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Christian Beer

Christian Beer

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
16902
World Ranking
6576
National Ranking
119

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

    Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

  • Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

    Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Philippe Ciais;Dorothea Frank

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesis with chlorophyll fluorescence

    Luis Guanter;Yongguang Zhang;Martin Jung;Joanna Joiner

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

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

  • Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

    Nuno Carvalhais;Matthias Forkel;Myroslava Khomik;Jessica Bellarby

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial gross primary production: A review

    Alessandro Anav;Pierre Friedlingstein;Christian Beer;Philippe Ciais

  • Temporal and among-site variability of inherent water-use efficiency at the ecosystem level

    C. Beer;P. Ciais;M. Reichstein;D. Baldocchi

  • The European carbon balance. Part 3: forests

    Sebsatiaan Luyssaert;Philippe Ciais;SL Piao;E-D Schulze

  • Climate and vegetation controls on the surface water balance: Synthesis of evapotranspiration measured across a global network of flux towers

    Christopher A. Williams;Markus Reichstein;Nina Buchmann;Dennis Baldocchi

  • Carbon stock and density of northern boreal and temperate forests

    Martin Thurner;Christian Beer;Maurizio Santoro;Nuno Carvalhais

  • Methane production as key to the greenhouse gas budget of thawing permafrost

    Christian Knoblauch;Christian Beer;Susanne Liebner;Mikhail N. Grigoriev

  • Retrieval of growing stock volume in boreal forest using hyper-temporal series of Envisat ASAR ScanSAR backscatter measurements

    Maurizio Santoro;Christian Beer;Oliver Cartus;Christiane Schmullius

  • The European carbon balance. Part 2: croplands

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

  • Soil respiration across scales: The importance of a model–data integration framework for data interpretation†

    Markus Reichstein;Christian Beer

  • Predicting long-term carbon mineralization and trace gas production from thawing permafrost of Northeast Siberia

    Christian Knoblauch;Christian Beer;Alexander Sosnin;Dirk Wagner

  • Forest growing stock volume of the northern hemisphere: Spatially explicit estimates for 2010 derived from Envisat ASAR

    Maurizio Santoro;André Beaudoin;Christian Beer;Oliver Cartus

  • Reviews and syntheses: Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems – definitions, theories, and empirical evidence

    Stefano Manzoni;Petr Čapek;Philipp Porada;Martin Thurner

  • Variability in the sensitivity among model simulations of permafrost and carbon dynamics in the permafrost region between 1960 and 2009

    A. David McGuire;Charles Koven;David M. Lawrence;Joy S. Clein

  • Simulating high-latitude permafrost regions by the JSBACH terrestrial ecosystem model

    Altug Ekici;Altug Ekici;Christian Beer;Christian Beer;Stefan Hagemann;J. Boike

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Bruce Allen
Bruce Allen Max Planck Society
N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
Alessandra Buonanno
Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Rana X. Adhikari
Rana X. Adhikari California Institute of Technology
Nelson Christensen
Nelson Christensen Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
R. Flaminio
R. Flaminio National Institutes of Natural Sciences
David E. McClelland
David E. McClelland Australian National University
A. Giazotto
A. Giazotto National Institute for Nuclear Physics

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