Ülo Niinemets

70.9k total citations · 16 hit papers
461 papers, 35.1k citations indexed

About

Ülo Niinemets is a scholar working on Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ülo Niinemets has authored 461 papers receiving a total of 35.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 316 papers in Plant Science, 235 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 126 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ülo Niinemets's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (203 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (186 papers) and Plant and animal studies (107 papers). Ülo Niinemets is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (203 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (186 papers) and Plant and animal studies (107 papers). Ülo Niinemets collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, United States and China. Ülo Niinemets's co-authors include Fernando Valladares, Ian J. Wright, Hendrik Poorter, Lucian Copolovici, Olevi Kull, John Tenhunen, Rafael Villar, Lourens Poorter, Tiina Tosens and Josep Peñuelas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ülo Niinemets

446 papers receiving 34.2k citations

Hit Papers

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per ... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2009 2008 2006 2001 2005 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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. Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta‐analysis
    2009 2.1k citations Ülo Niinemets, Ian J. Wright et al. New Phytologist profile →
  2. Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences
    2008 1.2k citations Ülo Niinemets et al. profile →
  3. TOLERANCE TO SHADE, DROUGHT, AND WATERLOGGING OF TEMPERATE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE TREES AND SHRUBS
    2006 914 citations Ülo Niinemets et al. profile →
  4. GLOBAL-SCALE CLIMATIC CONTROLS OF LEAF DRY MASS PER AREA, DENSITY, AND THICKNESS IN TREES AND SHRUBS
    2001 731 citations Ülo Niinemets profile →
  5. Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate
    2005 700 citations Ian J. Wright, Peter B. Reich et al. profile →
  6. Global climatic drivers of leaf size
    2017 647 citations Ian J. Wright, Ning Dong et al. Science profile →
  7. Responses of forest trees to single and multiple environmental stresses from seedlings to mature plants: Past stress history, stress interactions, tolerance and acclimation
    2010 602 citations Ülo Niinemets profile →
  8. Research review. Components of leaf dry mass per area – thickness and density – alter leaf photosynthetic capacity in reverse directions in woody plants
    1999 575 citations Ülo Niinemets New Phytologist profile →
  9. Leaf Functional Anatomy in Relation to Photosynthesis
    2010 488 citations Ülo Niinemets et al. profile →
  10. Physiological and structural tradeoffs underlying the leaf economics spectrum
    2017 486 citations Ian J. Wright, Ülo Niinemets et al. New Phytologist profile →
  11. A review of light interception in plant stands from leaf to canopy in different plant functional types and in species with varying shade tolerance
    2010 483 citations Ülo Niinemets profile →
  12. Drought-Tolerance of Wheat Improved by Rhizosphere Bacteria from Harsh Environments: Enhanced Biomass Production and Reduced Emissions of Stress Volatiles
    2014 411 citations Astrid Kännaste, Ülo Niinemets et al. profile →
  13. A meta‐analysis of plant responses to light intensity for 70 traits ranging from molecules to whole plant performance
    2019 380 citations Ülo Niinemets et al. New Phytologist profile →
  14. A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models
    2016 364 citations Ülo Niinemets, I. Colin Prentice et al. New Phytologist profile →
  15. Importance of leaf anatomy in determining mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2 across species: quantitative limitations and scaling up by models
    2013 353 citations Jeroni Galmés, Tiina Tosens et al. Journal of Experimental Botany profile →
  16. Structure and function of the soil microbiome underlying N2O emissions from global wetlands
    2022 148 citations Mikk Espenberg, Jaan Pärn et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ülo Niinemets Estonia 98 20.2k 16.1k 11.1k 7.6k 6.4k 461 35.1k
Hendrik Poorter Netherlands 66 15.4k 0.8× 9.9k 0.6× 11.8k 1.1× 6.3k 0.8× 2.6k 0.4× 120 27.6k
Fernando Valladares Spain 75 10.5k 0.5× 10.5k 0.6× 14.9k 1.3× 8.5k 1.1× 3.2k 0.5× 317 26.8k
Ernst‐Detlef Schulze Germany 111 17.6k 0.9× 23.4k 1.5× 13.4k 1.2× 6.8k 0.9× 9.2k 1.4× 626 48.6k
F. A. Bazzaz United States 84 12.2k 0.6× 8.0k 0.5× 10.6k 1.0× 7.3k 1.0× 3.4k 0.5× 260 22.5k
Todd E. Dawson United States 83 8.1k 0.4× 15.2k 0.9× 6.3k 0.6× 4.0k 0.5× 8.6k 1.3× 277 26.4k
David S. Ellsworth United States 75 12.3k 0.6× 15.6k 1.0× 8.4k 0.8× 3.3k 0.4× 5.4k 0.8× 172 23.8k
F. I. Woodward United Kingdom 69 9.0k 0.4× 11.9k 0.7× 6.9k 0.6× 3.7k 0.5× 5.4k 0.8× 186 23.4k
Ragan M. Callaway United States 91 19.5k 1.0× 5.9k 0.4× 20.4k 1.8× 14.0k 1.8× 1.6k 0.2× 316 36.6k
Hans Lambers Australia 100 28.6k 1.4× 6.5k 0.4× 7.2k 0.6× 4.6k 0.6× 1.8k 0.3× 702 41.0k
Nina Buchmann Switzerland 81 7.8k 0.4× 15.6k 1.0× 9.5k 0.9× 4.1k 0.5× 5.9k 0.9× 354 29.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ülo Niinemets

