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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
46
Citations
8282
World Ranking
2684
National Ranking
49

Best Publications

  • Intra-annual radial growth and water relations of trees: implications towards a growth mechanism

    Roman Franz Zweifel;Lukas Zimmermann;Fabienne Zeugin;David McClintock Newbery

  • Hydraulic adjustment of Scots pine across Europe

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

  • Link between diurnal stem radius changes and tree water relations

    Roman Zweifel;Hans Item;Rudolf Häsler

  • Driving factors of a vegetation shift from Scots pine to pubescent oak in dry Alpine forests

    Andreas Rigling;Christof Bigler;Britta Eilmann;Elisabeth Feldmeyer-Christe

  • Stem radius changes and their relation to stored water in stems of young Norway spruce trees

    Roman Zweifel;Hans Item;Rudolf Häsler

  • Drought-induced adaptation of the xylem in Scots pine and pubescent oak.

    Britta Eilmann;Roman Zweifel;Nina Buchmann;Patrick Fonti

  • Modeling tree water deficit from microclimate: an approach to quantifying drought stress

    Roman Franz Zweifel;Lukas Zimmermann;David McClintock Newbery

  • Are trees able to grow in periods of stem shrinkage

    Roman Zweifel;Matthias Haeni;Matthias Haeni;Nina Buchmann;Werner Eugster

  • Dynamics of water storage in mature subalpine Picea abies: temporal and spatial patterns of change in stem radius.

    R. Zweifel;R. Häsler

  • Drought alters timing, quantity, and quality of wood formation in Scots pine

    Britta Eilmann;Roman Zweifel;Nina Buchmann;Elisabeth Graf Pannatier

  • Why trees grow at night.

    Roman Zweifel;Frank Sterck;Sabine Braun;Nina Buchmann

  • Stomatal regulation by microclimate and tree water relations: interpreting ecophysiological field data with a hydraulic plant model.

    Roman Franz Zweifel;Roman Franz Zweifel;Kathy Steppe;Frank J. Sterck

  • Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees

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  • Frost-induced reversible shrinkage of bark of mature subalpine conifers.

    R. Zweifel;R. Häsler

  • From the comfort zone to crown dieback: Sequence of physiological stress thresholds in mature European beech trees across progressive drought.

    Lorenz Walthert;Andrea Ganthaler;Stefan Mayr;Matthias Saurer

  • 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

  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

    Rafael Poyatos;Víctor Granda;Víctor Flo;Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

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

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  • Species-specific stomatal response of trees to drought - a link to vegetation dynamics?

    Roman Zweifel;Roman Zweifel;Andreas Rigling;Matthias Dobbertin

  • Persisting soil drought reduces leaf specific conductivity in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) and pubescent oak (Quercus pubescens).

    Frank J. Sterck;Roman Zweifel;Ute Sass-Klaassen;Qumruzzaman Chowdhury

  • Midday stomatal closure in Norway spruce—reactions in the upper and lower crown

    R Zweifel;J P Böhm;R Häsler

  • Radial stem variations - a source of tree physiological information not fully exploited yet.

    Roman Zweifel

  • The Carbon Balance of Two Contrasting Mountain Forest Ecosystems in Switzerland: Similar Annual Trends, but Seasonal Differences

    Sophia Etzold;Nadine K. Ruehr;Roman Zweifel;Matthias Dobbertin

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Eugster
Werner Eugster ETH Zurich
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich
Frank J. Sterck
Frank J. Sterck Wageningen University & Research
Marcus Schaub
Marcus Schaub Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Kathy Steppe
Kathy Steppe Ghent University
Matthias Dobbertin
Matthias Dobbertin Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Patrick Fonti
Patrick Fonti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh

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