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Tree island area in oil palm agroforests directly and indirectly drives evaporative fraction
Thorge Wintz
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Tropical Silviculture and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Alexander Röll
Horticultural Sciences, Institute for Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 6, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Gustavo Brant Paterno
Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Florian Ellsäßer
LIFE-Department, ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, 7522 NH Enschede, the Netherlands
Delphine Clara Zemp
Conservation Biology, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Neuchâtel, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Hendrayanto
Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University, Campus Darmaga Bogor, Jawa Barat 16680, Indonesia
Bambang Irawan
Forestry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jambi, Jambi, 36122, Indonesia
Alexander Knohl
Bioclimatology, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Holger Kreft
Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Dirk Hölscher
Tropical Silviculture and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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José Ángel Callejas-Rodelas, Justus G. V. van Ramshorst, Alexander Knohl, Sarah Choe, Maren Langhof, and Christian Markwitz
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4973, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4973, 2026
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Oil palm is a major crop in Indonesia, but climate models often treat it as generic cropland. We developed a new way to represent oil palm in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator. This improved how the model captures carbon stored and released by oil-palm plantations. The work helps estimate emissions from land-use change more realistically, supporting better understanding of tropical agriculture, deforestation and climate impacts.
Biplob Dey, Toke Due Sjøgren, Peeyush Khare, Georgios I. Gkatzelis, Yizhen Wu, Sindhu Vasireddy, Martin Schultz, Alexander Knohl, Riikka Rinnan, Thorsten Hohaus, and Eva Y. Pfannerstill
Biogeosciences, 23, 1423–1457, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-1423-2026, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-1423-2026, 2026
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Yang Mu, Zhitong Xiong, Yi Wang, Muhammad Shahzad, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Mark van Kleunen, and Xiao Xiang Zhu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1379–1403, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1379-2026, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1379-2026, 2026
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Beatriz P. Cazorla, Ana Meijide, Javier Cabello, Julio Peñas, Javier Martínez-López, Rodrigo Vargas, Leonardo Montagnani, Alexander Knohl, Lukas Siebicke, Benimiano Gioli, Jiří Dušek, Ladislav Šigut, Andreas Ibrom, Georg Wohlfahrt, Eugénie Paul-Limoges, Kathrin Fuchs, Antonio Manco, Marian Pavelka, Lutz Merbold, Lukas Hörtnagl, Pierpaolo Duce, Ignacio Goded, Kim Pilegaard, and Domingo Alcaraz-Segura
Biogeosciences, 23, 1223–1243, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-1223-2026, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-1223-2026, 2026
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José Ángel Callejas-Rodelas, Justus van Ramshorst, Alexander Knohl, Lukas Siebicke, Dietmar Fellert, Marek Peksa, Dirk Böttger, and Christian Markwitz
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 845–874, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-845-2026, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-845-2026, 2026
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José Ángel Callejas-Rodelas, Alexander Knohl, Ivan Mammarella, Timo Vesala, Olli Peltola, and Christian Markwitz
Biogeosciences, 22, 4507–4529, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-4507-2025, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-4507-2025, 2025
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Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 541–564, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-541-2025, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-541-2025, 2025
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Jacob A. Nelson, Sophia Walther, Fabian Gans, Basil Kraft, Ulrich Weber, Kimberly Novick, Nina Buchmann, Mirco Migliavacca, Georg Wohlfahrt, Ladislav Šigut, Andreas Ibrom, Dario Papale, Mathias Göckede, Gregory Duveiller, Alexander Knohl, Lukas Hörtnagl, Russell L. Scott, Jiří Dušek, Weijie Zhang, Zayd Mahmoud Hamdi, Markus Reichstein, Sergio Aranda-Barranco, Jonas Ardö, Maarten Op de Beeck, Dave Billesbach, David Bowling, Rosvel Bracho, Christian Brümmer, Gustau Camps-Valls, Shiping Chen, Jamie Rose Cleverly, Ankur Desai, Gang Dong, Tarek S. El-Madany, Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen, Iris Feigenwinter, Marta Galvagno, Giacomo A. Gerosa, Bert Gielen, Ignacio Goded, Sarah Goslee, Christopher Michael Gough, Bernard Heinesch, Kazuhito Ichii, Marcin Antoni Jackowicz-Korczynski, Anne Klosterhalfen, Sara Knox, Hideki Kobayashi, Kukka-Maaria Kohonen, Mika Korkiakoski, Ivan Mammarella, Mana Gharun, Riccardo Marzuoli, Roser Matamala, Stefan Metzger, Leonardo Montagnani, Giacomo Nicolini, Thomas O'Halloran, Jean-Marc Ourcival, Matthias Peichl, Elise Pendall, Borja Ruiz Reverter, Marilyn Roland, Simone Sabbatini, Torsten Sachs, Marius Schmidt, Christopher R. Schwalm, Ankit Shekhar, Richard Silberstein, Maria Lucia Silveira, Donatella Spano, Torbern Tagesson, Gianluca Tramontana, Carlo Trotta, Fabio Turco, Timo Vesala, Caroline Vincke, Domenico Vitale, Enrique R. Vivoni, Yi Wang, William Woodgate, Enrico A. Yepez, Junhui Zhang, Donatella Zona, and Martin Jung
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Justus G. V. van Ramshorst, Alexander Knohl, José Ángel Callejas-Rodelas, Robert Clement, Timothy C. Hill, Lukas Siebicke, and Christian Markwitz
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Yuan Yan, Anne Klosterhalfen, Fernando Moyano, Matthias Cuntz, Andrew C. Manning, and Alexander Knohl
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Efi Rousi, Andreas H. Fink, Lauren S. Andersen, Florian N. Becker, Goratz Beobide-Arsuaga, Marcus Breil, Giacomo Cozzi, Jens Heinke, Lisa Jach, Deborah Niermann, Dragan Petrovic, Andy Richling, Johannes Riebold, Stella Steidl, Laura Suarez-Gutierrez, Jordis S. Tradowsky, Dim Coumou, André Düsterhus, Florian Ellsäßer, Georgios Fragkoulidis, Daniel Gliksman, Dörthe Handorf, Karsten Haustein, Kai Kornhuber, Harald Kunstmann, Joaquim G. Pinto, Kirsten Warrach-Sagi, and Elena Xoplaki
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Xin Yu, René Orth, Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn, Anne Klosterhalfen, Alexander Knohl, Franziska Koebsch, Mirco Migliavacca, Martina Mund, Jacob A. Nelson, Benjamin D. Stocker, Sophia Walther, and Ana Bastos
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We investigated how the size and diversity of tree patches in Indonesian oil palm landscapes influence the movement of water to the atmosphere and local cooling. Our study shows that larger tree patches increase cooling mainly by supporting greater plant diversity and more complex vegetation structure. These findings suggest that expanding and diversifying tree patches can help manage microclimate and water cycling in agricultural areas.
We investigated how the size and diversity of tree patches in Indonesian oil palm landscapes...
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