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Bernard Cappelaere 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 Bernard Cappelaere sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 111 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bernard Cappelaere 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 Bernard Cappelaere sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Bernard Cappelaere is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with specific attention to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Plant Science, Forestry, and Soil Science.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • African Botany and Ecology Studies
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Recent publications by Bernard Cappelaere cover several aspects of Sahelian environmental and ecological conditions and methods for remote sensing and modeling. These include:

  • "Evapotranspiration Estimation in the Sahel Using a New Ensemble-Contextual Method" (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • "Contrasting responses of woody and herbaceous vegetation to altered rainfall characteristics in the Sahel" (2021, Biogeosciences)
  • "A remote sensing data fusion method for continuous daily evapotranspiration mapping at kilometric scale in Sahelian areas" (2022, Journal of Hydrology)
  • "Modeling gas exchange and biomass production in West African Sahelian and Sudanian ecological zones" (2021, Geoscientific model development)
  • "Modeling Land Surface Fluxes from Uncertain Rainfall: A Case Study in the Sahel with Field-Driven Stochastic Rainfields" (2020, Atmosphere)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jérôme Demarty, Hassane Bil-Assanou Issoufou, I. Maïnassara, Monique Oï, and Jean-Philippe Chazarin. These collaborations reflect ongoing partnerships in the study of environmental dynamics in the Sahel and related domains.

Bernard Cappelaere's publications appear predominantly in journals such as Remote Sensing, Journal of Hydrology, Geoscientific Model Development, Biogeosciences, and Atmosphere. These venues are interdisciplinary and span topics in hydrology, earth sciences, and environmental monitoring.

Best Publications

  • ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station

    Joshua B. Fisher;Brian Lee;Adam J. Purdy;Gregory H. Halverson

  • Land clearing, climate variability, and water resources increase in semiarid southwest Niger: A review

    G. Favreau;B. Cappelaere;S. Massuel;M. Leblanc

  • Spatio-temporal variability of hydrological regimes around the boundaries between Sahelian and Sudanian areas of West Africa: A synthesis

    Luc Descroix;Gil Mahé;Thierry Lebel;Guillaume Favreau

  • Land clearance and hydrological change in the Sahel: SW Niger

    Marc J. Leblanc;Guillaume Favreau;Sylvain Massuel;Sarah O. Tweed

  • AMMA-CATCH studies in the Sahelian region of West-Africa: an overview

    Thierry Lebel;Bernard Cappelaere;Sylvie Galle;Niall Hanan

  • OZCAR: The French Network of Critical Zone Observatories

    J. Gaillardet;I. Braud;F. Hankard;S. Anquetin

  • Evaluation of MODIS gross primary productivity for Africa using eddy covariance data

    Martin Sjöström;M. Zhao;S. Archibald;Almut Arneth

  • Exploring the potential of MODIS EVI for modeling gross primary production across African ecosystems

    Martin Sjöström;Jonas Ardö;Almut Arneth;N. Boulain

  • Precipitation as driver of carbon fluxes in 11 African ecosystems

    L. Merbold;J. Ardo;A. Arneth;R.J. Scholes

  • Simulated impacts of climate change and land-clearing on runoff from a small Sahelian catchment

    L. Seguis;B. Cappelaere;G. Milesi;C. Peugeot

  • The AMMA-CATCH experiment in the cultivated Sahelian area of south-west Niger – Investigating water cycle response to a fluctuating climate and changing environment

    B. Cappelaere;Luc Descroix;Thierry Lebel;N. Boulain

  • Towards an understanding of coupled physical and biological processes in the cultivated Sahel - 1. Energy and water

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  • Hydrological impact of water and soil conservation works in the Merguellil catchment of central Tunisia

    Guillaume Lacombe;Guillaume Lacombe;Bernard Cappelaere;Christian Leduc

  • Hydrological modelling and associated microwave emission of a semi-arid region in South-western Niger

    Thierry Pellarin;Jean-Paul Laurent;B. Cappelaere;B. Decharme

  • Hydrologic process simulation of a semiarid, endoreic catchment in Sahelian West Niger. 1. Model-aided data analysis and screening

    Christophe Peugeot;Bernard Cappelaere;Baxter E. Vieux;Luc Séguis

  • AMMA-CATCH, a Critical Zone Observatory in West Africa Monitoring a Region in Transition

    S. Galle;M. Grippa;C. Peugeot;I. Bouzou Moussa

  • Deep infiltration through a sandy alluvial fan in semiarid Niger inferred from electrical conductivity survey, vadose zone chemistry and hydrological modelling

    Sylvain Massuel;Guillaume Favreau;Marc Descloitres;Yann Le Troquer

  • Towards an understanding of coupled physical and biological processes in the cultivated Sahel - 2. Vegetation and carbon dynamics

    Nicolas Boulain;Bernard Cappelaere;D. Ramier;H.B.A. Issoufou

  • Accurate Diffusive Wave Routing

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  • Water and energy budgets simulation over the AMMA-Niger super-site spatially constrained with remote sensing data

    S. Saux-Picart;C. Ottlé;B. Decharme;C. André

  • SMOS soil moisture product evaluation over West-Africa from local to regional scale

    Samuel Louvet;Thierry Pellarin;Thierry Pellarin;Ahmad al Bitar;Bernard Cappelaere

  • Conditional simulation schemes of rain fields and their application to rainfall-runoff modeling studies in the Sahel

    Théo Vischel;Thierry Lebel;Sylvain Massuel;Bernard Cappelaere

  • Hydrologic process simulation of a semiarid, endoreic catchment in Sahelian West Niger. 2. Model calibration and uncertainty characterization

    Bernard Cappelaere;Baxter E. Vieux;Christophe Peugeot;Ana Maia

  • Water balance and vegetation change in the Sahel: A case study at the watershed scale with an eco-hydrological model

    N. Boulain;B. Cappelaere;L. Séguis;G. Favreau

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Kergoat
Laurent Kergoat Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Françoise Guichard
Françoise Guichard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Guillaume Favreau
Guillaume Favreau Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Thierry Lebel
Thierry Lebel Grenoble Alpes University
Jacques Hinderer
Jacques Hinderer University of Strasbourg
Marc Descloitres
Marc Descloitres Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Isabelle Braud
Isabelle Braud Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jonas Ardö
Jonas Ardö Lund University
Mehrez Zribi
Mehrez Zribi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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