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Overview

Martin Wilmking is affiliated with the University of Greifswald in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work frequently focuses on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

The main research topics covered by their publications include:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Martin Wilmking are:

  • Global assessment of relationships between climate and tree growth, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Rewetting does not return drained fen peatlands to their old selves, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests, 2022, Communications Biology

Martin Wilmking collaborates frequently with several researchers in their field. Among the top coauthors are Tobias Scharnweber, Jüergen Kreyling, Ernst van der Maaten, Allan Buras, and Marko Smiljanić.

Their research is regularly published in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Trees

Best Publications

  • Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

    Isla H Myers-Smith;Isla H Myers-Smith;Bruce C Forbes;Martin Wilmking;Martin Hallinger

  • Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Jeffrey T. Kerby;Gareth K. Phoenix;Jarle W. Bjerke

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Pieter S. A. Beck;Martin Wilmking

  • Recent climate warming forces contrasting growth responses of white spruce at treeline in Alaska through temperature thresholds

    Martin Wilmking;Glenn P. Juday;Valerie A. Barber;Harold S. J. Zald

  • A synthesis of methane emissions from 71 northern, temperate, and subtropical wetlands

    Merritt R. Turetsky;Agnieszka Kotowska;Jill Bubier;Nancy B. Dise

  • CO 2 flux determination by closed-chamber methods can be seriously biased by inappropriate application of linear regression

    L. Kutzbach;Judit Schneider;Torsten Sachs;M. Giebels

  • Establishing a missing link: warm summers and winter snow cover promote shrub expansion into alpine tundra in Scandinavia.

    Martin Hallinger;Michael Manthey;Martin Wilmking

  • Drought matters – Declining precipitation influences growth of Fagus sylvatica L. and Quercus robur L. in north-eastern Germany

    Tobias Scharnweber;Michael Manthey;Christian Criegee;Andreas Bauwe

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

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  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Increased temperature sensitivity and divergent growth trends in circumpolar boreal forests

    M. Wilmking;R. D'Arrigo;G. C. Jacoby;G. P. Juday

  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate

    Manuel Helbig;Manuel Helbig;James Michael Waddington;Pavel Alekseychik;Brian D. Amiro

  • Rewetting does not return drained fen peatlands to their old selves.

    J. Kreyling;F. Tanneberger;F. Jansen;S. van der Linden

  • Global assessment of relationships between climate and tree growth.

    Martin Wilmking;Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen;Ernst van der Maaten;Tobias Scharnweber

  • Tree growth influenced by warming winter climate and summer moisture availability in northern temperate forests.

    Jill E. Harvey;Jill E. Harvey;Marko Smiljanić;Tobias Scharnweber;Allan Buras

  • The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests

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  • Methods for measuring arctic and alpine shrub growth: A review

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Martin Hallinger;Daan Blok;Ute Sass-Klaassen

  • Longitudinal variation of radial growth at Alaska's northern treeline—recent changes and possible scenarios for the 21st century

    Martin Wilmking;Glenn P. Juday

  • RECONSTRUCTION OF SUMMER TEMPERATURES IN INTERIOR ALASKA FROM TREE-RING PROXIES: EVIDENCE FOR CHANGING SYNOPTIC CLIMATE REGIMES

    Valerie A. Barber;Glenn Patrick Juday;Bruce P. Finney;Martin Wilmking

  • Divergent tree growth response to recent climatic warming, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska

    William W. Driscoll;Gregory C. Wiles;Rosanne D. D'Arrigo;Martin Wilmking

  • Scientific merits and analytical challenges of tree-ring densitometry

    J. Björklund;J. Björklund;J. Björklund;G. von Arx;D. Nievergelt;R. Wilson;R. Wilson

  • Local adaptations to frost in marginal and central populations of the dominant forest tree Fagus sylvatica L. as affected by temperature and extreme drought in common garden experiments.

    Juergen Kreyling;Constanze Buhk;Sabrina Backhaus;Martin Hallinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan Buras
Allan Buras Technical University of Munich
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Bruce C. Forbes
Bruce C. Forbes University of Lapland
Esther Lévesque
Esther Lévesque Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Christian Rixen
Christian Rixen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Benjamin Blonder
Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley
Robert Weigel
Robert Weigel University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub University of Zurich

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