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2036
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23

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Leonardo Montagnani is affiliated with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science with a particular focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

The main topics of Leonardo Montagnani's scholarly work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring climate responses, Climate variability and models, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Horticultural and Viticultural Research, Plant responses to elevated CO2, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Recent publications reflect a broad interest in terrestrial ecosystems, vegetation responses, and microclimate interactions. Notable papers include:

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function, 2021, Nature
  • The influence of tree traits on urban ground surface shade cooling, 2020, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate, 2020, New Phytologist
  • ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests, 2021, Global Change Biology

Leonardo Montagnani frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Georg Wohlfahrt, Nina Buchmann, Andreas Ibrom, Ivan Mammarella, and Andrej Varlagin. These collaborations have often contributed to studies published across multiple scientific outlets.

The scientist has contributed to research published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology

Leonardo Montagnani's publication record shows a consistent engagement with studies on ecosystem function, plant physiology related to water and carbon cycles, and the impacts of climate variability on natural systems. Their work also incorporates modeling techniques and remote sensing applications to better understand environmental dynamics at different scales.

Best Publications

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • 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

  • Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Hank A. Margolis;Alessandro Cescatti

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

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

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

    Andrew D. Richardson;T. Andy Black;Philippe Ciais;Nicolas Delbart

  • 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

  • Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

    Adriaan J. Teuling;Adriaan J. Teuling;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Reto Stöckli;Markus Reichstein

  • A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape-scale heterogeneity

    Paul C. Stoy;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Barbara Marcolla

  • Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level

    Miguel D. Mahecha;Markus Reichstein;Nuno Carvalhais;Gitta Lasslop

  • Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology

    Jianyang Xia;Shuli Niu;Philippe Ciais;Ivan A Janssens

  • A regional perspective on trends in continental evaporation

    A. J. Teuling;M. Hirschi;A. Ohmura;M. Wild

  • Global comparison of light use efficiency models for simulating terrestrial vegetation gross primary production based on the LaThuile database

    Wenping Yuan;Wenwen Cai;Jiangzhou Xia;Jiquan Chen

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data. Part 1: Coupling footprint analyses with flux data quality assessment to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems

    Mathias Göckede;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet;Mika Aurela

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

    Mirco Migliavacca;Talie Musavi;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jacob A. Nelson

  • Quality analysis applied on eddy covariance measurements at complex forest sites using footprint modelling

    Corinna Rebmann;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet

  • Comparing CO2 storage and advection conditions at night at different carboeuroflux sites

    Marc Aubinet;P. Berbigier;C. H. Bernhofer;A. Cescatti

  • Impacts of droughts and extreme-temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones

    Jannis von Buttlar;Jannis von Buttlar;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anja Rammig;Sebastian Sippel

  • Terrestrial gross primary production inferred from satellite fluorescence and vegetation models

    Nicholas C. Parazoo;Nicholas C. Parazoo;Kevin Bowman;Kevin Bowman;Joshua B. Fisher;Christian Frankenberg

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

Frequent Co-Authors

Eddy Moors
Eddy Moors Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Georg Wohlfahrt
Georg Wohlfahrt University of Innsbruck
Alessandro Cescatti
Alessandro Cescatti European Union
Andrej Varlagin
Andrej Varlagin Russian Academy of Sciences
Damiano Gianelle
Damiano Gianelle Fondazione Edmund Mach
Lutz Merbold
Lutz Merbold Agroscope
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Corinna Rebmann
Corinna Rebmann Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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