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Canada
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
57
Citations
13234
World Ranking
3413
National Ranking
142

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Zoran Nesic is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada, where their research focuses on environmental science with specialization in several interconnected subfields.

The main fields of study covered in Nesic's work include:

  • Environmental Science

The subfields of study Nesic explores are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Plant Science
  • Economics and Econometrics

Nesic's research topics span a variety of themes related to ecosystem dynamics and environmental processes. Key topics include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

Frequent publication venues where Nesic's work appears are:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Climate Change

Nesic has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors in their research projects. These co-authors include:

  • T. Andrew Black
  • Rachhpal S. Jassal
  • Sung-Ching Lee
  • Sara Knox
  • Sean Smukler

Recent representative papers by Nesic demonstrate the breadth of environmental processes studied:

  • Arctic soil methane sink increases with drier conditions and higher ecosystem respiration, 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • Seasonal variation in the canopy color of temperate evergreen conifer forests, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Characterization of shortwave and longwave properties of several plastic film mulches and their impact on the surface energy balance and soil temperature, 2020, Solar Energy
  • Re-assessment of the climatic controls on the carbon and water fluxes of a boreal aspen forest over 1996-2016: Changing sensitivity to long-term climatic conditions, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Partitioning of net ecosystem exchange into photosynthesis and respiration using continuous stable isotope measurements in a Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir forest ecosystem, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Inter-annual variability in the leaf area index of a boreal aspen-hazelnut forest in relation to net ecosystem production

    A.G. Barr;T.A. Black;E.H. Hogg;Natascha Kljun

  • Annual cycles of water vapour and carbon dioxide fluxes in and above a boreal aspen forest

    T. A. Black;G. Hartog;H. H. Neumann;P.D. Blanken

  • Energy balance and canopy conductance of a boreal aspen forest: Partitioning overstory and understory components

    P. D. Blanken;T. A. Black;P. C. Yang;H. H. Neumann

  • Carbon, energy and water fluxes at mature and disturbed forest sites, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Amiro Bd;Barr Ag;Black Ta;Iwashita H

  • Increased carbon sequestration by a boreal deciduous forest in years with a warm spring

    T. A. Black;W. J. Chen;A. G. Barr;M. A. Arain

  • Interpreting the dependence of soil respiration on soil temperature and water content in a boreal aspen stand

    David Gaumont-Guay;T. Andrew Black;Tim J. Griffis;Alan G. Barr

  • Relationship between soil CO2 concentrations and forest-floor CO2 effluxes

    Rachhpal Jassal;Andy Black;Mike Novak;Kai Morgenstern

  • How climate and vegetation type influence evapotranspiration and water use efficiency in Canadian forest, peatland and grassland ecosystems

    Christian Brümmer;T. Andrew Black;Rachhpal S. Jassal;Nicholas J. Grant

  • Climatic controls on the carbon and water balances of a boreal aspen forest, 1994-2003

    A.G. Barr;T.A. Black;E.H. Hogg;T.J. Griffis

  • Ecophysiological controls on the carbon balances of three southern boreal forests

    T.J Griffis;T.A Black;K Morgenstern;A.G Barr

  • Sensitivity and uncertainty of the carbon balance of a Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir forest during an El Niño/La Niña cycle

    Kai Morgenstern;T. Andrew Black;Elyn R. Humphreys;Timothy J. Griffis

  • Surface energy balance closure by the eddy-covariance method above three boreal forest stands and implications for the measurement of the CO2 flux

    A.G. Barr;K. Morgenstern;T.A. Black;J.H. McCaughey

  • Effect of soil water stress on soil respiration and its temperature sensitivity in an 18-year-old temperate Douglas-fir stand

    Rachhpal S. Jassal;T. Andrew Black;Michael D. Novak;David Gaumont-Guay

  • Measuring forest floor CO2 fluxes in a Douglas-fir forest

    G.B Drewitt;T.A Black;Z Nesic;E.R Humphreys

  • Effects of climatic variability on the annual carbon sequestration by a boreal aspen forest

    W. J. Chen;T. A. Black;P. C. Yang;A. G. Barr

  • Carbon dioxide fluxes in coastal Douglas-fir stands at different stages of development after clearcut harvesting

    Elyn R. Humphreys;T. Andrew Black;Kai Morgenstern;Tiebo Cai

  • Response of Net Ecosystem Productivity of Three Boreal Forest Stands to Drought

    N. Kljun;T. A. Black;Timothy J Griffis;A. G. Barr

  • Seasonal variation and partitioning of ecosystem respiration in a southern boreal aspen forest

    T.J. Griffis;T.A. Black;D. Gaumont-Guay;G.B. Drewitt

  • Separating physiologically and directionally induced changes in PRI using BRDF models

    Thomas Hilker;Nicholas C. Coops;Forrest G. Hall;T. Andrew Black

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachhpal S. Jassal
Rachhpal S. Jassal University of British Columbia
T. A. Black
T. A. Black University of British Columbia
Alan G. Barr
Alan G. Barr University of Saskatchewan
Andreas Christen
Andreas Christen University of Freiburg
Timothy J. Griffis
Timothy J. Griffis University of Minnesota
Peter D. Blanken
Peter D. Blanken University of Colorado Boulder
Nicholas C. Coops
Nicholas C. Coops University of British Columbia
Natascha Kljun
Natascha Kljun Lund University
J.H. McCaughey
J.H. McCaughey Queen's University
J. A. Trofymow
J. A. Trofymow University of Victoria

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