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Pamela L. Nagler is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on areas including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Water Science and Technology. Their research spans subfields such as Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science, contributing to a broad understanding of environmental processes.

Their main research topics cover Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture. Other topics include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Tree-ring Climate Responses, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Pamela L. Nagler's recent publications include:

  • Ecohydrological responses to surface flow across borders: Two decades of changes in vegetation greenness and water use in the riparian corridor of the Colorado River delta, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • Effect of spatial resolution of satellite images on estimating the greenness and evapotranspiration of urban green spaces, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • Climate sensitivity of water use by riparian woodlands at landscape scales, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • Estimating Actual Evapotranspiration over Croplands Using Vegetation Index Methods and Dynamic Harvested Area, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • Mapping Vegetation Index-Derived Actual Evapotranspiration across Croplands Using the Google Earth Engine Platform, 2023, Remote Sensing

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated multiple times with Pamela L. Nagler include:

  • Kamel Didan
  • Armando Barreto-Muñoz
  • Hamideh Nouri
  • Sattar Chavoshi Borujeni
  • Martha Gómez-Sapiens

Publication venues where Pamela L. Nagler has contributed extensively are:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Ecological Engineering
  • Nature Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Relationship Between Remotely-sensed Vegetation Indices, Canopy Attributes and Plant Physiological Processes: What Vegetation Indices Can and Cannot Tell Us About the Landscape.

    Edward P. Glenn;Alfredo R. Huete;Pamela L. Nagler;Stephen G. Nelson

  • Integrating Remote Sensing and Ground Methods to Estimate Evapotranspiration

    Edward P. Glenn;Alfredo R. Huete;Pamela L. Nagler;Katherine K. Hirschboeck

  • Evapotranspiration on western U.S. rivers estimated using the Enhanced Vegetation Index from MODIS and data from eddy covariance and Bowen ratio flux towers

    Pamela L. Nagler;Russell L. Scott;Craig Westenburg;James R. Cleverly

  • Plant Litter and Soil Reflectance

    P.L. Nagler;C.S.T. Daughtry;S.N. Goward

  • Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

    William K. Smith;Matthew P. Dannenberg;Matthew P. Dannenberg;Dong Yan;Stephanie Herrmann

  • Predicting riparian evapotranspiration from MODIS vegetation indices and meteorological data

    Pamela L. Nagler;James Cleverly;Edward Glenn;Derrick Lampkin

  • Comparative ecophysiology of Tamarix ramosissima and native trees in western U.S. riparian zones

    Edward P. Glenn;Pamela L. Nagler

  • Vegetation Index Methods for Estimating Evapotranspiration by Remote Sensing

    Edward P. Glenn;Pamela L. Nagler;Alfredo R. Huete;Alfredo R. Huete

  • Vegetation index-based crop coefficients to estimate evapotranspiration by remote sensing in agricultural and natural ecosystems

    Edward P. Glenn;Christopher M. U. Neale;Doug J. Hunsaker;Pamela L. Nagler

  • Cellulose absorption index (CAI) to quantify mixed soil-plant litter scenes

    Pamela L Nagler;Y Inoue;E.P Glenn;A.L Russ

  • Estimating basin scale evapotranspiration (ET) by water balance and remote sensing methods

    G. B. Senay;S. Leake;P. L. Nagler;G. Artan

  • Changing Perceptions of Change: The Role of Scientists in Tamarix and River Management

    Juliet C. Stromberg;Matthew K. Chew;Pamela L. Nagler;Edward P. Glenn

  • Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) land conversion and productivity in the plains of Sonora, Mexico

    Kim A. Franklin;Kelly Lyons;Pamela L. Nagler;Derrick Lampkin

  • High Spatial Resolution WorldView-2 Imagery for Mapping NDVI and Its Relationship to Temporal Urban Landscape Evapotranspiration Factors

    Hamideh Nouri;Simon Beecham;Sharolyn Anderson;Pamela L. Nagler;Pamela L. Nagler

  • Leaf area index and normalized difference vegetation index as predictors of canopy characteristics and light interception by riparian species on the Lower Colorado River

    Pamela L. Nagler;Edward P. Glenn;T. Lewis Thompson;Alfredo Huete

  • Ecology and conservation biology of the Colorado River Delta, Mexico

    Edward P. Glenn;Francisco Zamora-Arroyo;Pamela L. Nagler;Mark Briggs

  • Relationship between evapotranspiration and precipitation pulses in a semiarid rangeland estimated by moisture flux towers and MODIS vegetation indices

    P.L. Nagler;E.P. Glenn;H. Kim;W. Emmerich

  • Multiyear riparian evapotranspiration and groundwater use for a semiarid watershed

    R.L. Scott;W.L. Cable;T.E. Huxman;P.L. Nagler

  • Roles of saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) and capillary rise in salinizing a non-flooding terrace on a flow-regulated desert river

    E.P. Glenn;K. Morino;Pamela L. Nagler;R.S. Murray

  • Comparison of transpiration rates among saltcedar, cottonwood and willow trees by sap flow and canopy temperature methods

    Pamela L Nagler;Edward P Glenn;T Lewis Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward P. Glenn
Edward P. Glenn University of Arizona
Kevin R. Hultine
Kevin R. Hultine Desert Botanical Garden
Alfredo Huete
Alfredo Huete University of Technology Sydney
Russell L. Scott
Russell L. Scott Agricultural Research Service
Philip E. Dennison
Philip E. Dennison University of Utah
Paul C. Sutton
Paul C. Sutton University of Denver
Patrick B. Shafroth
Patrick B. Shafroth United States Geological Survey
Simon Beecham
Simon Beecham University of South Australia
Craig S. T. Daughtry
Craig S. T. Daughtry Agricultural Research Service
James R. Ehleringer
James R. Ehleringer University of Utah

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