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70
Citations
31059
World Ranking
1642
National Ranking
693

Overview

Berrien Moore is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and aspects of Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics covered in their work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols.

Recent publications reflect a broad engagement with environmental and atmospheric science issues. Notable papers include:

  • Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • Fingerprint of rice paddies in spatial-temporal dynamics of atmospheric methane concentration in monsoon Asia (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Large loss and rapid recovery of vegetation cover and aboveground biomass over forest areas in Australia during 2019-2020 (2022, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Global-Scale Consistency of Spaceborne Vegetation Indices, Chlorophyll Fluorescence, and Photosynthesis (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences)
  • Impacts of juniper woody plant encroachment into grasslands on local climate (2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)

Berrien Moore often collaborates with several researchers, including Xiangming Xiao, Russell Doughty, Yuanwei Qin, Sean Crowell, and Xiaocui Wu, with whom they have multiple joint publications.

Their work is frequently published in journals such as Nature Communications, Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, and Nature Climate Change.

Best Publications

  • The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

    P. Falkowski;R. J. Scholes;E. Boyle;J. Canadell

  • Global climate change and terrestrial net primary production

    Jerry M. Melillo;A. David McGuire;David W. Kicklighter;Berrien I.I.I. Moore

  • Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

    D. S. Schimel;J. I. House;K. A. Hibbard;P. Bousquet

  • Comparing global models of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP): overview and key results

    Wolfgang Cramer;D. Kicklighter;Alberte Bondeau;Berrien Moore

  • Changes in the Carbon Content of Terrestrial Biota and Soils between 1860 and 1980: A Net Release of CO"2 to the Atmosphere

    R. A. Houghton;J. E. Hobbie;J. M. Melillo;B. Moore

  • Consistent land- and atmosphere-based U.S. carbon sink estimates.

    S. W. Pacala;G. C. Hurtt;D. Baker;P. Peylin

  • Potential Net Primary Productivity in South America: Application of a Global Model

    James W. Raich;E. B. Rastetter;J. M. Melillo;D. W. Kicklighter

  • Satellite-based modeling of gross primary production in an evergreen needleleaf forest

    Xiangming Xiao;David Hollinger;John Aber;Mike Goltz

  • Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the Twentieth Century: Analyses of CO2, climate and land use effects with four process‐based ecosystem models

    A.D. McGuire;S. Sitch;Joy S. Clein;R. Dargaville

  • Mapping paddy rice agriculture in South and Southeast Asia using multi-temporal MODIS images

    Xiangming Xiao;Stephen Boles;Steve Frolking;Changsheng Li

  • Modeling gross primary production of temperate deciduous broadleaf forest using satellite images and climate data

    Xiangming Xiao;Qingyuan Zhang;Bobby Braswell;Shawn Urbanski

  • Mapping paddy rice planting area in northeastern Asia with Landsat 8 images, phenology-based algorithm and Google Earth Engine

    Jinwei Dong;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Michael A. Menarguez;Geli Zhang

  • Effect of interannual climate variability on carbon storage in Amazonian ecosystems

    Hanqin Tian;Jerry M. Melillo;David W. Kicklighter;A. David McGuire

  • The underpinnings of land‐use history: three centuries of global gridded land‐use transitions, wood‐harvest activity, and resulting secondary lands

    George C Hurtt;Steve Frolking;M G Fearon;B Moore

  • The response of global terrestrial ecosystems to interannual temperature variability

    B. H. Braswell;B. H. Braswell;D. S. Schimel;D. S. Schimel;E. Linder;E. Linder;B. Moore Iii;B. Moore Iii

  • Interactions between carbon and nitrogen dynamics in estimating net primary productivity for potential vegetation in North America

    A. D. McGuire;J. M. Melillo;L. A. Joyce;D. W. Kicklighter

  • Continental-scale models of water balance and fluvial transport: An application to South America

    Charles J. Vörösmarty;Berrien Moore;Annette L. Grace;M. Patricia Gildea

  • The flux of carbon from terrestrial ecosystems to the atmosphere in 1980 due to changes in land use: geographic distribution of the global flux

    R. A. Houghton;R. D. Boone;J. R. Fruci;J. E. Hobbie

  • Observation of flooding and rice transplanting of paddy rice fields at the site to landscape scales in China using VEGETATION sensor data

    X. Xiao;S. Boles;S. Frolking;W. Salas

  • Satellite-based modeling of gross primary production in a seasonally moist tropical evergreen forest

    Xiangming Xiao;Qingyuan Zhang;Scott Saleska;Lucy Hutyra

  • Global Deforestation: Contribution to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

    G. M. Woodwell;J. E. Hobbie;R. A. Houghton;J. M. Melillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiangming Xiao
Xiangming Xiao University of Oklahoma
Jerry M. Melillo
Jerry M. Melillo Marine Biological Laboratory
Steve Frolking
Steve Frolking University of New Hampshire
Charles J. Vörösmarty
Charles J. Vörösmarty City College of New York
Changsheng Li
Changsheng Li University of New Hampshire
David W. Kicklighter
David W. Kicklighter Marine Biological Laboratory
George C. Hurtt
George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park
William Salas
William Salas Durham University
Elena Shevliakova
Elena Shevliakova Princeton University
Richard A. Houghton
Richard A. Houghton Woods Hole Research Center

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