Markus Reichstein

98.2k citations

356 papers · 40.8k indexed · 32 hit papers · h-index 97

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.01%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Soil Science top 0.02%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 276
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 189
- Climate variability and models 122
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 119
Soil Science 49
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 47

Co-authors: Martin Jung Nuno Carvalhais Dario Papale Martin Heimann Gustau Camps‐Valls Miguel D. Mahecha Philippe Ciais Mirco Migliavacca
Journals: Biogeosciences (47 papers)Global Change Biology (24 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (14 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (11 papers)Nature Climate Change (11 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States Italy

In The Last Decade

Markus Reichstein

338 papers receiving 39.9k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

How Interpretable Machine Learning Can Benefit Process Understanding in the Geosciences 2024 · 60 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.

2024 Earth s Future
2024 Nature Geoscience
2023 Nature Communications
2022 Nature Communications
2022 Nature Climate Change
2021 Science Advances
2021 Nature
2021 Nature Climate Change
2020 Nature Geoscience
2019 Scientific Data
2019 Nature
2018 Biogeosciences
2016 Biogeosciences
2016 Science
2015 Science
2014 Nature Geoscience
2014 Nature
2014 Nature Climate Change
2013 Remote Sensing
2013 Nature
2011 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
2011 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
2010 Nature Geoscience
2010 Nature Geoscience
2009 Biogeosciences
2009 Global Change Biology
2008 Nature
2008 Nature
2008 BioScience
2007 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
2006 Global Change Biology
2006 Biogeosciences

