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73
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1411
National Ranking
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Overview

Georg Wohlfahrt is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, Ecology, and Soil Science.

The scientist's main research topics focus on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Plant Responses to Elevated CO2, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Notable recent publications by Georg Wohlfahrt include: "The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function" (2021, Nature), "Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites" (2020, Global Change Biology), "Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate" (2020, New Phytologist), "Heatwave breaks down the linearity between sun-induced fluorescence and gross primary production" (2021, New Phytologist), and "Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale" (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution).

Frequent collaborators in their research include Albin Hammerle, Mirco Migliavacca, Leonardo Montagnani, Florian Kitz, and Felix M. Spielmann.

Georg Wohlfahrt has published in a range of venues, with a notable number of works appearing in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Biogeosciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • New Phytologist

Additionally, they have contributed to book literature through the publication of Multi-scale transport and exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains (2020) via innsbruck university press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and respiration using a light response curve approach: critical issues and global evaluation

    Gitta Lasslop;Markus Reichstein;Dario Papale;Andrew D. Richardson

  • Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

    Adriaan J. Teuling;Adriaan J. Teuling;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Reto Stöckli;Markus Reichstein

  • Temporal and among-site variability of inherent water-use efficiency at the ecosystem level

    C. Beer;P. Ciais;M. Reichstein;D. Baldocchi

  • A plant's perspective of extremes: terrestrial plant responses to changing climatic variability.

    Christopher P O Reyer;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sebastian Leuzinger;Anja Rammig;Annett Wolf

  • The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits – Vcmax and Jmax – to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: a meta-analysis and modeling study

    Anthony P. Walker;Anthony P. Walker;Andrew P. Beckerman;Lianhong Gu;Jens Kattge

  • Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology

    Jianyang Xia;Shuli Niu;Philippe Ciais;Ivan A Janssens

  • Partitioning European grassland net ecosystem CO2 exchange into gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration using light response function analysis

    T. G. Gilmanov;J. F. Soussana;L. Aires;V. Allard

  • Soil Respiration in European Grasslands in Relation to Climate and Assimilate Supply

    Michael Bahn;Mirco Rodeghiero;Margaret Anderson-Dunn;Sabina Dore

  • A regional perspective on trends in continental evaporation

    A. J. Teuling;M. Hirschi;A. Ohmura;M. Wild

  • Global comparison of light use efficiency models for simulating terrestrial vegetation gross primary production based on the LaThuile database

    Wenping Yuan;Wenwen Cai;Jiangzhou Xia;Jiquan Chen

  • Climate and vegetation controls on the surface water balance: Synthesis of evapotranspiration measured across a global network of flux towers

    Christopher A. Williams;Markus Reichstein;Nina Buchmann;Dennis Baldocchi

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

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

  • Large annual net ecosystem CO2 uptake of a Mojave Desert ecosystem

    Georg Wohlfahrt;Lynn F. Fenstermaker;John A. Arnone

  • Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities

    Paul C. Stoy;Paul C. Stoy;Tarek S. El-Madany;Joshua B. Fisher;Joshua B. Fisher;Pierre Gentine

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

    Mirco Migliavacca;Talie Musavi;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jacob A. Nelson

  • Impacts of droughts and extreme-temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones

    Jannis von Buttlar;Jannis von Buttlar;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anja Rammig;Sebastian Sippel

  • Seasonal and inter-annual variability of the net ecosystem CO2 exchange of a temperate mountain grassland: Effects of weather and management

    Georg Wohlfahrt;Albin Hammerle;Alois Haslwanter;Michael Bahn

  • Terrestrial gross primary production inferred from satellite fluorescence and vegetation models

    Nicholas C. Parazoo;Nicholas C. Parazoo;Kevin Bowman;Kevin Bowman;Joshua B. Fisher;Christian Frankenberg

  • FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity : Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson;Benjamin Poulter;Gavin McNicol

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • Detection of Plant Volatiles after Leaf Wounding and Darkening by Proton Transfer Reaction “Time-of-Flight” Mass Spectrometry (PTR-TOF)

    Federico Brilli;Taina M. Ruuskanen;Taina M. Ruuskanen;Ralf Schnitzhofer;Markus Müller

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Armin Hansel
Armin Hansel University of Innsbruck
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Martin Graus
Martin Graus University of Innsbruck
Damiano Gianelle
Damiano Gianelle Fondazione Edmund Mach
Alessandro Cescatti
Alessandro Cescatti European Union
Gerard Kiely
Gerard Kiely University College Cork
Michael Bahn
Michael Bahn University of Innsbruck
Lutz Merbold
Lutz Merbold Agroscope

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