Collaboratrici e collaboratori

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Holzkaemper Annelie

Deputy

Dos Reis Martins M., Calanca P.
Model projections indicate substantial decrease in yield stability for summer crops in Switzerland, but less so for winter crops.
European Journal of Agronomy, 172, 2026, Article 127855.

Hörtnagl L., Feigenwinter I., Wang Y., Buchmann N., Merbold L., Zeeman M., Fuchs K., Eugster W.
Eddy covariance ecosystem fluxes, meteorological data and detailed management information for the intensively managed grassland site Chamau in Switzerland, collected between 2005 and 2024: CH-CHA FP2025.3 (2005-2024).
ETH Zürich Research Collection, Dataset, 2025

Aebischer P., Kramer K., Felten C., Klöcker D., Conter G., Schori F., Calanca P., Reidy B.
Understanding grassland productivity: A modelling perspective.
In: European Grassland Federation Symposium 2025. 15 September, Publ. British Grassland Society, Reading (UK). 2025, 109-111.

Dos Reis Martins M., Calanca P.
Modeled yields of Swiss croplands based on climate scenarios from the CH2018 framework.
Zenodo, Dataset, 2025

Thurnherr I., Cui R., Velasquez P., Wernli H., Schär C.
The effect of 3°C global warming on hail over Europe.
Geophysical Research Letters, 52, (18), 2025, Article e2025GL114811.

Gebhart V., Romppainen-Martius O., Wernli H., Calanca P., Bresch D. N.
Hagel und Hagelschäden in der Schweiz erforschen.
ProClim-Flash, 80, 2025.

Baumgartner T., Holzkaemper A.
Kulturspezifische Bewässerungsmengen: Modellschätzungen auf Basis stationärer Klimaprojektionen.
Zenodo, Dataset, 2025

Baumgartner T., Heinz M. M., Turek M. E., Erismann G., Kohling M., Aasen H., Holzkaemper A.
SwissIrrigationInfo: Modellbasierte Schätzungen des Wasserverbrauchs für Bewässerung in der Schweiz.
Agroscope Science, 212, 2025, 1-66.

Cui R., Thurnherr I., Velasquez P., Brennan K. P., Leclair M., Mazzoleni A., Schmid T., Wernli H., Schär C.
A European hail and lightning climatology from an 11‐year kilometer‐scale regional climate simulation.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130, (14), 2025, Article e2024JD042828.

Hänchen L., Potter E., Klein C., Calanca P., Maussion F., Gurgiser W., Wohlfahrt G.
A novel framework for analyzing rainy season dynamics in semi-arid environments: A case study in the Peruvian Rio Santa basin.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29, 2025, Article 2727.

Wen J., Tagliabue G., Rossini M., Fava F. P., Panigada C., Merbold L., Leitner S., Sun Y.
Detection of fast-changing intra-seasonal vegetation dynamics of drylands using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF).
Biogeosciences, 22, (8), 2025, Article 2049.

De R., Bao S., Kirala S., Brenning A., Reichenstein M., Tagesson T., Liddell M., Ibrom A., Wolf S., Šigut L., Hörtnagl L., Woodgate W., Korkiakoski M., Merbold L., Black T. A. and others
Addressing challenges in simulating inter-annual variability of gross primary production.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17, (5), 2025, Article e2024MS004697.

Heinz M. M., Turek M. E., Schaefli B., Keiser A., Holzkaemper A.
Can adaptations of crop and soil management prevent yield losses during water scarcity?: A modeling study.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29, (7), 2025, 1807-1827.

Dos Reis Martins M., Calanca P.
Risks from climate change for Swiss cropping systems: Assessing the impacts of summer droughts on crop yields and yield stability for informing future insurance strategies.
In: EGU General Assembly. 2. May, Publ. EGU, Vienna (AT). 2025.

Kunz M.
Sugar beet yield analysis with the wofost simulation model and remote sensing in Switzerland.
Universität Bern. 2025, 69 pp.