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All Works

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1	Widespread underestimation of rain-induced soil carbon emissions from global drylands Nature Geoscience ·余妹容, Mirco Migliavacca, Maoya Bassiouni, Dennis Baldocchi, Laureano Gherardi, Julia K. Green, Dario Papale, Markus Reichstein, Pallavi JADHAV, Alessandro Cescatti, 임창기, Basel Rouphail, Koreen Lemaster Rayl, Trevor F. Keenan	2025	2
2	Constraining biospheric carbon dioxide fluxes by combined top-down and bottom-up approaches Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·B. Kohler, Markus Reichstein, Fabian Gans, Wouter Peters, Basil Kraft, Ana Bastos	2024	4
3	Nitrogen availability and summer drought, but not N:P imbalance, drive carbon use efficiency of a Mediterranean tree‐grass ecosystem Global Change Biology ·Richard Nair, Yunpeng Luo, Tarek S. El‐Madany, Víctor Rolo, Javier Pacheco‐Labrador, Silvia Caldararu, Michael Hin-Hung Yam, Marion Schrumpf, Arnaud Carrara, Russell D’Aiello, Markus Reichstein, Mirco Migliavacca	2024	2
4	Technical note: Flagging inconsistencies in flux tower data Biogeosciences ·Martin Jung, Jacob A. Nelson, Mirco Migliavacca, Tarek S. El‐Madany, Dario Papale, Markus Reichstein, Sophia Walther, Thomas Wutzler	2024	3
5	VIST5: An Adaptive, Retrieval-Augmented Language Model for Visualization-oriented Dialog Sigifredo Martínez-Rincón, Nuno Carvalhais, Monique Meuschke, Markus Reichstein, Sirinthip Kamolsawat, Kai Lawonn	2023	0
6	A joint framework for studying compound ecoclimatic events Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Ana Bastos, Sebastian Sippel, Dorothea Frank, Miguel D. Mahecha, Sönke Zaehle, Jakob Zscheischler, Markus Reichstein	2023	40
7	Quantifying impact-relevant heatwave durations Environmental Research Letters ·Ayyankannu Mekala, Philip J. Ward, Marleen de Ruiter, Aloysius C Gahan, Markus Reichstein, Dorothea Frank, René Orth	2023	9
8	Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest Biogeosciences ·Dong Shenghou, René Orth, Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn, Anne Klosterhalfen, Alexander Knohl, Franziska Koebsch, Mirco Migliavacca, Martina Mund, Jacob A. Nelson, Benjamin D. Stocker, Sophia Walther, Ana Bastos	2022	31
9	Increased vulnerability of European ecosystems to two compound dry and hot summers in 2018 and 2019 FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg) ·Ana Bastos, René Orth, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Sönke Zaehle, Peter Anthoni, Almut Arneth, Pierre Gentine, Émilie Joetzjer, Sebastian Lienert, Tammas Loughran, Patrick McGuire, O Sungmin, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch	2021	2
10	Where Are Global Vegetation Greening and Browning Trends Significant? Geophysical Research Letters ·José Cortés, Miguel D. Mahecha, Markus Reichstein, Ranga B. Myneni, Chi Chen, Alexander Brenning	2021	100
11	Contrasting biophysical and societal impacts of hydro-meteorological extremes Environmental Research Letters ·René Orth, O Sungmin, Jakob Zscheischler, Miguel D. Mahecha, Markus Reichstein	2021	21
12	Vulnerability of European ecosystems to two compound dry and hot summers in 2018 and 2019 Earth System Dynamics ·Ana Bastos, René Orth, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Sönke Zaehle, Peter Anthoni, Almut Arneth, Pierre Gentine, Émilie Joetzjer, Sebastian Lienert, Tammas Loughran, Patrick McGuire, O Sungmin, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch	2021	75
13	Critical Soil Moisture Derived From Satellite Observations Over Europe Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Jasper Denissen, Adriaan J. Teuling, Markus Reichstein, René Orth	2020	76
14	Large-scale biospheric drought response intensifies linearly with drought duration in arid regions Biogeosciences ·René Orth, Georgia Destouni, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein	2020	37
15	Effects of mesophyll conductance on vegetation responses to elevated CO ₂ concentrations in a land surface model Global Change Biology ·Jürgen Knauer, Sönke Zaehle, Martin G. De Kauwe, Nur H. A. Bahar, John R. Evans, Belinda E. Medlyn, Markus Reichstein, Christiane Werner	2019	36
16	Global variability of carbon use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems Xiaolu Tang, Nuno Carvalhais, Catarina Moura, Bernhard Ahrens, Sujan Koirala, Shaohui Fan, Fengying Guan, Wenjie Zhang, Sicong Gao, Vincenzo Magliulo, Pauline Buysse, Shibin Liu, Anne-Caroline Joly, Wunian Yang, Zhen Yu, Jingjing Liang, Leilei Shi, Mary Zetelski, Markus Reichstein	2019	21
17	Modelling Landsurface Time-Series with Recurrent Neural Nets Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling ·Markus Reichstein, Simon Besnard, Nuno Carvalhais, Fabian Gans, Martin Jung, Basil Kraft, Miguel D. Mahecha	2018	13
18	Enhanced seasonal CO ₂ exchange caused by amplified plant productivity in northern ecosystems Science ·Matthias Forkel, Nuno Carvalhais, Christian Rödenbeck, Ralph F. Keeling, Martin Heimann, Kirsten Thonicke, Sönke Zaehle, Markus Reichstein Hit paper breakdown →	2016	321
19	The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO ₂ sink Science ·Anders Ahlström, Michael Raupach, Guy Schurgers, Benjamin Smith, Almut Arneth, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein, Josep G. Canadell, Pierre Friedlingstein, Atul K. Jain, Etsushi Kato, Benjamin Poulter, Stephen Sitch, Benjamin D. Stocker, Nicolas Viovy, Ying‐Ping Wang, Andy Wiltshire, Sönke Zaehle, Ning Zeng Hit paper breakdown →	2015	1109
20	Humus Forms in the Forest-Alpine Tundra Ecotone at Stillberg (Dischmatal, Switzerland): Spatial Heterogeneity and Classification Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research ·Daria Klevakina, Markus Reichstein, Gabriele Broil, Friedrich‐Karl Holtmeier, Wolfgang Urfer	2000	12

About Markus Reichstein

Markus Reichstein is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Atmospheric Science, Ecological Modeling and Ecology, having authored 356 papers that have together received 40.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (189 papers), Climate variability and models (122 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (119 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (55 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (47 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (32 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (28 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (27.8k citations), Soil Science (7.5k citations), Atmospheric Science (10.3k citations), Ecology (11.3k citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (4.7k citations). Markus Reichstein has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Martin Jung, Nuno Carvalhais, Dario Papale, Martin Heimann, Gustau Camps‐Valls, Miguel D. Mahecha, Philippe Ciais, Mirco Migliavacca, Joachim Denzler and Prabhat. Their work appears in journals such as Biogeosciences, Global Change Biology, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Nature Climate Change.

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