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Overview

Steven F. Oberbauer is affiliated with Florida International University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change as key subfields.

Their main research topics include:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Steven F. Oberbauer has contributed to several recent publications, demonstrating active engagement in ecological and atmospheric sciences. Notable papers include:

  • "Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites," 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "A review of open top chamber (OTC) performance across the ITEX Network," 2022, Arctic Science

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Elyn Humphreys
  • Hideki Kobayashi
  • Oliver Sonnentag
  • Robert D. Hollister
  • Hiroki Iwata

In terms of publication venues, Steven F. Oberbauer has published multiple works in:

  • Arctic Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Ecosystems

Best Publications

  • Plant community responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome

    Marilyn D Walker;C Henrik Wahren;Robert D Hollister;Greg H R Henry

  • Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time.

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H. R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Bjork

  • Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming.

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H.R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Robert G. Björk

  • Winter Biological Processes Could Help Convert Arctic Tundra to Shrubland

    Matthew Sturm;Josh Schimel;Gary Michaelson;Jeffrey M. Welker

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

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

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

  • Long-term study of solar radiation regimes in a tropical wet forest using quantum sensors and hemispherical photography

    Paul M. Rich;Paul M. Rich;David B. Clark;David B. Clark;Deborah A. Clark;Deborah A. Clark;Steven F. Oberbauer;Steven F. Oberbauer

  • TUNDRA CO2 FLUXES IN RESPONSE TO EXPERIMENTAL WARMING ACROSS LATITUDINAL AND MOISTURE GRADIENTS

    Steven F. Oberbauer;Craig E. Tweedie;Jeff M. Welker;Jace T. Fahnestock

  • Annual wood production in a tropical rain forest in NE Costa Rica linked to climatic variation but not to increasing CO2

    David B. Clark;Deborah A. Clark;Steven F. Oberbauer;Steven F. Oberbauer

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Why Leaves Are Sometimes Red

    Kevin S. Gould;David N. Kuhn;David W. Lee;Steven F. Oberbauer

  • Experiment, monitoring, and gradient methods used to infer climate change effects on plant communities yield consistent patterns

    Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Gregory H. R. Henry;Robert D. Hollister;Anna Maria Fosaa

  • The land-atmosphere water flux in the tropics

    Joshua B. Fisher;Yadvinder Malhi;Damien Bonal;Humberto R. Da Rocha

  • Effects of light regime on the growth, leaf morphology, and water relations of seedlings of two species of tropical trees

    Ned Fetcher;Boyd R. Strain;Steven F. Oberbauer

  • Greater temperature sensitivity of plant phenology at colder sites: implications for convergence across northern latitudes

    Janet Prevéy;Mark Vellend;Nadja Rüger;Robert D. Hollister

  • Whole tree xylem sap flow responses to multiple environmental variables in a wet tropical forest

    J. J. O'brien;S. F. Oberbauer;S. F. Oberbauer;D. B. Clark

  • Stocks and flows of coarse woody debris across a tropical rain forest nutrient and topography gradient.

    David B Clark;Deborah A Clark;Sandra Brown;Steven F Oberbauer

  • A new low-power, open-path instrument for measuring methane flux by eddy covariance

    D. McDermitt;G. Burba;L. Xu;T. Anderson

  • Vegetation effects on microclimate in lowland tropical forest in Costa Rica

    N. Fetcher;S. F. Oberbauer;B. R. Strain

  • Landscape-scale evaluation of understory light and canopy structures: methods and application in a neotropical lowland rain forest

    David B. Clark;Deborah A. Clark;Paul M. Rich;Stuart Weiss

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory Starr
Gregory Starr University of Alabama
Robert D. Hollister
Robert D. Hollister Grand Valley State University
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Jeffrey M. Welker
Jeffrey M. Welker University of Oulu
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir University of Iceland
Michael G. Ryan
Michael G. Ryan Colorado State University
Luitgard Schwendenmann
Luitgard Schwendenmann University of Auckland
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Ulf Molau
Ulf Molau University of Gothenburg
David B. Clark
David B. Clark University of Missouri–St. Louis

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