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D-Index
57
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12966
World Ranking
2695
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71

Yann Vitasse publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yann Vitasse sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 147 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Yann Vitasse D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yann Vitasse sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yann Vitasse is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with a particular concentration on global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, and plant science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several key topics in their field, including:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Tree-ring Climate Responses
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Management

Vitasse has published work in a variety of scientific journals, with a notable presence in the following publication venues:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • New Phytologist
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Their recent papers include:

  • Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps, 2021, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests, 2020, Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Plant phenology changes and drivers on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees, 2021, Ecology Letters

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Arthur Geßler
  • Yongshuo H. Fu
  • Constantin M. Zohner
  • Thomas Wohlgemuth
  • Frederik Baumgarten

Best Publications

  • A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests

    Bernhard Schuldt;Allan Buras;Matthias Arend;Yann Vitasse

  • Declining global warming effects on the phenology of spring leaf unfolding.

    Yongshuo H. Fu;Hongfang Zhao;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Marc Peaucelle

  • Leaf phenology sensitivity to temperature in European trees: do within-species populations exhibit similar responses?

    Yann Vitasse;Yann Vitasse;Sylvain Delzon;Sylvain Delzon;Eric Dufrêne;Eric Dufrêne;Jean-Yves Pontailler;Jean-Yves Pontailler

  • Assessing the effects of climate change on the phenology of European temperate trees

    Yann Vitasse;Christophe François;Christophe François;Nicolas Delpierre;Eric Dufrêne;Eric Dufrêne

  • Altitudinal differentiation in growth and phenology among populations of temperate-zone tree species growing in a common garden

    Yann VitasseY. Vitasse;Sylvain DelzonS. Delzon;Caroline C. BressonC.C. Bresson;Richard MichaletR. Michalet

  • The interaction between freezing tolerance and phenology in temperate deciduous trees.

    Yann Vitasse;Armando Lenz;Christian Körner

  • Global warming leads to more uniform spring phenology across elevations.

    Yann Vitasse;Yann Vitasse;Constant Signarbieux;Yongshuo H Fu;Yongshuo H Fu

  • Responses of canopy duration to temperature changes in four temperate tree species: relative contributions of spring and autumn leaf phenology.

    Yann Vitasse;Annabel Josée Porté;Antoine Kremer;Richard Michalet

  • Variation in leaf flushing date influences autumnal senescence and next year’s flushing date in two temperate tree species

    Yongshuo S. H. Fu;Yongshuo S. H. Fu;Matteo Campioli;Yann Vitasse;Hans J. De Boeck

  • Temperate and boreal forest tree phenology: from organ-scale processes to terrestrial ecosystem models

    Nicolas Delpierre;Yann Vitasse;Isabelle Chuine;Joannès Guillemot

  • Quantifying phenological plasticity to temperature in two temperate tree species

    Yann Vitasse;Caroline C. Bresson;Antoine Kremer;Richard Michalet

  • Contrasting resistance and resilience to extreme drought and late spring frost in five major European tree species.

    Yann Vitasse;Alessandra Bottero;Maxime Cailleret;Christof Bigler

  • Shorter snow cover duration since 1970 in the Swiss Alps due to earlier snowmelt more than to later snow onset

    Geoffrey Klein;Geoffrey Klein;Yann Vitasse;Yann Vitasse;Christian Rixen;Christoph Marty

  • Where, why and how? Explaining the low-temperature range limits of temperate tree species

    Christian Körner;David Basler;Günter Hoch;Chris Kollas;Chris Kollas

  • To what extent is altitudinal variation of functional traits driven by genetic adaptation in European oak and beech

    Caroline C. Bresson;Yann Vitasse;Antoine Kremer;Antoine Kremer;Sylvain Delzon;Sylvain Delzon

  • Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps.

    Yann Vitasse;Sylvain Ursenbacher;Geoffrey Klein;Thierry Bohnenstengel

  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia.

    Constantin M. Zohner;Lidong Mo;Susanne S. Renner;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • What role for photoperiod in the bud burst phenology of European beech

    Yann Vitasse;David Basler

  • Unexpected role of winter precipitation in determining heat requirement for spring vegetation green-up at northern middle and high latitudes.

    Yongshuo H Fu;Yongshuo H Fu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Hongfang Zhao;Su-Jong Jeong

  • Increase in the risk of exposure of forest and fruit trees to spring frosts at higher elevations in Switzerland over the last four decades

    Yann Vitasse;Yann Vitasse;Léonard Schneider;Léonard Schneider;Christian Rixen;Danilo Christen

  • Increased heat requirement for leaf flushing in temperate woody species over 1980-2012: effects of chilling, precipitation and insolation.

    Yongshuo H. Fu;Yongshuo H. Fu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Yann Vitasse;Hongfang Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Yongshuo H. Fu
Yongshuo H. Fu Beijing Normal University
Martine Rebetez
Martine Rebetez Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Sylvain Delzon
Sylvain Delzon University of Bordeaux
Antoine Kremer
Antoine Kremer University of Bordeaux
Christian Körner
Christian Körner University of Basel
Günter Hoch
Günter Hoch University of Basel
Thomas Wohlgemuth
Thomas Wohlgemuth Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp
Christophe F. Randin
Christophe F. Randin University of Lausanne

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