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Overview

Alex C. Ruane is affiliated with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the United States. Their research focuses on agricultural and environmental sciences, with a notable publication record across several key areas related to climate change impacts on agriculture and ecosystem dynamics.

Their recent publications include:

  • Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models, 2021, Nature Food
  • Understanding and managing connected extreme events, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation, 2023, Science
  • Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, 2020, Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alex C. Ruane include:

  • Gerrit Hoogenboom
  • Jonas Jägermeyr
  • Cynthia Rosenzweig
  • Heidi Webber
  • Christoph Müller

Alex C. Ruane publishes regularly in the following venues:

  • Nature Food
  • Global Change Biology
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • European Journal of Agronomy

Their main fields of study are:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields within these broader areas include:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science
  • Agronomy and Crop Science

The primary research topics addressed by Alex C. Ruane focus on:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Crop yield and soil fertility
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Rice cultivation and yield improvement
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics

Best Publications

  • Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates

    Chuang Zhao;Bing Liu;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang

  • IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Alex C. Ruane;Alex C. Ruane

  • Rising Temperatures Reduce Global Wheat Production

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;P. Martre;P. Martre;R. P. Rötter

  • Uncertainty in Simulating Wheat Yields Under Climate Change

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones

  • Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change

    Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Christoph Müller;Katja Frieler

  • The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP): Protocols and Pilot Studies

    C. Rosenzweig;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones;J. L. Hatfield;A. C. Ruane;A. C. Ruane

  • Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models

    Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Christoph Müller;Alex C. Ruane;Joshua Elliott

  • How Do Various Maize Crop Models Vary in Their Responses to Climate Change Factors

    Simona Bassu;Nadine Brisson;Jean Louis Durand;Kenneth Boote

  • Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

    Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Peter M. Cox;Gregory M. Flato;Peter J. Gleckler

  • Understanding and managing connected extreme events

    Colin Raymond;Colin Raymond;Radley M. Horton;Jakob Zscheischler;Olivia Martius

  • Similar estimates of temperature impacts on global wheat yield by three independent methods

    Bing Liu;Bing Liu;Senthold Asseng;Christoph Müller;Frank Ewert

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

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  • Multimodel ensembles of wheat growth: many models are better than one

    Pierre Martre;Pierre Martre;Daniel Wallach;Senthold Asseng;Frank Ewert

  • Climate change impact and adaptation for wheat protein

    Senthold Asseng;Pierre Martre;Andrea Maiorano;Reimund P Rötter

  • Uncertainties in predicting rice yield by current crop models under a wide range of climatic conditions

    Tao Li;Toshihiro Hasegawa;Xinyou Yin;Yan Zhu

  • Climate forcing datasets for agricultural modeling: Merged products for gap-filling and historical climate series estimation

    Alex C. Ruane;Richard Goldberg;James Chryssanthacopoulos

  • Diverging importance of drought stress for maize and winter wheat in Europe

    Heidi Webber;Frank Ewert;Jørgen E. Olesen;Christoph Müller

  • The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions.

    Enli Wang;Pierre Martre;Zhigan Zhao;Zhigan Zhao;Frank Ewert

  • Global Gridded Crop Model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications

    Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;James Chryssanthacopoulos;James Chryssanthacopoulos;Almut Arneth

  • Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh

    Winston Yu;Mozaharul Alam;Ahmadul Hassan;Abu Saleh Khan

  • Sea level rise projections for current generation CGCMs based on the semi‐empirical method

    Radley Horton;Radley Horton;Celine Herweijer;Cynthia Rosenzweig;Jiping Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia Rosenzweig
Cynthia Rosenzweig Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Kenneth J. Boote
Kenneth J. Boote University of Florida
Senthold Asseng
Senthold Asseng Technical University of Munich
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso Michigan State University
Joshua Elliott
Joshua Elliott University of Chicago
Frank Ewert
Frank Ewert University of Bonn
Davide Cammarano
Davide Cammarano Aarhus University
Christian Folberth
Christian Folberth International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Peter J. Thorburn
Peter J. Thorburn Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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