Mark G. Tjoelker

31.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
180 papers, 14.1k citations indexed

About

Mark G. Tjoelker is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark G. Tjoelker has authored 180 papers receiving a total of 14.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 108 papers in Plant Science and 58 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Mark G. Tjoelker's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (117 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (85 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (39 papers). Mark G. Tjoelker is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (117 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (85 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (39 papers). Mark G. Tjoelker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Poland. Mark G. Tjoelker's co-authors include Peter B. Reich, Jacek Oleksyn, Owen K. Atkin, David Tilman, José‐Luis Machado, C. Buschena, Joseph M. Craine, David A. Wedin, J. Modrzyński and David S. Ellsworth and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mark G. Tjoelker

174 papers receiving 13.6k 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.

Thermal acclimation and the dynamic response of plant respiration to temperature

2003 1.0k citations Owen K. Atkin, Mark G. Tjoelker profile →
Linking litter calcium, earthworms and soil properties: a common garden test with 14 tree species

2005 585 citations Peter B. Reich, Jacek Oleksyn et al. profile →
Trees tolerate an extreme heatwave via sustained transpirational cooling and increased leaf thermal tolerance

2018 280 citations John E. Drake, Mark G. Tjoelker et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species

2021 193 citations Mark G. Tjoelker, David S. Ellsworth et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Climate change increases global risk to urban forests

2022 166 citations Manuel Esperón‐Rodríguez, Mark G. Tjoelker et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark G. Tjoelker United States	64	8.2k	7.1k	5.0k	3.1k	2.2k	180	14.1k
David T. Tissue Australia	72	11.1k 1.4×	9.0k 1.3×	4.0k 0.8×	5.0k 1.6×	2.7k 1.2×	313	16.7k
J. S. Pereira Portugal	58	7.0k 0.9×	7.6k 1.1×	2.9k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	167	13.1k
Evan H. DeLucia United States	74	7.7k 0.9×	8.3k 1.2×	3.2k 0.6×	3.2k 1.0×	2.8k 1.3×	259	17.5k
Belinda E. Medlyn Australia	69	12.9k 1.6×	7.5k 1.1×	3.6k 0.7×	4.8k 1.5×	2.2k 1.0×	196	15.6k
Arthur Geßler Switzerland	66	8.7k 1.1×	5.7k 0.8×	4.7k 0.9×	5.3k 1.7×	2.1k 0.9×	305	13.8k
David G. Williams United States	51	9.3k 1.1×	3.7k 0.5×	3.8k 0.8×	4.2k 1.3×	2.9k 1.3×	180	13.6k
Guillermo Goldstein United States	65	8.0k 1.0×	5.0k 0.7×	5.0k 1.0×	3.7k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	172	12.3k
William T. Pockman United States	50	12.7k 1.5×	5.0k 0.7×	6.2k 1.2×	5.9k 1.9×	3.7k 1.6×	100	17.1k
Peter S. Curtis United States	62	8.9k 1.1×	7.3k 1.0×	4.0k 0.8×	3.5k 1.1×	4.3k 1.9×	122	18.0k
R. Ceulemans Belgium	71	10.5k 1.3×	7.9k 1.1×	4.3k 0.9×	4.2k 1.3×	3.1k 1.4×	356	18.8k

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Esperón‐Rodríguez, Manuel, et al.. (2025). Urban Tree Growth and Drought Responses Show Evidence of Climate Resilience. Global Change Biology. 31(6). e70281–e70281. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Ting, David T. Tissue, Wei Su, et al.. (2025). Limited leaf thermal acclimation but higher tolerance in subtropical trees after 10-year translocation in Dinghushan biosphere reserve. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 372. 110721–110721.

