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Achim Grelle 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 Grelle sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 99 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Achim Grelle 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 Grelle sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Achim Grelle is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with special attention to several subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, ecology, ecological modeling, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's main topics of work include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate change and permafrost, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, fire effects on ecosystems, cryospheric studies and observations, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and species distribution and climate change.

Achim Grelle has published research in multiple scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • Global Change Biology
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Environmental Research Letters

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Achim Grelle include:

  • From source to sink - recovery of the carbon balance in young forests, 2023, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • The biophysical climate mitigation potential of boreal peatlands during the growing season, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • The ABCflux database: Arctic-boreal CO 2 flux observations and ancillary information aggregated to monthly time steps across terrestrial ecosystems, 2022, Earth System Science Data

Frequent collaborators of Achim Grelle include Manuel Helbig, Lars Kutzbach, Ivan Mammarella, Mats B. Nilsson, and Matthias Peichl.

Best Publications

  • Energy balance closure at FLUXNET sites

    Kell Wilson;Allen Goldstein;Eva Falge;Marc Aubinet

  • Estimates of the annual net carbon and water exchange of forests: the EUROFLUX methodology

    Marc Aubinet;Achim Grelle;Andreas Ibrom;Üllar Rannik

  • Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests

    R. Valentini;G. Matteucci;A. J. Dolman;E.-D. Schulze

  • Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation

    B.E Law;E Falge;L Gu;D.D Baldocchi

  • The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests

    Federico Magnani;Maurizio Mencuccini;Marco Borghetti;Paul Berbigier

  • Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming

    Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Peylin

  • Productivity overshadows temperature in determining soil and ecosystem respiration across European forests

    I. A. Janssens;H. Lankreijer;G. Matteucci;A. S. Kowalski

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Energy exchange and water budget partitioning in a boreal minerogenic mire

    Matthias Peichl;Jörgen Sagerfors;Anders Lindroth;Ishi Buffam;Ishi Buffam

  • Seasonality of ecosystem respiration and gross primary production as derived from FLUXNET measurements

    Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;John Tenhunen;Marc Aubinet

  • The likely impact of elevated [CO2], nitrogen deposition, increased temperature and management on carbon sequestration in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems: a literature review.

    Ritta Hyvönen;Goran I. Agren;Sune Linder;Tryggve Persson

  • Long‐term measurements of boreal forest carbon balance reveal large temperature sensitivity

    Anders Lindroth;Achim Grelle;Ann‐Sofie Morén

  • Addressing the influence of instrument surface heat exchange on the measurements of CO2 flux from open‐path gas analyzers

    George G. Burba;Dayle K. McDERMITT;Achim Grelle;Daniel J. Anderson

  • Contemporary carbon accumulation in a boreal oligotrophic minerogenic mire – a significant sink after accounting for all C‐fluxes

    Mats Nilsson;Joergen Sagerfors;Ishi Buffam;Hjalmar Laudon

  • Air temperature triggers the recovery of evergreen boreal forest photosynthesis in spring

    Suni Tanja;Frank Berninger;Timo Vesala;Tiina Markkanen

  • Energy partitioning between latent and sensible heat flux during the warm season at FLUXNET sites

    Kell B. Wilson;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Marc Aubinet;Paul Berbigier

  • Storms can cause Europe-wide reduction in forest carbon sink

    Anders Lindroth;Fredrik Lagergren;Achim Grelle;Leif Klemedtsson

  • Annual CO2 exchange between a nutrient-poor, minerotrophic, boreal mire and the atmosphere

    J Sagerfors;Anders Lindroth;A Grelle;L Klemedtsson

  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate

    Manuel Helbig;Manuel Helbig;James Michael Waddington;Pavel Alekseychik;Brian D. Amiro

  • Flux-profile relationships over a boreal forest-roughness sublayer corrections

    Meelis Mölder;Achim Grelle;Anders Lindroth;Sven Halldin

  • Phase and amplitude of ecosystem carbon release and uptake potentials as derived from FLUXNET measurements

    Eva Falge;John Tenhunen;Dennis Baldocchi;Marc Aubinet

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Lindroth
Anders Lindroth Lund University
John Moncrieff
John Moncrieff University of Edinburgh
Paul Berbigier
Paul Berbigier INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Riccardo Valentini
Riccardo Valentini Tuscia University
Marc Aubinet
Marc Aubinet University of Liège
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Andrew S. Kowalski
Andrew S. Kowalski University of Granada
Kim Pilegaard
Kim Pilegaard Technical University of Denmark
Robert Clement
Robert Clement University of Edinburgh

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