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Walter Oberhuber

Walter Oberhuber

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
43
Citations
9189
World Ranking
3158
National Ranking
20

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
9208
World Ranking
5247
National Ranking
38

Overview

Walter Oberhuber is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to atmospheric science, global and planetary change, and nature and landscape conservation. Their work also encompasses plant science and ecology as subfields.

The scientist's main topics of research include tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, fire effects on ecosystems, landslides and related hazards, and hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Oberhuber include Andreas Gruber, Gerhard Wieser, Patrick Fonti, Vladimír Gryc, and Hanuš Vavrčík. These collaborations indicate a focus on multidisciplinary approaches within environmental and forest sciences.

Oberhuber has published research in various venues, with recurrent contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Forests, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Notable recent papers authored by Oberhuber and colleagues include:

  • Hygroscopic properties of thin dead outer bark layers strongly influence stem diameter variations on short and long time scales in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests, 2022, Nature Communications
  • A critical thermal transition driving spring phenology of Northern Hemisphere conifers, 2022, Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

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

  • 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

  • Woody biomass production lags stem-girth increase by over one month in coniferous forests

    Henri E. Cuny;Henri E. Cuny;Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber;Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber;David Frank;Patrick Fonti

  • Pattern of xylem phenology in conifers of cold ecosystems at the Northern Hemisphere

    Sergio Rossi;Sergio Rossi;Tommaso Anfodillo;Katarina Čufar;Henri E. Cuny

  • Radial growth response of coniferous forest trees in an inner Alpine environment to heat-wave in 2003

    Petra Pichler;Walter Oberhuber

  • Impact of drought on the temporal dynamics of wood formation in Pinus sylvestris

    Andreas Gruber;Stefan Strobl;Barbara Veit;Walter Oberhuber

  • Influence of climate on radial growth of Pinus cembra within the alpine timberline ecotone

    Walter Oberhuber

  • Climate-tree-growth relationships of Scots pine stands (Pinus sylvestris L.) exposed to soil dryness

    W. Oberhuber;M. Stumböck;Werner Kofler

  • Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers

    Jian-Guo Huang;Qianqian Ma;Sergio Rossi;Sergio Rossi;Franco Biondi

  • Temperature Dependence of the Linkage of Quantum Yield of Photosystem II to CO2 Fixation in C4 and C3 Plants

    W. Oberhuber;G. E. Edwards

  • 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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  • Early-warning signals of individual tree mortality based on annual radial growth

    Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Vasilis Dakos;Steven Jansen;Elisabeth M.R. Robert;Elisabeth M.R. Robert

  • A meta-analysis of cambium phenology and growth: linear and non-linear patterns in conifers of the northern hemisphere

    Sergio Rossi;Tommaso Anfodillo;Katarina Čufar;Henri E. Cuny

  • No evidence for depletion of carbohydrate pools in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) under drought stress.

    A. Gruber;D. Pirkebner;C. Florian;W. Oberhuber

  • Radial stem growth in response to microclimate and soil moisture in a drought-prone mixed coniferous forest at an inner Alpine site

    Walter Oberhuber;Andreas Gruber;Werner Kofler;Irene Swidrak

  • Light dependence of quantum yields of Photosystem II and CO2 fixation in C3 and C4 plants

    Walter Oberhuber;Zi-Yu Dai;Gerald E. Edwards

  • Topographic influences on radial growth of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) at small spatial scales.

    Walter Oberhuber;Werner Kofler

  • Photoinhibition of photosynthesis under natural conditions in ivy (Hedera helix L.) growing in an understory of deciduous trees

    Walter Oberhuber;Helmut Bauer

  • Effects of climate variables on intra-annual stem radial increment in Pinus cembra (L.) along the alpine treeline ecotone

    Andreas Gruber;Jolanda Zimmermann;Gerhard Wieser;Walter Oberhuber

  • Effects of environmental conditions on onset of xylem growth in Pinus sylvestris under drought

    Irene Swidrak;Andreas Gruber;Werner Kofler;Walter Oberhuber

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Wieser
Gerhard Wieser University of Innsbruck
Stefan Mayr
Stefan Mayr University of Innsbruck
Sergio Rossi
Sergio Rossi Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Katarina Čufar
Katarina Čufar University of Ljubljana
Harri Mäkinen
Harri Mäkinen Natural Resources Institute Finland
Patrick Fonti
Patrick Fonti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
J. Julio Camarero
J. Julio Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Rainer Matyssek
Rainer Matyssek Technical University of Munich
Ulrike Tappeiner
Ulrike Tappeiner University of Innsbruck
Hubert Morin
Hubert Morin Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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