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Dieter Gerten

Leibniz Association ·
Area of research
Water Science and Technology · Global and Planetary Change
Research interest
Research interests include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Climate variability and models, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, and Water resources management and optimization.
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83
citations
45,046
works
340
NIH funding
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Recent publications

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems
The Lancet 2025cited by 229position: middledoi
Identifying the safe operating space for food systems
Nature Food 2025cited by 9position: middledoi
Multiple planetary boundaries preclude biomass crops for carbon capture and storage outside of agricultural areas
Communications Earth & Environment 2025cited by 8position: middledoi
Intensified dominance of El Niño-like convection relevant for global atmospheric circulation variations
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 2025cited by 4position: middledoi
Identifying the safe operating space for food systems
2025cited by 4position: middledoi
Join the dots on planetary boundary interactions
2025cited by 1position: firstdoi
Notable shifts beyond pre-industrial streamflow and soil moisture conditions transgress the planetary boundary for freshwater change
Nature Water 2024cited by 53position: middledoi
Sketching the spatial disparities in heatwave trends by changing atmospheric teleconnections in the Northern Hemisphere
Nature Communications 2024cited by 33position: middledoi
African rainforest moisture contribution to continental agricultural water consumption
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2024cited by 27position: middledoi
Pronounced spatial disparity of projected heatwave changes linked to heat domes and land-atmosphere coupling
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 2024cited by 16position: middledoi
biospheremetrics v1.0.2: an R package to calculate two complementary terrestrial biosphere integrity indicators – human colonization of the biosphere (BioCol) and risk of ecosystem destabilization (EcoRisk)
Geoscientific model development 2024cited by 9position: middledoi
Malin Falkenmark: Water pioneer who coined the notion of water crowding and coloured the water cycle
AMBIO 2024cited by 6position: middledoi
Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries
Science Advances 2023cited by 2,705position: middledoi
A planetary boundary for green water
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2022cited by 337position: middledoi
The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change
Nature Communications 2022cited by 255position: middledoi
Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation
Nature Sustainability 2022cited by 43position: middledoi
Globally widespread and increasing violations of environmental flow envelopes
Hydrology and earth system sciences 2022cited by 40position: middledoi
Potential of Land‐Neutral Negative Emissions Through Biochar Sequestration
Earth s Future 2022cited by 29position: middledoi
Global water cycle shifts far beyond pre-industrial conditions – planetary boundary for freshwater change transgressed
2022cited by 14position: middledoi
Understanding the transgression of global and regional freshwater planetary boundaries
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 2022cited by 10position: middledoi
Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and the freshwater planetary boundary
Hydrology and earth system sciences 2022cited by 9position: middledoi
Towards a green water planetary boundary
2022cited by 8position: middledoi
Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change
Nature Climate Change 2021cited by 909position: middledoi
Irrigation of biomass plantations may globally increase water stress more than climate change
Nature Communications 2021cited by 96position: lastdoi
Feeding the world in a narrowing safe operating space
One Earth 2021cited by 22position: firstdoi
Environmental flow envelopes: quantifying global, ecosystem–threatening streamflow alterations
2021cited by 17position: middledoi
Global scenarios of irrigation water abstractions for bioenergy production: a systematic review
Hydrology and earth system sciences 2021cited by 16position: middledoi
Validity of estimating flood and drought characteristics under equilibrium climates from transient simulations
Environmental Research Letters 2021cited by 16position: middledoi
Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries
Nature Sustainability 2020cited by 637position: firstdoi
Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth system resilience in the Anthropocene
Water Resources Research 2020cited by 222position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Wolfgang Lucht · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin27 papers (2012–2025)Yoshihide Wada · Politecnico di Milano21 papers (2013–2022)Yusuke Satoh · Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology14 papers (2013–2024)Jens Heinke · Leibniz Association14 papers (2012–2024) · 14 papers (2017–2024) · 14 papers (2012–2025) · 13 papers (2013–2024)Johan Rockström · Middle East Institute13 papers (2015–2025)Matti Kummu · Scripps Institution of Oceanography13 papers (2015–2024)Tom Gleeson · United States Geological Survey12 papers (2019–2024)Ingo Fetzer · Stockholm Resilience Centre12 papers (2015–2024)Sebastian Ostberg · Leibniz Association11 papers (2012–2024)Christoph Müller · Zhejiang University10 papers (2012–2020)Jonas Jägermeyr · Goddard Institute for Space Studies10 papers (2013–2020) · 9 papers (2013–2019)Fernando Jaramillo · Florida International University9 papers (2019–2024) · 8 papers (2013–2024)Sarah Cornell · Stockholm Resilience Centre8 papers (2015–2022)Qiuhong Tang · Planetary Science Institute8 papers (2013–2020) · 8 papers (2013–2021)