List of works by Leonardo Montagnani

A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape scale heterogeneity

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A new mass conservation approach to the study of CO2advection in an alpine forest

article by Leonardo Montagnani et al published 10 April 2009 in Journal of Geophysical Research

A regional perspective on trends in continental evaporation

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An objective prior error quantification for regional atmospheric inverse applications

scientific article published in 2015

An objective prior error quantification for regional atmospheric inverse applications

Ancillary vegetation measurements at ICOS ecosystem stations

Assessing the ability of MODIS EVI to estimate terrestrial ecosystem gross primary production of multiple land cover types

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Assessing the method-specific differences in quantification of CO2 advection at three forest sites during the ADVEX campaign

Assessment and simulation of global terrestrial latent heat flux by synthesis of CMIP5 climate models and surface eddy covariance observations

Atmospheric deposition, CO2, and change in the land carbon sink

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Available energy and energy balance closure at four coniferous forest sites across Europe

Bayesian optimization of a light use efficiency model for the estimation of daily gross primary productivity in a range of Italian forest ecosystems

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Carbon–nitrogen interactions in European forests and semi-natural vegetation – Part 1: Fluxes and budgets of carbon, nitrogen and greenhouse gases from ecosystem monitoring and modelling

scientific article published in 2020

Carbon–nitrogen interactions in European forests and semi-natural vegetation – Part 2: Untangling climatic, edaphic, management and nitrogen deposition effects on carbon sequestration potentials

scientific article published in 2020

Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

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Colonization of a Deglaciated Moraine: Contrasting Patterns of Carbon Uptake and Release from C3 and CAM Plants

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Comparing CO2 Storage and Advection Conditions at Night at Different Carboeuroflux Sites

article by M. Aubinet et al published July 2005 in Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Comparison of horizontal and vertical advective CO2 fluxes at three forest sites

Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

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Controls on winter ecosystem respiration in temperate and boreal ecosystems

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Correction to “Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations”

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Covariations between plant functional traits emerge from constraining parameterization of a terrestrial biosphere model

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Data-based perfect-deficit approach to understanding climate extremes and forest carbon assimilation capacity

Direct advection measurements do not help to solve the night-time CO2 closure problem: Evidence from three different forests

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Divergent apparent temperature sensitivity of terrestrial ecosystem respiration

scientific article published in 2014

Does canopy mean nitrogen concentration explain variation in canopy light use efficiency across 14 contrasting forest sites?

scientific article published on 9 February 2012

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 transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Eddy covariance raw data processing for CO2 and energy fluxes calculation at ICOS ecosystem stations

Effect of spatial sampling from European flux towers for estimating carbon and water fluxes with artificial neural networks

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Effects of an early-summer drought stress on leaf photosynthesis, growth and yields of grapevine in mountain conditions

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Empirical estimation of daytime net radiation from shortwave radiation and ancillary information

scholarly article by Bo Jiang et al published October 2015 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Enhancing prediction accuracy of soil respiration in an apple orchard by integrating photosynthetic activity into a temperature-related model

scholarly article by Francesca Scandellari et al published September 2015 in European Journal of Soil Biology

Estimating nocturnal ecosystem respiration from the vertical turbulent flux and change in storage of CO2

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Estimating the storage term in eddy covariance measurements: the ICOS methodology

Evidence for a non-linear carbon accumulation pattern along an Alpine glacier retreat chronosequence in Northern Italy

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Evidence for soil water control on carbon and water dynamics in European forests during the extremely dry year: 2003

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ForestClim—Bioclimatic variables for microclimate temperatures of European forests

ForestTemp – Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests

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Global comparison of light use efficiency models for simulating terrestrial vegetation gross primary production based on the LaThuile database

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Global convergence in the temperature sensitivity of respiration at ecosystem level

scientific article published on 5 July 2010

Global maps of soil temperature

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Global parameterization and validation of a two-leaf light use efficiency model for predicting gross primary production across FLUXNET sites

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Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations

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Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

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Ground-based optical measurements at European flux sites: a review of methods, instruments and current controversies.

