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Ecology and Evolution
Australia
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
132
Citations
119081
World Ranking
63
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Australia Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Josep G. Canadell is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with an emphasis on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's main topics of work cover a range of areas related to atmospheric and environmental processes. These topics include:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Josep G. Canadell has contributed to scientific literature published in several venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Earth system science data
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature

Some of their recent papers include:

  • The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017, 2020, NOAA Institutional Repository
  • Global Carbon Budget 2020, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks, 2020, Nature
  • Global Carbon Budget 2022, 2022, Earth system science data

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their most common co-authors are:

  • Philippe Ciais
  • Hanqin Tian
  • Robert B. Jackson
  • Benjamin Poulter
  • Julia Pongratz

Josep G. Canadell was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests

    Yude Pan;Richard A. Birdsey;Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Richard Houghton

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • A global analysis of root distributions for terrestrial biomes

    R. B. Jackson;J. Canadell;J. R. Ehleringer;H. A. Mooney

  • Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles

    P. Ciais;C. Sabine;G. Bala;L. Bopp

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

  • Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks

    Josep G. Canadell;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Christopher B. Field

  • Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region

    C. Tarnocai;J. G. Canadell;E. A. G. Schuur;Peter Kuhry

  • The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

    P. Falkowski;R. J. Scholes;E. Boyle;J. Canadell

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • Global carbon budget 2013

    C. Le Quere;G.P. Peters;R.J. Andres;Robbie M Andrew

  • Greening of the Earth and its drivers

    Zaichun Zhu;Zaichun Zhu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Ranga B. Myneni;Mengtian Huang

  • Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO2 emissions

    Michael R Raupach;Gregg Marland;Philippe Ciais;Corinne Le Quéré

  • Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Josep G. Canadell;Gregg Marland

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

    Corinne Le Quéré;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

    Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • Maximum rooting depth of vegetation types at the global scale.

    J. Canadell;R. B. Jackson;J. R. Ehleringer;H. A. Mooney

  • Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement

    Corinne Le Quéré;Robert B. Jackson;Matthew W. Jones;Adam J. P. Smith

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

  • Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle

    Edward A. G. Schuur;James Bockheim;Josep G. Canadell;Eugenie Euskirchen

  • Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

    D. S. Schimel;J. I. House;K. A. Hibbard;P. Bousquet

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

    Hanquin Tian;Rongting Xu;Josep G. Canadell;Rona L. Thompson

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Matthew W. Jones;Michael O'Sullivan;Robbie Andrew

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Glen P. Peters
Glen P. Peters Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Michael R. Raupach
Michael R. Raupach Australian National University
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Corinne Le Quéré
Corinne Le Quéré University of East Anglia
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Vanessa Haverd
Vanessa Haverd Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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