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Overview

John A. Gamon is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science, with a research focus that spans several interconnected subfields. Their work predominantly addresses Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's main topics of research include Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

John A. Gamon's recent publications reflect a focus on vegetation, ecological monitoring, and environmental sensing. Selected papers include:

  • A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere, 2021, Science Advances
  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Multi-temporal assessment of grassland α- and β-diversity using hyperspectral imaging, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • Recent Advances Toward Transparent Methane Emissions Monitoring: A Review, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology

Their research has been published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Global Change Biology

Collaborations are a significant part of John A. Gamon's research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Ran Wang
  • Jeannine Cavender-Bares
  • Hamed Gholizadeh
  • Philip A. Townsend
  • Anna K. Schweiger

Best Publications

  • Relationships between leaf pigment content and spectral reflectance across a wide range of species, leaf structures and developmental stages

    Daniel A Sims;John A Gamon

  • A narrow-waveband spectral index that tracks diurnal changes in photosynthetic efficiency

    J.A. Gamon;J. Peñuelas;C.B. Field

  • The photochemical reflectance index: an optical indicator of photosynthetic radiation use efficiency across species, functional types, and nutrient levels.

    J. A. Gamon;L. Serrano;J. S. Surfus

  • Relationships Between NDVI, Canopy Structure, and Photosynthesis in Three Californian Vegetation Types

    John A. Gamon;Christopher B. Field;Michael L. Goulden;Kevin L. Griffin

  • Reflectance indices associated with physiological changes in nitrogen- and water-limited sunflower leaves☆

    J. Peñuelas;J.A. Gamon;A.L. Fredeen;J. Merino

  • Assessing leaf pigment content and activity with a reflectometer

    J. A. Gamon;J. S. Surfus

  • Remote sensing of vegetation and land-cover change in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems

    Douglas A. Stow;Allen Hope;David McGuire;David Verbyla

  • Assessment of photosynthetic radiation-use efficiency with spectral reflectance.

    Josep Peñuelas;Iolanda Filella;John A. Gamon

  • Retrieval of foliar information about plant pigment systems from high resolution spectroscopy

    Susan L. Ustin;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Stéphane Jacquemoud;Michael Schaepman

  • Estimation of vegetation water content and photosynthetic tissue area from spectral reflectance: a comparison of indices based on liquid water and chlorophyll absorption features

    Daniel A Sims;John A Gamon

  • Using Imaging Spectroscopy to Study Ecosystem Processes and Properties

    Susan L. Ustin;Dar A. Roberts;John A. Gamon;Gregory P. Asner

  • The photochemical reflectance index (PRI) and the remote sensing of leaf, canopy and ecosystem radiation use efficiencies: A review and meta-analysis

    Martín F. Garbulsky;Martín F. Garbulsky;Josep Peñuelas;John Gamon;Yoshio Inoue

  • Remote sensing of plant functional types

    Susan L. Ustin;John A. Gamon

  • A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere.

    Gustau Camps-Valls;Manuel Campos-Taberner;Álvaro Moreno-Martínez;Álvaro Moreno-Martínez;Sophia Walther

  • Research priorities for neotropical dry forests

    G. Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa;Mauricio Quesada;Jon Paul Rodríguez;Jafet M. Nassar

  • Succession and management of tropical dry forests in the Americas: review and new perspectives.

    Mauricio Quesada;G. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa;Mariana Alvarez-Añorve;Kathryn E. Stoner

  • Remote sensing of the xanthophyll cycle and chlorophyll fluorescence in sunflower leaves and canopies

    J. A. Gamon;C. B. Field;W. Bilger;O. Björkman

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • Deriving water content of chaparral vegetation from AVIRIS data

    Lydia Serrano;Susan L. Ustin;Dar A. Roberts;John A. Gamon

  • Site‐level evaluation of satellite‐based global terrestrial gross primary production and net primary production monitoring

    David P. Turner;William D. Ritts;Warren B. Cohen;Thomas K. Maeirsperger

  • Assessing community type, plant biomass, pigment composition, and photosynthetic efficiency of aquatic vegetation from spectral reflectance

    Josep Peñuelas;John A Gamon;Kevin L Griffin;Christopher B Field

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Jeannine Cavender-Bares University of Minnesota
Christopher B. Field
Christopher B. Field Stanford University
Daniel A. Sims
Daniel A. Sims Indiana University
Susan L. Ustin
Susan L. Ustin University of California, Davis
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
Philip A. Townsend
Philip A. Townsend University of Wisconsin–Madison
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
David S. Hik
David S. Hik Simon Fraser University
Iolanda Filella
Iolanda Filella Autonomous University of Barcelona

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