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Constantin M. Zohner

Constantin M. Zohner

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
7448
World Ranking
7276
National Ranking
137

Overview

Constantin M. Zohner is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research integrates various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of their work encompass Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement, Plant Responses to Elevated CO2, and Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies.

Recent publications by Constantin M. Zohner include:

  • "Increased growing-season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees" (2020), Science
  • "Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential" (2023), Nature
  • "Direct and indirect impacts of urbanization on vegetation growth across the world's cities" (2022), Science Advances
  • "The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass" (2021), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The frequent co-authors working with Zohner include:

  • Thomas W. Crowther
  • Lidong Mo
  • Susanne S. Renner
  • Yongshuo H. Fu
  • Yann Vitasse

The primary venues for publication include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • New Phytologist
  • Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • The global tree restoration potential.

    Jean-Francois Bastin;Yelena Finegold;Claude Garcia;Danilo Mollicone

  • Climate Change and Phenological Mismatch in Trophic Interactions Among Plants, Insects, and Vertebrates

    Susanne S. Renner;Constantin M. Zohner

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

    Unknown

  • Direct and indirect impacts of urbanization on vegetation growth across the world’s cities

    Unknown

  • Increased growing-season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees.

    Deborah Zani;Thomas W. Crowther;Lidong Mo;Susanne S. Renner

  • The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass.

    Haozhi Ma;Lidong Mo;Thomas W Crowther;Daniel S Maynard

  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia.

    Constantin M. Zohner;Lidong Mo;Susanne S. Renner;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Day length unlikely to constrain climate-driven shifts in leaf-out times of northern woody plants

    Constantin M. Zohner;Blas M. Benito;Jens-Christian Svenning;Susanne S. Renner

  • Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues.

    Jean-Francois Bastin;Emily Rachel Clark;Thomas Elliott;Simon Hart

  • Common garden comparison of the leaf‐out phenology of woody species from different native climates, combined with herbarium records, forecasts long‐term change

    Constantin M. Zohner;Susanne S. Renner

  • Global relationships in tree functional traits

    Unknown

  • The great acceleration of plant phenological shifts

    Unknown

  • Daylength helps temperate deciduous trees to leaf-out at the optimal time.

    Yongshuo H. Fu;Yongshuo H. Fu;Xuan Zhang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Fanghua Hao

  • Effect of climate warming on the timing of autumn leaf senescence reverses after the summer solstice

    Unknown

  • Impact of microclimatic conditions and resource availability on spring and autumn phenology of temperate tree seedlings.

    Yann Vitasse;Frederik Baumgarten;Constantin M. Zohner;Rungnapa Kaewthongrach

  • Chilled to be forced: the best dose to wake up buds from winter dormancy.

    Frederik Baumgarten;Constantin M. Zohner;Arthur Gessler;Arthur Gessler;Yann Vitasse

  • Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

    Unknown

  • Perception of photoperiod in individual buds of mature trees regulates leaf‐out

    Constantin M. Zohner;Susanne S. Renner

  • Scientists’ call to action: Microbes, planetary health, and the Sustainable Development Goals

    Unknown

  • Global warming reduces leaf-out and flowering synchrony among individuals

    Constantin M Zohner;Lidong Mo;Susanne S Renner

  • Spring predictability explains different leaf-out strategies in the woody floras of North America, Europe and East Asia.

    Constantin M. Zohner;Blas M. Benito;Jason D. Fridley;Jens Christian Svenning

  • The occurrence of red and yellow autumn leaves explained by regional differences in insolation and temperature

    Susanne S. Renner;Constantin M. Zohner

  • Distribution ranges and spring phenology explain late frost sensitivity in 170 woody plants from the Northern Hemisphere

    Lena Muffler;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Gregor Aas;Anke Jentsch

  • Digitization protocol for scoring reproductive phenology from herbarium specimens of seed plants.

    Jennifer M. Yost;Patrick W. Sweeney;Ed Gilbert;Gil Nelson

  • Ongoing seasonally uneven climate warming leads to earlier autumn growth cessation in deciduous trees

    Constantin M. Zohner;Susanne S. Renner

  • Increased autumn productivity permits temperate trees to compensate for spring frost damage

    Constantin M. Zohner;Alexander Rockinger;Susanne S. Renner

  • Leaf-out in northern ecotypes of wide-ranging trees requires less spring warming, enhancing the risk of spring frost damage at cold range limits

    Constantin M. Zohner;Lidong Mo;Veronica Sebald;Susanne S. Renner

Frequent Co-Authors

Susanne S. Renner
Susanne S. Renner Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas W. Crowther
Thomas W. Crowther King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Yann Vitasse
Yann Vitasse Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Yongshuo H. Fu
Yongshuo H. Fu Beijing Normal University
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Thomas A. M. Pugh
Thomas A. M. Pugh University of Birmingham
Benjamin D. Stocker
Benjamin D. Stocker University of Bern
Erika Berenguer
Erika Berenguer University of Oxford
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich

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