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67
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14676
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1621
National Ranking
32

Overview

Claus Beier is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and specializes in Environmental Science with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, and Soil Science. Their research spans several main topics, including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, and Tree-ring Climate Responses.

Beier has contributed to frequent publications in journals such as Nature Ecology & Evolution, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications, and Ecology Letters. This reflects a broad engagement in interdisciplinary ecological and environmental research.

Their most recent papers include the following:

  • Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Field measurements of atmosphere-biosphere interactions in a Danish beech forest, 2024, Research Portal (King's College London)
  • Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Scattered tree death contributes to substantial forest loss in California, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes, 2021, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Frequent collaborators in Beier's research include Klaus Steenberg Larsen, Inger Kappel Schmidt, Jeffrey S. Dukes, György Kröel-Dulay, and Anke Jentsch. These partnerships highlight an active engagement with other researchers contributing to ecological and environmental science.

The focus of their published work covers various aspects of ecosystem dynamics and plant responses to environmental stressors such as drought and nitrogen deposition. This research contributes to understanding climate impacts on vegetation and forest ecology across diverse biomes.

Best Publications

  • Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

    Alan K. Knapp;Claus Beier;David D. Briske;Aimée T. Classen

  • Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

    Claus Beier;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Thomas Wohlgemuth;Josep Penuelas

  • A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

    Jian Song;Jian Song;Shiqiang Wan;Shiqiang Wan;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Alan K. Knapp

  • Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO2 and temperature.

    Wouter I. J. Dieleman;Wouter I. J. Dieleman;Sara Vicca;Feike A. Dijkstra;Frank Hagedorn

  • Do global change experiments overestimate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems

    Sebastian Leuzinger;Yiqi Luo;Claus Beier;Wouter Dieleman

  • Novel Approaches to Study Climate Change Effects on Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Field: Drought and Passive Nighttime Warming

    Claus Beier;Bridget Emmett;Per Gundersen;Albert Tietema

  • The Response of Soil Processes to Climate Change: Results from Manipulation Studies of Shrublands Across an Environmental Gradient

    Bridget A. Emmett;Claus Beier;Marc Estiarte;Albert Tietema

  • Modeled interactive effects of precipitation, temperature, and [CO2] on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones

    Yiqi Luo;Dieter Gerten;Guerric Le Maire;William J. Parton

  • Response of plant species richness and primary productivity in shrublands along a north–south gradient in Europe to seven years of experimental warming and drought: reductions in primary productivity in the heat and drought year of 2003

    Josep Peñuelas;Patricia Prieto;Claus Beier;Carla Cesaraccio

  • Nonintrusive Field Experiments Show Different Plant Responses to Warming and Drought Among Sites, Seasons, and Species in a North–South European Gradient

    Josep Peñuelas;Carmen Gordon;Laura Llorens;T. Nielsen

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Reduced N cycling in response to elevated CO2, warming, and drought in a Danish heathland: Synthesizing results of the CLIMAITE project after two years of treatments

    Klaus Steenberg Larsen;Louise C. Andresen;Claus Beier;Sven Jonasson

  • Factors controlling regional differences in forest soil emission of nitrogen oxides (NO and N 2 O)

    K. Pilegaard;U. Skiba;P. Ambus;C. Beier

  • Challenges in quantifying biosphere–atmosphere exchange of nitrogen species

    M.A. Sutton;E. Nemitz;J.W Erisman;C. Beier

  • Coordinated approaches to quantify long-term ecosystem dynamics in response to global change

    Yiqi Luo;Jerry Melillo;Shuli Niu;Claus Beier

  • Nitrogen processes in terrestrial ecosystems

    Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Per Gundersen;Per Ambus;Jürgen Augustin

  • Effects of experimental drought on microbial processes in two temperate heathlands at contrasting water conditions

    Karen D. Jensen;Claus Beier;Anders Michelsen;Bridget A. Emmett

  • Next generation of elevated [CO2] experiments with crops: a critical investment for feeding the future world

    Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Claus Beier;Carlo Calfapietra;Reinhart Ceulemans

  • Experimental design of multifactor climate change experiments with elevated CO2, warming and drought: the CLIMAITE project

    Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen;Claus Beier;S. Jonasson;M. Holmstrup

  • Microbial community changes in heathland soil communities along a geographical gradient: interaction with climate change manipulations

    Alwyn Sowerby;Bridget Emmett;Claus Beier;Albert Tietema

  • Climate change and precipitation – Consequences of more extreme precipitation regimes for terrestrial ecosystems

    Claus Beier;A Knapp;D Briske

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Steenberg Larsen
Klaus Steenberg Larsen University of Copenhagen
Inger Kappel Schmidt
Inger Kappel Schmidt University of Copenhagen
Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen
Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen Technical University of Denmark
Per Ambus
Per Ambus University of Copenhagen
Bridget A. Emmett
Bridget A. Emmett Natural Environment Research Council
Albert Tietema
Albert Tietema University of Amsterdam
Anders Michelsen
Anders Michelsen University of Copenhagen
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Marc Estiarte
Marc Estiarte Spanish National Research Council
Kim Pilegaard
Kim Pilegaard Technical University of Denmark

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