Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Tom Pugh welcomes enquiries from students with interests in the interaction between terrestrial vegetation, biogeochemical cycles and climate. Please contact him if you are interested in working with him on the following core topics, or more generally within this theme.

> Interactions and feedbacks between climate change and forest mortality.
> CO2 fertilisation of vegetation and the global terrestrial carbon sink.
> Effects of biotic agents on forest vitality and biogeochemical cycling.
> How anthropogenic actions modify the structure and function of our forests.

20112024

Research activity per year

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Almut Arneth

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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Christoph Müller

  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • Member of the Leibniz Association
  • Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • University College Dublin

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Christian Folberth

  • Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
  • University of Munich

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Joshua Elliott

  • University of Chicago
  • Northwestern University
  • University of Illinois
  • Center for Climate Systems Research

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Philippe Ciais

  • Peking University
  • CEA CNRS UVSQ Orme des Merisiers
  • Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
  • Paris-Saclay University
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace

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Stefan Olin

  • Lunds Universitet

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Delphine Deryng

  • University of Chicago
  • Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin

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Erwin Schmid

  • BOKU Vienna

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Nikolay Khabarov

  • International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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Peter Anthoni

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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Wenfeng Liu

  • China Agricultural University
  • Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

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Stephen Sitch

  • University of Exeter

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Alex C. Ruane

  • NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
  • Center for Climate Systems Research

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Xuhui Wang

  • Paris-Saclay University
  • Peking University
  • Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement

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Hong Yang

  • Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
  • University of Basel

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Cynthia Rosenzweig

  • NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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Benjamin Smith

  • Lunds Universitet
  • Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

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Jonas Jägermeyr

  • NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
  • Northwestern University
  • University of Illinois
  • Center for Climate Systems Research
  • Member of the Leibniz Association

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Elke Stehfest

  • PBL, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

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Tobias Hank

  • University of Munich

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Juraj Balkovic

  • Comenius University in Bratislava
  • Ecosystem Services and Management Program

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Mats Lindeskog

  • Lunds Universitet

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Florian Zabel

  • University of Munich

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Ashwan Reddy

  • University of Maryland

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Sönke Zaehle

  • Max Planck Institut fur Biogeochemie Jena

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Charles Koven

  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Anna B. Harper

  • University of Exeter

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Etsushi Kato

  • Institute of Applied Energy

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Xuhui Wang

  • Peking University

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Wenfeng Liu

  • China Agricultural University

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Peter Lawrence

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Mark Rounsevell

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • University of Edinburgh

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R. César Izaurralde

  • University of Maryland
  • University of Texas

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Masayuki Kondo

  • Nagoya University
  • National Institute for Environmental Studies

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Peter Alexander

  • University of Edinburgh
  • Easter Bush Veterinary Centre

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Curtis Jones

  • University of Maryland

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Roberto C. Izaurralde

  • University of Maryland

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Rupert Seidl

  • Technical University Munich
  • Riken BNL Research Center
  • RIKEN

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Gen Sakurai

  • National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, NARO

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Elisabeth J. Moyer

  • University of Illinois
  • University of Chicago

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Allard de Wit

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Sibyll Schaphoff

  • University of Potsdam

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Wei Li

  • Rolls Royce PLC
  • Institute of Education
  • Newcastle University
  • Tsinghua University
  • Department of Medicine

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James Franke

  • University of Illinois
  • University of Chicago

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Marie Dury

  • University of Liège

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Ingrid Jacquemin

  • University of Liège

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Nicolas Viovy

  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace

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Louis Francois

  • University of Liège

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Sam Rabin

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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Karina Williams

  • Met Office
  • University of Exeter

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Curtis D. Jones

  • University of Maryland

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Josep Penuelas

  • CREAF - Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals

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Jörg Steinkamp

  • Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

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Hyungjun Kim

  • Yonsei University
  • RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University

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Chenzhi Wang

  • Peking University

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Jonas Fridman

  • Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

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Tobias Stacke

  • Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

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Christian Rödenbeck

  • Max Planck Institut fur Biogeochemie Jena

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Julia Pongratz

  • University of Munich
  • Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

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Anders Ahlström

  • Lunds Universitet

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Louise Chini

  • University of Maryland

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Kazuya Nishina

  • National Institute for Environmental Studies

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Christoph Mueller

  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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Shilong Piao

  • Peking University
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Mart-Jan Schelhaas

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Takashi Maki

  • Meteorological Research Institute

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Chao Zhang

  • CREAF - Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals
  • University of Helsinki

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James A. Franke

  • University of Chicago

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Gert-Jan Nabuurs

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Dieter Gerten

  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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Meridel Phillips

  • NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
  • Center for Climate Systems Research

