Leonardo Montagnani

23.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Leonardo Montagnani is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonardo Montagnani has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 22 papers in Plant Science and 20 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Leonardo Montagnani's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (67 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (29 papers) and Climate variability and models (23 papers). Leonardo Montagnani is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (67 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (29 papers) and Climate variability and models (23 papers). Leonardo Montagnani collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Leonardo Montagnani's co-authors include Georg Wohlfahrt, Markus Reichstein, Alessandro Cescatti, Christof Ammann, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Eddy Moors, Christian Bernhofer, Philippe Ciais, Damiano Zanotelli and Massimo Tagliavini and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Leonardo Montagnani

83 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

2010 514 citations Markus Reichstein, Eddy Moors et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leonardo Montagnani Italy	35	3.6k	1.3k	948	689	670	87	4.4k
J.A. Elbers Netherlands	29	3.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	924 1.0×	916 1.3×	573 0.9×	45	4.0k
Natascha Kljun United Kingdom	33	4.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	1.2k 1.7×	649 1.0×	98	5.3k
Eyal Rotenberg Israel	31	2.9k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	794 0.8×	529 0.8×	640 1.0×	71	3.6k
Nobuko Saigusa Japan	37	3.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	627 0.9×	659 1.0×	110	3.9k
Eva van Gorsel Australia	33	3.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	890 0.9×	893 1.3×	437 0.7×	55	3.6k
Martin G. De Kauwe Australia	41	4.6k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	996 1.1×	639 0.9×	1.5k 2.2×	105	5.6k
Pasi Kolari Finland	39	3.0k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	961 1.0×	363 0.5×	1.2k 1.8×	127	3.9k
Matteo Detto United States	43	3.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.5×	770 1.1×	695 1.0×	103	4.7k
Kyaw Tha Paw U United States	31	3.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	698 0.7×	771 1.1×	682 1.0×	94	4.1k
Lina M. Mercado United Kingdom	28	3.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	605 0.6×	411 0.6×	945 1.4×	63	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Leonardo Montagnani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leonardo Montagnani

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Gharun, Mana, Ankit Shekhar, Lukas Hörtnagl, et al.. (2025). Impact of winter warming on CO ₂ fluxes in evergreen needleleaf forests. Biogeosciences. 22(5). 1393–1411. 1 indexed citations

Torresani, Michele, Christian Rossi, Marco Mina, et al.. (2025). Spectral heterogeneity from the spaceborne imaging spectrometer EnMAP reveals biodiversity patterns in forest ecosystems. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 144. 104902–104902. 1 indexed citations

Torresani, Michele, Leonardo Montagnani, Duccio Rocchini, et al.. (2024). LiDAR insights on stand structure and topography in mountain forest wind extreme events: The Vaia case study. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 359. 110267–110267. 2 indexed citations

Montagnani, Leonardo, et al.. (2023). Understanding Carbon Sequestration, Allocation, and Ecosystem Storage in a Grassed Vineyard. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

González, Carina V., et al.. (2023). Understanding carbon sequestration, allocation, and ecosystem storage in a grassed vineyard. Geoderma Regional. 34. e00674–e00674. 4 indexed citations

Speak, Andrew, et al.. (2021). The impact of different tree planting strategies on ecosystem services and disservices in the piazzas of a northern Italian city. Urban Ecosystems. 25(2). 355–366. 12 indexed citations

Song, Rui, Jan‐Peter Müller, William Woodgate, et al.. (2020). Validation of Space-Based Albedo Products from Upscaled Tower-Based Measurements Over Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Landscapes. Remote Sensing. 12(5). 833–833. 17 indexed citations

Eller, Cleiton B., Lucy Rowland, Maurizio Mencuccini, et al.. (2020). Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate. New Phytologist. 226(6). 1622–1637. 111 indexed citations

Montagnani, Leonardo, Andrew Speak, Camilla Wellstein, et al.. (2019). Evidence for a non-linear carbon accumulation pattern along an Alpine glacier retreat chronosequence in Northern Italy. PeerJ. 7. e7703–e7703. 8 indexed citations

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Collalti, Alessio, Sergio Marconi, Andreas Ibrom, et al.. (2016). Validation of 3D-CMCC Forest Ecosystem Model (v.5.1) against eddy covariance data for 10 European forest sites. Geoscientific model development. 9(2). 479–504. 38 indexed citations

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Gerbig, Christoph, Kai Uwe Totsche, A. J. Dolman, et al.. (2015). An objective prior error quantification for regional atmospheric inverse applications. Biogeosciences. 12(24). 7403–7421. 13 indexed citations

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Parazoo, Nicholas C., K. W. Bowman, Joshua B. Fisher, et al.. (2014). Terrestrial gross primary production inferred from satellite fluorescence and vegetation models. Global Change Biology. 20(10). 3103–3121. 171 indexed citations

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Kuppel, Sylvain, Philippe Peylin, Fabienne Maignan, et al.. (2014). Model–data fusion across ecosystems: from multisite optimizations to global simulations. Geoscientific model development. 7(6). 2581–2597. 39 indexed citations

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Verma, Manish, M. A. Friedl, Andrew D. Richardson, et al.. (2014). Remote sensing of annual terrestrial gross primary productivity from MODIS: an assessment using the FLUXNET La Thuile data set. Biogeosciences. 11(8). 2185–2200. 69 indexed citations

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Song, Bing, Shuli Niu, Yiqi Luo, et al.. (2014). Divergent apparent temperature sensitivity of terrestrial ecosystem respiration. Journal of Plant Ecology. 7(5). 419–428. 17 indexed citations

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Zanotelli, Damiano, Leonardo Montagnani, Giovanni Manca, & Massimo Tagliavini. (2013). Net primary productivity, allocation pattern and carbon use efficiency in an apple orchard assessed by integrating eddy covariance, biometric and continuous soil chamber measurements. Biogeosciences. 10(5). 3089–3108. 74 indexed citations

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Fleischer, Katrin, Karin T. Rebel, M. K. van der Molen, et al.. (2013). The contribution of nitrogen deposition to the photosynthetic capacity of forests. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 27(1). 187–199. 5 indexed citations

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Stoy, Paul C., Andrew D. Richardson, Dennis Baldocchi, et al.. (2009). Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of CO ₂ in relation to climate: a cross-biome analysis across multiple time scales. Biogeosciences. 6(10). 2297–2312. 119 indexed citations

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Moderow, Uta, Marc Aubinet, Christian Feigenwinter, et al.. (2009). Available energy and energy balance closure at four coniferous forest sites across Europe. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 98(3-4). 397–412. 60 indexed citations

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Montagnani, Leonardo, et al.. (2007). A New Methodology For Estimating CO2 Advective Fluxes In Complex Terrain. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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