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Overview

Christopher J. Kucharik is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in their research include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kucharik are:

  • Environmental outcomes of the US Renewable Fuel Standard (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Soil-dependent responses of US crop yields to climate variability and depth to groundwater (2021), Agricultural Systems
  • Spatial and temporal variability of future ecosystem services in an agricultural landscape (2020), Landscape Ecology
  • Decadal-Scale Changes in the Seasonal Surface Water Balance of the Central United States from 1984 to 2007 (2020), Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • The Dynamic Relationship between Air and Land Surface Temperature within the Madison, Wisconsin Urban Heat Island (2021), Remote Sensing

Frequent co-authors associated with their work include Eric G. Booth, Randall D. Jackson, Tyler J. Lark, S. Spawn, and Holly Gibbs.

Kucharik has published often in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Agricultural Systems, Environmental Research Letters, and Journal of Environmental Quality.

Best Publications

  • Global Consequences of Land Use

    Jonathan A. Foley;Ruth DeFries;Gregory P. Asner;Carol Barford

  • Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

    Wolfgang Cramer;Alberte Bondeau;F. Ian Woodward;I. Colin Prentice

  • Direct and Indirect Estimation of Leaf Area Index, fAPAR, and Net Primary Production of Terrestrial Ecosystems

    Stith T. Gower;Chris J. Kucharik;John M. Norman

  • Testing the performance of a dynamic global ecosystem model: Water balance, carbon balance, and vegetation structure

    Christopher J. Kucharik;Jonathan A. Foley;Christine Delire;Veronica A. Fisher

  • Scale-dependent interactions between tree canopy cover and impervious surfaces reduce daytime urban heat during summer

    Carly D. Ziter;Eric J. Pedersen;Christopher J. Kucharik;Monica G. Turner

  • Mind the gap: how do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world?

    Rachel Licker;Matt Johnston;Jonathan A. Foley;Carol Barford

  • Carbon distribution and aboveground net primary production in aspen, jack pine, and black spruce stands in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada

    S. T. Gower;J. G. Vogel;J. M. Norman;C. J. Kucharik

  • Factors controlling CO2 exchange on timescales from hourly to decadal at Harvard Forest

    Shawn Urbanski;C. Barford;S. Wofsy;C. Kucharik

  • Corn-based ethanol production compromises goal of reducing nitrogen export by the Mississippi River

    Simon D. Donner;Christopher J. Kucharik

  • A comparison of six methods for measuring soil‐surface carbon dioxide fluxes

    J.M. Norman;C.J. Kucharik;S.T. Gower;D.D. Baldocchi

  • A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Kevin Schaefer;Christopher R. Schwalm;Chris Williams;M. Altaf Arain

  • Crop management and phenology trends in the U.S. Corn Belt: Impacts on yields, evapotranspiration and energy balance

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  • Drought effects on US maize and soybean production: spatiotemporal patterns and historical changes

    Samuel C Zipper;Jiangxiao Qiu;Christopher J Kucharik

  • A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Ryan S. Anderson

  • Contribution of Anaerobic Digesters to Emissions Mitigation and Electricity Generation Under U.S. Climate Policy

    David P. M. Zaks;Niven Stewart Winchester;Christopher J. Kucharik;Carol C. Barford

  • Measurements of branch area and adjusting leaf area index indirect measurements

    Christopher J Kucharik;John M Norman;Stith T Gower

  • Abrupt Change in Ecological Systems: Inference and Diagnosis

    Zak Ratajczak;Stephen R. Carpenter;Anthony R. Ives;Christopher J. Kucharik

  • Environmental outcomes of the US Renewable Fuel Standard

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  • Impacts of recent climate change on Wisconsin corn and soybean yield trends

    Christopher J Kucharik;Shawn P Serbin

  • Characterization of radiation regimes in nonrandom forest canopies: theory, measurements, and a simplified modeling approach.

    Christopher J. Kucharik;John M. Norman;Stith T. Gower

  • A Multidecadal Trend of Earlier Corn Planting in the Central USA

    Christopher J. Kucharik

  • A multiyear evaluation of a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model at three AmeriFlux forest sites: Vegetation structure, phenology, soil temperature, and CO2 and H2O vapor exchange

    Christopher J. Kucharik;Carol C. Barford;Mustapha El Maayar;Steven C. Wofsy

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan A. Foley
Jonathan A. Foley University of Minnesota
Stephen R. Carpenter
Stephen R. Carpenter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Steven P. Loheide
Steven P. Loheide University of Wisconsin–Madison
John M. Norman
John M. Norman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stith T. Gower
Stith T. Gower North Carolina State University
Randall D. Jackson
Randall D. Jackson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Navin Ramankutty
Navin Ramankutty University of British Columbia
Monica G. Turner
Monica G. Turner University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ian Baker
Ian Baker Colorado State University
Robert F. Grant
Robert F. Grant University of Alberta

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