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Guy Schurgers is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science. Other subfields they explore include Environmental Chemistry and Water Science and Technology.

The main topics of their work cover Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, Climate Variability and Models, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics.

Schurgers has contributed to numerous scholarly articles published in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Global Change Biology
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • One Earth

Their recent papers include:

  • "Eutrophication changes in fifty large lakes on the Yangtze Plain of China derived from MERIS and OLCI observations," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Recent divergence in the contributions of tropical and boreal forests to the terrestrial carbon sink," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Modelling past and future peatland carbon dynamics across the pan-Arctic," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Separating direct and indirect effects of rising temperatures on biogenic volatile emissions in the Arctic," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A physiology-based Earth observation model indicates stagnation in the global gross primary production during recent decades," 2020, Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include:

  • Jing Tang
  • Stéphanie Horion
  • Stefan Olin
  • Rasmus Fensholt
  • Torbern Tagesson

Best Publications

  • The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

    Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Michael R. Raupach;Guy Schurgers;Benjamin Smith

  • Increased vegetation growth and carbon stock in China karst via ecological engineering

    Xiaowei Tong;Martin Brandt;Yuemin Yue;Stephanie Horion

  • Terrestrial biogeochemical feedbacks in the climate system

    Almut Arneth;S. P. Harrison;S. P. Harrison;S. Zaehle;K. Tsigaridis;K. Tsigaridis

  • Why are estimates of global terrestrial isoprene emissions so similar (and why is this not so for monoterpenes)

    Almut Arneth;R. K. Monson;Guy Schurgers;Ue. Niinemets

  • Robustness and uncertainty in terrestrial ecosystem carbon response to CMIP5 climate change projections

    Anders Ahlström;Guy Schurgers;Almut Arneth;Benjamin Smith

  • Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands.

    Martin Brandt;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Jérôme Chave;Torbern Tagesson

  • Human population growth offsets climate-driven increase in woody vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa

    Martin Brandt;Kjeld Rasmussen;Josep Peñuelas;Feng Tian

  • Eutrophication changes in fifty large lakes on the Yangtze Plain of China derived from MERIS and OLCI observations

    Qi Guan;Qi Guan;Lian Feng;Xuejiao Hou;Guy Schurgers

  • Global terrestrial isoprene emission models: Sensitivity to variability in climate and vegetation

    Almut Arneth;Almut Arneth;Guy Schurgers;J. Lathiere;T. Duhl

  • Recent divergence in the contributions of tropical and boreal forests to the terrestrial carbon sink

    Torbern Tagesson;Guy Schurgers;Stéphanie Horion;Philippe Ciais

  • Global isoprene and monoterpene emissions under changing climate, vegetation, CO 2 and land use

    Stijn Hantson;Wolfgang Knorr;Guy Schurgers;Thomas Alan Miller Pugh;Thomas Alan Miller Pugh

  • CO2 inhibition of global terrestrial isoprene emissions: Potential implications for atmospheric chemistry

    Almut Arneth;Paul A. Miller;Marko Scholze;Thomas Hickler

  • Future changes in the Baltic Sea acid-base (pH) and oxygen balances

    Anders Omstedt;Moa Edman;Björn Claremar;Peter Frodin

  • Long-term effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions simulated with a complex earth system model

    Uwe Mikolajewicz;Matthias Gröger;Ernst Maier-Reimer;Guy Schurgers;Guy Schurgers

  • Evaluation of a photosynthesis-based biogenic isoprene emission scheme in JULES and simulation of isoprene emissions under present-day climate conditions

    F. Pacifico;F. Pacifico;F. Pacifico;S. P. Harrison;S. P. Harrison;C. D. Jones;Almut Arneth

  • Process-based modelling of biogenic monoterpene emissions combining production and release from storage

    Guy Schurgers;Almut Arneth;Almut Arneth;R. Holzinger;A. H. Goldstein

  • The CO2 inhibition of terrestrial isoprene emission significantly affects future ozone projections

    P. J. Young;P. J. Young;A. Arneth;A. Arneth;G. Schurgers;Guang Zeng;Guang Zeng

  • Climate modification by future ice sheet changes and consequences for ice sheet mass balance

    M. Vizcaino;U. Mikolajewicz;J. Jungclaus;Guy Schurgers

  • Long-term ice sheet-climate interactions under anthropogenic greenhouse forcing simulated with a complex earth system model

    Miren Vizcaíno;Miren Vizcaíno;Uwe Mikolajewicz;Matthias Gröger;Ernst Maier-Reimer

  • Simulated carbon emissions from land-use change are substantially enhanced by accounting for agricultural management

    T. A. M. Pugh;A. Arneth;Stefan Olin;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström

  • Photosynthesis-dependent isoprene emission from leaf to planet in a global carbon-chemistry-climate model

    N. Unger;K. Harper;Y. Zheng;N. Y. Kiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Anders Ahlström
Anders Ahlström Lund University
Uwe Mikolajewicz
Uwe Mikolajewicz Max Planck Society
Thomas Hickler
Thomas Hickler Goethe University Frankfurt
Riikka Rinnan
Riikka Rinnan University of Copenhagen
Rasmus Fensholt
Rasmus Fensholt University of Copenhagen
Stefan Olin
Stefan Olin Lund University
Ernst Maier-Reimer
Ernst Maier-Reimer Max Planck Society
Thomas A. M. Pugh
Thomas A. M. Pugh University of Birmingham
Erik Swietlicki
Erik Swietlicki Lund University

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