Stephen Sitch

85.0k total citations · 32 hit papers
263 papers, 30.5k citations indexed

About

Stephen Sitch is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Sitch has authored 263 papers receiving a total of 30.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 233 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 87 papers in Atmospheric Science and 44 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Stephen Sitch's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (125 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (119 papers) and Climate variability and models (106 papers). Stephen Sitch is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (125 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (119 papers) and Climate variability and models (106 papers). Stephen Sitch collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Stephen Sitch's co-authors include Philippe Ciais, Pierre Friedlingstein, Chris Huntingford, Peter M. Cox, I. Colin Prentice, Wolfgang Crämer, Shilong Piao, W. J. Collins, Benjamin Smith and Wolfgang Lucht and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Sitch

254 papers receiving 29.6k citations

Hit Papers

A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coup... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2005 2001 2009 2011 2015 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere‐biosphere system
    2005 1.6k citations Gerhard Krinner, Nicolas Viovy et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
  2. Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models
    2001 1.5k citations I. Colin Prentice, Peter M. Cox et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  3. The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China
    2009 1.4k citations Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
  4. Development and evaluation of an Earth-System model – HadGEM2
    2011 1.2k citations Stephen Sitch, A. Wiltshire et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
  5. The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO 2 sink
    2015 1.1k citations Anders Ahlström, Michael Raupach et al. Science profile →
  6. Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle
    2014 1.1k citations Benjamin Poulter, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
  7. The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 1: Energy and water fluxes
    2011 1.0k citations Stephen Sitch, Peter M. Cox et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
  8. Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)
    2008 958 citations Stephen Sitch, Shilong Piao et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  9. Responses of spring phenology to climate change
    2004 771 citations Stephen Sitch et al. New Phytologist profile →
  10. The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 2: Carbon fluxes and vegetation dynamics
    2011 759 citations Stephen Sitch, Peter M. Cox et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
  11. Indirect radiative forcing of climate change through ozone effects on the land-carbon sink
    2007 722 citations Stephen Sitch, Peter M. Cox et al. profile →
  12. Terrestrial vegetation and water balance—hydrological evaluation of a dynamic global vegetation model
    2003 680 citations Stephen Sitch et al. profile →
  13. Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the Twentieth Century: Analyses of CO2, climate and land use effects with four process‐based ecosystem models
    2001 632 citations Stephen Sitch, Fortunat Joos et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
  14. Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change
    2022 621 citations Gitta Lasslop, Stephen Sitch et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
  15. Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest
    2009 618 citations Stephen Sitch, Patrick Meir et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  16. The Effects of Tropospheric Ozone on Net Primary Productivity and Implications for Climate Change
    2012 615 citations Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Stephen Sitch et al. profile →
  17. Climatic Control of the High-Latitude Vegetation Greening Trend and Pinatubo Effect
    2002 607 citations I. Colin Prentice, Stephen Sitch et al. Science profile →
  18. Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial gross primary production: A review
    2015 523 citations Pierre Friedlingstein, Philippe Ciais et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
  19. The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: coupling fire into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model
    2001 515 citations Sergey Venevsky, Stephen Sitch et al. profile →
  20. Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage
    2018 368 citations Philippe Ciais, Stephen Sitch et al. profile →
  21. A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models
    2016 364 citations Belinda E. Medlyn, I. Colin Prentice et al. New Phytologist profile →
  22. Global warming feedbacks on terrestrial carbon uptake under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Emission Scenarios
    2001 339 citations Fortunat Joos, I. Colin Prentice et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
  23. Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity
    2018 313 citations Michael O’Sullivan, Stephen Sitch et al. profile →
  24. Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades
    2021 301 citations Markus Reichstein, Michael O’Sullivan et al. profile →
  25. Interannual variation of terrestrial carbon cycle: Issues and perspectives
    2019 278 citations Shilong Piao, Ana Bastos et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  26. Forest expansion dominates China’s land carbon sink since 1980
    2022 223 citations Philippe Ciais, Shilong Piao et al. profile →
  27. Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
    2021 222 citations Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
  28. Large carbon sink potential of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon to mitigate climate change
    2021 173 citations Stephen Sitch et al. profile →
  29. Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink
    2023 134 citations Trevor F. Keenan, C. A. Williams et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
  30. Global variations in critical drought thresholds that impact vegetation
    2023 107 citations Shilong Piao, Pierre Friedlingstein et al. National Science Review profile →
  31. The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests
    2023 90 citations Stephen Sitch et al. profile →
  32. Maximizing carbon sequestration potential in Chinese forests through optimal management
    2024 56 citations Shilong Piao, Hanqin Tian et al. profile →