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mander, Ülo, Maarja Öpik, Siim‐Kaarel Sepp, et al.. (2025). Temporal and spatial dynamics of microbial communities and greenhouse gas flux responses to experimental flooding in riparian forest soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 101(12).
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Jardine, Kolby, Suman Som, Tomas F. Domingues, et al.. (2024). Concurrent Measurement of O2 Production and Isoprene Emission During Photosynthesis: Pros, Cons and Metabolic Implications of Responses to Light, CO2 and Temperature. Plant Cell & Environment. 1 indexed citations
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Niinemets, Ülo, et al.. (2024). Significant correlation between leaf vein length per unit area and stomatal density: evidence from Red Tip and Chinese photinias. Frontiers in Plant Science. 15. 1365449–1365449. 4 indexed citations
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Guo, Qingxue, et al.. (2024). Male, female, and mixed‐sex poplar plantations support divergent soil microbial communities. Global Change Biology. 30(2). e17198–e17198. 8 indexed citations
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Brum, Fernanda Thiesen, Vinícius Marcilio‐Silva, Victor P. Zwiener, et al.. (2023). Minding the gap: Range size and economic use drive functional trait data gaps in the Atlantic forest. Biological Conservation. 283. 110087–110087. 2 indexed citations
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Shi, Peijian, Johan Gielis, Brady K. Quinn, et al.. (2022). ‘biogeom’: An R package for simulating and fitting natural shapes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1516(1). 123–134. 47 indexed citations
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Mander, Ülo, Alisa Krasnova, Mikk Espenberg, et al.. (2021). Forest canopy mitigates soil N2O emission during hot moments. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 4(1). 18 indexed citations
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Elferjani, Raëd, Lahcen Benomar, Roberto Tognetti, et al.. (2021). A meta-analysis of mesophyll conductance to CO2 in relation to major abiotic stresses in poplar species. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(12). 4384–4400. 12 indexed citations
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Taipale, Ditte, Veli‐Matti Kerminen, Mikael Ehn, Markku Kulmala, & Ülo Niinemets. (2021). Modelling the influence of biotic plant stress on atmospheric aerosol particle processes throughout a growing season. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(23). 17389–17431. 9 indexed citations
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Shi, Peijian, et al.. (2020). Influence of leaf shape on the scaling of leaf surface area and length in bamboo plants. Trees. 35(2). 709–715. 31 indexed citations
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Liao, Huixuan, Róbert W. Pál, Ülo Niinemets, et al.. (2020). Different functional characteristics can explain different dimensions of plant invasion success. Journal of Ecology. 109(3). 1524–1536. 26 indexed citations
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Íñiguez, Concepción, et al.. (2019). Evolutionary trends in RuBisCO kinetics and their co‐evolution with CO 2 concentrating mechanisms. The Plant Journal. 101(4). 897–918. 112 indexed citations
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Wright, Ian J., Ning Dong, Vincent Maire, et al.. (2017). Global climatic drivers of leaf size. Science. 357(6354). 917–921. 647 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pazouki, Leila, Hamid Rajabi Memari, Astrid Kännaste, Rudolf Bichele, & Ülo Niinemets. (2015). Germacrene A synthase in yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is an enzyme with mixed substrate specificity: gene cloning, functional characterization and expression analysis. Frontiers in Plant Science. 6. 111–111. 50 indexed citations
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Llusià, Joan, Jordi Sardans, Ülo Niinemets, Susan M. Owen, & Josep Peñuelas. (2013). A screening study of leaf terpene emissions of 43 rainforest species in Danum Valley Conservation Area (Borneo) and their relationships with chemical and morphological leaf traits. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 148(2). 307–317. 16 indexed citations
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Pazouki, Leila, et al.. (2011). Genetic variation among Iranian sesame ( Sesamum indicum L.) accessions vis-à-vis exotic genotypes on the basis of morpho-physiological traits and RAPD markers. Australian Journal of Crop Science. 5(11). 1396–1407. 24 indexed citations
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Niinemets, Ülo, Angelika Portsmuth, & Mari Tobias. (2006). Leaf size modifies support biomass distribution among stems, petioles and mid‐ribs in temperate plants. New Phytologist. 171(1). 91–104. 233 indexed citations

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