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Overview

Lucy R. Hutyra is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research encompasses several key subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Plant Science.

The main topics of Hutyra's work cover Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Urban Green Space and Health, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, as well as Air Quality and Health Impacts.

Frequent coauthors in Hutyra's publications include Pamela H. Templer, Ian A. Smith, Sarah M. Garvey, C. Gately, and Joy B. Winbourne, reflecting collaboration across diverse research areas.

Hutyra's research contributions have often appeared in specific publication venues including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Among Hutyra's recent papers are:

  • Tree Transpiration and Urban Temperatures: Current Understanding, Implications, and Future Research Directions, 2020, BioScience
  • Policy-Relevant Assessment of Urban CO2 Emissions, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Solar-Induced Fluorescence Does Not Track Photosynthetic Carbon Assimilation Following Induced Stomatal Closure, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Majority of US urban natural gas emissions unaccounted for in inventories, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Spatiotemporal assessment of land use/land cover change and associated carbon emissions and uptake in the Mekong River Basin, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment

Best Publications

  • Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

    Karen C. Seto;Burak Güneralp;Burak Güneralp;Lucy R. Hutyra

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

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

  • Amazon rainforests green‐up with sunlight in dry season

    Alfredo R. Huete;Kamel Didan;Yosio E. Shimabukuro;Piyachat Ratana

  • Carbon in Amazon Forests: Unexpected Seasonal Fluxes and Disturbance-Induced Losses

    Scott R. Saleska;Scott D. Miller;Daniel M. Matross;Michael L. Goulden

  • Factors controlling long- and short-term sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in a mid-latitude forest.

    Carol C. Barford;Steven C. Wofsy;Michael L. Goulden;J. William Munger

  • Effects of spatial pattern of greenspace on urban cooling in a large metropolitan area of eastern China

    Fanhua Kong;Haiwei Yin;Philip James;Lucy R. Hutyra

  • Satellite-based modeling of gross primary production in a seasonally moist tropical evergreen forest

    Xiangming Xiao;Qingyuan Zhang;Scott Saleska;Lucy Hutyra

  • Comprehensive assessment of carbon productivity, allocation and storage in three Amazonian forests

    Yadvinder Malhi;Luiz Eduardo O. C. Aragão;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Romilda Paiva

  • Seasonal controls on the exchange of carbon and water in an Amazonian rain forest

    Lucy R. Hutyra;Lucy R. Hutyra;J. William Munger;Scott R. Saleska;Ellaine W. Gottlieb

  • CARBON BALANCE AND VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN AN OLD-GROWTH AMAZONIAN FOREST

    Amy H. Rice;Elizabeth Hammond Pyle;Scott R. Saleska;Lucy Hutyra

  • What drives the seasonality of photosynthesis across the Amazon basin? A cross-site analysis of eddy flux tower measurements from the Brasil flux network

    Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Humberto R. da Rocha;Lucy R. Hutyra;Alessandro C. da Araujo;Alessandro C. da Araujo

  • Methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure and use in the urban region of Boston, Massachusetts

    Kathryn McKain;Adrian Down;Steve M. Raciti;John Walter Budney

  • Mapping urban pipeline leaks: Methane leaks across Boston

    Nathan G. Phillips;Robert C. Ackley;Eric R. Crosson;Adrian Down

  • Terrestrial carbon stocks across a gradient of urbanization: a study of the Seattle, WA region

    Lucy R. Hutyra;Byungman Yoon;Marina Alberti

  • Forest structure and carbon dynamics in Amazonian tropical rain forests.

    Simone Vieira;Plinio Barbosa de Camargo;Diogo Selhorst;Roseana da Silva

  • Urbanization and the carbon cycle: Current capabilities and research outlook from the natural sciences perspective

    Lucy R. Hutyra;Riley Duren;Kevin R. Gurney;Nancy Grimm

  • Anthropogenic and biogenic CO2 fluxes in the Boston urban region.

    Maryann Sargent;Yanina Barrera;Thomas Nehrkorn;Lucy R. Hutyra

  • Cities, traffic, and CO2: A multidecadal assessment of trends, drivers, and scaling relationships

    Conor K. Gately;Lucy R. Hutyra;Ian Sue Wing

  • Climate change: Track urban emissions on a human scale

    Kevin Robert Gurney;Paty Romero-Lankao;Karen C. Seto;Lucy R. Hutyra

  • Urban emissions hotspots: Quantifying vehicle congestion and air pollution using mobile phone GPS data.

    Conor K. Gately;Conor K. Gately;Lucy R. Hutyra;Scott Peterson;Ian Sue Wing

  • Climatic variability and vegetation vulnerability in Amazônia

    L. R. Hutyra;J. W. Munger;C. A. Nobre;S. R. Saleska

  • Mapping carbon storage in urban trees with multi-source remote sensing data: Relationships between biomass, land use, and demographics in Boston neighborhoods

    Steve M. Raciti;Steve M. Raciti;Lucy R. Hutyra;Jared D. Newell

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott R. Saleska
Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona
Steven C. Wofsy
Steven C. Wofsy Harvard University
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo Universidade de São Paulo
Pamela H. Templer
Pamela H. Templer Boston University
J. William Munger
J. William Munger Harvard University
Michael Keller
Michael Keller US Forest Service
Bruce C. Daube
Bruce C. Daube Harvard University
Nathan Phillips
Nathan Phillips Boston University
Michael L. Goulden
Michael L. Goulden University of California, Irvine
Mark A. Friedl
Mark A. Friedl Boston University

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