William K. Lauenroth

27.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
249 papers, 20.5k citations indexed

About

William K. Lauenroth is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, William K. Lauenroth has authored 249 papers receiving a total of 20.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 122 papers in Ecology and 118 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in William K. Lauenroth's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (132 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (82 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (72 papers). William K. Lauenroth is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (132 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (82 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (72 papers). William K. Lauenroth collaborates with scholars based in United States, Argentina and China. William K. Lauenroth's co-authors include Ingrid C. Burke, Osvaldo E. Sala, D. G. Milchunas, John B. Bradford, William J. Parton, José M. Paruelo, Debra P. Coffin, Peter B. Adler, Daniel R. Schlaepfer and Linda A. Joyce and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Ecology and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

William K. Lauenroth

244 papers receiving 19.0k 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.

Quantitative Effects of Grazing on Vegetation and Soils Over a Global Range of Environments

1993 1.5k citations William K. Lauenroth et al. profile →
Primary Production of the Central Grassland Region of the United States

1988 1.1k citations William K. Lauenroth et al. Ecology profile →
The effect of grazing on the spatial heterogeneity of vegetation

2001 724 citations William K. Lauenroth et al. Oecologia profile →
Long‐Term Forage Production of North American Shortgrass Steppe

1992 578 citations William K. Lauenroth et al. Ecological Applications profile →
Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils

2017 304 citations Daniel R. Schlaepfer, John B. Bradford et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William K. Lauenroth United States	78	9.9k	9.5k	9.3k	4.1k	3.5k	249	20.5k
Scott L. Collins United States	81	12.9k 1.3×	11.1k 1.2×	9.7k 1.0×	3.9k 1.0×	4.8k 1.4×	325	24.3k
Melinda D. Smith United States	64	8.3k 0.8×	6.5k 0.7×	8.4k 0.9×	2.8k 0.7×	3.8k 1.1×	199	17.7k
Alan K. Knapp United States	84	12.3k 1.2×	11.4k 1.2×	15.6k 1.7×	5.0k 1.2×	7.0k 2.0×	303	29.1k
Ariel E. Lugo United States	60	7.8k 0.8×	7.2k 0.8×	7.6k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	2.5k 0.7×	184	17.7k
Frank Berendse Netherlands	81	7.1k 0.7×	8.6k 0.9×	4.1k 0.4×	4.1k 1.0×	6.5k 1.9×	225	19.4k
Johannes M. H. Knops United States	54	8.7k 0.9×	7.7k 0.8×	4.4k 0.5×	4.2k 1.0×	5.0k 1.4×	161	18.3k
Juli G. Pausas Spain	78	13.2k 1.3×	6.8k 0.7×	14.1k 1.5×	1.3k 0.3×	5.8k 1.7×	241	23.0k
Estéban G. Jobbágy Argentina	61	4.4k 0.4×	6.5k 0.7×	8.8k 0.9×	7.8k 1.9×	2.2k 0.6×	216	20.3k
Katharine N. Suding United States	59	9.4k 1.0×	6.4k 0.7×	5.0k 0.5×	2.7k 0.7×	4.8k 1.4×	193	16.6k
William J. Bond South Africa	86	20.3k 2.1×	12.2k 1.3×	18.1k 2.0×	1.8k 0.4×	6.4k 1.8×	342	34.1k

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Ferguson, P. Lee, et al.. (2025). The effect of mechanical canopy reduction on big sagebrush plant communities. Ecological Applications. 35(4). e70056–e70056.

Xu, Kai & William K. Lauenroth. (2025). Biome-aligned temperature zones for interpretable climate classification via average monthly temperatures. PLOS Climate. 4(6). e0000579–e0000579.

Holdrege, Martin C., Kyle A. Palmquist, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, et al.. (2024). Climate Change Amplifies Ongoing Declines in Sagebrush Ecological Integrity. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 97. 25–40. 9 indexed citations

Holdrege, Martin C., Daniel R. Schlaepfer, Kyle A. Palmquist, et al.. (2024). Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 12 indexed citations

Schlaepfer, Daniel R., et al.. (2024). Estimating multivariate ecological variables at high spatial resolution using a cost‐effective matching algorithm. Ecosphere. 15(3). 2 indexed citations

Anderson, Robert C., et al.. (2024). Climate change and C₄ and C₃ grasses in a midlatitude dryland steppe. Ecology and Evolution. 14(8). e70103–e70103. 1 indexed citations

Palmquist, Kyle A., et al.. (2023). Plant community predictions support the potential for big sagebrush range expansion adjacent to the leading edge. Regional Environmental Change. 23(1). 1 indexed citations

Schlaepfer, Daniel R., et al.. (2021). Allometric Modeling of Bunchgrasses in Big Sagebrush Plant Communities. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 79. 77–86. 4 indexed citations

Bradford, John B., Daniel R. Schlaepfer, William K. Lauenroth, & Kyle A. Palmquist. (2020). Robust ecological drought projections for drylands in the 21st century. Global Change Biology. 26(7). 3906–3919. 174 indexed citations

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Palmquist, Kyle A., et al.. (2018). STEPWAT2: an individual‐based model for exploring the impact of climate and disturbance on dryland plant communities. Ecosphere. 9(8). 22 indexed citations

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Newbold, Tim, et al.. (2014). Community Responses of Arthropods to a Range of Traditional and Manipulated Grazing in Shortgrass Steppe. Environmental Entomology. 43(3). 556–568. 13 indexed citations

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Bradford, John B., Daniel R. Schlaepfer, & William K. Lauenroth. (2013). The impact of changing climate and climate variability on ecosystem water balance in dryland regions. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 2 indexed citations

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Bradford, John B. & William K. Lauenroth. (2006). Controls over invasion of Bromus tectorum: The importance of climate, soil, disturbance and seed availability. Journal of Vegetation Science. 17(6). 693–693. 89 indexed citations

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Wardle, David A., Michael A. Huston, J. P. Grime, et al.. (2000). Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: An Issue in Ecology. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 81(3). 235–239. 91 indexed citations

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Paruelo, José M., Howard E. Epstein, William K. Lauenroth, & Ingrid C. Burke. (1997). ANPP ESTIMATES FROM NDVI FOR THE CENTRAL GRASSLAND REGION OF THE UNITED STATES. Ecology. 78(3). 953–958. 442 indexed citations

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Fahrig, Lenore, Debra P. Coffin, William K. Lauenroth, & Herman H. Shugart. (1994). The advantage of long-distance clonal spreading in highly disturbed habitats. Evolutionary Ecology. 8(2). 172–187. 106 indexed citations

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Coffin, D. P. & William K. Lauenroth. (1989). SMALL SCALE DISTURBANCES AND SUCCESSIONAL DYNAMICS IN A SHORTGRASS PLANT COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS OF DISTURBANCE CHARACTERISTICS. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 22 indexed citations

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Lauenroth, William K. & Eric M. Preston. (1984). Effects of SO/sub 2/ on a grassland: a case study in the northern Great Plains of the United States. Springer eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Lauenroth, William K., et al.. (1983). Analysis of ecological systems : state-of-the-art in ecological modelling : proceedings of a symposium held from 24 to 28 May 1982 at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A.. Elsevier eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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Lauenroth, William K., J. L. Dodd, & Phillip L. Sims. (1978). The effects of water- and nitrogen-induced stresses on plant community structure in a semiarid grassland. Oecologia. 36(2). 211–222. 212 indexed citations

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