Peers

Stephen Sitch
Comparison fields: 5 of 162
  • Global and Planetary Change 23.3k
  • Atmospheric Science 10.0k
  • Ecology 7.0k
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 4.6k
  • Plant Science 4.4k
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20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Low latency carbon budget analysis reveals a large decline of the land carbon sink in 2023
2024 ·National Science Review ·Piyu Ke, Philippe Ciais, Stephen Sitch, Wei Li, Ana Bastos, Zhu Liu, Yidi Xu, Xiaofan Gui, (unknown), Daniel S. Goll, Yi Xi, Wanjing Li, Michael J. O’Sullivan, (unknown), (unknown), Frédéric Chevallier
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Bridging Scales: An Approach to Evaluate the Temporal Patterns of Global Transpiration Products Using Tree‐Scale Sap Flow Data
2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Paulo Bittencourt, Lucy Rowland, Stephen Sitch, Rafael Poyatos, Diego G. Miralles, Maurizio Mencuccini
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Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink breakdown →
2023 ·Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Trevor F. Keenan, C. A. Williams, Yu Zhou, (unknown), Ana Bastos, Josep G. Canadell, I. Colin Prentice, Stephen Sitch, César Terrer
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Elucidating climatic drivers of photosynthesis by tropical forests
2023 ·Global Change Biology ·Yuan Wang, Junjie Liu, P. O. Wennberg, Liyin He, Damien Bonal, Philipp Köhler, Christian Frankenberg, Stephen Sitch, Pierre Friedlingstein
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Evaluating nitrogen cycling in terrestrial biosphere models: a disconnect between the carbon and nitrogen cycles
2023 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Sian Kou‐Giesbrecht, Vivek K. Arora, Christian Seiler, Almut Arneth, Stefanie Falk, Atul K. Jain, Fortunat Joos, Daniel Kennedy, Jürgen Knauer, Stephen Sitch, Michael O’Sullivan, Naiqing Pan, Qing Sun, Hanqin Tian, Nicolas Vuichard, Sönke Zaehle
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First assessment of optical and microwave remotely sensed vegetation proxies in monitoring aboveground carbon in tropical Asia
2023 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·(unknown), Lei Fan, Philippe Ciais, Rasmus Fensholt, Frédéric Frappart, Stephen Sitch, Jérôme Chave, (unknown), Xiaojun Li, Mengjia Wang, Xiangzhuo Liu, Mingguo Ma, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron
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How Well Do We Understand the Land‐Ocean‐Atmosphere Carbon Cycle?
2022 ·Reviews of Geophysics ·David Crisp, A. J. Dolman, Toste Tanhua, Galen A. McKinley, Judith Hauck, Ana Bastos, Stephen Sitch, (unknown), Valentin Aich
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Deficiencies of Phenology Models in Simulating Spatial and Temporal Variations in Temperate Spring Leaf Phenology
2022 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Shihua Li, Ying‐Ping Wang, Philippe Ciais, Stephen Sitch, Hisashi Sato, Miaogen Shen, Xiuzhi Chen, Akihiko Ito, Chaoyang Wu, Christopher J. Kucharik, Wenping Yuan
10
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Increased vulnerability of European ecosystems to two compound dry and hot summers in 2018 and 2019
2021 ·FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg) ·Ana Bastos, René Orth, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Sönke Zaehle, Peter Anthoni, Almut Arneth, Pierre Gentine, Émilie Joetzjer, Sebastian Lienert, Tammas Loughran, Patrick McGuire, O Sungmin, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch
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Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect
2021 ·Global Change Biology ·Alemu Gonsamo, Philippe Ciais, Diego G. Miralles, Stephen Sitch, Wouter Dorigo, Danica Lombardozzi, Pierre Friedlingstein, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Daniel S. Goll, Michael O’Sullivan, Almut Arneth, Peter Anthoni, Atul K. Jain, Andy Wiltshire, Philippe Peylin, Alessandro Cescatti
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Vegetation biomass change in China in the 20th century: an assessment based on a combination of multi-model simulations and field observations
