Christoph Bachofen

741 total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 495 citations indexed

About

Christoph Bachofen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Bachofen has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 495 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Christoph Bachofen's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (21 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (12 papers) and Forest ecology and management (7 papers). Christoph Bachofen is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (21 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (12 papers) and Forest ecology and management (7 papers). Christoph Bachofen collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and Spain. Christoph Bachofen's co-authors include Nina Buchmann, Barbara Moser, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Petra D’Odorico, Charlotte Grossiord, Jaboury Ghazoul, Maurizio Mencuccini, Ying Liu, Silvia Dorn and Andreas Müller and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Bachofen

29 papers receiving 480 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Tree water uptake patterns across the globe

2024 55 citations Christoph Bachofen, Shersingh Joseph Tumber‐Dávila et al. New Phytologist profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christoph Bachofen Switzerland	14	291	198	174	136	127	31	495
Erica I. von Allmen United States	8	265 0.9×	83 0.4×	210 1.2×	111 0.8×	80 0.6×	8	409
Richard D. Alward United States	5	193 0.7×	151 0.8×	190 1.1×	63 0.5×	159 1.3×	7	451
Hua Lin China	15	282 1.0×	196 1.0×	143 0.8×	90 0.7×	65 0.5×	30	521
Anthea Challis Australia	8	236 0.8×	136 0.7×	188 1.1×	71 0.5×	67 0.5×	9	386
Marielle N. Smith United States	14	442 1.5×	177 0.9×	273 1.6×	143 1.1×	236 1.9×	19	735
Gerard Sapes United States	10	351 1.2×	196 1.0×	173 1.0×	192 1.4×	103 0.8×	14	496
A. Yu. Korolyuk Russia	10	149 0.5×	173 0.9×	130 0.7×	212 1.6×	64 0.5×	66	484
Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert United Kingdom	11	451 1.5×	87 0.4×	403 2.3×	177 1.3×	121 1.0×	29	673
Matiss Castorena Mexico	7	318 1.1×	129 0.7×	302 1.7×	159 1.2×	69 0.5×	11	513

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Bachofen

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Bachofen, Christoph, et al.. (2025). Prolonged warming and drought reduce canopy‐level net carbon uptake in beech and oak saplings despite photosynthetic and respiratory acclimation. New Phytologist. 246(5). 2015–2028. 1 indexed citations

Bachofen, Christoph, et al.. (2025). Beyond land surface temperature: Identifying areas of daytime thermal discomfort in cities by combining remote sensing and field measurements. Urban Climate. 61. 102460–102460. 4 indexed citations

Bachofen, Christoph, et al.. (2025). High transpirational cooling by urban trees despite extreme summer heatwaves. Urban forestry & urban greening. 107. 128819–128819. 2 indexed citations

Moser, Barbara, Esther R. Frei, Christoph Bachofen, Thomas Wohlgemuth, & Daniel Scherrer. (2025). Non-native Douglas fir seedlings outcompete native Norway spruce, silver fir and Scots pine under dry and nutrient-poor conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1546250–1546250.

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 →

Bachofen, Christoph, et al.. (2024). Soil warming alters tree water use and canopy stomatal conductance in a mixed subtropical forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 353. 110073–110073. 4 indexed citations

Bachofen, Christoph, et al.. (2023). Extracting flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras. Remote Sensing of Environment. 298. 113835–113835. 9 indexed citations

Gauthey, Alice, Christoph Bachofen, Petra D’Odorico, et al.. (2023). Absence of canopy temperature variation despite stomatal adjustment in Pinus sylvestris under multidecadal soil moisture manipulation. New Phytologist. 240(1). 127–137. 13 indexed citations

Bachofen, Christoph, Rafael Poyatos, Víctor Flo, et al.. (2023). Stand structure of Central European forests matters more than climate for transpiration sensitivity to VPD. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(5). 886–897. 27 indexed citations

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Grossiord, Charlotte, et al.. (2022). Warming may extend tree growing seasons and compensate for reduced carbon uptake during dry periods. Journal of Ecology. 110(7). 1575–1589. 34 indexed citations

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Bachofen, Christoph, et al.. (2021). Phenotypic plasticity versus ecotypic differentiation under recurrent summer drought in two drought‐tolerant pine species. Journal of Ecology. 109(11). 3861–3876. 18 indexed citations

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Bachofen, Christoph, Lisa Hülsmann, Andrew Revill, Nina Buchmann, & Petra D’Odorico. (2021). Accounting for foliar gradients in Vcmax and Jmax improves estimates of net CO2 exchange of forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 314. 108771–108771. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Yujie, Christoph Bachofen, Raphaël Wittwer, et al.. (2021). Using PhenoCams to track crop phenology and explain the effects of different cropping systems on yield. Agricultural Systems. 195. 103306–103306. 29 indexed citations

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Bachofen, Christoph, Petra D’Odorico, & Nina Buchmann. (2020). Light and VPD gradients drive foliar nitrogen partitioning and photosynthesis in the canopy of European beech and silver fir. Oecologia. 192(2). 323–339. 53 indexed citations

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Liu, Ying, Christoph Bachofen, Yanjing Lou, et al.. (2020). The effect of temperature changes and K supply on the reproduction and growth of Bolboschoenus planiculmis. Journal of Plant Ecology. 14(2). 337–347. 7 indexed citations

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Damm, Alexander, Eugénie Paul‐Limoges, Daniel Kükenbrink, Christoph Bachofen, & Felix Morsdorf. (2020). Remote sensing of forest gas exchange: Considerations derived from a tomographic perspective. Global Change Biology. 26(4). 2717–2727. 21 indexed citations

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Grünzweig, José M., et al.. (2020). Carbon allocation to the root system of tropical tree Ceiba pentandra using 13C pulse labelling in an aeroponic facility. Tree Physiology. 40(3). 350–366. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Ying, Zhi Ding, Christoph Bachofen, et al.. (2018). The effect of saline-alkaline and water stresses on water use efficiency and standing biomass of Phragmites australis and Bolboschoenus planiculmis. The Science of The Total Environment. 644. 207–216. 52 indexed citations

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Dorn, Silvia, et al.. (2011). Green alder as an important habitat of subalpine rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in the Urseren valley (canton Uri, Switzerland).. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft = Bulletin de la Société entomologique suisse. 84. 141–149. 1 indexed citations

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Zurbuchen, Antonia, Christoph Bachofen, Andreas Müller, Silke Hein, & Silvia Dorn. (2010). Are landscape structures insurmountable barriers for foraging bees? A mark-recapture study with two solitary pollen specialist species. Apidologie. 41(4). 497–508. 39 indexed citations

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