David Basler

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

David Basler is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Basler has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in David Basler's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (9 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (8 papers). David Basler is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (9 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (8 papers). David Basler collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. David Basler's co-authors include Christian Körner, Yann Vitasse, Andrew D. Richardson, Koen Hufkens, Günter Hoch, E. K. Melaas, Tom Milliman, Ansgar Kahmen, Chris Kollas and Niklaus E. Zimmermann and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

David Basler

25 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Phenology Under Global Warming

2010 826 citations Christian Körner, David Basler Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Basler Switzerland	16	1.4k	915	819	655	648	26	2.3k
Cuauhtémoc Sáenz‐Romero Mexico	26	1.2k 0.9×	754 0.8×	1.4k 1.7×	581 0.9×	768 1.2×	119	2.7k
This Rutishauser Switzerland	20	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	399 0.5×	772 1.2×	837 1.3×	33	2.6k
Artur Stefański United States	22	1.2k 0.9×	715 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	469 0.7×	419 0.6×	51	2.6k
Péter Fábián Germany	12	1.1k 0.8×	688 0.8×	503 0.6×	621 0.9×	504 0.8×	24	2.0k
Christian Piedallu France	19	912 0.7×	561 0.6×	1.3k 1.6×	409 0.6×	752 1.2×	40	2.1k
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Thailand	26	1.1k 0.8×	462 0.5×	1.5k 1.9×	499 0.8×	360 0.6×	55	2.2k
Annabel J. Porté France	18	1.2k 0.9×	445 0.5×	953 1.2×	505 0.8×	201 0.3×	29	2.1k
Beth A. Newingham United States	19	776 0.6×	819 0.9×	1.4k 1.7×	270 0.4×	323 0.5×	54	2.6k
Daniel Scherrer Switzerland	18	526 0.4×	606 0.7×	978 1.2×	451 0.7×	985 1.5×	39	1.9k
Harald Pauli Austria	24	472 0.3×	670 0.7×	1.3k 1.5×	674 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	44	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by David Basler

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Basler

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D’Odorico, Petra, Dominic Fawcett, Richard L. Peters, et al.. (2025). Deciphering tree drought responses across species: linking leaf water potentials with remote sensing greenness and photoprotection dynamics. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 375. 110856–110856.

Blumstein, Meghan, et al.. (2025). Genomics highlight an underestimation of phenology sensitivity to the urban heat island effect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(12). e2408564122–e2408564122. 1 indexed citations

Peters, Richard L., et al.. (2025). Normalized tree water deficit: an automated dendrometer signal to quantify drought stress in trees. New Phytologist. 247(3). 1186–1198. 2 indexed citations

Holloway‐Phillips, Meisha, et al.. (2024). Effects of increasing atmospheric CO ₂ on leaf water δ ¹⁸ O values are small and are attenuated in grasses and amplified in dicotyledonous herbs and legumes when transferred to cellulose δ ¹⁸ O values. New Phytologist. 242(5). 1944–1956. 1 indexed citations

Richardson, Andrew D., Christina Schädel, Andreas Westergaard‐Nielsen, et al.. (2024). Experimental Whole‐Ecosystem Warming Enables Novel Estimation of Snow Cover and Depth Sensitivities to Temperature, and Quantification of the Snow‐Albedo Feedback Effect. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(3). 1 indexed citations

Eitel, Jan U.H., David Basler, Sabine Braun, et al.. (2023). Towards monitoring stem growth phenology from space with high resolution satellite data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 339. 109549–109549. 8 indexed citations

Richardson, Andrew D., Matthew A. Bowker, Jarrett J. Barber, et al.. (2022). Soil-atmosphere fluxes of CO2, CH4, and N2O across an experimentally-grown, successional gradient of biocrust community types. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 979825–979825. 1 indexed citations

Rademacher, Tim, Bijan Seyednasrollah, David Basler, et al.. (2021). The Wood Image Analysis and Dataset (WIAD): Open‐access visual analysis tools to advance the ecological data revolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(12). 2379–2387. 8 indexed citations

Rademacher, Tim, Patrick Fonti, James M. LeMoine, et al.. (2021). Manipulating phloem transport affects wood formation but not local nonstructural carbon reserves in an evergreen conifer. Plant Cell & Environment. 44(8). 2506–2521. 7 indexed citations

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Nelson, Daniel B., David Basler, & Ansgar Kahmen. (2021). Precipitation isotope time series predictions from machine learning applied in Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(26). 64 indexed citations

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Ollinger, Scott V., Andrew P. Ouimette, Rebecca Sanders‐DeMott, et al.. (2020). Tree Species Traits Determine the Success of LiDAR-Based Crown Mapping in a Mixed Temperate Forest. Remote Sensing. 12(2). 309–309. 47 indexed citations

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Rademacher, Tim, David Basler, Annemarie Eckes‐Shephard, et al.. (2019). Using Direct Phloem Transport Manipulation to Advance Understanding of Carbon Dynamics in Forest Trees. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 2. 17 indexed citations

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Hufkens, Koen, David Basler, Tom Milliman, E. K. Melaas, & Andrew D. Richardson. (2018). An integrated phenology modelling framework in r. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(5). 1276–1285. 164 indexed citations

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Körner, Christian, David Basler, Günter Hoch, et al.. (2016). Where, why and how? Explaining the low‐temperature range limits of temperate tree species. Journal of Ecology. 104(4). 1076–1088. 177 indexed citations

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Basler, David & Christian Körner. (2014). Photoperiod and temperature responses of bud swelling and bud burst in four temperate forest tree species. Tree Physiology. 34(4). 377–388. 171 indexed citations

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Vitasse, Yann & David Basler. (2014). Is the use of cuttings a good proxy to explore phenological responses of temperate forests in warming and photoperiod experiments?. Tree Physiology. 34(2). 174–183. 82 indexed citations

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Basler, David & Christian Körner. (2012). Photoperiod sensitivity of bud burst in 14 temperate forest tree species. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 165. 73–81. 285 indexed citations

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Vitasse, Yann & David Basler. (2012). What role for photoperiod in the bud burst phenology of European beech. European Journal of Forest Research. 132(1). 1–8. 176 indexed citations

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Körner, Christian & David Basler. (2010). Phenology Under Global Warming. Science. 327(5972). 1461–1462. 826 indexed citations breakdown →

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Körner, Christian & David Basler. (2010). Response—Warming, Photoperiods, and Tree Phenology. Science. 329(5989). 278–278. 23 indexed citations

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