Martin Thurner

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Martin Thurner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Martin Thurner has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Martin Thurner's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers). Martin Thurner is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers). Martin Thurner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Martin Thurner's co-authors include Nuno Carvalhais, Christian Beer, Maurizio Santoro, Bernhard Ahrens, Matthias Forkel, Mirco Migliavacca, Markus Reichstein, Ulrich Weber, Sassan Saatchi and Myroslava Khomik and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Martin Thurner

19 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

2014 673 citations Nuno Carvalhais, Matthias Forkel et al. Nature profile →
Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

2017 437 citations Karl‐Heinz Erb, Thomas Kästner et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Martin Thurner

GPC

ECOLO

NLC

Kristofer Johnson United States

Yanzheng Yang China

Marcelo D. Nosetto Argentina

Haicheng Zhang China

Raimundo Cosme de Oliveira Brazil

Mohammad Safeeq United States

Guodong Yin China

Xiuqin Fang China

Sinkyu Kang South Korea

Zhuoting Wu United States

Kristofer Johnson United States

Martin Thurner

721 ×0.7

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625 ×0.9

ECOLO

247 ×0.6

469 ×1.2

NLC

501 ×1.2

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Countries citing papers authored by Martin Thurner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Martin Thurner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Martin Thurner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Martin Thurner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Martin Thurner 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 Martin Thurner. Martin Thurner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thurner, Martin, Kailiang Yu, Stefano Manzoni, et al.. (2025). Nitrogen concentrations in boreal and temperate tree tissues vary with tree age/size, growth rate, and climate. Biogeosciences. 22(5). 1475–1493. 2 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

Paula, Mateus Dantas de, et al.. (2019). Combining European Earth Observation products with Dynamic Global Vegetation Models for estimating Essential Biodiversity Variables. International Journal of Digital Earth. 13(2). 262–277. 13 indexed citations

Thurner, Martin, et al.. (2019). Der Mensch in Christentum und Islam. 1 indexed citations

Forkel, Matthias, Markus Drüke, Martin Thurner, et al.. (2019). Constraining modelled global vegetation dynamics and carbon turnover using multiple satellite observations. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 18757–18757. 37 indexed citations

Yang, Cheng-En, Jiafu Mao, Forrest M. Hoffman, et al.. (2018). Uncertainty Quantification of Extratropical Forest Biomass in CMIP5 Models over the Northern Hemisphere. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10962–10962. 8 indexed citations

Manzoni, Stefano, Petr Čapek, Philipp Porada, et al.. (2018). Reviews and syntheses: Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems – definitions, theories, and empirical evidence. Biogeosciences. 15(19). 5929–5949. 132 indexed citations

Erb, Karl‐Heinz, Thomas Kästner, Christoph Plutzar, et al.. (2017). Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass. Nature. 553(7686). 73–76. 437 indexed citations breakdown →

Thurner, Martin, Christian Beer, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of climate‐related carbon turnover processes in global vegetation models for boreal and temperate forests. Global Change Biology. 23(8). 3076–3091. 47 indexed citations

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Carvalhais, Nuno, Martin Thurner, Matthias Forkel, Christian Beer, & Markus Reichstein. (2016). Diagnosing turnover times of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems to address global climate co-variability and for model evaluation. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Thurner, Martin, Christian Beer, Nuno Carvalhais, et al.. (2016). Large‐scale variation in boreal and temperate forest carbon turnover rate related to climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(9). 4576–4585. 35 indexed citations

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Forkel, Matthias, Mirco Migliavacca, Markus Reichstein, et al.. (2015). Identifying controls on vegetation greenness phenology through model-data integration. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 15471. 1 indexed citations

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Thurner, Martin. (2015). Böhme, Jacob: Werke (Morgen-Roete im Aufgang - De Signatura Rerum) / hrsg. von Ferdinand van Ingen. - Frankfurt: Dt. Klassiker-Verl., 1997. Universitätsbibliothek der LMU. 50(1). 87–88.

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Forkel, Matthias, Nuno Carvalhais, Sibyll Schaphoff, et al.. (2014). Assessing environmental drivers of vegetation greenness by integrating multiple earth observation data in the LPJmL dynamic global vegetation model. EGUGA. 1144. 1 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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Forkel, Matthias, Nuno Carvalhais, Sibyll Schaphoff, et al.. (2014). Identifying environmental controls on vegetation greenness phenology through model–data integration. Biogeosciences. 11(23). 7025–7050. 70 indexed citations

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Thurner, Martin, et al.. (2013). Passiones animae. 1 indexed citations

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Thurner, Martin, Christian Beer, Maurizio Santoro, et al.. (2013). Carbon stock and density of northern boreal and temperate forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 23(3). 297–310. 222 indexed citations

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Thurner, Martin, et al.. (2009). Passiones animae : die "Leidenschaften der Seele" in der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie. Akademie Verlag eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Thurner, Martin, et al.. (2007). Mittelalterliches Denken : Debatten, Ideen und Gestalten im Kontext. 1 indexed citations

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