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Kaiyu Guan is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within environmental and agricultural sciences, with a particular focus on remote sensing applications in agriculture, plant water relations, soil science, and climate change impacts on crop and ecosystem dynamics.

Their work is distributed across several main fields of study including Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these, key subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Ecology, Soil Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Kaiyu Guan's research topics cover areas such as Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate change impacts on agriculture, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

The scientist has published extensively in certain venues, frequently contributing to Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Remote Sensing of Environment, Environmental Research Letters, Global Change Biology, and the Journal of Hydrology.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Do cover crops benefit soil microbiome? A meta-analysis of current research" (2020), Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Towards a multiscale crop modelling framework for climate change adaptation assessment" (2020), Nature Plants
  • "Silver lining to a climate crisis in multiple prospects for alleviating crop waterlogging under future climates" (2023), Nature Communications
  • "Using soil library hyperspectral reflectance and machine learning to predict soil organic carbon: Assessing potential of airborne and spaceborne optical soil sensing" (2022), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "NIRVP: A robust structural proxy for sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis across scales" (2021), Remote Sensing of Environment

Kaiyu Guan frequently collaborates with co-authors such as Bin Peng, Chongya Jiang, Wang Zhou, Zhenong Jin, and Sheng Wang.

Best Publications

  • Excessive rainfall leads to maize yield loss of a comparable magnitude to extreme drought in the United States

    Yan Li;Yan Li;Kaiyu Guan;Gary D Schnitkey;Evan H Delucia

  • Integrating satellite and climate data to predict wheat yield in Australia using machine learning approaches

    Yaping Cai;Kaiyu Guan;David Lobell;Andries B. Potgieter

  • A high-performance and in-season classification system of field-level crop types using time-series Landsat data and a machine learning approach

    Yaping Cai;Kaiyu Guan;Jian Peng;Shaowen Wang

  • Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests.

    Jin Wu;Loren P. Albert;Aline P. Lopes;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe

  • A Drought Monitoring and Forecasting System for Sub-Sahara African Water Resources and Food Security

    Justin Sheffield;Eric F. Wood;Nathaniel Chaney;Kaiyu Guan

  • Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

    Kaiyu Guan;Kaiyu Guan;Ming Pan;Haibin Li;Adam Wolf

  • Interactions between urban heat islands and heat waves

    Lei Zhao;Michael Oppenheimer;Qing Zhu;Jane W. Baldwin

  • Do cover crops benefit soil microbiome? A meta-analysis of current research

    Nakian Kim;María C. Zabaloy;Kaiyu Guan;María B. Villamil

  • Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

    Xiangtao Xu;David Medvigy;Jennifer S. Powers;Justin M. Becknell

  • Improving the monitoring of crop productivity using spaceborne solar-induced fluorescence

    Kaiyu Guan;Joseph A. Berry;Yongguang Zhang;Joanna Joiner

  • Silver lining to a climate crisis in multiple prospects for alleviating crop waterlogging under future climates

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  • Towards a multiscale crop modelling framework for climate change adaptation assessment

    Bin Peng;Kaiyu Guan;Jinyun Tang;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth

  • Highland cropland expansion and forest loss in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Lyndon Estes;Alan D. Ziegler;Anping Chen

  • Using soil library hyperspectral reflectance and machine learning to predict soil organic carbon: Assessing potential of airborne and spaceborne optical soil sensing

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  • The shared and unique values of optical, fluorescence, thermal and microwave satellite data for estimating large-scale crop yields.

    Kaiyu Guan;Jin Wu;John S. Kimball;Martha C. Anderson

  • Satellite sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence detects early response of winter wheat to heat stress in the Indian Indo‐Gangetic Plains

    Lian Song;Lian Song;Luis Guanter;Kaiyu Guan;Liangzhi You;Liangzhi You

  • Temperature impacts on the water year 2014 drought in California

    Shraddhanand Shukla;Mohammad Safeeq;Mohammad Safeeq;Amir AghaKouchak;Kaiyu Guan

  • Dry-season greening of Amazon forests.

    Scott R. Saleska;Jin Wu;Kaiyu Guan;Alessandro C. Araujo

  • Sun‐Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Photosynthesis, and Light Use Efficiency of a Soybean Field from Seasonally Continuous Measurements

    Guofang Miao;Kaiyu Guan;Xi Yang;Carl J. Bernacchi;Carl J. Bernacchi

  • High-throughput field phenotyping using hyperspectral reflectance and partial least squares regression (PLSR) reveals genetic modifications to photosynthetic capacity

    Katherine Meacham-Hensold;Christopher M. Montes;Jin Wu;Jin Wu;Kaiyu Guan

  • Terrestrial hydrological controls on land surface phenology of African savannas and woodlands

    Kaiyu Guan;Kaiyu Guan;Eric F. Wood;David Medvigy;John S Kimball

  • Partitioning controls on Amazon forest photosynthesis between environmental and biotic factors at hourly to interannual timescales

    Jin Wu;Kaiyu Guan;Matthew Hayek;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl J. Bernacchi
Carl J. Bernacchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elizabeth A. Ainsworth
Elizabeth A. Ainsworth University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Ming Pan
Ming Pan Princeton University
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe University of Technology Sydney
Alfredo Huete
Alfredo Huete University of Technology Sydney
Kelly K. Caylor
Kelly K. Caylor University of California, Santa Barbara
John S. Kimball
John S. Kimball University of Montana
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University

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