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Karl-Heinz Erb

Karl-Heinz Erb

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Ecology and Evolution
Austria
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
86
Citations
31373
World Ranking
580
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Karl-Heinz Erb is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and has a significant publication record in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields, notably Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work frequently appears in reputable venues including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, The Science of The Total Environment, Nature Communications, and One Earth.

Major topics investigated by Karl-Heinz Erb include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Forest Management and Policy, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Economic and Environmental Valuation, and Forest ecology and management.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration, 2020, Nature
  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth, 2020, Conservation Letters
  • Global inequalities in food consumption, cropland demand and land-use efficiency: A decomposition analysis, 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • Food systems in a zero-deforestation world: Dietary change is more important than intensification for climate targets in 2050, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Sarah Matej, Helmut Haberl, Simone Gingrich, Thomas Kästner, and Fridolin Krausmann.

Best Publications

  • Growth in global materials use, GDP and population during the 20th century

    Fridolin Krausmann;Simone Gingrich;Nina Eisenmenger;Karl-Heinz Erb

  • Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands.

    Christopher Bren d’Amour;Femke Reitsma;Giovanni Baiocchi;Stephan Barthel

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Alvaro Iribarrem;Alvaro Iribarrem;Hawthorne L. Beyer;Carlos Leandro Cordeiro;Carlos Leandro Cordeiro

  • EXIOBASE 3: Developing a Time Series of Detailed Environmentally Extended Multi-Regional Input-Output Tables

    Konstantin Stadler;Richard Wood;Tatyana Bulavskaya;Carl-Johan Sodersten

  • Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture

    Adrian Muller;Christian Schader;Nadia El-Hage Scialabba;Judith Brüggemann

  • Globalization of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use

    Patrick Meyfroidt;Eric F Lambin;Eric F Lambin;Karl-Heinz Erb;Thomas W Hertel

  • Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century

    Fridolin Krausmann;Karl-Heinz Erb;Simone Gingrich;Helmut Haberl

  • Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

    Karl Heinz Erb;Thomas Kastner;Christoph Plutzar;Christoph Plutzar;Anna Liza S. Bais

  • How much land based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals

    Pete Smith;Helmut Haberl;Alexander Popp;Karl Heinz Erb

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective

    Peter H. Verburg;Neville Crossman;Erle C. Ellis;Andreas Heinimann

  • Middle-range theories of land system change

    P. Meyfroidt;R. Roy Chowdhury;A. de Bremond;A. de Bremond;E.C. Ellis

  • How to calculate and interpret ecological footprints for long periods of time: the case of Austria 1926–1995

    Helmut Haberl;Karl-Heinz Erb;Fridolin Krausmann

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

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  • Calculating national and global ecological footprint time series: resolving conceptual challenges

    Mathis Wackernagel;Chad Monfreda;Niels B Schulz;Karl-Heinz Erb

  • Challenges for land system science

    Mark D.A. Rounsevell;Bas Pedroli;Karl-Heinz Erb;Marc Gramberger

  • Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth

    Alexandra Marques;Alexandra Marques;Inês S Martins;Thomas Kastner;Christoph Plutzar;Christoph Plutzar

  • Global patterns of socioeconomic biomass flows in the year 2000: A comprehensive assessment of supply, consumption and constraints

    Fridolin Krausmann;Karl-Heinz Erb;Simone Gingrich;Christian Lauk

  • Ecological footprint time series of Austria, the Philippines, and South Korea for 1961–1999: comparing the conventional approach to an ‘actual land area’ approach

    Mathis Wackernagel;Chad Monfreda;Karl-Heinz Erb;Helmut Haberl

  • Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010

    Martin Rudbeck Jepsen;Tobias Kuemmerle;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller;Karlheinz Erb

  • Assisted reproductive technology in Europe, 2009: results generated from European registers by ESHRE

    A.P. Ferraretti;V. Goossens;M. Kupka;S. Bhattacharya

  • A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts

    Justin Kitzes;Alessandro Galli;Marco Bagliani;John Barrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmut Haberl
Helmut Haberl BOKU University
Fridolin Krausmann
Fridolin Krausmann BOKU University
Christoph Plutzar
Christoph Plutzar BOKU University
Tobias Kuemmerle
Tobias Kuemmerle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Simone Gingrich
Simone Gingrich BOKU University
Daniel Müller
Daniel Müller Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Patrick Meyfroidt
Patrick Meyfroidt Université Catholique de Louvain
Anette Reenberg
Anette Reenberg University of Copenhagen
Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Sebastiaan Luyssaert Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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