Matteo Detto

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
103 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Matteo Detto is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Matteo Detto has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 37 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 33 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Matteo Detto's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (56 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (27 papers) and Forest ecology and management (17 papers). Matteo Detto is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (56 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (27 papers) and Forest ecology and management (17 papers). Matteo Detto collaborates with scholars based in United States, Panama and Canada. Matteo Detto's co-authors include Dennis Baldocchi, Gabriel G. Katul, Helene C. Muller‐Landau, Whendee L. Silver, Stephen W. Pacala, Gregory P. Asner, J. Hatala, Oliver Sonnentag, S. Joseph Wright‬ and J. D. Albertson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Matteo Detto

97 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought‐kill and recovery patterns

2018 252 citations Anna T. Trugman, Matteo Detto et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matteo Detto United States	43	3.1k	1.4k	1.2k	1.2k	770	103	4.7k
Hans Verbeeck Belgium	37	2.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.5×	819 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	152	4.8k
Anja Rammig Germany	38	4.6k 1.5×	1.5k 1.0×	1.9k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	494 0.6×	116	6.2k
Niall P. Hanan United States	37	3.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	633 0.5×	810 1.1×	98	4.6k
David Medvigy United States	38	3.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	420 0.5×	78	4.5k
Jean‐Marc Ourcival France	34	2.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	354 0.5×	66	3.9k
Jude Kastens United States	18	2.6k 0.9×	2.3k 1.6×	867 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	648 0.8×	37	4.2k
M. E. Litvak United States	42	4.2k 1.4×	1.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	2.3k 1.9×	544 0.7×	120	6.3k
Mark R. Lomas United Kingdom	22	2.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	911 0.7×	897 0.8×	743 1.0×	33	4.0k
Werner L. Kutsch Germany	34	3.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	923 0.8×	996 0.9×	516 0.7×	75	5.0k
Florent Mouillot France	34	3.9k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	849 0.7×	957 0.8×	439 0.6×	93	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Matteo Detto

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matteo Detto

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Matteo Detto. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Matteo Detto based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Matteo Detto. Matteo Detto is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Moorcroft, P. R., S. Joseph Wright‬, Alistair Rogers, et al.. (2025). Constraining Light‐Driven Plasticity in Leaf Traits With Observations Improves the Prediction of Tropical Forest Demography, Structure, and Biomass Dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 130(6). 1 indexed citations

Meng, Lin, et al.. (2025). Uncovering the role of solar radiation and water stress factors in constraining decadal intra‐site spring phenology variability in diverse ecosystems across the Northern Hemisphere. New Phytologist. 246(5). 1986–2003. 2 indexed citations

Bohrer, Gil, Oliver Sonnentag, Bo Qu, et al.. (2025). Shrub Expansion Can Counteract Carbon Losses From Warming Tundra. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 130(8).

Rutter, Nick, Leanne Wake, Oliver Sonnentag, et al.. (2024). Simulating net ecosystem exchange under seasonal snow cover at an Arctic tundra site. Biogeosciences. 21(3). 825–841.

Wood, Jeffrey D., Matteo Detto, Nathan J. B. Kraft, et al.. (2024). The Ecosystem as Super-Organ/ism, Revisited: Scaling Hydraulics to Forests under Climate Change. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 64(2). 424–440. 2 indexed citations

Cheng, Yanyan, et al.. (2024). Calibrating Tropical Forest Coexistence in Ecosystem Demography Models Using Multi‐Objective Optimization Through Population‐Based Parallel Surrogate Search. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(8).

Deurwaerder, Hannes De, Matteo Detto, Marco D. Visser, Stefan A. Schnitzer, & Stephen W. Pacala. (2024). Linking physiology, epidemiology, and demography: Understanding how lianas outcompete trees in a changing world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(34). e2319487121–e2319487121. 4 indexed citations

Yan, Zhengbing, Matteo Detto, Zhengfei Guo, et al.. (2024). Global photosynthetic capacity jointly determined by enzyme kinetics and eco-evo-environmental drivers. Fundamental Research. 5(5). 2062–2072. 1 indexed citations

Detto, Matteo & Stephen W. Pacala. (2024). Integrating conspecifics negative density dependence, successional and evolutionary dynamics: Towards a theory of forest diversity. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1572–1572.

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Qu, Bo, Alexandre Roy, Joe R. Melton, et al.. (2023). A boreal forest model benchmarking dataset for North America: a case study with the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC). Environmental Research Letters. 18(8). 85002–85002. 3 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yanyan, L. Ruby Leung, Maoyi Huang, et al.. (2021). Modeling the Joint Effects of Vegetation Characteristics and Soil Properties on Ecosystem Dynamics in a Panama Tropical Forest. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(1). 10 indexed citations

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Detto, Matteo, Jonathan M. Levine, & Stephen W. Pacala. (2021). Maintenance of high diversity in mechanistic forest dynamics models of competition for light. Ecological Monographs. 92(2). 33 indexed citations

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Meunier, Félicien, Marco D. Visser, Alexey Shiklomanov, et al.. (2021). Liana optical traits increase tropical forest albedo and reduce ecosystem productivity. Global Change Biology. 28(1). 227–244. 14 indexed citations

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Deurwaerder, Hannes De, Marco D. Visser, Matteo Detto, et al.. (2020). Causes and consequences of pronounced variation in the isotope composition of plant xylem water. Biogeosciences. 17(19). 4853–4870. 45 indexed citations

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Martínez, Isabel, Elena Shevliakova, Sergey Malyshev, et al.. (2020). Allometric constraints and competition enable the simulation of size structure and carbon fluxes in a dynamic vegetation model of tropical forests (LM3PPA‐TV). Global Change Biology. 26(8). 4478–4494. 29 indexed citations

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Yanoviak, Stephen P., Evan M. Gora, Phillip M. Bitzer, et al.. (2019). Lightning is a major cause of large tree mortality in a lowland neotropical forest. New Phytologist. 225(5). 1936–1944. 50 indexed citations

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Wu, Jin, Shawn Serbin, Kim Ely, et al.. (2019). The response of stomatal conductance to seasonal drought in tropical forests. Global Change Biology. 26(2). 823–839. 74 indexed citations

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Detto, Matteo, Marco D. Visser, S. Joseph Wright‬, & Stephen W. Pacala. (2019). Bias in the detection of negative density dependence in plant communities. Ecology Letters. 22(11). 1923–1939. 75 indexed citations

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Pappas, Christoforos, Ashley M. Matheny, Jennifer L. Baltzer, et al.. (2018). Boreal tree hydrodynamics: asynchronous, diverging, yet complementary. Tree Physiology. 38(7). 953–964. 50 indexed citations

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Dickman, L. Turin, Nate G. McDowell, Charlotte Grossiord, et al.. (2018). Homoeostatic maintenance of nonstructural carbohydrates during the 2015–2016 El Niño drought across a tropical forest precipitation gradient. Plant Cell & Environment. 42(5). 1705–1714. 37 indexed citations

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