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Achim Bräuning publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Achim Bräuning sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 265 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Achim Bräuning D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Achim Bräuning sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Achim Bräuning is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions across various subfields including atmospheric science, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, plant science, and forestry.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics including tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, climate variability and models, and tree root and stability studies.

Among the recent papers published by Achim Bräuning are:

  • Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions (2021, Nature Communications)
  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests (2021, Nature)
  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability (2022, Nature Geoscience)
  • A 338-year tree-ring oxygen isotope record from Thai teak captures the variations in the Asian summer monsoon system (2020, Scientific Reports)

Frequent collaboration is evident with several co-authors, among them Jussi Grießinger with 30 joint works, Ze-Xin Fan with 21, Aster Gebrekirstos with 18, Pei-Li Fu with 12, and Martin Häusser with 12 publications.

Regular publication venues for Achim Bräuning include:

  • Dendrochronologia (9 publications)
  • Trees (7 publications)
  • Forests (5 publications)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (4 publications)
  • Atmosphere (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • New perspective on spring vegetation phenology and global climate change based on Tibetan Plateau tree-ring data.

    Bao Yang;Minhui He;Minhui He;Vladimir Shishov;Vladimir Shishov;Ivan Tychkov

  • Model‐Based Characterization and Monitoring of Runoff and Soil Erosion in Response to Land Use/land Cover Changes in the Modjo Watershed, Ethiopia

    Berhan Gessesse;Berhan Gessesse;Woldeamlak Bewket;Achim Bräuning

  • Summer temperature and summer monsoon history on the Tibetan plateau during the last 400 years recorded by tree rings

    Achim Bräuning;Bernd Mantwill

  • Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years

    Bao Yang;Chun Qin;Achim Bräuning;Timothy J. Osborn

  • Tree ring density-based summer temperature reconstruction for the central Hengduan Mountains in southern China

    Ze-Xin Fan;Ze-Xin Fan;Achim Bräuning;Bao Yang;Kun-Fang Cao

  • Intra-annual density fluctuations in tree rings: how, when, where, and why?

    V. De Micco;F. Campelo;M. De Luis;A. Bräuning

  • Late Holocene temperature fluctuations on the Tibetan Plateau

    Yang Bao;Achim Bra̋uning;Shi Yafeng

  • Growth–climate responses of high-elevation conifers in the central Hengduan Mountains, southwestern China

    Ze-Xin Fan;Ze-Xin Fan;Achim Bräuning;Kun-Fang Cao;Shi-Dan Zhu

  • Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE.

    Ulf Büntgen;Lukas Wacker;J. Diego Galván;Stephanie Arnold

  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

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  • Spatial and temporal temperature trends on the Yunnan Plateau (Southwest China) during 1961–2004

    Ze-Xin Fan;Achim Bräuning;Axel Thomas;Jin-Bao Li

  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions

    Ulf Büntgen;Kathy Allen;Kathy Allen;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Dominique Arseneault

  • Tree-ring evidence of ‘Little Ice Age’ glacier advances in southern Tibet

    Achim Bräuning

  • Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

    Fabien H. Wagner;Bruno Hérault;Damien Bonal;Clément Stahl;Clément Stahl

  • Tree-ring based drought reconstruction in the central Hengduan Mountains region (China) since A.D. 1655

    Ze-Xin Fan;Ze-Xin Fan;Achim Bräuning;Kun-Fang Cao

  • Late Holocene Asian summer monsoon variability reflected by δ18O in tree-rings from Tibetan junipers

    Jussi Grießinger;Achim Bräuning;Gerd Helle;Axel Thomas

  • Periodic climate cooling enhanced natural disasters and wars in China during AD 10-1900

    Zhibin Zhang;Huidong Tian;Bernard Cazelles;Kyrre L. Kausrud

  • Dendrochronology for the last 1400 years in eastern Tibet

    Achim Bräuning

  • Growth-ring variations of dwarf shrubs reflect regional climate signals in alpine environments rather than topoclimatic differences

    Annette Bär;Annette Bär;Roland Pape;Roland Pape;Achim Bräuning;Jörg Löffler

  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests

    Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Aida Cuni-Sanchez;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Philip J. Platts;Philip J. Platts;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Late Holocene monsoonal temperate glacier fluctuations on the Tibetan Plateau

    Bao Yang;Bao Yang;Bao Yang;Achim Bräuning;Zhibao Dong;Ziyin Zhang

  • Dendrochronological analysis of urban trees: climatic response and impact of drought on frequently used tree species

    Sten Gillner;Achim Bräuning;Andreas Roloff

Frequent Co-Authors

Bao Yang
Bao Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sergio Rossi
Sergio Rossi Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Eryuan Liang
Eryuan Liang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Andreas Huth
Andreas Huth Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Alexander V. Kirdyanov
Alexander V. Kirdyanov University of Cambridge
Jörg Bendix
Jörg Bendix Philipp University of Marburg
Bao Yang
Bao Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jürgen Homeier
Jürgen Homeier University of Göttingen
Kun-Fang Cao
Kun-Fang Cao Guangxi University
Paul J. Krusic
Paul J. Krusic University of Cambridge

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