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49
Citations
12308
World Ranking
3975
National Ranking
220

Overview

Christopher P.O. Reyer is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specialized interest in global and planetary change. They have contributed extensively to the fields of atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, economics and econometrics, and sociology and political science over their career.

The scientist's work spans a variety of topics related to ecosystem dynamics and climate variability. Key areas of study include forest ecology and management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest management and policy, climate variability and models, land use and ecosystem services, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and the effects of fire on ecosystems.

Christopher P.O. Reyer has published several papers that examine critical aspects of environmental and climate impact research. Notable recent papers include:

  • Buildings as a global carbon sink, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes, 2021, Science
  • Land use change and carbon emissions of a transformation to timber cities, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales, 2020, Earth's Future
  • A conceptual framework for cross-border impacts of climate change, 2021, Global Environmental Change

Their frequent coauthors include Katja Frieler, Jinfeng Chang, Thomas Hickler, Akihiko Ito, and Matthias Mengel, reflecting collaborative work across interdisciplinary climate and environmental research teams.

Christopher P.O. Reyer has published repeatedly in a number of scientific venues. The most common publication outlets for their work are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Policy briefs
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Earth's Future

These venues indicate a broad engagement with both open scientific repositories and prominent journals addressing climate change and environmental research.

Best Publications

  • Forest disturbances under climate change

    Rupert Seidl;Dominik Thom;Markus Kautz;Dario Martin-Benito;Dario Martin-Benito

  • Buildings as a global carbon sink

    Galina Churkina;Galina Churkina;Alan Organschi;Christopher P. O. Reyer;Andrew Ruff

  • Climate change and European forests: What do we know, what are the uncertainties, and what are the implications for forest management?

    Marcus Lindner;Joanne B. Fitzgerald;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Christopher Reyer

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • 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

  • Social Vulnerability to Climate Change: A review of concepts and evidence

    I.M. Otto;I.M. Otto;D. Reckien;C. Reyer;R. Marcus

  • Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes

    Wim Thiery;Stefan Lange;Joeri Rogelj;Carl Friedrich Schleussner

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

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

  • Land use change and carbon emissions of a transformation to timber cities

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

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

  • Projections of regional changes in forest net primary productivity for different tree species in Europe driven by climate change and carbon dioxide

    Christopher Reyer;Christopher Reyer;Petra Lasch-Born;Felicitas Suckow;Martin Gutsch

  • Are forest disturbances amplifying or canceling out climate change-induced productivity changes in European forests?

    Christopher P.O. Reyer;Stephen Bathgate;Kristina Blennow;Jose G. Borges

  • Climate change impacts in Central Asia and their implications for development

    Christopher P.O. Reyer;Ilona M. Otto;Ilona M. Otto;Sophie Adams;Torsten Albrecht

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

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

  • 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

  • Tamm Review: Observed and projected climate change impacts on Russia’s forests and its carbon balance

    Sibyll Schaphoff;Christopher P.O. Reyer;Dmitry Schepaschenko;Dmitry Schepaschenko;Dieter Gerten

  • 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

  • Alternative forest management strategies to account for climate change-induced productivity and species suitability changes in Europe

    Mart-Jan Schelhaas;Gert-Jan Nabuurs;Geerten Hengeveld;Chrristopher Reyer

  • A conceptual framework for cross-border impacts of climate change

    Timothy Carter;Magnus Benzie;Magnus Benzie;Emanuele Campiglio;Henrik Carlsen

  • Turn down the heat: confronting the new climate normal

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

  • Bayesian calibration, comparison and averaging of six forest models, using data from Scots pine stands across Europe

    M. van Oijen;C. Reyer;F.J. Bohn;D.R. Cameron

  • Forest resilience, tipping points and global change processes

    Christopher P.O. Reyer;Anja Rammig;Niels Brouwers;Fanny Langerwisch

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Thomas Hickler
Thomas Hickler Goethe University Frankfurt
Jinfeng Chang
Jinfeng Chang Zhejiang University
Akihiko Ito
Akihiko Ito University of Tokyo
Louis François
Louis François University of Liège
Sibyll Schaphoff
Sibyll Schaphoff Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Anja Rammig
Anja Rammig Technical University of Munich
Katja Frieler
Katja Frieler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Kirsten Thonicke
Kirsten Thonicke Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Jia Yang
Jia Yang Oklahoma State University

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