Alessandro Cescatti

33.7k total citations · 13 hit papers
172 papers, 14.5k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Cescatti is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Cescatti has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 14.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 51 papers in Ecology and 37 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Cescatti's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (104 papers), Climate variability and models (49 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (48 papers). Alessandro Cescatti is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (104 papers), Climate variability and models (49 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (48 papers). Alessandro Cescatti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Alessandro Cescatti's co-authors include Ramdane Alkama, Grégory Duveiller, Mirco Rodeghiero, Giovanni Forzieri, Josh Hooker, Mirco Migliavacca, Ülo Niinemets, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein and Gustau Camps‐Valls and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Cescatti

167 papers receiving 14.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesis with chlorophyll fluorescence

2014 843 citations Luis Guanter, Yongguang Zhang et al. profile →
Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

2014 673 citations Martin Jung, Mirco Migliavacca et al. Nature profile →
Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover

2016 623 citations Ramdane Alkama, Alessandro Cescatti profile →
Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites withregression algorithms

2016 531 citations Gianluca Tramontana, Martin Jung et al. Biogeosciences profile →
A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere

2021 450 citations Gustau Camps‐Valls, Grégory Duveiller et al. Science Advances profile →
The mark of vegetation change on Earth’s surface energy balance

2018 431 citations Grégory Duveiller, Alessandro Cescatti et al. profile →
Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change

2022 379 citations Giovanni Forzieri, Vasilis Dakos et al. Nature profile →
Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation

2020 362 citations Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais et al. Science Advances profile →
Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth

2017 313 citations Giovanni Forzieri, Ramdane Alkama et al. profile →
Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015

2020 227 citations Guido Ceccherini, Grégory Duveiller et al. Nature profile →
Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests

2021 215 citations Giovanni Forzieri, Marco Girardello et al. profile →
Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes

2023 130 citations Emanuele Massaro, Matteo Piccardo et al. profile →
Vegetation-based climate mitigation in a warmer and greener World

