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

Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesi... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2014 2016 2016 2021 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesis with chlorophyll fluorescence
    2014 843 citations Luis Guanter, Yongguang Zhang et al. profile →
  2. Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems
    2014 673 citations Martin Jung, Mirco Migliavacca et al. Nature profile →
  3. Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover
    2016 623 citations Ramdane Alkama, Alessandro Cescatti profile →
  4. Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites withregression algorithms
    2016 531 citations Gianluca Tramontana, Martin Jung et al. Biogeosciences profile →
  5. A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere
    2021 450 citations Gustau Camps‐Valls, Grégory Duveiller et al. Science Advances profile →
  6. The mark of vegetation change on Earth’s surface energy balance
    2018 431 citations Grégory Duveiller, Alessandro Cescatti et al. profile →
  7. Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change
    2022 379 citations Giovanni Forzieri, Vasilis Dakos et al. Nature profile →
  8. Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation
    2020 362 citations Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais et al. Science Advances profile →
  9. Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth
    2017 313 citations Giovanni Forzieri, Ramdane Alkama et al. profile →
  10. Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015
    2020 227 citations Guido Ceccherini, Grégory Duveiller et al. Nature profile →
  11. Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests
    2021 215 citations Giovanni Forzieri, Marco Girardello et al. profile →
  12. Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes
    2023 130 citations Emanuele Massaro, Matteo Piccardo et al. profile →
  13. Vegetation-based climate mitigation in a warmer and greener World
    2022 116 citations Ramdane Alkama, Giovanni Forzieri et al. profile →

Peers

Alessandro Cescatti
S. R. Saleska United States
Mathew Williams United Kingdom
Riccardo Valentini Italy
Benjamin Poulter United States
Berrien Moore United States
Mirco Migliavacca Germany
Joshua B. Fisher United States
Trevor F. Keenan United States
Nicolas Viovy France
David W. Kicklighter United States
S. R. Saleska United States
Alessandro Cescatti
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All Works

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Pickering, M. A., Gonzalo Otón, Matteo Piccardo, et al.. (2025). Enhanced structural diversity increases European forest resilience and potentially compensates for climate-driven declines. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).
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Massaro, Emanuele, Peter Newton, Grégoire Dubois, et al.. (2025). A 45-year global analysis of the spatial human forest nexus. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).
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Migliavacca, Mirco, Maoya Bassiouni, Dennis Baldocchi, et al.. (2025). Widespread underestimation of rain-induced soil carbon emissions from global drylands. Nature Geoscience. 18(9). 869–876. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Songhan, Philippe Ciais, Peter B. Reich, et al.. (2025). Phosphorus constrains global photosynthesis more than nitrogen does. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(11). 2025–2035. 1 indexed citations
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Girardello, Marco, et al.. (2024). Patterns and trends in the spatial heterogeneity of land surface phenology of global forests. Environmental Research Communications. 6(4). 41004–41004.
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Vangi, Elia, Daniela Dalmonech, Leonardo Bianchini, et al.. (2024). Stand age diversity (and more than climate change) affects forests’ resilience and stability, although unevenly. Journal of Environmental Management. 366. 121822–121822. 13 indexed citations
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Zhu, Lei, Wei Li, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2023). Comparable biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks on warming from tropical moist forest degradation. Nature Geoscience. 16(3). 244–249. 38 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhaoying, Alessandro Cescatti, Ying‐Ping Wang, et al.. (2023). Large diurnal compensatory effects mitigate the response of Amazonian forests to atmospheric warming and drying. Science Advances. 9(21). eabq4974–eabq4974. 23 indexed citations
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Duveiller, Grégory, M. A. Pickering, Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, et al.. (2023). Getting the leaves right matters for estimating temperature extremes. Geoscientific model development. 16(24). 7357–7373. 5 indexed citations
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Forzieri, Giovanni, Vasilis Dakos, Nate G. McDowell, Ramdane Alkama, & Alessandro Cescatti. (2022). Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change. Nature. 608(7923). 534–539. 379 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gonsamo, Alemu, Philippe Ciais, Diego G. Miralles, et al.. (2021). Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect. Global Change Biology. 27(14). 3336–3349. 86 indexed citations
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Lugato, Emanuele, Alessandro Cescatti, Arwyn Jones, Guido Ceccherini, & Grégory Duveiller. (2020). Maximising climate mitigation potential by carbon and radiative agricultural land management with cover crops. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 94075–94075. 41 indexed citations
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Wang, Songhan, Weimin Ju, Josep Peñuelas, et al.. (2019). Urban−rural gradients reveal joint control of elevated CO2 and temperature on extended photosynthetic seasons. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(7). 1076–1085. 139 indexed citations
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Forzieri, Giovanni, Grégory Duveiller, Goran Georgievski, et al.. (2018). Evaluating the Interplay Between Biophysical Processes and Leaf Area Changes in Land Surface Models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(5). 1102–1126. 31 indexed citations
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Collalti, Alessio, Carlo Trotta, Trevor F. Keenan, et al.. (2018). Thinning Can Reduce Losses in Carbon Use Efficiency and Carbon Stocks in Managed Forests Under Warmer Climate. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(10). 2427–2452. 56 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, Philippe Ciais, Yilong Wang, et al.. (2018). Recent Changes in Global Photosynthesis and Terrestrial Ecosystem Respiration Constrained From Multiple Observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(2). 1058–1068. 21 indexed citations
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Verma, Manish, Joshua B. Fisher, Kaniska Mallick, et al.. (2016). Global Surface Net-Radiation at 5 km from MODIS Terra. Remote Sensing. 8(9). 739–739. 35 indexed citations
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Tramontana, Gianluca, Martin Jung, Christopher R. Schwalm, et al.. (2016). Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites withregression algorithms. Biogeosciences. 13(14). 4291–4313. 531 indexed citations breakdown →
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Parazoo, Nicholas C., K. W. Bowman, Joshua B. Fisher, et al.. (2014). Terrestrial gross primary production inferred from satellite fluorescence and vegetation models. Global Change Biology. 20(10). 3103–3121. 171 indexed citations
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Lasslop, Gitta, Mirco Migliavacca, Gil Bohrer, et al.. (2012). On the choice of the driving temperature for eddy-covariance carbon dioxide flux partitioning. Biogeosciences. 9(12). 5243–5259. 56 indexed citations

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