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Cornelius Senf

  • Technical University Munich

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Oliver L. Phillips

  • University of Leeds
  • Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia

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Sara Minoli

  • Member of the Leibniz Association

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James Jones

  • University College Dublin

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Hui Yang

  • Peking University
  • CEA CNRS UVSQ Orme des Merisiers
  • Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
  • Imperial College London

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Romà Ogaya

  • CREAF - Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals

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Tazu Saeki

  • National Institute for Environmental Studies

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Yoshimitsu Masaki

  • National Institute for Environmental Studies
  • Ibaraki University

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Anja Rammig

  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • Technical University Munich

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Josep Canadell

  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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Ben Poulter

  • Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environment
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Nathaniel D. Mueller

  • Colorado State University
  • University of California, Irvine

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Pierre Friedlingstein

  • University of Exeter

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Senthold Asseng

  • Technical University Munich

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Toshichika Iizumi

  • National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, NARO

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Rastislav Skalský

  • Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute

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C. Nicholas Hewitt

  • Lancaster University
  • Lancaster Environment Centre
  • University of Birmingham

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Joshua Elliot

  • University of Illinois
  • Center for Climate Systems Research

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Catherine Morfopoulos

  • Imperial College London

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Garry O'Leary

  • Agriculture Victoria
  • Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Horsham, Victoria, Australia.

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Joseph A. Tobias

  • Imperial College London

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Jean-Francois Bastin

  • Ghent University

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Takashi Nakamura

  • Japan Meteorological Agency

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Maurizio Santoro

  • Gamma Remote Sensing

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Shilong Piao

  • Peking University
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Frédéric Chevallier

  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace

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Jens Heinke

  • Member of the Leibniz Association

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Chris Huntingford

  • UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

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Yoshihide Wada

  • Utrecht University
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
  • Ecosystem Services and Management Program

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Sassan Saatchi

  • California Institute of Technology

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Antoni Trasobares

  • Joint Research Unit CTFC - AGROTECNIO

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Luiz E. O. C. Aragão

  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
  • University of Exeter

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James D. Lee

  • University of York
  • University of Leeds
  • National Centre for Atmospheric Science

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Susan Laurance

  • James Cook University

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Bas Jan Willem Lerink

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Philippe Debaeke

  • University of Toulouse

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Haynes Stephens

  • University of Chicago

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Saverio Francini

  • University of Florence
  • Università degli Studi della Tuscia Viterbo

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Patrice Dumas

  • Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement

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J.A. Pyle

  • University of Cambridge

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Jan Novotný

  • Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic

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Julia E.M.S. Nabel

  • Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

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Hans Beeckman

  • Royal Museum for Central Africa

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Peter J. Lawrence

  • Coventry University

External person

Xu Lian

  • National University of Singapore

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Kim Naudts

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Mariano García

  • Universidad de Alcalá

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Douglas Sheil

  • Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management (INA), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
  • Center for International Forestry Research, West Java
  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Yuan-Zhu Zhang

  • Southern University of Science and Technology
  • Peking University

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Lauri Hetemäki

  • European Forest Institute Finland

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Roel J. W. Brienen

  • University of Leeds

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Fabien H. Wagner

  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
  • Foundation for Science

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David E Oram

  • University of East Anglia

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Pedro Rodriguez-Veiga

  • University of Leicester
  • Natural Environment Research Council

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Lachezar Filchev

  • Space Research and Technology Institute

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Peter A. Raymond

  • Yale University

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James W Jones

  • University of Florida

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Davide Ascoli

  • University of Turin

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Michael Bird

  • James Cook University

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Jan Bogaert

  • University of Liège

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Dominik Wisser

  • Center for Development Research
  • University of Bonn
  • Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
  • University of New Hampshire

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Thales De Haulleville

  • Ghent University

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Tian Zhou

  • Peking University

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Krzysztof Stereńczak

  • Forest Research Institute

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Hervé Jactel

  • University of Bordeaux

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Bruno Ringeval

  • Bordeaux Sciences Agro

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Bumsuk Seo

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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David Makowski

  • Paris-Saclay University

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Karimon Nesha

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Julieta Carilla

  • Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT)

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Minna Korhonen

  • European Forest Institute Finland

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Olivier Hardy

  • Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

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Atul K. Jain

  • University of Illinois

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Róbert Marušák

  • Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

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Graham Mills

  • University of East Anglia

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Andrea Toreti

  • Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • University of Bern

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Martin Herold

  • Wageningen University
  • Wageningen University and Research Centre
  • Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, GFZ German Centre for GeoSciences

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Fabiola Murguia-Flores

  • University of Bristol

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Sytze de Bruin

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Julia M. Schneider

  • University of Munich

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Nancy Harris

  • World Resources Institute

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Yosuke Niwa

  • National Institute for Environmental Studies

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Jason Vleminckx

  • Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Service Evolution Biologique et Ecologie

