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List of works by Rodrigo Vargas

A Process‐Model Perspective on Recent Changes in the Carbon Cycle of North America

scientific article published in 2022

A low-cost modular data-acquisition system for monitoring biometeorological variables

A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

scholarly article

A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

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A multisite analysis of temporal random errors in soil CO2efflux

scholarly article

Air-sea CO2 fluxes in the near-shore and intertidal zones influenced by the California Current

Approaches to advance scientific understanding of macrosystems ecology

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Atmospheric Ammonia Measurements Over a Coastal Salt Marsh Ecosystem Along the Mid‐Atlantic U.S.

scientific article published on 24 April 2021

Automated measurements of greenhouse gases fluxes from tree stems and soils: magnitudes, patterns and drivers

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Benefits of soil carbon: report on the outcomes of an international scientific committee on problems of the environment rapid assessment workshop

Biogeosciences Perspectives on Integrated, Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) Science

scientific article published in 2022

Biomass and carbon accumulation in a fire chronosequence of a seasonally dry tropical forest

Biophysical drivers of net ecosystem and methane exchange across phenological phases in a tidal salt marsh

scientific article published on 13 January 2021

Building a Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure to Address Global Grand Challenges for Macrosystem Ecology

scientific article published in May 2022

CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America.

scientific article

Can current moisture responses predict soil CO<sub>2</sub> efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments

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Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions From A Temperate Salt Marsh Tidal Creek

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Changes in soil hyphal abundance and viability can alter the patterns of hydraulic redistribution by plant roots

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Characterizing the performance of ecosystem models across time scales: A spectral analysis of the North American Carbon Program site-level synthesis

scholarly article

Comparing ecosystem and soil respiration: Review and key challenges of tower-based and soil measurements

Continuous observation of tree leaf area index at ecosystem scale using upward-pointing digital cameras

scientific article published in 2012

Contrasting precipitation seasonality influences evapotranspiration dynamics in water-limited shrublands

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Corrigendum to "Can current moisture responses predict soil CO 2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments"

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Determinants of Above-Ground Biomass and Its Spatial Variability in a Temperate Forest Managed for Timber Production

Diel patterns of soil respiration in a tropical forest after Hurricane Wilma

scholarly article

Downscaling satellite soil moisture using geomorphometry and machine learning

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Drought Influences the Accuracy of Simulated Ecosystem Fluxes: A Model-Data Meta-analysis for Mediterranean Oak Woodlands

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Dynamics of Fine Root, Fungal Rhizomorphs, and Soil Respiration in a Mixed Temperate Forest: Integrating Sensors and Observations

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Dynamics of short-term ecosystem carbon fluxes induced by precipitation events in a semiarid grassland

scientific article published in 2023

Ecosystem CO2 fluxes of arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal dominated vegetation types are differentially influenced by precipitation and temperature

scientific article published on 13 October 2009

Ecosystem functional diversity and the representativeness of environmental networks across the conterminous United States

scholarly article by Samuel Villarreal et al published November 2018 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Effect of precipitation variability on net primary production and soil respiration in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

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Effects of Vegetation Thinning on Above- and Belowground Carbon in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest in Mexico

Effects of a Hurricane Disturbance on Aboveground Forest Structure, Arbuscular Mycorrhizae and Belowground Carbon in a Restored Tropical Forest

Effects of soil rewetting and thawing on soil gas fluxes: a review of current literature and suggestions for future research

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Effects of the Gill-Solent WindMaster-Pro “w-boost” firmware bug on eddy covariance fluxes and some simple recovery strategies

End-to-end Integration of Scientific Workflows on Distributed Cyberinfrastructures: Challenges and Lessons Learned with an Earth Science Application

scientific article published on 04 April 2024

Enhancing interoperability to facilitate implementation of REDD+: case study of Mexico

Environmental Controls on Carbon and Water Fluxes in an Old‐Growth Tropical Dry Forest

scientific article published in 2020

Environmental controls and the influence of vegetation type, fine roots and rhizomorphs on diel and seasonal variation in soil respiration

scientific article

Estimating heterotrophic respiration at large scales: challenges, approaches, and next steps

