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161
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Dennis D. Baldocchi publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dennis D. Baldocchi sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 662 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Dennis D. Baldocchi D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dennis D. Baldocchi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 161 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2007 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Dennis D. Baldocchi is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Climate variability and models
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Baldocchi has contributed to the following recent papers:

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function, 2021, Nature
  • The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include:

  • Joseph Verfaillie
  • Daphne Szutu
  • Kyle S. Hemes
  • Ankur R. Desai
  • Camilo Rey-Sánchez

They have been published extensively in several venues, including:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Dennis D. Baldocchi was recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

    Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

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

    Markus Reichstein;Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;Dario Papale

  • Assessing the eddy covariance technique for evaluating carbon dioxide exchange rates of ecosystems: past, present and future

    Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

    Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Energy balance closure at FLUXNET sites

    Kell Wilson;Allen Goldstein;Eva Falge;Marc Aubinet

  • Gap filling strategies for defensible annual sums of net ecosystem exchange

    E. Falge;D. Baldocchi;R. Olson;P. Anthoni

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Measuring Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchanges of Biologically Related Gases with Micrometeorological Methods

    Dennis D. Baldocchi;Bruce B. Hincks;Tilden P. Meyers

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation

    B.E Law;E Falge;L Gu;D.D Baldocchi

  • ‘Breathing’ of the terrestrial biosphere: lessons learned from a global network of carbon dioxide flux measurement systems

    Dennis Baldocchi

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • The carbon balance of tropical, temperate and boreal forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;D. D. Baldocchi;P. G. Jarvis

  • Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982-2006

    Michael A. White;Kirsten M. de Beurs;Kamel Didan;David W. Inouye

  • Global estimates of the land–atmosphere water flux based on monthly AVHRR and ISLSCP-II data, validated at 16 FLUXNET sites

    Joshua B. Fisher;Kevin P. Tu;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • A comparison of methods for determining forest evapotranspiration and its components: sap-flow, soil water budget, eddy covariance and catchment water balance

    Kell B Wilson;Paul J Hanson;Patrick J Mulholland;Dennis D Baldocchi

  • The future of evapotranspiration: global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources.

    Joshua B. Fisher;Forrest S. Melton;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Christopher Hain;Christopher Hain

  • Advantages of diffuse radiation for terrestrial ecosystem productivity

    Lianhong Gu;Dennis Baldocchi;Shashi B. Verma;T. A. Black

  • Seasonality of ecosystem respiration and gross primary production as derived from FLUXNET measurements

    Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;John Tenhunen;Marc Aubinet

  • A preliminary multiple resistance routine for deriving dry deposition velocities from measured quantities

    B. B. Hicks;D. D. Baldocchi;T. P. Meyers;R. P. Hosker

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell K. Monson
Russell K. Monson University of Colorado Boulder
Beverly E. Law
Beverly E. Law Oregon State University
Sara H. Knox
Sara H. Knox McGill University
Matteo Detto
Matteo Detto Princeton University
Shashi B. Verma
Shashi B. Verma University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Siyan Ma
Siyan Ma University of California, Berkeley
Tilden P. Meyers
Tilden P. Meyers National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Youngryel Ryu
Youngryel Ryu Seoul National University
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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