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81
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Overview

Russell L. Scott is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on several key subfields and topics.

The principal areas of study include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Water Science and Technology

Within these subfields, Scott's research topics cover:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Tree-ring Climate Responses
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Scott frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Joel A. Biederman
  • John F. Knowles
  • M. E. Litvak
  • William K. Smith
  • Andrew D. Richardson

The scientist has published extensively in several research venues, including:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Global Change Biology

Recent publications by Russell L. Scott include:

  • "Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites," 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "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
  • "Confronting the water potential information gap," 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • "Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought," 2022, Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • The increasing importance of atmospheric demand for ecosystem water and carbon fluxes

    Kimberly A. Novick;Darren L. Ficklin;Paul C. Stoy;Christopher A. Williams

  • ECOHYDROLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT

    Travis E. Huxman;Bradford P. Wilcox;David D. Breshears;Russell L. Scott

  • Measuring soil moisture content non‐invasively at intermediate spatial scale using cosmic‐ray neutrons

    Marek Zreda;Darin Desilets;T. P. A. Ferré;Russell L. Scott

  • Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought

    Sebastian Wolf;Sebastian Wolf;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Joshua B. Fisher;Dennis D. Baldocchi

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Reduction in carbon uptake during turn of the century drought in western North America

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Partitioning overstory and understory evapotranspiration in a semiarid savanna woodland from the isotopic composition of water vapor

    Enrico A. Yepez;David G. Williams;Russell L. Scott;Guanghui Lin

  • Estimation of Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange for the Conterminous United States by Combining MODIS and AmeriFlux Data

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Beverly E. Law

  • The AmeriFlux network: A coalition of the willing

    K.A. Novick;J.A. Biederman;A.R. Desai;M.E. Litvak

  • Ecohydrological impacts of woody‐plant encroachment: seasonal patterns of water and carbon dioxide exchange within a semiarid riparian environment

    Russell L. Scott;Travis E. Huxman;David G. Williams;David C. Goodrich

  • 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

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

    Mirco Migliavacca;Talie Musavi;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jacob A. Nelson

  • Effects of seasonal drought on net carbon dioxide exchange from a woody-plant-encroached semiarid grassland

    Russell L. Scott;G. Darrel Jenerette;Daniel L. Potts;Travis E. Huxman

  • A continuous measure of gross primary production for the conterminous United States derived from MODIS and AmeriFlux data

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Beverly E. Law;Jiquan Chen

  • Impacts of droughts and extreme-temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones

    Jannis von Buttlar;Jannis von Buttlar;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anja Rammig;Sebastian Sippel

  • Partitioning of evapotranspiration and its relation to carbon dioxide exchange in a Chihuahuan Desert shrubland

    Russell L. Scott;Travis E. Huxman;William L. Cable;William E. Emmerich

  • Assessing net ecosystem carbon exchange of U.S. terrestrial ecosystems by integrating eddy covariance flux measurements and satellite observations

    Jingfeng Xiao;Qianlai Zhuang;Beverly E. Law;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Interannual and seasonal variation in fluxes of water and carbon dioxide from a riparian woodland ecosystem

    Russell L. Scott;Eric A. Edwards;W.James Shuttleworth;Travis E. Huxman

  • Carbon dioxide exchange in a semidesert grassland through drought‐induced vegetation change

    Russell L. Scott;Erik P. Hamerlynck;G. Darrel Jenerette;M. Susan Moran

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg A. Barron-Gafford
Greg A. Barron-Gafford University of Arizona
Travis E. Huxman
Travis E. Huxman University of California, Irvine
Joel A. Biederman
Joel A. Biederman United States Department of Agriculture
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
David G. Williams
David G. Williams University of Wyoming
David C. Goodrich
David C. Goodrich US Department of Agriculture
Peter D. Blanken
Peter D. Blanken University of Colorado Boulder
Marcy E. Litvak
Marcy E. Litvak University of New Mexico
David J. P. Moore
David J. P. Moore University of Arizona

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