Bernhard Ahrens

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Bernhard Ahrens is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernhard Ahrens has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Soil Science, 16 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Bernhard Ahrens's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (21 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (14 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (10 papers). Bernhard Ahrens is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (21 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (14 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (10 papers). Bernhard Ahrens collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United States. Bernhard Ahrens's co-authors include Markus Reichstein, Nuno Carvalhais, Christian Beer, Martin Thurner, Maurizio Santoro, Marion Schrumpf, Mirco Migliavacca, Thomas Wutzler, Ulrich Weber and Matthias Forkel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Bernhard Ahrens

29 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

2014 673 citations Nuno Carvalhais, Matthias Forkel et al. Nature profile →

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Bernhard Ahrens

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Yangong Du China

Haicheng Zhang China

Jinzhi Ding China

Norman B. Bliss United States

Yit Arn Teh United Kingdom

Michael Sanclements United States

Lisa Kellman Canada

Rosvel Bracho United States

Myroslava Khomik Canada

Mitsuru Hirota Japan

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Schrumpf, Marion, et al.. (2025). Modelling the effect of climate–substrate interactions on soil organic matter decomposition with the Jena Soil Model. Biogeosciences. 22(7). 1907–1928.

Sierra, Carlos A., Bernhard Ahrens, Martin A. Bolinder, et al.. (2024). Carbon sequestration in the subsoil and the time required to stabilize carbon for climate change mitigation. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17153–e17153. 29 indexed citations

Tao, Feng, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Yuanyuan Huang, et al.. (2024). Convergence in simulating global soil organic carbon by structurally different models after data assimilation. Global Change Biology. 30(5). e17297–e17297. 7 indexed citations

Wutzler, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Optimal enzyme allocation leads to the constrained enzyme hypothesis: the Soil Enzyme Steady Allocation Model (SESAM; v3.1). Geoscientific model development. 17(7). 2705–2725.

Tao, Feng, Johannes Lehmann, Ying‐Ping Wang, et al.. (2024). Reply to “Beyond microbial carbon use efficiency”. National Science Review. 11(4). nwae058–nwae058. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Lin, Silvia Caldararu, Bernhard Ahrens, et al.. (2023). Improved representation of phosphorus exchange on soil mineral surfaces reduces estimates of phosphorus limitation in temperate forest ecosystems. Biogeosciences. 20(1). 57–73. 3 indexed citations

Reichstein, Markus, et al.. (2022). Global apparent temperature sensitivity of terrestrial carbon turnover modulated by hydrometeorological factors. Nature Geoscience. 15(12). 989–994. 16 indexed citations

Kengdo, Steve Kwatcho, Bernhard Ahrens, Ye Tian, et al.. (2022). Increase in carbon input by enhanced fine root turnover in a long-term warmed forest soil. The Science of The Total Environment. 855. 158800–158800. 22 indexed citations

Koirala, Sujan, Markus Reichstein, Martin Thurner, et al.. (2020). Apparent ecosystem carbon turnover time: uncertainties and robust features. Earth system science data. 12(4). 2517–2536. 25 indexed citations

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Yu, Lin, Bernhard Ahrens, Thomas Wutzler, Marion Schrumpf, & Sönke Zaehle. (2020). Jena Soil Model (JSM v1.0; revision 1934): a microbial soil organic carbon model integrated with nitrogen and phosphorus processes. Geoscientific model development. 13(2). 783–803. 38 indexed citations

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Tang, Xiaolu, Nuno Carvalhais, Catarina Moura, et al.. (2019). Global variability of carbon use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems. 21 indexed citations

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Jenny, Jean‐Philippe, Sujan Koirala, Irene Gregory‐Eaves, et al.. (2019). Human and climate global-scale imprint on sediment transfer during the Holocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(46). 22972–22976. 98 indexed citations

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Yu, Lin, Bernhard Ahrens, Thomas Wutzler, Marion Schrumpf, & Sönke Zaehle. (2019). Jena Soil Model: a microbial soil organic carbon model integrated with nitrogen and phosphorus processes. 2 indexed citations

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Luo, Yunpeng, Tarek S. El‐Madany, Gianluca Filippa, et al.. (2018). Using Near-Infrared-Enabled Digital Repeat Photography to Track Structural and Physiological Phenology in Mediterranean Tree–Grass Ecosystems. Remote Sensing. 10(8). 1293–1293. 70 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Priego, Óscar, Gabriel G. Katul, Markus Reichstein, et al.. (2018). Partitioning Eddy Covariance Water Flux Components Using Physiological and Micrometeorological Approaches. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(10). 3353–3370. 58 indexed citations

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Ahrens, Bernhard, Maarten C. Braakhekke, Georg Guggenberger, Marion Schrumpf, & Markus Reichstein. (2015). Contribution of sorption, DOC transport and microbial interactions to the 14C age of a soil organic carbon profile: Insights from a calibrated process model. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 88. 390–402. 131 indexed citations

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Carvalhais, Nuno, Matthias Forkel, Myroslava Khomik, et al.. (2014). Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems. Nature. 514(7521). 213–217. 673 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahrens, Bernhard, Markus Reichstein, Werner Borken, et al.. (2014). Bayesian calibration of a soil organic carbon model using Δ ¹⁴ C measurements of soil organic carbon and heterotrophic respiration as joint constraints. Biogeosciences. 11(8). 2147–2168. 30 indexed citations

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Braakhekke, Maarten C., Thomas Wutzler, Christian Beer, et al.. (2013). Modeling the vertical soil organic matter profile using Bayesian parameter estimation. Biogeosciences. 10(1). 399–420. 54 indexed citations

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Borken, Werner, Bernhard Ahrens, Christoph Schulz, & Lothar Zimmermann. (2011). Site-to-site variability and temporal trends of DOC concentrations and fluxes in temperate forest soils. Global Change Biology. 17(7). 2428–2443. 87 indexed citations

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