R. E. McMurtrie

10.0k citations

89 papers · 8.4k · 2 hit papers · h-index 50

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
Soil Science top 0.2%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 73
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 66
- Forest Management and Policy 8
Nature and Landscape Conservation 38
- Forest ecology and management 32
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 10

Co-authors: Belinda E. Medlyn (21 shared papers)Danuse Murty (5 shared papers)Roderick C. Dewar (17 shared papers)Miko U. F. Kirschbaum (3 shared papers)Richard J. Norby (6 shared papers)Stith T. Gower (2 shared papers)Colleen M. Iversen (4 shared papers)Sune Linder (9 shared papers)
Journals: Tree Physiology (13 papers)Forest Ecology and Management (8 papers)Global Change Biology (8 papers)Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (6 papers)Plant Cell & Environment (3 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United States Sweden

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R. E. McMurtrie

88 papers receiving 7.7k citations

R. E. McMurtrie's Hit Papers

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CO ₂ enhancement of forest productivity constrained by limited nitrogen availability 2010 · 789 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2002 Global Change Biology

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1	Does conversion of forest to agricultural land change soil carbon and nitrogen? a review of the literature Global Change Biology ·Danuse Murty, Miko U. F. Kirschbaum, R. E. McMurtrie, Heather Mcgilvray Hit paper breakdown →	2002	795
2	CO ₂ enhancement of forest productivity constrained by limited nitrogen availability Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Richard J. Norby, J. M. Warren, Colleen M. Iversen, Belinda E. Medlyn, R. E. McMurtrie Hit paper breakdown →	2010	789
3	Aboveground net primary production decline with stand age: potential causes Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Stith T. Gower, R. E. McMurtrie, Danuse Murty	1996	497
4	Foliage, fine-root, woody-tissue and stand respiration in Pinus radiata in relation to nitrogen status Tree Physiology ·Michael G. Ryan, Robert M. Hubbard, S. Pongracic, R. J. Raison, R. E. McMurtrie	1996	483
5	The response of heterotrophic CO ₂ flux to soil warming Global Change Biology ·Peter Eliasson, R. E. McMurtrie, David A. Pepper, Monika Strömgren, Sune Linder, Göran I. Ågren	2004	280
6	Long-Term Response of Nutrient-Limited Forests to CO"2 Enrichment; Equilibrium Behavior of Plant-Soil Models Ecological Applications ·H. N. Comins, R. E. McMurtrie	1993	277
7	Modelling the yield of Pinus radiata on a site limited by water and nitrogen Forest Ecology and Management ·R. E. McMurtrie, D. A. Rook, Francis M. Kelliher	1990	241
8	Acclimation of the respiration/photosynthesis ratio to temperature: insights from a model Global Change Biology ·Roderick C. Dewar, Belinda E. Medlyn, R. E. McMurtrie	1999	236
9	Estimation of leaf area index in eucalypt forest using digital photography Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Craig Macfarlane, Megan Hoffman, Derek Eamus, Naomi L. Kerp, Simon Higginson, R. E. McMurtrie, Mark A. Adams	2006	233
10	Modeling carbon allocation in trees: a search for principles Tree Physiology ·Oskar Franklin, Jacob Johansson, Roderick C. Dewar, Ulf Dieckmann, R. E. McMurtrie, Åke Brännström, Ray Dybzinski	2012	225
11	Mathematical models of the photosynthetic response of tree stands to rising CO₂ concentrations and temperatures Plant Cell & Environment ·R. E. McMurtrie, Ying‐Ping Wang	1993	212
12	State‐of‐the‐Art of Models of Production‐Decomposition Linkages in Conifer and Grassland Ecosystems Ecological Applications ·Göran I. Ågren, R. E. McMurtrie, William J. Parton, John Pastor, Herman H. Shugart	1991	183
13	Gene Frequency Clines in the Presence of Selection Opposed by Gene Flow The American Naturalist ·Robert M. May, John A. Endler, R. E. McMurtrie	1975	177
14	Climatic factors controlling the productivity of Norway spruce: A model-based analysis Forest Ecology and Management ·Johan Bergh, R. E. McMurtrie, Sune Linder	1998	157
15	An instrumental variable method for model order identification Automatica ·Peter C. Young, Anthony J. Jakeman, R. E. McMurtrie	1980	148
16	On the validation of models of forest CO2 exchange using eddy covariance data: some perils and pitfalls Tree Physiology ·Belinda E. Medlyn, Andrew P. Robinson, R. Clement, R. E. McMurtrie	2005	142
17	Why is plant-growth response to elevated CO2 amplified when water is limiting, but reduced when nitrogen is limiting? A growth-optimisation hypothesis Functional Plant Biology ·R. E. McMurtrie, Richard J. Norby, Belinda E. Medlyn, Roderick C. Dewar, David A. Pepper, Peter B. Reich, Craig V. M. Barton	2008	126
18	A mechanistic analysis of light and carbon use efficiencies Plant Cell & Environment ·Roderick C. Dewar, Belinda E. Medlyn, R. E. McMurtrie	1998	124
19	Whole-tree chambers for elevated atmospheric CO2 experimentation and tree scale flux measurements in south-eastern Australia: The Hawkesbury Forest Experiment Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Craig V. M. Barton, David S. Ellsworth, Belinda E. Medlyn, Remko A. Duursma, David T. Tissue, Mark A. Adams, Derek Eamus, Jann P. Conroy, R. E. McMurtrie, Jan Parsby	2010	111
20	A model of canopy photosynthesis and water use incorporating a mechanistic formulation of leaf CO2 exchange Forest Ecology and Management ·R. E. McMurtrie, R. Leuning, W. A. Thompson, A. M. Wheeler	1992	109

About R. E. McMurtrie

R. E. McMurtrie is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Soil Science and Ecology, having authored 89 papers that have together received 8.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (66 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (33 papers), Forest ecology and management (32 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (11 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers), Forest Management and Policy (8 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (5.5k citations), Soil Science (2.2k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.7k citations), Atmospheric Science (1.6k citations) and Plant Science (2.8k citations). R. E. McMurtrie has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Belinda E. Medlyn, Danuse Murty, Roderick C. Dewar, Miko U. F. Kirschbaum, Richard J. Norby, Stith T. Gower, Colleen M. Iversen, Sune Linder, J. M. Warren and H. N. Comins. Their work appears in journals such as Tree Physiology, Forest Ecology and Management, Global Change Biology, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology and Plant Cell & Environment.

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