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48
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5454
National Ranking
1999

Overview

Andrés Viña is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their research spans a variety of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Plant Science, and Geometry and Topology. The scientist's work addresses several main topics, notably Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Land Use and Ecosystem Services; Economic and Environmental Valuation; Species Distribution and Climate Change; Remote Sensing in Agriculture; Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement; and Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory.

Viña has contributed to multiple recent academic papers, among them:

  • The hidden risk of using umbrella species as conservation surrogates: A spatio-temporal approach (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • A global assessment of the impact of individual protected areas on preventing forest loss (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Evaluating plant photosynthetic traits via absorption coefficient in the photosynthetically active radiation region (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Foliar absorption coefficient derived from reflectance spectra: A gauge of the efficiency of in situ light-capture by different pigment groups (2020, Journal of Plant Physiology)

The list of frequent co-authors includes Jianguo Liu, Ramón Silva, Emilio F. Morán, Jindong Zhang, and Yue Dou, indicating active collaboration within these research networks.

Viña's publications commonly appear in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), UNC Libraries, The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports, and AMBIO. The presence in these diverse outlets reflects a broad engagement with both preprint repositories and peer-reviewed journals.

Best Publications

  • Remote estimation of canopy chlorophyll content in crops

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Andrés Viña;Verónica Ciganda;Donald C. Rundquist

  • Remote estimation of leaf area index and green leaf biomass in maize canopies

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Andrés Viña;Timothy J. Arkebauer;Donald C. Rundquist

  • Comparison of different vegetation indices for the remote assessment of green leaf area index of crops

    Andrés Viña;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Anthony L. Nguy-Robertson;Yi Peng

  • Drought Monitoring with NDVI-Based Standardized Vegetation Index

    Albert J. Peters;Elizabeth A. Walter-Shea;Lei Ji;Andrés Viña

  • Relationship between gross primary production and chlorophyll content in crops: Implications for the synoptic monitoring of vegetation productivity

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Andrés Viña;Andrés Viña;Shashi B. Verma;Donald C. Rundquist

  • Green leaf area index estimation in maize and soybean: Combining vegetation indices to achieve maximal sensitivity

    Anthony Nguy-Robertson;Anatoly Gitelson;Yi Peng;Andrés Viña

  • Monitoring Maize (Zea mays L.) Phenology with Remote Sensing

    Andrés Viña;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Donald C. Rundquist;Galina P. Keydan

  • New developments in the remote estimation of the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation in crops

    Andrés Viña;Andrés Viña;Anatoly A. Gitelson

  • Effects of conservation policy on China's forest recovery.

    Andrés Viña;William J. McConnell;Hongbo Yang;Zhenci Xu

  • Mapping understory vegetation using phenological characteristics derived from remotely sensed data

    Mao Ning Tuanmu;Andrés Viña;Scott Bearer;Weihua Xu

  • Multiple telecouplings and their complex interrelationships

    Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;Junyan Luo;Wu Yang

  • Evaluating the efficacy of zoning designations for protected area management

    Vanessa Hull;Weihua Xu;Wei Liu;Shiqiang Zhou

  • Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation

    Neil H. Carter;Andrés Viña;Vanessa Hull;William J. McConnell

  • Climate-change impacts on understorey bamboo species and giant pandas in China’s Qinling Mountains

    Mao Ning Tuanmu;Andrés Viña;Julie A. Winkler;Yu Li

  • Using cost-effective targeting to enhance the efficiency of conservation investments in payments for ecosystem services.

    Xiaodong Chen;Frank Lupi;Andrés Viña;Guangming He

  • Reassessing the conservation status of the giant panda using remote sensing.

    Weihua Xu;Andrés Viña;Andrés Viña;Lingqiao Kong;Stuart L. Pimm

  • Agent-based modeling of the effects of social norms on enrollment in payments for ecosystem services.

    Xiaodong Chen;Frank Lupi;Li An;Ryan Sheely

  • Synoptic Monitoring of Gross Primary Productivity of Maize Using Landsat Data

    A.A. Gitelson;A. Vina;J.G. Masek;S.B. Verma

  • Effects of grain size and niche breadth on species distribution modeling

    Thomas Connor;Vanessa Hull;Andrés Viña;Andrés Viña;Ashton Shortridge

  • Satellite change detection analysis of deforestation rates and patterns along the Colombia-Ecuador border.

    Andrés Viña;Fernando R. Echavarria;Donald C. Rundquist

  • Nonlinear effects of group size on collective action and resource outcomes

    Wu Yang;Wei Liu;Andrés Viña;Mao Ning Tuanmu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianguo Liu
Jianguo Liu Michigan State University
Anatoly A. Gitelson
Anatoly A. Gitelson University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Zhiyun Ouyang
Zhiyun Ouyang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Donald C. Rundquist
Donald C. Rundquist University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Weihua Xu
Weihua Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Timothy J. Arkebauer
Timothy J. Arkebauer University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Shashi B. Verma
Shashi B. Verma University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Frank Lupi
Frank Lupi Michigan State University
George Burba
George Burba University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Andrew E. Suyker
Andrew E. Suyker University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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