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Plant Science and Agronomy

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13466
World Ranking
1760
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10

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Citations
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World Ranking
2923
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Korea Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Youngryel Ryu is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea and specializes in environmental science with a focus on remote sensing and ecosystem dynamics. Their research spans multiple subfields, including global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, plant science, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's work concentrates on several key topics, including:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

Youngryel Ryu has published in prominent academic venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment (22 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (11 publications)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (9 publications)
  • Global Change Biology (5 publications)
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (4 publications)

Notable recent papers include:

  • Optical vegetation indices for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems globally, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Canopy structure explains the relationship between photosynthesis and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in crops, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Eco-evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land-surface models, 2021, New Phytologist
  • NIRVP: A robust structural proxy for sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis across scales, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent collaborators in research include:

  • Benjamin Dechant
  • Minseok Kang
  • Sungchan Jeong
  • Chongya Jiang
  • Dennis Baldocchi

Youngryel Ryu's contributions focus on understanding vegetation dynamics through advanced remote sensing techniques, linking plant physiological processes with climate and environmental modeling. Their research integrates multidisciplinary approaches to address questions in ecosystem functioning and terrestrial biosphere interactions on a global scale.

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

  • Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth

    Wenping Yuan;Yi Zheng;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais

  • Optical vegetation indices for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems globally

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  • Integration of MODIS land and atmosphere products with a coupled-process model to estimate gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration from 1 km to global scales

    Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Hideki Kobayashi;Catharine van Ingen

  • What is global photosynthesis? History, uncertainties and opportunities

    Youngryel Ryu;Joseph A. Berry;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Multi-scale evaluation of global gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration products derived from Breathing Earth System Simulator (BESS)

    Chongya Jiang;Youngryel Ryu

  • A practical approach for estimating the escape ratio of near-infrared solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

    Yelu Zeng;Yelu Zeng;Grayson Badgley;Grayson Badgley;Benjamin Dechant;Youngryel Ryu

  • How to quantify tree leaf area index in an open savanna ecosystem: A multi-instrument and multi-model approach

    Youngryel Ryu;Oliver Sonnentag;Tiit Nilson;Rodrigo Vargas

  • ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station

    Joshua B. Fisher;Brian Lee;Adam J. Purdy;Gregory H. Halverson

  • Canopy structure explains the relationship between photosynthesis and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in crops

    Benjamin Dechant;Youngryel Ryu;Grayson Badgley;Yelu Zeng

  • Characteristics of Landsat 8 OLI-derived NDVI by comparison with multiple satellite sensors and in-situ observations

    Yinghai Ke;Jungho Im;Junghee Lee;Huili Gong

  • Increased control of vegetation on global terrestrial energy fluxes

    Giovanni Forzieri;Diego G. Miralles;Philippe Ciais;Ramdane Alkama

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

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

  • MODIS-derived global land products of shortwave radiation and diffuse and total photosynthetically active radiation at 5 km resolution from 2000

    Youngryel Ryu;Chongya Jiang;Hideki Kobayashi;Matteo Detto

  • Interannual variability of evapotranspiration and energy exchange over an annual grassland in California

    Youngryel Ryu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Siyan Ma;Ted Hehn

  • On the correct estimation of effective leaf area index: does it reveal information on clumping effects?

    Youngryel Ryu;Tiit Nilson;Hideki Kobayashi;Oliver Sonnentag

  • Inconsistencies of interannual variability and trends in long-term satellite leaf area index products

    Chongya Jiang;Youngryel Ryu;Hongliang Fang;Ranga Myneni

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

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

  • Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is more strongly related to absorbed light than to photosynthesis at half-hourly resolution in a rice paddy

    Kaige Yang;Youngryel Ryu;Benjamin Dechant;Joseph A. Berry

  • Eco-evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land-surface models

    Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Wolfgang Cramer;Oskar Franklin;Oskar Franklin;Iain Colin Prentice;Iain Colin Prentice;Iain Colin Prentice

  • Continuous observation of tree leaf area index at ecosystem scale using upward-pointing digital cameras

    Youngryel Ryu;Youngryel Ryu;Joseph Verfaillie;Craig Macfarlane;Hideki Kobayashi;Hideki Kobayashi

  • Land use and land cover changes explain spatial and temporal variations of the soil organic carbon stocks in a constructed urban park

    Jeehwan Bae;Youngryel Ryu

  • Characteristics of Landsat 8 OLI-derived NDVI by comparison with

    Yinghai Ke;Junghee Lee;Youngryel Ryu;Huili Gong

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Trevor F. Keenan
Trevor F. Keenan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hideki Kobayashi
Hideki Kobayashi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Rodrigo Vargas
Rodrigo Vargas University of Delaware
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Marty Humphrey
Marty Humphrey University of Virginia
Annalea Lohila
Annalea Lohila Finnish Meteorological Institute
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Andrew D. Richardson
Andrew D. Richardson Northern Arizona University

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