Natasha MacBean

5.0k citations

50 papers · 2.5k · 2 hit papers · h-index 26

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Global and Planetary Change top 1%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Ecological Modeling top 2%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 46
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 33
- Climate variability and models 23
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 16
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 4
Ecology 20
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 18

Co-authors: Philippe Peylin (18 shared papers)Sophie Bontemps (5 shared papers)Philippe Ciais (10 shared papers)Pierre Defourny (4 shared papers)Cédric Bacour (16 shared papers)D. J. Moore (12 shared papers)A. M. Fox (8 shared papers)William K. Smith (6 shared papers)
Journals: Geoscientific model development (5 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (5 papers)Biogeosciences (3 papers)Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (3 papers)Global Biogeochemical Cycles (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States France United Kingdom

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Natasha MacBean

50 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Natasha MacBean's Hit Papers

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Dryland productivity under a changing climate 2022 · 178 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Nature Climate Change
2019 Remote Sensing of Environment

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1	Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities Remote Sensing of Environment ·William K. Smith, Matthew P. Dannenberg, Dong Yan, Stefanie Herrmann, Mallory L. Barnes, Greg A. Barron‐Gafford, Joel A. Biederman, Scott Ferrenberg, A. M. Fox, Amy Hudson, John F. Knowles, Natasha MacBean, D. J. Moore, Pamela L. Nagler, Sasha C. Reed, William A. Rutherford, Russell L. Scott, Xian Wang, Julia C. Yang Hit paper breakdown →	2019	274
2	Gross and net land cover changes in the main plant functional types derived from the annual ESA CCI land cover maps (1992–2015) Earth system science data ·Wei Li, Natasha MacBean, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Defourny, Céline Lamarche, Sophie Bontemps, R. A. Houghton, Shushi Peng	2018	222
3	Plant functional type classification for earth system models: results from the European Space Agency's Land Cover Climate Change Initiative Geoscientific model development ·Benjamin Poulter, Natasha MacBean, Andrew James Hartley, Iryna Khlystova, Olivier Arinò, Richard Betts, Sophie Bontemps, Martin Boettcher, Carsten Brockmann, Pierre Defourny, Stefan Hagemann, Martin Herold, Grit Kirches, Céline Lamarche, D. Lederer, Catherine Ottlé, Marco Peters, Philippe Peylin	2015	202
4	Dryland productivity under a changing climate Nature Climate Change ·Lixin Wang, Wenzhe Jiao, Natasha MacBean, Maria Cristina Rulli, Stefano Manzoni, Giulia Vico, Paolo D’Odorico Hit paper breakdown →	2022	178
5	Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America Geophysical Research Letters ·William K. Smith, Joel A. Biederman, Russell L. Scott, D. J. Moore, Mingzhu He, John S. Kimball, Dong Yan, Amy Hudson, Mallory L. Barnes, Natasha MacBean, A. M. Fox, M. E. Litvak	2018	121
6	Has the advancing onset of spring vegetation green‐up slowed down or changed abruptly over the last three decades? Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Xuhui Wang, Shilong Piao, Xiangtao Xu, Philippe Ciais, Natasha MacBean, Ranga B. Myneni, Laurent Li	2015	120
7	Uncertainty in plant functional type distributions and its impact on land surface models Remote Sensing of Environment ·Andrew James Hartley, Natasha MacBean, Goran Georgievski, Sophie Bontemps	2017	101
8	The impact of alternative trait‐scaling hypotheses for the maximum photosynthetic carboxylation rate (V_cmax) on global gross primary production New Phytologist ·Anthony P. Walker, Tristan Quaife, Peter M. van Bodegom, Martin G. De Kauwe, Trevor F. Keenan, Joanna Joiner, Mark R. Lomas, Natasha MacBean, Chonggang Xu, Xiaojuan Yang, F. I. Woodward	2017	99
9	Confronting the water potential information gap Nature Geoscience ·Kimberly A. Novick, Darren L. Ficklin, Dennis Baldocchi, K. J. Davis, Teamrat A. Ghezzehei, Alexandra G. Konings, Natasha MacBean, Nina Raoult, Russell L. Scott, Yuning Shi, Benjamin N. Sulman, Jeffrey D. Wood	2022	95
10	Strong constraint on modelled global carbon uptake using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence data Scientific Reports ·Natasha MacBean, Fabienne Maignan, Cédric Bacour, P. Lewis, Philippe Peylin, Luis Guanter, Philipp Köhler, José Gómez‐Dans, Mathias Disney	2018	93
