Frederic Lens

15.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Frederic Lens is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frederic Lens has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 41 papers in Plant Science and 33 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Frederic Lens's work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (44 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (25 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (20 papers). Frederic Lens is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (44 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (25 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (20 papers). Frederic Lens collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Belgium and United States. Frederic Lens's co-authors include Steven Jansen, Erik Smets, John S. Sperry, David Rabaey, Brendan Choat, Sylvain Delzon, Siegbert Melzer, Pieter Baas, Mairgareth A. Christman and Antje Rohde and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Frederic Lens

93 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Functional xylem characteristics associated with drought‐induced embolism in angiosperms

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Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Frederic Lens	1.8k	1.6k	1.2k	948	821	94	3.7k
Mark E. Olson	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	433 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	118	3.6k
Veronica De Micco	2.1k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	333 0.3×	420 0.4×	812 1.0×	134	3.8k
Jack B. Fisher	1.5k 0.8×	875 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	564 0.6×	673 0.8×	113	2.8k
Eustaquio Gil‐Pelegrín	2.5k 1.4×	2.6k 1.6×	426 0.4×	425 0.4×	1.5k 1.9×	121	4.6k
Jarmila Pittermann	1.5k 0.8×	2.5k 1.6×	757 0.6×	259 0.3×	1.1k 1.3×	50	3.5k
Christine Scoffoni	3.4k 1.9×	3.8k 2.4×	1.0k 0.9×	427 0.5×	1.7k 2.0×	61	5.6k
Peter Gasson	685 0.4×	548 0.3×	1.0k 0.8×	657 0.7×	512 0.6×	116	2.8k
Ryo Funada	2.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	254 0.2×	894 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	170	4.2k
David Sánchez‐Gómez	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	633 0.5×	323 0.3×	1.5k 1.8×	52	2.9k
Gilbert Neuner	1.5k 0.9×	925 0.6×	603 0.5×	496 0.5×	638 0.8×	86	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frederic Lens

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Brewer, R. E., et al.. (2025). Impact of sampling strategy on inference of community assembly processes in phylogenetic island biogeography. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(7). 1507–1520. 1 indexed citations

Morin, A., Régis Burlett, Sylvain Delzon, et al.. (2025). Investigating the intraspecific diversity of Vitis vinifera responses to esca with a physiopathology approach. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Endress, Mary E., et al.. (2024). Apocynaceae wood evolution matches key morphological innovations. American Journal of Botany. 111(11). e16436–e16436. 2 indexed citations

Bortolami, Giovanni, et al.. (2024). Integrating gene expression analysis and ecophysiological responses to water deficit in leaves of tomato plants. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 29024–29024. 1 indexed citations

Pelt, Daniël M., et al.. (2024). Machine learning-based wood anatomy identification: towards anatomical feature recognition. IAWA Journal - KU Leuven/IAWA Journal. 45(4). 457–475. 2 indexed citations

Rapini, Alessandro, et al.. (2022). Comparative wood anatomy and origin of woodiness in subfamilies Secamonoideae and Asclepiadoideae (Apocynaceae). Taxon. 71(6). 1230–1250. 7 indexed citations

Bortolami, Giovanni, Sylvain Delzon, Maximilian Larter, et al.. (2022). Drought response in Arabidopsis displays synergistic coordination between stems and leaves. Journal of Experimental Botany. 74(3). 1004–1021. 13 indexed citations

Janssens, Steven B., Vincent S. F. T. Merckx, Rutger Vos, et al.. (2021). Temporal and palaeoclimatic context of the evolution of insular woodiness in the Canary Islands. Ecology and Evolution. 11(17). 12220–12231. 20 indexed citations

Arx, Georg von, Marco Carrer, Alan Crivellaro, et al.. (2021). Q-NET – a new scholarly network on quantitative wood anatomy. Dendrochronologia. 70. 125890–125890. 8 indexed citations

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Bortolami, Giovanni, Gregory A. Gambetta, Sylvain Delzon, et al.. (2019). Exploring the Hydraulic Failure Hypothesis of Esca Leaf Symptom Formation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 181(3). 1163–1174. 39 indexed citations

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Trueba, Santiago, Sylvain Delzon, Sandrine Isnard, & Frederic Lens. (2019). Similar hydraulic efficiency and safety across vesselless angiosperms and vessel-bearing species with scalariform perforation plates. Journal of Experimental Botany. 70(12). 3227–3240. 31 indexed citations

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Dória, Larissa Chacon, et al.. (2018). Insular woody daisies (Argyranthemum,Asteraceae) are more resistant to drought‐induced hydraulic failure than their herbaceous relatives. Functional Ecology. 32(6). 1467–1478. 55 indexed citations

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Angyalossy, Verônica, Marcelo R. Pace, Ray F. Evert, et al.. (2016). IAWA List of Microscopic Bark Features. IAWA Journal - KU Leuven/IAWA Journal. 37(4). 517–615. 196 indexed citations

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Lens, Frederic, Aude Tixier, Hervé Cochard, et al.. (2013). Embolism resistance as a key mechanism to understand adaptive plant strategies. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 16. 287–292. 2 indexed citations

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Lens, Frederic, Erik Smets, & Siegbert Melzer. (2012). Stem anatomy supports Arabidopsis thaliana as a model for insular woodiness. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 193. 12–17. 3 indexed citations

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Jansen, Steven, Annelies Pletsers, David Rabaey, & Frederic Lens. (2008). Vestured pits: a diagnostic character in the secondary xylem of Myrtales. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL FOREST SCIENCE. 20(4). 147–155. 26 indexed citations

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Lens, Frederic, Jesper Kårehed, Pieter Baas, et al.. (2008). The wood anatomy of the polyphyletic Icacinaceae s.l., and their relationships within asterids. Taxon. 57(2). 525–552. 34 indexed citations

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Melzer, Siegbert, Frederic Lens, Jérôme Gennen, et al.. (2008). Flowering-time genes modulate meristem determinacy and growth form in Arabidopsis thaliana. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 40(12). 1489–1492. 18 indexed citations

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Jansen, Steven, Brendan Choat, Stefan Vinckier, et al.. (2004). Intervascular pit membranes with a torus in the wood of Ulmus (Ulmaceae) and related genera. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 13 indexed citations

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Lens, Frederic, Kathleen A. Kron, James L. Luteyn, Erik Smets, & Steven Jansen. (2004). Comparative wood anatomy of the blueberry tribe (Vaccinieae, Ericaceae s.l). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 91(4). 566–592. 8 indexed citations

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