List of works by Alessandro Cescatti

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

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A dataset mapping the potential biophysical effects of vegetation cover change.

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A global dataset of air temperature derived from satellite remote sensing and weather stations

A spatially explicit database of wind disturbances in European forests over the period 2000–2018

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

An observation-constrained assessment of the climate sensitivity and future trajectories of wetland methane emissions

scientific article published on 10 April 2020

An underestimated role of precipitation frequency in regulating summer soil moisture

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Ancillary vegetation measurements at ICOS ecosystem stations

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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Belowground carbon allocation patterns as determined by the in-growth soil core 13C technique across different ecosystem types

scholarly article by Cristina Martinez et al published February 2016 in Geoderma

Biometric assessment of aboveground carbon pools and fluxes in three European forests by Randomized Branch Sampling

scientific article published in 2012

Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover.

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Biophysical effects on temperature and precipitation due to land cover change

scientific article published in May 2017

Biophysics and vegetation cover change: a process-based evaluation framework for confronting land surface models with satellite observations

scientific article published in 2018

Biophysics and vegetation cover change: a process-based evaluation framework for confronting land surface models with satellite observations

Biotic, Abiotic, and Management Controls on the Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange of European Mountain Grassland Ecosystems

Canopy spectral invariants for remote sensing and model applications

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Carbon, Water and Energy Fluxes of Terrestrial Ecosystems in Italy

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Climate, soils and Cephalcia arvensis outbreaks on Picea abies in the Italian Alps

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Climatic controls and ecosystem responses drive the inter-annual variability of the net ecosystem exchange of an alpine meadow

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Complex adjustments of photosynthetic potentials and internal diffusion conductance to current and previous light availabilities and leaf age in Mediterranean evergreen species Quercus ilex

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Components of forest soil CO2 efflux estimated from Δ14C values of soil organic matter

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Constraints on light interception efficiency due to shoot architecture in broad-leaved Nothofagus species

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

Diurnal and seasonal variability in radial distribution of sap flux density: Implications for estimating stand transpiration

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Divergent apparent temperature sensitivity of terrestrial ecosystem respiration

scientific article published in 2014

Effect of climate warming on the annual terrestrial net ecosystem CO2 exchange globally in the boreal and temperate regions.

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

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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

Estimating daily forest carbon fluxes using a combination of ground and remotely sensed data

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Evaluating the Interplay Between Biophysical Processes and Leaf Area Changes in Land Surface Models

scientific article published on 06 May 2018

Footprints and Fetches for Fluxes over Forest Canopies with Varying Structure and Density

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Global Surface Net-Radiation at 5 km from MODIS Terra

Global and time-resolved monitoring of crop photosynthesis with chlorophyll fluorescence.

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Global change impacts on ecosystem services: a spatially explicit assessment for Europe

scholarly article by Chiara Polce et al published 1 November 2016 in One Ecosystem

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 covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

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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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High resolution field spectroscopy measurements for estimating gross ecosystem production in a rice field

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INFOCARB: A regional scale forest carbon inventory (Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Southern Italian Alps)

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Impacts of 2°C global warming on primary production and soil carbon storage capacity at pan-European level

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Impacts of droughts and extreme temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones

Impacts of droughts and extreme-temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones

scientific article published in 2018

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

Increased Global Land Carbon Sink Due to Aerosol‐Induced Cooling

scholarly article by Yuan Zhang et al published March 2019 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Increasing risk over time of weather-related hazards to the European population: a data-driven prognostic study

article by Giovanni Forzieri et al published August 2017 in Lancet Planetary Health

Influence of physiological phenology on the seasonal pattern of ecosystem respiration in deciduous forests

scientific article published on 7 August 2014

Intercomparison of MODIS albedo retrievals and in situ measurements across the global FLUXNET network

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

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Joint leaf chlorophyll content and leaf area index retrieval from Landsat data using a regularized model inversion system (REGFLEC)

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Leaf chlorophyll constraint on model simulated gross primary productivity in agricultural systems

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Light capture efficiency decreases with increasing tree age and size in the southern hemisphere gymnosperm Agathis australis

Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes

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Major diffusion leaks of clamp-on leaf cuvettes still unaccounted: how erroneous are the estimates of Farquharet al. model parameters?

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Modeling biomass burning and related carbon emissions during the 21st century in Europe

article published in 2013

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

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

On the realistic contribution of European forests to reach climate objectives

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Optimal use of buffer volumes for the measurement of atmospheric gas concentration in multi-point systems

Pan-European delta13C values of air and organic matter from forest ecosystems

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Patterns and controls of inter-annual variability in the terrestrial carbon budget

scientific article published in 2017

Patterns and trends of the dominant environmental controls of net biome productivity

scientific article published in 2020

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

Petiole length and biomass investment in support modify light interception efficiency in dense poplar plantations

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites with regression algorithms

scholarly article by Gianluca Tramontana et al published 29 July 2016 in Biogeosciences

Publisher Correction: Stand age and species richness dampen interannual variation of ecosystem-level photosynthetic capacity

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Quantifying the effect of forest age in annual net forest carbon balance

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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 Changes in Global Photosynthesis and Terrestrial Ecosystem Respiration Constrained From Multiple Observations

scholarly article by Wei Li et al published 26 January 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

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

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Recent global decline of CO<sub>2</sub> fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Reconciling global-model estimates and country reporting of anthropogenic forest CO2 sinks

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Reconciling the temperature dependence of respiration across timescales and ecosystem types

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Redefinition and global estimation of basal ecosystem respiration rate

Releasing global forests from human management: How much more carbon could be stored?

scientific article published on 18 May 2023

Reply to Magnani et al.: Linking large-scale chlorophyll fluorescence observations with cropland gross primary production

scientific article published on June 2014

Response to Comment on “Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth”

scientific article published in Science

Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth.

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Spatio-Temporal Convergence of Maximum Daily Light-Use Efficiency Based on Radiation Absorption by Canopy Chlorophyll

scholarly article by Yao Zhang et al published 24 April 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Stand age and species richness dampen interannual variation of ecosystem-level photosynthetic capacity

scholarly article by Talie Musavi et al published 23 January 2017 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

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

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Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation

scientific article published on 03 January 2020

Sun-induced fluorescence as a proxy for primary productivity across vegetation types and climates

scientific article published in 2022

Temperature sensitivity of the turnover times of soil organic matter in forests

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Terrestrial gross carbon dioxide uptake: global distribution and covariation with climate

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Terrestrial gross primary production inferred from satellite fluorescence and vegetation models.

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The European forest carbon budget under future climate conditions and current management practices

scientific article published on 13 July 2022

The mark of vegetation change on Earth's surface energy balance.

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

The sensitivity of the forest carbon budget shifts across processes along with stand development and climate change

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The uncertain climate footprint of wetlands under human pressure

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

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Thinning Can Reduce Losses in Carbon Use Efficiency and Carbon Stocks in Managed Forests Under Warmer Climate

scientific article published on 15 October 2018

Three-dimensional lamina architecture alters light-harvesting efficiency in Fagus: a leaf-scale analysis

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

Urban-rural gradients reveal joint control of elevated CO2 and temperature on extended photosynthetic seasons

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Using digital repeat photography and eddy covariance data to model grassland phenology and photosynthetic CO2 uptake

scholarly article by Mirco Migliavacca et al published October 2011 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

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

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Vertical foliage distribution determines the radial pattern of sap flux density in Picea abies

scientific article published in September 2008

What does optimization theory actually predict about crown profiles of photosynthetic capacity when models incorporate greater realism?

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