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Alessandro Cescatti

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Environmental Sciences
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
96
Citations
36903
World Ranking
456
National Ranking
6

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
91
Citations
34755
World Ranking
2299
National Ranking
35

Alessandro Cescatti publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alessandro Cescatti sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 422 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Alessandro Cescatti D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alessandro Cescatti sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Alessandro Cescatti is affiliated with the European Union in Belgium and has established a scientific profile predominantly in the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a wide range of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work extensively covers topics related to Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Forest Management and Policy, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Fire effects on ecosystems.

Alessandro Cescatti has contributed to multiple scholarly publications, often collaborating with a consistent group of frequent co-authors. These include Grégory Duveiller, Ramdane Alkama, Philippe Ciais, Guido Ceccherini, and Giovanni Forzieri.

Scientific contributions by Cescatti have been published in notable venues, reflecting the areas of expertise and impact within the environmental sciences. These venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science Advances
  • Scientific Data

Among selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Alessandro Cescatti are:

  • Recent global decline of CO 2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis, 2020, Science
  • A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere, 2021, Science Advances
  • Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change, 2022, Nature
  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation, 2020, Science Advances
  • Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015, 2020, Nature

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

    Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Hank A. Margolis;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesis with chlorophyll fluorescence

    Luis Guanter;Yongguang Zhang;Martin Jung;Joanna Joiner

  • Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

    Nuno Carvalhais;Matthias Forkel;Myroslava Khomik;Jessica Bellarby

  • Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover

    Ramdane Alkama;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites with regression algorithms

    Gianluca Tramontana;Martin Jung;Christopher R. Schwalm;Kazuhito Ichii

  • Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change

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  • A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere.

    Gustau Camps-Valls;Manuel Campos-Taberner;Álvaro Moreno-Martínez;Álvaro Moreno-Martínez;Sophia Walther

  • Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

    Songhan Wang;Songhan Wang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Jing M. Chen;Jing M. Chen

  • A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape-scale heterogeneity

    Paul C. Stoy;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Barbara Marcolla

  • Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes.

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Josep Peñuelas

  • The mark of vegetation change on Earth’s surface energy balance

    Gregory Duveiller;Josh Hooker;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level

    Miguel D. Mahecha;Markus Reichstein;Nuno Carvalhais;Gitta Lasslop

  • Reconciling the temperature dependence of respiration across timescales and ecosystem types

    Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;Jane M. Caffrey;Alessandro Cescatti;Matteo Dossena

  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation.

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Yue Li

  • An underestimated role of precipitation frequency in regulating summer soil moisture

    Chaoyang Wu;Jing M. Chen;Jukka Pumpanen;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology

    Jianyang Xia;Shuli Niu;Philippe Ciais;Ivan A Janssens

  • Partitioning European grassland net ecosystem CO2 exchange into gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration using light response function analysis

    T. G. Gilmanov;J. F. Soussana;L. Aires;V. Allard

  • Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes

    Ryan M. Bright;Edouard Léopold Davin;Thomas O'Halloran;Julia Pongratz

  • Carbon accumulation in European forests

    P. Ciais;M. J. Schelhaas;S. Zaehle;S. L. Piao;S. L. Piao

  • Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth

    Giovanni Forzieri;Ramdane Alkama;Diego G. Miralles;Alessandro Cescatti

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Gregory Duveiller
Gregory Duveiller Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Georg Wohlfahrt
Georg Wohlfahrt University of Innsbruck
Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Damiano Gianelle
Damiano Gianelle Fondazione Edmund Mach
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Gerard Kiely
Gerard Kiely University College Cork
Andrej Varlagin
Andrej Varlagin Russian Academy of Sciences
Beverly E. Law
Beverly E. Law Oregon State University

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