockpiles 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Thure E. Cerling, John E. Brown, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), John Southon, Samuel K. Wasser	0
6	Stable isotope analysis of carnivores from the Turkana Basin, Kenya: Evidence for temporally-mixed fossil assemblages 2022 ·Quaternary International ·Philip J. Hopley, Thure E. Cerling, (unknown), Lars Werdelin, Ogeto Mwebi, Fredrick K. Manthi, Louise Leakey	3
7	A Late Pleistocene third molar ofHylochoerus(Suidae, Mammalia) from Rusinga Island, Kenya: paleoenvironmental implications and a note on the hypsodonty of African forest hogs 2021 ·Historical Biology ·(unknown), Thure E. Cerling, J. Tyler Faith	5
8	The isotopic geochemistry of CaCO3 encrustations in Taylor Valley, Antarctica: Implications for their origin 2020 ·Acta geographica Slovenica ·(unknown), (unknown), Anne E. Carey, (unknown), Gabriel J. Bowen, Thure E. Cerling	5
9	Stable isotopes in hair reveal dietary protein sources with links to socioeconomic status and health 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·James R. Ehleringer, (unknown), Brett J. Tipple, Luciano O. Valenzuela, Thure E. Cerling	12
10	Comparative isotope ecology of western Amazonian rainforest mammals 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Julia V. Tejada‐Lara, John J. Flynn, Pierre‐Olivier Antoine, Víctor Pacheco, Rodolfo Salas‐Gismondi, Thure E. Cerling	28
11	Calcium isotopic ecology of Turkana Basin hominins 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Jeremy E. Martin, Théo Tacail, José Braga, Thure E. Cerling, Vincent Balter	29
12	Calcium isotopic patterns in enamel reflect different nursing behaviors among South African early hominins 2019 ·Science Advances ·Théo Tacail, Jeremy E. Martin, Florent Arnaud‐Godet, Francis Thackeray, Thure E. Cerling, José Braga, Vincent Balter	34
13	Calcium isotopes in enamel of modern and Plio-Pleistocene East African mammals 2018 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Jeremy E. Martin, Théo Tacail, Thure E. Cerling, Vincent Balter	36
14	What plant is that? Chemotaxonomy from n-alkane molecular distributions of East African plants with implications for paleoecology 2018 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown), Thure E. Cerling, Kevin T. Uno	1
15	Climate, CO ₂ , and the history of North American grasses since the Last Glacial Maximum 2016 ·Science Advances ·Jennifer M. Cotton, Thure E. Cerling, Kathryn A. Hoppe, Thomas Mosier, Christopher J. Still	57
16	Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene paleoenvironments in southwestern Kenya from carbon isotopes in herbivore tooth enamel 2015 ·Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·Scott A. Blumenthal, Thomas W. Plummer, Thure E. Cerling, Peter Ditchfıeld, Laura C. Bishop, J. Tyler Faith, Christian A. Tryon, Daniel J. Peppe, Emily J. Beverly, Richard Potts	1
17	Paleo-shade: woody cover, stable isotopes, soil temperature, and soil organic matter in tropical ecosystems (Invited) 2010 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Thure E. Cerling, (unknown), (unknown), Naomi E. Levin, (unknown), Anthony N. Macharia, Benjamin H. Passey, Christopher H. Remien, Jonathan G. Wynn	1
18	Ecological changes in Miocene mammalian record show impact of prolonged climatic forcing 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Catherine Badgley, John C. Barry, Michèle E. Morgan, Sherry V. Nelson, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Thure E. Cerling, David Pilbeam	159
19	Stable isotopes in elephant hair document migration patterns and diet changes 2006 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Thure E. Cerling, George Wittemyer, Henrik B. Rasmussen, Fritz Vollrath, (unknown), Todd J. Robinson, Iain Douglas‐Hamilton	158
20	Carbon starvation in glacial trees recovered from the La Brea tar pits, southern California 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Joy Ward, John Harris, Thure E. Cerling, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft, Michael J. Lott, M. Denise Dearing, Joan Brenner Coltrain, James R. Ehleringer	83

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