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790
National Ranking
30

Overview

Damien Bonal is affiliated with the University of Lorraine in France. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a substantial number of publications in this field.

The main subfields of Bonal's work include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling

Bonal's research topics span several areas, notably:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

The scientist has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data (2020, Scientific Data)
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests (2020, Science)
  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function (2021, Nature)
  • Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database (2021, Earth system science data)

Frequent co-authors in Bonal's work include:

  • Géraldine Derroire
  • Benoît Burban
  • Clément Stahl
  • Timothy R. Baker
  • Edmar Almeida de Oliveira

Bonal often publishes in journals such as:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science
  • Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.

    Oliver L. Phillips;Luiz E. O. C. Aragão;Simon L. Lewis;Joshua B. Fisher

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Hank A. Margolis;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Drought–mortality relationships for tropical forests

    Oliver L. Phillips;Geertje van der Heijden;Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela López-González

  • Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

    Yan Shih Lin;Belinda E. Medlyn;Remko A. Duursma;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice

  • Tree Diversity Drives Forest Stand Resistance to Natural Disturbances

    Hervé Jactel;Jürgen Bauhus;Johanna Boberg;Damien Bonal

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

    Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

    Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto;C E Timothy Paine;Lourens Poorter;Jacques Beauchene

  • Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

    Owen K. Atkin;Keith J. Bloomfield;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker

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

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

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Regional and seasonal patterns of litterfall in tropical South America

    J. Chave;D. Navarrete;S. Almeida;E. Álvarez

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context

    Sophia Ratcliffe;Christian Wirth;Christian Wirth;Tommaso Jucker;Tommaso Jucker;Fons van der Plas

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

    Sophie Fauset;Michelle O Johnson;Manuel Gloor;Timothy R Baker

  • Tree diversity does not always improve resistance of forest ecosystems to drought

    Charlotte Grossiord;André Granier;Sophia Ratcliffe;Olivier Bouriaud

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

    Fons van der Plas;Pete Manning;Santiago Soliveres;Eric Allan

  • Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Almut Arneth

  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Clément Stahl
Clément Stahl INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Christopher Baraloto
Christopher Baraloto Florida International University
Bruno Hérault
Bruno Hérault University of Montpellier
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
André Granier
André Granier INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds

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