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Overview

Remko A. Duursma is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, and Water Science and Technology.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Recent published papers by Remko A. Duursma cover a range of ecological and environmental themes:

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment, 2020, Nature
  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Water balance of a boreal Scots pine forest, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Low sensitivity of gross primary production to elevated CO2 in a mature eucalypt woodland, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Plant productivity is a key driver of soil respiration response to climate change in a nutrient-limited soil., 2020, Basic and Applied Ecology

They collaborate frequently with other researchers, notably:

  • Tommaso Jucker
  • Fabian Jörg Fischer
  • David A. Coomes
  • John P. Caspersen
  • Arshad Ali

Their work has been published in various recognized venues, including:

  • Nature
  • Global Change Biology
  • Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Basic and Applied Ecology

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Triggers of tree mortality under drought

    Brendan Choat;Timothy J. Brodribb;Craig R. Brodersen;Remko A. Duursma

  • Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance

    Belinda E. Medlyn;Remko A. Duursma;Derek Eamus;David S. Ellsworth

  • Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

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

  • Plantecophys--An R Package for Analysing and Modelling Leaf Gas Exchange Data.

    Remko A. Duursma

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment

    Mingkai Jiang;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;John E. Drake;Remko A. Duursma

  • On the minimum leaf conductance: its role in models of plant water use, and ecological and environmental controls.

    Remko A. Duursma;Christopher J. Blackman;Rosana Lopéz;Rosana Lopéz;Nicolas K. Martin‐StPaul

  • How should we model plant responses to drought? An analysis of stomatal and non-stomatal responses to water stress

    Shuangxi Zhou;Remko A. Duursma;Belinda E. Medlyn;Jeff W.G. Kelly

  • Trees tolerate an extreme heatwave via sustained transpirational cooling and increased leaf thermal tolerance

    John E Drake;John E Drake;Mark G Tjoelker;Angelica Varhammar;Belinda E Medlyn

  • Model–data synthesis for the next generation of forest free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments

    Richard J. Norby;Martin G. De Kauwe;Tomas F. Domingues;Remko A. Duursma

  • Physiological Ecology of Forest Production: Principles, Processes and Models

    Remko A. Duursma

  • How do leaf and ecosystem measures of water-use efficiency compare?

    Belinda E. Medlyn;Martin G. De Kauwe;Yan Shih Lin;Yan Shih Lin;Jurgen Knauer;Jurgen Knauer

  • fitplc - an R package to fit hydraulic vulnerability curves

    Remko A Duursma;Brendan Choat

  • Forest productivity under climate change: a checklist for evaluating model studies

    Belinda E. Medlyn;Remko A. Duursma;Melanie J. B. Zeppel

  • A test of an optimal stomatal conductance scheme within the CABLE land surface model

    MG De Kauwe;J Kala;YS Lin;AJ Pitman

  • How functional traits influence plant growth and shade tolerance across the life cycle.

    Daniel S. Falster;Daniel S. Falster;Remko A. Duursma;Richard G. FitzJohn

  • BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

    Daniel S. Falster;Remko A. Duursma;Masae I. Ishihara;Diego R. Barneche

  • A regression-based equivalence test for model validation: shifting the burden of proof

    Andrew P. Robinson;Remko A. Duursma;John D. Marshall

  • Tree hydraulic traits are coordinated and strongly linked to climate-of-origin across a rainfall gradient.

    Ximeng Li;Christopher J Blackman;Brendan Choat;Remko A Duursma

  • MAESPA: a model to study interactions between water limitation, environmental drivers and vegetation function at tree and stand levels, with an example application to [CO 2 ] × drought interactions

    R. A. Duursma;B. E. Medlyn

  • Whole-tree chambers for elevated atmospheric CO2 experimentation and tree scale flux measurements in south-eastern Australia: the Hawkesbury Forest Experiment.

    Craig V. M Barton;David S Ellsworth;Belinda E Medlyn;Remko A Duursma

Frequent Co-Authors

Belinda E. Medlyn
Belinda E. Medlyn Western Sydney University
David T. Tissue
David T. Tissue Western Sydney University
David S. Ellsworth
David S. Ellsworth Western Sydney University
Craig V. M. Barton
Craig V. M. Barton Western Sydney University
Brendan Choat
Brendan Choat Western Sydney University
Teresa E. Gimeno
Teresa E. Gimeno Basque Centre for Climate Change
Mark G. Tjoelker
Mark G. Tjoelker Western Sydney University
Kristine Y. Crous
Kristine Y. Crous Western Sydney University
Derek Eamus
Derek Eamus University of Technology Sydney
Martin G. De Kauwe
Martin G. De Kauwe University of Bristol

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