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D-Index
50
Citations
9998
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4957
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1826

Donatella Zona 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 Donatella Zona sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 186 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Donatella Zona 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 Donatella Zona sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Donatella Zona is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Subfields of study represented in their work include Ecology, Soil Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their main topics of research cover the following areas:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models

Zona has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Walter C. Oechel, Oliver Sonnentag, E. S. Euskirchen, Jennifer D. Watts, and Masahito Ueyama.

Their recent papers demonstrate an active contribution to research on ecosystem fluxes, greenhouse gas dynamics, and Arctic ecosystem processes. Some of the recent publications include:

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Snow melt stimulates ecosystem respiration in Arctic ecosystems, 2020, Global Change Biology

Zona's work is published in a range of scientific venues, with frequent appearance in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Biogeosciences
  • Environmental Research Ecology

Best Publications

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Pan-Arctic ice-wedge degradation in warming permafrost and its influence on tundra hydrology

    Anna K. Liljedahl;Julia Boike;Ronald P. Daanen;Alexander N. Fedorov

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • Cold season emissions dominate the Arctic tundra methane budget

    Donatella Zona;Donatella Zona;Beniamino Gioli;Róisín Commane;Jakob Lindaas

  • Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

    Susan M. Natali;Jennifer D. Watts;Brendan M. Rogers;Stefano Potter

  • A new low-power, open-path instrument for measuring methane flux by eddy covariance

    D. McDermitt;G. Burba;L. Xu;T. Anderson

  • The uncertain climate footprint of wetlands under human pressure

    Ana Maria Roxana Petrescu;Annalea Lohila;Juha-Pekka Tuovinen;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity : Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson;Benjamin Poulter;Gavin McNicol

  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties

    Anna Maria Virkkala;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Brendan M. Rogers;Torbern Tagesson;Torbern Tagesson

  • Methane fluxes during the initiation of a large-scale water table manipulation experiment in the Alaskan Arctic tundra

    D. Zona;D. Zona;W. C. Oechel;J. Kochendorfer

  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

    Kyle B. Delwiche;Sara Helen Knox;Avni Malhotra;Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

  • Microtopographic controls on ecosystem functioning in the Arctic Coastal Plain

    D. Zona;D. Zona;D. A. Lipson;R. C. Zulueta;S. F. Oberbauer

  • Nonlinear controls on evapotranspiration in arctic coastal wetlands

    A K Liljedahl;L D Hinzman;Y Harazono;Y Harazono;D Zona;D Zona

  • Water-table height and microtopography control biogeochemical cycling in an Arctic coastal tundra ecosystem

    David A. Lipson;Donatella Zona;Donatella Zona;Ted K. Raab;Francis Bozzolo

  • Monthly gridded data product of northern wetland methane emissions based on upscaling eddy covariance observations

    Olli Peltola;Timo Vesala;Yao Gao;Olle Räty

  • Fluxes of the greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4 and N2O) above a short-rotation poplar plantation after conversion from agricultural land

    Donatella Zona;I.A. Janssens;Marc Aubinet;B. Gioli

  • Testing the applicability of neural networks as a gap-filling method using CH 4 flux data from high latitude wetlands

    S. Dengel;D. Zona;D. Zona;T. Sachs;M. Aurela

  • Growing season and spatial variations of carbon fluxes of Arctic and boreal ecosystems in Alaska (USA).

    Masahito Ueyama;Hiroki Iwata;Yoshinobu Harazono;Yoshinobu Harazono;Eugénie S. Euskirchen

  • Environmental and vegetation controls on the spatial variability of CH4 emission from wet-sedge and tussock tundra ecosystems in the Arctic.

    Katherine Rose McEwing;James Paul Fisher;Donatella Zona;Donatella Zona

  • Soil moisture control over autumn season methane flux, Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska

    C.S. Sturtevant;W.C. Oechel;Donatella Zona;Donatella Zona;Y. Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Eugénie S. Euskirchen
Eugénie S. Euskirchen University of Alaska Fairbanks
Torsten Sachs
Torsten Sachs Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Beniamino Gioli
Beniamino Gioli National Research Council (CNR)
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier University of Oslo
Masahito Ueyama
Masahito Ueyama Osaka Metropolitan University
David A. Lipson
David A. Lipson San Diego State University
Reinhart Ceulemans
Reinhart Ceulemans University of Antwerp
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Yoshinobu Harazono
Yoshinobu Harazono University of Alaska Fairbanks

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