S. Spawn

4.1k citations

28 papers · 2.5k · 2 hit papers · h-index 18

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 2%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Management and Policy
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Ecology top 2%
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 20
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 6
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 4
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 3
Ecology 13
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology 7
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact 3
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics 3

Co-authors: Holly Gibbs (8 shared papers)Tyler J. Lark (7 shared papers)Matthew Bougie (2 shared papers)Will R. Turner (2 shared papers)David G. Hole (2 shared papers)Johan Rockström (2 shared papers)Juan Carlos Ledezma (2 shared papers)Allie Goldstein (2 shared papers)
Journals: Environmental Research Letters (3 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (3 papers)Science Advances (2 papers)Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (1 paper)Ecohydrology (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Russia

In The Last Decade

S. Spawn

28 papers receiving 2.4k citations

S. Spawn's Hit Papers

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Cropland expansion in the United States produces marginal yields at high costs to wildlife 2020 · 250 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2020 Nature Communications
2018 Science Advances

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1	Natural climate solutions for the United States Science Advances ·Joseph Fargione, Steven Bassett, Timothy M. Boucher, Scott Bridgham, Richard T. Conant, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Peter Woods Ellis, Alessandra Falcucci Hit paper breakdown →	2018	454
2	Cropland expansion in the United States produces marginal yields at high costs to wildlife Nature Communications ·Tyler J. Lark, S. Spawn, Matthew Bougie, Holly Gibbs Hit paper breakdown →	2020	250
3	Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems Nature Climate Change ·Allie Goldstein, Will R. Turner, S. Spawn, Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Joseph Fargione, Holly Gibbs, Bronson W. Griscom	2020	231
4	Monitoring cropland abandonment with Landsat time series Remote Sensing of Environment ·He Yin, Amintas Brandão, Johanna Buchner, David P. Helmers, Benjamin G. Iuliano, Niwaeli E. Kimambo, Katarzyna Ewa Lewińska, Elena Razenkova	2020	178
5	Dietary change in high-income nations alone can lead to substantial double climate dividend Nature Food ·Zhongxiao Sun, Laura Scherer, Arnold Tukker, S. Spawn, Martin Brückner, Holly Gibbs, Paul K. Behrens	2022	171
6	Mapping co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Carolina Soto-Navarro, Corinna Ravilious, Andy Arnell, Xavier De Lamo, Michael Harfoot, Samantha L. L. Hill, Oliver R. Wearn, Maurizio Santoro	2020	170
7	Environmental outcomes of the US Renewable Fuel Standard Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Tyler J. Lark, Nathan P. Hendricks, Aaron Douglas Smith, Nicholas J. Pates, S. Spawn, Matthew Bougie, Eric G. Booth, Christopher J. Kucharik	2022	170
8	Natural climate solutions for Canada Science Advances ·C. Ronnie Drever, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Fardausi Akhter, Pascal H. J. Badiou, Gail L. Chmura, Scott J. Davidson, Raymond Louis Desjardins, Andrew Dyk	2021	164
9	Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems Nature Sustainability ·Monica L. Noon, Allie Goldstein, Juan Carlos Ledezma, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, S. Spawn, Timothy M. Wright, Mariano González‐Roglich	2021	137
10	Ebullitive methane emissions from oxygenated wetland streams Global Change Biology ·John T. Crawford, Emily H. Stanley, S. Spawn, Jacques C. Finlay, Luke C. Loken, Robert G. Striegl	2014	89
11	Redefining marginal land for bioenergy crop production GCB Bioenergy ·Madhu Khanna, Luoye Chen, Bruno Basso, Ximing Cai, John Field, Kaiyu Guan, Chongya Jiang, Tyler J. Lark	2021	88
12	Network structure of resource use and niche overlap within the endophytic microbiome The ISME Journal ·Matthew J. Smith, Zewei Song, S. Spawn, Zoe A. Hansen, Mitch C. Johnson, Georgiana May, Elizabeth Borer, Eric W. Seabloom	2021	58
13	Carbon emissions from cropland expansion in the United States Environmental Research Letters ·S. Spawn, Tyler J. Lark, Holly Gibbs	2019	53
14	Spatial heterogeneity of within‐stream methane concentrations Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·John T. Crawford, Luke C. Loken, William E. West, Benjamin Crary, S. Spawn, Stuart E. Jones, Robert G. Striegl, Emily H. Stanley +1 other	2017	51
15	Toward a Generalizable Framework of Disturbance Ecology Through Crowdsourced Science Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ·Emily B. Graham, Colin Averill, Benjamin Bond-Lamberty, Joseph E. Knelman, Stefan Krause, Ariane L. Peralta, Ashley M Shade, A. Peyton Smith	2021	41
16	Environmental constraints on transpiration and stomatal conductance in a Siberian Arctic boreal forest Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Heather Kropp, Michael Mark Loranty, Heather D. Alexander, Logan T. Berner, Susan M. Natali, S. Spawn	2017	34
17	Cropland abandonment between 1986 and 2018 across the United States: spatiotemporal patterns and current land uses Environmental Research Letters ·Yanhua Xie, S. Spawn, Volker C. Radeloff, He Yin, G. Philip Robertson, Tyler J. Lark	2024	23
18	Estimating the Potential for Conservation and Farming in the Amazon and Cerrado under Four Policy Scenarios Sustainability ·Amintas Brandão, Lisa Rausch, América Paz Durán, Ciniro Costa, S. Spawn, Holly Gibbs	2020	18
19	Land use leverage points to reduce GHG emissions in U.S. agricultural supply chains Environmental Research Letters ·Rylie E. O. Pelton, S. Spawn, Tyler J. Lark, Tae‐Gon Kim, Nathaniel P. Springer, Peter L. Hawthorne, Deepak K. Ray, Jennifer A. Schmitt	2021	16
20	Tree density influences ecohydrological drivers of plant–water relations in a larch boreal forest in Siberia Ecohydrology ·Heather Kropp, Michael Mark Loranty, Susan M. Natali, Alexander Kholodov, Heather D. Alexander, Nikita Zimov, Michelle C. Mack, S. Spawn	2019	15

About S. Spawn

S. Spawn is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 28 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (7 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 papers), Climate change and permafrost (4 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (3 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (3 papers) and Bioenergy crop production and management (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (1.2k citations), Ecology (816 citations), Soil Science (261 citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (266 citations) and Environmental Engineering (272 citations). S. Spawn has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Russia. Frequent co-authors include Holly Gibbs, Tyler J. Lark, Matthew Bougie, Will R. Turner, David G. Hole, Johan Rockström, Juan Carlos Ledezma, Allie Goldstein, Susan C. Cook‐Patton and Laura Scherer. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Science Advances, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution and Ecohydrology.

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