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Werner Eugster

Werner Eugster

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
81
Citations
21440
World Ranking
929
National Ranking
32

Werner Eugster 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 Werner Eugster sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 301 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Werner Eugster 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 Werner Eugster sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 81 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Werner Eugster was affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spanned multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

The scientist focused on topics related to Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Tree-ring climate responses, Forest ecology and management, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Their publication record included contributions to several frequent venues, namely Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Environmental Research Letters, Biogeosciences, Scientific Data, and Global Change Biology.

Key recent scientific papers they were involved in include:

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Why trees grow at night, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model-data fusion, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Methods of yield stability analysis in long-term field experiments. A review, 2021, Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Werner Eugster collaborated frequently with several researchers, such as Nina Buchmann, Iris Feigenwinter, Arthur Geßler, Lukas Hörtnagl, and Yafei Li, with whom they co-authored multiple scientific articles.

Best Publications

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Arctic and boreal ecosystems of western North America as components of the climate system

    F. S. Chapin Iii;A. D. McGuire;J. Randerson;Roger A. Pielke

  • Dissolved carbon leaching from soil is a crucial component of the net ecosystem carbon balance

    Reimo Kindler;Reimo Kindler;Jan Siemens;Jan Siemens;Klaus Kaiser;David Christopher Walmsley

  • Land-atmosphere energy exchange in Arctic tundra and boreal forest: available data and feedbacks to climate.

    Werner Eugster;Wayne R Rouse;Roger A. Pielke Sr;Joseph P. Mcfadden

  • Partitioning European grassland net ecosystem CO2 exchange into gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration using light response function analysis

    T. G. Gilmanov;J. F. Soussana;L. Aires;V. Allard

  • Far-red sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence shows ecosystem-specific relationships to gross primary production: An assessment based on observational and modeling approaches

    Alexander Damm;Luis Guanter;Eugénie Paul-Limoges;C van der Tol

  • Measurements necessary for assessing the net ecosystem carbon budget of croplands

    Pete Smith;Gary J. Lanigan;Werner Leo Kutsch;Nina Buchmann

  • Management effects on net ecosystem carbon and GHG budgets at European crop sites

    Eric Ceschia;Pierre Béziat;Jean-François Dejoux;M. Aubinet

  • Are trees able to grow in periods of stem shrinkage

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

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data – Part 2: Inter-comparison of eddy-covariance software

    Matthias Mauder;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Robert Clement;Jan A. Elbers

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data. Part 1: Coupling footprint analyses with flux data quality assessment to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems

    Mathias Göckede;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet;Mika Aurela

  • Net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange over grazed steppe in central Mongolia

    S.-G. Li;J. Asanuma;W. Eugster;A. Kotani

  • A cospectral correction model for measurement of turbulent NO2 flux

    W.F Eugster;W. Senn

  • Environmental variation, vegetation distribution, carbon dynamics and water/energy exchange at high latitudes

    AD Mcguire;C Wirth;M Apps;Jason Beringer

  • Why trees grow at night.

    Roman Zweifel;Frank Sterck;Sabine Braun;Nina Buchmann

  • Greenhouse gas budget (CO2, CH4 and N2O) of intensively managed grassland following restoration

    Lutz Merbold;Werner Eugster;Jacqueline Stieger;Mark Zahniser

  • CO2 exchange between air and water in an Arctic Alaskan and midlatitude Swiss lake: Importance of convective mixing

    Werner Eugster;George Kling;Tobias Jonas;Joseph P. McFadden

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • Species-specific differences in water uptake depth of mature temperate trees vary with water availability in the soil.

    Nadine Brinkmann;Nadine Brinkmann;Werner Eugster;Nina Buchmann;Ansgar Kahmen

  • The net biome production of full crop rotations in Europe

    W. L. Kutsch;M. Aubinet;N. Buchmann;P. Smith

  • Management and climate impacts on net CO2 fluxes and carbon budgets of three grasslands along an elevational gradient in Switzerland

    Matthias J. Zeeman;Rebecca Hiller;Anna Katarina Gilgen;Pavel Michna

Frequent Co-Authors

Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Lutz Merbold
Lutz Merbold Agroscope
Werner L. Kutsch
Werner L. Kutsch Integrated Carbon Observation System
Eddy Moors
Eddy Moors Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marc Aubinet
Marc Aubinet University of Liège
Sebastian Wolf
Sebastian Wolf ETH Zurich
Roman Zweifel
Roman Zweifel Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Alexander Knohl
Alexander Knohl University of Göttingen

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