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Anja Rammig is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily falls under the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, and Soil Science. The scientist has published extensively on topics related to Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Climate Variability and Models, Forest Ecology and Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Rammig's recent published papers include:

  • A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests, 2020, Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Quantifying impacts of the 2018 drought on European ecosystems in comparison to 2003, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Climatic and edaphic controls over tropical forest diversity and vegetation carbon storage, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Plant phosphorus-use and -acquisition strategies in Amazonia, 2022, New Phytologist

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rammig include:

  • Christian Zang (20 publications)
  • Allan Buras (19 publications)
  • Phillip Papastefanou (15 publications)
  • Konstantin Gregor (13 publications)
  • Andreas Krause (12 publications)

Rammig's work appears regularly in publication venues such as:

  • Biogeosciences (12 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (11 publications)
  • Global Change Biology (6 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (6 publications)
  • Geoscientific model development (4 publications)

Rammig's research engages with the dynamics of ecosystems under environmental stress, particularly drought impacts, forest mortality, and nutrient cycling in tropical forests. The concentration on both empirical assessments and model-based analyses reflects a multidisciplinary approach spanning plant science, atmospheric science, and soil science within global change frameworks.

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

    Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Philippe Ciais;Dorothea Frank

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

    Dorothe A. Frank;Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Kirsten Thonicke

  • A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests

    Bernhard Schuldt;Allan Buras;Matthias Arend;Yann Vitasse

  • A plant's perspective of extremes: terrestrial plant responses to changing climatic variability.

    Christopher P O Reyer;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sebastian Leuzinger;Anja Rammig;Annett Wolf

  • Quantifying impacts of the 2018 drought on European ecosystems in comparison to 2003

    Allan Buras;Anja Rammig;Christian S. Zang

  • Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe.

    Cornelius Senf;Allan Buras;Christian S. Zang;Anja Rammig

  • Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks

    Delphine Clara Zemp;Delphine Clara Zemp;Delphine Clara Zemp;Carl-Friedrich Schleussner;Henrique de Melo Jorge Barbosa;Marina Hirota;Marina Hirota

  • Forest resilience and tipping points at different spatio-temporal scales: approaches and challenges

    Christopher P. O. Reyer;Niels Brouwers;Anja Rammig;Barry W. Brook

  • Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition

    Katrin Fleischer;Anja Rammig;Martin G. De Kauwe;Anthony P. Walker

  • On the importance of cascading moisture recycling in South America

    D. C. Zemp;D. C. Zemp;C. F. Schleussner;H. M. J. Barbosa;R. J. van der Ent

  • LPJmL4 – a dynamic global vegetation model with managed land – Part 1: Model description

    Sibyll Schaphoff;Werner von Bloh;Anja Rammig;Kirsten Thonicke

  • A few extreme events dominate global interannual variability in gross primary production

    Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Miguel D Mahecha;Jannis von Buttlar;Stefan Harmeling

  • Model–data synthesis for the next generation of forest free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments

    Richard J. Norby;Martin G. De Kauwe;Tomas F. Domingues;Remko A. Duursma

  • Impacts of droughts and extreme-temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones

    Jannis von Buttlar;Jannis von Buttlar;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anja Rammig;Sebastian Sippel

  • Leaf and stem economics spectra drive diversity of functional plant traits in a dynamic global vegetation model.

    Boris Sakschewski;Werner von Bloh;Alice Boit;Anja Rammig

  • Climate change impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean and their implications for development

    Christopher P.O. Reyer;Sophie Adams;Torsten Albrecht;Florent Baarsch

  • Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models

    Michelle O. Johnson;David Galbraith;Manuel Gloor;Hannes De Deurwaerder

  • Estimating the risk of Amazonian forest dieback

    Anja Rammig;Tim Jupp;Kirsten Thonicke;Britta Tietjen

  • Tree mortality submodels drive simulated long-term forest dynamics: assessing 15 models from the stand to global scale

    Harald Bugmann;Rupert Seidl;Florian Hartig;Friedrich Bohn;Friedrich Bohn

  • Turn down the heat: confronting the new climate normal

    S. Adams;V. Aich;T. Albrecht;F. Baarsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirsten Thonicke
Kirsten Thonicke Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
David M. Lapola
David M. Lapola State University of Campinas
Miguel D. Mahecha
Miguel D. Mahecha Leipzig University
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Bart Kruijt
Bart Kruijt Wageningen University & Research
Thomas Hickler
Thomas Hickler Goethe University Frankfurt
Allan Buras
Allan Buras Technical University of Munich
Christopher P.O. Reyer
Christopher P.O. Reyer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Jakob Zscheischler
Jakob Zscheischler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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