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Marc Hanewinkel

  • University of Freiburg

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Lucio Malizia

  • Universidad Nacional de Jujuy

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Douglas B. Clark

  • Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

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Andrew D. Robinson

  • University of Cambridge

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Torbern Tagesson

  • Lunds Universitet
  • University of Copenhagen

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Bing Liu

  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

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Alexander Parada Gutierrez

  • Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado

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Steven W. Brewer

  • Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education

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Lars Hein

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Alfredo Alarcón

  • Inst. Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal
  • IBIF

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Gherardo Chirici

  • University of Florence

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Marc Estiarte

  • CREAF - Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals

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William F. Laurance

  • James Cook University

External person

James Gerber

  • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Laurent X.Z. Li

  • Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS, UPMC-Paris 6

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Arnan Araza

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Russell Horsey

  • Institute of Chartered Foresters

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Wannes Hubau

  • Royal Museum for Central Africa

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Hannsjoerg Woell

  • Sommersbergseestrasse

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Tomáš Hlásny

  • Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

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Janis Donis

  • Latvian State Forest Research Institute Silava

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Barry Gardiner

  • Institut Européen de la Forêt Cultivée

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Daniel B. Metcalfe

  • Lunds Universitet
  • Umeå University

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Richard Birdsey

  • Woodwell Climate Research Center

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Charles Gardner

  • University of Chicago

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Ashwan D. Reddy

  • University of Maryland

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Håkan Olsson

  • Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

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Prabir K. Patra

  • Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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Declan Conway

  • University of East Anglia

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Todd Fredericksen

  • Inst. Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal
  • IBIF

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Sujong Jeong

  • Seoul National University

External person

Tao Wang

  • BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Brunel University

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Simon N. Gosling

  • University of Nottingham
  • University of York
  • University of Leeds

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Ling Huang

  • Peking University

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Anna Maria Jönsson

  • Lunds Universitet

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Rubén Valbuena

  • Bangor University

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Heera Lee

  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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Fardin Moradi

  • Razi University

External person

Agustina Malizia

  • Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT)

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James S Clark

  • Duke University

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Alexander Gikov

  • Space Research and Technology Institute

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Nzube M. Ifebueme

  • University of Calabar

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Natalia Málaga

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Jean P.H.B. Ometto

  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

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Ning Tan

  • CNRS-CEA

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David A Fowler

  • UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

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Marieke Scheel

  • Lunds Universitet

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Albert I J M V van Dijk

  • Australian National University

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Sylvain Pellerin

  • Bordeaux Sciences Agro

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Leen Govaere

  • Agency of Nature and Forests

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Yong Sun

  • CNRS-CEA

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Pfascal Boeckx

  • Ghent University

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Milen Chanev

  • Space Research and Technology Institute

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Jürgen Bauhus

  • University of Freiburg

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Laurent Li

  • CNRS-LMD
  • Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS, UPMC-Paris 6

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Ziwei Wang

  • China University of Mining and Technology

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Jeanette Kemp

  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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Marc Palahí

  • European Forest Institute Finland

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Lênio S. Galvão

  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

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Petar Dimitrov

  • Space Research and Technology Institute

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Frédéric Achard

  • Joint Research Centre (JRC) - European Commission’s Science Service

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Kelly Chance

  • Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

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Sebastian Lienert

  • University of Bern

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Charles De Canniere

  • Landscape Ecology and Vegetal Production Systems Unit

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Pieter Johannes Verkerk

  • European Forest Institute Finland

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Yi Y Liu

  • University of Western Sydney

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Elizabeth Kearsley

  • Ghent University

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Cecilia Blundo

  • Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT)

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Göran Berndes

  • Chalmers University of Technology

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Shuli Niu

  • Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Marco Patacca

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Juan Carlos Licona

  • Inst. Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal
  • IBIF

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Danica Lombardozzi

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Feng Zhou

  • East China Normal University
  • Peking University

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Junguo Liu

  • Southern University of Science and Technology
  • Ecosystem Services and Management Program

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Xiwen Zhang

  • Guangdong University of Technology

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Wietse Franssen

  • University of Maryland
  • Wageningen University and Research Centre

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Jean-louis Doucet

  • University of Liège

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Marco Marchetti

  • University of Molise

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Anping Chen

  • Colorado State University

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Hugh C.A. Brown

  • University of Helsinki
  • Forestry Commission

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Emanuel Gloor

  • University of Leeds

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Oriana Osinaga-Acosta

  • Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT)

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Margarida Tomé

  • Centro de Estudos Florestais, Universidade de Lisboa

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Antti Asikainen

  • Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)

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Marijn Bauters

  • Ghent University

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José Ramón González Olabarria

  • Joint Research Unit CTFC - AGROTECNIO

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Ronny Lauerwald

  • Paris-Saclay University

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