Allan Buras

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Allan Buras

Dr. rer. nat.

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2179-0681
20112026

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From 2003-2009 Allan Buras studied Physical Geography at the LMU Munich. Based on a research stay at the University of Svalbard on Spitzbergen, he received his diploma degree on 'Ecological investigatons on Euphrasia wettsteinii in Colesdalen, Svalbard' in 2009 with an excellent score (1.0) under the supervision of Prof. Inger Greve Alsos (UNIS) and Prof. Dr. Carola Küfmann (LMU). 

From 2009-2013 he was enrolled as a Ph.D.-candidate at Greifswald University under the supervision of Prof. Martin Wilmking (Ph.D.) focusing on the quantification of the carbon sequestration potential of Central Asian Desert ecosystems. He graduated in October 2013 with 'magna cum laude'.

From 2013-2015 Allan Buras continued his research at Greifswald university as a Helmholtz stipend within the virtual ICLEA institute, working on integrated climate- and landscape evolution analyses by means of dendroecological assessments.

From 2015-2017, he pursued a new post-doc position with Prof. Dr. Annette Menzel at the professorship of ecoclimatology, TU Munich, where he combined dendroecological investigations and tree-species models to assess the current and potential future performance of dominant European tree-species. 

From 2017-2018 he became a DAAD-stipend at Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands) together with Prof. Ute Sass-Klaassen which was succeeded by a 3 month post-doc position at the group of Frits Mohren (forest ecology and forest management, also at WUR).

In September 2018, he returned to TU Munich at the professorship of land surface-atmosphere interactions (Prof. Dr. Anja Rammig) where he has been enrolled since then. His recent work focuses on the remote-sensing based assessment of forest condition, involving the development and management of the European Forest Condition Monitor, as well as tree-species specific climate-change vulnerability assessments by means of dendroecology, remote sensing, and modelling. 

Up until February, 2026, Allan Buras has published 95 peer-reviewed research articles, received several smaller grants (e.g. DAAD-scholarship) and coordinated 2 third-party funded projects. His work has been cited more than 8,300 times (H-index: 39). Moreover, his research has gained public attention by prominent German and international news outlets such as the Tagesschau and the New York Times.

Education/Academic qualification

Natural Sciences, PhD, Quantifying the carbon sequestration potential of Central Asian Desert ecosystems, Universität Greifswald

1 Nov 2009 → 31 Oct 2013

Award Date: 14 Oct 2013

Natural Sciences, Master, Ecological investigations on Euphrasia wettsteinii in Colesdalen, Svalbard, München LMU

1 Oct 2003 → 30 Sep 2009

Award Date: 30 Sep 2009

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  3. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  4. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water
  5. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land

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  • deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics