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Evaluating the agreement between measurements and models of net ecosystem exchange at different times and time scales using wavelet coherence: an example using data from the North American Carbon Program Site-Level Interim Synthesis

scientific article

Evaluating the agreement between measurements and models of net ecosystem exchange at different times and timescales using wavelet coherence: an example using data from the North American Carbon Program Site-Level Interim Synthesis

scientific article published in 2013

Evidence of old carbon used to grow new fine roots in a tropical forest

scientific article published on January 2009

Experimental influence of storm-surge salinity on soil greenhouse gas emissions from a tidal salt marsh

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Experimentally simulated sea level rise destabilizes carbon-mineral associations in temperate tidal marsh soil

scientific article published in 2023

Exploring the "overflow tap" theory: linking forest soil CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes and individual mycorrhizosphere components to photosynthesis

scholarly article by Andreas Heinemeyer et al published 6 January 2012 in Biogeosciences

FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

scientific article

Foliage Senescence as a Key Parameter for Modeling Gross Primary Productivity in a Mediterranean Shrubland

scientific article published in 2021

From HPC Performance to Climate Modeling: Transforming Methods for HPC Predictions into Models of Extreme Climate Conditions

Frontiers and challenges in soil respiration research: from measurements to model-data integration

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Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands

scientific article

Geoecohydrological mechanisms couple soil and leaf water dynamics and facilitate species coexistence in shallow soils of a tropical semiarid mixed forest

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

Global convergence in the temperature sensitivity of respiration at ecosystem level

scientific article published on 5 July 2010

Globally rising soil heterotrophic respiration over recent decades

scientific article published in Nature

Greenhouse Gas Fluxes From Tree Stems

scientific article published on 07 March 2019

Harmonized Soil Database of Ecuador (HESD): data from 2009 to 2015

scientific article published in 2023

Heterotrophic respiration in disturbed forests: A review with examples from North America

scholarly article

High V cmax , J max and photosynthetic rates of Sonoran Desert species: Using nitrogen and specific leaf area traits as predictors in biochemical models

scholarly article by César Hinojo-Hinojo et al published September 2018 in Journal of Arid Environments

Hot spots, hot moments, and spatio-temporal controls on soil CO2 efflux in a water-limited ecosystem

scholarly article by Elievf Leon et al published October 2014 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Hot-Moments of Soil CO2 Efflux in a Water-Limited Grassland

How a hurricane disturbance influences extreme CO2fluxes and variance in a tropical forest

How to quantify tree leaf area index in an open savanna ecosystem: A multi-instrument and multi-model approach

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Hyperspectral Reflectance for Measuring Canopy‐Level Nutrients and Photosynthesis in a Salt Marsh

scientific article published in 2022

Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales

Impacts of soil incorporation of pre-incubated silica-rich rice residue on soil biogeochemistry and greenhouse gas fluxes under flooding and drying

Influence of experimental extreme water pulses on greenhouse gas emissions from soils

Influence of run of river dams on floodplain sediments and carbon dynamics

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Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

scientific article

Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

Linking vegetation spectral reflectance with ecosystem carbon phenology in a temperate salt marsh

scientific article published on 06 June 2021

Looking deeper into the soil: biophysical controls and seasonal lags of soil CO2 production and efflux

scientific article

Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales

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Management Impacts on Carbon Dynamics in a Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forest

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Methane and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in a Temperate Tidal Salt Marsh: Comparisons Between Plot and Ecosystem Measurements

scientific article published in 2022

Methane emissions from tree stems: a new frontier in the global carbon cycle

article published in 2018

Multidecadal f CO2 Increase Along the United States Southeast Coastal Margin

scholarly article by Janet J. Reimer et al published December 2017 in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Multiscale analysis of temporal variability of soil CO2production as influenced by weather and vegetation

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Multiscale spectral analysis of temporal variability in evapotranspiration over irrigated cropland in an arid region

