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Mirco Migliavacca

Mirco Migliavacca

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
96
Citations
35247
World Ranking
340
National Ranking
23

Overview

Mirco Migliavacca is affiliated with the Joint Research Centre in Germany, focusing on environmental science with a specialization in global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, plant science, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their research explores several main topics including:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Plant Responses to Elevated CO2

Mirco Migliavacca has published extensively across a range of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Biogeosciences
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Some of the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Migliavacca span from 2020 to 2022 and include:

  • "Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach," 2020, Biogeosciences
  • "Widespread increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moisture," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change," 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • "The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function," 2021, Nature
  • "Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites," 2020, Global Change Biology

Throughout their career, Migliavacca has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Markus Reichstein
  • Tarek S. El-Madany
  • Arnaud Carrara
  • René Orth
  • M. Pilar Martín

Best Publications

  • Climate change, phenology, and phenological control of vegetation feedbacks to the climate system

    Andrew D. Richardson;Trevor F. Keenan;Mirco Migliavacca;Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

    Andrew D. Richardson;T. Andy Black;Philippe Ciais;Nicolas Delbart

  • Post-Field Data Quality Control

    Thomas Foken;Mathias Göockede;Matthias Mauder;Larry Mahrt

  • Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

    Nuno Carvalhais;Matthias Forkel;Myroslava Khomik;Jessica Bellarby

  • Basic and extensible post-processing of eddy covariance flux data with REddyProc

    Thomas Wutzler;Antje Lucas-Moffat;Mirco Migliavacca;Jürgen Knauer

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach

    Martin Jung;Christopher Schwalm;Mirco Migliavacca;Sophia Walther

  • A strategy for quality and uncertainty assessment of long-term eddy-covariance measurements

    Matthias Mauder;Matthias Cuntz;Clemens Drüe;Alexander Graf

  • A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape-scale heterogeneity

    Paul C. Stoy;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Barbara Marcolla

  • Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level

    Miguel D. Mahecha;Markus Reichstein;Nuno Carvalhais;Gitta Lasslop

  • A Network of Terrestrial Environmental Observatories in Germany

    Steffen Zacharias;Heye Bogena;Luis Samaniego;Matthias Mauder

  • Documentation and Instruction Manual of the Eddy-Covariance Software Package TK3 (update)

    Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken

  • The energy balance experiment EBEX-2000. Part I: Overview and energy balance

    Steven P. Oncley;Thomas Foken;Roland Vogt;Wim Kohsiek

  • Some aspects of the energy balance closure problem

    Thomas Foken;Florian Wimmer;Matthias Mauder;Christoph Thomas

  • Widespread increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moisture

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  • Impact of post-field data processing on eddy covariance flux estimates and energy balance closure

    Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken

  • Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change

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  • Surface-Energy-Balance Closure over Land: A Review

    Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Joan Cuxart

  • Intercomparison of MODIS albedo retrievals and in situ measurements across the global FLUXNET network

    Alessandro Cescatti;Barbara Marcolla;Suresh K. Santhana Vannan;Jerry Yun Pan

  • Global spatiotemporal distribution of soil respiration modeled using a global database

    S. Hashimoto;Nuno Carvalhais;Nuno Carvalhais;A. Ito;A. Ito;Mirco Migliavacca

  • Overview of the PALM model system 6.0

    Björn Maronga;Björn Maronga;Sabine Banzhaf;Cornelia Burmeister;Thomas Esch

  • Multi-hazard assessment in Europe under climate change

    Giovanni Forzieri;Luc Feyen;Simone Russo;Michalis Vousdoukas

  • Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities

    Paul C. Stoy;Paul C. Stoy;Tarek S. El-Madany;Joshua B. Fisher;Joshua B. Fisher;Pierre Gentine

  • Using digital repeat photography and eddy covariance data to model grassland phenology and photosynthetic CO2 uptake

    Mirco Migliavacca;Marta Galvagno;Edoardo Cremonese;Micol Rossini

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data. Part 1: Coupling footprint analyses with flux data quality assessment to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems

    Mathias Göckede;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet;Mika Aurela

  • Codominant water control on global interannual variability and trends in land surface phenology and greenness

    Matthias Forkel;Mirco Migliavacca;Kirsten Thonicke;Markus Reichstein

  • Plant functional traits and canopy structure control the relationship between photosynthetic CO2 uptake and far-red sun-induced fluorescence in a Mediterranean grassland under different nutrient availability

    Mirco Migliavacca;Oscar Perez‐Priego;Micol Rossini;Tarek S. El‐Madany

  • Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: Synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach. In open review for Biogeosciences. doi 10.5194/bg-2019-368

    Martin Jung;Christopher Schwalm;Mirco Migliavacca;Sophia Walther

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Arnaud Carrara
Arnaud Carrara University of Antwerp
Edoardo Cremonese
Edoardo Cremonese CIMA Research Foundation
Nuno Carvalhais
Nuno Carvalhais Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Gerardo Moreno
Gerardo Moreno University of Extremadura
Miguel D. Mahecha
Miguel D. Mahecha Leipzig University
Olaf Kolle
Olaf Kolle Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Georg Wohlfahrt
Georg Wohlfahrt University of Innsbruck
Roberto Colombo
Roberto Colombo University of Milano-Bicocca
Andrew D. Richardson
Andrew D. Richardson Northern Arizona University

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