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J. William Munger

J. William Munger

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
103
Citations
45235
World Ranking
309
National Ranking
140

Overview

J. William Munger is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in earth and planetary sciences. Munger's work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and plant science.

The scientist's research addresses a range of topics within environmental systems, notably plant water relations and carbon dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, forest ecology and management, tree-ring climate responses, plant responses to elevated CO2, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and remote sensing in agriculture.

Munger has contributed numerous papers to several publication venues. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites (2021), published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Dry Deposition of Ozone Over Land: Processes, Measurement, and Modeling (2020), published in Reviews of Geophysics
  • Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change (2020), published in Ecological Monographs
  • Previously unaccounted atmospheric mercury deposition in a midlatitude deciduous forest (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Influence of Dynamic Ozone Dry Deposition on Ozone Pollution (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Frequently publishing in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, the scientist has also frequently contributed to the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Collaborations have featured co-authors including Andrew D. Richardson, Ankur R. Desai, Peter D. Blanken, Gil Bohrer, and Ralf M. Staebler.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Measurements of carbon sequestration by long‐term eddy covariance: methods and a critical evaluation of accuracy

    Michael L. Goulden;J. William Munger;Song-Miao Fan;Bruce C. Daube

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • The Amazon basin in transition

    Eric A. Davidson;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Paulo Artaxo;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch

  • Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise

    Trevor F. Keenan;David Y. Hollinger;Gil Bohrer;Danilo Dragoni

  • Net Exchange of CO2 in a Mid-Latitude Forest

    S. C. Wofsy;M. L. Goulden;J. W. Munger;S.-M. Fan

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

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

  • Sensitivity of boreal forest carbon balance to soil thaw

    M. L. Goulden;S. C. Wofsy;J. W. Harden;Susan E. Trumbore

  • Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

    Andrew D. Richardson;T. Andy Black;Philippe Ciais;Nicolas Delbart

  • Net carbon uptake has increased through warming-induced changes in temperate forest phenology

    Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Josh Gray;Mark A. Friedl;Michael Toomey

  • Exchange of Carbon Dioxide by a Deciduous Forest: Response to Interannual Climate Variability

    Michael L. Goulden;J. William Munger;Song-Miao Fan;Bruce C. Daube

  • Carbon in Amazon Forests: Unexpected Seasonal Fluxes and Disturbance-Induced Losses

    Scott R. Saleska;Scott D. Miller;Daniel M. Matross;Michael L. Goulden

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

    Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;John Tenhunen;Marc Aubinet

  • Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations

    F.A. Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao;S.W. Running;J.S. Kimball

  • Gap filling strategies for long term energy flux data sets

    Eva Falge;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Richard Olson;Peter Anthoni

  • Response of a deciduous forest to the Mount Pinatubo eruption: enhanced photosynthesis.

    Lianhong Gu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Steve C. Wofsy;J. William Munger

  • Factors controlling long- and short-term sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in a mid-latitude forest.

    Carol C. Barford;Steven C. Wofsy;Michael L. Goulden;J. William Munger

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • Modelling the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum in a Quercus-Acer stand at Harvard Forest : the regulation of stomatal conductance by light, nitrogen and soil/plant hydraulic properties

    M. Williams;E. B. Rastetter;D. N. Fernandes;M. L. Goulden;M. L. Goulden

  • Mechanistic scaling of ecosystem function and dynamics in space and time: Ecosystem Demography model version 2

    D. Medvigy;D. Medvigy;S. C. Wofsy;J. W. Munger;D. Y. Hollinger

  • Net Carbon Uptake Has Increased through Warming-Induced Changes in Temperate Forest Phenology

    T. F. Keenan;A. D. Richardson;J. M. Gray;M. A. Friedl

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven C. Wofsy
Steven C. Wofsy Harvard University
Daniel J. Jacob
Daniel J. Jacob Harvard University
David Y. Hollinger
David Y. Hollinger US Forest Service
Andrew D. Richardson
Andrew D. Richardson Northern Arizona University
Michael R. Hoffmann
Michael R. Hoffmann California Institute of Technology
Allen H. Goldstein
Allen H. Goldstein University of California, Berkeley
Michael L. Goulden
Michael L. Goulden University of California, Irvine
Bruce C. Daube
Bruce C. Daube Harvard University
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Russell K. Monson
Russell K. Monson University of Colorado Boulder

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