Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics is a research topic within Global and Planetary Change. Science Explorer counts 56k research works in it since 1950. 31.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the impact of drought and heat-induced tree mortality on global forests, highlighting emerging climate change risks. It delves into mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought, ecosystem dynamics, carbon cycling, and the role of stomata in driving environmental change. The research also evaluates the vulnerability of forests to drought, the global distribution of terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake, and the implications of widespread tree mortality triggered by climate stress.
- Drought
- Tree Mortality
- Climate Change
- Ecosystem Resilience
- Evapotranspiration
- Carbon Balance
- Hydraulic Conductance
- Stomatal Response
- Global Vegetation Models
- Eddy Covariance
- Research works
- 56k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 18k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 31.7% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +28% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.3k and 1.5k works in 2022–2025).
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research, followed by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Northwest A&F University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 224 works
- 2 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 117 works
- 3 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 78 works
- 4 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 74 works
- 5 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 74 works
- 6 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChina 63 works
- 7 Lanzhou UniversityChina 58 works
- 8 China Agricultural UniversityChina 54 works
- 9 Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 51 works
- 10 Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 49 works
Who are the leading researchers in Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics include Volker Springel, Josep Peñuelas and Peter B. Reich.
- 1 Volker Springel Germany 5.2k citations
- 2 Josep Peñuelas Spain 4.1k citations
- 3 Peter B. Reich United States 4.1k citations
- 4 Philippe Ciais France 4k citations
- 5 Alexander S. Szalay United States 3.8k citations
- 6 Dennis Baldocchi United States 3.5k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research done?
The largest centres of Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Lanzhou (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Birmensdorf and Yangling.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- BirmensdorfCH · 30.6 works101×
- YanglingCN · 33.8 works83×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics?
Among universities, judged by research, Northwest A&F University, China Agricultural University and Western Sydney University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwest A&F UniversityChina | 74.9 | 40.3% | 21.0× | 78 | +122.7% |
| 2 | China Agricultural UniversityChina | 67.9 | 37.8% | 10.2× | 54 | +72.2% |
| 3 | Western Sydney UniversityAustralia | 67.5 | 46.1% | 8.4× | 20 | +102.5% |
| 4 | Zhejiang A & F UniversityChina | 66.4 | 37.1% | 15.6× | 23 | +137.3% |
| 5 | Beijing Normal UniversityChina | 66.3 | 34.1% | 11.3× | 74 | +47.8% |
| 6 | Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden | 65.6 | 43.4% | 12.4× | 18 | -3.8% |
| 7 | Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands | 65.1 | 39.7% | 9.7× | 34 | -2.2% |
| 8 | Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina | 64.3 | 30.2% | 13.1× | 51 | +89.9% |
| 9 | Beijing Forestry UniversityChina | 62.1 | 26.9% | 26.9× | 74 | +75.7% |
| 10 | University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina | 60.9 | 31.0% | 7.4× | 117 | +64.6% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 28% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.