Niklaus E Zimmermann

Biographic Data

ID1801832
NAMENiklaus E Zimmermann
GIVEN NAMESNiklaus E
FAMILY NAMEZimmermann
SIGNATUREZIMMERMANN N E
AFFILIATIONSSwiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
ORCID0000-0003-3099-9604
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Herding cats

    Open AccessLisa Deutsch, Astrid Björnsen et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2024Cited by: 5References: 2

    This paper focuses on the critical role of integrative leadership in inter- and transdisciplinary (ITD) research programs. ITD programs have become one of academia’s responses to address contemporary sustainability challenges. Fulfilling the promise of such programs is extraordinarily challenging for all involved participants, but especially for program leaders who have to ensure that the perspectives of the involved program participants become t…

  • Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution

    Open AccessHylke E Beck, Niklaus E Zimmermann et al.ARTICLEScientific Data2018

    We present new global maps of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification at an unprecedented 1-km resolution for the present-day (1980–2016) and for projected future conditions (2071–2100) under climate change. The present-day map is derived from an ensemble of four high-resolution, topographically-corrected climatic maps. The future map is derived from an ensemble of 32 climate model projections (scenario RCP8.5), by superimposing the projected cl…

  • Enhanced response of global wetland methane emissions to the 2015–2016 El Niño-Southern Oscillation event

    Open AccessZhen Zhang, Niklaus E Zimmermann et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Wetlands are thought to be the major contributor to interannual variability in the growth rate of atmospheric methane (CH 4 ) with anomalies driven by the influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Yet it remains unclear whether (i) the increase in total global CH 4 emissions during El Niño versus La Niña events is from wetlands and (ii) how large the contribution of wetland CH 4 emissions is to the interannual variability of atmospher…

  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

    Open AccessDirk Nikolaus Karger, Olaf Conrad et al.ARTICLEScientific Data2017

    High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas) data of downscaled model output temperature and precipitation estimates of the ERA-Interim climatic reanalysis to a high resolution of 30 arc sec. The temperature algorithm is based on statistical downscaling of atmospheric te…

  • Are forest disturbances amplifying or canceling out climate change-induced productivity changes in European forests

    Open AccessChristopher Reyer, Stephen Bathgate et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Recent studies projecting future climate change impacts on forests mainly consider either the effects of climate change on productivity or on disturbances. However, productivity and disturbances are intrinsically linked because 1) disturbances directly affect forest productivity (e.g. via a reduction in leaf area, growing stock or resource-use efficiency), and 2) disturbance susceptibility is often coupled to a certain development phase of the fo…

  • A framework for modeling adaptive forest management and decision making under climate change

    Open AccessRasoul Yousefpour, Christian Temperli et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2017Cited by: 3

    Yousefpour, R., C. Temperli, J. B. Jacobsen, B. J. Thorsen, H. Meilby, M. J. Lexer, M. Lindner, H. Bugmann, J. G. Borges, J. H. N. Palma, D. Ray, N. E. Zimmermann, S. Delzon, A. Kremer, K. Kramer, C. P. O. Reyer, P. Lasch-Born, J. Garcia-Gonzalo, and M. Hanewinkel. 2017. A framework for modeling adaptive forest management and decision making under climate change. Ecology and Society 22(4):40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09614-220440

  • The prehistoric and preindustrial deforestation of Europe

    Open AccessJed O Kaplan, Kristen M Krumhardt et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Science Reviews2009

  • Investigating the regional-scale pattern of agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss mountains

    Open AccessMario Gellrich, Niklaus E ZimmermannARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2007

  • Agricultural land abandonment and natural forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains

    Open AccessMario Gellrich, Priska Baur et al.ARTICLEAgriculture, Ecosystems &…2007

  • Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data

    Open AccessJane Elith, C H Graham et al.ARTICLEEcography2006

    Prediction of species’ distributions is central to diverse applications in ecology, evolution and conservation science. There is increasing electronic access to vast sets of occurrence records in museums and herbaria, yet little effective guidance on how best to use this information in the context of numerous approaches for modelling distributions. To meet this need, we compared 16 modelling methods over 226 species from 6 regions of the world, c…

  • Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology

    Open AccessAntoine Guisan, Niklaus E ZimmermannARTICLEEcological Modelling2000