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Alemu Gonsamo

Alemu Gonsamo

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
49
Citations
6856
World Ranking
5365
National Ranking
225

Alemu Gonsamo publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alemu Gonsamo sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 125 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Alemu Gonsamo D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alemu Gonsamo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alemu Gonsamo is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research focuses on a range of interconnected subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Alemu Gonsamo's recent notable papers reflect an emphasis on ecosystem processes and advanced remote sensing techniques. These include:

  • Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Large scale mapping of soil organic carbon concentration with 3D machine learning and satellite observations, 2021, Geoderma
  • Large Soil Carbon Storage in Terrestrial Ecosystems of Canada, 2022, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Spatially Continuous Mapping of Forest Canopy Height in Canada by Combining GEDI and ICESat-2 with PALSAR and Sentinel, 2022, Remote Sensing
  • Intranational synergies and trade-offs reveal common and differentiated priorities of sustainable development goals in China, 2024, Nature Communications

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Geophysical Research Letters, Remote Sensing, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and Environmental Research Letters.

Alemu Gonsamo collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Camile Söthe
  • Cheryl Rogers
  • James Snider
  • Jing M. Chen
  • Ricardo Barros Lourenço

The diversity of publications and coauthors indicates active engagement with interdisciplinary teams investigating environmental and ecological dynamics. Their work spans applied remote sensing techniques in agriculture and forest ecosystems to broader-scale studies of carbon dynamics and climate interactions.

Best Publications

  • Satellite chlorophyll fluorescence measurements reveal large‐scale decoupling of photosynthesis and greenness dynamics in boreal evergreen forests

    Sophia Walther;Maximilian Voigt;Tea Thum;Alemu Gonsamo

  • The global distribution of leaf chlorophyll content

    H. Croft;H. Croft;J.M. Chen;R. Wang;G. Mo

  • Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming

    Chaoyang Wu;Xiaoyue Wang;Huanjiong Wang;Philippe Ciais

  • Satellite detection of cumulative and lagged effects of drought on autumn leaf senescence over the Northern Hemisphere

    Jie Peng;Chaoyang Wu;Xiaoyang Zhang;Xiaoyue Wang

  • Land surface phenology derived from normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) at global FLUXNET sites

    Chaoyang Wu;Dailiang Peng;Kamel Soudani;Lukas Siebicke

  • Interannual variability of net ecosystem productivity in forests is explained by carbon flux phenology in autumn

    Chaoyang Wu;Jing M. Chen;T. Andrew Black;David T. Price

  • Land surface phenology from optical satellite measurement and CO2 eddy covariance technique

    Alemu Gonsamo;Jing M. Chen;David T. Price;Werner A. Kurz

  • A new satellite-based monthly precipitation downscaling algorithm with non-stationary relationship between precipitation and land surface characteristics

    Shiguang Xu;Chaoyang Wu;Li Wang;Alemu Gonsamo

  • Land surface phenology of China's temperate ecosystems over 1999–2013: Spatial–temporal patterns, interaction effects, covariation with climate and implications for productivity

    Chaoyang Wu;Xuehui Hou;Dailiang Peng;Alemu Gonsamo

  • Modeling growing season phenology in North American forests using seasonal mean vegetation indices from MODIS

    Chaoyang Wu;Chaoyang Wu;Alemu Gonsamo;Christopher M. Gough;Jing M. Chen

  • Snow cover phenology affects alpine vegetation growth dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau: Satellite observed evidence, impacts of different biomes, and climate drivers

    Xiaoyue Wang;Chaoyang Wu;Dailiang Peng;Alemu Gonsamo

  • Peak season plant activity shift towards spring is reflected by increasing carbon uptake by extratropical ecosystems.

    Alemu Gonsamo;Jing M. Chen;Ying W. Ooi

  • Experimental Evaluation of Sentinel-2 Spectral Response Functions for NDVI Time-Series Continuity

    P. D'Odorico;A. Gonsamo;A. Damm;M. E. Schaepman

  • Global vegetation productivity response to climatic oscillations during the satellite era

    Alemu Gonsamo;Jing M. Chen;Danica Lombardozzi

  • Improved modeling of land surface phenology using MODIS land surface reflectance and temperature at evergreen needleleaf forests of central North America

    Yuxia Liu;Chaoyang Wu;Dailiang Peng;Shiguang Xu

  • Large scale mapping of soil organic carbon concentration with 3D machine learning and satellite observations

    Camile Sothe;Alemu Gonsamo;Joyce Arabian;James Snider

  • Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect

    Alemu Gonsamo;Philippe Ciais;Diego G Miralles;Stephen Sitch

  • Comparison of Big-Leaf, Two-Big-Leaf, and Two-Leaf Upscaling Schemes for Evapotranspiration Estimation Using Coupled Carbon-Water Modeling

    Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Jing M. Chen;Jane Liu;Jane Liu;T. Andrew Black

  • Nitrogen Availability Dampens the Positive Impacts of CO2 Fertilization on Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon and Water Cycles

    Liming He;Jing M. Chen;Holly Croft;Alemu Gonsamo

  • The match and mismatch between photosynthesis and land surface phenology of deciduous forests

    Petra D’Odorico;Alemu Gonsamo;Christopher M. Gough;Gil Bohrer

  • The computation of foliage clumping index using hemispherical photography

    Alemu Gonsamo;Petri Pellikka

  • Methodology comparison for slope correction in canopy leaf area index estimation using hemispherical photography

    Alemu Gonsamo;Petri Pellikka

  • Intercomparison of fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products derived from satellite data over Europe

    Petra D'Odorico;Alemu Gonsamo;Bernard Pinty;Nadine Gobron

Frequent Co-Authors

Jing M. Chen
Jing M. Chen University of Toronto
Chaoyang Wu
Chaoyang Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Petri Pellikka
Petri Pellikka University of Helsinki
Holly Croft
Holly Croft University of Sheffield
Jane Liu
Jane Liu University of Toronto
Christopher M. Gough
Christopher M. Gough Virginia Commonwealth University
Werner A. Kurz
Werner A. Kurz Natural Resources Canada
David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
Rachhpal S. Jassal
Rachhpal S. Jassal University of British Columbia
Ralf M. Staebler
Ralf M. Staebler Environment and Climate Change Canada

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