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Ashley P. Ballantyne

Ashley P. Ballantyne

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
41
Citations
7575
World Ranking
5783
National Ranking
1968

Overview

Ashley P. Ballantyne is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States and has a research focus within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans a range of interdisciplinary topics related to ecosystem processes, climate change, and vegetation dynamics.

The main fields of study Ballantyne contributes to include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broad domains, their subfields of study cover:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Environmental Engineering

The primary research topics addressed by Ballantyne are:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest ecology and management

Ballantyne has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, frequently appearing in:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • PNAS Nexus
  • One Earth

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Global water use efficiency saturation due to increased vapor pressure deficit," 2023, Science
  • "Recent Amplified Global Gross Primary Productivity Due to Temperature Increase Is Offset by Reduced Productivity Due to Water Constraints," 2020, AGU Advances
  • "Carbon uptake in Eurasian boreal forests dominates the high-latitude net ecosystem carbon budget," 2023, Global Change Biology
  • "Twenty Years of Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Measuring and Understanding Soil Respiration," 2024, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Surface temperatures reveal the patterns of vegetation water stress and their environmental drivers across the tropical Americas," 2022, Global Change Biology

Throughout their career, Ballantyne has collaborated frequently with several researchers. The most recurrent co-authors include:

  • Philippe Ciais (16 publications)
  • Zhihua Liu (13 publications)
  • Kailiang Yu (10 publications)
  • John S. Kimball (9 publications)
  • Nima Madani (5 publications)

Best Publications

  • Increase in observed net carbon dioxide uptake by land and oceans during the past 50 years

    A. P. Ballantyne;C. B. Alden;J. B. Miller;J. B. Miller;P. P. Tans

  • Increasing Eolian Dust Deposition in the Western United States Linked to Human Activity

    J. C. Neff;A. P. Ballantyne;G. L. Farmer;N. M. Mahowald;N. M. Mahowald

  • Large divergence of satellite and Earth system model estimates of global terrestrial CO2 fertilization

    W. Kolby Smith;W. Kolby Smith;Sasha C. Reed;Cory C. Cleveland;Ashley P. Ballantyne

  • Unsaturated fatty acid content in seston and tropho-dynamic coupling in lakes

    Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra;Michael T. Brett;Sangkyu Park;Sudeep Chandra

  • The sensitivity of soil respiration to soil temperature, moisture, and carbon supply at the global scale

    Andrew Hursh;Ashley P. Ballantyne;Leila Cooper;Marco Maneta

  • Daphnia fatty acid composition reflects that of their diet

    Michael T. Brett;Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra;Ashley P. Ballantyne;Joseph L. Ravet

  • Creating a topoclimatic daily air temperature dataset for the conterminous United States using homogenized station data and remotely sensed land skin temperature

    Jared Wesley Oyler;Ashley P. Ballantyne;Kelsey Jencso;Michael D. Sweet

  • Global water use efficiency saturation due to increased vapor pressure deficit

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  • Accelerating net terrestrial carbon uptake during the warming hiatus due to reduced respiration

    Ashley Ballantyne;William Smith;William Anderegg;Pekka Kauppi

  • Is Atmospheric Phosphorus Pollution Altering Global Alpine Lake Stoichiometry

    Janice Brahney;Natalie Mahowald;Daniel S. Ward;Ashley P. Ballantyne

  • Significantly warmer Arctic surface temperatures during the Pliocene indicated by multiple independent proxies

    A. P. Ballantyne;D. R. Greenwood;J. S. Sinninghe Damsté;A. Z. Csank

  • Biophysical feedback of global forest fires on surface temperature.

    Zhihua Liu;Zhihua Liu;Ashley P. Ballantyne;L. Annie Cooper

  • Artificial amplification of warming trends across the mountains of the western United States

    Jared Wesley Oyler;Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Ashley P. Ballantyne;Anna E. Klene

  • Future global productivity will be affected by plant trait response to climate.

    Nima Madani;John S. Kimball;Ashley P. Ballantyne;David L. R. Affleck

  • Effects of N : P loading ratios on phytoplankton community composition, primary production and N fixation in a eutrophic lake

    Tobias Vrede;Ashley P. Ballantyne;Cecilia Mille-Lindblom;Grete Algesten

  • Audit of the global carbon budget: estimate errors and their impact on uptake uncertainty

    A. P. Ballantyne;R. Andres;R. Houghton;B. D. Stocker

  • Empirical estimates of regional carbon budgets imply reduced global soil heterotrophic respiration

    Philippe Ciais;Philippe Ciais;Yitong Yao;Thomas Gasser;Alessandro Baccini

  • Increasing Ca2+ deposition in the western US: The role of mineral aerosols

    Janice Brahney;Ashley P. Ballantyne;C. Sievers;Jason C. Neff

  • Tropical nighttime warming as a dominant driver of variability in the terrestrial carbon sink

    William R.L. Anderegg;William R.L. Anderegg;Ashley P. Ballantyne;W. Kolby Smith;Joseph Majkut

  • Recent Amplified Global Gross Primary Productivity Due to Temperature Increase Is Offset by Reduced Productivity Due to Water Constraints

    Nima Madani;Nicholas C. Parazoo;John S. Kimball;Ashley P. Ballantyne

  • Estimates of Arctic land surface temperatures during the early Pliocene from two novel proxies

    Adam Z. Csank;Aradhna K. Tripati;Aradhna K. Tripati;Aradhna K. Tripati;William P. Patterson;Robert A. Eagle

  • The importance of dietary phosphorus and highly unsaturated fatty acids for sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) growth in Lake Washington — a bioenergetics approach

    Ashley P Ballantyne;Michael T Brett;Daniel E Schindler

Frequent Co-Authors

John B. Miller
John B. Miller National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jason C. Neff
Jason C. Neff University of Colorado Boulder
John S. Kimball
John S. Kimball University of Montana
Paul A. Baker
Paul A. Baker Duke University
William R. L. Anderegg
William R. L. Anderegg University of Utah
James W. C. White
James W. C. White University of Colorado Boulder
Wei Li
Wei Li Tsinghua University
Steven W. Running
Steven W. Running University of Montana
John C. Gosse
John C. Gosse Dalhousie University
Michael T. Brett
Michael T. Brett University of Washington

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