Melissa A. Dawes

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Melissa A. Dawes is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa A. Dawes has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Melissa A. Dawes's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (15 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (6 papers). Melissa A. Dawes is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (15 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (6 papers). Melissa A. Dawes collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and Italy. Melissa A. Dawes's co-authors include Christian Rixen, Frank Hagedorn, Claude Herzog, Ivano Brunner, Christoph Sperisen, Matthias Arend, Stephan Hättenschwiler, Peter Bebi, Sonja Wipf and Patrick Schleppi and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Melissa A. Dawes

23 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

How tree roots respond to drought

2015 593 citations Ivano Brunner, Claude Herzog et al. Frontiers in Plant Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melissa A. Dawes Switzerland	17	832	615	606	550	317	24	1.5k
Alexandre Bosc France	23	1.0k 1.2×	486 0.8×	440 0.7×	514 0.9×	323 1.0×	27	1.6k
D. B. Metcalfe United Kingdom	9	1.2k 1.4×	556 0.9×	366 0.6×	703 1.3×	327 1.0×	10	1.8k
Nadine K. Ruehr Germany	23	1.5k 1.8×	756 1.2×	713 1.2×	605 1.1×	316 1.0×	44	1.9k
Qing‐Lai Dang Canada	22	1.0k 1.2×	587 1.0×	479 0.8×	649 1.2×	121 0.4×	84	1.5k
Paul G. Schaberg United States	24	1.2k 1.4×	642 1.0×	715 1.2×	771 1.4×	253 0.8×	49	2.0k
Anthony R. Ambrose United States	13	935 1.1×	311 0.5×	444 0.7×	370 0.7×	151 0.5×	16	1.2k
Teresa E. Gimeno Spain	23	1.3k 1.6×	747 1.2×	591 1.0×	601 1.1×	204 0.6×	43	1.8k
Lucía Galiano Spain	15	1.5k 1.9×	719 1.2×	920 1.5×	1.0k 1.8×	163 0.5×	16	2.0k
Dirk Vanderklein United States	12	814 1.0×	700 1.1×	282 0.5×	820 1.5×	170 0.5×	23	1.5k
Dennis Otieno Germany	23	885 1.1×	434 0.7×	350 0.6×	335 0.6×	329 1.0×	80	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa A. Dawes

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Rixen, Christian, Peter Bebi, Mathias Bavay, et al.. (2024). Five decades of ecological and meteorological data enhance the mechanistic understanding of global change impacts on the treeline ecotone in the European Alps. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 355. 110126–110126. 4 indexed citations

Hagedorn, Frank, Melissa A. Dawes, Nadezhda M. Devi, et al.. (2020). Latitudinal decline in stand biomass and productivity at the elevational treeline in the Ural mountains despite a common thermal growth limit. Journal of Biogeography. 47(8). 1827–1842. 16 indexed citations

Mörsdorf, Martin Alfons, Melissa A. Dawes, Frank Hagedorn, et al.. (2018). Twelve years of low nutrient input stimulates growth of trees and dwarf shrubs in the treeline ecotone. Journal of Ecology. 107(2). 768–780. 26 indexed citations

Frei, Esther R., Peter Bebi, Melissa A. Dawes, et al.. (2018). Biotic and abiotic drivers of tree seedling recruitment across an alpine treeline ecotone. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10894–10894. 48 indexed citations

Anadon‐Rosell, Alba, Melissa A. Dawes, Patrick Fonti, et al.. (2018). Xylem anatomical and growth responses of the dwarf shrub Vaccinium myrtillus to experimental CO2 enrichment and soil warming at treeline. The Science of The Total Environment. 642. 1172–1183. 12 indexed citations

Haeni, Matthias, et al.. (2018). TreeNet. Daten und Analysen der ersten fünf Messjahre. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 1 indexed citations

Dawes, Melissa A., Patrick Schleppi, & Frank Hagedorn. (2017). The fate of nitrogen inputs in a warmer alpine treeline ecosystem: a ¹⁵N labelling study. Journal of Ecology. 105(6). 1723–1737. 16 indexed citations

Solly, Emily F., Melissa A. Dawes, Frank Graf, et al.. (2017). Responses of soil extracellular enzyme activities to experimental warming and CO2 enrichment at the alpine treeline. Plant and Soil. 416(1-2). 527–537. 31 indexed citations

Solly, Emily F., Björn D. Lindahl, Melissa A. Dawes, et al.. (2017). Experimental soil warming shifts the fungal community composition at the alpine treeline. New Phytologist. 215(2). 766–778. 70 indexed citations

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Prendin, Angela Luisa, Giai Petit, Patrick Fonti, et al.. (2017). Axial xylem architecture ofLarix deciduaexposed to CO₂enrichment and soil warming at the tree line. Functional Ecology. 32(2). 273–287. 30 indexed citations

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Dawes, Melissa A., Patrick Schleppi, Stephan Hättenschwiler, Christian Rixen, & Frank Hagedorn. (2016). Soil warming opens the nitrogen cycle at the alpine treeline. Global Change Biology. 23(1). 421–434. 108 indexed citations

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Brunner, Ivano, Claude Herzog, Melissa A. Dawes, Matthias Arend, & Christoph Sperisen. (2015). How tree roots respond to drought. Frontiers in Plant Science. 6. 547–547. 593 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dawes, Melissa A., et al.. (2014). CO₂ enrichment alters diurnal stem radius fluctuations of 36‐yr‐old Larix decidua growing at the alpine tree line. New Phytologist. 202(4). 1237–1248. 14 indexed citations

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Anadon‐Rosell, Alba, Christian Rixen, Paolo Cherubini, et al.. (2014). Growth and Phenology of Three Dwarf Shrub Species in a Six-Year Soil Warming Experiment at the Alpine Treeline. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e100577–e100577. 31 indexed citations

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Dawes, Melissa A., Frank Hagedorn, I. Tanya Handa, et al.. (2013). An alpine treeline in a carbon dioxide-rich world: synthesis of a nine-year free-air carbon dioxide enrichment study. Oecologia. 171(3). 623–637. 59 indexed citations

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Streit, Kathrin, Katja T. Rinne‐Garmston, Frank Hagedorn, et al.. (2013). Tracing carbon allocation in Larix decidua exposed to elevated CO2 and soil warming at the alpine treeline using compound-specific stable isotope analysis.

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Rixen, Christian, Melissa A. Dawes, Sonja Wipf, & Frank Hagedorn. (2012). Evidence of enhanced freezing damage in treeline plants during six years of CO ₂ enrichment and soil warming. Oikos. 121(10). 1532–1543. 78 indexed citations

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Dawes, Melissa A., Frank Hagedorn, Thomas Zumbrunn, et al.. (2011). Growth and community responses of alpine dwarf shrubs to in situ CO₂ enrichment and soil warming. New Phytologist. 191(3). 806–818. 56 indexed citations

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Barbeito, Ignacio, Melissa A. Dawes, Christian Rixen, Josef Senn, & Peter Bebi. (2011). Factors driving mortality and growth at treeline: a 30‐year experiment of 92 000 conifers. Ecology. 93(2). 389–401. 103 indexed citations

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Dawes, Melissa A., Stephan Hättenschwiler, Peter Bebi, et al.. (2010). Species‐specific tree growth responses to 9 years of CO₂ enrichment at the alpine treeline. Journal of Ecology. 99(2). 383–394. 73 indexed citations

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