Oliver Binks

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Oliver Binks is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Binks has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Oliver Binks's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (12 papers) and Forest ecology and management (12 papers). Oliver Binks is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (12 papers) and Forest ecology and management (12 papers). Oliver Binks collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Australia and United Kingdom. Oliver Binks's co-authors include Maurizio Mencuccini, Patrick Meir, Lucy Rowland, Leandro Valle Ferreira, Steel Silva Vasconcelos, Antônio C. L. da Costa, David Galbraith, Rafael S. Oliveira, Ann M. Pullen and D. B. Metcalfe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Binks

23 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

2015 493 citations Lucy Rowland, Antônio C. L. da Costa et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oliver Binks Spain	14	955	492	448	343	181	25	1.1k
Brett T. Wolfe United States	16	837 0.9×	372 0.8×	344 0.8×	457 1.3×	276 1.5×	26	1.1k
Kerrie M. Sendall United States	14	886 0.9×	441 0.9×	318 0.7×	463 1.3×	237 1.3×	18	1.2k
Sophia Etzold Switzerland	14	785 0.8×	429 0.9×	428 1.0×	214 0.6×	271 1.5×	28	1.0k
Eileen V. Carey United States	13	945 1.0×	491 1.0×	380 0.8×	368 1.1×	166 0.9×	14	1.2k
Michael Cai United States	4	1.4k 1.4×	606 1.2×	740 1.7×	256 0.7×	358 2.0×	5	1.6k
Mart Vlam Netherlands	14	865 0.9×	570 1.2×	589 1.3×	220 0.6×	100 0.6×	21	1.1k
Danielle Creek Australia	14	1.1k 1.1×	352 0.7×	441 1.0×	724 2.1×	178 1.0×	18	1.3k
Loïc D’Orangeville Canada	19	1.2k 1.2×	786 1.6×	850 1.9×	132 0.4×	184 1.0×	51	1.5k
Robert P. Skelton United States	13	1.1k 1.2×	374 0.8×	542 1.2×	697 2.0×	136 0.8×	22	1.3k
Emanuele Ziaco United States	17	1.4k 1.5×	874 1.8×	1.0k 2.3×	169 0.5×	191 1.1×	36	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Oliver Binks

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oliver Binks

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Binks

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Oliver Binks. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Oliver Binks 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 Oliver Binks. Oliver Binks is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Bauman, D.E., Michael N. Evans, Ingrid Coughlin, et al.. (2025). Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source. Nature. 646(8085). 611–618. 1 indexed citations

Bittencourt, Paulo Fernando Souto, Mateus Silva, Oliver Binks, et al.. (2025). Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(6). 970–979. 1 indexed citations

Binks, Oliver, et al.. (2025). Allometric Relationships of Branch Water‐Storage Capacity and Capacitance in Four European Trees Species. Plant Cell & Environment. 48(6). 4011–4025. 3 indexed citations

Mencuccini, Maurizio, et al.. (2024). Towards accurate monitoring of water content in woody tissue across tropical forests and other biomes. Tree Physiology. 44(8). 2 indexed citations

Mencuccini, Maurizio, William R. L. Anderegg, Oliver Binks, et al.. (2024). A new empirical framework to quantify the hydraulic effects of soil and atmospheric drivers on plant water status. Global Change Biology. 30(3). e17222–e17222. 6 indexed citations

Jagdhuber, Thomas, David Chaparro, Oliver Binks, et al.. (2024). Estimating Canopy Interception Water Storage with GNSS-Transmissometry. elib (German Aerospace Center). 4507–4510.

Binks, Oliver, Lucas A. Cernusak, Michael J. Liddell, et al.. (2023). Vapour pressure deficit modulates hydraulic function and structure of tropical rainforests under nonlimiting soil water supply. New Phytologist. 240(4). 1405–1420. 12 indexed citations

Matos, Ilaíne Silveira, Oliver Binks, Cleiton B. Eller, et al.. (2022). Revisiting plant hydrological niches: The importance of atmospheric resources for ground‐rooted plants. Journal of Ecology. 110(8). 1746–1756. 13 indexed citations

Binks, Oliver, et al.. (2022). Monitoring plant water status via static uniaxial compression of the leaf lamina. Plant Cell & Environment. 45(9). 2589–2606. 3 indexed citations

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Zavafer, Alonso, et al.. (2021). Foliar water uptake via cork warts in mangroves of the Sonneratia genus. Plant Cell & Environment. 44(9). 2925–2937. 17 indexed citations

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Binks, Oliver, et al.. (2021). Measuring the vertical profile of leaf wetness in a forest canopy. MethodsX. 8. 101332–101332.

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Binks, Oliver, Lucas A. Cernusak, Michael J. Liddell, et al.. (2021). Forest system hydraulic conductance: partitioning tree and soil components. New Phytologist. 233(4). 1667–1681. 13 indexed citations

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Binks, Oliver, Ingrid Coughlin, Maurizio Mencuccini, & Patrick Meir. (2019). Equivalence of foliar water uptake and stomatal conductance?. Plant Cell & Environment. 43(2). 524–528. 35 indexed citations

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Binks, Oliver, Maurizio Mencuccini, Lucy Rowland, et al.. (2019). Foliar water uptake in Amazonian trees: Evidence and consequences. Global Change Biology. 25(8). 2678–2690. 59 indexed citations

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Meir, Patrick, Maurizio Mencuccini, Oliver Binks, et al.. (2018). Short-term effects of drought on tropical forest do not fully predict impacts of repeated or long-term drought: gas exchange versus growth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1760). 20170311–20170311. 35 indexed citations

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Costa, Antônio C. L. da, Lucy Rowland, Rafael S. Oliveira, et al.. (2017). Stand dynamics modulate water cycling and mortality risk in droughted tropical forest. Global Change Biology. 24(1). 249–258. 35 indexed citations

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Binks, Oliver, Patrick Meir, Lucy Rowland, et al.. (2016). Limited acclimation in leaf anatomy to experimental drought in tropical rainforest trees. Tree Physiology. 36(12). 1550–1561. 35 indexed citations

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Christoffersen, Bradley, Manuel Gloor, Sophie Fauset, et al.. (2016). Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro). Geoscientific model development. 9(11). 4227–4255. 190 indexed citations

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Binks, Oliver, Patrick Meir, Lucy Rowland, et al.. (2016). Plasticity in leaf‐level water relations of tropical rainforest trees in response to experimental drought. New Phytologist. 211(2). 477–488. 68 indexed citations

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Rowland, Lucy, Antônio C. L. da Costa, David Galbraith, et al.. (2015). Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation. Nature. 528(7580). 119–122. 493 indexed citations breakdown →

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