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Matthias Saurer publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Matthias Saurer sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 286 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Matthias Saurer D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Matthias Saurer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Matthias Saurer is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

Their work covers a range of topics related to plant physiology and environmental dynamics, including:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Matthias Saurer include:

  • Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability (2021), published in Nature Geoscience
  • From the comfort zone to crown dieback: Sequence of physiological stress thresholds in mature European beech trees across progressive drought (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers (2021), published in New Phytologist
  • Mutually inclusive mechanisms of drought-induced tree mortality (2022), published in Global Change Biology
  • Long-term ecological consequences of forest fires in the continuous permafrost zone of Siberia (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Marco M. Lehmann
  • Rolf Siegwolf
  • Arthur Geßler
  • Kerstin Treydte
  • Olga V. Churakova

Matthias Saurer has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent among these are:

  • Tree Physiology
  • New Phytologist
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Linking stable oxygen and carbon isotopes with stomatal conductance and photosynthetic capacity: a conceptual model.

    Y. Scheidegger;M. Saurer;M. Bahn;R. Siegwolf

  • Carbon isotope discrimination indicates improving water-use efficiency of trees in northern Eurasia over the last 100 years

    Matthias Saurer;Rolf T. W. Siegwolf;Fritz H. Schweingruber

  • Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

    D. C. Frank;B. Poulter;M. Saurer;J. Esper

  • Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

    Ulf Büntgen;Otmar Urban;Paul J. Krusic;Paul J. Krusic;Michal Rybníček;Michal Rybníček

  • Drought response of five conifer species under contrasting water availability suggests high vulnerability of Norway spruce and European larch

    Mathieu Lévesque;Mathieu Lévesque;Matthias Saurer;Rolf Siegwolf;Britta Eilmann

  • Elevated CO2 increases tree‐level intrinsic water use efficiency: insights from carbon and oxygen isotope analyses in tree rings across three forest FACE sites

    Giovanna Battipaglia;Giovanna Battipaglia;Matthias Saurer;Paolo Cherubini;Carlo Calfapietra

  • Correlating δ13C and δ18O in cellulose of trees

    M. Saurer;K. Aellen;R. Siegwolf

  • The climate-carbon isotope relationship in tree rings and the significance of site conditions

    M. Saurer;U. Siegenthaler;F.H. Schweingruber

  • Estimating the uptake of traffic-derived NO2 from 15N abundance in Norway spruce needles

    Markus Ammann;Rolf Siegwolf;F. Pichlmayer;Marianne Suter

  • Spatial variability and temporal trends in water-use efficiency of European forests

    Matthias Saurer;Renato Spahni;Renato Spahni;David C. Frank;Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos

  • Signal strength and climate calibration of a European tree-ring isotope network

    K. Treydte;D. Frank;J. Esper;L. Andreu

  • Reducing uncertainties in δ13C analysis of tree rings: Pooling, milling, and cellulose extraction

    Silvio Borella;Markus Leuenberger;Matthias Saurer;Rolf Siegwolf

  • Wood Cellulose Preparation Methods and Mass Spectrometric Analyses of δ13C, δ18O, and Nonexchangeable δ2H Values in Cellulose, Sugar, and Starch: An Interlaboratory Comparison

    Tatjana Boettger;Marika Haupt;Kay Knöller;Stephan M. Weise

  • Seasonal transfer of oxygen isotopes from precipitation and soil to the tree ring: source water versus needle water enrichment.

    Kerstin Treydte;Sonja Boda;Elisabeth Graf Pannatier;Patrick Fonti

  • Increased water-use efficiency does not lead to enhanced tree growth under xeric and mesic conditions

    Mathieu Lévesque;Mathieu Lévesque;Rolf Siegwolf;Matthias Saurer;Britta Eilmann

  • Growth and resilience responses of Scots pine to extreme droughts across Europe depend on predrought growth conditions

    Arun K. Bose;Arun K. Bose;Arthur Gessler;Arthur Gessler;Andreas Bolte;Alessandra Bottero

  • Oxygen and carbon isotopic record of climatic variability in tree ring cellulose (Picea abies) : An example from central Switzerland (1913-1995)

    W. T. Anderson;S. M. Bernasconi;J. A. McKenzie;M. Saurer

  • Stable carbon isotopes in tree rings of beech : climatic versus site-related influences

    M. Saurer;Silvio Borella;Fritz Schweingruber;Rolf Siegwolf

  • Impact of climate and CO2 on a millennium-long tree-ring carbon isotope record.

    Kerstin S. Treydte;David C. Frank;Matthias Saurer;Gerhard Helle

  • Temporal dynamics of the carbon isotope composition in a Pinus sylvestris stand: from newly assimilated organic carbon to respired carbon dioxide

    Naomi Kodama;Romain L. Barnard;Yann Salmon;Christopher Weston

  • Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers.

    Arthur Gessler;Arthur Gessler;Lukas Bächli;Elham Rouholahnejad Freund;Kerstin Treydte

  • Seasonal growth, δ13C in leaves and stem, and phloem structure of birch (Betula pendula) under low ozone concentrations

    Rainer Matyssek;Madeleine S. Günthardt-Goerg;Matthias Saurer;Theodor Keller

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Paul Scherrer Institute
Giovanna Battipaglia
Giovanna Battipaglia University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Paolo Cherubini
Paolo Cherubini Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Kerstin Treydte
Kerstin Treydte Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Markus Leuenberger
Markus Leuenberger University of Bern
Alexander V. Kirdyanov
Alexander V. Kirdyanov University of Cambridge
Eugene A. Vaganov
Eugene A. Vaganov Siberian Federal University
David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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