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Ecology and Evolution
Argentina
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
65
Citations
24042
World Ranking
1745
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Argentina Leader Award

Overview

Thomas Kitzberger is affiliated with the National University of Comahue in Argentina. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with particular contributions across several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Insect Science.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Fire effects on ecosystems, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest ecology and management, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Plant and animal studies, and Tree-ring climate responses.

Thomas Kitzberger has published extensively in several prominent scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include Forest Ecology and Management, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, Nature Plants, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas Kitzberger are:

  • Projections of fire probability and ecosystem vulnerability under 21st century climate across a trans-Andean productivity gradient in Patagonia, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Forest and woodland replacement patterns following drought-related mortality, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Increased fire severity triggers positive feedbacks of greater vegetation flammability and favors plant community-type conversions, 2020, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery, 2022, Nature Communications

The scientist collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, including J. Julio Camarero, Florencia Tiribelli, Miranda D. Redmond, Thomas T. Veblen, and Iván Barberá.

Best Publications

  • A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

    Craig D. Allen;Alison K. Macalady;Haroun Chenchouni;Dominique Bachelet

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Climatic and human influences on fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests in the Colorado Front Range.

    Thomas T. Veblen;Thomas Kitzberger;Joseph Donnegan

  • A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

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

  • Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area

    Sarah Greenwood;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Jordi Martínez-Vilalta;Francisco Lloret

  • Disturbance regime and disturbance interactions in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest

    Thomas T. Veblen;Keith S. Hadley;Elizabeth M. Nel;Thomas Kitzberger

  • Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees

    Lucía DeSoto;Lucía DeSoto;Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Frank Sterck;Steven Jansen

  • FIRE HISTORY IN NORTHERN PATAGONIA: THE ROLES OF HUMANS AND CLIMATIC VARIATION

    Thomas T. Veblen;Thomas Kitzberger;Ricardo Villalba;Joseph Donnegan

  • Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America.

    Thomas Kitzberger;Peter M. Brown;Emily K. Heyerdahl;Thomas W. Swetnam

  • Structural overshoot of tree growth with climate variability and the global spectrum of drought-induced forest dieback

    Alistair S. Jump;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Sarah Greenwood;Craig D. Allen

  • Factors predisposing episodic drought‐induced tree mortality in Nothofagus– site, climatic sensitivity and growth trends

    Maria Laura Suarez;Luciana Ghermandi;Thomas Kitzberger

  • LANDSCAPE INFLUENCES ON OCCURRENCE AND SPREAD OF WILDFIRES IN PATAGONIAN FORESTS AND SHRUBLANDS

    Mónica Mermoz;Thomas Kitzberger;Thomas T. Veblen

  • EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC VARIABILITY ON FACILITATION OF TREE ESTABLISHMENT IN NORTHERN PATAGONIA

    Thomas Kitzberger;Diego F. Steinaker;Thomas T. Veblen

  • Disturbance and forest dynamics along a transect from Andean rain forest to Patagonian shrubland

    Thomas T. Veblen;Thomas Kitzberger;Antonio Lara

  • Cost-effectiveness of dryland forest restoration evaluated by spatial analysis of ecosystem services

    Jennifer C. Birch;Adrian C. Newton;Claudia Alvarez Aquino;Elena Cantarello

  • Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome

    Andreas Sommerfeld;Cornelius Senf;Cornelius Senf;Brian Buma;Anthony W. D’Amato

  • Climatic influences on fire regimes along a rain forest‐to‐xeric woodland gradient in northern Patagonia, Argentina

    Thomas Kitzberger;Thomas T. Veblen;Ricardo Villalba

  • Inter-hemispheric synchrony of forest fires and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

    Thomas Kitzberger;Thomas W. Swetnam;Thomas T. Veblen

  • Ecological Impacts of Introduced Animals in Nahuel Huapi National Park, Argentina

    Thomas T. Veblen;Monica Mermoz;Carlos Martin;Thomas Kitzberger

  • Biodiversity Regulation of Ecosystem Services

    S. Díaz;D. Tilman;J. Fargione;F. S. Iii Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas T. Veblen
Thomas T. Veblen University of Colorado Boulder
Enrique J. Chaneton
Enrique J. Chaneton University of Buenos Aires
Lucas A. Garibaldi
Lucas A. Garibaldi National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Andrea C. Premoli
Andrea C. Premoli National University of Comahue
Ricardo Villalba
Ricardo Villalba National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Andrés Holz
Andrés Holz Portland State University
Juan Manuel Morales
Juan Manuel Morales National University of Comahue
Francisco Lloret
Francisco Lloret Autonomous University of Barcelona
Volodymyr Trotsiuk
Volodymyr Trotsiuk Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta Autonomous University of Barcelona

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