Roel Brienen

13.9k total citations
52 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Roel Brienen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Roel Brienen has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 33 papers in Atmospheric Science and 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Roel Brienen's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (34 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (28 papers) and Forest ecology and management (19 papers). Roel Brienen is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (34 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (28 papers) and Forest ecology and management (19 papers). Roel Brienen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Brazil. Roel Brienen's co-authors include Pieter A. Zuidema, Oliver L. Phillips, Manuel Gloor, Emanuel Gloor, Jochen Schöngart, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Jonathan Barichivich, Jean‐Loup Guyot, Ted R. Feldpausch and Miguel Martínez‐Ramos and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Roel Brienen

51 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roel Brienen United Kingdom	27	2.4k	1.7k	1.5k	488	298	52	3.2k
N. G. McDowell United States	20	2.8k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	591 1.2×	705 2.4×	31	3.4k
Emanuel Gloor United Kingdom	29	2.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	897 0.6×	818 1.7×	273 0.9×	55	3.3k
Tianxiang Luo China	29	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	976 0.6×	1.1k 2.3×	391 1.3×	75	3.4k
A. Joshua Leffler United States	28	1.7k 0.7×	841 0.5×	805 0.5×	938 1.9×	544 1.8×	70	2.9k
Antônio C. L. da Costa Brazil	32	3.1k 1.3×	1.0k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	924 1.9×	772 2.6×	73	4.1k
Clifton W. Meyer United States	9	2.1k 0.9×	974 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	768 1.6×	457 1.5×	13	2.8k
Edmund C. February South Africa	24	1.3k 0.5×	449 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	665 1.4×	353 1.2×	71	2.2k
Adam Wolf United States	26	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 2.2×	535 1.8×	45	3.5k
Allan Buras Germany	27	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	454 0.9×	353 1.2×	79	2.8k
Imma Oliveras Menor United Kingdom	30	1.9k 0.8×	521 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	688 1.4×	517 1.7×	92	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roel Brienen

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Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat, Emanuel Gloor, Jessica C. A. Baker, et al.. (2025). Tree ring isotopes reveal an intensification of the hydrological cycle in the Amazon. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 453–453. 2 indexed citations

Locosselli, Giuliano Maselli, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Cíntia Luíza da Silva-Luz, et al.. (2024). Stress-tolerant trees for resilient cities: Tree-ring analysis reveals species suitable for a future climate. Urban Climate. 55. 101964–101964. 3 indexed citations

Yu, Kailiang, Han Y. H. Chen, Arthur Geßler, et al.. (2024). Forest demography and biomass accumulation rates are associated with transient mean tree size vs. density scaling relations. PNAS Nexus. 3(2). pgae008–pgae008. 5 indexed citations

Black, Stuart, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, René Boot, et al.. (2023). An Assessment of Soil Phytolith Analysis as a Palaeoecological Tool for Identifying Pre-Columbian Land Use in Amazonian Rainforests. Quaternary. 6(2). 33–33. 6 indexed citations

Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes, Giuliano Maselli Locosselli, Roel Brienen, et al.. (2023). Intra-annual stable isotopes in the tree rings of Hymenaea courbaril as a proxy for hydroclimate variations in southern Amazonia. Dendrochronologia. 83. 126151–126151. 3 indexed citations

Baker, Jessica C. A., Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Manuel Gloor, et al.. (2022). The Changing Amazon Hydrological Cycle—Inferences From Over 200 Years of Tree‐Ring Oxygen Isotope Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(10). 11 indexed citations

Steege, Hans ter, R.W. Verburg, Daniel Sabatier, et al.. (2022). Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 5960–5960. 7 indexed citations

Gloor, Emanuel, et al.. (2022). Reassessment of carbon emissions from fires and a new estimate of net carbon uptake in Russian forests in 2001–2021. The Science of The Total Environment. 846. 157322–157322. 21 indexed citations

Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat, Manuel Gloor, Arnoud Boom, et al.. (2021). Tree-ring oxygen isotopes record a decrease in Amazon dry season rainfall over the past 40 years. Climate Dynamics. 59(5-6). 1401–1414. 15 indexed citations

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Brienen, Roel, Louis Duchesne, Steven L. Voelker, et al.. (2020). Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4241–4241. 157 indexed citations

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Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat, Manuel Gloor, Arnoud Boom, et al.. (2019). Contrasting controls on tree ring isotope variation for Amazon floodplain and terra firme trees. Tree Physiology. 39(5). 845–860. 22 indexed citations

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Duchesne, Louis, et al.. (2019). Large apparent growth increases in boreal forests inferred from tree-rings are an artefact of sampling biases. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6832–6832. 36 indexed citations

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Baker, Jessica C. A., Manuel Gloor, Arnoud Boom, et al.. (2018). Questioning the Influence of Sunspots on Amazon Hydrology: Even a Broken Clock Tells the Right Time Twice a Day. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(3). 1419–1422. 12 indexed citations

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Baker, Jessica C. A., Guaciara M. Santos, Manuel Gloor, & Roel Brienen. (2017). Does Cedrela always form annual rings? Testing ring periodicity across South America using radiocarbon dating. Trees. 31(6). 1999–2009. 54 indexed citations

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Phillips, Oliver L. & Roel Brienen. (2017). Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations’ carbon emissions. Carbon Balance and Management. 12(1). 1–1. 105 indexed citations

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Brienen, Roel, Peter Hietz, Wolfgang Wanek, & Manuel Gloor. (2013). Oxygen isotopes in tree rings record variation in precipitation δ¹⁸O and amount effects in the south of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 118(4). 1604–1615. 28 indexed citations

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Zuidema, Pieter A., Roel Brienen, Heinjo J. During, & Burak Güneralp. (2009). Do Persistently Fast‐Growing Juveniles Contribute Disproportionately to Population Growth? A New Analysis Tool for Matrix Models and Its Application to Rainforest Trees. The American Naturalist. 174(5). 709–719. 63 indexed citations

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Brienen, Roel, Pieter A. Zuidema, & Miguel Martínez‐Ramos. (2009). Attaining the canopy in dry and moist tropical forests: strong differences in tree growth trajectories reflect variation in growing conditions. Oecologia. 163(2). 485–496. 72 indexed citations

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Rozendaal, Danaë M. A., Roel Brienen, Claudia C. Soliz‐Gamboa, & Pieter A. Zuidema. (2009). Tropical tree rings reveal preferential survival of fast‐growing juveniles and increased juvenile growth rates over time. New Phytologist. 185(3). 759–769. 55 indexed citations

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Brienen, Roel, Edwin Lebrija‐Trejos, Pieter A. Zuidema, & Miguel Martínez‐Ramos. (2009). Climate‐growth analysis for a Mexican dry forest tree shows strong impact of sea surface temperatures and predicts future growth declines. Global Change Biology. 16(7). 2001–2012. 85 indexed citations

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