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Anders Ahlström

Anders Ahlström

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
12625
World Ranking
7899
National Ranking
151

Overview

Anders Ahlström is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has a research focus within Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, and Insect Science.

Themes central to their research include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology.

They have contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • Global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus limitation, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Recent divergence in the contributions of tropical and boreal forests to the terrestrial carbon sink, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon driven by mineral associations, 2024, Nature Geoscience
  • A physiology-based Earth observation model indicates stagnation in the global gross primary production during recent decades, 2020, Global Change Biology

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Robert B. Jackson
  • Adam F. A. Pellegrini
  • Katerina Georgiou
  • Rose Abramoff
  • W. J. Riley

They have published repeatedly in specific venues, with multiple publications in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Research Letters, Nature Geoscience, Global and Planetary Change, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Best Publications

  • 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 terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus limitation

    Enzai Du;Enzai Du;César Terrer;César Terrer;Adam F. A. Pellegrini;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström

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

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

  • Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon

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  • Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2 trends.

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Stephen Sitch;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • The global carbon budget 1959-2011

    C. Le Quere;R.J. Andres;T.A. Boden;T. Conway

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

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

  • Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Huijuan Nan;Chris Huntingford;Philippe Ciais

  • Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

    Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Steven D. Allison;Niels H. Batjes

  • Fire frequency drives decadal changes in soil carbon and nitrogen and ecosystem productivity

    Adam F. A. Pellegrini;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Sarah E. Hobbie;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich

  • Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

    D. C. Frank;B. Poulter;M. Saurer;J. Esper

  • Robustness and uncertainty in terrestrial ecosystem carbon response to CMIP5 climate change projections

    Anders Ahlström;Guy Schurgers;Almut Arneth;Benjamin Smith

  • Enhanced peak growth of global vegetation and its key mechanisms.

    Kun Huang;Jianyang Xia;Yingping Wang;Yingping Wang;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström

  • Weakening temperature control on the interannual variations of spring carbon uptake across northern lands

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Zhuo Liu;Tao Wang;Shushi Peng

  • Recent divergence in the contributions of tropical and boreal forests to the terrestrial carbon sink

    Torbern Tagesson;Guy Schurgers;Stéphanie Horion;Philippe Ciais

  • Patchy field sampling biases understanding of climate change impacts across the Arctic

    Daniel B. Metcalfe;Thirze D. G. Hermans;Jenny Ahlstrand;Michael Becker

  • Networking our science to characterize the state, vulnerabilities, and management opportunities of soil organic matter

    Jennifer W. Harden;Jennifer W. Harden;Gustaf Hugelius;Gustaf Hugelius;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Joseph C. Blankinship

  • The carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems in East Asia over the last two decades

    S. L. Piao;S. L. Piao;A. Ito;S. G. Li;Y. Huang

  • Carbon cycle uncertainty in the Alaskan Arctic

    J. B. Fisher;M. Sikka;W. C. Oechel;D. N. Huntzinger

  • Simulated carbon emissions from land-use change are substantially enhanced by accounting for agricultural management

    T. A. M. Pugh;A. Arneth;Stefan Olin;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström

  • Evaluation of land surface models in reproducing satellite-derived LAI over the high-latitude Northern Hemisphere : Part I: Uncoupled DGVMs

    Guillermo Murray-Tortarolo;Alessandro Anav;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Weakening temperature control on the interannual variations of spring carbon uptake across northern lands

    S. Piao;S. Peng;Z. Liu;P. Ciais

Frequent Co-Authors

Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Nicolas Viovy
Nicolas Viovy French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Chris Huntingford
Chris Huntingford Natural Environment Research Council
Peter E. Levy
Peter E. Levy University of Edinburgh
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Ning Zeng
Ning Zeng University of Maryland, College Park
Guy Schurgers
Guy Schurgers University of Copenhagen
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center

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