2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Xiang Song, Fang Li, Sandy P. Harrison, Tianxiang Luo, Almut Arneth, Matthew Forrest, Stijn Hantson, Gitta Lasslop, Stéphane Mangeon, Jian Ni, Chao Yue, Thomas Hickler, Yiqi Luo, Stephen Sitch, Xin Xu, Zaichun Zhu
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12
Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate
2020 ·New Phytologist ·Cleiton B. Eller, Lucy Rowland, Maurizio Mencuccini, Teresa Rosas, Karina Williams, Anna Harper, Belinda E. Medlyn, (unknown), Tamir Klein, Grazielle Sales Teodoro, Rafael S. Oliveira, Ilaíne Silveira Matos, Bruno H. P. Rosado, Kathrin Fuchs, Georg Wohlfahrt, Leonardo Montagnani, Patrick Meir, Stephen Sitch, Peter M. Cox
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13
Calibrating soybean parameters in JULES 5.0 from the US-Ne2/3 FLUXNET sites and the SoyFACE-O 3 experiment
2020 ·Geoscientific model development ·Felix Leung, Karina Williams, Stephen Sitch, Amos P. K. Tai, Andy Wiltshire, Jemma Gornall, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Timothy J. Arkebauer, (unknown)
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Contrasting interannual atmospheric CO 2 variabilities and their terrestrial mechanisms for two types of El Niños
2018 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Jun Wang, Ning Zeng, Meirong Wang, Fei Jiang, Jingming Chen, Pierre Friedlingstein, Atul K. Jain, Ziqiang Jiang, Weimin Ju, Sebastian Lienert, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Stephen Sitch, Nicolas Viovy, Hengmao Wang, A. Wiltshire
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Present‐day and future contribution of climate and fires to vegetation composition in the boreal forest of China
2017 ·Ecosphere ·Chao Wu, Sergey Venevsky, Stephen Sitch, (unknown), (unknown), Lei Wang, Yu Gao
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Role of CO 2 , climate and land use in regulating the seasonal amplitudeincrease of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems: a multimodel analysis
2016 ·Biogeosciences ·Fang Zhao, Ning Zeng, Ghassem Asrar, Pierre Friedlingstein, Akihiko Ito, Atul K. Jain, Eugenia Kalnay, Etsushi Kato, Charles D. Koven, Benjamin Poulter, Rashid Rafique, Stephen Sitch, Shijie Shu, Benjamin D. Stocker, Nicolas Viovy, Andy Wiltshire, Sönke Zaehle
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The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO 2 sink breakdown →
2015 ·Science ·Anders Ahlström, Michael Raupach, Guy Schurgers, Benjamin Smith, Almut Arneth, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein, Josep G. Canadell, Pierre Friedlingstein, Atul K. Jain, Etsushi Kato, Benjamin Poulter, Stephen Sitch, Benjamin D. Stocker, Nicolas Viovy, Ying‐Ping Wang, Andy Wiltshire, Sönke Zaehle, Ning Zeng
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Correction for Pasari et al., Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality
2013 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Weile Wang, Philippe Ciais, Ramakrishna Nemani, Josep G. Canadell, Shilong Piao, Stephen Sitch, Michael A. White, JanWillem Duitman, Marcel Schouten, A.P. de Groot, Keren Borensztajn, Joost Daalhuisen, Sandrine Florquin, Tom van der Poll, C. Arnold Spek
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A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests
2011 ·Science ·Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey, Jingyun Fang, R. A. Houghton, Pekka E. Kauppi, Werner A. Kurz, Oliver L. Phillips, А. Shvidenko, Simon L. Lewis, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen W. Pacala, A. David McGuire, Shilong Piao, Aapo Rautiainen, Stephen Sitch, Daniel J. Hayes
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A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere‐biosphere system breakdown →
2005 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Gerhard Krinner, Nicolas Viovy, Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré, Jérôme Ogée, Jan Polcher‬, Pierre Friedlingstein, Philippe Ciais, Stephen Sitch, I. Colin Prentice
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