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Rik Leemans
Researcher at Wageningen University and Research Centre
Publications - 281
Citations - 40292
Rik Leemans is an academic researcher from Wageningen University and Research Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Land use, land-use change and forestry. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 277 publications receiving 37113 citations. Previous affiliations of Rik Leemans include Lund University & University of Kassel.
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Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100.
Osvaldo E. Sala,F. S. Chapin,Juan J. Armesto,Eric L. Berlow,Janine Bloomfield,Rodolfo Dirzo,E Huber-Sanwald,Laura Foster Huenneke,Robert B. Jackson,Ann P. Kinzig,Rik Leemans,David M. Lodge,Harold A. Mooney,Martín Oesterheld,N L Poff,Martin T. Sykes,Brian Walker,Marilyn D. Walker,Diana H. Wall +18 more
TL;DR: This study identified a ranking of the importance of drivers of change, aranking of the biomes with respect to expected changes, and the major sources of uncertainties in projections of future biodiversity change.
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The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths
Eric F. Lambin,Billie Turner,Helmut Geist,Samuel Babatunde Agbola,Arild Angelsen,John W. Bruce,Oliver T. Coomes,Rodolfo Dirzo,Günther Fischer,Carl Folke,P.S. George,Katherine Homewood,Jacques Imbernon,Rik Leemans,Xiubin Li,Emilio F. Moran,Michael Mortimore,P. S. Ramakrishnan,John F. Richards,Helle Skånes,Will Steffen,Glenn Davis Stone,Uno Svedin,Tom A. Veldkamp,Coleen Vogel,Jianchu Xu +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors track some of the major myths on driving forces of land cover change and propose alternative pathways of change that are better supported by case study evidence, concluding that neither population nor poverty alone constitute the sole and major underlying causes of land-cover change worldwide.
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Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Tarekegn Abeku,Pamela Abuodha,Francis Adesina,Neil Adger,John Agard,Pramod Aggarwal,Maureen Agnew,Micheline Agoli-Agbo,Shardul Agrawala,Will Agricole,Qazi Ahmad,Rais Akhtar,Mozaharul Alam,Joseph Alcamo,Abdelkader Allali,Jean Andrey,Oleg Anisimov,Yurij Anokhin,John Antle,Miguel Araujo,Julie Arblaster,Nigel Arnell,Jun Asanuma,Julius Atlhopheng,Samar Attaher,Shiv Attri,Walter Baethgen,Manzhu Bao,Chris Barlow,Bryson Bates,Punsalmaa Batima,Susanne Becken,Paul Beggs,Martin Beniston,Frans Berkhout,Richard Betts,Suruchi Bhadwal,Bonizella Biagini,Marco Bindi,Richard Black,Michel Boko,William Bond,Lahouari Bounoua,Keith Brander,Antoinette Brenkert,Lino Briguglio,Abigail Bristow,Michael Brklacich,Nick Brooks,Barbara Brown,Sarah Burch,Virginia Burkett,Ian Burton,Sandy Cairncross,Terry V. Callaghan,Josep Canadell,Osvaldo Canziani,Timothy Carter,Gino Casassa,Dan Cayan,Jean-Paul Ceron,Lynda Chambers,Netra Chhetri,Torben Christensen,Bernard Clot,Jorge Codignotto,Stewart Cohen,Anthony Coleman,Cecilia Conde,Ulisses Confalonieri,Jan Corfee-Morlot,Roman Corobov,Isabelle Côté,Patricia Craig,Judith Cranage,Rex V. Cruz,David Cruz Choque,Edmundo de Alba Alcaraz,Jacqueline de Chazal,John de Ronde,Mike Demuth,Fatima Denton,Sophie des Clers,Robert Devoy,Oagile Dikinya,Andrew F. Dlugolecki,Petra Döll,Thomas Downing,Pauline Dube,Ghislain Dubois,Matt Dunn,Mark B. Dyurgerov,William Easterling,Kristie Ebi,Martin Edwards,Seita Emori,Brenna Enright,Francisco Estrada,Nicole Estrella,Pete Falloon,Daidu Fan,Samuel Fankhauser,Christopher Field,Adam Finkel,Andreas Fischlin,Blair Fitzharris,Donald Forbes,James D. Ford,Bernard Francou,Chris Furgal,Hans-Martin Füssel,Christos Giannakopoulos,Simone Gigli,Juan C. Giménez,Andrew Githeko,Mukiri Githendu,Brij Gopal,Vivien Gornitz,Stefan Gossling,Phil Graham,Donna Green,Antoine Guisan,Dimitrios Gyalistras,Wilfreid Haeberli,Simon Hales,Jim Hall,Stephane Hallegatte,Alan Hamlet,Clair Hanson,Hideo Harasawa,Nicholas Harvey,Maria Hauengue,John Hay,Deborah Hemming,Roderick Henderson,Kevin Hennessy,Anne Henshaw,Karim Hilmi,Alistair Hobday,Ove Hoegh-Guldberg,Yasushi Honda,Christopher Hope,Mark Howden,Terence Hughes,Lesley Hughes,Saleemul Huq,Guy Hutton,Ana Iglesias,Anton Imeson,Sirajul Islam,Mostafa Jafari,Tony Janetos,Erik Jeppesen,Simon Jetté-Nantel,Blanca E. Jimenez,Roger Jones,Gregory Jones,Hui Ju,Pavel Kabat,Lucka Kajfež-Bogataj,Milind Kandlikar,Manmohan