Deborah Zani

446 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 276 citations indexed

About

Deborah Zani is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Zani has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 276 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Ecological Modeling, 3 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 3 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Deborah Zani's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (3 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers). Deborah Zani is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (3 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers). Deborah Zani collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Sweden and Germany. Deborah Zani's co-authors include Thomas W. Crowther, Constantin M. Zohner, Susanne S. Renner, Lidong Mo, Veiko Lehsten, Heike Lischke, Sonia Herrando‐Moraira, Roser Vilatersana, Jordi López‐Pujol and Markus Schlegel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biogeography and Molecular Ecology Resources.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Zani

7 papers receiving 273 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.

Increased growing-season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees

2020 254 citations Deborah Zani, Thomas W. Crowther et al. Science profile →

Peers

Deborah Zani

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Violetta Fedotova Russia

C. J. Chamberlain United States

Victor Danneyrolles Canada

Frederik Baumgarten Switzerland

Markus Ungersböck Austria

Barbara Pietragalla Switzerland

Ludovica Oddi Italy

Anneli Palo Estonia

Linda Dalen Norway

Coline C. F. Boonman Netherlands

Violetta Fedotova Russia

Deborah Zani

170 ×0.9

GPC

172 ×1.2

ECOLO

95 ×1.2

AS

82 ×1.0

PS

62 ×0.9

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Citations per year, relative to Deborah Zani Deborah Zani (= 1×) peers Violetta Fedotova

Countries citing papers authored by Deborah Zani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Deborah Zani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Zani

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Deborah Zani. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Deborah Zani based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Deborah Zani. Deborah Zani is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Zani, Deborah, Heike Lischke, Jonas Åkerman, & Veiko Lehsten. (2025). Hiking Trails Facilitate the Spread of a Native High‐Arctic Species. Ecology and Evolution. 15(1). e70809–e70809.

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Zani, Deborah, et al.. (2025). The Role of Migration in the Change of Northern Hemisphere Vegetation for the Past 50,000 Years. Journal of Biogeography. 52(6). 1 indexed citations

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Zani, Deborah, Heike Lischke, & Veiko Lehsten. (2024). The role of dispersal limitation in the forest biome shifts of Europe in the last 18,000 years. Journal of Biogeography. 51(8). 1438–1457. 2 indexed citations

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Schlegel, Markus, et al.. (2024). A case study on the application of spore sampling for the monitoring of macrofungi. Molecular Ecology Resources. 24(4). e13941–e13941. 2 indexed citations

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Zani, Deborah, Heike Lischke, & Veiko Lehsten. (2023). Climate and dispersal limitation drive tree species range shifts in post-glacial Europe: results from dynamic simulations. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 9 indexed citations

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Zani, Deborah, Veiko Lehsten, & Heike Lischke. (2022). Tree migration in the dynamic, global vegetation model LPJ-GM 1.1: efficient uncertainty assessment and improved dispersal kernels of European trees. Geoscientific model development. 15(12). 4913–4940. 5 indexed citations

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Zani, Deborah, Thomas W. Crowther, Lidong Mo, Susanne S. Renner, & Constantin M. Zohner. (2020). Increased growing-season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees. Science. 370(6520). 1066–1071. 254 indexed citations breakdown →

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Herrando‐Moraira, Sonia, et al.. (2019). The impact of Pleistocene sea-level oscillations on plant genetic diversity: the case of the western Mediterranean endemic Carduncellus dianius (Asteraceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 191(3). 399–420. 3 indexed citations

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