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Kentaro Takagi

Kentaro Takagi

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
35
Citations
5689
World Ranking
9277
National Ranking
189

Overview

Kentaro Takagi is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and focuses on environmental science with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change. Their research spans several interconnected subfields including nature and landscape conservation, environmental engineering, ecology, and soil science.

Their scholarly work addresses key topics such as plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, remote sensing in agriculture, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, solar radiation and photovoltaics, urban heat island mitigation, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Takagi include Reiko Ide, Takashi Hirano, Masahito Ueyama, Satoru Takanashi, and Tomoko Akitsu. These partnerships reflect a network oriented towards environmental monitoring, modeling, and remote sensing applications.

Key publication venues where Takagi's research has appeared are:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Journal of Agricultural Meteorology
  • Journal of Forest Research
  • Global Change Biology

Representative recent publications encompass:

  • COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Inferring CO2 fertilization effect based on global monitoring land-atmosphere exchange with a theoretical model, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • The variability and seasonality in the ratio of photosynthetically active radiation to solar radiation: A simple empirical model of the ratio, 2022, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
  • Modeling forest above-ground biomass using freely available satellite and multisource datasets, 2023, Ecological Informatics
  • Synthesis of L-Band SAR and Forest Heights Derived from TanDEM-X DEM and 3 Digital Terrain Models for Biomass Mapping, 2020, Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Spatial distribution of carbon balance in forest ecosystems across East Asia

    Ryuichi Hirata;Nobuko Saigusa;Susumu Yamamoto;Yoshikazu Ohtani

  • BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

    Daniel S. Falster;Remko A. Duursma;Masae I. Ishihara;Diego R. Barneche

  • Temporal and spatial variations in the seasonal patterns of CO2 flux in boreal, temperate, and tropical forests in East Asia

    Nobuko Saigusa;Susumu Yamamoto;Ryuichi Hirata;Yoshikazu Ohtani

  • New data-driven estimation of terrestrial CO2 fluxes in Asia using a standardized database of eddy covariance measurements, remote sensing data, and support vector regression

    Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Masahito Ueyama;Masayuki Kondo;Masayuki Kondo;Nobuko Saigusa

  • Dynamic carbon dioxide exchange through snowpack by wind-driven mass transfer in a conifer-broadleaf mixed forest in northernmost Japan

    Kentaro Takagi;Mutsumi Nomura;Daitaro Ashiya;Hiroyuki Takahashi

  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database

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  • Influences of various calculation options on heat, water and carbon fluxes determined by open- and closed-path eddy covariance methods

    Masahito Ueyama;Ryuichi Hirata;Masayoshi Mano;Ken Hamotani

  • Estimation of gross primary production over the terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Xianglan Li;Xianglan Li;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Guirui Yu;Wenping Yuan;Wenping Yuan

  • Effects of clear-cutting on nitrogen leaching and fine root dynamics in a cool-temperate forested watershed in northern Japan

    Karibu Fukuzawa;Hideaki Shibata;Kentaro Takagi;Mutsumi Nomura

  • Networks depicting the fine-scale co-occurrences of fungi in soil horizons

    Hirokazu Toju;Osamu Kishida;Noboru Katayama;Kentaro Takagi

  • Interannual and Seasonal Variations in Ecosystem Transpiration and Water Use Efficiency in a Tropical Rainforest

    Maricar Aguilos;Clément Stahl;Benoit Burban;Bruno Herault

  • Effect of collar insertion on soil respiration in a larch forest measured with a LI-6400 soil CO2 flux system

    Wen Jie Wang;Yuan Gang Zu;Hui Mei Wang;Takashi Hirano

  • COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data

    Ben Bond-Lamberty;Danielle S. Christianson;Avni Malhotra;Stephanie C. Pennington

  • Change in CO2 balance under a series of forestry activities in a cool‐temperate mixed forest with dense undergrowth

    Kentaro Takagi;Karibu Fukuzawa;Naishen Liang;Masazumi Kayama

  • Utility of spectral vegetation indices for estimation of light conversion efficiency in coniferous forests in Japan

    Tatsuro Nakaji;Reiko Ide;Kentaro Takagi;Yoshiko Kosugi

  • Vertical distribution and seasonal pattern of fine-root dynamics in a cool–temperate forest in northern Japan: implication of the understory vegetation, Sasa dwarf bamboo

    Karibu Fukuzawa;Hideaki Shibata;Kentaro Takagi;Fuyuki Satoh

  • Diurnal hystereses of stomatal and bulk surface conductances in relation to vapor pressure deficit in a cool-temperate wetland

    Kentaro Takagi;Taro Tsuboya;Hidenori Takahashi

  • Inferring CO2 fertilization effect based on global monitoring land-atmosphere exchange with a theoretical model

    Masahito Ueyama;Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Hideki Kobayashi;Tomo’omi Kumagai;Tomo’omi Kumagai

  • Simulating carbon and water cycles of larch forests in East Asia by the BIOME-BGC model with AsiaFlux data

    M. Ueyama;K. Ichii;R. Hirata;K. Takagi

  • Carbon cycling and budget in a forested basin of southwestern Hokkaido, northern Japan

    Hideaki Shibata;Tsutom Hiura;Yumiko Tanaka;Kentaro Takagi

  • Photosynthetic responses of birch and alder saplings grown in a free air CO2 enrichment system in northern Japan

    Norikazu Eguchi;Kazuki Karatsu;Tatsushiro Ueda;Ryo Funada

Frequent Co-Authors

Takayoshi Koike
Takayoshi Koike Hokkaido University
Nobuko Saigusa
Nobuko Saigusa National Institute for Environmental Studies
Takashi Hirano
Takashi Hirano Hokkaido University
Hideaki Shibata
Hideaki Shibata Hokkaido University
Takeshi Ohta
Takeshi Ohta Nagoya University
Masahito Ueyama
Masahito Ueyama Osaka Metropolitan University
Kazuhito Ichii
Kazuhito Ichii Chiba University
Makoto Watanabe
Makoto Watanabe Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Shenggong Li
Shenggong Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tomomichi Kato
Tomomichi Kato Hokkaido University

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