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Overview

Rodrigo Vargas is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States and has a research focus within Environmental Science, with a substantial body of work spanning multiple subfields and topics.

Their recent scientific contributions include several papers published between 2020 and 2023. Notable publications are:

  • Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage (2023, Nature)
  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites (2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)
  • Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models (2020, Nature Communications)
  • FLUXNET-CH 4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands (2021, Earth System Science Data)
  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales (2021, Global Change Biology)

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Mário Guevara
  • Ankur R. Desai
  • Sara Knox
  • Dennis Baldocchi
  • Oliver Sonnentag

Rodrigo Vargas often publishes in journals such as:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Earth System Science Data

Their work primarily addresses main fields and subfields of study including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Soil Science
  • Atmospheric Science

The main topics of their research cover:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

    Tomislav Hengl;Jorge Mendes de Jesus;Gerard B. M. Heuvelink;Maria Ruiperez Gonzalez

  • A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

    Henry D. Adams;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;William R.L. Anderegg;Henrik Hartmann

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

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

  • Nonstructural carbon in woody plants.

    Michael C. Dietze;Anna Sala;Mariah S. Carbone;Claudia I. Czimczik

  • 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

  • Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

    Michael C. Dietze;Andrew Fox;Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Globally rising soil heterotrophic respiration over recent decades.

    Ben Bond-Lamberty;Vanessa L. Bailey;Min Chen;Christopher M. Gough

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

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

  • Effects of soil rewetting and thawing on soil gas fluxes: a review of current literature and suggestions for future research

    Dong-Gill Kim;Rodrigo Vargas;Rodrigo Vargas;Benjamin Bond-Lamberty;Merritt Turetsky

  • Effect of precipitation variability on net primary production and soil respiration in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

    Michell L. Thomey;Scott L. Collins;Rodrigo Vargas;Jennifer E. Johnson

  • Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: processes, data, models, and challenges

    Shuguang Liu;Benjamin Bond-Lamberty;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rodrigo Vargas

  • A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Kevin Schaefer;Christopher R. Schwalm;Chris Williams;M. Altaf Arain

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales

    James B. Heffernan;James B. Heffernan;Patricia A. Soranno;Patricia A. Soranno;Michael J. Angilletta;Michael J. Angilletta;Lauren B. Buckley;Lauren B. Buckley

  • How to quantify tree leaf area index in an open savanna ecosystem: A multi-instrument and multi-model approach

    Youngryel Ryu;Oliver Sonnentag;Tiit Nilson;Rodrigo Vargas

  • Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models

    Nicholas D. Ward;Nicholas D. Ward;J. Patrick Megonigal;Ben Bond-Lamberty;Vanessa L. Bailey

  • Environmental controls and the influence of vegetation type, fine roots and rhizomorphs on diel and seasonal variation in soil respiration

    Rodrigo Vargas;Rodrigo Vargas;Michael F. Allen

  • The impact of flooding on aquatic ecosystem services.

    Ceara J. Talbot;Elena M. Bennett;Kelsie Cassell;Daniel M. Hanes

  • FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity : Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson;Benjamin Poulter;Gavin McNicol

  • CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America.

    Joel A. Biederman;Russell L. Scott;Tom W. Bell;David R. Bowling

  • Continuous observation of tree leaf area index at ecosystem scale using upward-pointing digital cameras

    Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu;Joseph Verfaillie;Craig Macfarlane;Hideki Kobayashi;Hideki Kobayashi

  • Heterotrophic respiration in disturbed forests: A review with examples from North America

    Mark E. Harmon;Benjamin Bond-Lamberty;Jianwu Tang;Rodrigo Vargas

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Allen
Michael F. Allen University of California, Riverside
Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Andrew D. Richardson
Andrew D. Richardson Northern Arizona University
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Ben Bond-Lamberty
Ben Bond-Lamberty Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Youngryel Ryu
Youngryel Ryu Seoul National University
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Michael Bahn
Michael Bahn University of Innsbruck
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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