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Emil Cienciala is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic, specializing in environmental science with a focus on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, atmospheric science, insect science, and plant science.

Their research primarily addresses topics related to forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest management and policy, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Emil Cienciala has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential (2023, Nature)
  • 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 number of tree species on Earth (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients (2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution)

The scientist frequently publishes in journals including:

  • Nature Communications
  • Ecological Applications
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Collaborations form an important part of Emil Cienciala's work, with frequent co-authors including G.J. Nabuurs, Jiří Doležal, Peter B. Reich, Sergio de-Miguel, and Jean-François Bastin.

Best Publications

  • Indirect methods of large-scale forest biomass estimation

    Z. Somogyi;E. Cienciala;R. Mäkipää;P. Muukkonen

  • The number of tree species on Earth

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  • Transpiration and whole-tree conductance in ponderosa pine trees of different heights

    Michael G. Ryan;Barbara J. Bond;Beverly E. Law;Robert M. Hubbard

  • 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

  • Carbon storage in post-mining forest soil, the role of tree biomass and soil bioturbation.

    Jan Frouz;Václav Pižl;Emil Cienciala;Jiří Kalčík

  • Evaluation of six process‐based forest growth models using eddy‐covariance measurements of CO2 and H2O fluxes at six forest sites in Europe

    K. Kramer;I. Leinonen;H. H. Bartelink;P. Berbigier

  • Radial velocity profiles of water flow in trunks of Norway spruce and oak and the response of spruce to severing.

    Jan Čermák;Emil Cienciala;Jiří Kučera;Jan-Erik Hällgren

  • Tree sap flow and stand transpiration of two Acacia mangium plantations in Sabah, Borneo

    E Cienciala;J Kučera;A Malmer

  • The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests

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  • Evaporation components of a boreal forest: variations during the growing season

    A. Grelle;Angela Lundberg;A. Lindroth;A.-S. Morén

  • Individual variation of sap-flow rate in large pine and spruce trees and stand transpiration: a pilot study at the central NOPEX site

    J. Čermák;E. Cienciala;J. Kučera;A. Lindroth

  • Biomass functions applicable to Scots pine

    E. Cienciala;M. Černý;F. Tatarinov;J. Apltauer

  • Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

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  • A questionnaire-based review of the operational use of remotely sensed data by national forest inventories

    Frank Barrett;Ronald E. McRoberts;Erkki Tomppo;Emil Cienciala

  • Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for assessment of qualitative classification of Norway spruce in temperate forest stands

    Olga V. Brovkina;Emil Cienciala;Peter Surový;Premysl Janata

  • Application of BIOME-BGC model to managed forests: 1. Sensitivity analysis

    Fyodor A. Tatarinov;Emil Cienciala

  • Canopy transpiration from a boreal forest in Sweden during a dry year

    E. Cienciala;J. Kučera;A. Lindroth;J. Čermák

  • The analysis of physical background of tree sap flow measurement based on thermal methods

    Fyodor A Tatarinov;Jiri Kučera;Emil Cienciala

  • Water use efficiency of short-rotation Salix viminalis at leaf, tree and stand scales.

    Anders Lindroth;Emil Cienciala

  • Climate-Smart Forestry: mitigation impacts in three European regions

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  • Hotspots of the European forests carbon cycle

    G.J. Nabuurs;E. Thürig;E. Thürig;N. Heidema;K. Armolaitis

  • Continuous long-term measurements of soil-plant-atmosphere variables at a forest site

    Lars-Christer Lundin;Sven Halldin;A. Lindroth;E. Cienciala

  • Thinning effects on pine-spruce forest transpiration in central Sweden

    Fredrik Lagergren;Harry Lankreijer;Jiri Kucera;Emil Cienciala

  • The effects of water availability on transpiration, water potential and growth of Picea abies during a growing season

    Emil Cienciala;Anders Lindroth;Jan Čermák;Jan-Erik Hällgren

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Lindroth
Anders Lindroth Lund University
Göran Ståhl
Göran Ståhl Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Erkki Tomppo
Erkki Tomppo University of Helsinki
Gert-Jan Nabuurs
Gert-Jan Nabuurs Wageningen University & Research
Achim Grelle
Achim Grelle Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Piermaria Corona
Piermaria Corona The Canadian Real Estate Association
Bo Jellesmark Thorsen
Bo Jellesmark Thorsen University of Copenhagen
Jan Cermak
Jan Cermak Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ronald E. McRoberts
Ronald E. McRoberts University of Minnesota
Marco Marchetti
Marco Marchetti University of Molise

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