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Eckart Priesack

Eckart Priesack

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
12354
World Ranking
5961
National Ranking
394

Overview

Eckart Priesack is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and conducts research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Agronomy and Crop Science, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their research addresses key topics such as climate change impacts on agriculture, crop yield and soil fertility, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, wheat and barley genetics and pathology, greenhouse technology and climate control, plant responses to elevated CO₂, and agricultural economics and policy.

Recent publications by Eckart Priesack include:

  • Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub-Saharan Africa (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Photosynthesis in a Changing Global Climate: Scaling Up and Scaling Down in Crops (2020, Frontiers in Plant Science)
  • Multifunctionality of temperate alley-cropping agroforestry outperforms open cropland and grassland (2023, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Evidence for increasing global wheat yield potential (2022, Environmental Research Letters)
  • Crop growth and soil water fluxes at erosion-affected arable sites: Using weighing lysimeter data for model intercomparison (2020, Vadose Zone Journal)

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Bruno Basso
  • Gerrit Hoogenboom
  • Heidi Webber
  • Tobias K. D. Weber
  • Thomas Gaiser

Frequent publication venues are:

  • Open Data Journal for Agricultural Research
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Vadose Zone Journal
  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))

Best Publications

  • Rising Temperatures Reduce Global Wheat Production

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;P. Martre;P. Martre;R. P. Rötter

  • Uncertainty in Simulating Wheat Yields Under Climate Change

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones

  • How Do Various Maize Crop Models Vary in Their Responses to Climate Change Factors

    Simona Bassu;Nadine Brisson;Jean Louis Durand;Kenneth Boote

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

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

  • Multimodel ensembles of wheat growth: many models are better than one

    Pierre Martre;Pierre Martre;Daniel Wallach;Senthold Asseng;Frank Ewert

  • A Network of Terrestrial Environmental Observatories in Germany

    Steffen Zacharias;Heye Bogena;Luis Samaniego;Matthias Mauder

  • Climate change impact and adaptation for wheat protein

    Senthold Asseng;Pierre Martre;Andrea Maiorano;Reimund P Rötter

  • The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions.

    Enli Wang;Pierre Martre;Zhigan Zhao;Zhigan Zhao;Frank Ewert

  • Comparison of N2O emissions from soils at three temperate agricultural sites: simulations of year-round measurements by four models

    Steve Frolking;A R Mosier;Dennis S Ojima;Changsheng Li

  • Impact of spatial soil and climate input data aggregation on regional yield simulations

    Holger Hoffmann;Gang Zhao;Senthold Asseng;Marco Bindi

  • Closed-Form Expression for the Multi-Modal Unsaturated Conductivity Function

    E. Priesack;W. Durner

  • Global wheat production with 1.5 and 2.0°C above pre-industrial warming

    Bing Liu;Pierre Martre;Frank Ewert;John R. Porter;John R. Porter;John R. Porter

  • Multimodel ensembles improve predictions of crop-environment-management interactions.

    Daniel Wallach;Pierre Martre;Bing Liu;Bing Liu;Senthold Asseng

  • Crop Model Improvement Reduces the Uncertainty of the Response to Temperature of Multi-Model Ensembles

    Andrea Maiorano;Pierre Martre;Senthold Asseng;Frank Ewert

  • Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Gatien N. Falconnier;Marc Corbeels;Kenneth J. Boote;François Affholder

  • The plant's capacity in regulating resource demand.

    R. Matyssek;R. Agerer;D. Ernst;J.-C. Munch

  • Photosynthesis in a Changing Global Climate: Scaling Up and Scaling Down in Crops.

    Marouane Baslam;Toshiaki Mitsui;Michael Hodges;Eckart Priesack

  • Importance of tree height and social position for drought-related stress on tree growth and mortality

    Rüdiger Grote;Arthur Gessler;Robert Hommel;Werner Poschenrieder

  • Modeling biomass growth, N-uptake and phenological development of potato crop

    S. Gayler;E. Wang;E. Priesack;T. Schaaf

  • Evaluating the ability of four crop models to predict different environmental impacts on spring wheat grown in open-top chambers

    Christian Biernath;Sebastian Gayler;Sebastian Bittner;Christian Klein

  • How accurately do maize crop models simulate the interactions of atmospheric CO2 concentration levels with limited water supply on water use and yield

    Jean-Louis Durand;Kenel Delusca;Ken Boote;Jon Lizaso

  • TERENO-SOILCan: a lysimeter-network in Germany observing soil processes and plant diversity influenced by climate change

    Th. Pütz;R. Kiese;U. Wollschläger;J. Groh

  • Spatial variation of nitrate-N and related soil properties at the plot-scale

    R. Stenger;E. Priesack;F. Beese

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastian Gayler
Sebastian Gayler University of Hohenheim
Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso Michigan State University
Senthold Asseng
Senthold Asseng Technical University of Munich
Kurt Christian Kersebaum
Kurt Christian Kersebaum Czech Academy of Sciences
Peter J. Thorburn
Peter J. Thorburn Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Fulu Tao
Fulu Tao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Claas Nendel
Claas Nendel University of Potsdam
Alex C. Ruane
Alex C. Ruane Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Davide Cammarano
Davide Cammarano Aarhus University
Thilo Streck
Thilo Streck University of Hohenheim

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