Christopher J. Still

12.2k citations

124 papers · 7.2k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 43

Impact in

Ecological Modeling top 0.5%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Fire effects on ecosystems

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 96
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 78
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 27
- Climate variability and models 21
- Fire effects on ecosystems 18
Ecological Modeling 13

Co-authors: Joseph A. Berry G. J. Collatz Park Williams Ruth DeFries Erika J. Edwards Stephen H. Schneider P. N. Foster Douglas T. Fischer
Journals: Global Change Biology (9 papers)Global Biogeochemical Cycles (8 papers)Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (8 papers)New Phytologist (7 papers)Ecosphere (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Canada

In The Last Decade

Christopher J. Still

119 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming 2006 · 1.3k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2006 Nature
2003 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2003 Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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All Works

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1	C₄ photosynthesis, trait spectra, and the fast‐efficient phenotype New Phytologist ·Russell K. Monson, Shuai Li, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Siew-Teng Ong, John E. Hodge, Alan K. Knapp, Andrew D. B. Leakey, Danica Lombardozzi, Sasha C. Reed, Rowan F. Sage, Melinda D. Smith, Nicholas G. Smith, Christopher J. Still, Danielle A. Way	2025	2
2	Hyperspectral leaf reflectance of grasses varies with evolutionary lineage more than with site Ecosphere ·Stephanie Pau, Garima Thakur, 山下靖代, Yin Wen, В А Бричеев, 佐川祐子, Brent R. Helliker, Jesse B. Nippert, W. J. Riley, Christopher J. Still, A N Elshaar, Daniel M. Griffith	2025	1
3	Carbon, climate, and natural disturbance: a review of mechanisms, challenges, and tools for understanding forest carbon stability in an uncertain future Carbon Balance and Management ·Alex W. Dye, Rachel M. Houtman, Peng Gao, William R. L. Anderegg, Christopher J. Fettig, Jeffrey A. Hicke, John B. Kim, Christopher J. Still, Kevin A. Young, Karin L. Riley	2024	9
4	Plant canopies exhibit stronger thermoregulation capability at the seasonal than diurnal timescales Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Zhengfei Guo, Kun Zhang, Hua Lin, Anke Holtkamp, Calvin K. F. Lee, Christopher J. Still, Jin Wu	2023	10
5	Interannual precipitation controls on soil CO₂ fluxes in high elevation conifer and aspen forests Environmental Research Letters ·Mariah S. Carbone, Andrew D. Richardson, billy barr, Max Berkelhammer, Claudia M. Boot, Susanne Meinert, Christopher J. Still	2023	0
6	Evolutionary lineage explains trait variation among 75 coexisting grass species New Phytologist ·В А Бричеев, A N Elshaar, 刘晶砾, Jesse B. Nippert, Brent R. Helliker, W. J. Riley, Christopher J. Still, Daniel M. Griffith	2023	11
7	Convection-permitting climate simulations for South America with the Met Office Unified Model Climate Dynamics ·Kate Halladay, Ron Kahana, Ben Johnson, Christopher J. Still, Giorgia Fosser, Lincoln Muniz Alves	2023	13
8	Stable isotopes contain substantial additive information about terrestrial carbon and water cycling Environmental Research Letters ·Bonan Li, Stephen P. Good, Richard P. Fiorella, 英人丘田, Gabriel J. Bowen, David Noone, Christopher J. Still, William R. L. Anderegg	2023	5
9	Enhanced Photosynthesis and Transpiration in an Old Growth Forest Due To Wildfire Smoke Geophysical Research Letters ·Bharat Rastogi, Andres Schmidt, Max Berkelhammer, David Noone, Frederick C. Meinzer, John B. Kim, Christopher J. Still	2022	6
10	No evidence of canopy-scale leaf thermoregulation to cool leaves below air temperature across a range of forest ecosystems Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christopher J. Still, Gerald Page, Bharat Rastogi, Daniel M. Griffith, Donald M. Aubrecht, Youngil Kim, Sean P. Burns, Chad Hanson, Hyojung Kwon, Xinlei Wang, Frederick C. Meinzer, Sanna Sevanto, Dar A. Roberts, Eli Rustinar, Stephanie Pau, Matteo Detto, Brent R. Helliker, Andrew D. Richardson	2022	54
