Richard L. Peters

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Richard L. Peters is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard L. Peters has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Atmospheric Science and 25 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Richard L. Peters's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (34 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (29 papers) and Forest ecology and management (17 papers). Richard L. Peters is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (34 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (29 papers) and Forest ecology and management (17 papers). Richard L. Peters collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Belgium. Richard L. Peters's co-authors include Patrick Fonti, C. M. Penney, M. Lapp, David Frank, Georg von Arx, Pieter A. Zuidema, Antoine Cabon, Henri E. Cuny, Mart Vlam and Peter Groenendijk and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Richard L. Peters

50 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Why trees grow at night

2021 157 citations Roman Zweifel, Nina Buchmann et al. New Phytologist profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard L. Peters Switzerland	18	1.1k	922	660	159	143	55	1.5k
A. Henry France	21	609 0.6×	815 0.9×	109 0.2×	33 0.2×	206 1.4×	61	1.3k
C. D. Jones United Kingdom	12	863 0.8×	306 0.3×	273 0.4×	186 1.2×	143 1.0×	30	1.4k
Richard Wehr United States	19	780 0.7×	680 0.7×	78 0.1×	198 1.2×	96 0.7×	34	1.3k
G. H. Kohlmaier Germany	14	381 0.4×	214 0.2×	56 0.1×	89 0.6×	169 1.2×	47	742
Michael Messina United States	21	362 0.3×	61 0.1×	319 0.5×	117 0.7×	870 6.1×	79	1.7k
Jonah J. Colman United States	15	670 0.6×	451 0.5×	64 0.1×	35 0.2×	23 0.2×	30	1.2k
Haris Riris United States	21	741 0.7×	689 0.7×	74 0.1×	10 0.1×	174 1.2×	100	1.5k
C.A. Ekdahl United States	11	686 0.6×	501 0.5×	19 0.0×	67 0.4×	66 0.5×	40	1.1k
Stefan Körner Germany	19	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	23 0.0×	32 0.2×	40 0.3×	49	1.7k

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Girona, Miguel Montoro, Christoforos Pappas, Louis Duchesne, et al.. (2025). Stem Water Storage Dynamics of Three Boreal Tree Species Under Short-Term Drought. Forests. 16(9). 1448–1448. 1 indexed citations

Ahmed, Shamim, Torben Hilmers, Enno Uhl, et al.. (2025). From suppressed to dominant: 3D crown shapes explain the “to grow or wait” growth behavior in close-to-nature forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 592. 122814–122814. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Mengjie, Rashmi R. Hazarika, Richard L. Peters, et al.. (2025). Accelerated growth increases the somatic epimutation rate in trees. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9483–9483.

D’Odorico, Petra, Dominic Fawcett, Richard L. Peters, et al.. (2025). Deciphering tree drought responses across species: linking leaf water potentials with remote sensing greenness and photoprotection dynamics. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 375. 110856–110856.

Cabon, Antoine, Richard L. Peters, Patrick Fonti, et al.. (2025). Generalized Stomatal Optimization of Evolutionary Fitness Proxies for Predicting Plant Gas Exchange Under Drought, Heatwaves, and Elevated CO₂. Global Change Biology. 31(1). e70049–e70049. 4 indexed citations

Peters, Richard L., Stefan Klesse, Jan Van den Bulcke, et al.. (2025). Quantitative vessel mapping on increment cores: a critical comparison of image acquisition methods. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1502237–1502237.

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

Pappas, Christoforos, Nicolas Bélanger, Catherine Couture, et al.. (2022). Xylem porosity, sapwood characteristics, and uncertainties in temperate and boreal forest water use. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 323. 109092–109092. 10 indexed citations

Klesse, Stefan, et al.. (2022). Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory. Journal of Ecology. 111(6). 1188–1202. 20 indexed citations

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Trouillier, Mario, et al.. (2021). Mask, Train, Repeat! Artificial Intelligence for Quantitative Wood Anatomy. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 767400–767400. 13 indexed citations

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Peters, Richard L., et al.. (2021). Processing and Extraction of Seasonal Tree Physiological Parameters from Stem Radius Time Series. Forests. 12(6). 765–765. 56 indexed citations

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Peters, Richard L., Christoforos Pappas, Rafael Poyatos, et al.. (2020). Assimilate, process and analyse thermal dissipation sap flow data using the TREX r package. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(2). 342–350. 17 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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Castagneri, Daniele, Angela Luisa Prendin, Richard L. Peters, et al.. (2020). Long-Term Impacts of Defoliator Outbreaks on Larch Xylem Structure and Tree-Ring Biomass. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 1078–1078. 19 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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Casado, Rubén, et al.. (2015). Data interoperability software solution for emergency reaction in the Europe Union. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 15(7). 1563–1576. 6 indexed citations

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Davis, Alan, et al.. (1983). Mapping of polished coal surfaces by automated reflectance microscopy. Journal of Microscopy. 132(3). 297–302. 9 indexed citations

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Penney, C. M., et al.. (1973). Study of resonance light scattering for remote optical probing. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 5 indexed citations

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