Stefan Klesse

3.1k total citations
31 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Stefan Klesse is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Klesse has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 25 papers in Atmospheric Science and 17 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Stefan Klesse's work include Tree-ring climate responses (25 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (24 papers) and Forest ecology and management (12 papers). Stefan Klesse is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (25 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (24 papers) and Forest ecology and management (12 papers). Stefan Klesse collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Spain. Stefan Klesse's co-authors include David Frank, Flurin Babst, Olivier Bouriaud, Matthias Dobbertin, Christoph Nehrbass‐Ahles, Margaret E. K. Evans, Raphael Neukom, Magdalena Nötzli, Valérie Trouet and R. Justin DeRose 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

Stefan Klesse

29 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stefan Klesse Switzerland 19 890 815 607 96 79 31 1.1k
Tobias Scharnweber Germany 17 779 0.9× 792 1.0× 616 1.0× 106 1.1× 107 1.4× 31 1.0k
Miloš Rydval Czechia 20 768 0.9× 785 1.0× 501 0.8× 106 1.1× 65 0.8× 34 973
Claudia Hartl Germany 16 902 1.0× 905 1.1× 523 0.9× 108 1.1× 67 0.8× 34 1.1k
Pavel Moiseev Russia 15 609 0.7× 793 1.0× 359 0.6× 103 1.1× 102 1.3× 44 976
Valentina Vitali Switzerland 11 589 0.7× 471 0.6× 476 0.8× 111 1.2× 87 1.1× 22 744
Isabel Dorado‐Liñán Spain 18 581 0.7× 576 0.7× 343 0.6× 103 1.1× 58 0.7× 33 732
Amy C. Bennett United States 5 598 0.7× 342 0.4× 498 0.8× 81 0.8× 92 1.2× 6 731
Bernhard Denneler Canada 13 678 0.8× 574 0.7× 466 0.8× 141 1.5× 92 1.2× 15 814
M. Ross Alexander United States 11 578 0.6× 451 0.6× 405 0.7× 52 0.5× 104 1.3× 16 705
Antoine Cabon Spain 12 600 0.7× 424 0.5× 403 0.7× 91 0.9× 71 0.9× 20 687

Countries citing papers authored by Stefan Klesse

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefan Klesse

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Klesse

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Klesse, Stefan & Christof Bigler. (2025). Growth trends in basal area increments: The underlying problem, consequences for research and best practices. Dendrochronologia. 90. 126296–126296. 3 indexed citations
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Evans, Margaret E. K., Peter B. Adler, Amy L. Angert, et al.. (2025). Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology. Nature Climate Change. 15(8). 809–812. 1 indexed citations
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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
4.
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.
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Vitali, Valentina, Philipp Schuler, Meisha Holloway‐Phillips, et al.. (2024). Finding balance: Tree‐ring isotopes differentiate between acclimation and stress‐induced imbalance in a long‐term irrigation experiment. Global Change Biology. 30(3). e17237–e17237. 6 indexed citations
6.
Evans, Margaret E. K., Kelly A. Heilman, John Tipton, et al.. (2024). Tree rings reveal the transient risk of extinction hidden inside climate envelope forecasts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(24). e2315700121–e2315700121. 10 indexed citations
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Stadelmann, Golo, Jeanne Portier, Brigitte Rohner, et al.. (2024). Ökologisch kohärente Baumartengruppen für die praxisnahe Forschung. Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen. 175(6). 312–313.
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Wohlgemuth, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Slower growth prior to the 2018 drought and a high growth sensitivity to previous year summer conditions predisposed European beech to crown dieback. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169068–169068. 6 indexed citations
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Portier, Jeanne, Ross T. Shackleton, Stefan Klesse, et al.. (2023). No evidence that coring affects tree growth or mortality in three common European temperate forest tree species. European Journal of Forest Research. 143(1). 129–139. 6 indexed citations
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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
11.
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
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Klesse, Stefan, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Katrin Meusburger, et al.. (2022). Long-term soil water limitation and previous tree vigor drive local variability of drought-induced crown dieback in Fagus sylvatica. The Science of The Total Environment. 851(Pt 1). 157926–157926. 28 indexed citations
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Klesse, Stefan, et al.. (2021). Spread and Severity of Ash Dieback in Switzerland – Tree Characteristics and Landscape Features Explain Varying Mortality Probability. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4. 19 indexed citations
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Klesse, Stefan, Flurin Babst, Sebastian Lienert, et al.. (2018). A Combined Tree Ring and Vegetation Model Assessment of European Forest Growth Sensitivity to Interannual Climate Variability. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 32(8). 1226–1240. 54 indexed citations
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Klesse, Stefan, R. Justin DeRose, Christopher H. Guiterman, et al.. (2018). Sampling bias overestimates climate change impacts on forest growth in the southwestern United States. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5336–5336. 98 indexed citations
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Alfaro‐Sánchez, Raquel, Hanh Nguyen, Stefan Klesse, et al.. (2018). Climatic and volcanic forcing of tropical belt northern boundary over the past 800 years. Nature Geoscience. 11(12). 933–938. 25 indexed citations
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Keller, K., Sebastian Lienert, Thomas F. Stocker, et al.. (2017). 20th century changes in carbon isotopes and water-use efficiency: tree-ring-based evaluation of the CLM4.5 and LPX-Bern models. Biogeosciences. 14(10). 2641–2673. 59 indexed citations
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Keel, Sonja G., Fortunat Joos, Renato Spahni, et al.. (2016). Simulating oxygen isotope ratios in tree ring cellulose using a dynamicglobal vegetation model. Biogeosciences. 13(13). 3869–3886. 20 indexed citations
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Babst, Flurin, M. Ross Alexander, Paul Szejner, et al.. (2014). A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle. Oecologia. 176(2). 307–322. 124 indexed citations
20.
Klesse, Stefan, et al.. (2014). Synoptic drivers of 400 years of summer temperature and precipitation variability on Mt. Olympus, Greece. Climate Dynamics. 45(3-4). 807–824. 34 indexed citations

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