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2026
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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
85
Citations
25279
World Ranking
750
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Dan Yakir is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, plant science, and ecology.

The scientist's work encompasses several key topics including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, plant responses to elevated CO2, forest ecology and management, remote sensing in agriculture, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and climate variability and models.

Dan Yakir's recent publications include:

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function, 2021, Nature
  • Limited climate change mitigation potential through forestation of the vast dryland regions, 2022, Science
  • Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Variation of net primary productivity and its drivers in China's forests during 2000-2018, 2020, Forest Ecosystems

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Eyal Rotenberg, Fyodor Tatarinov, Yakir Preisler, Jonathan Müller, and Itay Oz.

Dan Yakir has published several articles in notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are New Phytologist, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Plant Cell & Environment, Nature Communications, and Tree Physiology.

Best Publications

  • On the Separation of Net Ecosystem Exchange into Assimilation and Ecosystem Respiration: Review and Improved Algorithm

    Markus Reichstein;Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;Dario Papale

  • Towards a standardized processing of Net Ecosystem Exchange measured with eddy covariance technique: algorithms and uncertainty estimation

    Dario Papale;Markus Reichstein;Marc Aubinet;Eleonora Canfora

  • The application and interpretation of Keeling plots in terrestrial carbon cycle research

    D. E. Pataki;J. R. Ehleringer;L. B. Flanagan;D. Yakir

  • Modeling temporal and large‐scale spatial variability of soil respiration from soil water availability, temperature and vegetation productivity indices

    Markus Reichstein;Ana Rey;Annette Freibauer;John Tenhunen

  • The use of stable isotopes to study ecosystem gas exchange.

    D. Yakir;L. Da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

  • Contribution of Semi-Arid Forests to the Climate System

    Eyal Rotenberg;Dan Yakir

  • Variations in the natural abundance of oxygen-18 and deuterium in plant carbohydrates

    D. Yakir

  • Fluxes of CO 2 and water between terrestrial vegetation and the atmosphere estimated from isotope measurements

    Dan Yakir;Xue-Feng Wang

  • Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation during Cellulose Metabolism in Lemna gibba L.

    Dan Yakir;Michael J. DeNiro

  • Carbon sequestration in arid-land forest

    J. M. Grünzweig;T. Lin;E. Rotenberg;A. Schwartz

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data. Part 1: Coupling footprint analyses with flux data quality assessment to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems

    Mathias Göckede;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet;Mika Aurela

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

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

  • Effects of spatial variations in soil evaporation caused by tree shading on water flux partitioning in a semi-arid pine forest.

    N. Raz-Yaseef;E. Rotenberg;D. Yakir

  • Quality analysis applied on eddy covariance measurements at complex forest sites using footprint modelling

    Corinna Rebmann;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet

  • Protection by Isoprene against Singlet Oxygen in Leaves

    Hagit P. Affek;Dan Yakir

  • Using stable isotopes of water in evapotranspiration studies

    Xue-Feng Wang;Dan Yakir

  • Genomic dissection of genotype x environment interactions conferring adaptation of cotton to arid conditions.

    Yehoshua Saranga;Mónica Menz;Chun-Xiao Jiang;Robert J. Wright

  • Genomic dissection of drought resistance in durum wheat × wild emmer wheat recombinant inbreed line population

    Zvi Peleg;Zvi Peleg;Tzion Fahima;Tamar Krugman;Shahal Abbo

  • Internal Conductance to CO2 Diffusion and C18OO Discrimination in C3 Leaves

    Jim S. Gillon;Dan Yakir

  • A coupled model of the global cycles of carbonyl sulfide and CO2: A possible new window on the carbon cycle

    Joe Berry;Adam Wolf;J. Elliott Campbell;Ian Baker

  • Ecohydrology of a semi-arid forest: partitioning among water balance components and its implications for predicted precipitation changes

    Naama Raz Yaseef;Dan Yakir;Eyal Rotenberg;Gabriel Schiller

  • Influence of carbonic anhydrase activity in terrestrial vegetation on the 18O content of atmospheric CO2.

    Jim Gillon;Dan Yakir

  • Dynamics of evapotranspiration partitioning in a semi-arid forest as affected by temporal rainfall patterns

    Naama Raz-Yaseef;Dan Yakir;Gabriel Schiller;Shabtai Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Eyal Rotenberg
Eyal Rotenberg Weizmann Institute of Science
Tamir Klein
Tamir Klein Weizmann Institute of Science
Matthias Mauder
Matthias Mauder Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Shabtai Cohen
Shabtai Cohen Agricultural Research Organization
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Stephen A. Montzka
Stephen A. Montzka National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jérôme Ogée
Jérôme Ogée INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Lisa Wingate
Lisa Wingate INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Alexander Knohl
Alexander Knohl University of Göttingen

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