Sabine Braun

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Sabine Braun is a scholar working on Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Sabine Braun has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Plant Science, 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Sabine Braun's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (28 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (25 papers) and Forest ecology and management (19 papers). Sabine Braun is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (28 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (25 papers) and Forest ecology and management (19 papers). Sabine Braun collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Sweden and Hungary. Sabine Braun's co-authors include W. Flückiger, Beat Rihm, Christian Schindler, Rolf Siegwolf, Scott T. Allen, James W. Kirchner, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Rebecca Quiring, Lisa Emberson and Didier Le Thiec and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Sabine Braun

70 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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, Sabine Braun et al. New Phytologist profile →

Peers

Sabine Braun

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Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen Denmark

Lisa J. Samuelson United States

Sebastian Pfautsch Australia

Robert O. Teskey United States

Karl‐Heinz Häberle Germany

Tamir Klein Israel

Bert M. Cregg United States

Norikazu Yamanaka Japan

Kevin E. Percy Canada

Robert C. Musselman United States

Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen Denmark

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270 ×0.4

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534 ×1.2

ECOLO

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Countries citing papers authored by Sabine Braun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sabine Braun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sabine Braun

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Allen, Scott T., et al.. (2025). New Precipitation Is Scarce in Deep Soils: Findings From 47 Forest Plots Spanning Switzerland. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(16).

Tresch, Simon, et al.. (2025). Drought and N deposition impact roots and ectomycorrhizal colonisation of European beech down to deep soil layers. Applied Soil Ecology. 210. 106055–106055. 1 indexed citations

Eitel, Jan U.H., David Basler, Sabine Braun, et al.. (2023). Towards monitoring stem growth phenology from space with high resolution satellite data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 339. 109549–109549. 8 indexed citations

Braun, Sabine, Beat Rihm, Simon Tresch, & Christian Schindler. (2023). Long-term risk assessment of uprooting and stem breakage under drought conditions and at high N deposition in beech and Norway spruce. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 341. 109669–109669. 2 indexed citations

Tresch, Simon, et al.. (2023). The cumulative impacts of droughts and N deposition on Norway spruce (Picea abies) in Switzerland based on 37 years of forest monitoring. The Science of The Total Environment. 892. 164223–164223. 8 indexed citations

Roth, Tobias, Simon Tresch, Enzai Du, & Sabine Braun. (2022). Hierarchical change-point regression models including random effects to estimate empirical critical loads for nitrogen using Bayesian Regression Models (brms) and JAGS. MethodsX. 9. 101902–101902. 1 indexed citations

Braun, Sabine, Bernd Ahrends, Rocı́o Alonso, et al.. (2022). Nitrogen deposition in forests: Statistical modeling of total deposition from throughfall loads. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5. 5 indexed citations

Braun, Sabine, Simon Tresch, & Sabine Augustin. (2020). Soil solution in Swiss forest stands: A 20 year's time series. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0227530–e0227530. 18 indexed citations

Allen, Scott T., James W. Kirchner, Sabine Braun, Rolf Siegwolf, & Gregory R. Goldsmith. (2019). Seasonal origins of soil water used by trees. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(2). 1199–1210. 200 indexed citations

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Braun, Sabine, Beat Achermann, Alessandra De Marco, et al.. (2017). Epidemiological analysis of ozone and nitrogen impacts on vegetation – Critical evaluation and recommendations. The Science of The Total Environment. 603-604. 785–792. 32 indexed citations

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Braun, Sabine, Christian Schindler, & Beat Rihm. (2017). Growth trends of beech and Norway spruce in Switzerland: The role of nitrogen deposition, ozone, mineral nutrition and climate. The Science of The Total Environment. 599-600. 637–646. 59 indexed citations

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Büker, Patrick, Zhaozhong Feng, Johan Uddling, et al.. (2015). New flux based dose–response relationships for ozone for European forest tree species. Environmental Pollution. 206. 163–174. 106 indexed citations

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Braun, Sabine. (2015). Indikatoren zur Schätzung des Trockenheitsrisikos in Buchen- und Fichtenwäldern. E-Periodica. 1 indexed citations

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Braun, Sabine, Christian Schindler, & Beat Rihm. (2014). Growth losses in Swiss forests caused by ozone: Epidemiological data analysis of stem increment of Fagus sylvatica L. and Picea abies Karst.. Environmental Pollution. 192. 129–138. 49 indexed citations

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Braun, Sabine, et al.. (2009). Does nitrogen deposition increase forest production? The role of phosphorus. Environmental Pollution. 158(6). 2043–2052. 208 indexed citations

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Braun, Sabine, et al.. (2005). Fine roots in stands of Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies along a gradient of soil acidification. Environmental Pollution. 137(3). 574–579. 23 indexed citations

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Braun, Sabine, et al.. (2005). Effects of simultaneous ozone exposure and nitrogen loads on carbohydrate concentrations, biomass, and growth of young spruce trees ( Picea abies ). Environmental Pollution. 137(3). 507–516. 39 indexed citations

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Braun, Sabine & W. Flückiger. (1995). Effects of ambient ozone on seedlings of Fagus sylvatica L. and Picea abies (L.) Karst. New Phytologist. 129(1). 33–44. 53 indexed citations

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Holopainen, Jarmo K., Sabine Braun, & W. Flückiger. (1994). The response of spruce shoot aphid Cinara pilicornis hartig to ambient and filtered air at two elevations and pollution climates. Environmental Pollution. 86(2). 233–238. 8 indexed citations

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Flückiger, W., et al.. (1986). Factors contributing to forest decline in northwestern Switzerland. Tree Physiology. 1(2). 177–184. 19 indexed citations

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