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Jean-Marc Ourcival is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, atmospheric science, plant science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's work explores several main topics, including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and management, tree-ring climate responses, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, as well as plant and animal studies and plant responses to water stress.

Their recent publications cover a range of subjects within these areas. Notable papers include:

  • "X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X," 2024, Biogeosciences
  • "Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Drought acclimation of Quercus ilex leaves improves tolerance to moderate drought but not resistance to severe water stress," 2022, Plant Cell & Environment
  • "Beyond forest succession: A gap model to study ecosystem functioning and tree community composition under climate change," 2021, Functional Ecology
  • "Carbon-nitrogen interactions in European forests and semi-natural vegetation - Part 1: Fluxes and budgets of carbon, nitrogen and greenhouse gases from ecosystem monitoring and modelling," 2020, Biogeosciences

Jean-Marc Ourcival frequently publishes in several scientific journals, including Biogeosciences, Plant Cell & Environment, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Ecology Letters, and Nature Communications.

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several colleagues, notably Jean-Marc Limousin, Nicolas Delpierre, Guillaume Simioni, Daniel Berveiller, and Sylvain Delzon.

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

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

    Markus Reichstein;Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;Dario Papale

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Modeling temporal and large‐scale spatial variability of soil respiration from soil water availability, temperature and vegetation productivity indices

    Markus Reichstein;Ana Rey;Annette Freibauer;John Tenhunen

  • Severe drought effects on ecosystem CO2 and H2O fluxes at three Mediterranean evergreen sites: revision of current hypotheses?

    Markus Reichstein;John D. Tenhunen;Olivier Roupsard;Jean-marc Ourcival

  • Reduction Of Ecosystem Productivity And Respiration During The European Summer 2003 Climate Anomaly: A Joint Flux Tower, Remote Sensing And Modelling Analysis

    M. Reichstein;M. Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;D. Papale;R. Valentini

  • Evaluation of the potential of MODIS satellite data to predict vegetation phenology in different biomes: An investigation using ground-based NDVI measurements

    G. Hmimina;E. Dufrêne;J.-Y. Pontailler;N. Delpierre

  • Ecosystem respiration in two Mediterranean evergreen Holm Oak forests: drought effects and decomposition dynamics

    Markus Reichstein;John D. Tenhunen;Olivier Roupsard;Jean-Marc Ourcival

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data. Part 1: Coupling footprint analyses with flux data quality assessment to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems

    Mathias Göckede;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet;Mika Aurela

  • Quality analysis applied on eddy covariance measurements at complex forest sites using footprint modelling

    Corinna Rebmann;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet

  • Ground-based Network of NDVI measurements for tracking temporal dynamics of canopy structure and vegetation phenology in different biomes

    K. Soudani;G. Hmimina;N. Delpierre;J.-Y. Pontailler

  • Drought controls over conductance and assimilation of a Mediterranean evergreen ecosystem: scaling from leaf to canopy

    Serge Rambal;Jean-Marc Ourcival;Richard Joffre;Florent Mouillot

  • Long‐term transpiration change with rainfall decline in a Mediterranean Quercus ilex forest

    J. M. Limousin;S. Rambal;J. M. Ourcival;A. Rocheteau

  • Seasonal and annual variation of carbon exchange in an evergreen Mediterranean forest in southern France

    Vincent Allard;J. M. Ourcival;S. Rambal;R. Joffre

  • Mast seeding under increasing drought: results from a long-term data set and from a rainfall exclusion experiment.

    I. M. Pérez-Ramos;J. M. Ourcival;J. M. Limousin;S. Rambal

  • Inverse modeling of seasonal drought effects on canopy CO2/H2O exchange in three Mediterranean ecosystems

    Markus Reichstein;John D. Tenhunen;Olivier Roupsard;Jean-Marc Ourcival

  • Modelling rainfall interception in a mediterranean Quercus ilex ecosystem: Lesson from a throughfall exclusion experiment

    Jean-Marc Limousin;Serge Rambal;Jean-Marc Ourcival;Richard Joffre

  • Phenological responses to extreme droughts in a Mediterranean forest

    Laurent Misson;David Degueldre;Christian Collin;Raquel Rodriguez

  • Mast seeding and flowering in Mediterranean oak woodlands under increasing drought: results from a long-term dataset and from a rainfall exclusion experiment

    Ignacio Manuel Pérez-Ramos;J. M. Ourcival;J. M. Limousin;S. Rambal

  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

    Rafael Poyatos;Víctor Granda;Víctor Flo;Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

  • The growth respiration component in eddy CO2 flux from a Quercus ilex mediterranean forest

    S. Rambal;R. Joffre;J. M. Ourcival;Jeannine M Cavender-Bares

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Rambal
Serge Rambal Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Marc Limousin
Jean-Marc Limousin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Richard Joffre
Richard Joffre Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Nicolas Delpierre
Nicolas Delpierre University of Paris-Saclay
Riccardo Valentini
Riccardo Valentini Tuscia University
Eric Dufrêne
Eric Dufrêne University of Paris-Saclay
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Alexander Knohl
Alexander Knohl University of Göttingen
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki

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