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Takeshi Ohta

Takeshi Ohta

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
6481
World Ranking
8061
National Ranking
160

Overview

Takeshi Ohta is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and focuses on Environmental Science with a particular emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Materials Chemistry, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

Their research topics cover a broad range including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, and X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography.

Takeshi Ohta has contributed to publications in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Environmental Research Letters, Polar Science, Nature Climate Change, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Takeshi Ohta include:

  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • Inferring CO2 fertilization effect based on global monitoring land-atmosphere exchange with a theoretical model (2020, Environmental Research Letters)
  • The biophysical climate mitigation potential of boreal peatlands during the growing season (2020, Environmental Research Letters)
  • Relative importance of climatic variables, soil properties and plant traits to spatial variability in net CO2 exchange across global forests and grasslands (2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)
  • Lessons learned from more than a decade of greenhouse gas flux measurements at boreal forests in eastern Siberia and interior Alaska (2020, Polar Science)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers including Ayumi Kotani, Trofim C. Maximov, Masahito Ueyama, Andrej Varlagin, and T. Andrew Black.

Best Publications

  • Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

    M.K. van der Molen;A.J. Dolman;P. Ciais;T. Eglin

  • Seasonal variations in the cooling effect of urban green areas on surrounding urban areas.

    Shuko Hamada;Takeshi Ohta

  • Precipitation and atmospheric circulation patterns at mid-latitudes of Asia

    Elena M. Aizen;Vladimir B. Aizen;John M. Melack;Tsutomu Nakamura

  • Climate change and extension of the Ginkgo biloba L. growing season in Japan

    Kazuho Matsumoto;Takeshi Ohta;Michiya Irasawa;Tsutomu Nakamura

  • Seasonal variation in the energy and water exchanges above and below a larch forest in eastern Siberia

    Takeshi Ohta;Takeshi Ohta;Tetsuya Hiyama;Hiroki Tanaka;Takashi Kuwada

  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate

    Manuel Helbig;Manuel Helbig;James Michael Waddington;Pavel Alekseychik;Brian D. Amiro

  • Interannual variation of water balance and summer evapotranspiration in an eastern Siberian larch forest over a 7-year period (1998-2006)

    Takeshi Ohta;Trofim C. Maximov;A. Johannes Dolman;Taro Nakai

  • An observational study of the factors that influence interception loss in boreal and temperate forests

    T. Toba;T. Ohta

  • 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

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

    Mi Zhang;Xuhui Lee;Guirui Yu;Shijie Han

  • Parameterisation of aerodynamic roughness over boreal, cool- and warm-temperate forests

    Taro Nakai;Akihiro Sumida;Ken'ichi Daikoku;Kazuho Matsumoto

  • Impacts of land use and topography on the cooling effect of green areas on surrounding urban areas

    Shuko Hamada;Takafumi Tanaka;Takeshi Ohta

  • Dependence of stomatal conductance on leaf chlorophyll concentration and meteorological variables

    Kazuho Matsumoto;Takeshi Ohta;Takafumi Tanaka

  • Estimation of gross primary production over the terrestrial ecosystems in China

    Xianglan Li;Xianglan Li;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Shunlin Liang;Guirui Yu;Wenping Yuan;Wenping Yuan

  • Sap flow changes in relation to permafrost degradation under increasing precipitation in an eastern Siberian larch forest

    Yoshihiro Iijima;Takeshi Ohta;Ayumi Kotani;Alexander N. Fedorov

  • Energy consumption and evapotranspiration at several boreal and temperate forests in the Far East

    Kazuho Matsumoto;Takeshi Ohta;Taro Nakai;Takashi Kuwada

  • Effects of waterlogging on water and carbon dioxide fluxes and environmental variables in a Siberian larch forest, 1998–2011

    Takeshi Ohta;Ayumi Kotani;Yoshihiro Iijima;Trofim C. Maximov

  • Evapotranspiration from understory vegetation in an eastern Siberian boreal larch forest

    Shin’ichi Iida;Takeshi Ohta;Kazuho Matsumoto;Taro Nakai

  • Characteristics and climatic sensitivities of runoff from a cold‐type glacier on the Tibetan Plateau

    Koji Fujita;Takeshi Ohta;Yutaka Ageta

  • Hydrometeorological behaviour of pine and larch forests in eastern Siberia

    Shuko Hamada;Shuko Hamada;Takeshi Ohta;Tetsuya Hiyama;Takashi Kuwada

Frequent Co-Authors

Trofim C. Maximov
Trofim C. Maximov Russian Academy of Sciences
Kazuhito Ichii
Kazuhito Ichii Chiba University
Kentaro Takagi
Kentaro Takagi Hokkaido University
Nobuko Saigusa
Nobuko Saigusa National Institute for Environmental Studies
Masahito Ueyama
Masahito Ueyama Osaka Metropolitan University
Andrej Varlagin
Andrej Varlagin Russian Academy of Sciences
Tomo'omi Kumagai
Tomo'omi Kumagai University of Tokyo
Takashi Hirano
Takashi Hirano Hokkaido University
A. J. Dolman
A. J. Dolman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Morio Iijima
Morio Iijima Kindai University

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