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Ingo Fetzer is affiliated with the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden, focusing on environmental science with an emphasis on global and planetary change. Their research primarily addresses topics related to ecosystem dynamics and resilience, global energy and sustainability, and climate variability and models.

Their work covers a range of subfields including global and planetary change, water science and technology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, environmental engineering, and atmospheric science. The main themes investigated include the water-energy-food nexus, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, sustainability and ecological systems analysis, and agriculture sustainability and environmental impact.

Frequent collaborators with Ingo Fetzer include Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Johan Rockström, Dieter Gerten, Ruud van der Ent, and Arie Staal, reflecting a multidisciplinary network of scientists within their research community.

They have published extensively in notable scientific venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Water

Noteworthy recent publications demonstrate engagement with planetary boundaries, climate tipping points, and sustainable food systems. These include:

  • Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries (2023, Science Advances)
  • Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points (2022, Science)
  • Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • A planetary boundary for green water (2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth system resilience in the Anthropocene (2020, Water Resources Research)

Ingo Fetzer has also contributed to book publications, including work published by King's College London titled The Doughnut for Urban Development: Manual, Appendix and Database (2023).

Best Publications

  • Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Katherine Richardson;Johan Rockström;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene.

    Will Steffen;Johan Rockström;Katherine Richardson;Timothy M. Lenton

  • Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

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  • Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

    Dieter Gerten;Dieter Gerten;Vera Heck;Vera Heck;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Benjamin Leon Bodirsky

  • A planetary boundary for green water

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  • Biodegradation of ciprofloxacin in water and soil and its effects on the microbial communities

    Cristobal Girardi;Josephine Greve;Marc Lamshöft;Ingo Fetzer

  • Feedback between drought and deforestation in the Amazon

    Arie Staal;Arie Staal;Bernardo M Flores;Ana Paula D Aguiar;Ana Paula D Aguiar;Joyce H C Bosmans

  • The extent of functional redundancy changes as species’ roles shift in different environments

    Ingo Fetzer;Ingo Fetzer;Karin Johst;Robert Schäwe;Thomas Banitz

  • Population Dynamics within a Microbial Consortium during Growth on Diesel Fuel in Saline Environments

    Sabine Kleinsteuber;Volker Riis;Ingo Fetzer;Hauke Harms

  • Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth system resilience in the Anthropocene

    Tom Gleeson;Lan Wang‐Erlandsson;Lan Wang‐Erlandsson;Miina Porkka;Miina Porkka;Samuel C. Zipper;Samuel C. Zipper

  • Hysteresis of tropical forests in the 21st century.

    Arie Staal;Arie Staal;Ingo Fetzer;Lan Wang-Erlandsson;Joyce H. C. Bosmans

  • Remote land use impacts on river flows through atmospheric teleconnections

    Lan Wang-Erlandsson;Lan Wang-Erlandsson;Ingo Fetzer;Patrick W. Keys;Patrick W. Keys;Ruud J. van der Ent;Ruud J. van der Ent

  • The Role of Body Size in Complex Food Webs: A Cold Case

    Ute Jacob;Aaron Thierry;Ulrich Brose;Wolf E. Arntz

  • Predator richness increases the effect of prey diversity on prey yield

    Muhammad Saleem;Muhammad Saleem;Ingo Fetzer;Ingo Fetzer;Carsten F. Dormann;Carsten F. Dormann;Hauke Harms

  • The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision

    Tom Gleeson;Lan Wang-Erlandsson;Lan Wang-Erlandsson;Samuel C. Zipper;Samuel C. Zipper;Miina Porkka;Miina Porkka

  • Aquatic hyphomycete communities as potential bioindicators for assessing anthropogenic stress.

    M. Solé;I. Fetzer;R. Wennrich;K.R. Sridhar

  • Diversity of protists and bacteria determines predation performance and stability

    Muhammad Saleem;Ingo Fetzer;Ingo Fetzer;Hauke Harms;Antonis Chatzinotas

  • Long-term monitoring reveals stable and remarkably similar microbial communities in parallel full-scale biogas reactors digesting energy crops

    Rico Lucas;Anne Kuchenbuch;Ingo Fetzer;Hauke Harms

  • Integrating the Water Planetary Boundary With Water Management From Local to Global Scales

    Samuel C. Zipper;Samuel C. Zipper;Fernando Jaramillo;Lan Wang-Erlandsson;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Microbial communities along biogeochemical gradients in a hydrocarbon-contaminated aquifer

    Karolin Tischer;Sabine Kleinsteuber;Kathleen M. Schleinitz;Ingo Fetzer;Ingo Fetzer

  • CHIC-an automated approach for the detection of dynamic variations in complex microbial communities.

    Christin Koch;Ingo Fetzer;Ingo Fetzer;Hauke Harms;Susann Müller

  • Responses of soil microbial communities to weak electric fields

    Lukas Y. Wick;Friederike Buchholz;Ingo Fetzer;Sabine Kleinsteuber

  • The Kara Sea ecosystem: phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos communities influenced by river run-off

    H. Deubel;M. Engel;Ingo Fetzer;S. Gagayev

  • Towards a systemic metabolic signature of the arbuscular mycorrhizal interaction.

    Thomas Fester;Ingo Fetzer;Sabine Buchert;Rico Lucas

Frequent Co-Authors

Hauke Harms
Hauke Harms Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Sarah E. Cornell
Sarah E. Cornell Stockholm Resilience Centre
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Line Gordon
Line Gordon Stockholm Resilience Centre
Martin Thullner
Martin Thullner Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Tom Gleeson
Tom Gleeson University of Victoria
Katherine Richardson
Katherine Richardson University of Copenhagen
Matti Kummu
Matti Kummu Aalto University

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