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Erwin Schmid

Erwin Schmid

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
64
Citations
19546
World Ranking
1844
National Ranking
13

Overview

Erwin Schmid is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and has contributed extensively to research in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans key subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, and Economics and Econometrics.

The research conducted by Schmid predominantly addresses topics related to climate change impacts on agriculture, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, and environmental impact and sustainability. Additional areas of focus include Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Economic and Environmental Valuation, and Water resources management and optimization.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Schmid are:

  • Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: The Eur-Agri-SSPs, 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • Strong regional influence of climatic forcing datasets on global crop model ensembles, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Frequent collaborators include the following co-authors:

  • Hermine Mitter
  • Martin Schönhart
  • Christian Folberth
  • Christoph Müller
  • Jonas Jägermeyr

Schmid publishes frequently in the following venues:

  • Ecological Economics
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Agriculture and Human Values
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature Communications

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

  • The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century

    Oliver Fricko;Petr Havlik;Joeri Rogelj;Zbigniew Klimont

  • Global land-use implications of first and second generation biofuel targets

    Petr Havlík;Uwe A. Schneider;Erwin Schmid;Hannes Böttcher

  • Climate change effects on agriculture: Economic responses to biophysical shocks

    Gerald C. Nelson;Hugo Valin;Ronald D. Sands;Petr Havlík

  • Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions

    Petr Havlík;Hugo Valin;Mario T. Herrero;Mario T. Herrero;Michael Obersteiner

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

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

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

    Bernhard Schauberger;Sotirios Archontoulis;Almut Arneth;Juraj Balkovic

  • Groundwater nitrate contamination: factors and indicators.

    Katharina Wick;Christine Heumesser;Erwin Schmid

  • Wheat bran-based biorefinery 1: Composition of wheat bran and strategies of functionalization

    Michael Prückler;Susanne Siebenhandl-Ehn;Silvia Apprich;Stefan Höltinger

  • Cattle ranching intensification in Brazil can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by sparing land from deforestation

    Avery S. Cohn;Aline Mosnier;Petr Havlík;Hugo Valin

  • 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

  • Agricultural productivity and greenhouse gas emissions: trade-offs or synergies between mitigation and food security?

    Hugo Valin;Petr Havlík;Petr Havlík;Aline Mosnier;Mario T. Herrero

  • Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade.

    Charlotte Janssens;Charlotte Janssens;Petr Havlík;Tamás Krisztin;Justin Baker

  • 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

  • CropRota – A crop rotation model to support integrated land use assessments

    Martin Schönhart;Erwin Schmid;Uwe A. Schneider

  • Agricultural sector analysis on greenhouse gas mitigation in US agriculture and forestry.

    Uwe A. Schneider;Bruce A. McCarl;Erwin Schmid

  • Crop Productivity and the Global Livestock Sector: Implications for Land Use Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    Petr Havlík;Hugo Valin;Aline Mosnier;Michael Obersteiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Obersteiner
Michael Obersteiner University of Oxford
Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Christian Folberth
Christian Folberth International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Nikolay Khabarov
Nikolay Khabarov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Joshua Elliott
Joshua Elliott University of Chicago
Delphine Deryng
Delphine Deryng Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Thomas A. M. Pugh
Thomas A. M. Pugh University of Birmingham
Uwe A. Schneider
Uwe A. Schneider Universität Hamburg
Alex C. Ruane
Alex C. Ruane Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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