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Tommaso Jucker is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, specializing in environmental science. Their work encompasses a range of subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research interests cover several main topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.

Jucker has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, with recent significant papers including:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests (2020, Nature)
  • Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities (2022, Ecology Letters)
  • Unifying the concepts of stability and resilience in ecology (2021, Journal of Ecology)

They have frequently published in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature

Tommaso Jucker collaborates often with a recurring group of co-authors, including David A. Coomes, Fabian Jörg Fischer, Tom Swinfield, Luciana F. Alves, and Frans Bongers.

In addition to articles, Jucker has authored at least one book published by Ghent University titled "Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol" released in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda.

    Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Miska Luoto;Brett R. Scheffers

  • Crown plasticity enables trees to optimize canopy packing in mixed-species forests

    Tommaso Galileo Jucker;Olivier Bouriaud;David Anthony Coomes

  • Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes.

    Tommaso Jucker;John Caspersen;Jérôme Chave;Cécile Antin;Cécile Antin

  • Topography shapes the structure, composition and function of tropical forest landscapes.

    Tommaso Jucker;Tommaso Jucker;Boris Bongalov;David Frp Burslem;Reuben Nilus

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context

    Sophia Ratcliffe;Christian Wirth;Christian Wirth;Tommaso Jucker;Tommaso Jucker;Fons van der Plas

  • Stabilizing effects of diversity on aboveground wood production in forest ecosystems: linking patterns and processes

    Tommaso Jucker;Olivier Bouriaud;Daniel Avacaritei;David A. Coomes

  • Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

    Fons van der Plas;Pete Manning;Santiago Soliveres;Eric Allan

  • The number of tree species on Earth

    Unknown

  • Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities

    Unknown

  • Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

    Fons Van der Plas;Peter Manning;Eric Allan;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Canopy structure and topography jointly constrain the microclimate of human-modified tropical landscapes

    Tommaso Jucker;Tommaso Jucker;Stephen R. Hardwick;Sabine Both;Sabine Both;Dafydd M.O. Elias

  • A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests

    Lander Baeten;Kris Verheyen;Christian Wirth;Helge Bruelheide

  • Competition for light and water play contrasting roles in driving diversity–productivity relationships in Iberian forests

    Tommaso Galileo Jucker;Olivier Bouriaud;Daniel Avacaritei;Iulian Dănilă

  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia.

    Constantin M. Zohner;Lidong Mo;Susanne S. Renner;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Unifying the concepts of stability and resilience in ecology

    Koenraad Van Meerbeek;Koenraad Van Meerbeek;Tommaso Jucker;Jens Christian Svenning

  • Area-based vs tree-centric approaches to mapping forest carbon in Southeast Asian forests from airborne laser scanning data

    David A. Coomes;Michele Dalponte;Tommaso Jucker;Gregory P. Asner

  • Climate modulates the effects of tree diversity on forest productivity

    Tommaso Jucker;Daniel Avăcăriței;Ionuț Bărnoaiea;Gabriel Duduman

  • The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests

    Unknown

  • Effects of Trampling Limitation on Coastal Dune Plant Communities

    Riccardo Santoro;Tommaso Jucker;Irene Prisco;Marta Carboni

  • Mapped aboveground carbon stocks to advance forest conservation and recovery in Malaysian Borneo

    Gregory P. Asner;Philip G. Brodrick;Christopher Philipson;Nicolas R. Vaughn

  • Does Drought Influence the Relationship Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Boreal Forests

    Charlotte Grossiord;Charlotte Grossiord;André Granier;André Granier;Arthur Gessler;Tommaso Jucker

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Coomes
David A. Coomes University of Cambridge
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Olivier Bouriaud
Olivier Bouriaud Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava
Terhi Riutta
Terhi Riutta UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Fernando Valladares
Fernando Valladares Spanish National Research Council
David F. R. P. Burslem
David F. R. P. Burslem University of Aberdeen
Paloma Ruiz-Benito
Paloma Ruiz-Benito University of Alcalá
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Leena Finér
Leena Finér Natural Resources Institute Finland

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