    Mosig, C., Vajna-Jehle, J., Mahecha, M. D., Cheng, Y., Hartmann, H., Montero, D., Junttila, S., Horion, S., Schwenke, M. B., Koontz, M. J., Maulud, K. N. A., Adu-Bredu, S., Al-Halbouni, D., Ali, M., Allen, M., Altman, J., Amorós, L., Angiolini, C., Astrup, R. & Awada, H. & 186 others, Barrasso, C., Bartholomeus, H., Beck, P. S. A., Bozzini, A., Braun-Wimmer, J., Brede, B., Breunig, F. M., Brugnaro, S., Buras, A., Burchard-Levine, V., Camarero, J. J., Candotti, A., Capuder, L., Carrieri, E., Centritto, M., Chirici, G., Cloutier, M., Conciani, D., Cushman, K. C., Dalling, J. W., Dao, P. D., Dempewolf, J., Denter, M., Dogotari, M., Díaz-Delgado, R., Ecke, S., Eichel, J., Eltner, A., Fabbri, A., Fabi, M., Fassnacht, F., Ferreira, M. P., Fischer, F. J., Frey, J., Frick, A., Fuentes, J., Ganz, S., Garbarino, M., García, M., Gassilloud, M., Gazol, A., Gea-Izquierdo, G., Gerberding, K., Ghasemi, M., Giannetti, F., Gillan, J., Gonzalez, R., Gosper, C., Greene, T., Greinwald, K., Grieve, S., Große-Stoltenberg, A., Gutierrez, J. A., Göritz, A., Hajek, P., Hedding, D., Hempel, J., Heremans, S., Hernández, M., Heurich, M., Honkavaara, E., Höfle, B., Jackisch, R., Jucker, T., Kalwij, J. M., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Khatri-Chhetri, P., Kleinebecker, T., Klemmt, H. J., Klouček, T., Koivumäki, N., Kolagani, N., Komárek, J., Korznikov, K., Kraszewski, B., Kruse, S., Krüger, R., Kuechly, H., Kwong, I. H. Y., Laliberté, E., Langan, L., Latifi, H., Leal-Medina, C., Lehmann, J. R. K., Li, L., Lines, E., Lisiewicz, M., Lopatin, J., Lucieer, A., Ludwig, A., Ludwig, M., Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa, P., Ma, Q., Mansuy, N., Peña, J. M., Marino, G., Maroschek, M., Martín, M. P., Martín-Benito, D., Matham, P., Mazzoni, S., Meloni, F., Menzel, A., Meyer, H., Miraki, M., Moreno, G., Moreno-Fernández, D., Muller-Landau, H. C., Mälicke, M., Möhring, J., Müllerova, J., Naidu, S. S., Nardi, D., Neumeier, P., Nita, M. D., Näsi, R., Oppgenoorth, L., Orunbaev, S., Palmer, M., Paul, T., Pfenning, M., Potts, A., Prasanna, G. L., Prober, S., Puliti, S., Pérez-Luque, A. J., Pérez-Priego, O., Reudenbach, C., Revuelto, J., Rivas-Torres, G., Roberge, P., Roggero, P. P., Rossi, C., Ruehr, N. K., Ruiz-Benito, P., Runge, C. M., Satta, G. G. A., Scanu, B., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schiefer, F., Schiller, C., Schladebach, J., Schmehl, M. T., Schmid, J., Schmidt, T. A., Schwarz, S., Seidl, R., Seifert, T., Barba, A. S., Shafeian, E., Shapiro, A., de Simone, L., Sohrabi, H., Soltani, S., Sotomayor, L., Sparrow, B., Steer, B. S. C., Stenson, M., Stöckigt, B., Su, Y., Suomalainen, J., Tamudo, E., Barbieri, M. J. T., Tomelleri, E., Torresani, M., Trepekli, K., Ullah, S., Ullah, S., Umlauft, J., Vargas-Ramírez, N., Vatandaslar, C., Visacki, V., Volpi, M., Vásquez, V., Wallis, C., Weinstein, B., Weiser, H., Wich, S., Ximena, T. C., Zarco-Tejada, P. J., Zdunic, K., Zielewska-Büttner, K., de Oliveira, R. A., van Wagtendonk, L., von Dosky, V. & Kattenborn, T., 1 Jan 2026, In: Remote Sensing of Environment. 332, 115027.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    1 Scopus citations

  • Evaluating the 2023-2024 record dry-hot conditions in the Amazon in the context of historical compound extremes

    Ferreira, V., Buras, A., Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M. & Rammig, A., 1 Aug 2025, In: Environmental Research Letters. 20, 8, 084055.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    5 Scopus citations

  • Simulating the drought response of European tree species with the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS (v4.1, 97c552c5)

    Meyer, B. F., Darela-Filho, J. P., Gregor, K., Buras, A., Gu, Q. L., Krause, A., Liu, D., Papastefanou, P., Asuk, S., Grams, T. E. E., Zang, C. S. & Rammig, A., 30 Jul 2025, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 18, 14, p. 4643-4666 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    1 Scopus citations

  • Spatiotemporal Variability of Dendroecological Indicators in Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur L.) Tree-Rings Across Europe in Relation to Species Distribution Models

    Popa, A., Jevšenak, J., Dyderski, M., Puchałka, R., Buras, A., Popa, I., Wilmking, M., Kalisty, A., Roibu, C. C., Jakubowski, M., Thurm, E., Šenfeldr, M., Smiljanić, M., van der Maaten, E., Esper, J., Martinez del Castillo, E., Treml, V., Tumajer, J., Zlatanov, T. & Matisons, R. & 34 others, Florenta, G., Florenta, V., Netsvetov, M., Grati, V., Burger, A., Janecka, K., Kostić, S., Pilch, K., Jansone, D., Liepiņa, A., Prokopuk, Y., Sylenko, O., Árvai, M., Bräuning, A., Marques, C., Häusser, M., Horváth, E., Jeleń, J., Kaczka, R., Kern, Z., Kolář, T., Koprowski, M., Metslaid, S., Morgós, A., Khodosovtsev, O., Potapov, A., Rybníček, M., Sochová, I., Sohar, K., Budzhak, V., Zin, E., Schneider, T., Gil, W. & Klisz, M., Nov 2025, In: Global Change Biology. 31, 11, e70567.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    1 Scopus citations

  • Species-specific responses of canopy greenness to the extreme droughts of 2018 and 2022 for four abundant tree species in Germany

    Wang, Y., Rammig, A., Blickensdörfer, L., Wang, Y., Zhu, X. X. & Buras, A., 1 Jan 2025, In: Science of the Total Environment. 958, 177938.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    6 Scopus citations
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