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63
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1912
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58

Overview

Gert-Jan Nabuurs is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with an emphasis on areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their work covers multiple main topics including:

  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies

Among recent publications attributed to Nabuurs, the following stand out:

  • Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Land-based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • The enduring world forest carbon sink, 2024, Nature
  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential, 2023, Nature
  • Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century, 2021, Science Advances

Gert-Jan Nabuurs frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Emil Cienciala
  • Mart-Jan Schelhaas
  • Sergio de-Miguel
  • Jiří Doležal
  • Giacomo Grassi

They have published in several notable venues, which include:

  • Nature
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth system science data

Best Publications

  • Summary for Policymakers

    T. Barker;I. Bashmakov;L. Bernstein;J. Bogner

  • Numerical Ecology: Second English Edition

    Pierre Legendre;Louis Legendre

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • Natural disturbances in the European forests in the 19th and 20th centuries

    Mart-Jan Schelhaas;Mart-Jan Schelhaas;Gert-Jan Nabuurs;Gert-Jan Nabuurs;Andreas Schuck

  • Climate change may cause severe loss in the economic value of European forest land

    Marc Hanewinkel;Dominik A. Cullmann;Mart-Jan Schelhaas;Gert-Jan Nabuurs

  • FOREST CARBON SINKS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

    Christine L. Goodale;Michael J. Apps;Richard A. Birdsey;Christopher B. Field

  • Mapping tree density at a global scale

    T. W. Crowther;H. B. Glick;K. R. Covey;C. Bettigole

  • Europe's terrestrial biosphere absorbs 7 to 12% of European anthropogenic CO2 emissions

    I.A. Janssens;A. Freibauer;P. Ciais;Phillip Smith

  • Adaptive forest management in central Europe: Climate change impacts, strategies and integrative concept

    Andreas Bolte;Christian Ammer;Magnus Löf;Palle Madsen

  • Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

    Stephanie Roe;Charlotte Streck;Michael Obersteiner;Stefan Frank

  • Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses

    B. S. Steidinger;T. W. Crowther;J. Liang;M. E. Van Nuland

  • Modeling carbon sequestration in afforestation, agroforestry and forest management projects: the CO2FIX V.2 approach

    Omar R. Masera;J. F. Garza-Caligaris;Markku Kanninen;Timo Karjalainen

  • First signs of carbon sink saturation in European forest biomass

    Gert-Jan Nabuurs;Marcus Lindner;Pieter J. Verkerk;Katja Gunia

  • Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance

    E. D. Schulze;S. Luyssaert;S. Luyssaert;P. Ciais;A. Freibauer

  • The enduring world forest carbon sink

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  • Carbon accumulation in European forests

    P. Ciais;M. J. Schelhaas;S. Zaehle;S. L. Piao;S. L. Piao

  • Statistical mapping of tree species over Europe

    D. J. Brus;G. M. Hengeveld;D. J. J. Walvoort;P. W. Goedhart

  • Effect of tree species on carbon stocks in forest floor and mineral soil and implications for soil carbon inventories

    Catharina J E Schulp;Gert Jan Nabuurs;Peter H. Verburg;Rein W. de Waal

  • The European carbon balance. Part 3: forests

    Sebsatiaan Luyssaert;Philippe Ciais;SL Piao;E-D Schulze

  • Land-based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country.

    Stephanie Roe;Charlotte Streck;Robert Beach;Jonah Busch

  • Future carbon sequestration in Europe—Effects of land use change

    Catharina J E Schulp;Gert Jan Nabuurs;Peter H. Verburg

  • The carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems at country-scale a European case study

    I.A. Janssens;A. Freibauer;B. Schlamadinger;R. Ceulemans

Frequent Co-Authors

Mart-Jan Schelhaas
Mart-Jan Schelhaas Wageningen University & Research
Godefridus M. J. Mohren
Godefridus M. J. Mohren Wageningen University & Research
Timo Karjalainen
Timo Karjalainen Finnish Forest Research Institute
Jari Liski
Jari Liski Finnish Meteorological Institute
Marcus Lindner
Marcus Lindner European Forest Institute
Peter Kuikman
Peter Kuikman Wageningen University & Research
Marc Hanewinkel
Marc Hanewinkel University of Freiburg
A. J. Dolman
A. J. Dolman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Arianne P. Verhagen
Arianne P. Verhagen University of Technology Sydney
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen

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