Josep G. Canadell

100.0k citations

210 papers · 37.2k indexed · 34 hit papers · h-index 83

Global and Planetary Change top 0.01%
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 104
- Climate variability and models 37
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 32
- Fire effects on ecosystems 20
Atmospheric Science top 0.05%
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 35
Soil Science top 0.05%
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.1%
Environmental Engineering top 0.05%
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability 13
Economics and Econometrics
- Climate Change Policy and Economics 27
Mechanical Engineering
- Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies 13

Co-authors: Michael Raupach Robert B. Jackson Corinne Le Quéré Glen P. Peters Ernst‐Detlef Schulze Harold A. Mooney Osvaldo E. Sala Philippe Ciais
Cited by: Global and Planetary Change Atmospheric Science Soil Science
Partner nations: Australia United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Josep G. Canadell

206 papers receiving 35.6k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

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2023 Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink
2023 Record-high CO ₂ emissions from boreal fires in 2021
2022 Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change
2021 Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID-19 era
2021 Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change
2020 Climate drives global soil carbon sequestration and crop yield changes under conservation agriculture
2020 Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources
2020 Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement
2019 Acceleration of global N2O emissions seen from two decades of atmospheric inversion
2019 Drivers of declining CO2 emissions in 18 developed economies
2019 Carbon dioxide emissions continue to grow amidst slowly emerging climate policies
2019 Interannual variation of terrestrial carbon cycle: Issues and perspectives
2017 Key indicators to track current progress and future ambition of the Paris Agreement
2016 Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake
2015 Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass
2015 The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO ₂ sink
2014 Betting on negative emissions
2014 Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets
2014 Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle
2012 The challenge to keep global warming below 2 °C
2011 Rapid growth in CO2 emissions after the 2008–2009 global financial crisis
2010 Current and future CO ₂ emissions from drained peatlands in Southeast Asia
2010 Update on CO2 emissions
2009 Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region
2008 Managing Forests for Climate Change Mitigation
2008 Peatlands and the carbon cycle: from local processes to global implications – a synthesis
2008 Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle
2007 Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World
2007 Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO ₂ growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks
2007 Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO ₂ emissions
2000 Global Warming and Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis
2000 The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System
1996 Maximum rooting depth of vegetation types at the global scale
1996 A global analysis of root distributions for terrestrial biomes