Worsley-Tonks K. E. L., Angwenyi S., Carlson C., Cissé G., Deem S. L., Ferguson A. W., Fèvre E. M., Kimaro E. G., Kimiti D. W., Martins D. J., Merbold L., Mottet A., Murray S., Muturi M., Potter T. M. and others
A framework for managing infectious diseases in rural areas in low- and middle-income countries in the face of climate change: East Africa as a case study.
PLOS Global Public Health, 5, (1), 2025, Article e0003892.

Holzkaemper A.
Klima – Wasser – Landwirtschaft: Vom Nexus zum Brennpunkt?
Geomatik Schweiz, 123, (3-4), 2025, 44-45.
other Languages: french

Sanabria J., Neukom R., Llacza A., Salzmann N., Calanca P.
Representation of extreme El Niño events and associated atmospheric moisture flux divergence in the central-eastern tropical Pacific in a CMIP6 model ensemble.
Weather and Climate Extremes, 47, 2025, Article 100746.

Heinz M. M., Prospero S.
A modeling approach to determine substitutive tree species for sweet chestnut in stands affected by ink disease.
Journal of Forestry Research, 36, 2025, Article 24.

Holzkaemper A.
Konkurrenz um Wasser: Aktuelle und künftige Nutzungskonflikte.
In: Landmanagement Tagung 2025. 23. Januar, Publ. Geosuisse, Zurich (CH). 2025.

Ngaba M., Uwiragiye Y., Hu B., Zhou J., Dannemann M., Calanca P., Bol R., De Vries W., Kuzyakov Y., Rennenberg H.
Effects of environmental changes on soil respiration in arid, cold, temperate, and tropical zones.
Science of the Total Environment, 952, 2024, 1-12.

Portmann R., Schmid T., Villiger L., Bresch D. N., Calanca P.
Modelling crop hail damage footprints with single-polarization radar: The roles of spatial resolution, hail intensity, and cropland density.
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 24, (7), 2024, 2541-2558.

Stöckli S., Albrecht M., Sutter L., Külling N., Adde A., Guisan A., Lehmann A.
Impact of climate change on wildbees and pollination service.
In: World Biodiversity Forum 2024. 19 June, Davos. 2024, 1.

Stocker B., Dos Reis Martins M.
Case-study #6: Vegetation health forecasting.
In: How to use the power of AI to reduce the impact of climate change on Switzerland. Publ. Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), Zürich. 2024, 104-107.

Brown S., Dos Reis Martins M., Zaffora B., Huerta A.
Case-study #5: Climate risk and resilience assessments in the agri-food sector.
In: How to use the power of AI to reduce the impact of climate change on Switzerland. Publ. Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), Zürich. 2024, 100-103.

Kuhlmann G., Dos Reis Martins M.
Case-study #2: Greenhouse gas emission monitoring.
In: How to use the power of AI to reduce the impact of climate change on Switzerland. Publ. Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), Zürich. 2024, 87-91.

Giuliani G., Höge M., Scheidegger A., Röösli C., Rodila D.-D., Spindler C., Dos Reis Martins M., Emorisier F., Stocker B., Huerta A., Kugler M., Freyre A.
Data discovery and accessibility.
In: How to use the power of AI to reduce the impact of climate change on Switzerland. Publ. Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), Zürich. 2024, 54-59.

Brunschwiler T., Rodila D.-D., Altantzis C., Dos Reis Martins M., Muszynski M., Spindler C.
Artificial intelligence for climate impact assessments.
In: How to use the power of AI to reduce the impact of climate change on Switzerland. Publ. Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), Zürich. 2024, 46-29.

Bingler J., Colesanti-Senni C., Dos Reis Martins M., Freyre A., Leippold M., Schimanski T., Spindler C., Weiss J., Vaghefi S. A.
Managing transition risks: Towards a lower-carbon economy.
In: How to use the power of AI to reduce the impact of climate change on Switzerland. Publ. Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW), Zürich. 2024, 18-22.

