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Martin G. De Kauwe is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and specializes in environmental science, with a significant focus on global and planetary change. Their body of work spans several subfields including plant science, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology.

The research topics covered by Martin G. De Kauwe include:

  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Remote sensing in agriculture

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Martin G. De Kauwe are:

  • Belinda E. Medlyn
  • A. J. Pitman
  • Anna Ukkola
  • Gab Abramowitz
  • César Terrer

Martin G. De Kauwe has published extensively in various scientific journals. The most frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • New Phytologist
  • Biogeosciences
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Martin G. De Kauwe include:

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km2 of drylands towards desertification, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Robust Future Changes in Meteorological Drought in CMIP6 Projections Despite Uncertainty in Precipitation, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment, 2020, Nature

In addition to journal publications, Martin G. De Kauwe has contributed to book publications, including one titled Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol, published by Ghent University in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

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  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km 2 of drylands towards desertification

    A. L. Burrell;A. L. Burrell;J. P. Evans;M. G. De Kauwe

  • Robust Future Changes in Meteorological Drought in CMIP6 Projections Despite Uncertainty in Precipitation

    Anna M. Ukkola;Martin G. De Kauwe;Michael L. Roderick;Gab Abramowitz

  • Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon–nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free‐Air CO2 Enrichment studies

    Soenke Zaehle;Belinda E. Medlyn;Martin G. De Kauwe;Anthony P. Walker

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment

    Mingkai Jiang;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;John E. Drake;Remko A. Duursma

  • Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2: a model‐data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Belinda E. Medlyn;Soenke Zaehle;Anthony P. Walker

  • Trees tolerate an extreme heatwave via sustained transpirational cooling and increased leaf thermal tolerance

    John E Drake;John E Drake;Mark G Tjoelker;Angelica Varhammar;Belinda E Medlyn

  • Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

    Belinda E Medlyn;Belinda E Medlyn;Sonke Zaehle;Martin G De Kauwe;Anthony P Walker

  • Frequency of sahelian storm initiation enhanced over mesoscale soil-moisture patterns

    Christopher M. Taylor;Amanda Gounou;Françoise Guichard;Phil P. Harris

  • Acclimation and adaptation components of the temperature dependence of plant photosynthesis at the global scale

    Dushan P. Kumarathunge;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition

    Katrin Fleischer;Anja Rammig;Martin G. De Kauwe;Anthony P. Walker

  • Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites.

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Belinda E. Medlyn;Sönke Zaehle;Anthony P. Walker

  • Model–data synthesis for the next generation of forest free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments

    Richard J. Norby;Martin G. De Kauwe;Tomas F. Domingues;Remko A. Duursma

  • How do leaf and ecosystem measures of water-use efficiency compare?

    Belinda E. Medlyn;Martin G. De Kauwe;Yan Shih Lin;Yan Shih Lin;Jurgen Knauer;Jurgen Knauer

  • Temperature responses of photosynthesis and respiration in evergreen trees from boreal to tropical latitudes

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  • A test of the ‘one‐point method’ for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field‐measured, light‐saturated photosynthesis

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Yan-Shih Lin;Ian J. Wright;Belinda E. Medlyn

  • A test of an optimal stomatal conductance scheme within the CABLE land surface model

    MG De Kauwe;J Kala;YS Lin;AJ Pitman

  • Xylem embolism refilling and resilience against drought-induced mortality in woody plants: processes and trade-offs

    Tamir Klein;Melanie J. B. Zeppel;William R. L. Anderegg;Jasper Bloemen

  • Assimilating canopy reflectance data into an ecosystem model with an Ensemble Kalman Filter

    Tristan Quaife;Philip Lewis;Martin De Kauwe;Mathew Williams

  • The impact of alternative trait-scaling hypotheses for the maximum photosynthetic carboxylation rate (Vcmax) on global gross primary production

    Anthony P. Walker;Anthony P. Walker;Tristan Quaife;Peter M. van Bodegom;Martin G. De Kauwe

  • Towards physiologically meaningful water-use efficiency estimates from eddy covariance data

    Jürgen Knauer;Jürgen Knauer;Sönke Zaehle;Belinda E. Medlyn;Markus Reichstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Belinda E. Medlyn
Belinda E. Medlyn Western Sydney University
Anthony P. Walker
Anthony P. Walker Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Andrew J. Pitman
Andrew J. Pitman University of New South Wales
Sönke Zaehle
Sönke Zaehle Max Planck Society
Ying-Ping Wang
Ying-Ping Wang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Richard J. Norby
Richard J. Norby University of Tennessee at Knoxville
David S. Ellsworth
David S. Ellsworth Western Sydney University
Ram Oren
Ram Oren Duke University
Remko A. Duursma
Remko A. Duursma Western Sydney University
Kristine Y. Crous
Kristine Y. Crous Western Sydney University

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