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Nicola Falco
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The Importance of Accounting for Landscape Position When Investigating Grasslands: A Multidisciplinary Characterisation of a California Coastal Grassland
EARTH'S FUTURE
21 june 2024
Mike C. C. Rowley, Nicola Falco, Elaine Pegoraro, ...

Grasslands are one of the most common land‐cover types, providing important ecosystem services globally, yet few studies have examined grassl...

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A Tale of Two Catchments: Causality Analysis and Isotope Systematics Reveal Mountainous Watershed Traits That Regulate the Retention and Release of Nitrogen
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: BIOGEOSCIENCES
15 march 2024
Nicholas Bouskill, Michelle E. Newcomer, Rosemary ...

Mountainous watersheds are characterized by variability in functional traits, including vegetation, topography, geology, and geomorphology, which d...

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Variations in Bedrock and Vegetation Cover Modulate Subsurface Water Flow Dynamics of a Mountainous Hillslope
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
11 february 2024
Sebastian Uhlemann, Luca Perruzo, Chunwei Chou, Ke...

Predicting the hydrological response of watersheds to climate disturbances requires a detailed understanding of the processes connecting hillslopes...

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Imaging solar-induced fluorescence across leaves and canopies
SUN-INDUCED CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE: MEASUREMENTS, MODELING, AND APPLICATIONS FROM FIELD, AIRBORNE, AND SATELLITE PLATFORMS I POSTER
biogeosciences | 15 december 2023
Sophie Ruehr, Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, Nicola Falco,...
Solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) is a proxy of ecosystem photosynthesis that often scales linearly with gross primary productivity at the canopy scale...
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Scaling microbial traits from genomes to watersheds through combined airborne hyperspectral imaging, soil biogeochemistry, and metagenome assembled genomes
FROM TRAITS TO PREDICTIONS: NOVEL APPROACHES TO UNDERSTAND AND DISTILL THE COMPLEXITY OF EARTH'S MICROBIOMES III POSTER
biogeosciences | 15 december 2023
Ulas Karaoz, Patrick Sorensen, Nicola Falco, Giann...
Genome-centric microbial trait analysis should illuminate the ecological roles of microbial taxa in high-altitude environments. Yet long standing rese...
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Investigating drivers and impacts of shifts in vegetation health and functional traits across the East River and Taylor watersheds
ADVANCES IN FOREST DYNAMICS POSTDISTURBANCE: OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS ACROSS SCALES AND TECHNOLOGIES II ORAL
biogeosciences | 15 december 2023
Nicola Falco, Nicholas Bouskill, Brian J. Enquist,...
Forest decline due to pulse and press disturbances has been observed in mountainous ecosystems, affecting species diversity, composition, associated f...
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Capturing solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence dynamics with a novel hyperspectral imager: results from a multidimensional field campaign in a coastal California grassland
SUN-INDUCED CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE: MEASUREMENTS, MODELING, AND APPLICATIONS FROM FIELD, AIRBORNE, AND SATELLITE PLATFORMS I POSTER
biogeosciences | 15 december 2023
Paul Seibert, Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, Nicola Falco,...
Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) has emerged as a valuable proxy for photosynthesis and shows promise for advancing our understanding of e...
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Nitrogen fertilization induces aboveground biomass and δ15N response in California coastal grassland
LAND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING UNDER GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: PATTERNS, DRIVERS, AND MECHANISMS II POSTER
biogeosciences | 15 december 2023
Niklas Blanadet, Elaine Pegoraro, Amber C. Kerr, N...
Anthropogenic activity has the potential to increase the amount of nitrogen available in soil through several direct (e.g., fertilizer inputs) and ind...
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