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  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Almut Arneth is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a special emphasis on Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist has contributed to several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics in their work cover a range of areas related to ecosystem and atmospheric processes:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Forest Management and Policy

Recent noteworthy publications include:

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020 (2020) published in Earth system science data
  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks (2020) published in Nature
  • Global Carbon Budget 2022 (2022) published in Earth system science data
  • Direct and seasonal legacy effects of the 2018 heat wave and drought on European ecosystem productivity (2020) published in Science Advances
  • Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts (2023) published in Science

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Stephen Sitch
  • Peter Anthoni
  • Pierre Friedlingstein
  • Julia Pongratz
  • Atul K. Jain

Their work has appeared regularly in several publication venues, notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Earth system science data

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model

    S Sitch;Benjamin Smith;IC Prentice;A Arneth

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • Global carbon budget 2013

    C. Le Quere;G.P. Peters;R.J. Andres;Robbie M Andrew

  • Greening of the Earth and its drivers

    Zaichun Zhu;Zaichun Zhu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Ranga B. Myneni;Mengtian Huang

  • 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

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

    Corinne Le Quéré;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

    Hanquin Tian;Rongting Xu;Josep G. Canadell;Rona L. Thompson

  • The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

    Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Michael R. Raupach;Guy Schurgers;Benjamin Smith

  • Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Hank A. Margolis;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • Separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and respiration using a light response curve approach: critical issues and global evaluation

    Gitta Lasslop;Markus Reichstein;Dario Papale;Andrew D. Richardson

  • Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    S. Sitch;P. Friedlingstein;N. Gruber;S. D. Jones

  • Implications of incorporating N cycling and N limitations on primary production in an individual-based dynamic vegetation model

    Benjamin Smith;David Wårlind;Almut Arneth;Thomas Hickler

  • Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate

    C. A. Quesada;C. A. Quesada;O. L. Phillips;M. Schwarz;C. I. Czimczik

  • Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher Huntingford

  • Terrestrial biogeochemical feedbacks in the climate system

    Almut Arneth;S. P. Harrison;S. P. Harrison;S. Zaehle;K. Tsigaridis;K. Tsigaridis

  • Historic global biomass burning emissions for CMIP6 (BB4CMIP) based on merging satellite observations with proxies and fire models (1750-2015)

    Margreet J.E. Van Marle;Silvia Kloster;Brian I. Magi;Jennifer R. Marlon

  • Photosynthesis-dependent isoprene emission from leaf to planet in a global carbon-chemistry-climate model

    N. Unger;K. Harper;Y. Zheng;N. Y. Kiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. M. Pugh
Thomas A. M. Pugh University of Birmingham
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Guy Schurgers
Guy Schurgers University of Copenhagen
Mark Rounsevell
Mark Rounsevell University of Edinburgh
Thomas Hickler
Thomas Hickler Goethe University Frankfurt
Sönke Zaehle
Sönke Zaehle Max Planck Society
Stefan Olin
Stefan Olin Lund University
Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Olaf Kolle
Olaf Kolle Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center

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