Arie Staal

5.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
54 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Arie Staal is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Arie Staal has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Arie Staal's work include Climate variability and models (24 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (21 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers). Arie Staal is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (24 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (21 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers). Arie Staal collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Sweden and Germany. Arie Staal's co-authors include Obbe A. Tuinenburg, Ingo Fetzer, Egbert H. van Nes, Johan Rockström, Stefan C. Dekker, Ricarda Winkelmann, Bernardo M. Flores, Sarah Cornell, Boris Sakschewski and Joyce Bosmans and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Arie Staal

48 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

2022 799 citations Arie Staal, Ricarda Winkelmann et al. profile →
A planetary boundary for green water

2022 179 citations Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Arie Staal et al. profile →
Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation

2024 38 citations Bernardo M. Flores, Arie Staal et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Arie Staal Netherlands	24	1.9k	640	473	439	373	54	2.9k
Ariane Walz Germany	22	2.1k 1.1×	904 1.4×	650 1.4×	509 1.2×	245 0.7×	57	3.4k
Erfu Dai China	32	2.3k 1.2×	526 0.8×	818 1.7×	321 0.7×	535 1.4×	126	3.2k
Ranjeet John United States	30	2.0k 1.0×	648 1.0×	991 2.1×	414 0.9×	455 1.2×	67	3.6k
Giovanni Forzieri Italy	26	2.1k 1.1×	647 1.0×	715 1.5×	384 0.9×	639 1.7×	46	3.0k
Nathan Moore United States	26	1.3k 0.7×	520 0.8×	507 1.1×	208 0.5×	444 1.2×	66	2.4k
Gilvan Sampaio Brazil	22	2.4k 1.3×	837 1.3×	850 1.8×	411 0.9×	584 1.6×	68	3.4k
Shicheng Li China	30	1.9k 1.0×	470 0.7×	899 1.9×	240 0.5×	144 0.4×	102	2.9k
Xiubo Yu China	25	1.4k 0.7×	295 0.5×	1.1k 2.3×	393 0.9×	474 1.3×	129	2.6k
Foster Brown Brazil	21	2.0k 1.0×	390 0.6×	822 1.7×	720 1.6×	230 0.6×	56	2.8k
Jixi Gao China	28	1.5k 0.8×	466 0.7×	840 1.8×	277 0.6×	313 0.8×	163	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Arie Staal

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Fields of papers citing papers by Arie Staal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arie Staal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Arie Staal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Arie Staal based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Arie Staal. Arie Staal is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Staal, Arie, et al.. (2025). Global terrestrial moisture recycling in Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Earth System Dynamics. 16(1). 215–238. 4 indexed citations

An, Qiang, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the role of moisture recycling in water consumption across different ecosystems in China. Journal of Hydrology. 662. 134020–134020.

Loriani, Sina, Annett Bartsch, Elisa Calamita, et al.. (2025). Monitoring the Multiple Stages of Climate Tipping Systems from Space: Do the GCOS Essential Climate Variables Meet the Needs?. Surveys in Geophysics. 46(2). 327–374. 1 indexed citations

An, Qiang, Liu Liu, Arie Staal, et al.. (2025). Land Cover Changes Redistribute China's Water Resources Through Atmospheric Moisture Recycling. Earth s Future. 13(10).

Theeuwen, Jolanda, et al.. (2024). Ecohydrological Variables Underlie Local Moisture Recycling in Mediterranean‐Type Climates. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(10). 2 indexed citations

Donges, Jonathan F., Niklas Boers, Marina Hirota, et al.. (2024). Measuring tropical rainforest resilience under non-Gaussian disturbances. Environmental Research Letters. 19(2). 24029–24029. 3 indexed citations

An, Qiang, et al.. (2024). Crops Feed Rain to Drylands in Northwest China. Earth s Future. 12(10). 9 indexed citations

Staal, Arie, Jolanda Theeuwen, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Nico Wunderling, & Stefan C. Dekker. (2024). Targeted rainfall enhancement as an objective of forestation. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17096–e17096. 16 indexed citations

Akabane, Thomas Kenji, Cristiano Mazur Chiessi, Marina Hirota, et al.. (2024). Weaker Atlantic overturning circulation increases the vulnerability of northern Amazon forests. Nature Geoscience. 17(12). 1284–1290. 4 indexed citations

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Staal, Arie, et al.. (2024). Widespread forest-savanna coexistence but limited bistability at a landscape scale in Central Africa. Environmental Research Letters. 19(12). 124035–124035. 2 indexed citations

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Staal, Arie, Gerbrand Koren, Graciela Tejada, & Luciana V. Gatti. (2023). Moisture origins of the Amazon carbon source region. Environmental Research Letters. 18(4). 44027–44027. 17 indexed citations

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Wunderling, Nico, et al.. (2022). Network motifs shape distinct functioning of Earth’s moisture recycling hubs. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6574–6574. 9 indexed citations

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Wunderling, Nico, Arie Staal, Boris Sakschewski, et al.. (2022). Recurrent droughts increase risk of cascading tipping events by outpacing adaptive capacities in the Amazon rainforest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(32). e2120777119–e2120777119. 46 indexed citations

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Faria, Bruno Lopes de, Arie Staal, Carlos Alberto Silva, et al.. (2021). Climate change and deforestation increase the vulnerability of Amazonian forests to post‐fire grass invasion. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(12). 2368–2381. 12 indexed citations

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Wunderling, Nico, Jan Köhler, Jobst Heitzig, et al.. (2021). Modelling nonlinear dynamics of interacting tipping elements on complex networks: the PyCascades package. The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 230(14-15). 3163–3176. 12 indexed citations

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Wunderling, Nico, et al.. (2020). Dynamics of tipping cascades on complex networks. Physical review. E. 101(4). 42311–42311. 33 indexed citations

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Wunderling, Nico, et al.. (2020). How motifs condition critical thresholds for tipping cascades in complex networks: Linking micro- to macro-scales. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 30(4). 43129–43129. 18 indexed citations

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Tuinenburg, Obbe A. & Arie Staal. (2019). Tracking the global flows of atmospheric moisture. 1 indexed citations

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Nes, Egbert H. van, Arie Staal, Stijn Hantson, et al.. (2018). Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0191027–e0191027. 45 indexed citations

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Zemp, Delphine Clara, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, et al.. (2017). Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14681–14681. 278 indexed citations

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