2022 116 citations Ramdane Alkama, Giovanni Forzieri et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Enhanced structural diversity increases European forest resilience and potentially compensates for climate-driven declines 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·M. A. Pickering, (unknown), Gonzalo Otón, Matteo Piccardo, Guido Ceccherini, Forzieri Giovanni, Mirco Migliavacca, Alessandro Cescatti, Marco Girardello	0
2	A 45-year global analysis of the spatial human forest nexus 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Emanuele Massaro, Peter Newton, (unknown), Grégoire Dubois, Angela Fanelli, Dolores Ibarreta, (unknown), Wojciech Szewczyk, Alessandro Cescatti	0
3	Widespread underestimation of rain-induced soil carbon emissions from global drylands 2025 ·Nature Geoscience ·(unknown), Mirco Migliavacca, Maoya Bassiouni, Dennis Baldocchi, Laureano Gherardi, Julia K. Green, Dario Papale, Markus Reichstein, (unknown), Alessandro Cescatti, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Trevor F. Keenan	2
4	Phosphorus constrains global photosynthesis more than nitrogen does 2025 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Songhan Wang, Philippe Ciais, Peter B. Reich, Alessandro Cescatti, David S. Ellsworth, Ivan A. Janssens, Jordi Sardans, Yiqi Luo, Nicholas G. Smith, Enzai Du, Di Tian, Yu Jiang, Yanfeng Ding, Josep Peñuelas	1
5	Patterns and trends in the spatial heterogeneity of land surface phenology of global forests 2024 ·Environmental Research Communications ·Marco Girardello, (unknown), Grégory Duveiller, Mirco Migliavacca, Alessandro Cescatti	0
6	Stand age diversity (and more than climate change) affects forests’ resilience and stability, although unevenly 2024 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Elia Vangi, Daniela Dalmonech, (unknown), (unknown), Leonardo Bianchini, (unknown), Elisa Grieco, Alessandro Cescatti, Andrea Colantoni, Gherardo Chirici, Alessio Collalti	13
7	Comparable biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks on warming from tropical moist forest degradation 2023 ·Nature Geoscience ·Lei Zhu, Wei Li, Philippe Ciais, Jiaying He, Alessandro Cescatti, Maurizio Santoro, Katsumasa Tanaka, Oliver Cartus, Zhe Zhao, Yidi Xu, (unknown), Jingmeng Wang	38
8	Large diurnal compensatory effects mitigate the response of Amazonian forests to atmospheric warming and drying 2023 ·Science Advances ·Zhaoying Zhang, Alessandro Cescatti, Ying‐Ping Wang, Pierre Gentine, Jingfeng Xiao, Luis Guanter, Alfredo Huete, Jin Wu, Jing M. Chen, Weimin Ju, Josep Peñuelas, Yongguang Zhang	23
9	Getting the leaves right matters for estimating temperature extremes 2023 ·Geoscientific model development ·Grégory Duveiller, M. A. Pickering, Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, Luca Caporaso, Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Alessandro Cescatti	5
10	Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change breakdown → 2022 ·Nature ·Giovanni Forzieri, Vasilis Dakos, Nate G. McDowell, Ramdane Alkama, Alessandro Cescatti	379
11	Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect 2021 ·Global Change Biology ·Alemu Gonsamo, Philippe Ciais, Diego G. Miralles, Stephen Sitch, Wouter Dorigo, Danica Lombardozzi, Pierre Friedlingstein, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Daniel S. Goll, Michael O’Sullivan, Almut Arneth, Peter Anthoni, Atul K. Jain, Andy Wiltshire, Philippe Peylin, Alessandro Cescatti	86
12	Maximising climate mitigation potential by carbon and radiative agricultural land management with cover crops 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Emanuele Lugato, Alessandro Cescatti, Arwyn Jones, Guido Ceccherini, Grégory Duveiller	41
13	Urban−rural gradients reveal joint control of elevated CO2 and temperature on extended photosynthetic seasons 2019 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Songhan Wang, Weimin Ju, Josep Peñuelas, Alessandro Cescatti, Yuyu Zhou, Yongshuo H. Fu, Alfredo Huete, Min Liu, Yongguang Zhang	139
14	Evaluating the Interplay Between Biophysical Processes and Leaf Area Changes in Land Surface Models 2018 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Giovanni Forzieri, Grégory Duveiller, Goran Georgievski, Wei Li, Eddy Robertson, Markus Kautz, Peter Lawrence, (unknown), Peter Anthoni, Philippe Ciais, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch, Andy Wiltshire, Almut Arneth, Alessandro Cescatti	31
15	Thinning Can Reduce Losses in Carbon Use Efficiency and Carbon Stocks in Managed Forests Under Warmer Climate 2018 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Alessio Collalti, Carlo Trotta, Trevor F. Keenan, Andreas Ibrom, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Rüdiger Grote, Sara Vicca, Christopher Reyer, Mirco Migliavacca, Frank Veroustraete, Alessandro Anav, Matteo Campioli, Enrico Scoccimarro, Ladislav Šigut, Elisa Grieco, Alessandro Cescatti, Gioṙgio Matteucci	56
16	Recent Changes in Global Photosynthesis and Terrestrial Ecosystem Respiration Constrained From Multiple Observations 2018 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Wei Li, Philippe Ciais, Yilong Wang, Yi Yin, Shushi Peng, Zaichun Zhu, Ana Bastos, Chao Yue, Ashley P. Ballantyne, Grégoire Broquet, Josep G. Canadell, Alessandro Cescatti, Chi Chen, L. A. Cooper, Pierre Friedlingstein, Corinne Le Quéré, Ranga B. Myneni, Shilong Piao	21
17	Global Surface Net-Radiation at 5 km from MODIS Terra 2016 ·Remote Sensing ·Manish Verma, Joshua B. Fisher, Kaniska Mallick, Youngryel Ryu, Hideki Kobayashi, Alexandre Guillaume, (unknown), Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Valerie Hendrix, Sebastian Wolf, (unknown), Gerard Kiely, Georg Wohlfahrt, Bert Gielen, Olivier Roupsard, Piero Toscano, M. Altaf Arain, Alessandro Cescatti	35
18	Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites withregression algorithms breakdown → 2016 ·Biogeosciences ·Gianluca Tramontana, Martin Jung, Christopher R. Schwalm, Kazuhito Ichii, Gustau Camps‐Valls, Botond Ráduly, Markus Reichstein, M. Altaf Arain, Alessandro Cescatti, Gerard Kiely, Lutz Merbold, Penélope Serrano-Ortíz, Sven Sickert, Sebastian Wolf, Dario Papale	531
19	Terrestrial gross primary production inferred from satellite fluorescence and vegetation models 2014 ·Global Change Biology ·Nicholas C. Parazoo, K. W. Bowman, Joshua B. Fisher, Christian Frankenberg, Dylan B. A. Jones, Alessandro Cescatti, Óscar Pérez‐Priego, Georg Wohlfahrt, Leonardo Montagnani	171
20	On the choice of the driving temperature for eddy-covariance carbon dioxide flux partitioning 2012 ·Biogeosciences ·Gitta Lasslop, Mirco Migliavacca, Gil Bohrer, Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn, Andreas Ibrom, C.M.J. Jacobs, Pasi Kolari, Dario Papale, Timo Vesala, Georg Wohlfahrt, Alessandro Cescatti	56

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