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Michael E. Loik

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
9782
World Ranking
5991
National Ranking
2042

Michael E. Loik publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael E. Loik sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 105 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Michael E. Loik D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael E. Loik sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Michael E. Loik is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable work in several related subfields including global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, plant science, and ecological modeling.

Their research covers a variety of topics, prominently including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, microbial community ecology and physiology, tree-ring climate responses, plant and animal studies, as well as wildlife ecology and conservation.

Recent scholarly contributions from Michael E. Loik include papers published in various scientific journals:

  • "Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures" (2021) in Global Change Biology
  • "Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally" (2024) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Differential responses of soil bacteria and fungi to altered precipitation in a meadow steppe" (2020) in Geoderma
  • "Light-limited photosynthesis under energy-saving film decreases eggplant yield" (2020) in Food and Energy Security
  • "Rapid shifts in grassland communities driven by climate change" (2024) in Nature Ecology & Evolution

Their frequent collaborators include Justin C. Luong, Melinda D. Smith, Scott L. Collins, Alan K. Knapp, and Yiqi Luo.

Michael E. Loik has published multiple papers in select journals, with notable frequency including Global Change Biology and the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. Other publication venues include Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Geoderma, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

    Travis E. Huxman;Melinda D. Smith;Melinda D. Smith;Philip A. Fay;Alan K. Knapp

  • Assessing the Response of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Potential Changes in Precipitation

    Jake F. Weltzin;Michael E. Loik;Susanne Schwinning;David G. Williams

  • Tropical Montane Forest Restoration in Costa Rica: Overcoming Barriers to Dispersal and Establishment

    Karen D. Holl;Michael E. Loik;Eleanor H. V. Lin;Ivan A. Samuels

  • A multi-scale perspective of water pulses in dryland ecosystems: climatology and ecohydrology of the western USA

    Michael E. Loik;David D. Breshears;William K. Lauenroth;Jayne Belnap

  • Thresholds, memory, and seasonality: understanding pulse dynamics in arid/semi-arid ecosystems

    Susan Schwinning;Osvaldo E. Sala;Michael E. Loik;James R. Ehleringer

  • An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding the Biology of Invasions: Local Adaptation and General-Purpose Genotypes in the Weed Verbascum thapsus

    Ingrid M. Parker;Joseph Rodriguez;Michael E. Loik

  • Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes

    Kiona Ogle;Jarrett J. Barber;Greg A. Barron-Gafford;Lisa Patrick Bentley

  • Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments.

    Alan K. Knapp;David L. Hoover;Kevin R. Wilcox;Meghan L. Avolio

  • Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures.

    Michael J Osland;Philip W Stevens;Margaret M Lamont;Richard C Brusca

  • Effects of extreme high temperature, drought and elevated CO2 on photosynthesis of the Mojave Desert evergreen shrub, Larrea tridentata

    Erik P. Hamerlynck;Travis E. Huxman;Michael E. Loik;Stanley D. Smith

  • Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years.

    Alan K. Knapp;Meghan L. Avolio;Claus Beier;Charles J. W. Carroll

  • Soil microbial and nutrient responses to 7 years of seasonally altered precipitation in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

    Colin W Bell;David T Tissue;David T Tissue;Michael E Loik;Matthew D Wallenstein

  • The temperature responses of soil respiration in deserts: a seven desert synthesis

    Jessica M Cable;Jessica M Cable;Kiona Ogle;Richard W Lucas;Travis E Huxman

  • Wavelength-Selective Solar Photovoltaic Systems: Powering Greenhouses for Plant Growth at the Food-Energy-Water Nexus

    Michael E. Loik;Sue A. Carter;Glenn Alers;Catherine E. Wade

  • Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

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  • Differential daytime and night-time stomatal behavior in plants from North American deserts

    Kiona Ogle;Richard W. Lucas;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Jessica M. Cable

  • Genetic variation in circadian regulation of nocturnal stomatal conductance enhances carbon assimilation and growth.

    Victor Resco de Dios;Michael E Loik;Renee A Smith;Michael J Aspinwall

  • Photosynthetic responses of Mojave Desert shrubs to free air CO2 enrichment are greatest during wet years

    Elke Naumburg;Elke Naumburg;David C. Housman;Travis E. Huxman;Therese N. Charlet

  • Differential responses of soil bacteria and fungi to altered precipitation in a meadow steppe

    Xuechen Yang;Xuechen Yang;Kai Zhu;Michael E. Loik;Wei Sun

  • Photosynthetic responses to a climate‐warming manipulation for contrasting meadow species in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA

    M. E. Loik;S. P. Redar;J. Harte

  • Effects of an increase in summer precipitation on leaf, soil, and ecosystem fluxes of CO2 and H2O in a sotol grassland in Big Bend National Park, Texas.

    Lisa Patrick;Jessica Cable;Daniel Potts;Danielle Ignace

  • Gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence responses of three south-western Yucca species to elevated CO2 and high temperature

    Travis E. Huxman;Erik P. Hamerlynck;Michael E. Loik;S. D. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

David T. Tissue
David T. Tissue Western Sydney University
Travis E. Huxman
Travis E. Huxman University of California, Irvine
Stanley D. Smith
Stanley D. Smith University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Karen D. Holl
Karen D. Holl University of California, Santa Cruz
John Harte
John Harte University of California, Berkeley
Kiona Ogle
Kiona Ogle Northern Arizona University
Greg A. Barron-Gafford
Greg A. Barron-Gafford University of Arizona
Melinda D. Smith
Melinda D. Smith Colorado State University
Alan K. Knapp
Alan K. Knapp Colorado State University
Osvaldo E. Sala
Osvaldo E. Sala Arizona State University

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Best Scientists Citing Michael E. Loik

Alan K. Knapp

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David T. Tissue

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Melinda D. Smith

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Travis E. Huxman

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Scott L. Collins

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Yiqi Luo

Yiqi Luo

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Russell L. Scott

Russell L. Scott

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Kiona Ogle

Kiona Ogle

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Publications: 32

Josep Peñuelas

Josep Peñuelas

Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC

Publications: 31

David G. Williams

David G. Williams

University of Wyoming

Publications: 30

Shiqiang Wan

Shiqiang Wan

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Publications: 29

John B. Bradford

John B. Bradford

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Publications: 28

Osvaldo E. Sala

Osvaldo E. Sala

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Publications: 27

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Xingguo Han

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