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D-Index
36
Citations
10884
World Ranking
9019
National Ranking
3228

Overview

Daniel A. Sims is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their academic profile shows engagement in scholarly research through contributions to their institution.

There are no listed recent papers, frequent co-authors, or frequent publication venues associated with Daniel A. Sims at this time. Additionally, no book publications have been recorded under their name.

The available data does not specify main fields of study, subfields, or main research topics that define their scientific work. There is also no record of awards attributed to Daniel A. Sims.

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Best Publications

  • Relationships between leaf pigment content and spectral reflectance across a wide range of species, leaf structures and developmental stages

    Daniel A Sims;John A Gamon

  • Estimation of vegetation water content and photosynthetic tissue area from spectral reflectance: a comparison of indices based on liquid water and chlorophyll absorption features

    Daniel A Sims;John A Gamon

  • The biochemical and molecular basis for photosynthetic acclimation to elevated atmospheric CO2

    B. D. Moore;S.-H. Cheng;D. Sims;J. R. Seemann

  • A new model of gross primary productivity for North American ecosystems based solely on the enhanced vegetation index and land surface temperature from MODIS

    Daniel A. Sims;Abdullah F. Rahman;Vicente D. Cordova;Bassil Z. El-Masri

  • On the use of MODIS EVI to assess gross primary productivity of North American ecosystems

    Daniel A. Sims;Abdullah F. Rahman;Vicente D. Cordova;Bassil Z. El-Masri

  • 5 – Photosynthetic Acclimation to Changing Light Environments: Scaling from the Leaf to the Whole Plant

    Robert W. Pearcy;Daniel A. Sims

  • Parallel adjustments in vegetation greenness and ecosystem CO2 exchange in response to drought in a Southern California chaparral ecosystem

    Daniel A. Sims;Hongyan Luo;Steven Hastings;Walter C. Oechel

  • Response of leaf anatomy and photosynthetic capacity in Alocasia macrorrhiza (Araceae) to a transfer from low to high light.

    Daniel A. Sims;Robert W. Pearcy

  • Potential of MODIS EVI and surface temperature for directly estimating per‐pixel ecosystem C fluxes

    Abdullah Rahman;Daniel A. Sims;Vicente D. Cordova;Bassil Z. El-Masri

  • Chronic water stress reduces tree growth and the carbon sink of deciduous hardwood forests.

    Edward R. Brzostek;Danilo Dragoni;Hans Peter Schmid;Abdullah F. Rahman

  • Photosynthetic characteristics of a tropical forest understory herb, Alocasia macrorrhiza, and a related crop species, Colocasia esculenta grown in contrasting light environments

    Daniel A. Sims;Robert W. Pearcy

  • Photosynthesis and respiration in Alocasia macrorrhiza following transfers to high and low light

    Daniel A. Sims;Robert W. Pearcy

  • Potential of MODIS ocean bands for estimating CO2 flux from terrestrial vegetation: A novel approach

    Abdullah Rahman;Vicente D. Cordova;John A. Gamon;Hans Peter Schmid

  • Monitoring drought effects on vegetation water content and fluxes in chaparral with the 970 nm water band index

    Helen C. Claudio;Yufu Cheng;David A. Fuentes;John A. Gamon

  • Midday values of gross CO2 flux and light use efficiency during satellite overpasses can be used to directly estimate eight-day mean flux

    Daniel A. Sims;Abdullah F. Rahman;Vicente D. Cordova;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Optimum pixel size for hyperspectral studies of ecosystem function in southern California chaparral and grassland

    Abdullah F. Rahman;John A. Gamon;Daniel A. Sims;Miriam Schmidts

  • A mobile tram system for systematic sampling of ecosystem optical properties

    John A. Gamon;Yufu Cheng;Helen Claudio;Loren MacKinney

  • Comparison of photosynthetic acclimation to elevated CO2 and limited nitrogen supply in soybean

    D. A. Sims;D. A. Sims;Y. Luo;J. R. Seemann

  • Scaling sun and shade photosynthetic acclimation of Alocasia macrorrhiza to whole-plant performance – I. Carbon balance and allocation at different daily photon flux densities

    D. A. Sims;R. W. Pearcy

  • Mapping carbon and water vapor fluxes in a chaparral ecosystem using vegetation indices derived from AVIRIS

    David A. Fuentes;John A. Gamon;Yufu Cheng;Helen C. Claudio

  • Mapping Canadian boreal forest vegetation using pigment and water absorption features derived from the AVIRIS sensor

    David A. Fuentes;John A. Gamon;Hong-lie Qiu;Daniel A. Sims

  • Canopy radiation‐ and water‐use efficiencies as affected by elevated [CO2]

    Dafeng Hui;Yiqi Luo;Weixin Cheng;J. S. Coleman

  • Photosynthesis, respiration, and net primary production of sunflower stands in ambient and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations: an invariant NPP:GPP ratio?

    Weixin Cheng;Daniel A. Sims;Yiqi Luo;James S. Coleman

  • Canopy quantum yield in a mesocosm study

    Yiqi Luo;Dafeng Hui;Weixin Cheng;James S. Coleman

  • Seasonal and inter-annual variation in view angle effects on MODIS vegetation indices at three forest sites

    Daniel A. Sims;Abdullah F. Rahman;Eric F. Vermote;Zuoning Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Gamon
John A. Gamon University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Jeffrey R. Seemann
Jeffrey R. Seemann University of Connecticut
Hans Peter Schmid
Hans Peter Schmid Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Dale W. Johnson
Dale W. Johnson University of Nevada Reno
Weixin Cheng
Weixin Cheng University of California, Santa Cruz
James S. Coleman
James S. Coleman Rice University
Lawrence B. Flanagan
Lawrence B. Flanagan University of Lethbridge
Richard P. Phillips
Richard P. Phillips Indiana University

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