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Overview

Wolfgang Cramer is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a specialization in areas related to global and planetary change. Their research encompasses various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

Their recent publications include works that focus on climate and environmental changes in the Mediterranean region as well as broader ecological dynamics. Notable papers authored or coauthored by Cramer include:

  • Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin - Current Situation and Risks for the Future. First Mediterranean Assessment Report (2020), published by Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin - Current Situation and Risks for the Future. First Mediterranean Assessment Report (2020), published by HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

In addition, Cramer has contributed to research on climate and extreme weather events in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, as evidenced in the paper titled Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (2022), published in Reviews of Geophysics.

Other related research in the ecological domain involving vegetation dynamics and modeling includes:

  • Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics (2020), Nature Plants
  • Eco-evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land-surface models (2021), New Phytologist

Frequent coauthors often collaborating with Wolfgang Cramer include:

  • Joël Guiot
  • Katarzyna Marini
  • Elena Xoplaki
  • Abed El Rahman Hassoun
  • Piero Lionello

The scientist's work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Reviews of Geophysics
  • Nature Plants
  • New Phytologist

Main topics addressed in their research cover a variety of ecological and environmental issues, including:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Horticultural and Viticultural Research
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Best Publications

  • La recherche sur les changements globaux à l'épreuve de la Covid-19

    Wolfgang Cramer;Patrick Criqui;Jean-François Guégan;Hervé Le Treut

  • Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model

    S Sitch;Benjamin Smith;IC Prentice;A Arneth

  • A global biome model based on plant physiology and dominance, soil properties and climate

    I. Colin Prentice;Wolfgang Cramer;Sandy P. Harrison;Rik Leemans

  • Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

    Wolfgang Cramer;Alberte Bondeau;F. Ian Woodward;I. Colin Prentice

  • Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe

    Dagmar Schröter;Wolfgang Cramer;Rik Leemans;I. Colin Prentice

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

    D. S. Schimel;J. I. House;K. A. Hibbard;P. Bousquet

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

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

  • Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean

    Wolfgang Cramer;Joël Guiot;Marianela Fader;Joaquim Garrabou;Joaquim Garrabou

  • Comparing global models of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP): overview and key results

    Wolfgang Cramer;D. Kicklighter;Alberte Bondeau;Berrien Moore

  • Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

    Dorothe A. Frank;Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Kirsten Thonicke

  • Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

    Elena M. Bennett;Wolfgang Cramer;Alpina Begossi;Georgina Cundill

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

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

  • The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: coupling fire into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

    Kirsten Thonicke;Sergey Venevsky;Stephen Sitch;Wolfgang Cramer

  • The IIASA Database for Mean Monthly Values of Temperature, Precipitation, and Cloudiness on a Global Terrestrial Grid

    R. Leemans;W.P. Cramer

  • Avoiding dangerous climate change

    AJ Challinor;TR Wheeler;TM Osborne;JM Slingo

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

    F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

  • 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

  • A bioclimatic model for the potential distributions of North European tree species under present and future climates

    Martin T. Sykes;I. Colin Prentice;Wolfgang Cramer

  • Climate change risks for African agriculture

    Christoph Müller;Wolfgang Cramer;William L. Hare;Hermann Lotze-Campen

  • 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

  • A simulation model for the transient effects of climate change on forest landscapes

    I. Colin Prentice;Martin T. Sykes;Wolfgang Cramer

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberte Bondeau
Alberte Bondeau Aix-Marseille University
Wolfgang Lucht
Wolfgang Lucht Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Kirsten Thonicke
Kirsten Thonicke Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Anja Rammig
Anja Rammig Technical University of Munich
Martin T. Sykes
Martin T. Sykes Lund University
Christopher B. Field
Christopher B. Field Stanford University
Brian Huntley
Brian Huntley Durham University
Gary W. Yohe
Gary W. Yohe Wesleyan University
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading

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