Pengsen Sun

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Pengsen Sun is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Pengsen Sun has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 13 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Pengsen Sun's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (20 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (9 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers). Pengsen Sun is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (20 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (9 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers). Pengsen Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Pengsen Sun's co-authors include Shirong Liu, Zhen Yu, Lei Zhang, Jingxin Wang, Xiaohua Wei, Falk Huettmann, Mingfang Zhang, Chaoqun Lü, James S. Rentch and Tongli Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Pengsen Sun

33 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Maximizing carbon sequestration potential in Chinese forests through optimal management

2024 56 citations Zhen Yu, Shirong Liu et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pengsen Sun China	17	714	389	282	247	221	33	1.2k
Chung‐Te Chang Taiwan	21	453 0.6×	410 1.1×	155 0.5×	215 0.9×	263 1.2×	58	1.2k
Art Degaetano United States	7	653 0.9×	247 0.6×	308 1.1×	142 0.6×	356 1.6×	17	1.1k
Hao‐jie Xu China	20	1.2k 1.7×	513 1.3×	282 1.0×	156 0.6×	364 1.6×	29	1.5k
Jiaxing Zu China	18	1.0k 1.4×	710 1.8×	120 0.4×	226 0.9×	399 1.8×	41	1.4k
James Bradbury United States	6	549 0.8×	211 0.5×	280 1.0×	140 0.6×	292 1.3×	7	1.0k
Ingrid J. Slette United States	17	917 1.3×	343 0.9×	131 0.5×	426 1.7×	290 1.3×	22	1.3k
Xiongwen Chen United States	20	576 0.8×	405 1.0×	89 0.3×	420 1.7×	162 0.7×	88	1.1k
Rafael Coll Delgado Brazil	19	822 1.2×	569 1.5×	239 0.8×	178 0.7×	157 0.7×	109	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pengsen Sun

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Li, Xiang, Junwei Luan, Siyu Li, et al.. (2025). Mycorrhizal hyphae, but not fine roots modulate drought effects on soil organic matter accumulation in a temperate forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 206. 109818–109818. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Zhen, Shirong Liu, Jingjing Liang, et al.. (2024). Maximizing carbon sequestration potential in Chinese forests through optimal management. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3154–3154. 56 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Lei, Pengsen Sun, Falk Huettmann, & Shirong Liu. (2021). Where should China practice forestry in a warming world?. Global Change Biology. 28(7). 2461–2475. 133 indexed citations

Liu, Ning, Pengsen Sun, Peter V. Caldwell, et al.. (2020). Trade-off between watershed water yield and ecosystem productivity along elevation gradients on a complex terrain in southwestern China. Journal of Hydrology. 590. 125449–125449. 29 indexed citations

Zhang, Lei, Falk Huettmann, Xudong Zhang, et al.. (2019). The use of classification and regression algorithms using the random forests method with presence-only data to model species’ distribution. MethodsX. 6. 2281–2292. 34 indexed citations

Yu, Zhen, Shirong Liu, Jingxin Wang, et al.. (2018). Natural forests exhibit higher carbon sequestration and lower water consumption than planted forests in China. Global Change Biology. 25(1). 68–77. 112 indexed citations

Yu, Zhen, Jingxin Wang, Shirong Liu, et al.. (2016). Decrease in winter respiration explains 25% of the annual northern forest carbon sink enhancement over the last 30 years. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(5). 586–595. 15 indexed citations

Zhang, Lei, Shirong Liu, Pengsen Sun, et al.. (2016). Using DEM to predict Abies faxoniana and Quercus aquifolioides distributions in the upstream catchment basin of the Min River in southwest China. Ecological Indicators. 69. 91–99. 16 indexed citations

Zhang, Lei, Shirong Liu, Pengsen Sun, et al.. (2015). Consensus Forecasting of Species Distributions: The Effects of Niche Model Performance and Niche Properties. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0120056–e0120056. 125 indexed citations

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Tsonev, Tsonko, Said Wahbi, Pengsen Sun, G. Sorrentino, & Mauro Centritto. (2014). Gas exchange, water relations and their relationships with photochemical reflectance index in Quercus ilex plants during water stress and recovery.. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology. 16(2). 335–341. 24 indexed citations

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Sun, Pengsen, Said Wahbi, Tsonko Tsonev, et al.. (2014). On the Use of Leaf Spectral Indices to Assess Water Status and Photosynthetic Limitations in Olea europaea L. during Water-Stress and Recovery. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e105165–e105165. 58 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhen, Jingxin Wang, Shirong Liu, Pengsen Sun, & Weiguo Liu. (2013). Inconsistent NDVI trends from AVHRR, MODIS, and SPOT sensors in the Tibetan Plateau. 97–101. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Ning, Pengsen Sun, Shirong Liu, & Ge Sun. (2013). Coupling simulation of water-carbon processes for catchment―calibration and validation of the WaSSI-C model. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. 37(6). 492–502. 17 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhen, et al.. (2013). Sensitivity of large-scale vegetation greenup and dormancy dates to climate change in the north−south transect of eastern China. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 34(20). 7312–7328. 7 indexed citations

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Sun, Pengsen, et al.. (2012). Climate change, growing season water deficit and vegetation activity along the north–south transect of eastern China from 1982 through 2006. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(10). 3835–3850. 15 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhen, Pengsen Sun, & Shirong Liu. (2011). Response of normalized difference vegetation index in main vegetation types to climate change and their variations in different time scales along a North-South Transect of Eastern China. Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology. 35(11). 1117–1126. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhi, Shirong Liu, Pengsen Sun, Zhihua Guo, & Lian‐Di Zhou. (2010). [The variability of vegetation beginning date of greenness period in spring in the north-south transect of eastern China based on NOAA NDVI].. PubMed. 30(10). 2758–61. 4 indexed citations

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Sun, Pengsen, et al.. (2007). [Canopy interception of sub-alpine dark coniferous communities in western Sichuan, China].. PubMed. 18(11). 2398–405. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Huatian, et al.. (2006). Scaling-up method for stand water consumption of Quercus variabilis water conservation forest. Frontiers of Forestry in China. 1(3). 292–297. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanchun, et al.. (2001). Hydrological functions of forest vegetation in upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 16(5). 451–456. 21 indexed citations

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