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52
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15854
World Ranking
3384
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185

Sibyll Schaphoff publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sibyll Schaphoff sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 116 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Sibyll Schaphoff D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sibyll Schaphoff sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sibyll Schaphoff is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their research broadly addresses environmental science with a particular focus on planetary boundaries and climate-related impacts on terrestrial ecosystems and agriculture.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these areas, Sibyll Schaphoff's work explores several subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Soil Science
  • Water Science and Technology

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience

Sibyll Schaphoff has contributed to a range of scientific publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries, 2023, Science Advances
  • Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Global cotton production under climate change - Implications for yield and water consumption, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Climate Extreme Versus Carbon Extreme: Responses of Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes to Temperature and Precipitation, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Uncertainty analysis of vegetation distribution in the northern high latitudes during the 21st century with a dynamic vegetation model: Uncertainty Analysis of Vegetation Distribution, 2024, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

The scientist often publishes in journals including:

  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Biogeosciences
  • Science Advances
  • Nature Sustainability

Sibyll Schaphoff frequently collaborates with several co-authors, such as:

  • Werner von Bloh
  • Christoph Müller
  • Wolfgang Lucht
  • Dieter Gerten
  • Kirsten Thonicke

Best Publications

  • Modelling the role of agriculture for the 20th century global terrestrial carbon balance

    Alberte Bondeau;Pascalle C. Smith;Sönke Zaehle;Sibyll Schaphoff

  • Terrestrial vegetation and water balance-hydrological evaluation of a dynamic global vegetation model

    Dieter Gerten;Sibyll Schaphoff;Uwe Haberlandt;Wolfgang Lucht

  • Agricultural green and blue water consumption and its influence on the global water system

    Stefanie Rost;Dieter Gerten;Alberte Bondeau;Wolfgang Lucht

  • Reduction Of Ecosystem Productivity And Respiration During The European Summer 2003 Climate Anomaly: A Joint Flux Tower, Remote Sensing And Modelling Analysis

    M. Reichstein;M. Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;D. Papale;R. Valentini

  • Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

    Andrew D. Friend;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht;Tim T. Rademacher;Rozenn Keribin

  • Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

    Dieter Gerten;Dieter Gerten;Vera Heck;Vera Heck;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Benjamin Leon Bodirsky

  • Bioenergy production potential of global biomass plantations under environmental and agricultural constraints

    Tim Beringer;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht;Sibyll Schaphoff

  • Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models

    Bernhard Schauberger;Sotirios Archontoulis;Almut Arneth;Juraj Balkovic

  • Water savings potentials of irrigation systems:: global simulation of processes and linkages

    Jonas Jägermeyr;Dieter Gerten;Jens Heinke;Jens Heinke;Jens Heinke;Sibyll Schaphoff

  • Tropical forests and the global carbon cycle: impacts of atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate change and rate of deforestation

    Wolfgang Cramer;Alberte Bondeau;Sibyll Schaphoff;Wolfgang Lucht

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

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

  • Integrated crop water management might sustainably halve the global food gap

    J. Jägermeyr;J. Jägermeyr;D. Gerten;D. Gerten;S. Schaphoff;J. Heinke;J. Heinke;J. Heinke

  • Regional disparities in the beneficial effects of rising CO2 concentrations on crop water productivity

    Delphine Deryng;Delphine Deryng;Delphine Deryng;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;Christian Folberth;Christian Folberth;Christoph Müller

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

    Matthias Forkel;Mirco Migliavacca;Kirsten Thonicke;Markus Reichstein

  • Terrestrial biosphere carbon storage under alternative climate projections

    Sibyll Schaphoff;Wolfgang Lucht;Dieter Gerten;Stephen Sitch

  • Contribution of permafrost soils to the global carbon budget

    Sibyll Schaphoff;Ursula Heyder;Sebastian Ostberg;Dieter Gerten

  • Terrestrial vegetation redistribution and carbon balance under climate change

    Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht;Sibyll Schaphoff;Tim Erbrecht;Ursula Heyder

  • Observation-based modelling of permafrost carbon fluxes with accounting for deep carbon deposits and thermokarst activity

    T. Schneider von Deimling;T. Schneider von Deimling;G. Grosse;J. Strauss;L. Schirrmeister

  • System complexity and policy integration challenges: the Brazilian Energy-Water-Food Nexus

    J.-F. Mercure;M. A. Paim;P. Bocquillon;P. Bocquillon;S. Lindner;S. Lindner;S. Lindner

  • Tamm Review: Observed and projected climate change impacts on Russia’s forests and its carbon balance

    Sibyll Schaphoff;Christopher P.O. Reyer;Dmitry Schepaschenko;Dmitry Schepaschenko;Dieter Gerten

  • Terrestrial vegetation redistribution and carbon balance under climate change Carbon Balance and Management

    Lucht Wolfgang;Sibyll Schaphoff;Tim Erbrecht;Ursula Heyder

  • Potential future changes in water limitations of the terrestrial biosphere

    Dieter Gerten;Sibyll Schaphoff;Wolfgang Lucht

  • Causes and trends of water scarcity in food production

    Miina Porkka;Dieter Gerten;Sibyll Schaphoff;Stefan Siebert

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Lucht
Wolfgang Lucht Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Akihiko Ito
Akihiko Ito University of Tokyo
Christopher P.O. Reyer
Christopher P.O. Reyer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Jinfeng Chang
Jinfeng Chang Zhejiang University
Jens Heinke
Jens Heinke Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Nuno Carvalhais
Nuno Carvalhais Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Katharina Waha
Katharina Waha Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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