Cyrille Rathgeber

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Cyrille Rathgeber is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Cyrille Rathgeber has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 60 papers in Atmospheric Science and 45 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Cyrille Rathgeber's work include Tree-ring climate responses (60 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (60 papers) and Forest ecology and management (32 papers). Cyrille Rathgeber is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (60 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (60 papers) and Forest ecology and management (32 papers). Cyrille Rathgeber collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and Italy. Cyrille Rathgeber's co-authors include Sergio Rossi, Patrick Fonti, Henri E. Cuny, Annie Deslauriers, Mériem Fournier, François Lebourgeois, David Frank, Sonia Simard, Joël Guiot and Éric Dufrêne and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Cyrille Rathgeber

63 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Critical temperatures for xylogenesis in conifers of cold climates

2008 493 citations Sergio Rossi, Annie Deslauriers et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cyrille Rathgeber France	32	3.5k	3.3k	2.4k	630	388	68	4.0k
Walter Oberhuber Austria	34	2.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	780 1.2×	262 0.7×	80	3.2k
Britta Eilmann Switzerland	20	2.2k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	595 0.9×	208 0.5×	23	2.7k
Annie Deslauriers Canada	42	5.7k 1.7×	5.2k 1.6×	3.8k 1.6×	1.2k 1.9×	729 1.9×	97	6.6k
Peter Prislan Slovenia	29	1.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	501 0.8×	190 0.5×	68	2.2k
Gabriel Sangüesa‐Barreda Spain	32	2.5k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	546 0.9×	148 0.4×	90	3.2k
Carlo Urbinati Italy	25	2.2k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	349 0.6×	158 0.4×	64	2.8k
Ignacio García‐González Spain	28	2.1k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	543 0.9×	272 0.7×	61	2.5k
Hubert Morin Canada	22	2.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	314 0.5×	301 0.8×	32	2.6k
Anna L. Jacobsen United States	35	3.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.4×	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 2.6×	647 1.7×	76	3.8k
R. Brandon Pratt United States	34	2.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.4×	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 2.6×	626 1.6×	75	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Cyrille Rathgeber

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Bayle, Arthur, et al.. (2025). 19th-century afforestation policies have predisposed mountain slopes to forest expansion under recent climate warming in the southern French Alps. Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment. 49(6). 753–772.

Liesche, Johannes, Alan Crivellaro, Jiří Doležal, et al.. (2025). Physical constraints and environmental factors shape phloem anatomical traits in woody angiosperm species. New Phytologist. 248(5). 2316–2330.

Pérez‐de‐Lis, Gonzalo, et al.. (2024). Multimodal imaging analysis in silver fir reveals coordination in cellulose and lignin deposition. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 195(3). 2428–2442. 4 indexed citations

Berveiller, Daniel, Christophe François, Heikki Hänninen, et al.. (2024). A model of the within-population variability of budburst in forest trees. Geoscientific model development. 17(2). 865–879. 5 indexed citations

Larysch, Elena, Dominik Florian Stangler, Heike Puhlmann, et al.. (2022). The 2018 hot drought pushed conifer wood formation to the limit of its plasticity: Consequences for woody biomass production and tree ring structure. Plant Biology. 24(7). 1171–1185. 16 indexed citations

Rathgeber, Cyrille, et al.. (2020). Modelling the spatial crosstalk between two biochemical signals explains wood formation dynamics and tree-ring structure. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(5). 1727–1737. 20 indexed citations

Dox, Inge, Peter Prislan, Jožica Gričar, et al.. (2020). Drought elicits contrasting responses on the autumn dynamics of wood formation in late successional deciduous tree species. Tree Physiology. 41(7). 1171–1185. 16 indexed citations

Rathgeber, Cyrille, Patrick Fonti, Vladimir V. Shishov, & Philippe Rozenberg. (2019). Wood formation and tree adaptation to climate. Annals of Forest Science. 76(4). 9 indexed citations

Calvaruso, Christophe, André Granier, Sébastien Conil, et al.. (2018). Seasonal time-course of the above ground biomass production efficiency in beech trees (Fagus sylvatica L.). Annals of Forest Science. 75(1). 5 indexed citations

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Vennetier, M., C. Ripert, & Cyrille Rathgeber. (2018). Autecology and growth of Aleppo pine ( Pinus halepensis Mill.): A comprehensive study in France. Forest Ecology and Management. 413. 32–47. 15 indexed citations

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Novak, Klemen, Martín de Luis, Miguel Ángel Saz, et al.. (2016). Missing Rings in Pinus halepensis – The Missing Link to Relate the Tree-Ring Record to Extreme Climatic Events. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7. 727–727. 31 indexed citations

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Cuny, Henri E. & Cyrille Rathgeber. (2016). Xylogenesis: Coniferous Trees of Temperate Forests Are Listening to the Climate Tale during the Growing Season But Only Remember the Last Words!. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 171(1). 306–317. 98 indexed citations

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Delpierre, Nicolas, Yann Vitasse, Isabelle Chuine, et al.. (2015). Temperate and boreal forest tree phenology: from organ-scale processes to terrestrial ecosystem models. Annals of Forest Science. 73(1). 5–25. 217 indexed citations

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Rathgeber, Cyrille, et al.. (2014). Kinetics of tracheid development explain conifer tree‐ring structure. New Phytologist. 203(4). 1231–1241. 231 indexed citations

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Rossi, Sergio, Tommaso Anfodillo, Katarina Čufar, et al.. (2013). A meta-analysis of cambium phenology and growth: linear and non-linear patterns in conifers of the northern hemisphere. Annals of Botany. 112(9). 1911–1920. 119 indexed citations

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Rathgeber, Cyrille, et al.. (2013). Influencia del clima en la densidad de la madera de pinos mediterráneos (Pinus halepensis y Pinus pinaster).

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Balducci, Lorena, Annie Deslauriers, Alessio Giovannelli, Sergio Rossi, & Cyrille Rathgeber. (2013). Effects of temperature and water deficit on cambial activity and woody ring features in Picea mariana saplings. Tree Physiology. 33(10). 1006–1017. 68 indexed citations

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Michelot‐Antalik, Alice, Sonia Simard, Cyrille Rathgeber, Éric Dufrêne, & Claire Damesin. (2012). Comparing the intra-annual wood formation of three European species (Fagus sylvatica, Quercus petraea and Pinus sylvestris) as related to leaf phenology and non-structural carbohydrate dynamics. Tree Physiology. 32(8). 1033–1045. 306 indexed citations

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Rathgeber, Cyrille, et al.. (2012). Life strategies in intra-annual dynamics of wood formation: example of three conifer species in a temperate forest in north-east France. Tree Physiology. 32(5). 612–625. 151 indexed citations

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Gričar, Jožica, Cyrille Rathgeber, & Patrick Fonti. (2011). Monitoring seasonal dynamics of wood formation. Dendrochronologia. 29(3). 123–125. 13 indexed citations

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