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Pasi Kolari is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and focuses research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Plant Science.

Their research interests are concentrated on topics such as Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Botany and Plant Ecology Studies, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Among recent publications authored by Pasi Kolari are:

  • CO2 exchange and component CO2 fluxes of a boreal Scots pine forest (2024) published in Helda (University of Helsinki)

They have also contributed to broader research efforts in related studies published in various venues.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Pasi Kolari include:

  • Mika Aurela (159 collaborations)
  • Kristin Böttcher (148 collaborations)
  • Mikko Peltoniemi (146 collaborations)
  • Ali Nadir Arslan (145 collaborations)
  • Cemal Melih Taniş (144 collaborations)

Scholarly contributions by Kolari and collaborators have appeared in several publication venues. The most frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 160 publications
  • Helda (University of Helsinki) with 11 publications
  • Biogeosciences with 5 publications
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology with 3 publications
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University) with 3 publications

Some of the notable research papers linked to their research group or environment include:

  • Long-term measurements of the carbon balance of a boreal Scots pine dominated forest ecosystem (2024) published in Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • CO2-induced terrestrial climate feedback mechanism: From carbon sink to aerosol source and back (2024) published in Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Uncovering the critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress for European ecosystems (2021) published in Global Change Biology
  • Effects of drought and meteorological forcing on carbon and water fluxes in Nordic forests during the dry summer of 2018 (2020) published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests

    Federico Magnani;Maurizio Mencuccini;Marco Borghetti;Paul Berbigier

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

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

  • Comparison of different chamber techniques for measuring soil CO2 efflux

    Jukka Pumpanen;Pasi Kolari;Hannu Ilvesniemi;Kari Minkkinen

  • Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

    Yan Shih Lin;Belinda E. Medlyn;Remko A. Duursma;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice

  • Carbon balance of different aged Scots pine forests in Southern Finland

    Pasi Kolari;Jukka Pumpanen;Üllar Rannik;Hannu Ilvesniemi

  • Effect of thinning on surface fluxes in a boreal forest

    Timo Vesala;Tanja Suni;Üllar Rannik;Petri Keronen

  • Assimilate transport in phloem sets conditions for leaf gas exchange.

    Eero Nikinmaa;Teemu Hölttä;Pertti Hari;Pasi Kolari

  • Forest floor vegetation plays an important role in photosynthetic production of boreal forests

    Pasi Kolari;Jukka Pumpanen;Liisa Kulmala;Hannu Ilvesniemi

  • Developing an empirical model of stand GPP with the LUE approach: analysis of eddy covariance data at five contrasting conifer sites in Europe

    Annikki Mäkelä;Minna Pulkkinen;Pasi Kolari;Fredrik Lagergren

  • Foliage surface ozone deposition: a role for surface moisture?

    N. Altimir;P. Kolari;J. P. Tuovinen;T. Vesala

  • Paired comparisons of carbon exchange between undisturbed and regenerating stands in four managed forests in Europe

    Andrew S. Kowalski;Denis Loustau;Paul Berbigier;Giovanni Manca

  • Physiology of the seasonal relationship between the photochemical reflectance index and photosynthetic light use efficiency

    Albert Porcar-Castell;José Ignacio Garcia-Plazaola;Caroline J. Nichol;Pasi Kolari

  • Interpreting canopy development and physiology using a European phenology camera network at flux sites

    L. Wingate;J. Ogée;E. Cremonese;G. Filippa

  • Relationship between temperature and the seasonal course of photosynthesis in Scots pine at northern timberline and in southern boreal zone

    Pasi Kolari;Hanna K. Lappalainen;Heikki Hänninen;Pertti Hari

  • CO2 exchange and component CO2 fluxes of a boreal Scots pine forest

    Pasi Kolari;Liisa Kulmala;Jukka Pumpanen;Samuli Launiainen

  • Wintertime photosynthesis and water uptake in a boreal forest.

    Sanna Sevanto;Tanja Suni;Jukka Pumpanen;Tiia Grönholm

  • Long-term measurements of the carbon balance of a boreal Scots pine dominated forest ecosystem

    Hannu Ilvesniemi;Janne Levula;Risto Ojansuu;Pasi Kolari

  • Towards physiologically meaningful water-use efficiency estimates from eddy covariance data

    Jürgen Knauer;Jürgen Knauer;Sönke Zaehle;Belinda E. Medlyn;Markus Reichstein

  • Pinus sylvestris as a missing source of nitrous oxide and methane in boreal forest

    Katerina Machacova;Jaana Bäck;Anni Vanhatalo;Elisa Halmeenmäki

  • Modelling five years of weather-driven variation of GPP in a boreal forest

    Annikki Mäkelä;Pasi Kolari;Janne Karimäki;Eero Nikinmaa

  • Predicting the decline in daily maximum transpiration rate of two pine stands during drought based on constant minimum leaf water potential and plant hydraulic conductance

    Remko Duursma;Pasi Kolari;Martti Perämäki;Eero Nikinmaa

Frequent Co-Authors

Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Pertti Hari
Pertti Hari University of Helsinki
Jukka Pumpanen
Jukka Pumpanen University of Eastern Finland
Jaana Bäck
Jaana Bäck University of Helsinki
Eero Nikinmaa
Eero Nikinmaa University of Helsinki
Mika Aurela
Mika Aurela Finnish Meteorological Institute
Ivan Mammarella
Ivan Mammarella University of Helsinki
Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Anders Lindroth
Anders Lindroth Lund University
Petri Keronen
Petri Keronen University of Helsinki

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