I. Colin Prentice

62.5k citations

263 papers · 24.6k indexed · 15 hit papers · h-index 82

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.02%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Ecological Modeling top 0.1%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 170
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 114
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 46
- Climate variability and models 42
- Fire effects on ecosystems 31
Atmospheric Science 94
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 56
- Tree-ring climate responses 28

Co-authors: Sandy P. Harrison Wolfgang Crämer T. Webb Belinda E. Medlyn Martin T. Sykes Trevor F. Keenan Joanna I. House Patrick J. Bartlein
Journals: New Phytologist (22 papers)Biogeosciences (20 papers)Global Change Biology (18 papers)Nature Climate Change (8 papers)Journal of Biogeography (8 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Australia United States

In The Last Decade

I. Colin Prentice

255 papers receiving 23.7k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink 2023 · 134 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.

2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2022 Nature Communications
2019 Nature Geoscience
2017 Science
2016 Science
2016 New Phytologist
2016 Nature Communications
2011 Science
2010 Global Change Biology
2006 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2005 Global Change Biology
2002 Science
1999 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
1985 Quaternary Research
1985 Quaternary Research

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1	A unifying principle for global greenness patterns and trends Communications Earth & Environment ·Pavel Dundr, Lili Li, Sandy P. Harrison, Youngryel Ryu, Han Wang, Subash Chandra Behera, I. Colin Prentice	2025	7
2	Eco-evolutionary modelling of global vegetation dynamics and the impact of CO ₂ during the late Quaternary: insights from contrasting periods Earth System Dynamics ·千代子島倉, Subash Chandra Behera, Sandy P. Harrison, I. Colin Prentice	2025	0
3	Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback Science ·Yawen Hu, Han Wang, Ian J. Wright, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison, Nicholas G. Smith, Andrea C. Westerband, Lucy Rowland, Lenka Plavcová, Hugh Morris, Peter B. Reich, Steven Jansen, Trevor F. Keenan, 余妹容	2025	1
4	Simple process-led algorithms for simulating habitats (SPLASH v.2.0): robust calculations of water and energy fluxes Geoscientific model development ·広幸神尾, I. Colin Prentice, Rodolfo Nóbrega	2024	2
5	Why models underestimate West African tropical forest primary productivity Nature Communications ·H. Zhang, Ayaka HIGASHIMOTO, Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, Benjamin D. Stocker, R. Subburaj, Ana Claudia Rosa, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, Akwasi Duah‐Gyamfi, Hnatiuk Lubomira, Muluken Jemberie, Imma Oliveras Menor, I. Colin Prentice, Yadvinder Malhi	2024	6
6	Holocene climates of the Iberian Peninsula: pollen-based reconstructions of changes in the west–east gradient of temperature and moisture Climate of the past ·Mengmeng Liu, Kevin Alvito Adi Pradipta, Penélope González‐Sampériz, Graciela Gil‐Romera, Cajo J. F. ter Braak, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison	2023	11
7	Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Christos Theodorou, Trevor F. Keenan, C. A. Williams, Yu Zhou, Trần Thục Anh Đoàn, Ana Bastos, Josep G. Canadell, I. Colin Prentice, Stephen Sitch, César Terrer Hit paper breakdown →	2023	134
8	Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function Journal of Ecology ·Ning Dong, I. Colin Prentice, Ian J. Wright, Han Wang, Owen K. Atkin, Keith J. Bloomfield, Tomas F. Domingues, Sean M. Gleason, Vincent Maire, Yusuke Onoda, Hendrik Poorter, Nicholas G. Smith	2022	26
9	Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research Earth system science data ·Jing M. Chen, Rong Wang, Yihong Liu, Liming He, Holly Croft, Xiangzhong Luo, Han Wang, Nicholas G. Smith, Trevor F. Keenan, I. Colin Prentice, Yongguang Zhang, Weimin Ju, Ning Dong	2022	42
10	Leaf morphological traits as adaptations to multiple climate gradients Journal of Ecology ·Han Wang, Runxi Wang, Sandy P. Harrison, I. Colin Prentice	2022	50
