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Marco Carrer

Marco Carrer

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
56
Citations
9993
World Ranking
2869
National Ranking
39

Marco Carrer publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marco Carrer sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 138 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Marco Carrer D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marco Carrer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marco Carrer is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and specializes in environmental science with a particular focus on atmospheric science and global and planetary change. Their research spans several interconnected fields including nature and landscape conservation, plant science, and ecology.

The research topics frequently addressed by Marco Carrer include:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Landslides and related hazards

Among Marco Carrer's notable recent papers are:

  • "Recent waning snowpack in the Alps is unprecedented in the last six centuries", 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • "Global fading of the temperature-growth coupling at alpine and polar treelines", 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Retrospective analysis of wood anatomical traits and tree-ring isotopes suggests site-specific mechanisms triggering Araucaria araucana drought-induced dieback", 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Fennoscandian tree-ring anatomy shows a warmer modern than medieval climate", 2023, Nature
  • "Growing faster, longer or both? Modelling plastic response of Juniperus communis growth phenology to climate change", 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Marco Carrer has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Angela Luisa Prendin
  • Lucrezia Unterholzner
  • Raffaella Dibona
  • J. Julio Camarero
  • Georg von Arx

Publications by Marco Carrer are often found in the following venues:

  • Dendrochronologia
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology

The body of work clearly highlights a strong engagement with dendrochronological methods and climate-related ecological research, with an emphasis on understanding tree growth patterns, climate-vegetation interactions, and the impacts of climate change on high-altitude and polar environments.

Best Publications

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Keith R. Briffa

  • AGE‐DEPENDENT TREE‐RING GROWTH RESPONSES TO CLIMATE IN LARIX DECIDUA AND PINUS CEMBRA

    Marco Carrer;Carlo Urbinati

  • Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent

    Flurin Babst;Benjamin Poulter;Valerie Trouet;Kun Tan

  • Daily weather response of balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) stem radius increment from dendrometer analysis in the boreal forests of Québec (Canada)

    Annie Deslauriers;Hubert Morin;Carlo Urbinati;Marco Carrer

  • Convergent tapering of xylem conduits in different woody species.

    Tommaso Anfodillo;Vinicio Carraro;Marco Carrer;Claudio Fior

  • Long‐term change in the sensitivity of tree‐ring growth to climate forcing in Larix decidua

    Marco Carrer;Carlo Urbinati

  • Age‐dependent xylogenesis in timberline conifers

    Sergio Rossi;Annie Deslauriers;Tommaso Anfodillo;Marco Carrer

  • ROXAS – A new tool to build centuries-long tracheid-lumen chronologies in conifers

    Georg von Arx;Marco Carrer

  • Quantitative Wood Anatomy—Practical Guidelines

    Georg Von Arx;Alan Crivellaro;Angela Luisa Prendin;Katarina Čufar

  • Towards a functional and simplified allometry for estimating forest biomass

    Roberto Pilli;Tommaso Anfodillo;Marco Carrer

  • Testing for tree-ring divergence in the European Alps

    Ulf Büntgen;David Frank;Rob Wilson;Marco Carrer

  • Cell size and wall dimensions drive distinct variability of earlywood and latewood density in Northern Hemisphere conifers

    Jesper Björklund;Kristina Seftigen;Kristina Seftigen;Kristina Seftigen;Fritz Schweingruber;Patrick Fonti

  • Distilling allometric and environmental information from time series of conduit size: the standardization issue and its relationship to tree hydraulic architecture.

    Marco Carrer;Georg von Arx;Daniele Castagneri;Giai Petit

  • Mediterranean drought fluctuation during the last 500 years based on tree-ring data

    A. Nicault;S. Alleaume;S. Brewer;M. Carrer

  • Distinct effects of climate warming on populations of silver fir (Abies alba) across Europe

    Antonio Gazol;J. Julio Camarero;Emilia Gutiérrez;Ionel Popa

  • Wood anatomy and carbon-isotope discrimination support long-term hydraulic deterioration as a major cause of drought-induced dieback.

    Elena Pellizzari;J. Julio Camarero;Antonio Gazol;Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda

  • Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE.

    Ulf Büntgen;Lukas Wacker;J. Diego Galván;Stephanie Arnold

  • Regional variability of climate-growth relationships in Pinus cembra high elevation forests in the Alps

    Marco Carrer;Paola Nola;Jean Louis Eduard;Renzo Motta

  • Individualistic and time-varying tree-ring growth to climate sensitivity.

    Marco Carrer

  • Tree water relations and climatic variations at the alpine timberline: seasonal changes of sap flux and xylem water potential in Larix decidua Miller, Picea abies (L.) Karst. and Pinus cembra L

    Tommaso Anfodillo;Stefano Rento;Vinicio Carraro;Luca Furlanetto

  • AGE-DEPENDENT TREE-RING GROWTH RESPONSES TO CLIMATE IN

    Marco Carrer;Carlo Urbinati;Universitai degli Studi

Frequent Co-Authors

Tommaso Anfodillo
Tommaso Anfodillo University of Padua
J. Julio Camarero
J. Julio Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Renzo Motta
Renzo Motta University of Turin
David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Alexander V. Kirdyanov
Alexander V. Kirdyanov University of Cambridge
Sergio Rossi
Sergio Rossi Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
Emilia Gutiérrez
Emilia Gutiérrez University of Barcelona

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