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Overview

Siyan Ma is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, encompassing subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Analytical Chemistry, Ecology, Plant Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work covers several main research topics, including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Climate variability and models, Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis, and Tree-ring climate responses.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Siyan Ma include Dennis Baldocchi, Joseph Verfaillie, Yiyang Zhang, Jianshe Li, and Ling Ma.

Publications by Siyan Ma and relevant collaborators appear often in these outlets:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Global Change Biology

Recent papers published by or involving Siyan Ma include:

  • "Outgoing Near-Infrared Radiation From Vegetation Scales With Canopy Photosynthesis Across a Spectrum of Function, Structure, Physiological Capacity, and Weather," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "On the inter- and intra-annual variability of ecosystem evapotranspiration and water use efficiency of an oak savanna and annual grassland subjected to booms and busts in rainfall," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Transpiration and evaporation in a Californian oak-grass savanna: Field measurements and partitioning model results," 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "A coupled ground heat flux-surface energy balance model of evaporation using thermal remote sensing observations," 2022, Biogeosciences
  • "Study on CAT activity of tomato leaf cells under salt stress based on microhyperspectral imaging and transfer learning algorithm," 2023, Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Inter-annual variability in carbon dioxide exchange of an oak/grass savanna and open grassland in California

    Siyan Ma;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Liukang Xu;Ted Hehn

  • 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

  • A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Ryan S. Anderson

  • 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

  • Spatial variability in microclimate in a mixed-conifer forest before and after thinning and burning treatments

    Siyan Ma;Amy Concilio;Brian B. Oakley;Malcolm North

  • Interannual variability of evapotranspiration and energy exchange over an annual grassland in California

    Youngryel Ryu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Siyan Ma;Ted Hehn

  • 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

  • Groundwater uptake by woody vegetation in a semiarid oak savanna

    Gretchen R. Miller;Gretchen R. Miller;Xingyuan Chen;Yoram Rubin;Siyan Ma

  • 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

  • Using data from Landsat, MODIS, VIIRS and PhenoCams to monitor the phenology of California oak/grass savanna and open grassland across spatial scales

    Yan Liu;Michael J. Hill;Xiaoyang Zhang;Zhuosen Wang;Zhuosen Wang

  • On the differential advantages of evergreenness and deciduousness in mediterranean oak woodlands: a flux perspective

    Dennis D. Baldocchi;Siyan Ma;Serge Rambal;Laurent Misson

  • How will land use affect air temperature in the surface boundary layer? Lessons learned from a comparative study on the energy balance of an oak savanna and annual grassland in California, USA

    Dennis Baldocchi;Siyan Ma

  • Modeling energy and carbon fluxes in a heterogeneous oak woodland: A three-dimensional approach

    Hideki Kobayashi;Hideki Kobayashi;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Youngryel Ryu;Qi Chen

  • Vegetation and ecological characteristics of mixed-conifer and red fir forests at the Teakettle Experimental Forest

    Malcolm North;Brian Oakley;Jiquan Chen;Heather Erickson

  • Outgoing Near-Infrared Radiation From Vegetation Scales With Canopy Photosynthesis Across a Spectrum of Function, Structure, Physiological Capacity, and Weather

    Dennis D. Baldocchi;Youngryel Ryu;Benjamin Dechant;Elke Eichelmann

  • Testing the performance of a novel spectral reflectance sensor, built with light emitting diodes (LEDs), to monitor ecosystem metabolism, structure and function

    Youngryel Ryu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Joseph Verfaillie;Siyan Ma

  • Plant-soil interactions and acclimation to temperature of microbial-mediated soil respiration may affect predictions of soil CO2 efflux

    J. Curiel Yuste;J. Curiel Yuste;S. Ma;D. D. Baldocchi

  • Short-Term Effects of Experimental Burning and Thinning on Soil Respiration in an Old-Growth, Mixed-Conifer Forest

    Siyan Ma;Jiquan Chen;Malcolm North;Heather E. Erickson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Youngryel Ryu
Youngryel Ryu Seoul National University
Hans Peter Schmid
Hans Peter Schmid Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Malcolm P. North
Malcolm P. North US Forest Service
Sean P. Burns
Sean P. Burns University of Colorado Boulder
Marc L. Fischer
Marc L. Fischer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hideki Kobayashi
Hideki Kobayashi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Russell K. Monson
Russell K. Monson University of Colorado Boulder

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