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  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Carl J. Bernacchi is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences with a significant emphasis on environmental science. The main subfields of study include plant science, global and planetary change, ecology, agronomy and crop science, and environmental engineering.

Their scholarly work covers a range of key topics related to plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, plant responses to elevated CO2, bioenergy crop production and management, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, climate change impacts on agriculture, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Bernacchi has published extensively in several frequent venues, including:

  • Global Change Biology
  • GCB Bioenergy
  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bernacchi include:

  • The effect of increasing temperature on crop photosynthesis: from enzymes to ecosystems, 2021, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Towards a multiscale crop modelling framework for climate change adaptation assessment, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Redefining droughts for the U.S. Corn Belt: The dominant role of atmospheric vapor pressure deficit over soil moisture in regulating stomatal behavior of Maize and Soybean, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Deriving high-spatiotemporal-resolution leaf area index for agroecosystems in the U.S. Corn Belt using Planet Labs CubeSat and STAIR fusion data, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Their frequent collaborators include Evan H. DeLucia, Caitlin E. Moore, Kaiyu Guan, N. Gomez-Casanovas, and Elizabeth A. Ainsworth. These coauthors have contributed on numerous occasions across Bernacchi's research efforts.

Bernacchi was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Elevated CO2 effects on plant carbon, nitrogen, and water relations: six important lessons from FACE

    Andrew D. B. Leakey;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Carl J. Bernacchi;Carl J. Bernacchi;Alistair Rogers;Alistair Rogers

  • Fitting photosynthetic carbon dioxide response curves for C3 leaves

    Thomas D. Sharkey;Carl J. Bernacchi;Graham D. Farquhar;Eric L. Singsaas

  • Improved temperature response functions for models of Rubisco-limited photosynthesis: In vivo Rubisco enzyme kinetics

    C. J. Bernacchi;E. L. Singsaas;C. Pimentel;A. R. Portis

  • Gas exchange measurements, what can they tell us about the underlying limitations to photosynthesis? Procedures and sources of error

    S. P. Long;C. J. Bernacchi

  • Improved temperature response functions for models of Rubisco‐limited photosynthesis

    C. J. Bernacchi;E. L. Singsaas;C. Pimentel;A. R. Portis

  • Temperature Response of Mesophyll Conductance. Implications for the Determination of Rubisco Enzyme Kinetics and for Limitations to Photosynthesis in Vivo

    Carl J. Bernacchi;Carl J. Bernacchi;Archie R. Portis;Archie R. Portis;Hiromi Nakano;Susanne von Caemmerer

  • A meta-analysis of elevated [CO2] effects on soybean (Glycine max) physiology, growth and yield

    Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Phillip A. Davey;Carl J. Bernacchi;Orla C. Dermody

  • The effect of increasing temperature on crop photosynthesis: from enzymes to ecosystems.

    Caitlin E Moore;Caitlin E Moore;Katherine Meacham-Hensold;Pauline Lemonnier;Rebecca A Slattery

  • In vivo temperature response functions of parameters required to model RuBP-limited photosynthesis

    C. J. Bernacchi;C. Pimentel;Stephen P. Long

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • The Costs of Photorespiration to Food Production Now and in the Future

    Berkley J. Walker;Berkley J. Walker;Andy VanLoocke;Carl J. Bernacchi;Carl J. Bernacchi;Donald R. Ort;Donald R. Ort

  • 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

  • Decreases in Stomatal Conductance of Soybean under Open-Air Elevation of [CO2] Are Closely Coupled with Decreases in Ecosystem Evapotranspiration

    Carl J. Bernacchi;Bruce A. Kimball;Devin R. Quarles;Stephen P. Long

  • Intensifying drought eliminates the expected benefits of elevated carbon dioxide for soybean.

    Sharon B Gray;Orla Dermody;Stephanie P Klein;Anna M Locke

  • Towards a multiscale crop modelling framework for climate change adaptation assessment

    Bin Peng;Kaiyu Guan;Jinyun Tang;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth

  • Carbon budget of mature no-till ecosystem in North Central Region of the United States

    Steven E. Hollinger;Carl J. Bernacchi;Tilden P. Meyers

  • Leaf photosynthesis and carbohydrate dynamics of soybeans grown throughout their life‐cycle under Free‐Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment

    A. Rogers;D. J. Allen;P. A. Davey;P. B. Morgan

  • The growth of soybean under free air [CO2] enrichment (FACE) stimulates photosynthesis while decreasing in vivo Rubisco capacity

    Carl J. Bernacchi;Patrick B. Morgan;Donald R. Ort;Donald R. Ort;Stephen P. Long

  • Reduced nitrogen losses after conversion of row crop agriculture to perennial biofuel crops.

    Candice M. Smith;Mark B. David;Mark B. David;Corey A. Mitchell;Corey A. Mitchell;Michael D. Masters

  • Increased C availability at elevated carbon dioxide concentration improves N assimilation in a legume

    Alistair Rogers;Yves Gibon;Mark Stitt;Patrick B. Morgan

  • Will photosynthesis of maize (Zea mays) in the US Corn Belt increase in future [CO2] rich atmospheres? An analysis of diurnal courses of CO2 uptake under free-air concentration enrichment (FACE)

    Andrew D.B. Leakey;C. J. Bernacchi;C. J. Bernacchi;F. G. Dohleman;D. R. Ort;D. R. Ort

  • Global Warming Can Negate the Expected CO2 Stimulation in Photosynthesis and Productivity for Soybean Grown in the Midwestern United States

    Ursula M. Ruiz-Vera;Matthew Siebers;Sharon B. Gray;David W. Drag

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald R. Ort
Donald R. Ort University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Evan H. DeLucia
Evan H. DeLucia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen P. Long
Stephen P. Long University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elizabeth A. Ainsworth
Elizabeth A. Ainsworth University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew D. B. Leakey
Andrew D. B. Leakey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kaiyu Guan
Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tilden P. Meyers
Tilden P. Meyers National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Xin-Guang Zhu
Xin-Guang Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alistair Rogers
Alistair Rogers Brookhaven National Laboratory
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

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