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Matteo Detto is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and contributes extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research primarily addresses global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, and ecological modeling. The scholar's work spans a variety of interconnected topics, including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, remote sensing in agriculture, species distribution and climate change, plant and animal studies, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and tree-ring climate responses.

Their recent publications include:

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network (2020), published in Biological Conservation
  • Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • FLUXNET-CH 4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands (2021), published in Earth system science data
  • Hydraulically-vulnerable trees survive on deep-water access during droughts in a tropical forest (2021), published in New Phytologist
  • The interspecific growth-mortality trade-off is not a general framework for tropical forest community structure (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

Matteo Detto frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Nate G. McDowell, Oliver Sonnentag, Jin Wu, Shawn Serbin, and Alistair Rogers. These partnerships have contributed to a substantial number of publications and multidisciplinary research output.

The scholar has published in several well-known scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • New Phytologist
  • Biogeosciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Their work reflects a broad engagement with environmental science, applying a range of techniques and perspectives to better understand ecological and planetary processes. Their research contributions integrate field observations, modeling, and data synthesis to advance knowledge on forest dynamics, ecosystem function, and environmental change.

Best Publications

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought-kill and recovery patterns.

    A. T. Trugman;M. Detto;M. K. Bartlett;D. Medvigy

  • Consequences of defaunation for a tropical tree community

    Rhett D Harrison;Rhett D Harrison;Sylvester Tan;Joshua B. Plotkin;Ferry Slik

  • Soil moisture and vegetation controls on evapotranspiration in a heterogeneous Mediterranean ecosystem on Sardinia, Italy

    Matteo Detto;Nicola Montaldo;John D. Albertson;Marco Mancini

  • MODIS-derived global land products of shortwave radiation and diffuse and total photosynthetically active radiation at 5 km resolution from 2000

    Youngryel Ryu;Chongya Jiang;Hideki Kobayashi;Matteo Detto

  • Evaluating uncertainty in mapping forest carbon with airborne LiDAR

    Joseph Mascaro;Joseph Mascaro;Matteo Detto;Gregory P. Asner;Helene C. Muller-Landau

  • Greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4, H2O) fluxes from drained and flooded agricultural peatlands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

    Jaclyn A. Hatala;Matteo Detto;Matteo Detto;Oliver Sonnentag;Oliver Sonnentag;Steven J. Deverel

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Multiscale analysis of temporal variability of soil CO2 production as influenced by weather and vegetation

    Rodrigo Vargas;Matteo Detto;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Michael F. Allen

  • Temporal Dynamics in Soil Oxygen and Greenhouse Gases in Two Humid Tropical Forests

    Daniel Liptzin;Daniel Liptzin;Whendee L. Silver;Matteo Detto

  • Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of physiological and vegetation dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama

    Charles D. Koven;Ryan G. Knox;Rosie A. Fisher;Jeffrey Q. Chambers;Jeffrey Q. Chambers

  • Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of CO2 in relation to climate: a cross-biome analysis across multiple time scales

    P. C. Stoy;P. C. Stoy;A. D. Richardson;D. D. Baldocchi;G. G. Katul

  • 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

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

  • The challenges of measuring methane fluxes and concentrations over a peatland pasture

    Dennis D. Baldocchi;Matteo Detto;Oliver Sonnentag;Joe Verfaillie

  • On the temporal upscaling of evapotranspiration from instantaneous remote sensing measurements to 8-day mean daily-sums

    Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;T. Andrew Black;Matteo Detto

  • Comparing laser-based open- and closed-path gas analyzers to measure methane fluxes using the eddy covariance method

    Matteo Detto;Joseph Verfaillie;Frank Anderson;Liukang Xu

  • Large Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Temperate Peatland Pasture

    Yit Arn Teh;Yit Arn Teh;Whendee L. Silver;Oliver Sonnentag;Matteo Detto

  • Gross ecosystem photosynthesis causes a diurnal pattern in methane emission from rice

    Jaclyn A. Hatala;Matteo Detto;Matteo Detto;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Bias in the detection of negative density dependence in plant communities.

    Matteo Detto;Matteo Detto;Marco D. Visser;S. Joseph Wright;Stephen W. Pacala

  • Tropospheric ozone reduces carbon assimilation in trees: estimates from analysis of continuous flux measurements.

    Silvano Fares;Rodrigo Vargas;Matteo Detto;Allen H. Goldstein

  • Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of CO2 in relation to climate

    P. C. Stoy;A. D. Richardson;D. D. Baldocchi;G. G. Katul

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Helene C. Muller-Landau
Helene C. Muller-Landau Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
S. Joseph Wright
S. Joseph Wright Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Sean M. McMahon
Sean M. McMahon Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University

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