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James R. Kellner

James R. Kellner

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
6504
World Ranking
7999
National Ranking
2652

Overview

James R. Kellner is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has contributed extensively to environmental science research, with a focus on remote sensing applications and ecosystem dynamics. Their work spans various subfields including environmental engineering, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and ecological modeling.

Their research primarily involves topics such as remote sensing and LiDAR applications, remote sensing in agriculture, forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, fire effects on ecosystems, and forest management and policy.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Kellner include:

  • The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth's forests and topography (2020), published in Science of Remote Sensing
  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission (2022), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Biomass estimation from simulated GEDI, ICESat-2 and NISAR across environmental gradients in Sonoma County, California (2020), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Chlorophyll a fluorescence illuminates a path connecting plant molecular biology to Earth-system science (2021), published in Nature Plants
  • GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space (2022), published in Environmental Research Letters

Kellner collaborates frequently with researchers such as John Armston, Laura Duncanson, Ralph Dubayah, Steven Hancock, and David Minor.

The scientist has published in multiple academic venues with high frequency, including:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Icarus
  • Science of Remote Sensing
  • Environmental Research Letters

Kellner has authored at least one book publication through Ghent University titled Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol (2021).

Best Publications

  • The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography

    Ralph Dubayah;James Bryan Blair;Scott Goetz;Lola Fatoyinbo

  • Poleward expansion of mangroves is a threshold response to decreased frequency of extreme cold events

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;James R. Kellner;Alexander J. Forde;Daniel S. Gruner

  • Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales

    James B. Heffernan;James B. Heffernan;Patricia A. Soranno;Patricia A. Soranno;Michael J. Angilletta;Michael J. Angilletta;Lauren B. Buckley;Lauren B. Buckley

  • How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct

    Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell;Fangliang He;Richard Condit;Richard Condit;Luís Borda-de-Água;Luís Borda-de-Água

  • GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space

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  • Biomass estimation from simulated GEDI, ICESat-2 and NISAR across environmental gradients in Sonoma County, California

    Laura Duncanson;Laura Duncanson;Amy Neuenschwander;Steven Hancock;Steven Hancock;Nathan Thomas;Nathan Thomas

  • Tropical forest biomass estimation and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness

    David B. Clark;David B. Clark;James R. Kellner

  • The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation

    L. Duncanson;J. Armston;M. Disney;V. Avitabile

  • New Opportunities for Forest Remote Sensing Through Ultra-High-Density Drone Lidar

    James R. Kellner;John Armston;Markus Birrer;K. C. Cushman

  • Forest canopy gap distributions in the southern Peruvian Amazon.

    Gregory P. Asner;James R. Kellner;Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin;David E. Knapp

  • Operational Tree Species Mapping in a Diverse Tropical Forest with Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy.

    Claire A. Baldeck;Gregory P. Asner;Robin E. Martin;Christopher B. Anderson

  • Convergent structural responses of tropical forests to diverse disturbance regimes

    James R. Kellner;Gregory P. Asner

  • Integrating physiological threshold experiments with climate modeling to project mangrove species’ range expansion

    Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;Kyle C. Cavanaugh;John D. Parker;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Ilka C. Feller

  • Pervasive canopy dynamics produce short-term stability in a tropical rain forest landscape

    James R. Kellner;David B. Clark;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell

  • Statistical properties of hybrid estimators proposed for GEDI – NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation

    Paul L. Patterson;Sean P. Healey;Goran Stahl;Svetlana Saarela

  • Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

    Jean François Bastin;Ervan Rutishauser;James R. Kellner;Sassan Saatchi

  • The Ontogeny of Fluctuating Asymmetry

    James R. Kellner;Ross A. Alford

  • Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for GEDI Footprint Aboveground Biomass Density

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  • The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation

    R. Dubayah;S. J. Goetz;J. B. Blair;T. E. Fatoyinbo

  • Approaches to advance scientific understanding of macrosystems ecology

    Ofir Levy;Becky A. Ball;Ben Bond-Lamberty;Kendra S. Cheruvelil

  • Mapping habitat suitability for at-risk plant species and its implications for restoration and reintroduction

    Erin J. Questad;Erin J. Questad;James R. Kellner;James R. Kellner;Kealoha Kinney;Kealoha Kinney;Susan Cordell

  • Lasers Without Lost Cities: Using Drone Lidar to Capture Architectural Complexity at Kuelap, Amazonas, Peru

    Parker VanValkenburgh;K. C. Cushman;Luis Jaime Castillo Butters;Carol Rojas Vega

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph Dubayah
Ralph Dubayah University of Maryland, College Park
Michelle Hofton
Michelle Hofton University of Maryland, College Park
John Armston
John Armston University of Maryland, College Park
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Scott B. Luthcke
Scott B. Luthcke National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Sean P. Healey
Sean P. Healey US Forest Service
David B. Clark
David B. Clark University of Missouri–St. Louis
Kyle C. Cavanaugh
Kyle C. Cavanaugh University of California, Los Angeles
David E. Knapp
David E. Knapp Arizona State University

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