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1	Global warming amplifies wildfire health burden and reshapes inequality Junri Zhao,Bo Zheng,Philippe Ciais,Yang Chen,Thomas Gasser,Josep G. Canadell,Longyi Zhang,Qiang Zhang	2025	0
2	South Asia's Ecosystems Are a Net Carbon Sink, But the Region Is a Major Net GHG Source to the Atmosphere Atul K. Jain,S Seshadri,Jatin Anand,Naveen Chandra,Prabir K. Patra,Josep G. Canadell,Abha Chhabra,Philippe Ciais,Hammad Gilani,Murali Krishna Gumma,Masayuki Kondo,Erandathie Lokupitiya,Naiqing Pan,Him Lal Shrestha,Baktiar N. Siddiqui,Hanqin Tian,Yogesh K. Tiwari	2025	1
3	Enhanced CH4 emissions from global wildfires likely due to undetected small fires Junri Zhao,Philippe Ciais,Frédéric Chevallier,Josep G. Canadell,Ivar R. van der Velde,Emilio Chuvieco,Yang Chen,Qiang Zhang,Kebin He,Bo Zheng	2025	3
4	China’s carbon sinks from land-use change underestimated Yakun Zhu,Xiaosheng Xia,Josep G. Canadell,Shilong Piao,Xinqing Lu,Umakant Mishra,Xuhui Wang,Wenping Yuan,Zhangcai Qin	2025	8
5	Methane and Nitrous Oxide Budgets for Australasia: A Regional Assessment of Natural and Anthropogenic Sources and Sinks Yohanna Villalobos,Josep G. Canadell,Elizabeth D. Keller,Peter Briggs,Phillip W. Ford,Ian N. Harman,T. W. Hilton,Allison Hogikyan,Ronny Lauerwald,Damien T. Maher,Adrien Martinez,Naiqing Pan,Benjamin Poulter,Laure Resplandy,Judith A. Rosentreter,Marielle Saunois,Hanqin Tian,Jacob Yeo,Zhen Zhang	2025	1
6	Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sinkbreakdown → Sophie Ruehr,Trevor F. Keenan,C. A. Williams,Yu Zhou,Xinchen Lu,Ana Bastos,Josep G. Canadell,I. Colin Prentice,Stephen Sitch,César Terrer	2023	134
7	Future hotter summer greatly increases residential electricity consumption in Beijing: A study based on different house layouts and shared socioeconomic pathways Qiyuan Hu,Jiayue Tang,Xiang Gao,Sijia Wang,Dan Zhang,Yuting Qin,Qihan Wang,Yi Zhou,Na Huang,Josep Peñuelas,Jordi Sardans,Josep G. Canadell,Philippe Ciais,Zhihua Pan,Pingli An,Lin Xu,Fei Lun	2023	10
8	Higher global gross primary productivity under future climate with more advanced representations of photosynthesis Jürgen Knauer,Matthias Cuntz,Benjamin Smith,Josep G. Canadell,Belinda E. Medlyn,Alison C. Bennett,Silvia Caldararu,Vanessa Haverd	2023	22
9	A Comprehensive Assessment of Anthropogenic and Natural Sources and Sinks of Australasia's Carbon Budget Yohanna Villalobos,Josep G. Canadell,Elizabeth D. Keller,Peter Briggs,Beata Bukosa,Donna Giltrap,Ian N. Harman,T. W. Hilton,Miko U. F. Kirschbaum,Ronny Lauerwald,Lìyı̌n Liáng,Taylor Maavara,S. E. Mikaloff Fletcher,P. J. Rayner,Laure Resplandy,Judith A. Rosentreter,Eva‐Marie Metz,Óscar Serrano,Benjamin Smith	2023	9
10	Climate change 2021. The physical science basis. Summary for policymakers Richard P. Allan,Paola A. Arias,Sophie Berger,Josep G. Canadell,Christophe Cassou,Deliang Chen,Annalisa Cherchi,Sarah Connors,Erika Coppola,Faye Cruz,Gian‐Kasper Plattner,Xiao Cunde	2021	56
11	Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires: January 2020 Matthew W. Jones,Adam J. P. Smith,Richard Betts,Josep G. Canadell,I. Colin Prentice,Corinne Le Quéré	2020	5
12	Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires: September 2020 Adam J. P. Smith,Matthew W. Jones,John T. Abatzoglou,Josep G. Canadell,Richard Betts	2020	2
13	Recent Changes in Global Photosynthesis and Terrestrial Ecosystem Respiration Constrained From Multiple Observations Wei Li,Philippe Ciais,Yilong Wang,Yi Yin,Shushi Peng,Zaichun Zhu,Ana Bastos,Chao Yue,Ashley P. Ballantyne,Grégoire Broquet,Josep G. Canadell,Alessandro Cescatti,Chi Chen,L. A. Cooper,Pierre Friedlingstein,Corinne Le Quéré,Ranga B. Myneni,Shilong Piao	2018	21
14	Regional carbon fluxes from land use and land cover change in Asia, 1980–2009 Leonardo Calle,Josep G. Canadell,Prabir K. Patra,Philippe Ciais,Kazuhito Ichii,Hanqin Tian,Masayuki Kondo,Shilong Piao,Almut Arneth,Anna Harper,Akihiko Ito,Etsushi Kato,Charles D. Koven,Stephen Sitch,Benjamin D. Stocker,Nicolas Vivoy,Andy Wiltshire,Sönke Zaehle,Benjamin Poulter	2016	34
15	The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO ₂ sinkbreakdown → Anders Ahlström,Michael Raupach,Guy Schurgers,Benjamin Smith,Almut Arneth,Martin Jung,Markus Reichstein,Josep G. Canadell,Pierre Friedlingstein,Atul K. Jain,Etsushi Kato,Benjamin Poulter,Stephen Sitch,Benjamin D. Stocker,Nicolas Viovy,Ying‐Ping Wang,Andy Wiltshire,Sönke Zaehle,Ning Zeng	2015	1109
16	Correction for Pasari et al., Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality Weile Wang,Philippe Ciais,Ramakrishna Nemani,Josep G. Canadell,Shilong Piao,Stephen Sitch,Michael A. White,JanWillem Duitman,Marcel Schouten,A.P. de Groot,Keren Borensztajn,Joost Daalhuisen,Sandrine Florquin,Tom van der Poll,C. Arnold Spek	2013	2
17	A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests Yude Pan,Richard A. Birdsey,Jingyun Fang,R. A. Houghton,Pekka E. Kauppi,Werner A. Kurz,Oliver L. Phillips,А. Shvidenko,Simon L. Lewis,Josep G. Canadell,Philippe Ciais,Robert B. Jackson,Stephen W. Pacala,A. David McGuire,Shilong Piao,Aapo Rautiainen,Stephen Sitch,Daniel J. Hayes	2011	8
18	Protecting climate with forests Robert B. Jackson,James T. Randerson,Josep G. Canadell,Ray G. Anderson,Roni Avissar,Dennis Baldocchi,Gordon B. Bonan,Ken Caldeira,Noah S. Diffenbaugh,Christopher B. Field,Bruce A. Hungate,Estéban G. Jobbágy,Lara M. Kueppers,Marcelo D. Nosetto,Diane E. Pataki	2008	321
19	Anthropogenic and biophysical contributions to increasing atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> growth rate and airborne fraction Corinne Le Quéré,Josep G. Canadell,Michael Raupach	2008	4
20	Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO ₂ growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinksbreakdown → Josep G. Canadell,Corinne Le Quéré,Michael Raupach,Christopher B. Field,Erik T. Buitenhuis,Philippe Ciais,T. J. Conway,Nathan P. Gillett,R. A. Houghton,Gregg Marland	2007	1490

About Josep G. Canadell

Josep G. Canadell is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering, having authored 210 papers that have together received 37.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (104 papers), Climate variability and models (37 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (35 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (27 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (20 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (13 papers) and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (19.0k citations), Atmospheric Science (9.3k citations) and Soil Science (4.6k citations). Josep G. Canadell has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Michael Raupach, Robert B. Jackson, Corinne Le Quéré, Glen P. Peters, Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Harold A. Mooney, Osvaldo E. Sala, Philippe Ciais, Robbie M. Andrew and Gregg Marland.

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