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37
Citations
3367
World Ranking
6985
National Ranking
2340

Overview

Alexander Shenkin is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, covering a broad range of subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work addresses various key topics, including Forest Ecology and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Plant and Animal Studies.

Shenkin has published research in several frequent venues, reflecting their active contributions to these fields. These venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing of Environment, and Global Change Biology.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Shenkin highlight a focus on ecosystem monitoring, remote sensing technologies, and global environmental processes. Notable publications include:

  • The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • Quantifying tropical forest structure through terrestrial and UAV laser scanning fusion in Australian rainforests, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Global atmospheric methane uptake by upland tree woody surfaces, 2024, Nature

Frequent collaborators in Shenkin's work include Yadvinder Malhi, Lisa Patrick Bentley, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Brian J. Enquist, and Norma Salinas. These partnerships indicate ongoing cooperation with researchers specializing in related environmental and ecological fields.

Best Publications

  • Quantifying branch architecture of tropical trees using terrestrial LiDAR and 3D modelling

    Alvaro Lau;Alvaro Lau;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Christopher Martius;Alexander Shenkin

  • Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient

    Nikolaos M. Fyllas;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Alexander Shenkin;Gregory P. Asner

  • Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests

    Ervan Rutishauser;Bruno Hérault;Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto;Lilian Blanc

  • Quantifying tropical forest structure through terrestrial and UAV laser scanning fusion in Australian rainforests

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  • Plant leaf wax biomarkers capture gradients in hydrogen isotopes of precipitation from the Andes and Amazon.

    Sarah J. Feakins;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Norma Salinas;Alexander Shenkin

  • New perspectives on the ecology of tree structure and tree communities through terrestrial laser scanning.

    Yadvinder Malhi;Tobias Jackson;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Alvaro Lau;Alvaro Lau

  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database

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  • The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics

    Yadvinder Malhi;Cécile Girardin;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Christopher E. Doughty

  • Production of leaf wax n-alkanes across a tropical forest elevation transect

    Sarah J. Feakins;Tom Peters;Mong Sin Wu;Alexander Shenkin

  • Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data

    Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez;Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez;Sami Rifai;Alexander Shenkin;Imma Oliveras

  • Informing trait-based ecology by assessing remotely sensed functional diversity across a broad tropical temperature gradient

    Sandra M. Durán;Roberta E. Martin;Sandra Myrna Díaz;Brian S. Maitner

  • The Tropical managed Forests Observatory: a research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests

    Plinio Sist;Ervan Rutishauser;Marielos Peña-Claros;Alexander Shenkin;Alexander Shenkin

  • Assessing trait‐based scaling theory in tropical forests spanning a broad temperature gradient

    Brian J. Enquist;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Alexander Shenkin;Brian Maitner

  • Scale dependence of canopy trait distributions along a tropical forest elevation gradient

    Gregory P. Asner;Roberta E. Martin;Christopher B. Anderson;Katherine Kryston

  • Individual-based modeling of Amazon forests suggests that climate controls productivity while traits control demography

    Sophie Fauset;Manuel Gloor;Nikolaos M. Fyllas;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Finite element analysis of trees in the wind based on terrestrial laser scanning data

    Toby Jackson;Alexander Shenkin;Axel Wellpott;Kim Calders

  • Can timber provision from Amazonian production forests be sustainable

    Camille Piponiot;Edna Rödig;Francis E Putz;Ervan Rutishauser

  • Variation in leaf wettability traits along a tropical montane elevation gradient.

    Gregory R. Goldsmith;Gregory R. Goldsmith;Lisa Patrick Bentley;Alexander Shenkin;Norma Beatriz Salinas

  • Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change

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  • Global atmospheric methane uptake by upland tree woody surfaces

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  • Altitude effect on leaf wax carbon isotopic composition in humid tropical forests

    Mong Sin Wu;Sarah J. Feakins;Roberta E. Martin;Alexander Shenkin

  • Estimating architecture-based metabolic scaling exponents of tropical trees using terrestrial LiDAR and 3D modelling

    Alvaro Lau;Alvaro Lau;Christopher Martius;Harm Bartholomeus;Alexander Shenkin

  • Carbon recovery dynamics following disturbance by selective logging in Amazonian forests

    Camille Piponiot;Plinio Sist;Lucas Mazzei;Marielos Peña-Claros

  • Time for a plant structural economics spectrum

    Hans Verbeeck;Marijn Bauters;Tobias Jackson;Alexander Shenkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Norma Salinas
Norma Salinas Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Mathias Disney
Mathias Disney University College London
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
Roberta E. Martin
Roberta E. Martin Arizona State University
Benjamin Blonder
Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley
Marielos Peña-Claros
Marielos Peña-Claros Wageningen University & Research
Martin Herold
Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research

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