Wolfgang Cramer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2542346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Cramer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Cramer |
| SIGNATURE | CRAMER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9205-5812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
There is no human climate niche
The programme on ecosystem change and society (Pecs) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus
The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) was established in 2011, and is now one of the major international social-ecological systems (SES) research networks. During this time, SES research has undergone a phase of rapid growth and has grown into an influential branch of sustainability science. In this Perspective, we argue that SES research has also deepened over the past decade, and helped to shed light on key dimensions of SES dyna…
Nitrogen dynamics in cropping systems under Mediterranean climate
Worldwide, Mediterranean cropping systems face the complex challenge of producing enough high-quality food while preserving the quantity and quality of scarce water for people and agriculture in the context of climate change. While good management of nitrogen (N) is paramount to achieving this objective, the efficient strategies developed for temperate systems are often not adapted to the specificities of Mediterranean systems. In this work, we c…
Focus on cross-scale feedbacks in global sustainable land management
Global change effects on land management in the Mediterranean region
Assessing inter-sectoral climate change risks
The aims of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP) are to provide a framework for the intercomparison of global and regional-scale risk models within and across multiple sectors and to enable coordinated multi-sectoral assessments of different risks and their aggregated effects. The overarching goal is to use the knowledge gained to support adaptation and mitigation decisions that require regional or global perspectives …
Ecosystem services in global sustainability policies
Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being
National indicators for observing ecosystem service change
Spatial decoupling of agricultural production and consumption
In our globalizing world, the geographical locations of food production and consumption are becoming increasingly disconnected, which increases reliance on external resources and their trade. We quantified to what extent water and land constraints limit countries' capacities, at present and by 2050, to produce on their own territory the crop products that they currently import from other countries. Scenarios of increased crop productivity and wat…
A novel probabilistic risk analysis to determine the vulnerability of ecosystems to extreme climatic events
We present a simple method of probabilistic risk analysis for ecosystems. The only requirements are time series---modelled or measured---of environment and ecosystem variables. Risk is defined as the product of hazard probability and ecosystem vulnerability. Vulnerability is the expected difference in ecosystem performance between years with and without hazardous conditions. We show an application to drought risk for net primary productivity of c…
Extreme fire events are related to previous-year surface moisture conditions in permafrost-underlain larch forests of Siberia
Author: Forkel, Matthias et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Published online: 2012-10-31; Open Access; Title: Extreme fire events are related to previous-year surface moisture conditions in permafrost-underlain larch forests of Siberia
Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet
Program on ecosystem change and society
Climate change risks for African agriculture
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment of major risks for African agriculture and food security caused by climate change during coming decades is confirmed by a review of more recent climate change impact assessments (14 quantitative, six qualitative). Projected impacts relative to current production levels range from −100% to +168% in econometric, from −84% to +62% in process-based, and from −57% to +30% in statistical a…
Predicting pan-tropical climate change induced forest stock gains and losses—implications for Redd
Deforestation is a major threat to tropical forests worldwide, contributing up to one-fifth of global carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Despite protection efforts, deforestation of tropical forests has continued in recent years. Providing incentives to reducing deforestation has been proposed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Bali negotiations in 2007 to decelerate emissions from deforestation (REDD-reduced…
Biodiversity targets after 2010
Modelling the role of agriculture for the 20th century global terrestrial carbon balance
In order to better assess the role of agriculture within the global climate‐vegetation system, we present a model of the managed planetary land surface, Lund–Potsdam–Jena managed Land (LPJmL), which simulates biophysical and biogeochemical processes as well as productivity and yield of the most important crops worldwide, using a concept of crop functional types (CFTs). Based on the LPJ‐Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, LPJmL simulates the transien…
Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe