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ICOS eddy covariance flux-station site setup: a review

Identification of vegetation and soil carbon pools out of equilibrium in a process model via eddy covariance and biometric constraints

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Impact of coordinate rotation on eddy covariance fluxes at complex sites

scientific article published in June 2020

Implications of the carbon cycle steady state assumption for biogeochemical modeling performance and inverse parameter retrieval

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Importance of advection in the atmospheric CO2 exchanges of an alpine forest

Importance of reporting ancillary site characteristics, and management and disturbance information at ICOS stations

Improvement of modeling plant responses to low soil moisture in JULESvn4.9 and evaluation against flux tower measurements

scientific article published on 03 June 2021

Improving the performance of remote sensing models for capturing intra- and inter-annual variations in daily GPP: An analysis using global FLUXNET tower data

article by M. Verma et al published December 2015 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

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Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology

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Low historical nitrogen deposition effect on carbon sequestration in the boreal zone

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Methods and uncertainties in the experimental assessment of horizontal advection

scholarly article by Barbara Marcolla et al published November 2014 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Modeling the impacts of diffuse light fraction on photosynthesis in ORCHIDEE (v5453) land surface model

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Model–data fusion across ecosystems: from multisite optimizations to global simulations

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Montane ecosystem productivity responds more to global circulation patterns than climatic trends

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Mycorrhizal contribution to soil respiration in an apple orchard

scholarly article by Elisabetta Tomè et al published May 2016 in Applied Soil Ecology

Net CO2 exchange rates in three different successional stages of the "Dark Taiga" of central Siberia

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Net ecosystem carbon balance of an apple orchard

scholarly article by Damiano Zanotelli et al published February 2015 in European Journal of Agronomy

Net ecosystem production in a Little Ice Age moraine: the role of plant functional traits

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Net primary productivity, allocation pattern and carbon use efficiency in an apple orchard assessed by integrating eddy covariance, biometric and continuous soil chamber measurements

article by D. Zanotelli et al published 7 May 2013 in Biogeosciences

Numerical study of the interplay between thermo-topographic slope flow and synoptic flow on canopy transport processes

scholarly article by Xiyan Xu et al published May 2018 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Performance of Linear and Nonlinear Two-Leaf Light Use Efficiency Models at Different Temporal Scales

Plot-scale vertical and horizontal transport of CO2 modified by a persistent slope wind system in and above an alpine forest

Potential and limitations of inferring ecosystem photosynthetic capacity from leaf functional traits

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Productivity overshadows temperature in determining soil and ecosystem respiration across European forests

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Quality analysis applied on eddy covariance measurements at complex forest sites using footprint modelling

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Quantifying deforestation and forest degradation with thermal response

scientific article published on 17 July 2017

Rainfall interception and the coupled surface water and energy balance

article by Albert van Dijk et al published December 2015 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

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Redefinition and global estimation of basal ecosystem respiration rate

Relative importance of climatic variables, soil properties and plant traits to spatial variability in net CO2 exchange across global forests and grasslands

scientific article published on 15 June 2021

Remote sensing of annual terrestrial gross primary productivity from MODIS: an assessment using the FLUXNET La Thuile data set

scientific article published in 2014

Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests

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

scientific article published in Science

Retrieval and validation of forest background reflectivity from daily Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) data across European forests

scientific article published in 2021

Seasonal and interannual patterns of carbon and water fluxes of a poplar plantation under peculiar eco-climatic conditions

Seasonal hysteresis of net ecosystem exchange in response to temperature change: patterns and causes

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Seasonal variation of photosynthetic model parameters and leaf area index from global Fluxnet eddy covariance data

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Semiempirical modeling of abiotic and biotic factors controlling ecosystem respiration across eddy covariance sites

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Soil respiration variation along an altitudinal gradient in the Italian Alps: Disentangling forest structure and temperature effects

scientific article published on 17 August 2021

Soil surface CO2 efflux measurements in Norway spruce forests: Comparison between four different sites across Europe — from boreal to alpine forest

scholarly article by Manuel Acosta et al published January 2013 in Geoderma

State-dependent errors in a land surface model across biomes inferred from eddy covariance observations on multiple timescales

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Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Stomatal response to decreased relative humidity constrains the acceleration of terrestrial evapotranspiration

scientific article published on 27 August 2020

The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

The contribution of nitrogen deposition to the photosynthetic capacity of forests

scholarly article by Katrin Fleischer et al published 28 February 2013 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

The effect of relative humidity on eddy covariance latent heat flux measurements and its implication for partitioning into transpiration and evaporation

The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

scientific article published on 27 September 2021

Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms.

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Timescale effects on the environmental control of carbon and water fluxes of an apple orchard

scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Towards long-term standardised carbon and greenhouse gas observations for monitoring Europe’s terrestrial ecosystems: a review

Using FLUXNET data to improve models of springtime vegetation activity onset in forest ecosystems

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Validation of 3D-CMCC Forest Ecosystem Model (v.5.1) against eddy covariance data for 10 European forest sites

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Validation of 3D-CMCC Forest Ecosystem Model (v.5.1) against eddy covariance data for ten European forest sites

Vegetation-specific model parameters are not required for estimating gross primary production

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What eddy-covariance measurements tell us about prior land flux errors in CO2-flux inversion schemes

Winter respiratory C losses provide explanatory power for net ecosystem productivity

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