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Alessandro Cescatti

Wageningen University & Research ·
Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Ecology
Research interest
Research interests include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate variability and models, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.
h-index
88
citations
34,252
works
453
NIH funding
primary concept
Environmental science
email

Recent publications

Pervasive but biome-dependent relationship between fragmentation and resilience in forests
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2025cited by 25position: middledoi
Phosphorus constrains global photosynthesis more than nitrogen does
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2025cited by 19position: middledoi
Widespread underestimation of rain-induced soil carbon emissions from global drylands
Nature Geoscience 2025cited by 11position: middledoi
Assessing the risk of diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential in a changing world
Science Advances 2025cited by 8position: middledoi
Enhanced structural diversity increases European forest resilience and potentially compensates for climate-driven declines
Communications Earth & Environment 2025cited by 5position: middledoi
Asymmetric influence of forest cover gain and loss on land surface temperature
Nature Climate Change 2023cited by 92position: middledoi
Harmonising the land-use flux estimates of global models and national inventories for 2000–2020
Earth system science data 2023cited by 90position: middledoi
Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale
Nature Communications 2023cited by 37position: middledoi
The Database of European Forest Insect and Disease Disturbances: <scp>DEFID2</scp>
Global Change Biology 2023cited by 32position: middledoi
Global enhanced vegetation photosynthesis in urban environment and its drivers revealed by satellite solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence data
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2023cited by 16position: middledoi
Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale
Research Square 2023cited by 2position: middledoi
Paddy rice methane emissions across Monsoon Asia
Remote Sensing of Environment 2022cited by 67position: middledoi
Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress
Nature Climate Change 2021cited by 201position: middledoi
Response to Comments on “Recent global decline of CO <sub>2</sub> fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis”
Science 2021cited by 30position: middledoi
Recent global decline of CO <sub>2</sub> fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis
Science 2020cited by 656position: middledoi
Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation
Science Advances 2020cited by 480position: middledoi
Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes
Nature Climate Change 2020cited by 335position: lastdoi
A spatially explicit database of wind disturbances in European forests over the period 2000–2018
Earth system science data 2020cited by 112position: middledoi
Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2019cited by 626position: middledoi
Sensitivity of L-band vegetation optical depth to carbon stocks in tropical forests: a comparison to higher frequencies and optical indices
Remote Sensing of Environment 2019cited by 96position: middledoi
Spatio‐Temporal Convergence of Maximum Daily Light‐Use Efficiency Based on Radiation Absorption by Canopy Chlorophyll
Geophysical Research Letters 2018cited by 68position: middledoi
Recent Changes in Global Photosynthesis and Terrestrial Ecosystem Respiration Constrained From Multiple Observations
Geophysical Research Letters 2018cited by 36position: middledoi
Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2015cited by 428position: middledoi
Low historical nitrogen deposition effect on carbon sequestration in the boreal zone
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 2015cited by 56position: middledoi
Global comparison of light use efficiency models for simulating terrestrial vegetation gross primary production based on the LaThuile database
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2014cited by 363position: middledoi
Terrestrial gross primary production inferred from satellite fluorescence and vegetation models
Global Change Biology 2014cited by 209position: middledoi
Remote sensing of annual terrestrial gross primary productivity from MODIS: an assessment using the FLUXNET La Thuile data set
Biogeosciences 2014cited by 96position: middledoi
Modeling biomass burning and related carbon emissions during the 21st century in Europe
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 2013cited by 50position: lastdoi
Reconciling the temperature dependence of respiration across timescales and ecosystem types
Nature 2012cited by 481position: middledoi
Intercomparison of MODIS albedo retrievals and in situ measurements across the global FLUXNET network
Remote Sensing of Environment 2012cited by 310position: firstdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Philippe Ciais · King University9 papers (2012–2025)Wenping Yuan · Sun Yat-sen University4 papers (2019–2025)Ramdane Alkama · Université de Bordeaux4 papers (2019–2023) · 4 papers (2012–2025)Shilong Piao · King University4 papers (2018–2020)Guido Ceccherini · University of Padua4 papers (2020–2025)Leonardo Montagnani · Lund University3 papers (2014–2015)Georg Wohlfahrt · University of Virginia3 papers (2014–2018)Ranga B. Myneni · Boston University3 papers (2018–2020)Yongguang Zhang · Nanjing University3 papers (2018–2025)Ivan A. Janssens · University of Antwerp3 papers (2019–2025)Josep Peñuelas · Nanjing University3 papers (2019–2025)Julia E. M. S. Nabel · Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry2 papers (2020–2023) · 2 papers (2021–2023)Josep G. Canadell · CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere2 papers (2018–2023)Zhenzhong Zeng · Princeton University2 papers (2020–2023)Chaoqun Zhang · Chinese Academy of Sciences2 papers (2023–2025)Stephen Sitch · University of Exeter2 papers (2020–2023)B. E. Law · Oregon State University2 papers (2012–2014)Yiqi Luo · Cornell University2 papers (2019–2025)