2026 Torben R. Christensen: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	85	638	608	15	15	308	30240

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Torben R. Christensen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and specializes in research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

Their work encompasses prominent subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Key research topics covered by Christensen involve Climate change and permafrost, Cryospheric studies and observations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Among Christensen's recent publications are:

The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, 2020, Scientific Data
Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO₂ fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties, 2021, Global Change Biology
Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, 2021, Scientific Data
CO2-induced terrestrial climate feedback mechanism: From carbon sink to aerosol source and back, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)

Their frequent co-authors include Efrén López-Blanco, Oliver Sonnentag, Mikhail Mastepanov, A. J. Dolman, and Jennifer D. Watts.

Christensen has published regularly in venues such as Nature Climate Change, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biogeosciences, Scientific Data, and Global Change Biology.

Best Publications

Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

3266
Citations
The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

1551
Citations
Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change

Eric Post;Eric Post;Mads C. Forchhammer;M. Syndonia Bret-Harte;Terry V. Callaghan;Terry V. Callaghan

1478
Citations
Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change

A. David McGuire;Leif G. Anderson;Torben R. Christensen;Scott Dallimore

1261
Citations
Key indicators of Arctic climate change : 1971–2017

Jason E. Box;William T. Colgan;Torben Røjle Christensen;Torben Røjle Christensen;Niels Martin Schmidt

781
Citations
Climate change and Arctic ecosystems: 2. Modeling, paleodata‐model comparisons, and future projections

JO Kaplan;JO Kaplan;NH Bigelow;IC Prentice;SP Harrison;SP Harrison

721
Citations
Thawing sub-arctic permafrost - effects on vegetation and methane emissions

Torben R. Christensen;Torbjörn Johansson;H. Jonas Åkerman;Mihail Mastepanov

705
Citations
Factors controlling large scale variations in methane emissions from wetlands

Torben R. Christensen;Anna Ekberg;Lena Ström;Mihail Mastepanov

497
Citations
Vascular plant controls on methane emissions from northern peatforming wetlands.

Anna Joabsson;Torben Røjle Christensen;Bo Wallén

469
Citations
The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world

Eric Post;Richard B. Alley;Torben R. Christensen;Marc Macias-Fauria

462
Citations
An assessment of the carbon balance of Arctic tundra: comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions

A. D. McGuire;Torben Christensen;D. Hayes;Arnaud Heroult

417
Citations
Species-specific effects of vascular plants on carbon turnover and methane emissions from wetlands

Lena Ström;Mikhail Mastepanov;Torben R. Christensen

415
Citations
The effect of vascular plants on carbon turnover and methane emissions from a tundra wetland

Lena Ström;Anna Ekberg;Mikhail Mastepanov;Torben Røjle Christensen

409
Citations
Large tundra methane burst during onset of freezing.

Mikhail Mastepanov;Charlotte Sigsgaard;Edward J. Dlugokencky;Sander Houweling;Sander Houweling

402
Citations
Climate change and Arctic ecosystems: 1. Vegetation changes north of 55°N between the last glacial maximum, mid‐Holocene, and present

Nancy H. Bigelow;Linda B. Brubaker;Mary E. Edwards;Mary E. Edwards;Mary E. Edwards;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison

400
Citations
Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

J. Loisel;A. V. Gallego-Sala;Matthew J. Amesbury;Matthew J. Amesbury;G. Magnan

381
Citations
Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

Susan M. Natali;Jennifer D. Watts;Brendan M. Rogers;Stefano Potter

379
Citations
Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

E. A. G. Schuur;B. W. Abbott;W. B. Bowden;V. Brovkin

375
Citations
Microbial activity in soils frozen to below-39 degrees C

NS Panikov;PW Flanagan;WC Oechel;Mikhail Mastepanov

356
Citations
Methane emissions from wetlands and their relationship with vascular plants: an Arctic example

Anna Joabsson;Torben Røjle Christensen

348
Citations
Decadal vegetation changes in a northern peatland, greenhouse gas fluxes and net radiative forcing

Torbjörn Johansson;Nils Malmer;Patrick M. Crill;Thomas Friborg

336
Citations
An assessment of the carbon balance of Arctic tundra: Comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions

A. D. McGuire;T. R. Christensen;D. J. Hayes;A. Heroult

10
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry V. Callaghan University of Sheffield

Margareta Johansson Lund University

Frans-Jan W. Parmentier University of Oslo

Magnus Lund Aarhus University

Lena Ström Karolinska Institute

Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University

Thomas Friborg University of Copenhagen

Sven Jonasson University of Copenhagen

Anders Lindroth Lund University

Patrick M. Crill Stockholm University

External Links

Personal website of Torben R. Christensen

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