Sylvain Delzon

27.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
206 papers, 14.7k citations indexed

About

Sylvain Delzon is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvain Delzon has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 14.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 155 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 90 papers in Plant Science and 87 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Sylvain Delzon's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (151 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (86 papers) and Forest ecology and management (54 papers). Sylvain Delzon is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (151 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (86 papers) and Forest ecology and management (54 papers). Sylvain Delzon collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Sylvain Delzon's co-authors include Hervé Cochard, Antoine Kremer, Régis Burlett, Yann Vitasse, Denis Loustau, Steven Jansen, Nicolas Martin‐StPaul, Richard Michalet, Marcus Lindner and Éric Badel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sylvain Delzon

195 papers receiving 14.4k 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.

Climate change impacts, adaptive capacity, and vulnerability of European forest ecosystems

2009 1.7k citations Antoine Kremer, Sylvain Delzon et al. profile →
Plant resistance to drought depends on timely stomatal closure

2017 577 citations Nicolas Martin‐StPaul, Sylvain Delzon et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Climate change and European forests: What do we know, what are the uncertainties, and what are the implications for forest management?

2014 471 citations Sylvain Delzon et al. profile →
Xylem embolism threshold for catastrophic hydraulic failure in angiosperm trees

2013 418 citations Hervé Cochard, Régis Burlett et al. profile →
Functional xylem characteristics associated with drought‐induced embolism in angiosperms

2022 112 citations Frederic Lens, Giovanni Bortolami et al. New Phytologist profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Sylvain Delzon	10.5k	6.0k	5.7k	5.3k	2.8k	206	14.7k
Neil S. Cobb	9.8k 0.9×	6.2k 1.0×	3.0k 0.5×	4.9k 0.9×	3.1k 1.1×	74	13.4k
Andreas Rigling	10.3k 1.0×	7.2k 1.2×	2.9k 0.5×	6.9k 1.3×	2.3k 0.8×	177	13.8k
Francisco Lloret	8.0k 0.8×	6.8k 1.1×	3.2k 0.6×	3.0k 0.6×	2.9k 1.0×	170	12.1k
Jorge Castro	6.7k 0.6×	6.1k 1.0×	3.0k 0.5×	3.0k 0.6×	2.9k 1.0×	150	11.8k
Thomas Kitzberger	9.2k 0.9×	6.4k 1.1×	1.9k 0.3×	4.3k 0.8×	3.6k 1.3×	129	13.0k
Christoph Leuschner	8.1k 0.8×	8.8k 1.5×	4.6k 0.8×	4.4k 0.8×	3.2k 1.1×	396	16.9k
R. J. Fensham	8.4k 0.8×	6.9k 1.1×	2.0k 0.3×	3.2k 0.6×	4.6k 1.6×	211	13.3k
Richard H. Waring	9.8k 0.9×	7.0k 1.2×	3.4k 0.6×	3.2k 0.6×	4.7k 1.7×	147	14.7k
Edward H. Hogg	9.6k 0.9×	5.6k 0.9×	2.1k 0.4×	5.0k 0.9×	3.4k 1.2×	72	12.7k
Nate G. McDowell	22.7k 2.2×	11.1k 1.8×	7.6k 1.3×	11.6k 2.2×	5.3k 1.9×	211	28.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvain Delzon

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Améglio, Thierry, et al.. (2024). Unpacking the point of no return under drought in poplar: insight from stem diameter variation. New Phytologist. 242(2). 466–478. 10 indexed citations

Trueba, Santiago, Régis Burlett, Laurent J. Lamarque, et al.. (2024). The rates of starch depletion and hydraulic failure both play a role in drought-induced seedling mortality. Annals of Forest Science. 81(1). 4 indexed citations

Cohen, S., et al.. (2024). Leaf membrane leakage and xylem hydraulic failure define the point of no return in drought‐induced tree mortality in Cupressus sempervirens. Physiologia Plantarum. 176(4). e14467–e14467. 1 indexed citations

Ruffault, Julien, Jean‐Luc Dupuy, François Pimont, et al.. (2024). Exploring the role of plant hydraulics in canopy fuel moisture content: insights from an experimental drought study on Pinus halepensis Mill. and Quercus ilex L.. Annals of Forest Science. 81(1).

