Vanessa Buzzard

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Vanessa Buzzard is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Vanessa Buzzard has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 7 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Vanessa Buzzard's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (7 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers). Vanessa Buzzard is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (7 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers). Vanessa Buzzard collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Vanessa Buzzard's co-authors include Brian J. Enquist, Sean T. Michaletz, Jizhong Zhou, Zhili He, Ye Deng, Robert B. Waide, Michael D. Weiser, Liyou Wu, Daliang Ning and Qingyun Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Vanessa Buzzard

16 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of micro... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils
    2016 503 citations Jizhong Zhou, Ye Deng et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vanessa Buzzard United States 12 634 381 329 284 281 17 1.3k
Sophie Karrenberg Switzerland 22 546 0.9× 514 1.3× 567 1.7× 285 1.0× 215 0.8× 34 1.6k
Xian Yang China 16 433 0.7× 416 1.1× 325 1.0× 270 1.0× 159 0.6× 39 1.1k
Robert J. Holdaway New Zealand 23 669 1.1× 693 1.8× 385 1.2× 269 0.9× 290 1.0× 35 1.7k
Julien Roy Germany 17 647 1.0× 257 0.7× 700 2.1× 502 1.8× 328 1.2× 33 1.7k
Kobayashi Makoto Japan 20 433 0.7× 352 0.9× 316 1.0× 373 1.3× 157 0.6× 78 1.3k
Simonetta Bagella Italy 24 507 0.8× 479 1.3× 696 2.1× 231 0.8× 149 0.5× 100 1.7k
E. Ashley Shaw United States 14 513 0.8× 273 0.7× 342 1.0× 500 1.8× 146 0.5× 18 1.1k
Kechang Niu China 22 473 0.7× 668 1.8× 435 1.3× 368 1.3× 69 0.2× 53 1.3k
David S. Pescador Spain 15 244 0.4× 353 0.9× 383 1.2× 248 0.9× 96 0.3× 38 969
Elly Morriën Netherlands 22 556 0.9× 557 1.5× 764 2.3× 484 1.7× 138 0.5× 37 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Vanessa Buzzard

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vanessa Buzzard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vanessa Buzzard

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vanessa Buzzard. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vanessa Buzzard based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Vanessa Buzzard. Vanessa Buzzard is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Buzzard, Vanessa, et al.. (2022). Sensitivity of soil hydrogen uptake to natural and managed moisture dynamics in a semiarid urban ecosystem. PeerJ. 10. e12966–e12966. 2 indexed citations
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Buzzard, Vanessa, et al.. (2021). Green infrastructure influences soil health: Biological divergence one year after installation. The Science of The Total Environment. 801. 149644–149644. 15 indexed citations
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Tu, Qichao, Qingyun Yan, Ye Deng, et al.. (2020). Biogeographic patterns of microbial co-occurrence ecological networks in six American forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 148. 107897–107897. 99 indexed citations
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Buzzard, Vanessa, Sean T. Michaletz, Ye Deng, et al.. (2019). Continental scale structuring of forest and soil diversity via functional traits. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(9). 1298–1308. 44 indexed citations
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Hogan, J. Aaron, Sean M. McMahon, Vanessa Buzzard, et al.. (2019). Drought and the interannual variability of stem growth in an aseasonal, everwet forest. Biotropica. 51(2). 139–154. 9 indexed citations
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Weiser, Michael D., Daliang Ning, Vanessa Buzzard, et al.. (2019). Thermal disruption of soil bacterial assemblages decreases diversity and assemblage similarity. Ecosphere. 10(2). 4 indexed citations
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Wieczynski, Daniel J., Brad Boyle, Vanessa Buzzard, et al.. (2018). Climate shapes and shifts functional biodiversity in forests worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(2). 587–592. 162 indexed citations
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Henn, Jonathan J., Vanessa Buzzard, Brian J. Enquist, et al.. (2018). Intraspecific Trait Variation and Phenotypic Plasticity Mediate Alpine Plant Species Response to Climate Change. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9. 1548–1548. 155 indexed citations
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Deng, Ye, Daliang Ning, Yujia Qin, et al.. (2018). Spatial scaling of forest soil microbial communities across a temperature gradient. Environmental Microbiology. 20(10). 3504–3513. 22 indexed citations
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Enquist, Brian J., Lisa Patrick Bentley, Alexander Shenkin, et al.. (2017). Assessing trait‐based scaling theory in tropical forests spanning a broad temperature gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 26(12). 1357–1373. 57 indexed citations
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Weiser, Michael D., Sean T. Michaletz, Vanessa Buzzard, et al.. (2017). Toward a theory for diversity gradients: the abundance–adaptation hypothesis. Ecography. 41(2). 255–264. 25 indexed citations
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Buzzard, Vanessa. (2017). Variation of Functional Traits Across Space and Time: Assessing the Roles of Succession and Temperature on Plant and Microbial Functional Traits to Understand Biodiversity Gradients. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona).
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Zhou, Jizhong, Ye Deng, Lina Shen, et al.. (2016). Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12083–12083. 503 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tu, Qichao, Ye Deng, Qingyun Yan, et al.. (2016). Biogeographic patterns of soil diazotrophic communities across six forests in the North America. Molecular Ecology. 25(12). 2937–2948. 82 indexed citations
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Buzzard, Vanessa, et al.. (2015). Re‐growing a tropical dry forest: functional plant trait composition and community assembly during succession. Functional Ecology. 30(6). 1006–1013. 77 indexed citations
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Rosenzweig, Michael L., et al.. (2013). Patterns in the diversity of the world's land vertebrate genera. 15(8). 869–882. 2 indexed citations

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