Thorp K. R., DeJonge K. C., Pokoski T., Gulati D., Kukal M., Farag F., Hashem A., Erismann G., Baumgartner T., Holzkaemper A.
Version 1.3.0 pyfao56: FAO-56 evapotranspiration in Python.
SoftwareX, 26, 2024, 1-3.

Dos Reis Martins M., Ammann C., Boos C., Calanca P., Kiese R., Wolf B., Keel S.
Reducing N fertilization in the framework of the European Farm to Fork strategy under global change: Impacts on yields, N2O emissions and N leaching of temperate grasslands in the Alpine region.
Agricultural Systems, 219, 2024.

Kramer K., Oriani F., Schneider M. K., Aasen H., Calanca P.
Integrating Sentinel-2 information into a growth model for assessing Alpine grassland dynamics under climate change.
In: European Geoscience Union Annual Meeting 2024. 15 April, Vienna. 2024, 1-37.

Kramer K., Calanca P.
growR: R Implementation of the Vegetation ModelModVege.
Journal of open source software, 9, (94), 2024, 1-4.

Heinz M. M., Galetti V., Holzkaemper A.
How to find alternative crops for climate-resilient regional food production.
Agricultural Systems, 213, 2024, 1-16.

Heinz M. M., Holzkaemper A., Schäfli B.
Modeling regional irrigation demand.
In: Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2023. 18 November, Mendrisio. 2023, 1-19.

Heinz M. M., Holzkaemper A., Schäfli B.
Modeling regional irrigation demand.
In: WES (Earth-Water-Systems) PHD Conference. 1. December, Basel. 2023, 1-22.

Turek M. E., Nemes A., Holzkaemper A.
Sequestering carbon in the subsoil benefits crop transpiration at the onset of drought.
Soil, 9, (2), 2023, 545-560.

Conway R.
Projecting climate change impacts on winter wheat growth in switzerland calibrating the wofost crop simulation.
University of Bern. February, 2023, 57 pp.

Willi S.
Modelling climate change impacts on soybean yields on the swiss plateau.
Universität Bern. 2023, 84 pp.

Holzkaemper A.
Klimawandel, Wasser und Landwirtschaft – eine Dreiecksbeziehung mit Konfliktpotential.
In: Eawag Tagung: Grundwassernutzung im Wandel. 26. Oktober, Dübendorf, EMPA Akademie (CH). 2023, 1-12.

Heinz M. M., Schaefli B., Raible C., Holzkaemper A.
Modeling irrigation demand under increasing drought extremes.
In: Climate Summer School. 3 September, Ascona. 2023, 1.

Turek M. E., Nemes A., Holzkaemper A.
Benefits of increasing soil organic carbon to reduce drought stress in maize under climate change.
In: Climate Summer School. 3 September, Ascona. 2023, 1.

Calanca P., Holzkaemper A., Isotta F. A.
Die thermische Vegetationszeit im Wandel des Klimas.
Agrarforschung Schweiz, 14, 2023, 150-158.

Comte V., Schneider L., Calanca P., Zufferey V., Rebetez M.
Future climatic conditions may threaten adaptation capacities for vineyards along Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
OENO One, 57, (2), 2023, 85-100.

Bütikofer N., Vonlanthen T., Hiltbrunner J., Holzkaemper A., Calanca P.
Thermische Eignungskarten für Sorghum in der Schweiz.
Agrarforschung Schweiz, 14, 2023, 24-33.

Castex V., de Cortazar-Atauri I. G., Beniston M., Moreau J., Semenov M., Stoffel M., Calanca P.
Exploring future changes in synchrony between grapevine (Vitis vinifera) and its major insect pest, Lobesia botrana.
OENO One, 57, (1), 2023, 161-174.

Portmann-Walpen R.
Modeling present and future hail damages to crops in Switzerland.
In: Swiss Climate Summer School 2022. 4. September, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR). 2022.

Dowling T. P. F., Langsdale M. F., Ermida S. L., Wooster M. J., Merbold L., Leitner S., Trigo I. F., Gluecks I., Main B., O'Shea F., Hook S., Rivera G., De Jong M. C., Nguyen H., Hyll K.
A new East African satellite data validation station: Performance of the LSA-SAF all-weather land surface temperature product over a savannah biome.
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 187, 2022, 240-258.

