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Jeffrey Q. Chambers is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, atmospheric science, ecology, and plant science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several main topics, including:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Environmental and biological studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Jeffrey Q. Chambers has published numerous papers in a variety of scientific journals. Some notable recent publications include:

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation, 2023, Science
  • Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Hydraulically-vulnerable trees survive on deep-water access during droughts in a tropical forest, 2021, New Phytologist
  • The Central Amazon Biomass Sink Under Current and Future Atmospheric CO2: Predictions From Big-Leaf and Demographic Vegetation Models, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Remote sensing and statistical analysis of the effects of hurricane María on the forests of Puerto Rico, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Níro Higuchi (28 collaborations)
  • Robinson Negrón-Juárez (25 collaborations)
  • Bruno Gimenez (23 collaborations)
  • Charles D. Koven (22 collaborations)
  • Nate G. McDowell (20 collaborations)

Jeffrey Q. Chambers has published primarily in venues such as the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI OAI), alongside multiple papers in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), New Phytologist, Global Change Biology, and the SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests

    J. Chave;C. Andalo;S. Brown;M. A. Cairns

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • MEASURING NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN FORESTS: CONCEPTS AND FIELD METHODS

    Deborah A. Clark;Sandra Brown;David W. Kicklighter;Jeffrey Q. Chambers

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

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

  • NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN TROPICAL FORESTS: AN EVALUATION AND SYNTHESIS OF EXISTING FIELD DATA

    Deborah A. Clark;Sandra Brown;David W. Kicklighter;Jeffrey Q. Chambers

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

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  • Relationship between soils and Amazon forest biomass: a landscape-scale study

    William F Laurance;Philip M Fearnside;Susan G Laurance;Patricia Delamonica

  • Tree damage, allometric relationships, and above-ground net primary production in central Amazon forest

    Jeffrey Q Chambers;Joaquim dos Santos;Ralfh J Ribeiro;Niro Higuchi

  • Decomposition and carbon cycling of dead trees in tropical forests of the central Amazon.

    Jeffrey Q. Chambers;Niro Higuchi;Joshua P. Schimel;Leandro V. Ferreira

  • Drivers and Mechanisms of Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Kristina Anderson‐Teixeira;Paulo M. Brando

  • Forest disturbance and recovery: A general review in the context of spaceborne remote sensing of impacts on aboveground biomass and canopy structure

    Steve Frolking;Michael W Palace;Michael W Palace;D B Clark;Jeffrey Q Chambers

  • Respiration from a tropical forest ecosystem: partitioning of sources and low carbon use efficiency

    Jeffrey Quintin Chambers;Jeffrey Quintin Chambers;Edgard Siza Tribuzy;Ligia C. Toledo;Bianca F. Crispim

  • The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest

    D. C. Nepstad;P. Moutinho;M. B. Dias‐Filho;E. Davidson

  • Comprehensive assessment of carbon productivity, allocation and storage in three Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Luiz Eduardo O. C. Aragão;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Romilda Paiva

  • Hurricane Katrina's carbon footprint on U.S. Gulf Coast forests.

    Jeffrey Q. Chambers;Jeremy I. Fisher;Jeremy I. Fisher;Hongcheng Zeng;Elise L. Chapman

  • Ancient trees in Amazonia

    Jeffrey Q. Chambers;Jeffrey Q. Chambers;Niro Higuchi;Joshua P. Schimel

  • Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forests.

    Jeffrey Q. Chambers;Gregory P. Asner;Douglas C. Morton;Liana O. Anderson

  • Acclimation and adaptation components of the temperature dependence of plant photosynthesis at the global scale

    Dushan P. Kumarathunge;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Forest structure and carbon dynamics in Amazonian tropical rain forests.

    Simone Vieira;Plinio Barbosa de Camargo;Diogo Selhorst;Roseana da Silva

  • Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity

    Mercedes M. C. Bustamante;Iris Roitman;T. Mitchell Aide;Ane Alencar

  • Diameter increment and growth patterns for individual tree growing in Central Amazon, Brazil

    Roseana Pereira da Silva;Joaquim dos Santos;Edgard Siza Tribuzy;Jeffrey Q. Chambers

  • The effects of partial throughfall exclusion on canopy processes, aboveground production, and biogeochemistry of an Amazon forest : Large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment in Amazonia (LBA)

    D. C. Nepstad;P. Moutinho;M. B. Dias-Filho;E. Davidson

Frequent Co-Authors

Niro Higuchi
Niro Higuchi National Institute of Amazonian Research
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lara M. Kueppers
Lara M. Kueppers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
William J. Riley
William J. Riley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
George C. Hurtt
George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park
Rosie A. Fisher
Rosie A. Fisher National Center for Atmospheric Research
Matteo Detto
Matteo Detto Princeton University
Jeffrey M. Warren
Jeffrey M. Warren Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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