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Native shrubland and managed buffelgrass savanna in drylands: Implications for ecosystem carbon and water fluxes

scientific article

Networking our science to characterize the state, vulnerabilities, and management opportunities of soil organic matter

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Nonstructural carbon in woody plants

scientific article

North America's net terrestrial CO<sub>2</sub> exchange with the atmosphere 1990–2009

scientific article published in 2015

On the multi-temporal correlation between photosynthesis and soil CO2 efflux: reconciling lags and observations

scientific article

On the temporal upscaling of evapotranspiration from instantaneous remote sensing measurements to 8-day mean daily-sums

article by Youngryel Ryu et al published January 2012 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Optimizing an Environmental Observatory Network Design Using Publicly Available Data

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Particulate Organic Matter Composition in Stream Runoff Following Large Storms: Role of POM Sources, Particle Size, and Event Characteristics

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Patterns and drivers of multi-annual CO2 emissions within a temperate suburban neighborhood

scientific article published in 2021

Potential bias of daily soil CO2 efflux estimates due to sampling time

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Practical Guide to Measuring Wetland Carbon Pools and Fluxes

scientific article published in 2023

Precipitation variability and fire influence the temporal dynamics of soil CO2 efflux in an arid grassland

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Quantification of forest degradation and belowground carbon dynamics: ongoing challenges for monitoring, reporting and verification activities for REDD+

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Random error analysis of marine xCO2 measurements in a coastal upwelling region

Recent rates of forest harvest and conversion in North America

scholarly article

Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

scientific article published in May 2021

Representativeness of FLUXNET Sites Across Latin America

scientific article published in 2021

Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Response to Comment on "Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level"

scientific article published in Science

Sea Surface Temperature Influence on Terrestrial Gross Primary Production along the Southern California Current

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Seasonal Precipitation Legacy Effects Determine the Carbon Balance of a Semiarid Grassland

scientific article published in 2019

Seasonal changes in periphyton nitrogen fixation in a protected tropical wetland

Silicon-rich amendments in rice paddies: Effects on arsenic uptake and biogeochemistry

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: Processes, data, models, and challenges

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Soil Organic Carbon Across Mexico and the Conterminous United States (1991–2010)

scientific article published in 2020

Soil Sensor Technology: Life within a Pixel

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Soil carbon, multiple benefits

Soil respiration at mean annual temperature predicts annual total across vegetation types and biomes

scientific article (publication date: 9 July 2010)

SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

scientific article

Spatial biases of information influence global estimates of soil respiration: How can we improve global predictions?

scientific article published on 02 May 2021

Statement of Contribution to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for JGR: Biogeosciences

scientific article published on 27 January 2022

Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions

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Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

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Terrestrial carbon balance in a drier world: the effects of water availability in southwestern North America

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The impact of drought on soil moisture trends across Brazilian biomes

scientific article published in 2021

The paradox of assessing greenhouse gases from soils for nature-based solutions

scientific article published in 2023

The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability

scholarly article

The value of soil respiration measurements for interpreting and modeling terrestrial carbon cycling

Time series p CO 2 at a coastal mooring: Internal consistency, seasonal cycles, and interannual variability

scholarly article by Janet J. Reimer published in August 2017

Trace gas fluxes from tidal salt marsh soils: implications for carbon–sulfur biogeochemistry

scientific article published in 2022

Tracking the structural and functional development of a perennial pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium L.) infestation using a multi-year archive of webcam imagery and eddy covariance measurements

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Tropospheric ozone reduces carbon assimilation in trees: estimates from analysis of continuous flux measurements.

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Upscaling soil-atmosphere CO2 and CH4 fluxes across a topographically complex forested landscape

scholarly article by Daniel L. Warner et al published January 2019 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Using greenhouse gas fluxes to define soil functional types

Using soil sensing technology to examine interactions and controls between ectomycorrhizal growth and environmental factors on soil CO2 dynamics

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Visible and near-infrared hyperspectral indices explain more variation in lower-crown leaf nitrogen concentrations in autumn than in summer

scientific article published on 27 November 2019