Esperón‐Rodríguez, Manuel, et al.. (2025). Socio-economic factors, climate, and people’s behaviours determine urban tree health. Urban forestry & urban greening. 107. 128801–128801. 3 indexed citations

Noh, Nam Jin, Alexandre A. Renchon, Jürgen Knauer, et al.. (2024). Reconciling Top‐Down and Bottom‐Up Estimates of Ecosystem Respiration in a Mature Eucalypt Forest. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(10). 4 indexed citations

Aspinwall, Michael J., Chris J. Blackman, Chelsea Maier, et al.. (2023). Aridity drives clinal patterns in leaf traits and responsiveness to precipitation in a broadly distributed Australian tree species. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 70–85. 5 indexed citations

Tjoelker, Mark G., et al.. (2023). Tree Traits and Microclimatic Conditions Determine Cooling Benefits of Urban Trees. Atmosphere. 14(3). 606–606. 20 indexed citations

Noh, Nam Jin, Kristine Y. Crous, Jinquan Li, et al.. (2020). Does root respiration in Australian rainforest tree seedlings acclimate to experimental warming?. Tree Physiology. 40(9). 1192–1204. 22 indexed citations

Piñeiro, J., Raúl Ochoa‐Hueso, John E. Drake, Mark G. Tjoelker, & Sally A. Power. (2020). Water availability drives fine root dynamics in a Eucalyptus woodland under elevated atmospheric CO₂ concentration. Functional Ecology. 34(11). 2389–2402. 9 indexed citations

Emmerson, Kathryn, Malcolm Possell, Michael J. Aspinwall, Sebastian Pfautsch, & Mark G. Tjoelker. (2020). Temperature response measurements from eucalypts give insight into the impact of Australian isoprene emissions on air quality in 2050. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(10). 6193–6206. 17 indexed citations

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Collalti, Alessio, Mark G. Tjoelker, Günter Hoch, et al.. (2019). Plant respiration: Controlled by photosynthesis or biomass?. Global Change Biology. 26(3). 1739–1753. 86 indexed citations

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Drake, John E., Morgan E. Furze, Mark G. Tjoelker, et al.. (2019). Climate warming and tree carbon use efficiency in a whole‐tree ¹³ CO ₂ tracer study. New Phytologist. 222(3). 1313–1324. 29 indexed citations

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Aspinwall, Michael J., Sebastian Pfautsch, Mark G. Tjoelker, et al.. (2019). Range size and growth temperature influence Eucalyptus species responses to an experimental heatwave. Global Change Biology. 25(5). 1665–1684. 56 indexed citations

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Drake, John E., Mark G. Tjoelker, Michael J. Aspinwall, et al.. (2018). The partitioning of gross primary production for young Eucalyptus tereticornis trees under experimental warming and altered water availability. New Phytologist. 222(3). 1298–1312. 35 indexed citations

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Ellsworth, David S., Ian C. Anderson, Kristine Y. Crous, et al.. (2017). Elevated CO2 does not increase eucalypt forest productivity on a low-phosphorus soil. Nature Climate Change. 7(4). 279–282. 179 indexed citations

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Ochoa‐Hueso, Raúl, John P. Hughes, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, et al.. (2017). Rhizosphere-driven increase in nitrogen and phosphorus availability under elevated atmospheric CO2 in a mature Eucalyptus woodland. Plant and Soil. 416(1-2). 283–295. 44 indexed citations

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Liáng, Lìyı̌n, Vickery L. Arcus, Mary Heskel, et al.. (2017). Macromolecular Rate Theory (MMRT) Provides a Thermodynamics Rationale to Underpin the Convergent Temperature Response in Plant Leaf Respiration. Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community (Woods Hole Scientific Community). 2017. 6 indexed citations

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Dios, Víctor Resco de, Arthur Geßler, Juan Pedro Ferrio, et al.. (2016). Circadian rhythms have significant effects on leaf-to-canopy scale gas exchange under field conditions. GigaScience. 5(1). 43–43. 28 indexed citations

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Boutton, Thomas W., et al.. (2011). Soil C and N pools in oak savanna: Responses to temperature and rainfall manipulation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Reich, Peter B., et al.. (2007). Biological scaling : Reich et al. reply. Nature. 1 indexed citations

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Karolewski, Piotr, et al.. (2002). Effect of Polluted Soil and Fertilisation on Growth and Physiology of Silver Birch (Betula pendula Roth.) Seedlings. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. 11(5). 483–492. 19 indexed citations

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