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Matthias Forkel

Matthias Forkel

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2025

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D-Index
34
Citations
7149
World Ranking
865
National Ranking
28

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
9440
World Ranking
8765
National Ranking
537

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Matthias Forkel is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of Matthias Forkel's research include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Climate variability and models
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Landslides and related hazards

Matthias Forkel has contributed to several recent publications, with notable papers including:

  • "Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change" (2022) published in Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Widespread increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moisture" (2022) published in Nature Communications
  • "The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function" (2021) published in Nature
  • "The global long-term microwave Vegetation Optical Depth Climate Archive (VODCA)" (2020) published in Earth system science data
  • "Global ecosystems and fire: Multi-model assessment of fire-induced tree-cover and carbon storage reduction" (2020) published in Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Matthias Forkel include Markus Reichstein, Mirco Migliavacca, Wouter Dorigo, Wantong Li, and René Orth.

Publishing venues where Matthias Forkel has frequently contributed are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth system science data
  • Regional Environmental Change

Best Publications

  • ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding : State-of-the art and future directions

    Wouter Dorigo;Wolfgang Wagner;Clement Albergel;Franziska Albrecht

  • Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change

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  • Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

    Nuno Carvalhais;Matthias Forkel;Myroslava Khomik;Jessica Bellarby

  • Trend Change Detection in NDVI Time Series: Effects of Inter-Annual Variability and Methodology

    Matthias Forkel;Nuno Carvalhais;Jan Verbesselt;Miguel D. Mahecha

  • Enhanced seasonal CO2 exchange caused by amplified plant productivity in northern ecosystems

    Matthias Forkel;Nuno Carvalhais;Christian Rödenbeck;Ralph Keeling

  • Widespread increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moisture

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  • Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity

    Wolfgang Buermann;Wolfgang Buermann;Matthias Forkel;Michael O’Sullivan;Stephen Sitch

  • LPJmL4 – a dynamic global vegetation model with managed land – Part 1: Model description

    Sibyll Schaphoff;Werner von Bloh;Anja Rammig;Kirsten Thonicke

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

    Mirco Migliavacca;Talie Musavi;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jacob A. Nelson

  • Codominant water control on global interannual variability and trends in land surface phenology and greenness

    Matthias Forkel;Mirco Migliavacca;Kirsten Thonicke;Markus Reichstein

  • The global long-term microwave Vegetation Optical Depth Climate Archive (VODCA)

    Leander Moesinger;Wouter Dorigo;Richard de Jeu;Robin van der Schalie

  • Phenopix: A R package for image-based vegetation phenology

    Gianluca Filippa;Edoardo Cremonese;Mirco Migliavacca;Marta Galvagno

  • Emergent relationships with respect to burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models

    Matthias Forkel;Niels Andela;Sandy P. Harrison;Gitta Lasslop

  • The response of ecosystem water-use efficiency to rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations: sensitivity and large-scale biogeochemical implications

    Jürgen Knauer;Sönke Zaehle;Markus Reichstein;Belinda E. Medlyn

  • Extreme fire events are related to previous-year surface moisture conditions in permafrost-underlain larch forests of Siberia

    Matthias Forkel;Kirsten Thonicke;Christian Beer;Wolfgang Cramer

  • Global ecosystems and fire: Multi-model assessment of fire-induced tree-cover and carbon storage reduction.

    Gitta Lasslop;Stijn Hantson;Sandy P. Harrison;Dominique Bachelet

  • Widespread and complex drought effects on vegetation physiology inferred from space

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  • Recent global and regional trends in burned area and their compensating environmental controls

    Matthias Forkel;Wouter Dorigo;Gitta Lasslop;Emilio Chuvieco

  • Human and climate drivers of global biomass burning variability.

    Emilio Chuvieco;M. Lucrecia Pettinari;Nikos Koutsias;Matthias Forkel

  • Assessing the relationship between microwave vegetation optical depth and gross primary production

    Irene E Teubner;Matthias Forkel;Martin Jung;Yi Y Liu

  • Identifying environmental controls on vegetation greenness phenology through model–data integration

    Matthias Forkel;Nuno Carvalhais;S. Schaphoff;W. v. Bloh

  • A novel bias correction methodology for climate impact simulations

    Sebastian Sippel;Sebastian Sippel;F. E. L. Otto;Matthias Forkel;M. R. Allen

  • A data-driven approach to identify controls on global fire activity from satellite and climate observations (SOFIA V1)

    Matthias Forkel;Wouter Dorigo;Gitta Lasslop;Irene Teubner

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirsten Thonicke
Kirsten Thonicke Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Nuno Carvalhais
Nuno Carvalhais Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Sibyll Schaphoff
Sibyll Schaphoff Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Gitta Lasslop
Gitta Lasslop Max Planck Society
Christian Beer
Christian Beer Stockholm University
Emilio Chuvieco
Emilio Chuvieco University of Alcalá

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