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Christian Folberth is affiliated with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing on specialized subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's work centers around several main topics, including:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Climate variability and models
  • Agriculture sustainability and environmental impact
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Rice cultivation and yield improvement
  • Crop yield and soil fertility

Recent publication venues where Christian Folberth has contributed multiple articles include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Food
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth's Future

Significant papers authored or co-authored by the scientist include:

  • Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models, 2021, Nature Food
  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system, 2020, Nature Food
  • The global cropland-sparing potential of high-yield farming, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales, 2020, Earth's Future

Frequent co-authors on Christian Folberth's publications include:

  • Juraj Balkovič
  • Rastislav Skalský
  • Christoph Müller
  • Wenfeng Liu
  • Jonas Jägermeyr

Best Publications

  • Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Alex C. Ruane;Alex C. Ruane

  • Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change

    Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Christoph Müller;Katja Frieler

  • Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models

    Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Christoph Müller;Alex C. Ruane;Joshua Elliott

  • Similar estimates of temperature impacts on global wheat yield by three independent methods

    Bing Liu;Bing Liu;Senthold Asseng;Christoph Müller;Frank Ewert

  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system

    Mario Herrero;Philip K. Thornton;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Jeda Palmer

  • Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models

    Bernhard Schauberger;Sotirios Archontoulis;Almut Arneth;Juraj Balkovic

  • Global Gridded Crop Model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications

    Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;James Chryssanthacopoulos;James Chryssanthacopoulos;Almut Arneth

  • State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

    Jacob Schewe;Simon N. Gosling;Christopher Reyer;Fang Zhao

  • Regional disparities in the beneficial effects of rising CO2 concentrations on crop water productivity

    Delphine Deryng;Delphine Deryng;Delphine Deryng;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;Christian Folberth;Christian Folberth;Christoph Müller

  • Uncertainty in soil data can outweigh climate impact signals in global crop yield simulations

    Christian Folberth;Christian Folberth;Rastislav Skalský;Elena Moltchanova;Elena Moltchanova;Juraj Balkovič;Juraj Balkovič

  • The global cropland sparing potential of high-yield farming

    Christian Folberth;Nikolay Khabarov;Juraj Balkovič;Rastislav Skalsky

  • Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield

    Xuhui Wang;Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliot;Nathaniel D. Mueller

  • Multisectoral climate impact hotspots in a warming world

    Franziska Piontek;Christoph Müller;Thomas A.M. Pugh;Douglas B. Clark

  • Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales

    Stefan Lange;Jan Volkholz;Tobias Geiger;Tobias Geiger;Fang Zhao

  • Global wheat production potentials and management flexibility under the representative concentration pathways

    Juraj Balkovič;Juraj Balkovič;Marijn van der Velde;Rastislav Skalský;Wei Xiong

  • Spatio-temporal downscaling of gridded crop model yield estimates based on machine learning

    Christian Folberth;Artem Baklanov;Artem Baklanov;Juraj Balkovic;Juraj Balkovic;Rastislav Skalský

  • Climate analogues suggest limited potential for intensification of production on current croplands under climate change

    T.A.M. Pugh;C. Müller;J. Elliott;D. Deryng;D. Deryng

  • Regionalization of a large-scale crop growth model for sub-Saharan Africa: Model setup, evaluation, and estimation of maize yields

    Christian Folberth;Thomas Gaiser;Karim C. Abbaspour;Rainer Schulin

  • Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties

    Florian Zabel;Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;Sara Minoli

  • A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security.

    Jonas Jägermeyr;Alan Robock;Joshua Elliott;Christoph Müller

  • Understanding the weather signal in national crop-yield variability

    Katja Frieler;Bernhard Schauberger;Almut Arneth;Juraj Balkovič;Juraj Balkovič

  • A global and spatially explicit assessment of climate change impacts on crop production and consumptive water use.

    Junguo Liu;Junguo Liu;Christian Folberth;Hong Yang;Johan Röckström

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. M. Pugh
Thomas A. M. Pugh University of Birmingham
Joshua Elliott
Joshua Elliott University of Chicago
Nikolay Khabarov
Nikolay Khabarov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Alex C. Ruane
Alex C. Ruane Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Delphine Deryng
Delphine Deryng Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Erwin Schmid
Erwin Schmid BOKU University
Hong Yang
Hong Yang Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Xuhui Wang
Xuhui Wang Peking University
Stefan Olin
Stefan Olin Lund University

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