Kapshe,David Karoly,Georg Kaser,Klaus Keller,Gavin Kenny,Wulf Killmann,Darren King,Andrei Kirilenko,Tord Kjellstrom,Richard J. T. Klein,Christian Körner,Paul Kovacs,Sari Kovats,Zbigniew Kundzewicz,Petro Lakyda,Murari Lal,Joseph Lam,Rodel Lasco,Rik Leemans,Penehuro Lefale,Maria-Carmen Lemos,Nancy Lewis,Shuangcheng Li,Congxian Li,Tran V. Lien,Erda Lin,Chunzhen Liu,Diana Liverman,Irene Lorenzoni,Geoff Love,Jason Lowe,Xianfu Lu,Wolfgang Lucht,Nick Lunn,Zhuguo Ma,Dena Mac Mynowski,Terry Mader,Christopher Magadza,Graciela Magrin,David Major,Elizabeth Malone,Susan Mann,Harvey Marchant,José A. Marengo,Anil Markandya,Eric Martin,Michael Mastrandrea,Luis J. Mata,Glenn McGregor,Kathleen L. McInnes,Roger McLean,Linda Mearns,Mahmoud Medany,Bettina Menne,Annette Menzel,Guy F. Midgley,Kathleen Miller,Scott Mills,Evan Mills,Nobuo Mimura,Charles K. Minns,Monirul Q. Mirza,Alison Misselhorn,Patricia Morellato,Ana R. Moreno,José Moreno,John Morton,Linda Mortsch,Susanne Moser,Tushar Moulik,Robert Muir-Wood,Gustavo Nagy,Taito Nakalevu,Mark Nearing,Ron Neilson,Frederick Nelson,Peter Neofotis,Isabelle Niang,Robert J. Nicholls,Nguyen H. Ninh,Carlos Nobre,Belá Nováky,Leonard Nurse,Mark Nuttall,Anthony Nyong,Karen O’Brien,Brian O’Neill,Catherine O’Reilly,Imoh Obioh,Anthony Ogbonna,Taikan Oki,Jørgen Olesen,Michael Oppenheimer,Balgis Osman,Hubert N. Ouaga,Gianna Palmer,Jean Palutikof,Faizal Parish,Martin Parry,Anthony Patt,Anand Patwardhan,Jonathan Patz,Rolph Payet,Tristan Pearce,Martin Pêcheux,Guy Penny,Rosa Perez,Christopher Pfeiffer,Christian Pfister,Barrie Pittock,Jeff Price,Terry D. Prowse,Christel Prudhomme,Juan Pulhin,Roger Pulwarty,Sachooda Ragoonaden,Atiq Rahman,Samuel Rawlins,Tim Reeder,James D. Reist,Boris Revich,Richard Richels,John Robinson,Xavier Rodo,Rafael Rodriguez Acevedo,Patricia Romero Lankao,Terry Root,George Rose,Cynthia Rosenzweig,Mark Rounsevell,Steve Running,Kimmo Ruosteenoja,Susanne Rupp-Armstrong,David Sailor,Yoshiki Saito,Jim Salinger,Mark Saunders,Josef Schmidhuber,Stephen Schneider,Roland Schulze,Michael Scott,Daniel Scott,Roger Sedjo,Bernard Seguin,Graham Sem,Serguei Semenov,Zekai Sen,Ashok Sharma,Igor Shiklomanov,Arun Shreshtha,Priyadarshi Shukla,Anatoly Shvidenko,Barry Smit,Kirk Smith,Joel Smith,William Solecki,Jean-Francois Soussana,Tim Sparks,Tom Spencer,John Stone,Kate Studd,Avelino Suarez,John Sweeney,Ramadjita Tabo,Kiyoshi Takahashi,Juan Tarazona,Anna Taylor,Claudia Tebaldi,Renoj Thayyen,Madeleine Thomson,Wilfred Thuiller,Christina Tirado,Alexander Todorov,Richard S.J. Tol,Ferenc Toth,Maria Travasso,Piotr Tryjanowski,Francesco Tubiello,Carol Turley,Nick van de Giesen,Jelle van Minnen,Henk van Schaik,Detlef van Vuuren,Jean-Pascal van Ypersele,Jef Vandenberghe,David G. Vaughan,Andrei Velichko,Marta Vicarelli,Hjalmar Vilhjalmsson,Alicia Villamizar,Katherine Vincent,David Viner,Coleen Vogel,John Walsh,Johanna Wandel,Rachel Warren,Richard Warrick,Richard Washington,Paul Watkiss,Ellen Wiegandt,Tom Wilbanks,Robert Wilby,Tanja Wolf,Johanna Wolf,Poh P. Wong,Colin Woodroffe,Rosalie Woodruff,Alistair Woodward,Fred Wrona,Qigang Wu,Shaohong Wu,Farhana Yamin,Pius Yanda,Gary Yohe,Ricardo Zapata-Marti,Qiaomin Zhang,Gina Ziervogel,Monika Zurek +378 more
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Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development
James F. Reynolds,D. Mark Stafford Smith,Eric F. Lambin,Billie Turner,Michael Mortimore,Simon Batterbury,Thomas E. Downing,Hadi Dowlatabadi,Roberto Fernández,Jeffrey E. Herrick,Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald,Hong Jiang,Rik Leemans,Tim Lynam,Fernando T. Maestre,Miguel A. Ayarza,Brian Walker +16 more
TL;DR: The DDP, supported by a growing and well-documented set of tools for policy and management action, helps navigate the inherent complexity of desertification and dryland development, identifying and synthesizing those factors important to research, management, and policy communities.
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A global biome model based on plant physiology and dominance, soil properties and climate
I. Colin Prentice,Wolfgang Cramer,Sandy P. Harrison,Rik Leemans,Robert A. Monserud,Allen M. Solomon +5 more
TL;DR: A model to predict global patterns in vegetation physiognomy was developed from physiological considera- tions influencing the distributions of different functional types of plant in a given environment, and selected the potentially dominant types from among them as discussed by the authors.