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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
87
Citations
35796
World Ranking
665
National Ranking
51

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Ulf Büntgen is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics of their work include Tree-ring climate responses, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate variability and models, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, and Forest ecology and management.

Ulf Büntgen has published extensively across various journals. Frequent publication venues include Dendrochronologia with 13 publications, Quaternary Science Reviews (8), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (6), Nature (6), and The Science of The Total Environment (6).

Selected recent papers by Büntgen and collaborators are:

  • The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0-55 cal kBP), 2020, Radiocarbon
  • Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history, 2020, Dendrochronologia
  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions, 2021, Nature Communications

Ulf Büntgen frequently collaborates with other researchers, notably:

  • Jan Esper
  • Frederick Reinig
  • Miroslav Trnka
  • Paul J. Krusic
  • Alma Piermattei

Best Publications

  • The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0-55 cal kBP)

    Paula J Reimer;William E N Austin;Edouard Bard;Alex Bayliss

  • 2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

    Ulf Büntgen;Ulf Büntgen;Willy Tegel;Kurt Nicolussi;Michael McCormick

  • Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years

    M. Sigl;M. Winstrup;J. R. McConnell;K. C. Welten

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

    Ulf Büntgen;Vladimir S. Myglan;Frederik Chaprentier Ljungqvist;Michael McCormick

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Keith R. Briffa

  • Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence

    Michael McCormick;Ulf Büntgen;Mark A. Cane;Edward R. Cook

  • Summer Temperature Variations in the European Alps, a.d. 755–2004

    Ulf Büntgen;David C. Frank;Daniel Nievergelt;Jan Esper

  • Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: the long term context

    Rob Wilson;Rob Wilson;Kevin Anchukaitis;Kevin Anchukaitis;Keith R. Briffa;Ulf Büntgen

  • European summer temperatures since Roman times

    J. Luterbacher;J.P. Werner;J.E. Smerdon;L. Fernández-Donado

  • Long‐term drought severity variations in Morocco

    Jan Esper;David Frank;Ulf Büntgen;Anne Verstege

  • Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

    Ulf Büntgen;Otmar Urban;Paul J. Krusic;Paul J. Krusic;Michal Rybníček;Michal Rybníček

  • Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

    Jan Esper;David C. Frank;Mauri Timonen;Eduardo Zorita

  • Climate-driven introduction of the Black Death and successive plague reintroductions into Europe

    Boris V. Schmid;Ulf Büntgen;W. Ryan Easterday;Christian Ginzler

  • Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate

    David C. Frank;Jan Esper;Christoph C. Raible;Christoph C. Raible;Ulf Büntgen

  • Silver fir and Douglas fir are more tolerant to extreme droughts than Norway spruce in south-western Germany

    Valentina Vitali;Ulf Büntgen;Ulf Büntgen;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Timing and duration of European larch growing season along altitudinal gradients in the Swiss Alps.

    Lea Moser;Patrick Fonti;Ulf Büntgen;Jan Esper

  • A 1052-year tree-ring proxy for Alpine summer temperatures

    Ulf Büntgen;Jan Esper;David C. Frank;Kurt Nicolussi

  • No growth stimulation of Canada's boreal forest under half-century of combined warming and CO2 fertilization.

    Martin P. Girardin;Olivier Bouriaud;Edward H. Hogg;Werner Kurz

  • Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part II, spatially resolved reconstructions

    Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Rob Wilson;Rob Wilson;Keith R. Briffa;Ulf Büntgen;Ulf Büntgen

  • Growth responses to climate in a multi-species tree-ring network in the Western Carpathian Tatra Mountains, Poland and Slovakia.

    Ulf Büntgen;David C. Frank;Ryszard J. Kaczka;Anne Verstege

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Paul J. Krusic
Paul J. Krusic University of Cambridge
Alexander V. Kirdyanov
Alexander V. Kirdyanov University of Cambridge
David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
Rudolf Brázdil
Rudolf Brázdil Czech Academy of Sciences
Miroslav Trnka
Miroslav Trnka Czech Academy of Sciences
Kerstin Treydte
Kerstin Treydte Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Håvard Kauserud
Håvard Kauserud University of Oslo

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