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Overview

Denis Loustau is affiliated with the International Sleep Products Association in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Environmental Science, with a significant contribution to its subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Climate variability and models
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Denis Loustau has frequently published in several scientific journals and venues. Their most common publication outlets are:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Biogeosciences
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Standards and Open Access are the ICOS Pillars Reply to 'Comments on "The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe"'", 2023, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe", 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe", 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Uncovering the critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress for European ecosystems", 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018", 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

They have co-authored multiple publications with several researchers, including:

  • Nina Buchmann
  • Corinna Rebmann
  • Ivan A. Janssens
  • Andreas Ibrom
  • Bart Kruijt

In addition to articles, Denis Loustau has contributed to book publications, notably:

  • "The forestry & wood sector and climate change mitigation", published by éditions Quae eBooks in 2020

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

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

    Markus Reichstein;Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;Dario Papale

  • Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests

    R. Valentini;G. Matteucci;A. J. Dolman;E.-D. Schulze

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests

    Federico Magnani;Maurizio Mencuccini;Marco Borghetti;Paul Berbigier

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

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

  • Temperature response of parameters of a biochemically based model of photosynthesis. II. A review of experimental data

    B. E. Medlyn;B. E. Medlyn;E. Dreyer;D. Ellsworth;M. Forstreuter

  • 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

  • Evidence for Soil Water Control on Carbon and Water Dynamics in European Forests during the Extremely Dry Year: 2003

    A. Granier;M. Reichstein;N. Bréda;I.A. Janssens

  • The likely impact of elevated [CO2], nitrogen deposition, increased temperature and management on carbon sequestration in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems: a literature review.

    Ritta Hyvönen;Goran I. Agren;Sune Linder;Tryggve Persson

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Reduction Of Ecosystem Productivity And Respiration During The European Summer 2003 Climate Anomaly: A Joint Flux Tower, Remote Sensing And Modelling Analysis

    M. Reichstein;M. Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;D. Papale;R. Valentini

  • The importance of phenology for the evaluation of impact of climate change on growth of boreal, temperate and Mediterranean forests ecosystems: an overview.

    K. Kramer;I. Leinonen;D. Loustau

  • A generic model of forest canopy conductance dependent on climate, soil water availability and leaf area index

    André Granier;Denis Loustau;Nathalie Bréda

  • The European carbon balance. Part 3: forests

    Sebsatiaan Luyssaert;Philippe Ciais;SL Piao;E-D Schulze

  • Measuring and modelling the transpiration of a maritime pine canopy from sap-flow data

    André Granier;Denis Loustau

  • Temperature response of parameters of a biochemically based model of photosynthesis. I. Seasonal changes in mature maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.)

    B. E. Medlyn;B. E. Medlyn;D. Loustau;S. Delzon

  • Transpiration of a 64-year-old maritime pine stand in Portugal : 1. Seasonal course of water flux through maritime pine.

    D Loustau;P Berbigier;P Roumagnac;C Arruda-Pacheco

  • Ground-based Network of NDVI measurements for tracking temporal dynamics of canopy structure and vegetation phenology in different biomes

    K. Soudani;G. Hmimina;N. Delpierre;J.-Y. Pontailler

  • Age-related decline in stand water use: sap flow and transpiration in a pine forest chronosequence

    Sylvain Delzon;Denis Loustau

Frequent Co-Authors

Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Paul Berbigier
Paul Berbigier INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Serge Rambal
Serge Rambal Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Giorgio Matteucci
Giorgio Matteucci National Research Council (CNR)
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Alexander Knohl
Alexander Knohl University of Göttingen
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Marc Aubinet
Marc Aubinet University of Liège

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