Benjamin D. Stocker

19.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
73 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Benjamin D. Stocker is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin D. Stocker has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in Atmospheric Science and 23 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin D. Stocker's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (35 papers), Climate variability and models (23 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (21 papers). Benjamin D. Stocker is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (35 papers), Climate variability and models (23 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (21 papers). Benjamin D. Stocker collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Benjamin D. Stocker's co-authors include I. Colin Prentice, Fortunat Joos, Trevor F. Keenan, Josep Peñuelas, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Sönke Zaehle, Jakob Zscheischler, Renato Spahni, Stephen Sitch and Andy Wiltshire and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin D. Stocker

71 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend an... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2021 2019 2021 2023 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO 2 sink
    2015 1.1k citations Anders Ahlström, Michael Raupach et al. Science profile →
  2. A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2
    2021 429 citations César Terrer, Trevor F. Keenan et al. profile →
  3. Drought impacts on terrestrial primary production underestimated by satellite monitoring
    2019 340 citations Benjamin D. Stocker, Trevor F. Keenan et al. profile →
  4. The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass
    2021 190 citations Lidong Mo, Thomas W. Crowther et al. profile →
  5. Global patterns of water storage in the rooting zones of vegetation
    2023 102 citations Benjamin D. Stocker, Shersingh Joseph Tumber‐Dávila et al. profile →
  6. Effect of climate warming on the timing of autumn leaf senescence reverses after the summer solstice
    2023 83 citations Constantin M. Zohner, Susanne S. Renner et al. Science profile →
  7. Tree water uptake patterns across the globe
    2024 55 citations Christoph Bachofen, Shersingh Joseph Tumber‐Dávila et al. New Phytologist profile →
  8. Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts
    2025 44 citations Arthur Geßler, Benjamin D. Stocker et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin D. Stocker Switzerland 32 3.4k 1.4k 1.4k 831 801 73 5.0k
Honglin He China 34 2.6k 0.8× 1.7k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 1.3× 611 0.8× 129 4.6k
Guy Schurgers Sweden 35 3.5k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 2.4k 1.7× 555 0.7× 846 1.1× 86 5.6k
Peter Levy United Kingdom 34 2.9k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 986 0.7× 992 1.2× 762 1.0× 94 4.6k
Benjamin N. Sulman United States 31 2.5k 0.7× 1.6k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 1.7k 2.0× 866 1.1× 58 4.7k
George L. Vourlitis United States 38 3.0k 0.9× 2.2k 1.5× 2.2k 1.5× 886 1.1× 1.1k 1.4× 130 5.6k
Anders Ahlström Sweden 25 2.6k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 772 0.5× 1.4k 1.6× 571 0.7× 54 4.5k
Bart Kruijt Netherlands 32 3.5k 1.0× 964 0.7× 931 0.7× 594 0.7× 1.0k 1.3× 92 4.4k
Jukka Pumpanen Finland 43 3.4k 1.0× 1.8k 1.3× 1.6k 1.1× 1.8k 2.1× 1.1k 1.4× 174 6.2k
Anja Rammig Germany 38 4.6k 1.3× 1.5k 1.0× 1.6k 1.1× 568 0.7× 730 0.9× 116 6.2k
A. D. Friend United Kingdom 38 4.6k 1.3× 1.3k 0.9× 2.0k 1.4× 761 0.9× 1.4k 1.7× 73 6.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Padrón, Ryan S., et al.. (2025). Large biases in the frequency of water limitation across Earth system models. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 2 indexed citations
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Orth, René, Jasper Denissen, O Sungmin, et al.. (2025). Regional Emergence of Water‐Related Browning in a Greening World. Global Change Biology. 31(12). e70620–e70620.
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Bachofen, Christoph, Shersingh Joseph Tumber‐Dávila, D. S. Mackay, et al.. (2024). Tree water uptake patterns across the globe. New Phytologist. 242(5). 1891–1910. 55 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, H., Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, Benjamin D. Stocker, et al.. (2024). Why models underestimate West African tropical forest primary productivity. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9574–9574. 6 indexed citations
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Zohner, Constantin M., Susanne S. Renner, Lidong Mo, et al.. (2023). Effect of climate warming on the timing of autumn leaf senescence reverses after the summer solstice. Science. 381(6653). eadf5098–eadf5098. 83 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sundert, Kevin Van, Sebastian Leuzinger, Martin Karl‐Friedrich Bader, et al.. (2023). When things get MESI: The Manipulation Experiments Synthesis Initiative—A coordinated effort to synthesize terrestrial global change experiments. Global Change Biology. 29(7). 1922–1938. 12 indexed citations
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Gentine, Pierre, et al.. (2023). Diagnosing evapotranspiration responses to water deficit across biomes using deep learning. New Phytologist. 240(3). 968–983. 22 indexed citations
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Weng, Ensheng, Harald Bugmann, David I. Forrester, et al.. (2023). Tree Growth Enhancement Drives a Persistent Biomass Gain in Unmanaged Temperate Forests. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(5). 7 indexed citations
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Schönbeck, Leonie, Charlotte Grossiord, Arthur Geßler, et al.. (2022). Photosynthetic acclimation and sensitivity to short- and long-term environmental changes in a drought-prone forest. Journal of Experimental Botany. 73(8). 2576–2588. 24 indexed citations
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Orth, René, Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn, et al.. (2022). Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest. Biogeosciences. 19(17). 4315–4329. 31 indexed citations
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Stocker, Benjamin D., Han Wang, Nicholas G. Smith, et al.. (2020). P-model v1.0: an optimality-based light use efficiency model for simulating ecosystem gross primary production. Geoscientific model development. 13(3). 1545–1581. 139 indexed citations
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Fischer, Hubertus, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, Michael Böck, et al.. (2019). N 2 O changes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the preindustrial – Part 1: Quantitative reconstruction of terrestrial and marine emissions using N 2 O stable isotopes in ice cores. Biogeosciences. 16(20). 3997–4021. 12 indexed citations
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Stocker, Benjamin D., et al.. (2018). Contrasting CO2 emissions from different Holocene land-use reconstructions: Does the carbon budget add up?. Past Global Change Magazine. 26(1). 6–7. 2 indexed citations
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Harrison, Sandy P., et al.. (2018). Do we need to include anthropogenic land-use and land-cover changes in paleoclimate simulations?. Past Global Change Magazine. 26(1). 4–5. 8 indexed citations
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Davis, T. W., I. Colin Prentice, Benjamin D. Stocker, et al.. (2017). Simple process-led algorithms for simulating habitats (SPLASH v.1.0): robust indices of radiation, evapotranspiration and plant-available moisture. Geoscientific model development. 10(2). 689–708. 65 indexed citations
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Zhao, Fang, Ning Zeng, Ghassem Asrar, et al.. (2016). Role of CO 2 , climate and land use in regulating the seasonal amplitudeincrease of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems: a multimodel analysis. Biogeosciences. 13(17). 5121–5137. 26 indexed citations
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Calle, Leonardo, Josep G. Canadell, Prabir K. Patra, et al.. (2016). Regional carbon fluxes from land use and land cover change in Asia, 1980–2009. Environmental Research Letters. 11(7). 74011–74011. 34 indexed citations
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Ahlström, Anders, Michael Raupach, Guy Schurgers, et al.. (2015). The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO 2 sink. Science. 348(6237). 895–899. 1109 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stocker, Benjamin D., et al.. (2014). Past and future carbon fluxes from land use change, shifting cultivation and wood harvest. Tellus B. 66(1). 23188–23188. 72 indexed citations

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