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Overview

Jeffrey T. Morisette is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research spans key areas within environmental science, focusing on ecology, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, and molecular biology.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

They have published extensively in the field of environmental science, with notable frequent venues including:

  • Ecosphere
  • Annals of the Entomological Society of America
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Management of Biological Invasions
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Jeffrey T. Morisette reflect a diverse but interconnected research focus, such as:

  • Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Strategic considerations for invasive species managers in the utilization of environmental DNA (eDNA): steps for incorporating this powerful surveillance tool (2021, Management of Biological Invasions)
  • A framework to integrate innovations in invasion science for proactive management (2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management (2022, Fire Ecology)
  • Beyond the basics: a perspective on barriers and opportunities for scaling up biochar production from forest slash (2024, Biochar)

Jeffrey T. Morisette frequently collaborates with several other researchers, including:

  • Stanley W. Burgiel
  • Keith D. Gaddis
  • Katharyn Duffy
  • Jake F. Weltzin
  • Wesley M. Daniel

Best Publications

  • Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data

    Ranga B. Myneni;S. Hoffman;Yuri Knyazikhin;J. Privette

  • An overview of MODIS Land data processing and product status

    C.O Justice;J.R.G Townshend;E.F Vermote;E Masuoka

  • The MODIS fire products

    C.O Justice;L Giglio;S Korontzi;J Owens

  • Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon

    Douglas C. Morton;Ruth S. DeFries;Yosio E. Shimabukuro;Liana O. Anderson

  • Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

    Sarah R. Weiskopf;Madeleine A. Rubenstein;Lisa G. Crozier;Sarah Gaichas

  • Tracking the rhythm of the seasons in the face of global change: phenological research in the 21st century.

    Jeffrey T Morisette;Andrew D Richardson;Alan K Knapp;Jeremy I Fisher

  • Validation and intercomparison of global Leaf Area Index products derived from remote sensing data

    S. Garrigues;R. Lacaze;F. Baret;J. T. Morisette

  • Validation of global moderate-resolution LAI products: a framework proposed within the CEOS land product validation subgroup

    J.T. Morisette;F. Baret;J.L. Privette;R.B. Myneni

  • Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests

    Ranga B. Myneni;Wenze Yang;Wenze Yang;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Alfredo R. Huete

  • Validating MODIS land surface reflectance and albedo products: methods and preliminary results

    Shunlin Liang;Hongliang Fang;Mingzhen Chen;Chad J Shuey

  • Evaluation of the consistency of long-term NDVI time series derived from AVHRR,SPOT-vegetation, SeaWiFS, MODIS, and Landsat ETM+ sensors

    M.E. Brown;J.E. Pinzon;K. Didan;J.T. Morisette

  • Validation of GOES and MODIS active fire detection products using ASTER and ETM+ data

    Wilfrid Schroeder;Elaine Prins;Louis Giglio;Ivan Csiszar

  • Developments in the 'validation' of satellite sensor products for the study of the land surface

    C. Justice;A. Belward;J. Morisette;P. Lewis

  • A framework for the validation of MODIS Land products

    Jeffrey T Morisette;Jeffrey L Privette;Christopher O Justice

  • Caveats for correlative species distribution modeling

    Catherine S. Jarnevich;Thomas J. Stohlgren;Sunil Kumar;Jeffery T. Morisette

  • Development and Delivery of Species Distribution Models to Inform Decision-Making

    Helen R Sofaer;Catherine S Jarnevich;Ian S Pearse;Regan L Smyth

  • Evaluation of the representativeness of networks of sites for the global validation and intercomparison of land biophysical products: proposition of the CEOS-BELMANIP

    F. Baret;J.T. Morissette;R.A. Fernandes;J.L. Champeaux

  • An Algorithm to Produce Temporally and Spatially Continuous MODIS-LAI Time Series

    Feng Gao;J.T. Morisette;R.E. Wolfe;G. Ederer

  • Ten ways remote sensing can contribute to conservation

    Robert A. Rose;Dirck Byler;J. Ron Eastman;Erica Fleishman

  • An Enhanced TIMESAT Algorithm for Estimating Vegetation Phenology Metrics From MODIS Data

    B Tan;J T Morisette;R E Wolfe;F Gao

  • Ensemble habitat mapping of invasive plant species.

    Thomas J. Stohlgren;Peter Ma;Sunil Kumar;Monique Rocca

  • Intercomparison and sensitivity analysis of Leaf Area Index retrievals from LAI-2000, AccuPAR, and digital hemispherical photography over croplands

    S. Garrigues;N.V. Shabanov;K. Swanson;J.T. Morisette

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher O. Justice
Christopher O. Justice University of Maryland, College Park
Catherine S. Jarnevich
Catherine S. Jarnevich United States Geological Survey
Ivan Csiszar
Ivan Csiszar National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Louis Giglio
Louis Giglio University of Maryland, College Park
Jeffrey L. Privette
Jeffrey L. Privette National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ranga B. Myneni
Ranga B. Myneni Boston University
Frédéric Baret
Frédéric Baret INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
David P. Roy
David P. Roy Michigan State University
Douglas C. Morton
Douglas C. Morton Goddard Space Flight Center
Eric Vermote
Eric Vermote Goddard Space Flight Center

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