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Angela V. Gallego-Sala

Angela V. Gallego-Sala

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
7142
World Ranking
7035
National Ranking
710

Overview

Angela V. Gallego-Sala is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to earth and planetary sciences. The main subfields of study encompass ecology, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and plant science.

The central topics of their work include peatlands and wetlands ecology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, climate change and permafrost, fire effects on ecosystems, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and botany and plant ecology studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Angela V. Gallego-Sala include:

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Large historical carbon emissions from cultivated northern peatlands, 2021, Science Advances
  • Ecological resilience of restored peatlands to climate change, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Scenario setup and forcing data for impact model evaluation and impact attribution within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a), 2024, Geoscientific model development
  • The Zero Emissions Commitment and climate stabilization, 2023, Frontiers in Science

Frequently collaborating co-authors include Dan J. Charman, Minna Väliranta, Graeme T. Swindles, Susan Page, and Mariusz Gałka.

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as Scientific Reports, Communications Earth & Environment, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Climate Change, and Geoscientific model development. Their published work in these venues reflects a focus on environmental and climate science disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

    Pierre Regnier;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais;Fred T. Mackenzie

  • Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

    D. J. Charman;D. W. Beilman;M. Blaauw;R. K. Booth

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

    J. Loisel;A. V. Gallego-Sala;Matthew J. Amesbury;Matthew J. Amesbury;G. Magnan

  • Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Daniel J. Charman;Simon Brewer;Susan E. Page

  • Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids

    B. D. A. Naafs;G. N. Inglis;Y. Zheng;M. J. Amesbury

  • Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries

    Graeme T. Swindles;Graeme T. Swindles;Graeme T. Swindles;Paul J. Morris;Donal J. Mullan;Richard J. Payne

  • Emission of methane from plants

    R.E.R Nisbet;R Fisher;R.H Nimmo;D.S Bendall

  • Refining the global branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (brGDGT) soil temperature calibration

    B D A Naafs;A. V. Gallego-Sala;Gordon N Inglis;Rich D Pancost

  • The long-term fate of permafrost peatlands under rapid climate warming

    Graeme T. Swindles;Paul J. Morris;Donal Mullan;Elizabeth J. Watson

  • Effects of permafrost aggradation on peat properties as determined from a pan-Arctic synthesis of plant macrofossils

    C. C. Treat;C. C. Treat;M. C. Jones;P. Camill;A. Gallego-Sala

  • Blanket peat biome endangered by climate change

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Angela V. Gallego-Sala;I. Colin Prentice

  • Bioclimatic envelope model of climate change impacts on blanket peatland distribution in Great Britain

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Joanna M. Clark;Joanna M. Clark;Joanna Isobel House;Harriet G. Orr

  • WETCHIMP-WSL: intercomparison of wetland methane emissions models over West Siberia

    Theodore J. Bohn;Joe R. Melton;Akihiko Ito;Thomas Kleinen

  • Tropical forest and peatland conservation in Indonesia: Challenges and directions

    Mark E. Harrison;Juliarta Bramansa Ottay;Laura J. D’Arcy;Susan M. Cheyne

  • Global-scale pattern of peatland Sphagnum growth driven by photosynthetically active radiation and growing season length

    J Loisel;Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Angela V. Gallego-Sala;ZC Yu

  • Ecological resilience of restored peatlands to climate change

    Unknown

  • Large historical carbon emissions from cultivated northern peatlands.

    Chunjing Qiu;Chunjing Qiu;Philippe Ciais;Dan Zhu;Dan Zhu;Bertrand Guenet;Bertrand Guenet

  • Assessing the vulnerability of blanket peat to climate change using an ensemble of statistical bioclimatic envelope models

    Joanna Mary Clark;A Gallego-Sala;T E H Allott;S J Chapman

  • Climate controls on carbon accumulation in peatlands of Northeast China

    Wei Xing;Kunshan Bao;Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Dan J. Charman

  • Drivers of Holocene peatland carbon accumulation across a climate gradient in northeastern North America

    Dan J. Charman;Matthew J. Amesbury;William Hinchliffe;Paul D.M. Hughes

  • Misinterpreting carbon accumulation rates in records from near-surface peat

    Dylan M. Young;Dylan M. Young;Andy J. Baird;Dan J. Charman;Chris D. Evans

  • WETCHIMP-WSL: intercomparison of wetland methane emissions models over West Siberia (discussion paper)

    TJ Bohn;Melton;A Ito;T Kleinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Graeme T. Swindles
Graeme T. Swindles Queen's University Belfast
Michelle Garneau
Michelle Garneau University of Quebec at Montreal
Minna Väliranta
Minna Väliranta University of Helsinki
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Mariusz Gałka
Mariusz Gałka Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Mariusz Lamentowicz
Mariusz Lamentowicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Iain Colin Prentice
Iain Colin Prentice Imperial College London
Claire C. Treat
Claire C. Treat Aarhus University
Simon Brewer
Simon Brewer University of Utah

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