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53
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14498
World Ranking
3233
National Ranking
20

Overview

Florian Kraxner is affiliated with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a total of 110 publications in this field. The subfields of their work include global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, nature and landscape conservation, and aspects of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Kraxner has contributed to several research topics, reflecting a broad engagement with environmental and ecosystem issues. These topics include forest management and policy, fire effects on ecosystems, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, land use and ecosystem services, oil palm production and sustainability, as well as forest ecology and management.

The scientist has published in a range of venues, with frequent contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Research Letters, IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis), Scientific Data, and Applied Energy. These venues indicate a commitment to disseminating research across various outlets specialized in environmental science and applied systems analysis.

Among recent papers are the following works:

  • "The impact of climate change on Brazil's agriculture" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Applying a science-based systems perspective to dispel misconceptions about climate effects of forest bioenergy" (2021) in GCB Bioenergy
  • "A map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand" (2021) in Scientific Data
  • "Russian forest sequesters substantially more carbon than previously reported" (2021) in Scientific Reports
  • "Global forest management data for 2015 at a 100 m resolution" (2022) in Scientific Data

Florian Kraxner frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Dmitry Schepaschenko, Ping Yowargana, Linda See, Moonil Kim, and Andrii Bilous, each with numerous joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

    Pete Smith;Steven J. Davis;Felix Creutzig;Sabine Fuss

  • Betting on negative emissions

    Sabine Fuss;Josep G. Canadell;Glen P. Peters;Massimo Tavoni

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

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

  • Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions

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

  • Mapping global cropland and field size

    Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Ian McCallum;Liangzhi You

  • Geo-Wiki.Org: The Use of Crowdsourcing to Improve Global Land Cover

    Steffen Fritz;Ian McCallum;Christian Schill;Christoph Perger

  • Geo-Wiki: An online platform for improving global land cover

    Steffen Fritz;Ian McCallum;Christian Schill;Christoph Perger

  • Land-Management Options for Greenhouse Gas Removal and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Services and the Sustainable Development Goals

    Pete Smith;Justin Adams;David J. Beerling;Tim Beringer

  • What are the limits to oil palm expansion

    Johannes Pirker;Aline Mosnier;Florian Kraxner;Petr Havlík

  • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture without compromising food security

    Stefan Frank;Petr Havlík;Jean François Soussana;Antoine Levesque;Antoine Levesque

  • Expanding the Soy Moratorium to Brazil's Cerrado.

    Aline C. Soterroni;Aline C. Soterroni;Fernando M. Ramos;Aline Mosnier;Joseph E Fargione

  • A global dataset of crowdsourced land cover and land use reference data

    Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Christoph Perger;Ian McCallum

  • Research priorities for negative emissions

    S Fuss;C D Jones;F Kraxner;G P Peters

  • Assessment of spatial and temporal patterns of green and blue water flows under natural conditions in inland river basins in Northwest China

    C. F. Zang;J. Liu;J. Liu;M. van der Velde;F. Kraxner

  • Identifying effects of land use cover changes and climate change on terrestrial ecosystems and carbon stocks in Mexico

    Alma Mendoza-Ponce;Rogelio Corona-Núñez;Florian Kraxner;Sylvain Leduc

  • Global bioenergy scenarios – Future forest development, land-use implications, and trade-offs

    Florian Kraxner;Eva-Maria Nordström;Eva-Maria Nordström;Petr Havlík;Petr Havlík;Mykola Gusti;Mykola Gusti

  • Development of a global hybrid forest mask through the synergy of remote sensing, crowdsourcing and FAO statistics

    Dmitry Schepaschenko;Dmitry Schepaschenko;Linda See;Myroslava Lesiv;Myroslava Lesiv;Myroslava Lesiv;Ian McCallum

  • Geographically explicit global modeling of land-use change, carbon sequestration, and biomass supply

    Dmitry Rokityanskiy;Pablo C. Benítez;Florian Kraxner;Ian McCallum

  • Achieving carbon-neutral iron and steelmaking in Europe through the deployment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

    Hana Mandova;Hana Mandova;Piera Patrizio;Sylvain Leduc;Jan Kjärstad

  • A new hybrid land cover dataset for Russia: a methodology for integrating statistics, remote sensing and in situ information

    Dmitry Schepaschenko;Ian McCallum;Anatoly Shvidenko;Steffen Fritz

  • An assessment of monitoring requirements and costs of 'Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation'

    Hannes Böttcher;Katja Eisbrenner;Steffen Fritz;Georg Kindermann

  • Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security

    Linda See;Steffen Fritz;Liangzhi You;Navin Ramankutty

  • Building a hybrid land cover map with crowdsourcing and geographically weighted regression

    Linda See;Dmitry Schepaschenko;Myroslava Lesiv;Myroslava Lesiv;Ian McCallum

  • BECCS potential in Brazil: Achieving negative emissions in ethanol and electricity production based on sugar cane bagasse and other residues

    José Roberto Moreira;Viviane Romeiro;Sabine Fuss;Florian Kraxner

  • A global dataset of crowdsourced land cover and land use reference data (2011-2012)

    Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Christoph Perger;Ian McCallum

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Obersteiner
Michael Obersteiner University of Oxford
Dmitry Schepaschenko
Dmitry Schepaschenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Anatoly Shvidenko
Anatoly Shvidenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Steffen Fritz
Steffen Fritz International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Sylvain Leduc
Sylvain Leduc Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Ian McCallum
Ian McCallum International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Linda See
Linda See International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Sabine Fuss
Sabine Fuss International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Yoshiki Yamagata
Yoshiki Yamagata Keio University

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