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Stefan Olin

Stefan Olin

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2025

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32
Citations
5701
World Ranking
962
National Ranking
5

Ecology and Evolution

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32
Citations
7369
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7989
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205

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  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Stefan Olin is a researcher affiliated with Lund University in Sweden, specializing in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work focuses on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Soil Science.

Their research encompasses a range of topics related to climate and ecological processes. Notable areas of study include:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility

Stefan Olin has contributed to publications in several scientific venues, with a significant number of papers appearing in:

  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Biogeosciences
  • Global Change Biology
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Earth's Future

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Thomas A. M. Pugh (with 10 joint publications)
  • Christoph Müller (9 joint publications)
  • Jonas Jägermeyr (9 joint publications)
  • Christian Folberth (9 joint publications)
  • Almut Arneth (8 joint publications)

Among the recent papers featuring contributions linked to Stefan Olin are:

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks, 2020, Nature
  • Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Recent divergence in the contributions of tropical and boreal forests to the terrestrial carbon sink, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Exploring uncertainties in global crop yield projections in a large ensemble of crop models and CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate scenarios, 2021, Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

    Hanquin Tian;Rongting Xu;Josep G. Canadell;Rona L. Thompson

  • Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change

    Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Christoph Müller;Katja Frieler

  • Global soil nitrous oxide emissions since the preindustrial era estimated by an ensemble of terrestrial biosphere models: Magnitude, attribution, and uncertainty.

    Hanqin Tian;Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Jia Yang;Rongting Xu;Chaoqun Lu

  • Global Gridded Crop Model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications

    Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;James Chryssanthacopoulos;James Chryssanthacopoulos;Almut Arneth

  • 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

  • The Global N2O Model Intercomparison Project

    Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Chaoqun Lu;Rongting Xu

  • Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield

    Xuhui Wang;Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliot;Nathaniel D. Mueller

  • Implications of accounting for land use in simulations of ecosystem carbon cycling in Africa

    Mats Lindeskog;A. Arneth;A. Bondeau;A. Bondeau;K. Waha

  • Recent divergence in the contributions of tropical and boreal forests to the terrestrial carbon sink

    Torbern Tagesson;Guy Schurgers;Stéphanie Horion;Philippe Ciais

  • Climate analogues suggest limited potential for intensification of production on current croplands under climate change

    T.A.M. Pugh;C. Müller;J. Elliott;D. Deryng;D. Deryng

  • Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties

    Florian Zabel;Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;Sara Minoli

  • Exploring uncertainties in global crop yield projections in a large ensemble of crop models and CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate scenarios

    Christoph Müller;James Franke;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Alex C. Ruane

  • Understanding the weather signal in national crop-yield variability

    Katja Frieler;Bernhard Schauberger;Almut Arneth;Juraj Balkovič;Juraj Balkovič

  • Global soil nitrous oxide emissions since the pre-industrial era estimated by an ensemble of Terrestrial Biosphere Models: Magnitude, attribution and uncertainty

    Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Rongting Xu;Chaoqun Lu

  • Simulated carbon emissions from land-use change are substantially enhanced by accounting for agricultural management

    T. A. M. Pugh;A. Arneth;Stefan Olin;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström

  • The Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison phase 1 simulation dataset

    Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;David Kelly;Almut Arneth

  • The GGCMI Phase 2 experiment: global gridded crop model simulations under uniform changes in CO 2 , temperature, water, and nitrogen levels (protocol version 1.0)

    James A. Franke;Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;Alex C. Ruane

  • Modelling the response of yields and tissue C:N to changes in atmospheric CO2 and N management in the main wheat regions of western Europe

    Stefan Olin;Guy Schurgers;Guy Schurgers;Mats Lindeskog;David Wårlind;David Wårlind

  • Large uncertainty in carbon uptake potential of land-based climate-change mitigation efforts

    Andreas Krause;Thomas A.M. Pugh;Thomas A.M. Pugh;Anita D. Bayer;Wei Li

  • Soil carbon management in large-scale Earth system modelling: implications for crop yields and nitrogen leaching

    Stefan Olin;Mats Lindeskog;T. A. M. Pugh;G. Schurgers

  • Global response patterns of major rainfed crops to adaptation by maintaining current growing periods and irrigation

    Sara Minoli;Sara Minoli;Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;Alex C. Ruane

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. M. Pugh
Thomas A. M. Pugh University of Birmingham
Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christian Folberth
Christian Folberth International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Alex C. Ruane
Alex C. Ruane Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Joshua Elliott
Joshua Elliott University of Chicago
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Delphine Deryng
Delphine Deryng Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hong Yang
Hong Yang Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Xuhui Wang
Xuhui Wang Peking University
Guy Schurgers
Guy Schurgers University of Copenhagen

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