| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Forest disturbances under climate change | Nature Climate Change | 2017 | 1,561 |
| 2 | A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 739 |
| 3 | Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy | Journal of Biogeography | 2012 | 526 |
| 4 | A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality | Global Change Biology | 2017 | 394 |
| 5 | Tree species richness promotes productivity in temperate forests through strong complementarity between species | Ecology Letters | 2011 | 372 |
| 6 | Do global change experiments overestimate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2011 | 300 |
| 7 | Driving factors of a vegetation shift from Scots pine to pubescent oak in dry Alpine forests | Global Change Biology | 2013 | 280 |
| 8 | Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees | Nature Communications | 2020 | 228 |
| 9 | Disentangling Biodiversity and Climatic Determinants of Wood Production | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 202 |
| 10 | Warming, Photoperiods, and Tree Phenology | Science | 2010 | 165 |
| 11 | Temporal stability in forest productivity increases with tree diversity due to asynchrony in species dynamics | Ecology Letters | 2014 | 163 |
| 12 | Cross‐scale interactions among bark beetles, climate change, and wind disturbances: a landscape modeling approach | Ecological Monographs | 2013 | 156 |
| 13 | Expanding forests and changing growth forms of Siberian larch at the Polar Urals treeline during the 20th century | Global Change Biology | 2008 | 155 |
| 14 | Contrasting resistance and resilience to extreme drought and late spring frost in five major European tree species | Global Change Biology | 2019 | 152 |
| 15 | Future ecosystem services from European mountain forests under climate change | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2017 | 147 |
| 16 | Synergistic effects of past historical logging and drought on the decline of Pyrenean silver fir forests | Forest Ecology and Management | 2011 | 144 |
| 17 | Are forest disturbances amplifying or canceling out climate change-induced productivity changes in European forests? | Environmental Research Letters | 2017 | 142 |
| 18 | A 2 °C warmer world is not safe for ecosystem services in the European Alps | Global Change Biology | 2013 | 132 |
| 19 | Early-Warning Signals of Individual Tree Mortality Based on Annual Radial Growth | Frontiers in Plant Science | 2018 | 117 |
| 20 | Global change impacts on hydrological processes in Alpine catchments | Water Resources Research | 2005 | 109 |
| 21 | A 350 year drought reconstruction from Alpine tree ring stable isotopes | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2010 | 108 |
| 22 | Adaptive management for competing forest goods and services under climate change | Ecological Applications | 2012 | 101 |
| 23 | Effects of salvage logging and sanitation felling on bark beetle (Ips typographus L.) infestations | Forest Ecology and Management | 2013 | 100 |
| 24 | Disentangling the effects of competition and climate on individual tree growth: A retrospective and dynamic approach in Scots pine | Forest Ecology and Management | 2015 | 100 |
| 25 | Forest and woodland replacement patterns following drought-related mortality | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 99 |
| 26 | Improvement of water and light availability after thinning at a xeric site: which matters more? A dual isotope approach | New Phytologist | 2016 | 95 |
| 27 | Will the CO2 fertilization effect in forests be offset by reduced tree longevity? | Oecologia | 2011 | 93 |
| 28 | Tree mortality submodels drive simulated long‐term forest dynamics: assessing 15 models from the stand to global scale | Ecosphere | 2019 | 93 |
| 29 | Site factors are more important than salvage logging for tree regeneration after wind disturbance in Central European forests | Forest Ecology and Management | 2014 | 92 |
| 30 | Assessing the impacts of economic and climate changes on land-use in mountain regions: A spatial dynamic modeling approach | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2012 | 91 |
| 31 | Using dynamic vegetation models to simulate plant range shifts | Ecography | 2014 | 89 |
| 32 | Linking Increasing Drought Stress to Scots Pine Mortality and Bark Beetle Infestations | Scientific World Journal, The | 2007 | 85 |
| 33 | Pattern and process in the largest primeval beech forest of Europe (Ukrainian Carpathians) | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2015 | 85 |
| 34 | Evaluating the relative impact of climate and economic changes on forest and agricultural ecosystem services in mountain regions | Journal of Environmental Management | 2013 | 83 |
| 35 | Spatio-temporal infestation patterns of Ips typographus (L.) in the Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany | Ecological Indicators | 2013 | 83 |
| 36 | Long-term effects of drought on tree-ring growth and carbon isotope variability in Scots pine in a dry environment | Tree Physiology | 2017 | 83 |
| 37 | Beta diversity of plants, birds and butterflies is closely associated with climate and habitat structure | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2017 | 82 |
| 38 | Did soil development limit spruce (Picea abies) expansion in the Central Alps during the Holocene? Testing a palaeobotanical hypothesis with a dynamic landscape model | Journal of Biogeography | 2011 | 81 |
| 39 | Spatial interactions between storm damage and subsequent infestations by the European spruce bark beetle | Forest Ecology and Management | 2014 | 80 |
| 40 | Simulation and analysis of outbreaks of bark beetle infestations and their management at the stand level | Ecological Modelling | 2011 | 78 |
| 41 | Drought and frost contribute to abrupt growth decreases before tree mortality in nine temperate tree species | Forest Ecology and Management | 2016 | 76 |
| 42 | Forty years of natural dynamics in Swiss beech forests: structure, composition, and the influence of former management | Ecological Applications | 2009 | 74 |
| 43 | Climate-induced shifts in leaf unfolding and frost risk of European trees and shrubs | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 74 |
| 44 | Drought response and changing mean sensitivity of European beech close to the dry distribution limit | Trees - Structure and Function | 2013 | 73 |
| 45 | Response of broadleaved evergreen Mediterranean forest vegetation to fire disturbance during the Holocene: insights from the peri‐Adriatic region | Journal of Biogeography | 2009 | 71 |
| 46 | Environmental predictors of species richness in forest landscapes: abiotic factors versus vegetation structure | Journal of Biogeography | 2016 | 70 |
| 47 | Herbaceous Understorey: An Overlooked Player in Forest Landscape Dynamics? | Ecosystems | 2016 | 66 |
| 48 | Impacts of changing climate and land use on vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean ecosystem: insights from paleoecology and dynamic modeling | Landscape Ecology | 2013 | 65 |
| 49 | Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts | Global Change Biology | 2021 | 64 |
| 50 | A predictive framework to assess spatio‐temporal variability of infestations by the European spruce bark beetle | Ecography | 2013 | 61 |
