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D-Index
34
Citations
4990
World Ranking
9434
National Ranking
54

Overview

John E. Hunt is affiliated with Landcare Research in New Zealand and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans a range of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The primary topics of their work focus on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

John E. Hunt has published research in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, with five papers, Pedosphere with two publications, and one each in Science, Global Change Biology, and Agricultural Water Management.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Hunt are:

  • Biotic interactions drive ecosystem responses to exotic plant invaders, 2020, Science
  • Soil microbial sensitivity to temperature remains unchanged despite community compositional shifts along geothermal gradients, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Carbon, water and energy fluxes in agricultural systems of Australia and New Zealand, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Irrigation and grazing management affect leaching losses and soil nitrogen balance of lucerne, 2021, Agricultural Water Management
  • Methane emissions from animal agriculture: Micrometeorological solutions for challenging measurement situations, 2024, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Frequent collaborators of John E. Hunt include Johannes Laubach, David Whitehead, Scott L. Graham, Louis A. Schipper, and Jordan P. Goodrich.

Best Publications

  • Carbon dioxide exchange between an undisturbed old-growth temperate forest and the atmosphere

    D. Y. Hollinger;F. M. Kelliher;J. N. Byers;J. E. Hunt

  • Carbon metabolism of the terrestrial biosphere: A multitechnique approach for improved understanding

    J. G. Canadell;H. A. Mooney;Dennis Baldocchi;J. A. Berry

  • Transpiration and canopy conductance in a pristine broad-leaved forest of Nothofagus : an analysis of xylem sap flow and eddy correlation measurements

    Barbara Köstner;Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Francis M. Kelliher;Dave Y. Hollinger

  • Evaporation and carbon dioxide exchange between the atmosphere and a tussock grassland during a summer drought

    J.E. Hunt;F.M. Kelliher;T.M. McSeveny;J.N. Byers

  • Evaporation from an eastern Siberian larch forest

    F.M. Kelliher;D.Y. Hollinger;E.-D. Schulze;N.N. Vygodskaya

  • Evaporation, xylem sap flow, and tree transpiration in a New Zealand broad-leaved forest

    Francis M. Kelliher;Barbara Köstner;Dave Y. Hollinger;J. N. Byers

  • Forest–atmosphere carbon dioxide exchange in eastern Siberia

    D.Y. Hollinger;D.Y. Hollinger;F.M. Kelliher;E.-D. Schulze;G. Bauer

  • Long-term carbon exchange in a sparse, seasonally dry tussock grassland

    John E. Hunt;Francis M. Kelliher;Tony M. McSeveny;Des J. Ross

  • Ecosystem service and biodiversity trade-offs in two woody successions

    Ian A. Dickie;Gregor W. Yeates;Mark G. St. John;Bryan A. Stevenson

  • Environmental regulation of xylem sap flow and total conductance of Larix gmelinii trees in eastern Siberia.

    A. Arneth;F. M. Kelliher;G. Bauer;D. Y. Hollinger

  • Nitrogen status affects UV-B sensitivity of cucumber

    J.E. Hunt;D.L. McNeil

  • The temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition is constrained by microbial access to substrates

    Gabriel Y.K. Moinet;John E. Hunt;Miko U.F. Kirschbaum;Christopher P. Morcom

  • Partitioning soil surface CO2 efflux into autotrophic and heterotrophic components, using natural gradients in soil δ13C in an undisturbed savannah soil

    Peter Millard;Andrew J. Midwood;John E. Hunt;David Whitehead

  • Biotic interactions drive ecosystem responses to exotic plant invaders.

    L. P. Waller;W. J. Allen;B. I. P. Barratt;B. I. P. Barratt;L. M. Condron

  • Components of ecosystem evaporation in a temperate coniferous rainforest, with canopy transpiration scaled using sapwood density

    M. M. Barbour;J. E. Hunt;A. S. Walcroft;G. N. D. Rogers

  • Annual carbon fixation in terrestrial populations of Nostoc commune (Cyanobacteria) from an Antarctic dry valley is driven by temperature regime

    Phil M. Novis;David Whitehead;Ed G. Gregorich;John E. Hunt

  • Quantifying the contribution of soil organic matter turnover to forest soil respiration, using natural abundance δ13C.

    Peter Millard;Andrew J. Midwood;John E. Hunt;Margaret M. Barbour

  • Photosynthesis and reflectance indices for rainforest species in ecosystems undergoing progression and retrogression along a soil fertility chronosequence in New Zealand

    David Whitehead;Natalie T. Boelman;Matthew H. Turnbull;Kevin L. Griffin

  • Variation in the degree of coupling between δ13C of phloem sap and ecosystem respiration in two mature Nothofagus forests

    Margaret M. Barbour;John E. Hunt;Roger J. Dungan;Matthew H. Turnbull

  • Performance of large open-top chambers for long-term field investigations of tree response to elevated carbon dioxide concentration.

    D. Whitehead;K.P. Hogan;G.N.D. Rogers;J.N. Byers

  • Temperature sensitivity of decomposition decreases with increasing soil organic matter stability.

    Gabriel Y.K. Moinet;Gabriel Y.K. Moinet;Matthias Moinet;Matthias Moinet;John E. Hunt;Cornelia Rumpel

Frequent Co-Authors

David Whitehead
David Whitehead Landcare Research
Margaret M. Barbour
Margaret M. Barbour University of Sydney
Peter Millard
Peter Millard Landcare Research
Matthew H. Turnbull
Matthew H. Turnbull University of Canterbury
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Tim J. Clough
Tim J. Clough Lincoln University
Louis A. Schipper
Louis A. Schipper University of Waikato
Miko U. F. Kirschbaum
Miko U. F. Kirschbaum Landcare Research
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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