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Masayuki Yokozawa

Masayuki Yokozawa

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
43
Citations
9313
World Ranking
6983
National Ranking
133

Overview

Masayuki Yokozawa is a researcher affiliated with Waseda University in Japan, specializing primarily in Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Ecology.

Their research topics focus on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Remote Sensing and Land Use, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

Recent publications by Masayuki Yokozawa include:

  • A Bayesian inversion framework to evaluate parameter and predictive inference of a simple soil respiration model in a cool-temperate forest in western Japan, 2020, Ecological Modelling
  • A 28-time-point cropland area change dataset in Northeast China from 1000 to 2020, 2024, Earth system science data
  • A social system to disperse the irrigation start date based on the spatial public goods game, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Scaling of shoot and root respiration of woody and herbaceous plants, 2025, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Historical precipitation and flood damage in Japan: functional data analysis and evaluation of models, 2025, PLoS ONE

Their most frequent coauthors include:

  • Motomu Toda
  • Masae I. Ishihara
  • Atsushi Wakai
  • Yasuaki Hijioka
  • Manabu Watanabe

Masayuki Yokozawa's research has been published predominantly in venues such as PLoS ONE, Ecological Modelling, Earth system science data, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and SSRN Electronic Journal. The largest number of publications have appeared in PLoS ONE.

Best Publications

  • A crop phenology detection method using time-series MODIS data

    Toshihiro Sakamoto;Masayuki Yokozawa;Hitoshi Toritani;Michio Shibayama

  • Climate changes and trends in phenology and yields of field crops in China, 1981-2000

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Yinlong Xu;Yousay Hayashi

  • Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops

    Toshichika Iizumi;Jing-Jia Luo;Andrew J. Challinor;Gen Sakurai

  • Climate-crop yield relationships at provincial scales in China and the impacts of recent climate trends

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Jiyuan Liu;Zhao Zhang

  • Detecting temporal changes in the extent of annual flooding within the cambodia and the vietnamese mekong delta from MODIS time-series imagery

    Toshihiro Sakamoto;Nhan Van Nguyen;Akihiko Kotera;Hiroyuki Ohno

  • Spatio-temporal distribution of rice phenology and cropping systems in the Mekong Delta with special reference to the seasonal water flow of the Mekong and Bassac rivers

    Toshihiro Sakamoto;Nhan Van Nguyen;Hiroyuki Ohno;Naoki Ishitsuka

  • Global warming, rice production, and water use in China: Developing a probabilistic assessment

    Fulu Tao;Yousay Hayashi;Zhao Zhang;Toshihiro Sakamoto

  • Future climate change, the agricultural water cycle, and agricultural production in China

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Yousay Hayashi;Erda Lin

  • Assessing the impacts of climate change on rice yields in the main rice areas of China

    Fengmei Yao;Yinglong Xu;Erda Lin;Masayuki Yokozawa

  • Modelling the impacts of weather and climate variability on crop productivity over a large area: A new process-based model development, optimization, and uncertainties analysis

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Zhao Zhang

  • Parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis of a large-scale crop model for paddy rice: Application of a Bayesian approach

    Toshichika Iizumi;Masayuki Yokozawa;Motoki Nishimori

  • Modelling the impacts of weather and climate variability on crop productivity over a large area: A new super-ensemble-based probabilistic projection

    Fulu Tao;Zhao Zhang;Jiyuan Liu;Masayuki Yokozawa

  • Prediction of seasonal climate-induced variations in global food production

    Toshichika Iizumi;Hirofumi Sakuma;Masayuki Yokozawa;Jing Jia Luo

  • Historical changes in global yields: Major cereal and legume crops from 1982 to 2006

    Toshichika Iizumi;Masayuki Yokozawa;Gen Sakurai;Maria Isabel Travasso

  • Remote sensing of crop production in China by production efficiency models: models comparisons, estimates and uncertainties

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Zhao Zhang;Yinlong Xu

  • Changes in agricultural water demands and soil moisture in China over the last half-century and their effects on agricultural production

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Yousay Hayashi;Erda Lin

  • How to analyze long-term insect population dynamics under climate change: 50-year data of three insect pests in paddy fields

    Kohji Yamamura;Masayuki Yokozawa;Motoki Nishimori;Yasuo Ueda

  • Analysis of rapid expansion of inland aquaculture and triple rice-cropping areas in a coastal area of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta using MODIS time-series imagery

    Toshihiro Sakamoto;Cao Van Phung;Aikihiko Kotera;Khang Duy Nguyen

  • Variability in climatology and agricultural production in China in association with the East Asian summer monsoon and El Nino Southern Oscillation

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Zhao Zhang;Yousay Hayashi

  • Evaluation and intercomparison of downscaled daily precipitation indices over Japan in present-day climate: Strengths and weaknesses of dynamical and bias correction-type statistical downscaling methods

    Toshichika Iizumi;Motoki Nishimori;Koji Dairaku;Sachiho A. Adachi

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshihiko Hara
Toshihiko Hara Hokkaido University
Fulu Tao
Fulu Tao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhao Zhang
Zhao Zhang Beijing Normal University
Yasuhiro Kubota
Yasuhiro Kubota University of the Ryukyus
Andrew J. Challinor
Andrew J. Challinor University of Leeds
Fujio Kimura
Fujio Kimura University of Tsukuba
Kiyoshi Takahashi
Kiyoshi Takahashi National Institute for Environmental Studies
Hiroshi Koizumi
Hiroshi Koizumi Waseda University
Naoki Yamaji
Naoki Yamaji Okayama University
Jian Feng Ma
Jian Feng Ma Okayama University

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