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Kim Pilegaard is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research predominantly falls within the field of Environmental Science, with significant focus on various subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in Pilegaard's body of work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Plant Responses to Elevated CO2, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Forest Ecology and Management.

Recent publications by Kim Pilegaard illustrate an active engagement with key environmental and atmospheric science issues. Notable papers include:

  • "Field measurements of atmosphere-biosphere interactions in a Danish beech forest" (2024), published in Research Portal (King's College London)
  • "Standards and Open Access are the ICOS Pillars Reply to 'Comments on \'The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe\''" (2023), published in HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe" (2021), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Vegetation feedbacks during drought exacerbate ozone air pollution extremes in Europe" (2020), published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Effects of drought and meteorological forcing on carbon and water fluxes in Nordic forests during the dry summer of 2018" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent publication venues connected to Pilegaard's research include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Kim Pilegaard collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Timo Vesala
  • Andreas Ibrom
  • Denis Loustau
  • Nina Buchmann
  • Bart Kruijt

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

  • FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

    Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

  • Estimates of the annual net carbon and water exchange of forests: the EUROFLUX methodology

    Marc Aubinet;Achim Grelle;Andreas Ibrom;Üllar Rannik

  • Gap filling strategies for defensible annual sums of net ecosystem exchange

    E. Falge;D. Baldocchi;R. Olson;P. Anthoni

  • Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests

    R. Valentini;G. Matteucci;A. J. Dolman;E.-D. Schulze

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation

    B.E Law;E Falge;L Gu;D.D Baldocchi

  • Productivity overshadows temperature in determining soil and ecosystem respiration across European forests

    I. A. Janssens;H. Lankreijer;G. Matteucci;A. S. Kowalski

  • Seasonality of ecosystem respiration and gross primary production as derived from FLUXNET measurements

    Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;John Tenhunen;Marc Aubinet

  • Atmospheric composition change: Ecosystems–Atmosphere interactions

    D. Fowler;Kim Pilegaard;M.A. Sutton;Per Ambus

  • Gap filling strategies for long term energy flux data sets

    Eva Falge;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Richard Olson;Peter Anthoni

  • Evidence for Soil Water Control on Carbon and Water Dynamics in European Forests during the Extremely Dry Year: 2003

    A. Granier;M. Reichstein;N. Bréda;I.A. Janssens

  • The likely impact of elevated [CO2], nitrogen deposition, increased temperature and management on carbon sequestration in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems: a literature review.

    Ritta Hyvönen;Goran I. Agren;Sune Linder;Tryggve Persson

  • Full accounting of the greenhouse gas (CO2, N2O, CH4) budget of nine European grassland sites

    J.F. Soussana;V. Allard;K. Pilegaard;P. Ambus

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Reduction Of Ecosystem Productivity And Respiration During The European Summer 2003 Climate Anomaly: A Joint Flux Tower, Remote Sensing And Modelling Analysis

    M. Reichstein;M. Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;D. Papale;R. Valentini

  • Large seasonal changes in Q10 of soil respiration in a beech forest

    Ivan A. Janssens;Kim Pilegaard

  • Dissolved carbon leaching from soil is a crucial component of the net ecosystem carbon balance

    Reimo Kindler;Reimo Kindler;Jan Siemens;Jan Siemens;Klaus Kaiser;David Christopher Walmsley

  • Partitioning European grassland net ecosystem CO2 exchange into gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration using light response function analysis

    T. G. Gilmanov;J. F. Soussana;L. Aires;V. Allard

  • Effects of climate and management intensity on nitrous oxide emissions in grassland systems across Europe

    C.R. Flechard;P. Ambus;U. Skiba;R.M. Rees

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Ibrom
Andreas Ibrom Technical University of Denmark
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Per Ambus
Per Ambus University of Copenhagen
Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen
Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen Technical University of Denmark
Eddy Moors
Eddy Moors Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Giorgio Matteucci
Giorgio Matteucci National Research Council (CNR)
Riccardo Valentini
Riccardo Valentini Tuscia University
Claus Beier
Claus Beier University of Copenhagen
Marc Aubinet
Marc Aubinet University of Liège

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