César Terrer

6.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
49 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

César Terrer is a scholar working on Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, César Terrer has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Soil Science, 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in César Terrer's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (27 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (8 papers). César Terrer is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (27 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (8 papers). César Terrer collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Spain. César Terrer's co-authors include Bruce A. Hungate, I. Colin Prentice, Richard P. Phillips, Robert B. Jackson, Sara Vicca, Adam F. A. Pellegrini, Enzai Du, Nan Xia, Anders Ahlström and Caspar J. Van Lissa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

César Terrer

47 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen and phosphor... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2020 2016 2021 2019 2021 250 500 750
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. Global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus limitation
    2020 884 citations Enzai Du, César Terrer et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  2. Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO 2 fertilization effect
    2016 453 citations César Terrer, Sara Vicca et al. profile →
  3. A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2
    2021 429 citations César Terrer, Richard P. Phillips et al. profile →
  4. Global mycorrhizal plant distribution linked to terrestrial carbon stocks
    2019 203 citations César Terrer et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass
    2021 190 citations Benjamin D. Stocker, César Terrer et al. profile →
  6. Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink
    2023 134 citations Trevor F. Keenan, C. A. Williams et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
  7. Historical impacts of grazing on carbon stocks and climate mitigation opportunities
    2024 46 citations Shuai Ren, César Terrer et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
César Terrer United States 20 1.7k 1.2k 1.1k 993 696 49 3.4k
Yolima Carrillo Australia 26 2.1k 1.2× 1.5k 1.2× 893 0.8× 1.2k 1.2× 601 0.9× 73 3.5k
Weijun Shen China 38 1.6k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 1.4k 1.3× 1.6k 1.6× 733 1.1× 142 4.3k
Elena Vanguelova United Kingdom 23 1.3k 0.8× 783 0.6× 899 0.8× 704 0.7× 872 1.3× 59 2.9k
Juxiu Liu China 38 2.1k 1.2× 1.2k 0.9× 1.5k 1.4× 1.2k 1.2× 1.0k 1.5× 148 4.0k
Marcel R. Hoosbeek Netherlands 29 1.4k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 1.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 499 0.7× 65 3.2k
Qingkui Wang China 32 2.8k 1.7× 1.0k 0.8× 774 0.7× 1.7k 1.7× 822 1.2× 120 4.1k
Bonnie G. Waring United States 25 1.9k 1.1× 723 0.6× 590 0.5× 1.2k 1.2× 714 1.0× 55 3.0k
Weixing Zhu United States 33 1.8k 1.1× 1.0k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 1.3k 1.4× 791 1.1× 99 4.2k
Enzai Du China 29 1.9k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 1.2k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 747 1.1× 77 4.0k
Adam F. A. Pellegrini United States 23 1.6k 1.0× 837 0.7× 1.9k 1.8× 1.2k 1.2× 1.1k 1.6× 36 3.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of César Terrer

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Berdugo, Miguel, Tadeo Sáez‐Sandino, Tingting Ren, et al.. (2025). Temperature thresholds induce abrupt shifts in biodiversity and ecosystem services in montane ecosystems worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(16). e2413981122–e2413981122. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Han Y. H., Gabin Piton, César Terrer, et al.. (2025). The complementarity hypothesis reversed: Root trait similarity in species mixtures promotes soil organic carbon in agroecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 203. 109736–109736. 2 indexed citations
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Terrer, César, Pierre Gentine, Ryunosuke Tateno, et al.. (2025). Temporal and Phenological Modulation of the Impact of Increasing Drought Conditions on Vegetation Growth in a Humid Big River Basin: Insights From Global Comparisons. Earth s Future. 13(3). 4 indexed citations
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Cui, Yongxing, Shushi Peng, Matthias C. Rillig, et al.. (2025). Global patterns of nutrient limitation in soil microorganisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(20). e2424552122–e2424552122. 8 indexed citations
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Zhou, Guiyao, Nico Eisenhauer, César Terrer, et al.. (2024). Resistance of ecosystem services to global change weakened by increasing number of environmental stressors. Nature Geoscience. 17(9). 882–888. 27 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaorong, Kailiang Yu, Hui Liu, et al.. (2024). Contrasting drought tolerance traits of woody plants is associated with mycorrhizal types at the global scale. New Phytologist. 244(5). 2024–2035. 4 indexed citations
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Wu, Jianzhao, Shirong Liu, Changhui Peng, et al.. (2024). Future soil organic carbon stocks in China under climate change. 1(9). 100179–100179. 10 indexed citations
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Cheng, Xiaoli, César Terrer, Woo‐Jung Choi, et al.. (2024). Global evidence for joint effects of multiple natural and anthropogenic drivers on soil nitrogen cycling. Global Change Biology. 30(5). e17309–e17309. 7 indexed citations
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Ren, Shuai, et al.. (2024). Author Correction: Historical impacts of grazing on carbon stocks and climate mitigation opportunities. Nature Climate Change. 14(8). 883–883. 2 indexed citations
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Ren, Shuai, et al.. (2024). Historical impacts of grazing on carbon stocks and climate mitigation opportunities. Nature Climate Change. 14(4). 380–386. 46 indexed citations breakdown →
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Keenan, Trevor F., C. A. Williams, Yu Zhou, et al.. (2023). Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(8). 518–534. 134 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Hailing, César Terrer, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen addition delays the emergence of an aridity-induced threshold for plant biomass. National Science Review. 10(11). nwad242–nwad242. 19 indexed citations
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Bell, Stephen M., Samuel Raymond, He Yin, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the recarbonization of post-agricultural landscapes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2139–2139. 13 indexed citations
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Cheng, Xiaoli, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Pablo García‐Palacios, et al.. (2023). Shifts in soil ammonia‐oxidizing community maintain the nitrogen stimulation of nitrification across climatic conditions. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e16989–e16989. 13 indexed citations
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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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Cui, Yongxing, Shushi Peng, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, et al.. (2023). Microbial communities in terrestrial surface soils are not widely limited by carbon. Global Change Biology. 29(15). 4412–4429. 31 indexed citations
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Pellegrini, Adam F. A., Peter B. Reich, Sarah E. Hobbie, et al.. (2023). Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes. Nature Climate Change. 13(10). 1089–1094. 18 indexed citations
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Liu, Yongwen, Lingjie Lei, César Terrer, et al.. (2023). CO2 fertilization contributed more than half of the observed forest biomass increase in northern extra-tropical land. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Yang, et al.. (2023). Urban CO2 imprints on carbon isotope and growth of Chinese pine in the Beijing metropolitan region. The Science of The Total Environment. 866. 161389–161389. 8 indexed citations
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Groenigen, Kees Jan van, Craig W. Osenberg, César Terrer, et al.. (2017). Faster turnover of new soil carbon inputs under increased atmospheric CO 2. Global Change Biology. 23(10). 4420–4429. 114 indexed citations

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