Patrick Fonti

11.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
150 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Patrick Fonti is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Fonti has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 118 papers in Atmospheric Science and 73 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Patrick Fonti's work include Tree-ring climate responses (118 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (118 papers) and Forest ecology and management (47 papers). Patrick Fonti is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (118 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (118 papers) and Forest ecology and management (47 papers). Patrick Fonti collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Spain and France. Patrick Fonti's co-authors include Ignacio García‐González, Georg von Arx, David Frank, Cyrille Rathgeber, Andreas Rigling, Britta Eilmann, Henri E. Cuny, Holger Gärtner, Ulf Büntgen and Richard L. Peters and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Fonti

147 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

Studying global change through investigation of the plastic responses of xylem anatomy in tree rings

2009 464 citations Patrick Fonti, Georg von Arx et al. New Phytologist profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Patrick Fonti	5.4k	5.2k	3.4k	1.1k	648	150	6.6k
Tommaso Anfodillo	4.7k 0.9×	3.8k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	766 1.2×	99	5.7k
Marco Carrer	5.1k 0.9×	4.9k 1.0×	3.6k 1.1×	784 0.7×	497 0.8×	111	6.3k
Annie Deslauriers	5.7k 1.1×	5.2k 1.0×	3.8k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	729 1.1×	97	6.6k
Roman Zweifel	4.4k 0.8×	3.4k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	553 0.9×	80	5.1k
Katarina Čufar	3.6k 0.7×	3.7k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	840 0.7×	429 0.7×	187	4.8k
Sergio Rossi	8.6k 1.6×	7.7k 1.5×	5.7k 1.7×	1.6k 1.4×	957 1.5×	244	10.3k
Ute Sass‐Klaassen	2.6k 0.5×	2.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	828 0.7×	372 0.6×	104	4.2k
Nathalie Bréda	4.0k 0.7×	2.6k 0.5×	2.4k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	236 0.4×	56	5.0k
Jožica Gričar	2.8k 0.5×	2.6k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	853 0.8×	324 0.5×	112	3.5k
Isabel Cañellas	3.0k 0.5×	1.6k 0.3×	3.1k 0.9×	826 0.7×	388 0.6×	204	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick Fonti

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Fonti

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Qin, Li, Tongwen Zhang, Antoine Cabon, et al.. (2025). Seasonal climate variations drive decoupling between the duration and amount of xylem growth along a hydrothermal gradient in the southern Altai Mountains. Journal of Ecology. 113(7). 1793–1806. 3 indexed citations

Klesse, Stefan, Jesper Björklund, Marina V. Fonti, et al.. (2025). Tree‐Ring Anatomy Improves the Reliability of Temperature Reconstructions Using Relict Wood. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(8). 1 indexed citations

Moos, Christine, et al.. (2024). Signs of frost drought in stem diameter variations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 358. 110247–110247.

Björklund, Jesper, Kristina Seftigen, Markus Stoffel, et al.. (2023). Fennoscandian tree-ring anatomy shows a warmer modern than medieval climate. Nature. 620(7972). 97–103. 42 indexed citations

Peters, Richard L., Kathy Steppe, Christoforos Pappas, et al.. (2023). Daytime stomatal regulation in mature temperate trees prioritizes stem rehydration at night. New Phytologist. 239(2). 533–546. 36 indexed citations

Martínez‐Sancho, Elisabet, Kerstin Treydte, Marco M. Lehmann, Andreas Rigling, & Patrick Fonti. (2022). Drought impacts on tree carbon sequestration and water use – evidence from intra‐annual tree‐ring characteristics. New Phytologist. 236(1). 58–70. 47 indexed citations

Hantemirov, Rashit, Christophe Corona, Sébastien Guillet, et al.. (2022). Current Siberian heating is unprecedented during the past seven millennia. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4968–4968. 40 indexed citations

Benavides, Raquel, Bárbara Carvalho, Silvia Matesanz, et al.. (2021). Phenotypes of Pinus sylvestris are more coordinated under local harsher conditions across Europe. Journal of Ecology. 109(7). 2580–2596. 23 indexed citations

Arx, Georg von, Marco Carrer, Alan Crivellaro, et al.. (2021). Q-NET – a new scholarly network on quantitative wood anatomy. Dendrochronologia. 70. 125890–125890. 8 indexed citations

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Dox, Inge, Peter Prislan, Jožica Gričar, et al.. (2020). Drought elicits contrasting responses on the autumn dynamics of wood formation in late successional deciduous tree species. Tree Physiology. 41(7). 1171–1185. 16 indexed citations

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Dox, Inge, Jožica Gričar, Peter Prislan, et al.. (2020). Timing of spring xylogenesis in temperate deciduous tree species relates to tree growth characteristics and previous autumn phenology. Tree Physiology. 41(7). 1161–1170. 32 indexed citations

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Peters, Richard L., José Carlos Miranda, Leonie Schönbeck, et al.. (2020). Tree physiological monitoring of the 2018 larch budmoth outbreak: preference for leaf recovery and carbon storage over stem wood formation inLarix decidua. Tree Physiology. 40(12). 1697–1711. 11 indexed citations

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Pappas, Christoforos, Richard L. Peters, & Patrick Fonti. (2020). Linking variability of tree water use and growth with species resilience to environmental changes. Ecography. 43(9). 1386–1399. 16 indexed citations

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Gou, Xiaohua, et al.. (2019). Physiological and Growth Responses to Increasing Drought of an Endangered Tree Species in Southwest China. Forests. 10(6). 514–514. 15 indexed citations

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Churakova, Olga V., Marina V. Fonti, Matthias Saurer, et al.. (2019). Siberian tree-ring and stable isotope proxies as indicators of temperature and moisture changes after major stratospheric volcanic eruptions. Climate of the past. 15(2). 685–700. 27 indexed citations

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Vitasse, Yann, Alessandra Bottero, Maxime Cailleret, et al.. (2019). Contrasting resistance and resilience to extreme drought and late spring frost in five major European tree species. Global Change Biology. 25(11). 3781–3792. 197 indexed citations

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Churakova, Olga V., Marina V. Fonti, Matthias Saurer, et al.. (2018). Heterogeneous response of Siberian tree-ring and stable isotope proxies to the largest Common Era volcanic eruptions. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 3 indexed citations

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Peters, Richard L., Matthias Speich, Christoforos Pappas, et al.. (2018). Contrasting stomatal sensitivity to temperature and soil drought in mature alpine conifers. Plant Cell & Environment. 42(5). 1674–1689. 41 indexed citations

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Peters, Richard L., Patrick Fonti, David Frank, et al.. (2018). Quantification of uncertainties in conifer sap flow measured with the thermal dissipation method. New Phytologist. 219(4). 1283–1299. 91 indexed citations

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Rathgeber, Cyrille, et al.. (2014). Kinetics of tracheid development explain conifer tree‐ring structure. New Phytologist. 203(4). 1231–1241. 231 indexed citations

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