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Trevor F. Keenan is a researcher affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change.

Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including global and planetary change, plant science, atmospheric science, ecology, and nature and landscape conservation. These areas support a comprehensive approach to understanding environmental dynamics and interactions.

Key topics in Keenan's research include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Keenan has contributed to multiple recent scientific papers published in well-regarded journals. Notable publications include:

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2 (2020, New Phytologist)
  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2 (2021, Nature)
  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth (2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands (2021, Nature Climate Change)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Xiangzhong Luo
  • I. Colin Prentice
  • Nicholas G. Smith
  • Yao Zhang
  • Han Wang

Keenan's research has appeared consistently in prominent publication venues. These include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

With over 180 publications in environmental science, Keenan's work contributes to understanding complex environmental processes, especially those related to carbon dynamics, climate variability, and plant-atmosphere interactions.

Best Publications

  • Climate change, phenology, and phenological control of vegetation feedbacks to the climate system

    Andrew D. Richardson;Trevor F. Keenan;Mirco Migliavacca;Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu

  • Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise

    Trevor F. Keenan;David Y. Hollinger;Gil Bohrer;Danilo Dragoni

  • Net carbon uptake has increased through warming-induced changes in temperate forest phenology

    Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Josh Gray;Mark A. Friedl;Michael Toomey

  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Chris Huntingford

  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2.

    C. Terrer;C. Terrer;R. P. Phillips;B. A. Hungate;J. Rosende

  • Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes.

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Josep Peñuelas

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • Tracking vegetation phenology across diverse North American biomes using PhenoCam imagery.

    Andrew D. Richardson;Koen Hufkens;Thomas E. Milliman;Donald M. Aubrecht

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

    César Terrer;César Terrer;César Terrer;Robert B. Jackson;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan

  • Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought

    Sebastian Wolf;Sebastian Wolf;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Joshua B. Fisher;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake.

    Trevor F Keenan;Trevor F Keenan;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Josep G Canadell;Christopher A Williams

  • A worldwide analysis of within-canopy variations in leaf structural, chemical and physiological traits across plant functional types.

    Ülo Niinemets;Ülo Niinemets;Trevor F. Keenan;Lea Hallik;Lea Hallik

  • Seasonal dynamics and age of stemwood nonstructural carbohydrates in temperate forest trees

    Andrew D. Richardson;Mariah S. Carbone;Trevor F. Keenan;Claudia I. Czimczik

  • Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

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  • Drought impacts on terrestrial primary production underestimated by satellite monitoring

    Benjamin D. Stocker;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;I. Colin Prentice

  • Towards a universal model for carbon dioxide uptake by plants.

    Han Wang;Han Wang;Han Wang;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Tyler W. Davis;Tyler W. Davis

  • The timing of autumn senescence is affected by the timing of spring phenology: implications for predictive models

    Trevor F. Keenan;Andrew D. Richardson

  • The Terrestrial Carbon Sink

    T.F. Keenan;T.F. Keenan;C.A. Williams

  • Reduced streamflow in water-stressed climates consistent with CO2 effects on vegetation

    Anna M. Ukkola;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Trevor F. Keenan;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk

  • Quantifying soil moisture impacts on light use efficiency across biomes.

    Benjamin D. Stocker;Jakob Zscheischler;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;I. Colin Prentice

  • Terrestrial biosphere model performance for inter‐annual variability of land‐atmosphere CO2 exchange

    T.F. Keenan;Ian Baker;Alan Barr;Philippe Ciais

  • Net Carbon Uptake Has Increased through Warming-Induced Changes in Temperate Forest Phenology

    T. F. Keenan;A. D. Richardson;J. M. Gray;M. A. Friedl

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew D. Richardson
Andrew D. Richardson Northern Arizona University
David Y. Hollinger
David Y. Hollinger US Forest Service
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Joshua B. Fisher
Joshua B. Fisher Chapman University
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Koen Hufkens
Koen Hufkens Ghent University
Ülo Niinemets
Ülo Niinemets Estonian University of Life Sciences
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Ian J. Wright
Ian J. Wright Western Sydney University

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