11	Imaging canopy temperature: shedding (thermal) light on ecosystem processes New Phytologist ·Christopher J. Still, Bharat Rastogi, Gerald Page, Daniel M. Griffith, Adam Sibley, Mark Schulze, Xinlei Wang, Stephanie Pau, Matteo Detto, Brent R. Helliker	2021	55
12	Effects of plant intraspecific variation on the prediction of C3/C4 vegetation ratio from carbon isotope composition of topsoil organic matter across grasslands Journal of Plant Ecology ·Wentao Luo, Xiaoguang Wang, K. Auerswald, Zhengwen Wang, Michael I. Bird, Christopher J. Still, Xiao‐Tao Lü, Xingguo Han	2021	7
13	Poor relationships between NEON Airborne Observation Platform data and field‐based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland Ecology ·Stephanie Pau, Jesse B. Nippert, Garima Thakur, Daniel M. Griffith, Hasbi Mubarak Suud, Brent R. Helliker, Rory C. O’Connor, W. J. Riley, Christopher J. Still, 张太专	2021	12
14	Persistence and Plasticity in Conifer Water‐Use Strategies Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Max Berkelhammer, Christopher J. Still, François Ritter, Matthew Winnick, Lesleigh Anderson, Rosemary Carroll, Mariah S. Carbone, Kenneth H. Williams	2020	34
15	Lineage‐based functional types: characterising functional diversity to enhance the representation of ecological behaviour in Land Surface Models New Phytologist ·Daniel M. Griffith, Colin P. Osborne, Erika J. Edwards, Hasbi Mubarak Suud, David J. Beerling, William J. Bond, Timothy Gallaher, Brent R. Helliker, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, VANCE RANDOLPH, Jesse B. Nippert, Stephanie Pau, Chaiti Mitra, W. J. Riley, Melinda D. Smith, Caroline A. E. Strömberg, Lyla L. Taylor, Mark C. Ungerer, Christopher J. Still	2020	21
16	Large Uptake of Atmospheric OCS Observed at a Moist Old Growth Forest: Controls and Implications for Carbon Cycle Applications Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Bharat Rastogi, Max Berkelhammer, Sonia Wharton, Mary Whelan, Malcolm S. Itter, J. Brian Leen, Manish Gupta, David Noone, Christopher J. Still	2018	18
17	Ecosystem fluxes of carbonyl sulfide in an old-growth forest: temporal dynamics and responses to diffuse radiation and heat waves Biogeosciences ·Bharat Rastogi, Max Berkelhammer, Sonia Wharton, Mary Whelan, Frederick C. Meinzer, David Noone, Christopher J. Still	2018	15
18	Climate, CO ₂ , and the history of North American grasses since the Last Glacial Maximum Science Advances ·Jennifer M. Cotton, Thure E. Cerling, Kathryn A. Hoppe, Thomas Mosier, Christopher J. Still	2016	57
19	Coastal fog during summer drought improves the water status of sapling trees more than adult trees in a California pine forest Oecologia ·Erkki Viitanen, Christopher J. Still, Douglas T. Fischer, Carla M. D’Antonio, Jennifer Y. King	2016	30
20	The relevance of phylogeny to studies of global change Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Erika J. Edwards, Christopher J. Still, Michael J. Donoghue	2007	84

About Christopher J. Still

Christopher J. Still is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, having authored 124 papers that have together received 7.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (78 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (27 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (24 papers), Climate variability and models (21 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (18 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (16 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (1.2k citations), Global and Planetary Change (4.4k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.5k citations), Atmospheric Science (2.0k citations) and Ecology (2.0k citations). Christopher J. Still has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Joseph A. Berry, G. J. Collatz, Park Williams, Ruth DeFries, Erika J. Edwards, Stephen H. Schneider, P. N. Foster, Douglas T. Fischer, Andrés Merino‐Viteri and Enrique La Marca. Their work appears in journals such as Global Change Biology, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, New Phytologist and Ecosphere.

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