Ahmed, Mutez Ali, et al.. (2023). Keep in touch: the soil–root hydraulic continuum and its role in drought resistance in crops. Journal of Experimental Botany. 75(2). 584–593. 14 indexed citations

Pacheco-Solana, Arturo, et al.. (2023). Effects of wildfire on growth, transpiration and hydraulic properties of Pinus pinaster Aiton forest. Dendrochronologia. 79. 126086–126086. 16 indexed citations

Cambon, Marine C., Régis Burlett, Émilie Chancerel, et al.. (2023). Microbial biomarkers of tree water status for next‐generation biomonitoring of forest ecosystems. Molecular Ecology. 32(22). 5944–5958. 3 indexed citations

Gambetta, Gregory A., et al.. (2023). Mechanisms of grapevine resilience to a vascular disease: investigating stem radial growth, xylem development and physiological acclimation. Annals of Botany. 133(2). 321–336. 6 indexed citations

Vitasse, Yann, et al.. (2022). Temperature rather than individual growing period length determines radial growth of sessile oak in the Pyrenees. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 317. 108885–108885. 15 indexed citations

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Ruffault, Julien, François Pimont, Jean‐Luc Dupuy, et al.. (2022). Plant hydraulic modelling of leaf and canopy fuel moisture content reveals increasing vulnerability of a Mediterranean forest to wildfires under extreme drought. New Phytologist. 237(4). 1256–1269. 20 indexed citations

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Bortolami, Giovanni, Sylvain Delzon, Maximilian Larter, et al.. (2022). Drought response in Arabidopsis displays synergistic coordination between stems and leaves. Journal of Experimental Botany. 74(3). 1004–1021. 13 indexed citations

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Fort, Tania, Charlie Pauvert, Amy E. Zanne, et al.. (2020). Maternal effects shape the seed mycobiome in Quercus petraea. New Phytologist. 230(4). 1594–1608. 49 indexed citations

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Venner, Samuel, et al.. (2020). How does increasing mast seeding frequency affect population dynamics of seed consumers? Wild boar as a case study. Ecological Applications. 30(6). e02134–e02134. 43 indexed citations

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Balducci, Lorena, Sergio Rossi, Sylvain Delzon, et al.. (2020). The paradox of defoliation: Declining tree water status with increasing soil water content. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 290. 108025–108025. 20 indexed citations

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Bert, Didier, Grégoire Le Provost, Sylvain Delzon, Christophe Plomion, & Jean‐Marc Gion. (2020). Higher needle anatomic plasticity is related to better water-use efficiency and higher resistance to embolism in fast-growing Pinus pinaster families under water scarcity. Trees. 35(1). 287–306. 15 indexed citations

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Leroy, Thibault, Jean‐Marc Louvet, Céline Lalanne, et al.. (2019). Adaptive introgression as a driver of local adaptation to climate in European white oaks. New Phytologist. 226(4). 1171–1182. 122 indexed citations

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Bortolami, Giovanni, Gregory A. Gambetta, Sylvain Delzon, et al.. (2019). Exploring the Hydraulic Failure Hypothesis of Esca Leaf Symptom Formation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 181(3). 1163–1174. 39 indexed citations

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Martin‐StPaul, Nicolas, Sylvain Delzon, & Hervé Cochard. (2017). Plant resistance to drought depends on timely stomatal closure. Ecology Letters. 20(11). 1437–1447. 577 indexed citations breakdown →

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Garzón, Marta Benito, et al.. (2017). The legacy of water deficit on populations having experienced negative hydraulic safety margin. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(3). 346–356. 37 indexed citations

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Medlyn, Belinda E., Denis Loustau, & Sylvain Delzon. (2002). Temperature response of parameters of a biochemically based model of photosynthesis. I. Seasonal changes in mature maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.). Plant Cell & Environment. 25(9). 1155–1165. 210 indexed citations

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