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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

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71
Citations
30349
World Ranking
1542
National Ranking
109

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Citations
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  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Alexander Knohl is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering. Their research integrates aspects of plant water relations, carbon dynamics, sustainability in oil palm production, forest ecology, conservation, climate variability, atmospheric gas dynamics, and remote sensing applications in agriculture.

They have contributed extensively to scientific literature, publishing in venues such as Biogeosciences, SSRN Electronic Journal, Zenodo, Nature Communications, and Global Change Biology. Knohl's work often intersects across subfields that include ecosystem function, water flux dynamics, and greenhouse gas budgets.

Frequent coauthors in Knohl's research career include Christian Stiegler, Tania June, Christian Markwitz, Ladislav Šigut, and Mirco Migliavacca. Collaborative efforts with these researchers have contributed to papers covering diverse topics within environmental and ecological sciences.

Recent publications highlight Knohl's engagement with multifaceted environmental issues:

  • "Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function" (2021) published in Nature
  • "Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites" (2020) published in Global Change Biology
  • "Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe" (2020) published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Measured greenhouse gas budgets challenge emission savings from palm-oil biodiesel" (2020) published in Nature Communications

The main topics covered in their body of work include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Knohl's contributions span both fundamental and applied environmental sciences, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach to understanding ecosystem processes and environmental sustainability challenges.

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

  • On the Separation of Net Ecosystem Exchange into Assimilation and Ecosystem Respiration: Review and Improved Algorithm

    Markus Reichstein;Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;Dario Papale

  • Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks.

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Ernst Detlef Schulze;Annett Börner;Alexander Knohl

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes

    Ingo Grass;Ingo Grass;Christoph Kubitza;Christoph Kubitza;Vijesh V. Krishna;Marife D. Corre

  • Evidence for Soil Water Control on Carbon and Water Dynamics in European Forests during the Extremely Dry Year: 2003

    A. Granier;M. Reichstein;N. Bréda;I.A. Janssens

  • Temporal and among-site variability of inherent water-use efficiency at the ecosystem level

    C. Beer;P. Ciais;M. Reichstein;D. Baldocchi

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Reduction Of Ecosystem Productivity And Respiration During The European Summer 2003 Climate Anomaly: A Joint Flux Tower, Remote Sensing And Modelling Analysis

    M. Reichstein;M. Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;D. Papale;R. Valentini

  • A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape-scale heterogeneity

    Paul C. Stoy;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Barbara Marcolla

  • Productivity of forests in the Eurosiberian boreal region and their potential to act as a carbon sink –- a synthesis

    E.-D. Schulze;J. Lloyd;F. M. Kelliher;C. Wirth

  • Large carbon uptake by an unmanaged 250-year-old deciduous forest in Central Germany

    Alexander Knohl;Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Olaf Kolle;Nina Buchmann

  • Integration of MODIS land and atmosphere products with a coupled-process model to estimate gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration from 1 km to global scales

    Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Hideki Kobayashi;Catharine van Ingen

  • Why are non-photosynthetic tissues generally 13C enriched compared with leaves in C3 plants? Review and synthesis of current hypotheses.

    Lucas A. Cernusak;Guillaume Tcherkez;Claudia Keitel;William K. Cornwell

  • Carbon allocation and carbon isotope fluxes in the plant-soil-atmosphere continuum: a review

    Nicolas Brüggemann;Arthur Gessler;Zachary E. Kayler;Sonjagisela Keel

  • Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion

    Jochen Drescher;Katja Rembold;Kara Allen;Philip Beckschäfer

  • A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system

    Claudia Dislich;Claudia Dislich;Alexander C. Keyel;Jan Salecker;Yael Kisel

  • Effects of diffuse radiation on canopy gas exchange processes in a forest ecosystem

    Alexander Knohl;Alexander Knohl;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes.

    Yann Clough;Yann Clough;Vijesh V. Krishna;Marife D. Corre;Kevin Darras

  • Determinants of terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance inferred from European eddy covariance flux sites

    Markus Reichstein;Dario Papale;Riccardo Valentini;Marc Aubinet

Frequent Co-Authors

Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Eddy Moors
Eddy Moors Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Serge Rambal
Serge Rambal Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Kim Pilegaard
Kim Pilegaard Technical University of Denmark
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Andrej Varlagin
Andrej Varlagin Russian Academy of Sciences
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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