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Sebastian Gayler

Sebastian Gayler

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
37
Citations
10122
World Ranking
4519
National Ranking
282

Sebastian Gayler publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sebastian Gayler sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 134 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Sebastian Gayler D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sebastian Gayler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sebastian Gayler is affiliated with the University of Hohenheim in Germany, with a research focus primarily in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Soil Science.

Their main research topics include:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
  • Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Climate variability and models

The scientist has published extensively in several journals, frequently contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • European Journal of Agronomy
  • Open Data Journal for Agricultural Research
  • Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sebastian Gayler include:

  • Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise, 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • How well do crop modeling groups predict wheat phenology, given calibration data from the target population?, 2021, European Journal of Agronomy
  • Evidence for increasing global wheat yield potential, 2022, Environmental Research Letters
  • Spatial Variability and Temporal Trends of Climate Change in Southwest Ethiopia: Association with Farmers' Perception and Their Adaptation Strategies, 2021, Advances in Meteorology

Sebastian Gayler frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Tobias K. D. Weber
  • Thilo Streck
  • Gerrit Hoogenboom
  • Thomas Gaiser
  • Benjamin Dumont

Best Publications

  • Rising Temperatures Reduce Global Wheat Production

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;P. Martre;P. Martre;R. P. Rötter

  • Uncertainty in Simulating Wheat Yields Under Climate Change

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones

  • How Do Various Maize Crop Models Vary in Their Responses to Climate Change Factors

    Simona Bassu;Nadine Brisson;Jean Louis Durand;Kenneth Boote

  • Similar estimates of temperature impacts on global wheat yield by three independent methods

    Bing Liu;Bing Liu;Senthold Asseng;Christoph Müller;Frank Ewert

  • Multimodel ensembles of wheat growth: many models are better than one

    Pierre Martre;Pierre Martre;Daniel Wallach;Senthold Asseng;Frank Ewert

  • Climate change impact and adaptation for wheat protein

    Senthold Asseng;Pierre Martre;Andrea Maiorano;Reimund P Rötter

  • The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions.

    Enli Wang;Pierre Martre;Zhigan Zhao;Zhigan Zhao;Frank Ewert

  • Global wheat production with 1.5 and 2.0°C above pre-industrial warming

    Bing Liu;Pierre Martre;Frank Ewert;John R. Porter;John R. Porter;John R. Porter

  • Multimodel ensembles improve predictions of crop-environment-management interactions.

    Daniel Wallach;Pierre Martre;Bing Liu;Bing Liu;Senthold Asseng

  • Quantifying the Effect of Soil Moisture on the Aerobic Microbial Mineralization of Selected Pesticides in Different Soils

    Reiner Schroll;Hans Heinrich Becher;Ulrike Dörfler;Sebastian Gayler

  • Crop Model Improvement Reduces the Uncertainty of the Response to Temperature of Multi-Model Ensembles

    Andrea Maiorano;Pierre Martre;Senthold Asseng;Frank Ewert

  • Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Gatien N. Falconnier;Marc Corbeels;Kenneth J. Boote;François Affholder

  • Modeling biomass growth, N-uptake and phenological development of potato crop

    S. Gayler;E. Wang;E. Priesack;T. Schaaf

  • Evaluating the ability of four crop models to predict different environmental impacts on spring wheat grown in open-top chambers

    Christian Biernath;Sebastian Gayler;Sebastian Bittner;Christian Klein

  • How accurately do maize crop models simulate the interactions of atmospheric CO2 concentration levels with limited water supply on water use and yield

    Jean-Louis Durand;Kenel Delusca;Ken Boote;Jon Lizaso

  • The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise

    Daniel Wallach;Taru Palosuo;Peter Thorburn;Zvi Hochman

  • Catchments as reactors: a comprehensive approach for water fluxes and solute turnover

    Peter Grathwohl;Hermann Rügner;Thomas Wöhling;Karsten Osenbrück

  • The impact of crop growth sub-model choice on simulated water and nitrogen balances.

    Eckart Priesack;Sebastian Gayler;Hans P. Hartmann

  • Simulation of maize evapotranspiration: An inter-comparison among 29 maize models

    Bruce A. Kimball;Kenneth J. Boote;Jerry L. Hatfield;Lajpat R. Ahuja

  • A one-dimensional model of water flow in soil-plant systems based on plant architecture

    Michael Janott;Sebastian Gayler;Arthur Gessler;Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux

  • A dynamical model of environmental effects on allocation to carbon-based secondary compounds in juvenile trees.

    S. Gayler;T. E. E. Grams;W. Heller;D. Treutter

  • Soil organic carbon and nitrogen feedbacks on crop yields under climate change

    B. Basso;B. Dumont;B. Maestrini;I. Shcherbak

Frequent Co-Authors

Eckart Priesack
Eckart Priesack University of Bonn
Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso Michigan State University
Thilo Streck
Thilo Streck University of Hohenheim
Peter J. Thorburn
Peter J. Thorburn Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Senthold Asseng
Senthold Asseng Technical University of Munich
Alex C. Ruane
Alex C. Ruane Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Kurt Christian Kersebaum
Kurt Christian Kersebaum Czech Academy of Sciences
Davide Cammarano
Davide Cammarano Aarhus University
Fulu Tao
Fulu Tao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kenneth J. Boote
Kenneth J. Boote University of Florida

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