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Pekka E. Kauppi is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change. This encompasses related subfields including nature and landscape conservation, atmospheric science, economics and econometrics, and insect science.

The scientist's main topics of study cover various aspects of forest management and policy, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, forest ecology and management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, climate change policy and economics, and forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Recent scholarly papers authored or co-authored by Kauppi include the following:

  • The enduring world forest carbon sink, 2024, Nature
  • Managing existing forests can mitigate climate change, 2022, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Quantifying forest change in the European Union, 2021, Nature
  • Carbon benefits from Forest Transitions promoting biomass expansions and thickening, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • High-resolution analysis of observed thermal growing season variability over northern Europe, 2021, Climate Dynamics

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Iddo K. Wernick
  • Richard A. Birdsey
  • Peter Högberg
  • Yude Pan
  • Oliver L. Phillips

Kauppi's publications appear across notable scientific journals, with the highest number appearing in Nature. Other frequent venues include Forest Ecology and Management, Global Change Biology, Climate Dynamics, and Land Use Policy.

Best Publications

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

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

  • A large carbon sink in the woody biomass of Northern forests

    R. B. Myneni;J. Dong;C. J. Tucker;R. K. Kaufmann

  • Biomass and carbon budget of European forests, 1971 to 1990.

    Pekka E. Kauppi;Kari Mielikäinen;Kullervo Kuusela

  • Remote sensing estimates of boreal and temperate forest woody biomass: carbon pools, sources, and sinks

    Jiarui Dong;Robert K. Kaufmann;Ranga B. Myneni;Compton J. Tucker

  • Management of Forests for Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    S. Brown;J. Sathaye;M. Cannell;P.E. Kauppi

  • Returning forests analyzed with the forest identity

    Pekka E. Kauppi;Jesse H. Ausubel;Jingyun Fang;Alexander S. Mather

  • The enduring world forest carbon sink

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  • Mitigation of carbon emissions to the atmosphere by forest management.

    S. Brown;J. Sathaye;M. Cannell;P. E. Kauppi

  • Acidification in Finland

    Pekka Kauppi;Pia Anttila;Kaarle Kenttämies

  • Managing climate risk.

    M. Obersteiner;C. Azar;P. Kauppi;K. Mollersten

  • The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy

    Gregg Marland;Roger A. Pielke;Mike Apps;Roni Avissar

  • Importing Timber, Exporting Ecological Impact

    Audrey L. Mayer;Pekka E. Kauppi;Per K. Angelstam;Yu Zhang

  • Accelerating net terrestrial carbon uptake during the warming hiatus due to reduced respiration

    Ashley Ballantyne;William Smith;William Anderegg;Pekka Kauppi

  • Technological and Economic Potential of Options to Enhance, Maintain, and Manage Biological Carbon Reservoirs and Geo-engineering.

    P.E. Kauppi;R. Sedjo;Bio ja ympäristötieteiden laitos

  • Acidification in Europe: A Simulation Model for Evaluating Control Strategies

    J. Alcamo;M. Amann;J.-P. Hettelingh;M. Holmberg

  • Large impacts of climatic warming on growth of boreal forests since 1960.

    Pekka E. Kauppi;Maximilian Posch;Pentti Pirinen

  • Journal of Industrial Ecology

    Thomas E. McKone;Mitchell J. Small;Braden R. Allenby;David T. Allen

  • INCREASED CARBON SINK IN TEMPERATE AND BOREAL FORESTS

    Jari Liski;Alexander V. Korotkov;Christopher F. L. Prins;Timo Karjalainen

  • Sensitivity of boreal forests to possible climatic warming.

    Pekka Kauppi;Maximilian Posch

  • Trade, transport, and sinks extend the carbon dioxide responsibility of countries: An editorial essay

    Glen P. Peters;Glen P. Peters;Gregg Marland;Gregg Marland;Edgar G. Hertwich;Laura Saikku

  • Municipal solid waste production and composition in Finland- : Changes in the period 1960-2002 and prospects until 2020

    Laura Sokka;Riina Antikainen;Pekka E. Kauppi

Frequent Co-Authors

Maximilian Posch
Maximilian Posch International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Jari Liski
Jari Liski Finnish Meteorological Institute
Richard A. Houghton
Richard A. Houghton Woods Hole Research Center
Anatoly Shvidenko
Anatoly Shvidenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Werner A. Kurz
Werner A. Kurz Natural Resources Canada
Joseph Alcamo
Joseph Alcamo University of Sussex
Roger A. Sedjo
Roger A. Sedjo Resources For The Future
Jingyun Fang
Jingyun Fang Peking University
Yude Pan
Yude Pan US Forest Service
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds

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