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2026

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Environmental Sciences

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49
Citations
8273
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5282
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Russia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Russia Leader Award

Overview

Trofim C. Maximov is affiliated with the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Russian Federation. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with substantial contributions to the fields of Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work centers on key topics including:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "FLUXNET-CH 4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands," 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • "Presence of nanoplastics in rural and remote surface waters," 2022, Environmental Research Letters
  • "East Siberian Arctic inland waters emit mostly contemporary carbon," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Extremely wet summer events enhance permafrost thaw for multiple years in Siberian tundra," 2022, Nature Communications

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers including Atsuko Sugimoto, Roman Petrov, Sergey V. Karsanaev, Shunsuke Tei, and Tomoki Morozumi.

Their work has been published notably in venues such as:

  • Polar Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

    Owen K. Atkin;Keith J. Bloomfield;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Shrub expansion may reduce summer permafrost thaw in Siberian tundra

    Daan Blok;Monique M P D Heijmans;Gabriela Schaepman-Strub;Gabriela Schaepman-Strub;A. V. Kononov

  • Importance of permafrost as a source of water for plants in east Siberian taiga

    Atsuko Sugimoto;Nao Yanagisawa;Daisuke Naito;Noboru Fujita

  • 13CO2 pulse-labelling of photoassimilates reveals carbon allocation within and between tree rings

    Akira Kagawa;Atsuko Sugimoto;Trofim C. Maximov

  • Seasonal course of translocation, storage and remobilization of 13C pulse-labeled photoassimilate in naturally growing Larix gmelinii saplings

    Akira Kagawa;Atsuko Sugimoto;Trofim C. Maximov

  • 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

  • An estimate of the terrestrial carbon budget of Russia using inventory based, eddy covariance and inversion methods

    A. J. Dolman;A. Shvidenko;D. Schepaschenko;P. Ciais

  • Abrupt increases in soil temperatures following increased precipitation in a permafrost region, central Lena River basin, Russia

    Yoshihiro Iijima;Alexander N. Fedorov;Hotaek Park;Kazuyoshi Suzuki

  • Permafrost collapse after shrub removal shifts tundra ecosystem to a methane source

    Ake L. Nauta;Monique M. P. D. Heijmans;Daan Blok;Juul Limpens

  • The response of Arctic vegetation to the summer climate: relation between shrub cover, NDVI, surface albedo and temperature

    Daan Blok;Gabriela Schaepman-Strub;Harm Bartholomeus;Monique M P D Heijmans

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

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

  • Methane emissions from permafrost thaw lakes limited by lake drainage

    J. van Huissteden;C. Berrittella;Frans-Jan Parmentier;Frans-Jan Parmentier;Y. Mi

  • 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

  • The Cooling Capacity of Mosses: Controls on Water and Energy Fluxes in a Siberian Tundra Site

    Daan Blok;M.M.P.D. Heijmans;G. Schaepman-Strub;J. van Ruijven

  • 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

  • High methane flux from an arctic floodplain (Indigirka lowlands, eastern Siberia)

    J. van Huissteden;T. C. Maximov;A. J. Dolman

  • Characteristics of soil moisture in permafrost observed in East Siberian taiga with stable isotopes of water

    A. Sugimoto;D. Naito;N. Yanagisawa;K. Ichiyanagi

  • The growing season greenhouse gas balance of a continental tundra site in the Indigirka lowlands, NE Siberia

    M.K. van der Molen;J. van Huissteden;Frans-Jan Parmentier;A.M.R. Petrescu

  • East Siberian Arctic inland waters emit mostly contemporary carbon.

    Joshua F. Dean;Joshua F. Dean;Ove H. Meisel;Melanie Martyn Rosco;Luca Belelli Marchesini

  • Comparing carbon storage of Siberian tundra and taiga permafrost ecosystems at very high spatial resolution

    Matthias B. Siewert;Jessica Hanisch;Jessica Hanisch;Niels Weiss;Peter Kuhry

  • Longer growing seasons do not increase net carbon uptake in the northeastern Siberian tundra

    Frans-Jan Parmentier;Frans-Jan Parmentier;M. K. van der Molen;J. van Huissteden;S. A. Karsanaev

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeshi Ohta
Takeshi Ohta Nagoya University
Monique M. P. D. Heijmans
Monique M. P. D. Heijmans Wageningen University & Research
Frank Berendse
Frank Berendse Wageningen University & Research
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub University of Zurich
A. J. Dolman
A. J. Dolman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hideki Kobayashi
Hideki Kobayashi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
J. van Huissteden
J. van Huissteden Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Juul Limpens
Juul Limpens Wageningen University & Research
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier University of Oslo
Liesje Mommer
Liesje Mommer Wageningen University & Research

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