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Wolfgang Buermann

Wolfgang Buermann

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
12579
World Ranking
5425
National Ranking
362

Overview

Wolfgang Buermann is affiliated with the University of Augsburg in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily addresses global and planetary change, with further focus on atmospheric science, ecology, water science and technology, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, hydrology and watershed management studies, remote sensing in agriculture, and climate change and permafrost.

Recent publications by Wolfgang Buermann include:

  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation, 2020, Science Advances
  • Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Seasonal biological carryover dominates northern vegetation growth, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Climate-Driven Variability and Trends in Plant Productivity Over Recent Decades Based on Three Global Products, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Science Advances
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Nature Communications

Wolfgang Buermann collaborates regularly with several other researchers, including:

  • Shilong Piao
  • Stephen Sitch
  • Manuel Gloor
  • Dominick V. Spracklen
  • Philippe Ciais

Best Publications

  • Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents.

    Sassan S Saatchi;Nancy L Harris;Sandra Brown;Michael A Lefsky

  • Climatic control of the high-latitude vegetation greening trend and Pinatubo effect

    Wolfgang Lucht;I. Colin Prentice;Ranga B. Myneni;Stephen Sitch

  • Drier summers cancel out the CO2 uptake enhancement induced by warmer springs.

    Alon Angert;S.C. Biraud;C. Bonfils;C. Henning

  • Remote sensing estimates of boreal and temperate forest woody biomass: carbon pools, sources, and sinks

    Jiarui Dong;Robert K. Kaufmann;Ranga B. Myneni;Compton J. Tucker

  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation.

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Yue Li

  • Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades

    David Gampe;David Gampe;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Markus Reichstein;Michael O’Sullivan

  • Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity

    Wolfgang Buermann;Wolfgang Buermann;Matthias Forkel;Michael O’Sullivan;Stephen Sitch

  • Vegetation productivity patterns at high northern latitudes: a multi‐sensor satellite data assessment

    Kevin C. Guay;Pieter S. A. Beck;Logan T. Berner;Logan T. Berner;Scott J. Goetz

  • Modeling distribution of Amazonian tree species and diversity using remote sensing measurements

    Sassan Saatchi;Wolfgang Buermann;Hans ter Steege;Scott Mori

  • Evaluation of the MODIS LAI algorithm at a coniferous forest site in Finland

    Yujie Wang;Curtis E Woodcock;Wolfgang Buermann;Pauline Stenberg

  • Multiscale analysis and validation of the MODIS LAI product: I. Uncertainty assessment

    Yuhong Tian;Yuhong Tian;Curtis E Woodcock;Yujie Wang;Jeff L Privette

  • Predicting species distributions across the Amazonian and Andean regions using remote sensing data

    Wolfgang Buermann;Sassan Saatchi;Sassan Saatchi;Thomas B. Smith;Brian R. Zutta

  • Earlier springs decrease peak summer productivity in North American boreal forests

    Wolfgang Buermann;Parida R. Bikash;Martin Jung;Donald H. Burn

  • Evaluation of the Utility of Satellite-Based Vegetation Leaf Area Index Data for Climate Simulations

    Wolfgang Buermann;Jiarui Dong;Xubin Zeng;Ranga B. Myneni

  • Tight metal binding by humic acids and its role in biomineralization

    Geoffrey Davies;Amjad Fataftah;Aleksandr Cherkasskiy;Elham A. Ghabbour

  • Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock

    Daniel S. Goll;Daniel S. Goll;Philippe Ciais;Thorben Amann;Wolfgang Buermann

  • Interannual covariability in Northern Hemisphere air temperatures and greenness associated with El Niño‐Southern Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation

    Wolfgang Buermann;Wolfgang Buermann;Bruce Anderson;Compton J. Tucker;Robert Earl Dickinson

  • Birdsong tuned to the environment: green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise

    Alexander N. G. Kirschel;Daniel T. Blumstein;Rachel E. Cohen;Wolfgang Buermann

  • Spatially explicit predictions of blood parasites in a widely distributed African rainforest bird

    R. N. M. Sehgal;W. Buermann;R. J. Harrigan;C. Bonneaud

  • Effect of foliage spatial heterogeneity in the MODIS LAI and FPAR algorithm over broadleaf forests

    N.V. Shabanov;Y. Wang;W. Buermann;J. Dong

  • Seasonal biological carryover dominates northern vegetation growth.

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Kai Wang

  • Multiscale analysis and validation of the MODIS LAI product

    Yuhong Tian;Curtis E. Woodcock;Yujie Wang;Jeff L. Privette

  • Predicting species distributions across the Amazonian and Andean regions using remote sensing data. Commentary

    Bethany A. Bradley;Erica Fleishman;Wolfgang Buermann;Sassan Saatchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Borja Milá
Borja Milá Spanish National Research Council
Yuhong Tian
Yuhong Tian National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ravinder N. M. Sehgal
Ravinder N. M. Sehgal San Francisco State University
Hans Slabbekoorn
Hans Slabbekoorn Leiden University
Yuri Knyazikhin
Yuri Knyazikhin Boston University
Robert K. Wayne
Robert K. Wayne University of California, Los Angeles
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Compton J. Tucker
Compton J. Tucker Goddard Space Flight Center

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