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Masahito Ueyama is affiliated with Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan. Their research largely focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong emphasis on global and planetary change and atmospheric science as well as ecology, environmental engineering, and applications of artificial intelligence within these domains.

The main topics of Ueyama's work include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate change and permafrost, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, peatlands and wetlands ecology, climate variability and models, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Recent scholarly publications by Ueyama cover various subjects and represent multiple high-impact venues. Selected papers include:

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites (2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)
  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth (2022, Science)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Hiroki Iwata, Oliver Sonnentag, E. S. Euskirchen, Hideki Kobayashi, and Mats B. Nilsson, each contributing to multiple co-authored publications.

Ueyama publishes often in several key academic journals and data repositories. Regular publication venues are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

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

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

  • Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth

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  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity : Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson;Benjamin Poulter;Gavin McNicol

  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate

    Manuel Helbig;Manuel Helbig;James Michael Waddington;Pavel Alekseychik;Brian D. Amiro

  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties

    Anna Maria Virkkala;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Brendan M. Rogers;Torbern Tagesson;Torbern Tagesson

  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

    Kyle B. Delwiche;Sara Helen Knox;Avni Malhotra;Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

  • New data-driven estimation of terrestrial CO2 fluxes in Asia using a standardized database of eddy covariance measurements, remote sensing data, and support vector regression

    Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Masahito Ueyama;Masayuki Kondo;Masayuki Kondo;Nobuko Saigusa

  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales.

    Sara Helen Knox;Sheel Bansal;Gavin McNicol;Karina Schafer

  • Autumn warming reduces the CO2 sink of a black spruce forest in interior Alaska based on a nine-year eddy covariance measurement.

    Masahito Ueyama;Hiroki Iwata;Yoshinobu Harazono;Yoshinobu Harazono

  • Influences of various calculation options on heat, water and carbon fluxes determined by open- and closed-path eddy covariance methods

    Masahito Ueyama;Ryuichi Hirata;Masayoshi Mano;Ken Hamotani

  • Growing season and spatial variations of carbon fluxes of Arctic and boreal ecosystems in Alaska (USA).

    Masahito Ueyama;Hiroki Iwata;Yoshinobu Harazono;Yoshinobu Harazono;Eugénie S. Euskirchen

  • Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes : Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands

    Jeremy Irvin;Sharon Zhou;Gavin McNicol;Fred Lu

  • COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data

    Ben Bond-Lamberty;Danielle S. Christianson;Avni Malhotra;Stephanie C. Pennington

  • Upscaling terrestrial carbon dioxide fluxes in Alaska with satellite remote sensing and support vector regression

    Masahito Ueyama;Kazuhito Ichii;Hiroki Iwata;Eugénie S. Euskirchen

  • Shallow soils are warmer under trees and tall shrubs across Arctic and Boreal ecosystems

    Heather Kropp;Heather Kropp;Michael M Loranty;Susan M Natali;Alexander L Kholodov;Alexander L Kholodov

  • Carbon uptake in Eurasian boreal forests dominates the high‐latitude net ecosystem carbon budget

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  • Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions

    Kuang-Yu Chang;William J. Riley;Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson

  • Assessment of winter fluxes of CO2 and CH4 in boreal forest soils of central Alaska estimated by the profile method and the chamber method: a diagnosis of methane emission and implications for the regional carbon budget

    Yongwon Kim;Masahito Ueyama;Fumiko Nakagawa;Urumu Tsunogai

  • Simulating carbon and water cycles of larch forests in East Asia by the BIOME-BGC model with AsiaFlux data

    M. Ueyama;K. Ichii;R. Hirata;K. Takagi

  • Understory CO2, sensible heat, and latent heat fluxes in a black spruce forest in interior Alaska

    Hiroki Ikawa;Taro Nakai;Taro Nakai;Robert C. Busey;Yongwon Kim

  • Response of the carbon cycle in sub-arctic black spruce forests to climate change: Reduction of a carbon sink related to the sensitivity of heterotrophic respiration

    Masahito Ueyama;Yoshinobu Harazono;Yongwon Kim;Noriyuki Tanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshinobu Harazono
Yoshinobu Harazono University of Alaska Fairbanks
Kazuhito Ichii
Kazuhito Ichii Chiba University
Donatella Zona
Donatella Zona San Diego State University
Eugénie S. Euskirchen
Eugénie S. Euskirchen University of Alaska Fairbanks
Hideki Kobayashi
Hideki Kobayashi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Nobuko Saigusa
Nobuko Saigusa National Institute for Environmental Studies
Takashi Hirano
Takashi Hirano Hokkaido University
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Annalea Lohila
Annalea Lohila Finnish Meteorological Institute

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