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Takashi Hirano

Takashi Hirano

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
8004
World Ranking
5576
National Ranking
99

Overview

Takashi Hirano is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Water Science and Technology, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Oil Palm Production and Sustainability, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Climate Variability and Models.

Takashi Hirano has contributed to multiple publications, with frequent venues including IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Global Change Biology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hirano include Masahito Ueyama, E. S. Euskirchen, Matthias Peichl, Ankur R. Desai, and Ivan Mammarella.

Selected recent papers by Takashi Hirano include:

  • FLUXNET-CH 4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands (2021), published in Earth system science data
  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales (2021), published in Global Change Biology
  • Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands (2021), published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • The Potential of Peatlands as Nature-Based Climate Solutions (2022), published in Current Climate Change Reports
  • Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions (2021), published in Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Carbon dioxide balance of a tropical peat swamp forest in Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Takashi Hirano;Hendrik Segah;Hendrik Segah;Tsuyoshi Harada;Suwido Limin

  • Physical effects of dust on leaf physiology of cucumber and kidney bean plants.

    T. Hirano;M. Kiyota;I. Aiga

  • The land-atmosphere water flux in the tropics

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

  • Raman spectroscopic determination of hydration number of methane hydrates

    Tsutomu Uchida;Takashi Hirano;Takao Ebinuma;Hideo Narita

  • Controls on the carbon balance of tropical peatlands.

    Takashi Hirano;Jyrki Jauhiainen;Takashi Inoue;Hidenori Takahashi

  • Effects of disturbances on the carbon balance of tropical peat swamp forests

    Takashi Hirano;Hendrik Segah;Kitso Kusin;Suwido Limin

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

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

  • Comparisons of energy balance and evapotranspiration between flooded and aerobic rice fields in the Philippines

    Ma. Carmelita R. Alberto;Reiner Wassmann;Takashi Hirano;Akira Miyata

  • Spatial distribution of carbon balance in forest ecosystems across East Asia

    Ryuichi Hirata;Nobuko Saigusa;Susumu Yamamoto;Yoshikazu Ohtani

  • Long-term half-hourly measurement of soil CO2 concentration and soil respiration in a temperate deciduous forest

    Takashi Hirano;Honghyun Kim;Yumiko Tanaka

  • In situ comparison of four approaches to estimating soil CO2 efflux in a northern larch (Larix kaempferi Sarg.) forest

    Naishen Liang;Toshie Nakadai;Takashi Hirano;Laiye Qu

  • Looking deeper into the soil: biophysical controls and seasonal lags of soil CO2 production and efflux.

    Rodrigo Vargas;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Michael F. Allen;Michael Bahn

  • Temporal and spatial variations in the seasonal patterns of CO2 flux in boreal, temperate, and tropical forests in East Asia

    Nobuko Saigusa;Susumu Yamamoto;Ryuichi Hirata;Yoshikazu Ohtani

  • Carbon dioxide emissions through oxidative peat decomposition on a burnt tropical peatland

    Takashi Hirano;Kitso Kusin;Suwido Limin;Mitsuru Osaki

  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

    Kyle B. Delwiche;Sara Helen Knox;Avni Malhotra;Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

  • Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms.

    Shuli Niu;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Shenfeng Fei;Wenping Yuan

  • CO2/heat fluxes in rice fields: Comparative assessment of flooded and non-flooded fields in the Philippines

    Ma. Carmelita R. Alberto;Reiner Wassmann;Takashi Hirano;Akira Miyata

  • New data-driven estimation of terrestrial CO2 fluxes in Asia using a standardized database of eddy covariance measurements, remote sensing data, and support vector regression

    Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Masahito Ueyama;Masayuki Kondo;Masayuki Kondo;Nobuko Saigusa

  • Seasonal and interannual variations in carbon dioxide exchange of a temperate larch forest

    Ryuichi Hirata;Takashi Hirano;Nobuko Saigusa;Yasumi Fujinuma

  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales.

    Sara Helen Knox;Sheel Bansal;Gavin McNicol;Karina Schafer

  • Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

    Lahiru S. Wijedasa;Jyrki Jauhiainen;Mari Könönen;Maija Lampela

  • Response of surface air temperature to small-scale land clearing across latitudes

    Mi Zhang;Xuhui Lee;Guirui Yu;Shijie Han

Frequent Co-Authors

Nobuko Saigusa
Nobuko Saigusa National Institute for Environmental Studies
Masahito Ueyama
Masahito Ueyama Osaka Metropolitan University
Kentaro Takagi
Kentaro Takagi Hokkaido University
Kazuhito Ichii
Kazuhito Ichii Chiba University
Takeshi Ohta
Takeshi Ohta Nagoya University
Eugénie S. Euskirchen
Eugénie S. Euskirchen University of Alaska Fairbanks
Mitsuru Osaki
Mitsuru Osaki Hokkaido University
Shenggong Li
Shenggong Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huimin Wang
Huimin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yoshiko Kosugi
Yoshiko Kosugi Kyoto University

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