11	Major forest changes and land cover transitions based on plant functional types derived from the ESA CCI Land Cover product International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ·Wei Li, Philippe Ciais, Natasha MacBean, Shushi Peng, Pierre Defourny, Sophie Bontemps	2015	77
12	Contrasting responses of grassland water and carbon exchanges to climate change between Tibetan Plateau and Inner Mongolia Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Dan Liu, Yue Li, Tao Wang, Philippe Peylin, Natasha MacBean, Philippe Ciais, Gensuo Jia, Mingguo Ma, Yaoming Ma, Miaogen Shen, Xianzhou Zhang, Shilong Piao	2017	73
13	A new stepwise carbon cycle data assimilation system using multiple data streams to constrain the simulated land surface carbon cycle Geoscientific model development ·Philippe Peylin, Cédric Bacour, Natasha MacBean, Sébastien Léonard, P. J. Rayner, Sylvain Kuppel, Ernest N. Koffi, Abdou Kane, Fabienne Maignan, Frédéric Chevallier, Philippe Ciais, Pascal Prunet	2016	73
14	Using satellite data to improve the leaf phenology of a global terrestrial biosphere model Biogeosciences ·Natasha MacBean, Fabienne Maignan, Philippe Peylin, Cédric Bacour, François‐Marie Bréon, Philippe Ciais	2015	68
15	Evaluation of a Data Assimilation System for Land Surface Models Using CLM4.5 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·A. M. Fox, T. J. Hoar, J. G. Anderson, Avelino F. Arellano, William K. Smith, M. E. Litvak, Natasha MacBean, David Schimel, D. J. Moore	2018	61
16	Improving Estimates of Gross Primary Productivity by Assimilating Solar‐Induced Fluorescence Satellite Retrievals in a Terrestrial Biosphere Model Using a Process‐Based SIF Model Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Cédric Bacour, Fabienne Maignan, Natasha MacBean, Albert Porcar‐Castell, Jaume Flexas, Christian Frankenberg, Philippe Peylin, Frédéric Chevallier, Nicolas Vuichard, Vladislav Bastrikov	2019	60
17	Consistent assimilation of multiple data streams in a carbon cycle dataassimilation system Geoscientific model development ·Natasha MacBean, Philippe Peylin, Frédéric Chevallier, Marko Scholze, Gregor Schürmann	2016	55
18	Constraining estimates of terrestrial carbon uptake: new opportunities using long‐term satellite observations and data assimilation New Phytologist ·William K. Smith, A. M. Fox, Natasha MacBean, D. J. Moore, Nicholas C. Parazoo	2019	51
19	Dynamic global vegetation models underestimate net CO₂ flux mean and inter-annual variability in dryland ecosystems Environmental Research Letters ·Natasha MacBean, Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, Philippe Peylin, Thomas E. Kolb, M. E. Litvak, P. Krishnan, Tilden P. Meyers, Vivek K. Arora, Vladislav Bastrikov, Daniel S. Goll, Danica Lombardozzi, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch, Anthony P. Walker, Sönke Zaehle, D. J. Moore	2021	40
20	Wide discrepancies in the magnitude and direction of modeled solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in response to light conditions Biogeosciences ·Nicholas C. Parazoo, Troy S. Magney, Alexander Norton, Brett Raczka, Cédric Bacour, Fabienne Maignan, Ian Baker, Yongguang Zhang, Bo Qiu, Mingjie Shi, Natasha MacBean, Dave R. Bowling, Sean P. Burns, Peter D. Blanken, J. Stutz, Katja Großmann, Christian Frankenberg	2020	34

About Natasha MacBean

Natasha MacBean is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Environmental Engineering, having authored 50 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (33 papers), Climate variability and models (23 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (18 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (7 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (5 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (1.9k citations), Ecological Modeling (205 citations), Ecology (958 citations), Atmospheric Science (634 citations) and Environmental Engineering (384 citations). Natasha MacBean has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Philippe Peylin, Sophie Bontemps, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Defourny, Cédric Bacour, D. J. Moore, A. M. Fox, William K. Smith, Russell L. Scott and Wei Li. Their work appears in journals such as Geoscientific model development, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Biogeosciences, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology and Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

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