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Ankur R. Desai

University of Wisconsin–Madison · US
Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Ecology
Research interest
Research interests include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate variability and models, and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology.
h-index
77
citations
23,733
works
647
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Insights Into Nature‐Based Climate Solutions: Managing Forests for Climate Resilience and Carbon Stability
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 2025cited by 8position: lastdoi
Drivers of forest productivity in two regions of the United States: Relative impacts of management and environmental variables
Journal of Environmental Management 2025cited by 7position: middledoi
A cross-site comparison of ecosystem- and plot-scale methane fluxes from wetlands and uplands
2025cited by 0position: middledoi
X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X
Biogeosciences 2024cited by 93position: middledoi
Phenology of Photosynthesis in Winter‐Dormant Temperate and Boreal Forests: Long‐Term Observations From Flux Towers and Quantitative Evaluation of Phenology Models
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 2024cited by 25position: middledoi
X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X
2024cited by 15position: middledoi
Design, development, and implementation of IsoBank: A centralized repository for isotopic data
PLoS ONE 2024cited by 14position: middledoi
Forest carbon uptake as influenced by snowpack and length of photosynthesis season in seasonally snow-covered forests of North America
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2024cited by 9position: middledoi
Airborne Measurements of Scale‐Dependent Latent Heat Flux Impacted by Water Vapor and Vertical Velocity Over Heterogeneous Land Surfaces During the CHEESEHEAD19 Campaign
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 2024cited by 5position: middledoi
Practical Guide to Measuring Wetland Carbon Pools and Fluxes
Wetlands 2023cited by 73position: middledoi
Upscaling Wetland Methane Emissions From the FLUXNET‐CH4 Eddy Covariance Network (UpCH4 v1.0): Model Development, Network Assessment, and Budget Comparison
AGU Advances 2023cited by 68position: middledoi
Hidden becomes clear: Optical remote sensing of vegetation reveals water table dynamics in northern peatlands
Remote Sensing of Environment 2023cited by 50position: middledoi
Modeled production, oxidation, and transport processes of wetland methane emissions in temperate, boreal, and Arctic regions
Global Change Biology 2023cited by 38position: middledoi
Causality guided machine learning model on wetland CH4 emissions across global wetlands
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2022cited by 64position: middledoi
Statement of Contribution to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for <i>JGR: Biogeosciences</i>
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 2022cited by 8position: middledoi
Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2021cited by 501position: middledoi
FLUXNET-CH <sub>4</sub> : a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands
Earth system science data 2021cited by 191position: middledoi
Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database
Earth system science data 2021cited by 178position: middledoi
Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales
Global Change Biology 2021cited by 153position: middledoi
Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data
Scientific Data 2021cited by 110position: middledoi
Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2021cited by 107position: middledoi
Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2021cited by 100position: middledoi
Seasonality in aerodynamic resistance across a range of North American ecosystems
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2021cited by 28position: middledoi
Evaluation of a CONUS-Wide ECOSTRESS DisALEXI Evapotranspiration Product
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 2021cited by 25position: middledoi
The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data
Scientific Data 2020cited by 1,735position: middledoi
COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil‐atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data
Global Change Biology 2020cited by 101position: middledoi
Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration
Global Change Biology 2020cited by 88position: middledoi
PEAT‐CLSM: A Specific Treatment of Peatland Hydrology in the NASA Catchment Land Surface Model
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 2019cited by 99position: middledoi
Growth and opportunities in networked synthesis through AmeriFlux
New Phytologist 2019cited by 12position: lastdoi
Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence is strongly correlated with terrestrial photosynthesis for a wide variety of biomes: First global analysis based on OCO‐2 and flux tower observations
Global Change Biology 2018cited by 418position: middledoi

Grants

Closing the energy balance gap at scale
NSF2313772$841,2282023–2027PIRePORTER
Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-balance Study Enabled by a High-density Extensive Array of Detectors
NSF1822420$1,610,1352018–2024PIRePORTER
EAGER: Surface Skin Temperature Mapping by Ultralight Aircraft and Undergraduate Participation for Stable Atmospheric Variability ANd Transport (SAVANT)
NSF1844426$47,2932018–2019PIRePORTER
Does Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Influence Mid-latitude Cyclone Trajectories? Weather System Implications for a Changing Climate
NSF1640452$539,0932017–2022PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: ABI Development: The PEcAn Project: A Community Platform for Ecological Forecasting
NSF1457897$333,3032015–2020PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Building Forest Management into Earth System Modeling: Scaling from Stand to Continent
NSF1241814$66,3972013–2016PIRePORTER
Collaborative Proposal: ABI Innovation: Model-data synthesis and forecasting across the upper Midwest: Partitioning uncertainty and environmental heterogeneity in ecosystem carbon
NSF1062204$103,9222011–2015PIRePORTER
CAREER: Contrasting environmental controls on regional CO2 and CH4 biogeochemistry-Research and education for placing global change in a regional, local context
NSF0845166$693,8662009–2014PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Michael C. Dietze · Duke University7 papers (2014–2025)Gil Bohrer · The Ohio State University4 papers (2014–2025)Andrew D. Richardson · University of Miami4 papers (2012–2024)M. E. Litvak · University of New Mexico4 papers (2016–2024)Mats B. Nilsson · Science for Life Laboratory3 papers (2019–2025)Joshua B. Fisher · University of California, Los Angeles3 papers (2016–2021) · 3 papers (2018–2025)Dennis Baldocchi · University of California, Berkeley3 papers (2016–2021)Hanqin Tian · Environmental Earth Sciences3 papers (2012–2015)D. J. Moore · University of Arizona3 papers (2013–2019)Kimberly A. Novick · Indiana University Bloomington3 papers (2014–2021) · 3 papers (2016–2021)Christina L. Staudhammer · University of North Alabama3 papers (2018–2025)M. Altaf Arain · McMaster University3 papers (2018–2024)A. E. Andrews · University of Colorado Boulder3 papers (2014–2015)Bailey Murphy · Oak Ridge National Laboratory2 papers (2025–2025)Rodrigo Vargas · University of California, Berkeley2 papers (2022–2025) · 2 papers (2014–2015)Dan Baumann · United States Geological Survey2 papers (2014–2015) · 2 papers (2014–2015)