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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
95
Citations
32578
World Ranking
479
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Jan Esper is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric science, global and planetary change, and related subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, paleontology, and ecology.

Their main research topics include tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, climate variability and models, forest ecology and management, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jan Esper reflect these thematic focuses and include the following:

  • Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history, 2020, Dendrochronologia
  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions, 2021, Nature Communications

Jan Esper frequently collaborates with several researchers notably including Ulf Büntgen, Frederick Reinig, Max C. A. Torbenson, Miroslav Trnka, and Paul J. Krusic, indicating sustained partnerships across multiple studies.

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues, having multiple works featured in:

  • Dendrochronologia
  • Nature
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Trees
  • Communications Earth & Environment

In addition to journal articles, Jan Esper has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Franz Steiner Verlag in 2022 titled Großräumige Temperaturrekonstruktionen mit Baumringen.

Best Publications

  • Low-Frequency Signals in Long Tree-Ring Chronologies for Reconstructing Past Temperature Variability

    Jan Esper;Edward R. Cook;Fritz H. Schweingruber

  • 2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

    Ulf Büntgen;Ulf Büntgen;Willy Tegel;Kurt Nicolussi;Michael McCormick

  • Persistent Positive North Atlantic Oscillation Mode Dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly

    Valérie Trouet;Jan Esper;Nicholas E. Graham;Andy Baker

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

    Ulf Büntgen;Vladimir S. Myglan;Frederik Chaprentier Ljungqvist;Michael McCormick

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects:

    P.D. Jones;K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;J.M. Lough

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Keith R. Briffa

  • The twentieth century was the wettest period in northern Pakistan over the past millennium

    Kerstin S. Treydte;Gerhard H. Schleser;Gerhard Helle;David C. Frank

  • Summer Temperature Variations in the European Alps, a.d. 755–2004

    Ulf Büntgen;David C. Frank;Daniel Nievergelt;Jan Esper

  • Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: the long term context

    Rob Wilson;Rob Wilson;Kevin Anchukaitis;Kevin Anchukaitis;Keith R. Briffa;Ulf Büntgen

  • European summer temperatures since Roman times

    J. Luterbacher;J.P. Werner;J.E. Smerdon;L. Fernández-Donado

  • Temperature and precipitation variability in the European Alps since 1500

    Carlo Casty;Heinz Wanner;Jürg Luterbacher;Jan Esper

  • Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

    D. C. Frank;B. Poulter;M. Saurer;J. Esper

  • Long‐term drought severity variations in Morocco

    Jan Esper;David Frank;Ulf Büntgen;Anne Verstege

  • Tests of the RCS Method for Preserving Low-Frequency Variability in Long Tree-Ring Chronologies

    Jan Esper;Edward R. Cook;Paul J. Krusic;Kenneth Peters

  • Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

    Ulf Büntgen;Otmar Urban;Paul J. Krusic;Paul J. Krusic;Michal Rybníček;Michal Rybníček

  • Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

    Jan Esper;David C. Frank;Mauri Timonen;Eduardo Zorita

  • Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests

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  • Plague dynamics are driven by climate variation

    Nils Chr Stenseth;Noelle I. Samia;Hildegunn Viljugrein;Kyrre Linné Kausrud

  • Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate

    David C. Frank;Jan Esper;Christoph C. Raible;Christoph C. Raible;Ulf Büntgen

  • A 1052-year tree-ring proxy for Alpine summer temperatures

    Ulf Büntgen;Jan Esper;David C. Frank;Kurt Nicolussi

  • Characterization and climate response patterns of a high-elevation, multi-species tree-ring network in the European Alps

    David Frank;Jan Esper

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona
Paul J. Krusic
Paul J. Krusic University of Cambridge
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
Alexander V. Kirdyanov
Alexander V. Kirdyanov University of Cambridge
Kerstin Treydte
Kerstin Treydte Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen
Valerie Trouet
Valerie Trouet University of Arizona
Edward R. Cook
Edward R. Cook Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Eduardo Zorita
Eduardo Zorita Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research

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