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Marcy E. Litvak is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science with significant contributions in global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, atmospheric science, and water science and technology.

The main topics of their scholarly work cover plant water relations and carbon dynamics, fire effects on ecosystems, tree-ring climate responses, remote sensing in agriculture, climate variability and models, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

They have published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions to the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Global Change Biology, and Ecosphere.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Satellite solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and near-infrared reflectance capture complementary aspects of dryland vegetation productivity dynamics, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Informing Nature-based Climate Solutions for the United States with the best-available science, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Synergistic use of SMAP and OCO-2 data in assessing the responses of ecosystem productivity to the 2018 U.S. drought, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Marcy E. Litvak frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including Russell L. Scott, Peter D. Blanken, Gil Bohrer, Tomer Duman, and Thomas E. Kolb. These collaborations have contributed to multiple publications in their fields of study.

Their work integrates field measurements, remote sensing data, and modeling approaches to investigate ecosystem processes, drought impacts, and carbon and water cycles. This interdisciplinary approach supports research across environmental science subfields and enables comprehensive studies of climate and ecosystem interactions.

Best Publications

  • Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

    W. R.L. Anderegg;C. Schwalm;F. Biondi;J. J. Camarero

  • Global patterns of drought recovery

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher R. Schwalm;William R. L. Anderegg;Anna M. Michalak;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought

    Sebastian Wolf;Sebastian Wolf;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Joshua B. Fisher;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • Estimation of Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange for the Conterminous United States by Combining MODIS and AmeriFlux Data

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Beverly E. Law

  • The AmeriFlux network: A coalition of the willing

    K.A. Novick;J.A. Biederman;A.R. Desai;M.E. Litvak

  • Broadband, red-edge information from satellites improves early stress detection in a New Mexico conifer woodland

    Jan U.H. Eitel;Lee A. Vierling;Marcy E. Litvak;Dan S. Long

  • Environmental and developmental controls over the seasonal pattern of isoprene emission from aspen leaves.

    R. K. Monson;P. C. Harley;M. E. Litvak;M. Wildermuth

  • A continuous measure of gross primary production for the conterminous United States derived from MODIS and AmeriFlux data

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Beverly E. Law;Jiquan Chen

  • A multiscale, hierarchical model of pulse dynamics in arid-land ecosystems

    Scott L. Collins;Jayne Belnap;N. B. Grimm;J. A. Rudgers

  • Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances

    Nate G. McDowell;Nicholas C. Coops;Pieter S. A. Beck;Jeffrey Q. Chambers

  • The effect of post-fire stand age on the boreal forest energy balance

    B.D. Amiro;B.D. Amiro;A.L. Orchansky;A.G. Barr;T.A. Black

  • Assessing net ecosystem carbon exchange of U.S. terrestrial ecosystems by integrating eddy covariance flux measurements and satellite observations

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Beverly E. Law;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Differential responses of production and respiration to temperature and moisture drive the carbon balance across a climatic gradient in New Mexico

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;John P. Delong;John P. Delong;Andrew M. Fox;Daniel A. Brese

  • An eddy covariance mesonet to measure the effect of forest age on land–atmosphere exchange

    Michael L. Goulden;Gregory C. Winston;Andrew M. S. McMILLAN;Marcy E. Litvak;Marcy E. Litvak

  • Ecohydrological controls on snowmelt partitioning in mixed‐conifer sub‐alpine forests

    Noah P. Molotch;Noah P. Molotch;Paul D. Brooks;Sean P. Burns;Sean P. Burns;Marcy Litvak

  • Patterns of induced and constitutive monoterpene production in conifer needles in relation to insect herbivory

    Marcy E. Litvak;Russell K. Monson

  • CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America.

    Joel A. Biederman;Russell L. Scott;Tom W. Bell;David R. Bowling

  • Effect of stand age on whole ecosystem CO2 exchange in the Canadian boreal forest

    Marcy Litvak;Marcy Litvak;Scott Miller;Steve C. Wofsy;Michael Goulden

  • Plant chemical defense: monoterpenes and the growth-differentiation balance hypothesis

    Manuel Lerdau;Marcy Litvak;Russ Monson

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell L. Scott
Russell L. Scott Agricultural Research Service
Scott L. Collins
Scott L. Collins University of New Mexico
Thomas Kolb
Thomas Kolb Northern Arizona University
William T. Pockman
William T. Pockman University of New Mexico
Russell K. Monson
Russell K. Monson University of Colorado Boulder
Paul D. Brooks
Paul D. Brooks University of Utah
Joel A. Biederman
Joel A. Biederman United States Department of Agriculture
Christopher R. Schwalm
Christopher R. Schwalm Woodwell Climate Research Center
Noah P. Molotch
Noah P. Molotch University of Colorado Boulder
Sean P. Burns
Sean P. Burns University of Colorado Boulder

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