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Implications of the steady-state assumption for the global vegetation carbon turnover
Naixin Fan, Maurizio Santoro, Simon Besnard, Oliver Cartus, Sujan Koirala, and Nuno Carvalhais
Environmental Research Letters (2023)
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Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade
Hui Yang, Philippe Ciais, Frédéric Frappart, Xiaojun Li, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, Lei Fan, Sassan Saatchi, Simon Besnard, Zhu Deng, Simon Bowring, and Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Nature Geoscience (2023)
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Global estimation of above-ground biomass from spaceborne C-band scatterometer observations aided by LiDAR metrics of vegetation structure
Maurizio Santoro, Oliver Cartus, Urs Wegmüller, Simon Besnard, Nuno Carvalhais, Arnan Araza, Martin Herold, Jingjing Liang, Jura Cavlovic, and Marcus E. Engdahl
Remote Sensing of Environment (2022)
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Technical note: A view from space on global flux towers by MODIS and Landsat: the FluxnetEO data set
Sophia Walther, Simon Besnard, Jacob Allen Nelson, Tarek Sebastian El-Madany, Mirco Migliavacca, Ulrich Weber, Nuno Carvalhais, Sofia Lorena Ermida, Christian Brümmer, Frederik Schrader, Anatoly Stanislavovich Prokushkin, Alexey Vasilevich Panov, and Martin Jung
Biogeosciences (2022)
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Environment-sensitivity functions for gross primary productivity in light use efficiency models
Shanning Bao, Thomas Wutzler, Sujan Koirala, Matthias Cuntz, Andreas Ibrom, Simon Besnard, Sophia Walther, Ladislav Šigut, Alvaro Moreno, Ulrich Weber, Georg Wohlfahrt, Jamie Cleverly, Mirco Migliavacca, William Woodgate, Lutz Merbold, Elmar Veenendaal, and Nuno Carvalhais
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2022)
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Global sensitivities of forest carbon changes to environmental conditions
Simon Besnard, Maurizio Santoro, Oliver Cartus, Naixin Fan, Nora Linscheid, Richard Nair, Ulrich Weber, Sujan Koirala, and Nuno Carvalhais
Global Change Biology (2021)
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Mapping global forest age from forest inventories, biomass and climate data
Simon Besnard, Sujan Koirala, Maurizio Santoro, Ulrich Weber, Jacob Nelson, Jonas Gütter, Bruno Herault, Justin Kassi, Anny N’Guessan, Christopher Neigh, Benjamin Poulter, Tao Zhang, and Nuno Carvalhais
Earth System Science Data (2021)
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Emulating Ecological Memory with Recurrent Neural Networks
Basil Kraft, Simon Besnard, Sujan Koirala
Wiley (2021)
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Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites
Jacob A. Nelson, Oscar Pérez-Priego, Sha Zhou, Rafael Poyatos, Yao Zhang, Peter D. Blanken, Teresa E. Gimeno, Georg Wohlfahrt, Ankur R. Desai, Beniamino Gioli, Jean-Marc Limousin, Damien Bonal, Eugénie Paul-Limoges, Russell L. Scott, Andrej Varlagin, Kathrin Fuchs, Leonardo Montagnani, Sebastian Wolf, Nicolas Delpierre, Daniel Berveiller, Mana Gharun, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Damiano Gianelle, Ladislav Šigut, Ivan Mammarella, Lukas Siebicke, T. Andrew Black, Alexander Knohl, Lukas Hörtnagl, Vincenzo Magliulo, Simon Besnard, Ulrich Weber, Nuno Carvalhais, Mirco Migliavacca, Markus Reichstein, and Martin Jung
Global Change Biology (2020)
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Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach
Martin Jung, Christopher Schwalm, Mirco Migliavacca, Sophia Walther, Gustau Camps-Valls, Sujan Koirala, Peter Anthoni, Simon Besnard, Paul Bodesheim, Nuno Carvalhais, Frédéric Chevallier, Fabian Gans, Daniel S. Goll, Vanessa Haverd, Philipp Köhler, Kazuhito Ichii, Atul K. Jain, Junzhi Liu, Danica Lombardozzi, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Jacob A. Nelson, Michael O’Sullivan, Martijn Pallandt, Dario Papale, Wouter Peters, Julia Pongratz, Christian Rödenbeck, Stephen Sitch, Gianluca Tramontana, Anthony Walker, Ulrich Weber, and Markus Reichstein
Biogeosciences (2020)
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