Vrieling A., Fava F., Leitner S., Merbold L., Cheng Y., Nakalema T., Groen T., Butterbach-Bahl K.
Identification of temporary livestock enclosures in Kenya from multi-temporal PlanetScope imagery.
Remote Sensing of Environment, 279, 2022, 1-15.

Bao S., Wutzler T., Koirala S., Cuntz M., Ibrom A., Besnard S., Walther S., Šigut L., Moreno A., Weber U., Wohlfahrt G., Cleverly J., Migliavacca M., Woodgate W., Merbold L. and others
Environment-sensitivity functions for gross primary productivity in light use efficiency models.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 312, 2022, 1-23.

Turek M. E., Poggio L., Batjes N. H., Armindo R. A., De Jong van Lier Q., de Sousa L., Heuvelink G.
Global mapping of volumetric water retention at 100, 330 and 15 000 cm suction using the WoSIS database.
International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 11, (2), 2022, 225-239.

Calanca P., Wüst C., Giuliani S., Erdin D.
Auswirkungen der Trockenheit auf die Produktivität des Schweizer Grünlands.
Agrarforschung Schweiz, 13, 2022, 135-144.

Turek M. E., Prasuhn V., Holzkaemper A.
Agro-hydrological modeling of soil water retention measures to increase crop system resilience to extreme events.
In: EGU General Assembly 2022. 23 May, Publ. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna (AT). 2022.

Comte V., Schneider L., Calanca P., Rebetez M.
Effects of climate change on bioclimatic indices in vineyards along Lake Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 147, 2022, 423-436.

Holzkaemper A., Calanca P.
Auswirkungen der Trockenjahre 1947, 2003 und 2018 auf die Landwirtschaft.
In: Hitze- und Trockensommer in der Schweiz. Publ. Geographica Bernensia, Bern. 2022, 16-17.

Zhao J., Bindi M., Eitzinger J., Ferrise R., Gaile Z., Gobin A., Holzkaemper A., Kersebaum K.-C., Kozyra J., Kriaučiūnienė Z., Loit E., Nejedlik P., Nendel C., Niinemets Ü., Palosua T. and others
Priority for climate adaptation measures in European crop production systems.
European Journal of Agronomy, 138, 2022, Article 126516.

Turek M. E., De Jong van Lier Q., Armindo R. A.
Parameterizing field capacity as the upper limit of available water in bucket-type hydrological models.
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 194, 2022, 1-11.

Hänchen L., Klein C., Maussion F., Gurgiser W., Calanca P., Wohlfahrt G.
Widespread greening suggests increased dry-season plant water availability in the Rio Santa valley, Peruvian Andes.
Earth System Dynamics, 13, 2022, 595-611.

Holzkaemper A.
Klimawandelauswirkungen auf die Landwirtschaft in der Schweiz und Möglichkeiten der Anpassung.
In: 8. Umweltökologisches Symposium 9-14. Publ. Höhere Bundeslehr- und Forschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft, Raumberg-Gumpenstein. 2022, 1-6.

Holzkaemper A.
Klimawandelauswirkungen auf die Landwirtschaft der Schweiz und Möglichkeiten der Anpassung.
In: 8. Umweltökologischen Symposium der HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein. 22. März, Online. 2022, 1-26.

Graham M., Chelanga P., Jensen N. D., Leitner S. M., Fava F., Merbold L.
A framework for assessing the effects of shock events on livestock and environment in sub-Saharan Africa: The COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Kenya.
Agricultural Systems, 192, 2021, 1-14.

Dowling T. P. F., Song P., De Jong M. C., Merbold L., Wooster M. J., Huang J., Zhang Y.
An improved cloud gap-filling method for longwave infrared land surface temperatures through introducing passive microwave techniques.
Remote Sensing, 13, (17), 2021, 1-26.