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Georg Miehe is affiliated with Philipp University of Marburg in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's main topics of research cover a broad range of ecological and geological themes. These include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Satellite Image Processing and Photogrammetry, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, as well as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Among recent papers, Miehe has contributed to publications such as:

  • Grassland changes and adaptive management on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Microbial functional changes mark irreversible course of Tibetan grassland degradation, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Past, present, and future geo-biosphere interactions on the Tibetan Plateau and implications for permafrost, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Nonuniform Late Pleistocene glacier fluctuations in tropical Eastern Africa, 2021, Science Advances
  • Latitudinal patterns of species richness and range size of ferns along elevational gradients at the transition from tropics to subtropics, 2020, Journal of Biogeography

The frequent coauthors with whom Miehe has collaborated include Luise Wraase, Lars Opgenoorth, Dirk Zeuss, Victoria M. Reuber, and Dana G. Schabo.

Miehe's research has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Plant Ecology & Diversity, Plant Diversity, Molecular Ecology, and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.

Best Publications

  • The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem: Kobresia pastures of Tibet

    Georg Miehe;Per Marten Schleuss;Elke Seeber;Wolfgang Babel

  • Effect of grazing on carbon stocks and assimilate partitioning in a Tibetan montane pasture revealed by 13CO2 pulse labeling

    Silke Hafner;Sebastian Unteregelsbacher;Elke Seeber;Becker Lena

  • How old is pastoralism in Tibet? An ecological approach to the making of a Tibetan landscape

    Georg Miehe;Sabine Miehe;Knut Kaiser;Christoph Reudenbach

  • Highest Treeline in the Northern Hemisphere Found in Southern Tibet

    Georg Miehe;Sabine Miehe;Jonas Vogel;Sonam Co

  • Mitochondrial and chloroplast phylogeography of Picea crassifolia Kom. (Pinaceae) in the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau and adjacent highlands

    Lihua Meng;Rui Yang;Rui Yang;Richard J. Abbott;Georg Miehe

  • Status and Dynamics of the Kobresia pygmaea Ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau

    Georg Miehe;Sabine Miehe;Knut Kaiser;Liu Jianquan

  • Phylogeography and allopatric divergence of cypress species (Cupressus L.) in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions

    Ting-Ting Xu;Richard John Abbott;Richard I Milne;Kang-Shan Mao

  • Tree endurance on the Tibetan Plateau marks the world’s highest known tree line of the Last Glacial Maximum

    Lars Opgenoorth;Giovanni G. Vendramin;Kangshan Mao;Georg Miehe

  • How old is the human footprint in the world's largest alpine ecosystem? A review of multiproxy records from the Tibetan Plateau from the ecologists' viewpoint

    Georg Miehe;Sabine Miehe;Jürgen Böhner;Knut Kaiser

  • The climatic diagram map of High Asia. Purpose and concepts

    Georg Miehe

  • Impact of Grazing Livestock and Distance from Water Source on Soil Fertility in Southern Mongolia

    Markus Stumpp;Karsten Wesche;Vroni Retzer;Georg Miehe

  • Pliocene intraspecific divergence and Plio-Pleistocene range expansions within Picea likiangensis (Lijiang spruce), a dominant forest tree of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

    Long Li;Richard John Abbott;Bingbing Liu;Yongshuai Sun

  • Retrieval of grassland plant coverage on the Tibetan Plateau based on a multi-scale, multi-sensor and multi-method approach

    Lukas W. Lehnert;Hanna Meyer;Yun Wang;Georg Miehe

  • The Significance of Fire for Afroalpine Ericaceous Vegetation

    Karsten Wesche;Georg Miehe;Meinhard Kaeppeli

  • Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

    Götz Ossendorf;Alexander R. Groos;Tobias Bromm;Minassie Girma Tekelemariam

  • Turf-bearing topsoils on the central Tibetan Plateau, China: Pedology, botany, geochronology

    Knut Kaiser;Knut Kaiser;Georg Miehe;Georg Miehe;Alexandra Barthelmes;Alexandra Barthelmes;Otto Ehrmann

  • Phylogenetic origins of the Himalayan endemic Dolomiaea, Diplazoptilon and Xanthopappus (Asteraceae: Cardueae) based on three DNA regions.

    Yu-Jin Wang;Jian-Quan Liu;Jian-Quan Liu;Georg Miehe

  • Pasture degradation modifies the water and carbon cycles of the Tibetan highlands

    Wolfgang Babel;Tobias Biermann;Tobias Biermann;Heinz Coners;Eva Falge

  • Plant communities of central Tibetan pastures in the Alpine Steppe / Kobresia pygmaea ecotone

    Georg Miehe;Sabine Miehe;Kerstin Bach;J. Nölling

  • Holocene paleosols and colluvial sediments in Northeast Tibet (Qinghai Province, China): Properties, dating and paleoenvironmental implications

    Knut Kaiser;Werner H. Schoch;Georg Miehe

  • Effect of grazing on carbon stocks and assimilate partitioning in a Tibetan montane pasture revealed

    Silke Hafner;Sebastian U Nte Regelsbacher;Elke S Eeber;B Ecker Lena

Frequent Co-Authors

Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Karsten Wesche
Karsten Wesche Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
Xingliang Xu
Xingliang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Georg Guggenberger
Georg Guggenberger University of Hannover
Jianquan Liu
Jianquan Liu Lanzhou University
Thomas Foken
Thomas Foken University of Bayreuth
Yaoming Ma
Yaoming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christoph Leuschner
Christoph Leuschner University of Göttingen
Xiao Gang Li
Xiao Gang Li Lanzhou University
Bruno Glaser
Bruno Glaser Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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