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D-Index
99
Citations
55204
World Ranking
284
National Ranking
117

Nate G. McDowell 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 Nate G. McDowell sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 388 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nate G. McDowell 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 Nate G. McDowell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Nate G. McDowell is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

Their research addresses key topics including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring climate responses, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Plant responses to water stress, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest ecology and management, and Fire effects on ecosystems.

Recent publications by McDowell cover several critical aspects of forest ecology and climate change:

  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world, 2020, Science
  • Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Other influential papers from McDowell and frequent collaborators include:

  • Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change, 2022, Nature
  • Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide, 2022, Annual Review of Plant Biology

Their work has been published extensively in venues such as OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), New Phytologist, Global Change Biology, Tree Physiology, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with McDowell include Charlotte Grossiord, Vanessa Bailey, Nicholas Ward, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, and Ben Bond-Lamberty, indicating an extensive collaborative network in their research field.

Best Publications

  • A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

    Craig D. Allen;Alison K. Macalady;Haroun Chenchouni;Dominique Bachelet

  • Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

    Nate G. McDowell;William T. Pockman;Craig D. Allen;David D. Breshears

  • On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

    Craig D. Allen;David D. Breshears;Nathan G. McDowell

  • Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

    A. Park Williams;Craig D. Allen;Alison K. Macalady;Daniel Griffin

  • Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit.

    Charlotte Grossiord;Charlotte Grossiord;Thomas N. Buckley;Lucas A. Cernusak;Kimberly A. Novick

  • Mechanisms Linking Drought, Hydraulics, Carbon Metabolism, and Vegetation Mortality

    Nathan G. McDowell

  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Brian H. Aukema

  • The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

    Nate G. McDowell;David J. Beerling;David D. Breshears;Rosie A. Fisher

  • A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

    Henry D. Adams;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;William R.L. Anderegg;Henrik Hartmann

  • Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

    William R.L. Anderegg;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rosie A. Fisher;Craig D. Allen

  • Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

    Amy C. Bennett;Amy C. Bennett;Nathan G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira

  • How do trees die? A test of the hydraulic failure and carbon starvation hypotheses

    Sanna Sevanto;Nate G. Mcdowell;L. Turin Dickman;Robert Pangle

  • Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

    Nathan G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen

  • Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change

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  • Tree die-off in response to global change-type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential measurements.

    David D Breshears;Orrin B Myers;Clifton W Meyer;Fairley J Barnes

  • Ecohydrology of water-limited environments: A scientific vision

    Brent D. Newman;Bradford P. Wilcox;Steven R. Archer;David D. Breshears

  • Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide.

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  • Increasing Impacts of Extreme Droughts on Vegetation Productivity Under Climate Change

    Chonggang Xu;Nate G. McDowell;Rosie A. Fisher;Liang Wei;Liang Wei

  • Drivers and Mechanisms of Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Paulo M. Brando

  • Tobacco aquaporin NtAQP1 is involved in mesophyll conductance to CO2 in vivo

    Jaume Flexas;Miquel Ribas-Carbó;David T. Hanson;Josefina Bota

  • A Remotely Sensed Global Terrestrial Drought Severity Index

    Qiaozhen Mu;Maosheng Zhao;John S. Kimball;Nathan G. McDowell

  • Evaluating theories of drought‐induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel–experiment framework

    Nate G. McDowell;Rosie A. Fisher;Chonggang Xu;J. C. Domec;J. C. Domec

  • 13C content of ecosystem respiration is linked to precipitation and vapor pressure deficit

    David R. Bowling;Nate G. McDowell;Barbara J. Bond;Beverly E. Law

Frequent Co-Authors

William T. Pockman
William T. Pockman University of New Mexico
Chonggang Xu
Chonggang Xu Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rosie A. Fisher
Rosie A. Fisher National Center for Atmospheric Research
Sanna Sevanto
Sanna Sevanto Los Alamos National Laboratory
Henry D. Adams
Henry D. Adams Washington State University
Michael G. Ryan
Michael G. Ryan Colorado State University
Craig D. Allen
Craig D. Allen University of New Mexico
Barbara J. Bond
Barbara J. Bond Oregon State University
Jeffrey Q. Chambers
Jeffrey Q. Chambers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matteo Detto
Matteo Detto Princeton University

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