Christian Körner
Impact in
- Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.01%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Ecological Modeling top 0.02%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Papers in
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- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 196
- Plant Science 190
- Plant responses to elevated CO2 133
- Co-authors
- Günter Hoch (30 shared papers)Jens Paulsen (11 shared papers)David Basler (5 shared papers)Sebastian Leuzinger (19 shared papers)Daniel Scherrer (6 shared papers)Stephan Hättenschwiler (19 shared papers)Pascal A. Niklaus (21 shared papers)Rolf Siegwolf (18 shared papers)
- Journals
- Oecologia (43 papers)Functional Ecology (22 papers)Alpine Botany (18 papers)Global Change Biology (18 papers)Acta Oecologica (12 papers)
- Partner nations
- SwitzerlandGermanyAustria
In The Last Decade
Christian Körner
457 papers receiving 45.5k citations
Christian Körner's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 200
- Nature and Landscape Conservation 17.2k
- Ecological Modeling 5.2k
- Global and Planetary Change 21.9k
- Atmospheric Science 15.3k
- Soil Science 4.5k
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alpine plant life Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 2396 |
| 2 | The use of ‘altitude’ in ecological research Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 2307 |
| 3 | Alpine Plant Life Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 1509 |
| 4 | A world‐wide study of high altitude treeline temperatures Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 1095 |
| 5 | A re-assessment of high elevation treeline positions and their explanation Hit paper breakdown → | 1998 | 1056 |
| 6 | Carbon limitation in trees Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 836 |
| 7 | Phenology Under Global Warming Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 826 |
| 8 | Alpine Treelines Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 639 |
| 9 | Non‐structural carbon compounds in temperate forest trees Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 630 |
| 10 | Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 595 |
| 11 | Alpine Plant Life Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 562 |
| 12 | Paradigm shift in plant growth control Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 553 |
| 13 | RELATIONSHIPS AMONG MAXIMUM STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE, ECOSYSTEM SURFACE CONDUCTANCE, CARBON ASSIMILATION RATE, AND PLANT NITROGEN NUTRITION: A Global Ecology Scaling Exercise Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 533 |
| 14 | Carbon isotope discrimination by plants follows latitudinal and altitudinal trends Hit paper breakdown → | 1991 | 507 |
| 15 | 2006 | 470 | |
| 16 | Moving beyond photosynthesis: from carbon source to sink‐driven vegetation modeling Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 429 |
| 17 | Precipitation manipulation experiments – challenges and recommendations for the future Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 429 |
| 18 | 1988 | 428 | |
| 19 | 2005 | 425 | |
| 20 | 1992 | 381 |
About Christian Körner
Christian Körner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Molecular Biology, having authored 465 papers that have together received 47.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (196 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (133 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (112 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (98 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (44 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (36 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (31 papers) and Plant and animal studies (31 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (17.2k citations), Ecological Modeling (5.2k citations), Global and Planetary Change (21.9k citations), Atmospheric Science (15.3k citations) and Soil Science (4.5k citations). Christian Körner has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Frequent co-authors include Günter Hoch, Jens Paulsen, David Basler, Sebastian Leuzinger, Daniel Scherrer, Stephan Hättenschwiler, Pascal A. Niklaus, Rolf Siegwolf, John A. Arnone and Eva Spehn. Their work appears in journals such as Oecologia, Functional Ecology, Alpine Botany, Global Change Biology and Acta Oecologica.
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