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Annette Freibauer

Annette Freibauer

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
12067
World Ranking
6603
National Ranking
428

Overview

Annette Freibauer is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with contributions spanning diverse subfields such as ecology, global and planetary change, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and insect science.

The main topics addressed in Freibauer's work include conservation, biodiversity, and resource management; land use and ecosystem services; forest management and policy; environmental DNA in biodiversity studies; plant and animal studies; insect symbiosis and bacterial influences; as well as agriculture sustainability and environmental impact.

Freibauer has contributed notable scientific papers across several publication venues:

  • "Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed" (2021) in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Insects benefit from agri-environmental schemes aiming at grassland extensification" (2023) in Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • "Benefits of organic agriculture for environment and animal welfare in temperate climates" (2025) in Organic Agriculture
  • "Flooding of an abandoned fen by beaver led to highly variable greenhouse gas emissions" (2020) in Mires and Peat

Frequent publication venues where Freibauer has appeared include:

  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Organic Agriculture
  • Mires and Peat

Collaborations are a part of Freibauer's scholarly activity. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Anne-Christine Mupepele
  • Helge Bruelheide
  • Carsten A. Brühl
  • Jens Dauber
  • Michaela Fenske

Best Publications

  • Impact of tropical land-use change on soil organic carbon stocks - a meta-analysis

    Axel Don;Jens Schumacher;Annette Freibauer

  • Carbon sequestration in the agricultural soils of Europe

    Annette Freibauer;Mark D.A Rounsevell;Pete Smith;Jan Verhagen

  • Europe's terrestrial biosphere absorbs 7 to 12% of European anthropogenic CO2 emissions

    I.A. Janssens;A. Freibauer;P. Ciais;Phillip Smith

  • Modeling temporal and large‐scale spatial variability of soil respiration from soil water availability, temperature and vegetation productivity indices

    Markus Reichstein;Ana Rey;Annette Freibauer;John Tenhunen

  • Global distribution of soil organic carbon – Part 1: Masses and frequency distributions of SOC stocks for the tropics, permafrost regions, wetlands, and the world

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  • Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance

    E. D. Schulze;S. Luyssaert;S. Luyssaert;P. Ciais;A. Freibauer

  • Carbon accumulation in European forests

    P. Ciais;M. J. Schelhaas;S. Zaehle;S. L. Piao;S. L. Piao

  • Land-use change to bioenergy production in Europe: implications for the greenhouse gas balance and soil carbon

    Axel Don;Bruce Osborne;Astley Hastings;Ute Skiba

  • The carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems at country-scale a European case study

    I.A. Janssens;A. Freibauer;B. Schlamadinger;R. Ceulemans

  • High emissions of greenhouse gases from grasslands on peat and other organic soils.

    Bärbel Tiemeyer;Elisa Albiac Borraz;Jürgen Augustin;Michel Bechtold

  • The European carbon balance. Part 2: croplands

    P. Ciais;M. Wattenbach;N. Vuichard;P. Smith

  • Forest and agricultural land‐use‐dependent CO2 exchange in Thuringia, Germany

    P. M. Anthoni;A. Knohl;C. Rebmann;A. Freibauer

  • Winter wheat carbon exchange in Thuringia, Germany

    Peter M. Anthoni;Annette Freibauer;Olaf Kolle;Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  • A synopsis of land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) under the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords

    B. Schlamadinger;N. Bird;T. Johns;T. Johns;S. Brown

  • Regionalised inventory of biogenic greenhouse gas emissions from European agriculture

    Annette Freibauer

  • Determining Soil Bulk Density for Carbon Stock Calculations: A Systematic Method Comparison

    Katja Walter;Axel Don;Bärbel Tiemeyer;Annette Freibauer

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural land use in Germany— a synthesis of available annual field data

    Hermann F. Jungkunst;Annette Freibauer;Henry Neufeldt;Georg Bareth

  • The European carbon balance. Part 4: integration of carbon and other trace-gas fluxes

    E. D. Schulze;P. Ciais;S. Luyssaert;M. Schrumpf

  • A new methodology for organic soils in national greenhouse gas inventories: Data synthesis, derivation and application

    Bärbel Tiemeyer;Annette Freibauer;Elisa Albiac Borraz;Jürgen Augustin

  • Carbon unlocked from soils

    E. Detlef Schulze;Annette Freibauer

  • Analyzing the causes and spatial pattern of the European 2003 carbon flux anomaly using seven models

    M. Vetter;Galina Churkina;M. Jung;Markus Reichstein

  • EU peatlands: Current carbon stocks and trace gas fluxes

    K. A. Byrne;B. Chojnicki;T. R. Christensen;M. Drösler

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jürgen Augustin
Jürgen Augustin Leibniz Association
Sabine Fiedler
Sabine Fiedler Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
P. Ciais
P. Ciais French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Sebastiaan Luyssaert Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
A. J. Dolman
A. J. Dolman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Riccardo Valentini
Riccardo Valentini Tuscia University
Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp
Stephan Glatzel
Stephan Glatzel University of Vienna
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen

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