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Jürgen Böhner

Jürgen Böhner

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
11852
World Ranking
7561
National Ranking
477

Overview

Jürgen Böhner is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work covers a broad range of topics including climate variability and models, land use and ecosystem services, tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as landslides and related hazards.

Their notable recent publications include:

  • "Föhn, fire and grazing in Southern Tibet? A 20,000-year multi-proxy record in an alpine ecotonal ecosystem" (2021), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "High-resolution land use and land cover dataset for regional climate modelling: historical and future changes in Europe" (2023), published in Earth system science data
  • "High-resolution land use and land cover dataset for regional climate modelling: a plant functional type map for Europe 2015" (2022), published in Earth system science data
  • "Using Neural Network NO2-Predictions to Understand Air Quality Changes in Urban Areas-A Case Study in Hamburg" (2022), published in Atmosphere
  • "Biogeophysical Effects of Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in South Asia: An Analysis of CMIP6 Models" (2023), published in Land

Frequent co-authors who have contributed to multiple publications include:

  • Shabeh ul Hasson
  • Udo Schickhoff
  • Diana Rechid
  • Niels Schwab
  • Ram Prasad Chaudhary

Böhner has published in a variety of venues with multiple works in Earth system science data and Universität Hamburg publications, as well as contributions to Quaternary Science Reviews, Atmosphere, and Land.

Their research spans several subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, water science and technology, and soil science. The focus on regional and global environmental processes is reflected in the range of topics and disciplines connected with their work.

Best Publications

  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

    Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Olaf Conrad;Jürgen Böhner;Tobias Kawohl

  • System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) v. 2.1.4

    O. Conrad;Benjamin Bechtel;M. Bock;H. Dietrich

  • Mapping local climate zones for a worldwide database of the form and function of cities

    Benjamin Bechtel;Paul John Alexander;Jürgen Böhner;Jason Ching

  • Land-Surface Parameters Specific to Topo-Climatology

    Jurgen Bohner;Oleg Antonić

  • Spatial Prediction of Soil Attributes Using Terrain Analysis and Climate Regionalisation

    J. Böhner;Th. Selige

  • High resolution topsoil mapping using hyperspectral image and field data in multivariate regression modeling procedures

    Thomas Selige;Jürgen Böhner;Urs Schmidhalter

  • General climatic controls and topoclimatic variations in Central and High Asia

    Jurgen Bohner

  • Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation

    Benjamin Bechtel;Paul J. Alexander;Christoph Beck;Jürgen Böhner

  • Rising Precipitation Extremes across Nepal

    Ramchandra Karki;Shabeh ul Hasson;Udo Schickhoff;Thomas Scholten

  • Do Himalayan treelines respond to recent climate change? An evaluation of sensitivity indicators

    Udo Schickhoff;Maria Bobrowski;Jürgen Böhner;Birgit Bürzle

  • A modern pollen-climate calibration set based on lake sediments from the Tibetan Plateau and its application to a Late Quaternary pollen record from the Qilian Mountains.

    Ulrike Herzschuh;H. J. B. Birks;Steffen Mischke;Chengjun Zhang

  • SAGA-analysis and modelling applications

    Jürgen Böhner;K. R. McCloy;J. Strobl

  • δD values of n-alkanes in Tibetan lake sediments and aquatic macrophytes – A surface sediment study and application to a 16 ka record from Lake Koucha

    Bernhard Aichner;Ulrike Herzschuh;Heinz Wilkes;Andrea Vieth

  • The impact of livestock grazing on plant diversity: an analysis across dryland ecosystems and scales in southern Africa.

    Wiebke Hanke;Jürgen Böhner;Niels Dreber;Norbert Jürgens

  • How old is the human footprint in the world's largest alpine ecosystem? A review of multiproxy records from the Tibetan Plateau from the ecologists' viewpoint

    Georg Miehe;Sabine Miehe;Jürgen Böhner;Knut Kaiser

  • Seasonal cycle of precipitation over major river basins in South and Southeast Asia: a review of the CMIP5 climate models data for present climate and future climate projections

    Shabeh Ul Hasson;Salvatore Pascale;Valerio Lucarini;Jürgen Böhner

  • Prevailing climatic trends and runoff response from Hindukush–Karakoram–Himalaya, upper Indus Basin

    Shabeh ul Hasson;Shabeh ul Hasson;Jürgen Böhner;Valerio Lucarini;Valerio Lucarini

  • Quantitative reconstruction of precipitation changes on the NE Tibetan Plateau since the Last Glacial Maximum – extending the concept of pollen source area to pollen-based climate reconstructions from large lakes

    Yongbo Wang;Yongbo Wang;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Lyudmila S. Shumilovskikh;Steffen Mischke;Steffen Mischke

  • Impact of the quality of climate models for modelling species occurrences in countries with poor climatic documentation: a case study from Bolivia

    Rodrigo W. Soria-Auza;Rodrigo W. Soria-Auza;Michael Kessler;Kerstin Bach;Paola M. Barajas-Barbosa;Paola M. Barajas-Barbosa

  • Himalayan treeline soil and foliar C:N:P stoichiometry indicate nutrient shortage with elevation

    Michael Müller;Yvonne Oelmann;Udo Schickhoff;Jürgen Böhner

  • Spatio-temporal prediction of site index based on forest inventories and climate change scenarios

    Arne Nothdurft;Thilo Wolf;Andre Ringeler;Jürgen Böhner

  • Environmental change modelling for Central and High Asia: Pleistocene, present and future scenarios

    Jürgen Böhner;Frank Lehmkuhl

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Bechtel
Benjamin Bechtel Ruhr University Bochum
Thomas Scholten
Thomas Scholten University of Tübingen
Michael Kessler
Michael Kessler University of Zurich
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Dirk Nikolaus Karger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Holger Kreft
Holger Kreft University of Göttingen
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Steffen Mischke
Steffen Mischke University of Iceland
Frank Lehmkuhl
Frank Lehmkuhl RWTH Aachen University
H. Peter Linder
H. Peter Linder University of Zurich

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