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Plant Science and Agronomy
France
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
99
Citations
34473
World Ranking
171
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in France Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Xylem

Hervé Cochard focuses on Xylem, Botany, Transpiration, Hydraulic conductivity and Ecology. His Xylem research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Woody plant, Resistance, Cavitation, Mechanics and Quercus petraea. His Botany research includes elements of Soil science and Horticulture.

The concepts of his Transpiration study are interwoven with issues in Phytotron, Agronomy and Stomatal conductance. His work is dedicated to discovering how Hydraulic conductivity, Cultivar are connected with Water deficit and Fruit tree and other disciplines. The various areas that he examines in his Ecology study include Hydraulic efficiency and Scots pine.

His most cited work include:

  • Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought (1256 citations)
  • Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought (1256 citations)
  • Biophysical Perspectives of Xylem Evolution: is there a Tradeoff of Hydraulic Efficiency for Vulnerability to Dysfunction? (497 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Hervé Cochard mostly deals with Xylem, Botany, Horticulture, Hydraulic conductivity and Transpiration. His Xylem research integrates issues from Cavitation, Soil science, Ecology and Stomatal conductance. His study in the fields of Resistance, Phenotypic plasticity, Intraspecific competition and Adaptation under the domain of Ecology overlaps with other disciplines such as Context.

Borrowing concepts from Water transport, Hervé Cochard weaves in ideas under Botany. His Hydraulic conductivity study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Woody plant, Tracheid and Scots pine. Hervé Cochard works mostly in the field of Transpiration, limiting it down to topics relating to Agronomy and, in certain cases, Canopy.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Xylem (82.04%)
  • Botany (66.47%)
  • Horticulture (23.05%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Xylem (82.04%)
  • Ecology (26.65%)
  • Transpiration (25.15%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Hervé Cochard mainly focuses on Xylem, Ecology, Transpiration, Botany and Embolism. Xylem is a subfield of Horticulture that Hervé Cochard explores. Hervé Cochard usually deals with Horticulture and limits it to topics linked to Cavitation and Flow.

His work in the fields of Ecology, such as Water use, Climate change, Intraspecific competition and Ecosystem, intersects with other areas such as Deserts and xeric shrublands. His Transpiration research incorporates elements of Hydraulic efficiency and Aquaporin. His Botany study frequently involves adjacent topics like X-ray microtomography.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species (269 citations)
  • Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species (269 citations)
  • Plant resistance to drought depends on timely stomatal closure. (212 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Gene

His primary scientific interests are in Xylem, Ecology, Botany, Embolism and Resistance. His Xylem study is concerned with the field of Horticulture as a whole. His research on Ecology frequently links to adjacent areas such as Radial growth.

In general Botany, his work in Petiole and Pinitol is often linked to Water transport and Sugar linking many areas of study. Hervé Cochard focuses mostly in the field of Resistance, narrowing it down to topics relating to Arid and, in certain cases, Biomass, Pinus canariensis, Adaptation, Genetic variation and Phenotypic plasticity. The concepts of his Transpiration study are interwoven with issues in Hydraulic efficiency and Woody plant.

Best Publications

  • Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

    Brendan Choat;Steven Jansen;Tim J. Brodribb;Hervé Cochard;Hervé Cochard

  • Hydraulic failure defines the recovery and point of death in water-stressed conifers

    Tim J. Brodribb;Hervé Cochard

  • An overview of models of stomatal conductance at the leaf level

    Gaëlle Damour;Thierry Simonneau;Hervé Cochard;Laurent Urban

  • Biophysical Perspectives of Xylem Evolution: is there a Tradeoff of Hydraulic Efficiency for Vulnerability to Dysfunction?

    Melvin T. Tyree;Stephen D. Davis;Hervè Cochard

  • Plant resistance to drought depends on timely stomatal closure.

    Nicolas Martin-StPaul;Sylvain Delzon;Hervé Cochard

  • Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species

    Sean M. Gleason;Sean M. Gleason;Mark Westoby;Steven Jansen;Brendan Choat

  • Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought

    Timothy J. Brodribb;Jennifer Powers;Hervé Cochard;Brendan Choat

  • Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

    Unknown

  • Xylem embolism threshold for catastrophic hydraulic failure in angiosperm trees

    Morgane Urli;Morgane Urli;Annabel J. Porté;Annabel J. Porté;Herve Cochard;Yann Guengant

  • A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

    Maxime Cailleret;Steven Jansen;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Lucía Desoto

  • Hydraulic architecture of trees: main concepts and results

    Pierre Cruiziat;Hervé Cochard;Thierry Améglio

  • Decline of Leaf Hydraulic Conductance with Dehydration: Relationship to Leaf Size and Venation Architecture

    Christine Scoffoni;Michael Rawls;Athena McKown;Hervé Cochard

  • Unraveling the Effects of Plant Hydraulics on Stomatal Closure during Water Stress in Walnut

    Hervé Cochard;Lluis Coll;Xavier Le Roux;Thierry Améglio

  • Xylem dysfunction in Quercus: vessel sizes, tyloses, cavitation and seasonal changes in embolism

    Hervé Cochard;Melvin T. Tyree

  • Methods for measuring plant vulnerability to cavitation: a critical review

    Hervé Cochard;Eric Badel;Stéphane Herbette;Sylvain Delzon

  • Hydraulic adjustment of Scots pine across Europe

    Jordi Martinez-Vilalta;Jordi Martinez-Vilalta;Hervé Cochard;Hervé Cochard;Maurizia Mencuccini;Frank Sterck

  • Use of positive pressures to establish vulnerability curves : further support for the air-seeding hypothesis and implications for pressure-volume analysis

    Hervé Cochard;Pierre Cruiziat;Melvin T. Tyree

  • Iso/Anisohydry: A Plant-Environment Interaction Rather Than a Simple Hydraulic Trait.

    Uri Hochberg;Fulton E. Rockwell;N. Michele Holbrook;Hervé Cochard

  • On the minimum leaf conductance: its role in models of plant water use, and ecological and environmental controls.

    Remko A. Duursma;Christopher J. Blackman;Rosana Lopéz;Rosana Lopéz;Nicolas K. Martin‐StPaul

  • Drought‐induced leaf shedding in walnut: evidence for vulnerability segmentation

    M.T. Tyrée;Hervé Cochard;P. Cruiziat;B. Sinclair

  • Evaluation of a new centrifuge technique for rapid generation of xylem vulnerability curves

    Hervé Cochard;Gaëlle Damour;Christian Bodet;Ibrahim Tharwat

  • Putative Role of Aquaporins in Variable Hydraulic Conductance of Leaves in Response to Light

    Hervé Cochard;Jean-Stéphane Venisse;Têtè Sévérien Barigah;Nicole Brunel

  • Whole tree hydraulic conductance and water loss regulation in Quercus during drought: evidence for stomatal control of embolism?

    Hervé Cochard;N Bréda;Agnès Granier

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvain Delzon
Sylvain Delzon University of Bordeaux
Stéphane Herbette
Stéphane Herbette Integrative Physics and Physiology of Fruit and Forest Trees
Thierry Ameglio
Thierry Ameglio INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Steven Jansen
Steven Jansen University of Ulm
José M. Torres-Ruiz
José M. Torres-Ruiz INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Régis Burlett
Régis Burlett University of Bordeaux
Stefan Mayr
Stefan Mayr University of Innsbruck
Brendan Choat
Brendan Choat Western Sydney University
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta Autonomous University of Barcelona
Timothy J. Brodribb
Timothy J. Brodribb University of Tasmania

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