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Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Felicia Chiang
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2
Fabian Wankmüller
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
3
Julia Joswig
Leipzig University
4
Cassandra M. Allsup
University of Wisconsin–Madison
5
Kumar Puran Tripathy
Texas A&M University
6
Kyriaki Psistaki
Democritus University of Thrace
7
Feng Xu
Fuzhou University
8
Hellen F. V. Cunha
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
9
Tiantian Huang
Northwest A&F University
10
Mengyang Ma
China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research

Papers

1
Global influence of soil texture on ecosystem water limitation
Nature|2024
160 cit.
2
An Overview of the Role of Forests in Climate Change Mitigation
Sustainability|2024
118 cit.
3
Effect on greenhouse gas emissions (CH4 and N2O) of straw mulching or its incorporation in farmland ecosystems in China
Sustainable Production and Consumption|2024
41 cit.
4
Temporal trends in temperature-related mortality and evidence for maladaptation to heat and cold in the Eastern Mediterranean region
The Science of The Total Environment|2024
15 cit.
5
Assessing the Impact of Climatic Factors and Air Pollutants on Cardiovascular Mortality in the Eastern Mediterranean Using Machine Learning Models
Atmosphere|2025
9 cit.
6
Lagged Soil Moisture Controls on the Persistence of Drought and Heatwaves in the United States
Geophysical Research Letters|2025
9 cit.
7
Enhancing wheat yield and nitrogen use efficiency in the Huang‐Huai‐Hai region of China: Insights from root biomass and nitrogen application responses
Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science|2024
5 cit.
8
Heatwave characteristics and health impacts: a review of epidemiological evidence and implications for heatwave response plans
Environmental Research Health|2025
1 cit.
9
Tree‐fungal interactions across climatic gradients: What is the potential for tree niche expansion via varying fungal associations?
Journal of Ecology|2025
0 cit.
10
Publication in Journal of Hydrology (2025) [W4415528963]
Journal of Hydrology|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Sophie C. Lewis
University of Canberra
2
Alexandra G. Konings
Stanford University
3
Julia E. M. S. Nabel
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
4
Jürgen Knauer
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
5
Jacob A. Nelson
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
6
Anthony P. Walker
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
7
Eric Singsaas
University of Minnesota, Duluth
8
Risheng Ding
National University of Water and Environmental Engineering
9
Olaf Menzer
University of California, Santa Barbara
10
Nadine K. Ruehr
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Papers

1
Evapotranspiration frequently increases during droughts
Nature Climate Change|2022
247 cit.
2
X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X
Biogeosciences|2024
97 cit.
3
Plant-water sensitivity regulates wildfire vulnerability
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2022
69 cit.
4
Higher global gross primary productivity under future climate with more advanced representations of photosynthesis
Science Advances|2023
46 cit.
5
Dry Live Fuels Increase the Likelihood of Lightning‐Caused Fires
Geophysical Research Letters|2023
42 cit.
6
Contrasting anatomical and biochemical controls on mesophyll conductance across plant functional types
New Phytologist|2022
40 cit.
7
The effect of relative humidity on eddy covariance latent heat flux measurements and its implication for partitioning into transpiration and evaporation
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology|2023
39 cit.
8
Capturing drought stress signals: the potential of dendrometers for monitoring tree water status
Tree Physiology|2024
27 cit.
9
Climate change-induced peatland drying in Southeast Asia
Environmental Research Letters|2022
26 cit.
10
Forest canopy mortality during the 2018-2020 summer drought years in Central Europe: The application of a deep learning approach on aerial images across Luxembourg
Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research|2023
22 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Steven W. Running
University of Montana
2
Graham D. Farquhar
Australian National University
3
Joseph A. Berry
Carnegie Institution for Science
4
Josep Peñuelas
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
5
James R. Ehleringer
University of Utah
6
Shilong Piao
Chinese Academy of Sciences
7
Robert B. Jackson
Cardiovascular Institute of the South
8
Riccardo Valentini
The Nature Conservancy
9
P. D. Jones
University of East Anglia
10
Christian Körner
University of Basel

Papers

1
A biochemical model of photosynthetic CO2 assimilation in leaves of C3 species
Planta|1980
9k cit.
2
Carbon Isotope Discrimination and Photosynthesis
Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology|1989
6.8k cit.
3
The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2006
5.7k cit.
4
THE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOIL ORGANIC CARBON AND ITS RELATION TO CLIMATE AND VEGETATION
Ecological Applications|2000
5.1k cit.
5
TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL BACTERIA
Ecology|2007
5k cit.
6
Some relationships between the biochemistry of photosynthesis and the gas exchange of leaves
Planta|1981
4.7k cit.
7
Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003
Nature|2005
4.2k cit.
8
Stomatal Conductance and Photosynthesis
Annual Review of Plant Physiology|1982
4.2k cit.
9
An improved method of constructing a database of monthly climate observations and associated high-resolution grids
International Journal of Climatology|2005
4k cit.
10
On the separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and ecosystem respiration: review and improved algorithm
Global Change Biology|2005
4k cit.

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