Christian Körner

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
• 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Switzerland Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Switzerland Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Switzerland Leader Award
• 2000 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Overview

Best Publications

• The alpine life zone

  Christian Körner

  5088
  Citations

• Alpine plant life

  Christian Körner

  4548
  Citations

• The use of ‘altitude’ in ecological research

  Christian Körner

  3338
  Citations

• Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  3266
  Citations

• Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

  A. Hector;Bernhard Schmid;Carl Beierkuhnlein;M. C. Caldeira

  2591
  Citations

• A world-wide study of high altitude treeline temperatures

  Christian Körner;Jens Paulsen

  1687
  Citations

• A re-assessment of high elevation treeline positions and their explanation

  Christian Körner

  1670
  Citations

• Carbon limitation in trees

  Christian Körner

  1246
  Citations

• Phenology under global warming.

  Christian Körner;David Basler

  1184
  Citations

• A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests

  Bernhard Schuldt;Allan Buras;Matthias Arend;Yann Vitasse

  956
  Citations

• Alpine treelines : functional ecology of the global high elevation tree limits

  Christian Körner

  944
  Citations

• Non‐structural carbon compounds in temperate forest trees

  Günter Hoch;Andreas Richter;Christian Körner

  932
  Citations

• Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

  Daniel Scherrer;Christian Körner

  878
  Citations

• Paradigm shift in plant growth control

  Christian Körner

  858
  Citations

• Carbon isotope discrimination by plants follows latitudinal and altitudinal trends.

  Ch. Körner;G. D. Farquhar;S. C. Wong

  793
  Citations

• Relationships among Maximum Stomatal Conductance, Ecosystem Surface Conductance, Carbon Assimilation Rate, and Plant Nitrogen Nutrition: A Global Ecology Scaling Exercise

  Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Francis M. Kelliher;Christian Körner;Jon Lloyd

  788
  Citations

• Plant CO2 responses: an issue of definition, time and resource supply

  Christian Körner

  743
  Citations

• Carbon Flux and Growth in Mature Deciduous Forest Trees Exposed to Elevated CO2

  Christian Körner;Roman Asshoff;Olivier Bignucolo;Stephan Hättenschwiler

  680
  Citations

• A global survey of carbon isotope discrimination in plants from high altitude.

  Ch. Körner;G. D. Farquhar;Z. Roksandic

  634
  Citations

• Responses to elevated carbon dioxide in artificial tropical ecosystems.

  Christian Körner;John A. Arnone

  626
  Citations

• Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

  Claus Beier;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Thomas Wohlgemuth;Josep Penuelas

  605
  Citations

• Biosphere responses to CO2 enrichment.

  Christian Körner

  590
  Citations

• Moving beyond photosynthesis: from carbon source to sink-driven vegetation modeling.

  Simone Fatichi;Sebastian Leuzinger;Christian Körner

  584
  Citations

• Water relations in grassland and desert ecosystems exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2

  J. A. Morgan;D. E. Pataki;Christian Körner;H. Clark

  546
  Citations