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Overview

Christopher M. Gough is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant body of work that spans 129 publications in this field. Within environmental science, their subfields of study include Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Insect Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to ecosystems and vegetation, including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, and Forest Management and Policy.

Christopher M. Gough has co-authored frequently with several researchers. The most frequent collaborators include:

  • Jeff W. Atkins
  • Ben Bond-Lamberty
  • Robert T. Fahey
  • Gil Bohrer
  • Kayla Mathes

Their work has been published across multiple venues. Notable publication outlets with multiple articles include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (5 publications)
  • Forest Ecology and Management (4 publications)
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (4 publications)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (3 publications)
  • Ecosphere (3 publications)

Recent published papers by Christopher M. Gough include:

  • "Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites," 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function," 2021, Nature
  • "COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Warming homogenizes apparent temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration," 2021, Science Advances

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • Globally rising soil heterotrophic respiration over recent decades.

    Ben Bond-Lamberty;Vanessa L. Bailey;Min Chen;Christopher M. Gough

  • 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

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

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

  • Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology

    Jianyang Xia;Shuli Niu;Philippe Ciais;Ivan A Janssens

  • The role of canopy structural complexity in wood net primary production of a maturing northern deciduous forest

    Brady S Hardiman;Gil Bohrer;Christopher M Gough;Christopher M Gough;Christoph S Vogel

  • Terrestrial biosphere model performance for inter‐annual variability of land‐atmosphere CO2 exchange

    T.F. Keenan;Ian Baker;Alan Barr;Philippe Ciais

  • Multi-year convergence of biometric and meteorological estimates of forest carbon storage

    C.M. Gough;C.S. Vogel;H.P. Schmid;H.-B. Su

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

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

  • Influence of vegetation and seasonal forcing on carbon dioxide fluxes across the Upper Midwest, USA: Implications for regional scaling

    Ankur R. Desai;Asko Noormets;Paul V. Bolstad;Jiquan Chen

  • Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming

    Chaoyang Wu;Xiaoyue Wang;Huanjiong Wang;Philippe Ciais

  • The legacy of harvest and fire on ecosystem carbon storage in a north temperate forest

    Christopher M. Gough;Christoph S. Vogel;Katherine H. Harrold;Kristen George

  • Land surface phenology derived from normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) at global FLUXNET sites

    Chaoyang Wu;Dailiang Peng;Kamel Soudani;Lukas Siebicke

  • Controls on Annual Forest Carbon Storage: Lessons from the Past and Predictions for the Future

    Christopher M. Gough;Christoph S. Vogel;Hans Peter Schmid;Peter S. Curtis

  • Maintaining high rates of carbon storage in old forests: A mechanism linking canopy structure to forest function

    Brady S. Hardiman;Christopher M. Gough;Abby Halperin;Kathryn L. Hofmeister

  • Coarse woody debris and the carbon balance of a north temperate forest

    Christopher M. Gough;Christoph S. Vogel;Clare Kazanski;Laura Nagel

  • Sustained carbon uptake and storage following moderate disturbance in a Great Lakes forest

    Christopher M. Gough;Brady S. Hardiman;Lucas E. Nave;Gil Bohrer

  • Interannual variability of net ecosystem productivity in forests is explained by carbon flux phenology in autumn

    Chaoyang Wu;Jing M. Chen;T. Andrew Black;David T. Price

  • The contribution of nitrogen deposition to the photosynthetic capacity of forests.

    K. Fleischer;K. T. Rebel;M. K. van der Molen;J. W. Erisman

  • High rates of primary production in structurally complex forests

    Christopher M. Gough;Jeff W. Atkins;Robert T. Fahey;Brady S. Hardiman

  • Disturbance and the resilience of coupled carbon and nitrogen cycling in a north temperate forest

    L. E. Nave;C. M. Gough;K. D. Maurer;G. Bohrer

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter S. Curtis
Peter S. Curtis The Ohio State University
Gil Bohrer
Gil Bohrer The Ohio State University
Christoph S. Vogel
Christoph S. Vogel University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ben Bond-Lamberty
Ben Bond-Lamberty Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Knute J. Nadelhoffer
Knute J. Nadelhoffer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
M. Altaf Arain
M. Altaf Arain McMaster University
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Jing M. Chen
Jing M. Chen University of Toronto

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