Global change will alter the supply of ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. To investigate ecosystem service supply during the 21st century, we used a range of ecosystem models and scenarios of climate and land-use change to conduct a Europe-wide assessment. Large changes in climate and land use typically resulted in large changes in ecosystem service supply. Some of these trends may be positive (for example, increases in fores…
Changes in Nature's Balance Sheet
Alcamo, J., D. van Vuuren, C. Ringler, W. Cramer, T. Masui, J. Alder, and K. Schulze. 2005. Changes in nature’s balance sheet: model-based estimates of future worldwide ecosystem services. Ecology and Society 10(2): 19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01551-100219
Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model
The Lund–Potsdam–Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ) combines process‐based, large‐scale representations of terrestrial vegetation dynamics and land‐atmosphere carbon and water exchanges in a modular framework. Features include feedback through canopy conductance between photosynthesis and transpiration and interactive coupling between these ‘fast’ processes and other ecosystem processes including resource competition, tissue turnover, pop…
Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO 2 and climate change
The possible responses of ecosystem processes to rising atmospheric CO 2 concentration and climate change are illustrated using six dynamic global vegetation models that explicitly represent the interactions of ecosystem carbon and water exchanges with vegetation dynamics. The models are driven by the IPCC IS92a scenario of rising CO 2 ( Wigley et al . 1991 ), and by climate changes resulting from effective CO 2 concentrations corresponding to IS…
Special Paper
I. Colin Prentice, Wolfgang Cramer, Sandy P. Harrison, Rik Leemans, Robert A. Monserud, Allen M. Solomon, Special Paper: A Global Biome Model Based on Plant Physiology and Dominance, Soil Properties and Climate, Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Mar., 1992), pp. 117-134
Das Problem der Reinen Anschauung
Unrevised ebook edition 2025. Historical note / Disclaimer: This title has been digitized as part of an effort to provide a comprehensive digital record of all publications by the publishers J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) and H. Laupp’sche Buchhandlung, making them accessible to academic research. Publications from earlier periods must always be viewed within their historical context; this applies in particular to titles published during the National…
Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being
Ecosystem services in global sustainability policies
Global change effects on land management in the Mediterranean region
National indicators for observing ecosystem service change
Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet
Program on ecosystem change and society
Biodiversity targets after 2010
Changes in Nature's Balance Sheet
Alcamo, J., D. van Vuuren, C. Ringler, W. Cramer, T. Masui, J. Alder, and K. Schulze. 2005. Changes in nature’s balance sheet: model-based estimates of future worldwide ecosystem services. Ecology and Society 10(2): 19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01551-100219
Das Problem der Reinen Anschauung
Unrevised ebook edition 2025. Historical note / Disclaimer: This title has been digitized as part of an effort to provide a comprehensive digital record of all publications by the publishers J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) and H. Laupp’sche Buchhandlung, making them accessible to academic research. Publications from earlier periods must always be viewed within their historical context; this applies in particular to titles published during the National…
Special Paper
I. Colin Prentice, Wolfgang Cramer, Sandy P. Harrison, Rik Leemans, Robert A. Monserud, Allen M. Solomon, Special Paper: A Global Biome Model Based on Plant Physiology and Dominance, Soil Properties and Climate, Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Mar., 1992), pp. 117-134
Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO 2 and climate change
The possible responses of ecosystem processes to rising atmospheric CO 2 concentration and climate change are illustrated using six dynamic global vegetation models that explicitly represent the interactions of ecosystem carbon and water exchanges with vegetation dynamics. The models are driven by the IPCC IS92a scenario of rising CO 2 ( Wigley et al . 1991 ), and by climate changes resulting from effective CO 2 concentrations corresponding to IS…
Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model
The Lund–Potsdam–Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ) combines process‐based, large‐scale representations of terrestrial vegetation dynamics and land‐atmosphere carbon and water exchanges in a modular framework. Features include feedback through canopy conductance between photosynthesis and transpiration and interactive coupling between these ‘fast’ processes and other ecosystem processes including resource competition, tissue turnover, pop…
Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe
Global change will alter the supply of ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. To investigate ecosystem service supply during the 21st century, we used a range of ecosystem models and scenarios of climate and land-use change to conduct a Europe-wide assessment. Large changes in climate and land use typically resulted in large changes in ecosystem service supply. Some of these trends may be positive (for example, increases in fores…
Changes in Nature's Balance Sheet
