Alexander Knohl

28.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
142 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Alexander Knohl is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Knohl has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 57 papers in Ecology and 39 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Alexander Knohl's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (90 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (38 papers) and Oil Palm Production and Sustainability (33 papers). Alexander Knohl is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (90 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (38 papers) and Oil Palm Production and Sustainability (33 papers). Alexander Knohl collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Indonesia. Alexander Knohl's co-authors include Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Nina Buchmann, B. E. Law, Philippe Ciais, Dennis Baldocchi, John Grace, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Dominik Hessenmöller, Annett Börner and Olaf Kolle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Knohl

133 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks

2008 1.3k citations Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Alexander Knohl et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Knohl Germany	42	5.7k	2.3k	1.9k	1.8k	1.4k	142	7.6k
M. E. Litvak United States	42	4.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	120	6.3k
Rosie A. Fisher United States	39	6.5k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.2×	2.5k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	96	8.1k
John Grace United Kingdom	38	4.3k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	95	6.7k
D. J. Moore United States	38	4.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	120	6.2k
Anja Rammig Germany	38	4.6k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	730 0.5×	116	6.2k
Lindsay B. Hutley Australia	53	5.8k 1.0×	3.5k 1.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	186	8.3k
Jukka Pumpanen Finland	43	3.4k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	934 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	174	6.2k
John L. Campbell United States	41	3.4k 0.6×	2.3k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	762 0.6×	146	7.4k
Kirsten Thonicke Germany	40	7.5k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	2.8k 1.4×	2.0k 1.1×	939 0.7×	110	9.6k
Sara Vicca Belgium	40	4.5k 0.8×	3.2k 1.4×	1.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	2.2k 1.6×	112	9.5k

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Salomón, Roberto L., Jan Muhr, Alexander Knohl, et al.. (2023). Differences between tree stem CO₂ efflux and O₂ influx rates cannot be explained by internal CO₂ transport or storage in large beech trees. Plant Cell & Environment. 46(9). 2680–2693. 5 indexed citations

Klosterhalfen, Anne, et al.. (2023). A modeling approach to investigate drivers, variability and uncertainties in O ₂ fluxes and O ₂ : CO ₂ exchange ratios in a temperate forest. Biogeosciences. 20(19). 4087–4107. 2 indexed citations

Knohl, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Simulated effects of canopy structural complexity on forest productivity. Forest Ecology and Management. 538. 120978–120978. 12 indexed citations

Brown, Luke A., Harry Morris, Courtney L. Meier, et al.. (2023). Stage 1 Validation of Plant Area Index From the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 20. 1–5. 8 indexed citations

Stiegler, Christian, Franziska Koebsch, Ashehad A. Ali, et al.. (2023). Temporal variation in nitrous oxide (N₂O) fluxes from an oil palm plantation in Indonesia: An ecosystem‐scale analysis. GCB Bioenergy. 15(10). 1221–1239.

Orth, René, Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn, et al.. (2022). Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest. Biogeosciences. 19(17). 4315–4329. 31 indexed citations

Camarretta, Nicolò, Martin Ehbrecht, Arne Wenzel, et al.. (2021). Using Airborne Laser Scanning to characterize different land uses in a tropical landscape based on their structural complexity. 4 indexed citations

Camarretta, Nicolò, Martin Ehbrecht, Dominik Seidel, et al.. (2021). Using Airborne Laser Scanning to Characterize Land-Use Systems in a Tropical Landscape Based on Vegetation Structural Metrics. Remote Sensing. 13(23). 4794–4794. 15 indexed citations

Song, Rui, Jan‐Peter Müller, William Woodgate, et al.. (2020). Validation of Space-Based Albedo Products from Upscaled Tower-Based Measurements Over Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Landscapes. Remote Sensing. 12(5). 833–833. 17 indexed citations

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Mund, Martina, Mathias Herbst, Alexander Knohl, et al.. (2020). It is not just a ‘trade‐off’: indications for sink‐ and source‐limitation to vegetative and regenerative growth in an old‐growth beech forest. New Phytologist. 226(1). 111–125. 41 indexed citations

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Fan, Yuanchao, Ana Meijide, David M. Lawrence, et al.. (2019). Reconciling Canopy Interception Parameterization and Rainfall Forcing Frequency in the Community Land Model for Simulating Evapotranspiration of Rainforests and Oil Palm Plantations in Indonesia. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(3). 732–751. 19 indexed citations

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Maire, Guerric Le, et al.. (2017). Expansion of oil palm and other cash crops causes an increase of the land surface temperature in the Jambi province in Indonesia. Biogeosciences. 14(20). 4619–4635. 59 indexed citations

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Maire, Guerric Le, et al.. (2017). Expansion of oil palm and other cash crops causes an increase of land surface temperature in Indonesia. 5 indexed citations

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Collalti, Alessio, Sergio Marconi, Andreas Ibrom, et al.. (2016). Validation of 3D-CMCC Forest Ecosystem Model (v.5.1) against eddy covariance data for 10 European forest sites. Geoscientific model development. 9(2). 479–504. 38 indexed citations

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Fan, Yuanchao, Olivier Roupsard, Martial Bernoux, et al.. (2015). A sub-canopy structure for simulating oil palm in the Community Land Model (CLM-Palm): phenology, allocation and yield. Geoscientific model development. 8(11). 3785–3800. 43 indexed citations

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Olchev, Alexander, Andreas Ibrom, O. Panferov, et al.. (2015). Response of CO ₂ and H ₂ O fluxes of a mountainous tropical rain forest in equatorial Indonesia to El Niño events. GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). 1 indexed citations

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Olchev, Alexander, Andreas Ibrom, O. Panferov, et al.. (2015). Response of CO ₂ and H ₂ O fluxes in a mountainous tropical rainforest in equatorial Indonesia to El Niño events. Biogeosciences. 12(22). 6655–6667. 14 indexed citations

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Otto, Juliane, Daniel Berveiller, François‐Marie Bréon, et al.. (2014). Forest summer albedo is sensitive to species and thinning: how should we account for this in Earth system models?. Biogeosciences. 11(8). 2411–2427. 32 indexed citations

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Otto, Juliane, Daniel Berveiller, François‐Marie Bréon, et al.. (2013). Summertime canopy albedo is sensitive to forest thinning. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 1 indexed citations

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Aemisegger, Franziska, Patrick Sturm, Pascal Graf, et al.. (2012). Measuring variations of δ ¹⁸ O and δ ² H in atmospheric water vapour using laser spectroscopy: an instrument characterisation study. 3 indexed citations

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