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40
Citations
10368
World Ranking
5984
National Ranking
2037

Overview

David P. Turner is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research spans several areas within Environmental Science, focusing on subfields such as Ecology, Food Science, Environmental Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work addresses key topics including:

  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems

Recent publications by David P. Turner demonstrate a strong presence in environmental and ecological research. Among these are:

  • "Response of the microbial food web to gradients of organic matter and grazing pressure and multi-stressor effect in incubation experiments in three different marine ecosystems: Patagonia, Arctic and Mediterranean" (2020), published in Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • "Aboveground Carbon Estimation in a Mangrove Ecosystem Using UAV-Based Remote Sensing and Machine Learning" (2025), published in Ecological Indicators

David collaborates with several researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Nicolás Sánchez
  • Øystein Leiknes
  • Tatiana M. Tsagaraki
  • Mark J. Hopwood
  • Julián Alberto Gallego-Urrea

Their publications have appeared primarily in venues such as:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Ecological Indicators

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of MODIS NPP and GPP products across multiple biomes.

    David P. Turner;William D. Ritts;Warren B. Cohen;Stith T. Gower

  • Relationships between leaf area index and Landsat TM spectral vegetation indices across three temperate zone sites

    David P. Turner;Warren B. Cohen;Robert E. Kennedy;Karin S. Fassnacht

  • A Global Terrestrial Monitoring Network Integrating Tower Fluxes, Flask Sampling, Ecosystem Modeling and EOS Satellite Data

    Steven W Running;Dennis Baldocchi;David Turner;Stith T. Gower

  • A Carbon Budget for Forests of the Conterminous United States

    David P. Turner;Greg J. Koerper;Mark E. Harmon;Jeffrey J. Lee

  • An improved strategy for regression of biophysical variables and Landsat ETM+ data.

    Warren B. Cohen;Thomas K. Maiersperger;Stith T. Gower;David P. Turner

  • A cross-biome comparison of daily light use efficiency for gross primary production

    David P. Turner;Shawn Urbanski;Dale Bremer;Steven C. Wofsy

  • Scaling Gross Primary Production (GPP) over boreal and deciduous forest landscapes in support of MODIS GPP product validation

    David P. Turner;William D. Ritts;Warren B. Cohen;Stith T. Gower

  • Site‐level evaluation of satellite‐based global terrestrial gross primary production and net primary production monitoring

    David P. Turner;William D. Ritts;Warren B. Cohen;Thomas K. Maeirsperger

  • Comparisons of land cover and LAI estimates derived from ETM+ and MODIS for four sites in North America: a quality assessment of 2000/2001 provisional MODIS products

    Warren B Cohen;Thomas K Maiersperger;Zhiqiang Yang;Stith T Gower

  • Carbon dynamics of Oregon and Northern California forests and potential land-based carbon storage.

    Tara Hudiburg;Beverly Law;David P. Turner;John Campbell

  • Disturbance and climate effects on carbon stocks and fluxes across Western Oregon USA

    B. E. Law;D. Turner;J. Campbell;O. J. Sun

  • Integrating Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Process Models for Landscape- to Regional-Scale Analysis of the Carbon Cycle

    David P. Turner;Scott V. Ollinger;John S. Kimball

  • Variability in net primary production and carbon storage in biomass across Oregon forests—an assessment integrating data from forest inventories, intensive sites, and remote sensing

    S. Van Tuyl;B.E. Law;D.P. Turner;A.I. Gitelman

  • MODIS land cover and LAI collection 4 product quality across nine sites in the western hemisphere

    W.B. Cohen;T.K. Maiersperger;D.P. Turner;W.D. Ritts

  • Combining lidar estimates of aboveground biomass and Landsat estimates of stand age for spatially extensive validation of modeled forest productivity

    M.A. Lefsky;D.P. Turner;M. Guzy;W.B. Cohen

  • Evaluation of fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products for different canopy radiation transfer regimes: methodology and results using Joint Research Center products derived from SeaWiFS against ground-based estimations.

    Nadine Gobron;Bernard Pinty;Ophélie Aussedat;Jing M. Chen

  • Forest Disturbance and North American Carbon Flux

    Samuel N. Goward;Jeffrey G. Masek;Warren Cohen;Gretchen Moisen

  • An approach to spatially distributed modeling of net primary production (NPP) at the landscape scale and its application in validation of EOS NPP products

    Peter B Reich;David P Turner;Paul Bolstad

  • Effects of spatial variability in light use efficiency on satellite-based NPP monitoring

    David P Turner;Stith T Gower;Warren B Cohen;Matthew Gregory

  • The role of remote sensing in process-scaling studies of managed forest ecosystems

    Jeffrey G. Masek;Daniel J. Hayes;M. Joseph Hughes;Sean P. Healey

  • Reconciling estimates of the contemporary North American carbon balance among terrestrial biosphere models, atmospheric inversions, and a new approach for estimating net ecosystem exchange from inventory-based data

    Daniel J. Hayes;David P. Turner;Graham Stinson;A. David McGuire

Frequent Co-Authors

Warren B. Cohen
Warren B. Cohen Oregon State University
Beverly E. Law
Beverly E. Law Oregon State University
Robert E. Kennedy
Robert E. Kennedy Oregon State University
Stith T. Gower
Stith T. Gower North Carolina State University
Zhiqiang Yang
Zhiqiang Yang United States Department of Agriculture
Andrew R. Jacobson
Andrew R. Jacobson Earth System Research Laboratory
Maosheng Zhao
Maosheng Zhao Science Systems and Applications (United States)
Steven W. Running
Steven W. Running University of Montana
Steven C. Wofsy
Steven C. Wofsy Harvard University
Robert B. Cook
Robert B. Cook Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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