Florian Zabel

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Florian Zabel is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Zabel has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 10 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Florian Zabel's work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Climate variability and models (6 papers). Florian Zabel is often cited by papers focused on Climate change impacts on agriculture (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Climate variability and models (6 papers). Florian Zabel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United States. Florian Zabel's co-authors include Wolfram Mauser, Ruth Delzeit, Birgitta Putzenlechner, Tomáš Václavík, Julia M. Schneider, Ralf Seppelt, Jonas Meier, Tobias Hank, Gernot Klepper and Carsten Meyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Florian Zabel

36 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity

2019 463 citations Florian Zabel, Ruth Delzeit et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Florian Zabel Germany	20	752	505	468	434	254	36	1.9k
Zhenrong Yu China	26	714 0.9×	370 0.7×	366 0.8×	420 1.0×	337 1.3×	80	1.8k
Mike Rivington United Kingdom	20	602 0.8×	499 1.0×	348 0.7×	237 0.5×	215 0.8×	49	1.6k
Eduardo Delgado Assad Brazil	24	743 1.0×	367 0.7×	503 1.1×	536 1.2×	455 1.8×	96	2.3k
Isabelle Reginster Belgium	16	1.1k 1.5×	523 1.0×	335 0.7×	703 1.6×	495 1.9×	21	2.4k
David M. Lapola Brazil	25	1.3k 1.7×	259 0.5×	306 0.7×	501 1.2×	264 1.0×	52	2.4k
A.G.T. Schut Netherlands	23	493 0.7×	484 1.0×	579 1.2×	845 1.9×	283 1.1×	52	2.5k
Claudine Thénail France	21	770 1.0×	467 0.9×	320 0.7×	477 1.1×	164 0.6×	28	1.8k
Steven Crimp Australia	22	482 0.6×	519 1.0×	289 0.6×	240 0.6×	209 0.8×	58	1.4k
Juraj Balkovič Austria	28	709 0.9×	927 1.8×	838 1.8×	509 1.2×	648 2.6×	62	2.6k
Seydou Traoré United States	25	931 1.2×	775 1.5×	575 1.2×	230 0.5×	466 1.8×	78	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florian Zabel

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zabel, Florian, et al.. (2025). CropSuite v1.0 – a comprehensive open-source crop suitability model considering climate variability for climate impact assessment. Geoscientific model development. 18(4). 1067–1087. 1 indexed citations

Orlov, Anton, Jonas Jägermeyr, Christoph Müller, et al.. (2024). Human heat stress could offset potential economic benefits of CO2 fertilization in crop production under a high-emissions scenario. One Earth. 7(7). 1250–1265. 6 indexed citations

Schneider, Julia M., Ruth Delzeit, Ralf Seppelt, et al.. (2024). Effects of profit-driven cropland expansion and conservation policies. Nature Sustainability. 7(10). 1335–1347. 20 indexed citations

Zabel, Florian & Benjamin Poschlod. (2023). The Teddy tool v1.1: temporal disaggregation of daily climate model data for climate impact analysis. Geoscientific model development. 16(18). 5383–5399. 3 indexed citations

Stevanović, Miodrag, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Kristine Karstens, et al.. (2023). Uncertainty in land-use adaptation persists despite crop model projections showing lower impacts under high warming. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 10 indexed citations

Schneider, Julia M., Florian Zabel, & Wolfram Mauser. (2022). Global inventory of suitable, cultivable and available cropland under different scenarios and policies. Scientific Data. 9(1). 527–527. 23 indexed citations

Zabel, Florian, Christoph Müller, Joshua Elliott, et al.. (2021). Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties. Global Change Biology. 27(16). 3870–3882. 105 indexed citations

Müller, Christoph, James Franke, Jonas Jägermeyr, et al.. (2021). Exploring uncertainties in global crop yield projections in a large ensemble of crop models and CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate scenarios. Environmental Research Letters. 16(3). 34040–34040. 82 indexed citations

Franke, James, Christoph Müller, Sara Minoli, et al.. (2021). Agricultural breadbaskets shift poleward given adaptive farmer behavior under climate change. Global Change Biology. 28(1). 167–181. 40 indexed citations

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Cronin, Jennifer, Florian Zabel, Olivier Dessens, & Gabrial Anandarajah. (2020). Land suitability for energy crops under scenarios of climate change and land‐use. GCB Bioenergy. 12(8). 648–665. 30 indexed citations

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Jägermeyr, Jonas, Alan Robock, Joshua Elliott, et al.. (2020). A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(13). 7071–7081. 62 indexed citations

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Zabel, Florian, Ruth Delzeit, Julia M. Schneider, et al.. (2019). Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2844–2844. 463 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zabel, Florian, et al.. (2018). Assessing land use and land cover changes and agricultural farmland expansions in Gambella Region, Ethiopia, using Landsat 5 and Sentinel 2a multispectral data. Heliyon. 4(11). e00919–e00919. 59 indexed citations

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Meier, Jonas, Florian Zabel, & Wolfram Mauser. (2018). A global approach to estimate irrigated areas – a comparison between different data and statistics. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(2). 1119–1133. 152 indexed citations

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Meier, Jonas, Florian Zabel, & Wolfram Mauser. (2017). Extending global irrigation maps – going beyond statistics. 2 indexed citations

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Mauser, Wolfram, Gernot Klepper, Florian Zabel, et al.. (2015). Global biomass production potentials exceed expected future demand without the need for cropland expansion. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8946–8946. 160 indexed citations

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Zabel, Florian, Birgitta Putzenlechner, & Wolfram Mauser. (2014). Global Agricultural Land Resources – A High Resolution Suitability Evaluation and Its Perspectives until 2100 under Climate Change Conditions. PLoS ONE. 9(9). e107522–e107522. 279 indexed citations

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Zabel, Florian & Wolfram Mauser. (2013). 2-way coupling the hydrological land surface model PROMET with the regional climate model MM5. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(5). 1705–1714. 26 indexed citations

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Zabel, Florian, Wolfram Mauser, Thomas Marke, et al.. (2012). Inter-comparison of two land-surface models applied at different scales and their feedbacks while coupled with a regional climate model. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(3). 1017–1031. 13 indexed citations

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Zabel, Florian, Tobias Hank, & Wolfram Mauser. (2010). Improving arable land heterogeneity information in available land cover products for land surface modelling using MERIS NDVI data. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 14(10). 2073–2084. 5 indexed citations

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