Stanley D. Smith

12.2k citations

121 papers · 10.1k · 4 hit papers · h-index 53

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Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.2%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 74
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 68
- Climate variability and models 10
Nature and Landscape Conservation 33
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 27

Co-authors: Robert S. Nowak (17 shared papers)Travis E. Huxman (21 shared papers)David E. Busch (5 shared papers)Dale A. Devitt (10 shared papers)David S. Ellsworth (1 shared paper)Michael E. Loik (10 shared papers)Philip A. Fay (4 shared papers)Alan K. Knapp (3 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Arid Environments (12 papers)Oecologia (9 papers)Global Change Biology (7 papers)Plant Cell & Environment (7 papers)Ecology (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia Spain

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Stanley D. Smith

120 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Stanley D. Smith's Hit Papers

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Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems 2008 · 1.1k citations

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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.

2008 BioScience
2004 New Phytologist
2004 Nature
2003 BioScience

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1	Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems BioScience ·Alan K. Knapp, Claus Beier, David D. Briske, Aimée T. Classen, Yiqi Luo, M. Reichstein, M. D. Smith, Stanley D. Smith, Jesse Eugene Bell, Philip A. Fay, Jana L. Heisler, Steven W. Leavitt, Rebecca A. Sherry, B. R. Smith, Ensheng Weng Hit paper breakdown →	2008	1059
2	Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency Nature ·Travis E. Huxman, M. D. Smith, Philip A. Fay, Alan K. Knapp, M. Rebecca Shaw, Michael E. Loik, Stanley D. Smith, David Thomas Tissue, John C. Zak, Jake F. Weltzin, William T. Pockman, Osvaldo E. Sala, Brent M. Haddad, John Harte, George W. Koch, Susan Schwinning, Eric E. Small, David G. Williams Hit paper breakdown →	2004	1044
3	Assessing the Response of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Potential Changes in Precipitation BioScience ·Jake F. Weltzin, Michael E. Loik, Susanne Schwinning, David G. Williams, Philip A. Fay, Brent M. Haddad, John Harte, Travis E. Huxman, Alan K. Knapp, Guanghui Lin, William T. Pockman, M. REBECCA SHAW, Eric E. Small, M. D. Smith, Stanley D. Smith, David Thomas Tissue, John C. Zak Hit paper breakdown →	2003	718
4	Functional responses of plants to elevated atmospheric CO 2 – do photosynthetic and productivity data from FACE experiments support early predictions? New Phytologist ·Robert S. Nowak, David S. Ellsworth, Stanley D. Smith Hit paper breakdown →	2004	614
5	Elevated CO2 increases productivity and invasive species success in an arid ecosystem Nature ·Stanley D. Smith, Travis E. Huxman, Stephen F. Zitzer, Therese N. Charlet, David C. Housman, James Smoot Coleman, Lynn Fenstermaker, Jeffrey R. Seemann, Robert S. Nowak	2000	512
6	Mechanisms Associated With Decline of Woody Species in Riparian Ecosystems of the Southwestern U.S. Ecological Monographs ·David E. Busch, Stanley D. Smith	1995	373
7	Water Uptake in Woody Riparian Phreatophytes of the Southwestern United States: A Stable Isotope Study Ecological Applications ·David E. Busch, Neil L. Ingraham, Stanley D. Smith	1992	237
8	Water Use by Tamarix Ramosissima and Associated Phreatophytes in a Mojave Desert Floodplain Ecological Applications ·Anna Sala, Stanley D. Smith, Dale A. Devitt	1996	208
9	Stress Physiology and the Distribution of Plants BioScience ·C. B. Osmond, Michael P. Austin, Joseph A. Berry, William Dwight Billings, J. S. Boyer, Joshua Dacey, PS Nobel, Stanley D. Smith, William E. Winner	1987	206
10	Invasive capacity of Tamarix ramosissima in a Mojave Desert floodplain: the role of drought Oecologia ·James Cleverly, Stanley D. Smith, Anna Sala, Dale A. Devitt	1997	194
11	Soil resource heterogeneity in the Mojave Desert Journal of Arid Environments ·Jonathan H. Titus, Robert S. Nowak, Stanley D. Smith	2002	190
12	Water relations of riparian plants from warm desert regions Wetlands ·Stanley D. Smith, Dale A. Devitt, Anna Sala, James Cleverly, David E. Busch	1998	174
13	Root channel macropores enhance downward movement of water in a Mojave Desert ecosystem Journal of Arid Environments ·Dale A. Devitt, Stanley D. Smith	2002	168
14	Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ·Kevin E. McCluney, Jayne Belnap, Scott L. Collins, Angélica L. González, Elizabeth M. Hagen, Julian Nathaniel Holland, Burt P. Kotler, Fernando T. Maestre, Stanley D. Smith, Blair O. Wolf	2011	163
15	Functional Responses of Riparian Vegetation to Streamflow Diversion in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Ecological Applications ·Stanley D. Smith, A. Bruce Wellington, Janet L. Nachlinger, Carl A. Fox	1991	157
16	Effects of extreme high temperature, drought and elevated CO2 on photosynthesis of the Mojave Desert evergreen shrub, Larrea tridentata Plant Ecology ·Erik P. Hamerlynck, Travis E. Huxman, Michael E. Loik, Stanley D. Smith	2000	135
17	Impacts of Invasive Plants on Community and Ecosystem Properties Springer series on environmental management ·Lawrence R. Walker, Stanley D. Smith	1997	120
18	Net ecosystem CO 2 exchange in Mojave Desert shrublands during the eighth year of exposure to elevated CO 2 Global Change Biology ·Richard L. Jasoni, Stanley D. Smith, John A. Arnone	2005	119
19	Effects of CO 2 Enrichment on Four Great Basin Grasses Functional Ecology ·Stanley D. Smith, Boyd R. Strain, Thomas David Sharkey	1987	109
20	The temperature responses of soil respiration in deserts: a seven desert synthesis Biogeochemistry ·Jessica M. Cable, Kiona Ogle, Richard W. Lucas, Travis E. Huxman, Michael E. Loik, Stanley D. Smith, David Thomas Tissue, Brent E. Ewers, Elise G Pendall, J. M. Welker, Therese N. Charlet, Meagan B. Cleary, Alden B. Griffith, Robert S. Nowak, Matthew C. Rogers, Heidi Steltzer, Patrick F. Sullivan, Natasja C. van Gestel	2010	104

About Stanley D. Smith

Stanley D. Smith is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, having authored 121 papers that have together received 10.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (68 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (41 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (27 papers), Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (15 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (10 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (10 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (5.5k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.8k citations), Soil Science (1.7k citations), Ecological Modeling (543 citations) and Ecology (3.0k citations). Stanley D. Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Robert S. Nowak, Travis E. Huxman, David E. Busch, Dale A. Devitt, David S. Ellsworth, Michael E. Loik, Philip A. Fay, Alan K. Knapp, M. D. Smith and Erik P. Hamerlynck. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Arid Environments, Oecologia, Global Change Biology, Plant Cell & Environment and Ecology.

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