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Overview

James Cleverly is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia, focusing primarily on Environmental Science. Their research extensively covers the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main research topics explored by James Cleverly include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

They have contributed to a variety of peer-reviewed papers with notable publication venues frequently including Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing, Scientific Data, and Journal of Hydrology.

Some recent publications authored or co-authored by James Cleverly are:

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, 2020, Scientific Data
  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function, 2021, Nature
  • Reduction of structural impacts and distinction of photosynthetic pathways in a global estimation of GPP from space-borne solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates, 2022, Science
  • Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, 2021, Scientific Data

James Cleverly frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Qiang Yu, Jason Beringer, Alfredo Huete, Xuanlong Ma, and William Woodgate. These collaborations reflect consistent joint contributions to their fields of study.

Best Publications

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Evapotranspiration on western U.S. rivers estimated using the Enhanced Vegetation Index from MODIS and data from eddy covariance and Bowen ratio flux towers

    Pamela L. Nagler;Russell L. Scott;Craig Westenburg;James R. Cleverly

  • Control of Tamarix in the Western United States: implications for water salvage, wildlife use, and riparian restoration.

    Patrick B. Shafroth;James R. Cleverly;Tom L. Dudley;John P. Taylor

  • Invasive capacity of Tamarix ramosissima in a Mojave Desert floodplain: The role of drought

    James R. Cleverly;Stanley D. Smith;Anna Sala;Dale A. Devitt

  • Predicting riparian evapotranspiration from MODIS vegetation indices and meteorological data

    Pamela L. Nagler;James Cleverly;Edward Glenn;Derrick Lampkin

  • Water relations of riparian plants from warm desert regions

    Stanley D. Smith;Dale A. Devitt;Dale A. Devitt;Anna Sala;James R. Cleverly

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

    Mirco Migliavacca;Talie Musavi;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jacob A. Nelson

  • Spatial patterns and temporal dynamics in savanna vegetation phenology across the North Australian Tropical Transect

    Xuanlong Ma;Xuanlong Ma;Alfredo R Huete;Qiang Qiang Yu;Natalia Restrepo Coupe

  • An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network - OzFlux

    Jason Beringer;Lindsay B Hutley;Ian McHugh;Stefan K Arndt

  • Global change-type drought-induced tree mortality: vapor pressure deficit is more important than temperature per se in causing decline in tree health.

    Derek Eamus;Nicolas Boulain;James Cleverly;David D. Breshears

  • Evapotranspiration at the land/water interface in a semi‐arid drainage basin

    Clifford N. Dahm;James R. Cleverly;Julia E. Allred Coonrod;James R. Thibault

  • Groundwater-dependent ecosystems: recent insights from satellite and field-based studies

    D. Eamus;S. Zolfaghar;R. Villalobos-Vega;J. Cleverly

  • Seasonal estimates of actual evapo-transpiration from Tamarix ramosissima stands using three-dimensional eddy covariance

    James R. Cleverly;Clifford N. Dahm;James R. Thibault;David J. Gilroy

  • Carbon and water fluxes in an arid-zone acacia savanna woodland: An analyses of seasonal patterns and responses to rainfall events

    Derek Eamus;James Cleverly;Nicolas Boulain;Nicole Grant

  • Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates

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  • OzFlux data: network integration from collection to curation

    Peter Isaac;James R Cleverly;Ian McHugh;Eva van Gorsel

  • Reduction of structural impacts and distinction of photosynthetic pathways in a global estimation of GPP from space-borne solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

    Zhaoying Zhang;Zhaoying Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Albert Porcar-Castell;Joanna Joiner

  • Riparian ecohydrology: regulation of water flux from the ground to the atmosphere in the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico

    James R. Cleverly;Clifford N. Dahm;James R. Thibault;Dianne E. McDonnell

  • Drought rapidly diminishes the large net CO2 uptake in 2011 over semi-arid Australia.

    Xuanlong Ma;Alfredo Huete;James Cleverly;Derek Eamus

  • Dynamics of component carbon fluxes in a semi‐arid Acacia woodland, central Australia

    James Cleverly;Nicolas Boulain;Randol Villalobos‐Vega;Nicole Grant

  • Bowen Ratio estimates of evapotranspiration for Tamarix ramosissima stands on the Virgin River in southern Nevada

    D. A. Devitt;Anna Sala;S. D. Smith;J. Cleverly

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek Eamus
Derek Eamus University of Technology Sydney
Jason Beringer
Jason Beringer University of Western Australia
Alfredo Huete
Alfredo Huete University of Technology Sydney
Lindsay B. Hutley
Lindsay B. Hutley Charles Darwin University
Clifford N. Dahm
Clifford N. Dahm University of New Mexico
Eva van Gorsel
Eva van Gorsel Australian National University
Wayne S. Meyer
Wayne S. Meyer University of Adelaide
Stefan K. Arndt
Stefan K. Arndt University of Melbourne
Suzanne M. Prober
Suzanne M. Prober Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe University of Technology Sydney

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