11	Coordination of plant hydraulic and photosynthetic traits: confronting optimality theory with field measurements New Phytologist ·George Clarke, Han Wang, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison, Ian J. Wright	2021	39
12	The importance of antecedent vegetation and drought conditions as global drivers of burnt area Biogeosciences ·수등융일 Ryuichi Sudo, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Peer Nowack, Matthias Forkel, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison	2021	26
13	Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires: January 2020 UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) ·Matthew W. Jones, Adam J. P. Smith, Richard Betts, Josep G. Canadell, I. Colin Prentice, Corinne Le Quéré	2020	5
14	Quantifying the Importance of Antecedent Fuel-Related VegetationProperties for Burnt Area using Random Forests Spiral (Imperial College London) ·수등융일 Ryuichi Sudo, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Peer Nowack, Matthias Forkel, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison	2020	2
15	Is NPP proportional to GPP? Waring’s hypothesis 20 years on Tree Physiology ·Alessio Collalti, I. Colin Prentice	2019	106
16	Plant respiration: Controlled by photosynthesis or biomass? Global Change Biology ·Alessio Collalti, Mark G. Tjoelker, Günter Hoch, Annikki Mäkelä, Gabriele Guidolotti, Mary Heskel, Giai Petit, Michael G. Ryan, Giovanna Battipaglia, Gioṙgio Matteucci, I. Colin Prentice	2019	86
17	N ₂ O changes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the preindustrial – Part II: Terrestrial N ₂ O emissions constrain carbon-nitrogen interactions Fortunat Joos, Renato Spahni, Benjamin D. Stocker, Sebastian Lienert, Jurek Müller, Hubertus Fischer, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, I. Colin Prentice, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Zhengyu Liu	2019	3
18	Global climatic drivers of leaf size Science ·Ian J. Wright, Ning Dong, Vincent Maire, I. Colin Prentice, Mark Westoby, Sandra Dı́az, Rachael V. Gallagher, Bonnie F. Jacobs, Robert M. Kooyman, Elizabeth A. Law, Michelle R. Leishman, Ülo Niinemets, Peter B. Reich, Lawren Sack, Rafael Villar, Han Wang, Peter Wilf Hit paper breakdown →	2017	647
19	A test of the ‘one‐point method’ for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field‐measured, light‐saturated photosynthesis New Phytologist ·Martin G. De Kauwe, Yan‐Shih Lin, Ian J. Wright, Belinda E. Medlyn, Kristine Y. Crous, David S. Ellsworth, Vincent Maire, I. Colin Prentice, Owen K. Atkin, Alistair Rogers, Ülo Niinemets, Shawn Serbin, Patrick Meir, Johan Uddling, Henrique Fürstenau Togashi, Lasse Tarvainen, Lasantha K. Weerasinghe, Bradley Evans, F. Yoko Ishida, Tomas F. Domingues	2015	142
20	Simulation of tree-ring widths with a model for primary production, carbon allocation, and growth Biogeosciences ·Guangqi Li, Sandy P. Harrison, I. Colin Prentice, Daniel S. Falster	2014	41

About I. Colin Prentice

I. Colin Prentice is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Plant Science, having authored 263 papers that have together received 24.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (114 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (56 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (54 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (52 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (46 papers), Climate variability and models (42 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (31 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (28 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (12.9k citations), Ecological Modeling (2.6k citations), Atmospheric Science (9.8k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (5.6k citations) and Ecology (5.8k citations). I. Colin Prentice has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Frequent co-authors include Sandy P. Harrison, Wolfgang Crämer, T. Webb, Belinda E. Medlyn, Martin T. Sykes, Trevor F. Keenan, Joanna I. House, Patrick J. Bartlein, Jonathan T. Overpeck and Han Wang. Their work appears in journals such as New Phytologist, Biogeosciences, Global Change Biology, Nature Climate Change and Journal of Biogeography.

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