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Arnaud Carrara is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research is situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work covers a range of topics, primarily concentrating on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, and Plant Responses to Elevated CO2.

Among recent publications, several notable papers include:

  • Standards and Open Access are the ICOS Pillars Reply to "Comments on 'The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe'", 2023, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function, 2021, Nature
  • Heatwave breaks down the linearity between sun-induced fluorescence and gross primary production, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Estimating causal networks in biosphere-atmosphere interaction with the PCMCI approach, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Using terrestrial laser scanning for characterizing tree structural parameters and their changes under different management in a Mediterranean open woodland, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management

Arnaud Carrara frequently publishes in a variety of venues, with several contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biogeosciences, Global Change Biology, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, and Remote Sensing of Environment.

Their research collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Mirco Migliavacca, Tarek S. El-Madany, Markus Reichstein, Gerardo Moreno, and M. Pilar Martín.

Overall, their body of work integrates observational and remote sensing methods to study environmental and ecological processes, particularly focusing on terrestrial ecosystems and their response to environmental variables and climatic stresses.

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

  • Reduction Of Ecosystem Productivity And Respiration During The European Summer 2003 Climate Anomaly: A Joint Flux Tower, Remote Sensing And Modelling Analysis

    M. Reichstein;M. Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;D. Papale;R. Valentini

  • Annual Q10 of soil respiration reflects plant phenological patterns as well as temperature sensitivity

    J. Curiel yuste;I. A. Janssens;A. Carrara;R. Ceulemans

  • Interactive effects of temperature and precipitation on soil respiration in a temperate maritime pine forest

    J Curiel Yuste;I. A Janssens;A Carrara;Linda Meiresonne

  • Management effects on net ecosystem carbon and GHG budgets at European crop sites

    Eric Ceschia;Pierre Béziat;Jean-François Dejoux;M. Aubinet

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data. Part 1: Coupling footprint analyses with flux data quality assessment to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems

    Mathias Göckede;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet;Mika Aurela

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

    Mirco Migliavacca;Talie Musavi;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jacob A. Nelson

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

    Corinna Rebmann;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet

  • Plant functional traits and canopy structure control the relationship between photosynthetic CO2 uptake and far-red sun-induced fluorescence in a Mediterranean grassland under different nutrient availability

    Mirco Migliavacca;Oscar Perez‐Priego;Micol Rossini;Tarek S. El‐Madany

  • Net ecosystem CO2 exchange of mixed forest in Belgium over 5 years

    Arnaud Carrara;Andrew S Kowalski;Johan Neirynck;Ivan A Janssens

  • The net biome production of full crop rotations in Europe

    W. L. Kutsch;M. Aubinet;N. Buchmann;P. Smith

  • The carbon cost of fine root turnover in a Scots pine forest

    I.A. Janssens;D.A. Sampson;J. Curiel-Yuste;A. Carrara

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

    Mirco Migliavacca;Mirco Migliavacca;Markus Reichstein;Andrew D. Richardson;Roberto Colombo

  • Above- and belowground biomass and net primary production in a 73-year-old Scots pine forest

    Chun-Wang Xiao;J Curiel Yuste;I A Janssens;P Roskams

  • Biotic, abiotic, and management controls on the net ecosystem CO2 exchange of European mountain grassland ecosystems

    Georg Wohlfahrt;Margaret Anderson-Dunn;Michael Bahn;Manuela Balzarolo

  • Seasonal changes in photosynthesis, respiration and NEE of a mixed temperate forest

    Arnaud Carrara;Ivan A. Janssens;Jorge Curiel Yuste;Reinhart Ceulemans

  • Soil respiration in a mixed temperate forest and its contribution to total ecosystem respiration

    J. Curiel Yuste;M. Nagy;I. A. Janssens;A. Carrara

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

    Nuno Carvalhais;Nuno Carvalhais;Markus Reichstein;Júlia Seixas;G. James Collatz

  • Characterisation of ecosystem water-use efficiency of european forests from eddy covariance measurements

    F. G. Kuglitsch;M. Reichstein;C. Beer;A. Carrara

  • Ozone fluxes above and within a pine forest canopy in dry and wet conditions

    E. Lamaud;A. Carrara;Y. Brunet;A. Lopez

Frequent Co-Authors

Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Gerardo Moreno
Gerardo Moreno University of Extremadura
Olaf Kolle
Olaf Kolle Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
María José Sanz
María José Sanz Basque Centre for Climate Change
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Werner Eugster
Werner Eugster ETH Zurich
Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp

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