Alcamo, J., D. van Vuuren, C. Ringler, W. Cramer, T. Masui, J. Alder, and K. Schulze. 2005. Changes in nature’s balance sheet: model-based estimates of future worldwide ecosystem services. Ecology and Society 10(2): 19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01551-100219
Modelling the role of agriculture for the 20th century global terrestrial carbon balance
In order to better assess the role of agriculture within the global climate‐vegetation system, we present a model of the managed planetary land surface, Lund–Potsdam–Jena managed Land (LPJmL), which simulates biophysical and biogeochemical processes as well as productivity and yield of the most important crops worldwide, using a concept of crop functional types (CFTs). Based on the LPJ‐Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, LPJmL simulates the transien…
Predicting pan-tropical climate change induced forest stock gains and losses—implications for Redd
Deforestation is a major threat to tropical forests worldwide, contributing up to one-fifth of global carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Despite protection efforts, deforestation of tropical forests has continued in recent years. Providing incentives to reducing deforestation has been proposed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Bali negotiations in 2007 to decelerate emissions from deforestation (REDD-reduced…
Biodiversity targets after 2010
Climate change risks for African agriculture
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment of major risks for African agriculture and food security caused by climate change during coming decades is confirmed by a review of more recent climate change impact assessments (14 quantitative, six qualitative). Projected impacts relative to current production levels range from −100% to +168% in econometric, from −84% to +62% in process-based, and from −57% to +30% in statistical a…
Extreme fire events are related to previous-year surface moisture conditions in permafrost-underlain larch forests of Siberia
Author: Forkel, Matthias et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Published online: 2012-10-31; Open Access; Title: Extreme fire events are related to previous-year surface moisture conditions in permafrost-underlain larch forests of Siberia
Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet
Program on ecosystem change and society
Spatial decoupling of agricultural production and consumption
In our globalizing world, the geographical locations of food production and consumption are becoming increasingly disconnected, which increases reliance on external resources and their trade. We quantified to what extent water and land constraints limit countries' capacities, at present and by 2050, to produce on their own territory the crop products that they currently import from other countries. Scenarios of increased crop productivity and wat…
A novel probabilistic risk analysis to determine the vulnerability of ecosystems to extreme climatic events
We present a simple method of probabilistic risk analysis for ecosystems. The only requirements are time series---modelled or measured---of environment and ecosystem variables. Risk is defined as the product of hazard probability and ecosystem vulnerability. Vulnerability is the expected difference in ecosystem performance between years with and without hazardous conditions. We show an application to drought risk for net primary productivity of c…
Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being
National indicators for observing ecosystem service change
Assessing inter-sectoral climate change risks
The aims of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP) are to provide a framework for the intercomparison of global and regional-scale risk models within and across multiple sectors and to enable coordinated multi-sectoral assessments of different risks and their aggregated effects. The overarching goal is to use the knowledge gained to support adaptation and mitigation decisions that require regional or global perspectives …
Ecosystem services in global sustainability policies
Focus on cross-scale feedbacks in global sustainable land management
Global change effects on land management in the Mediterranean region
Nitrogen dynamics in cropping systems under Mediterranean climate
Worldwide, Mediterranean cropping systems face the complex challenge of producing enough high-quality food while preserving the quantity and quality of scarce water for people and agriculture in the context of climate change. While good management of nitrogen (N) is paramount to achieving this objective, the efficient strategies developed for temperate systems are often not adapted to the specificities of Mediterranean systems. In this work, we c…
The programme on ecosystem change and society (Pecs) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus
The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) was established in 2011, and is now one of the major international social-ecological systems (SES) research networks. During this time, SES research has undergone a phase of rapid growth and has grown into an influential branch of sustainability science. In this Perspective, we argue that SES research has also deepened over the past decade, and helped to shed light on key dimensions of SES dyna…
There is no human climate niche
Environmental Science (21 works) · Geography (17 works) · Ecology (16 works) · Environmental resource management (15 works) · Ecosystem (12 works) · Biology (11 works) · Climate change (11 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Economics (9 works)