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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
111
Citations
56149
World Ranking
164
National Ranking
67

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Sarah E. Hobbie is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Fire effects on ecosystems, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and the responses of plants to elevated CO2.

Sarah E. Hobbie's recent publications include:

  • "Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs" (2020, New Phytologist)
  • "A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements" (2021, New Phytologist)
  • "Nature-based approaches to managing climate change impacts in cities" (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "Even modest climate change may lead to major transitions in boreal forests" (2022, Nature)
  • "Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time" (2020, Ecology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hobbie include:

  • Peter B. Reich
  • Jeannine Cavender-Bares
  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Lang C. DeLancey

Key publication venues where Sarah E. Hobbie has contributed multiple articles are:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Ecology Letters
  • Ecological Applications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recognition of Hobbie's contributions includes election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 and membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2013.

Best Publications

  • Consequences of changing biodiversity

    F. Stuart Chapin Iii;Erika S. Zavaleta;Valerie T. Eviner;Rosamond L. Naylor

  • Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Christian L. Lauber;Michael N. Weintraub;Bony Ahmed

  • Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

    William K. Cornwell;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Kathryn Amatangelo;Ellen Dorrepaal

  • Effects of plant species on nutrient cycling.

    Sarah E. Hobbie

  • Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

    Jonathan W. Leff;Stuart E. Jones;Suzanne M. Prober;Albert Barberán

  • Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems.

    James Elser;R. W. Sterner;E. Gorokhova;W. F. Fagan

  • Temperature and plant species control over litter decomposition in Alaskan tundra

    Sarah E. Hobbie;Sarah E. Hobbie

  • Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2

    Peter B. Reich;Sarah E. Hobbie;Tali Lee;David S. Ellsworth

  • Growth rate–stoichiometry couplings in diverse biota

    J. J. Elser;K. Acharya;M. Kyle;James B Cotner

  • Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

    Peter B. Reich;David Tilman;David Tilman;Forest Isbell;Kevin E. Mueller

  • Linking litter calcium, earthworms and soil properties: a common garden test with 14 tree species

    Peter B. Reich;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn;Jerzy Modrzynski;Pawel Mrozinski

  • Controls over carbon storage and turnover in high-latitude soils

    Sarah E. Hobbie;Joshua P. Schimel;Susan E. Trumbore;James R. Randerson

  • Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity

    Forest Isbell;Peter B. Reich;David Tilman;Sarah E. Hobbie

  • Arctic and boreal ecosystems of western North America as components of the climate system

    F. S. Chapin Iii;A. D. McGuire;J. Randerson;Roger A. Pielke

  • Plant functional types as predictors of transient responses of arctic vegetation to global change

    F. Stuart Chapin;M. Syndonia Bret-Harte;Sarah E. Hobbie;Hailin Zhong

  • Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs

    Grégoire T Freschet;Grégoire T Freschet;Catherine Roumet;Louise H Comas;Monique Weemstra

  • TREE SPECIES EFFECTS ON DECOMPOSITION AND FOREST FLOOR DYNAMICS IN A COMMON GARDEN

    Sarah E. Hobbie;Peter B. Reich;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn;Megan Ogdahl

  • NUTRIENT LIMITATION OF DECOMPOSITION IN HAWAIIAN FORESTS

    Sarah E. Hobbie;Peter M. Vitousek

  • Global change and arctic ecosystems: is lichen decline a function of increases in vascular plant biomass?

    J. H.C. Cornelissen;J. H.C. Cornelissen;T. V. Callaghan;J. M. Alatalo;A. Michelsen

  • Ecological Homogenization of Urban USA

    Peter M. Groffman;Jeannine M Cavender-Bares;Neil D. Bettez;J. Morgan Grove

  • Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems

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  • Plant species effects on nutrient cycling: revisiting litter feedbacks

    Sarah E. Hobbie

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Jeannine Cavender-Bares University of Minnesota
Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
David Tilman
David Tilman University of Minnesota
Diane E. Pataki
Diane E. Pataki Arizona State University
Jacek Oleksyn
Jacek Oleksyn Polish Academy of Sciences
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
James B. Heffernan
James B. Heffernan Duke University
Kelli L. Larson
Kelli L. Larson Arizona State University

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