Natasha MacBean

5.1k citations
51 papers · 2.7k · 2 hit papers · h-index 27

Impact in

  • 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 47
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 34
    • Climate variability and models 24
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 17
    • 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)Cédric Bacour (17 shared papers)Pierre Defourny (4 shared papers)D. J. Moore (12 shared papers)A. M. Fox (8 shared papers)Russell L. Scott (11 shared papers)
Journals
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (5 papers)Geoscientific model development (5 papers)Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (3 papers)Biogeosciences (3 papers)Remote Sensing of Environment (2 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesFranceUnited Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Natasha MacBean

51 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Natasha MacBean's Hit Papers

Dryland productivity under a changing climate 2022 · 204 citations
2040+2+4Years since publication50100150200250
What are hit papers?

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

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • 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.
  1. 2022 Nature Climate Change
  2. 2019 Remote Sensing of Environment

Peers

Natasha MacBean
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  • Global and Planetary Change 2.0k
  • Ecological Modeling 210
  • Ecology 996
  • Atmospheric Science 679
  • Environmental Engineering 407
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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 →		2019293
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
2018231
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
2015207
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 →		2022204
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
2018126
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
2015123
7
The impact of alternative trait‐scaling hypotheses for the maximum photosynthetic carboxylation rate (Vcmax) 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
2017117
8
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
2022105
9
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
2017103
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
201897
11
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
201582
12
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
201578
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
201677
14
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
201773
15
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
201965
16
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
201863
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
201658
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
201953
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
202144
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
202035

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 51 papers that have together received 2.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (34 papers), Climate variability and models (24 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (18 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (17 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 (2.0k citations), Ecological Modeling (210 citations), Ecology (996 citations), Atmospheric Science (679 citations) and Environmental Engineering (407 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, Cédric Bacour, Pierre Defourny, D. J. Moore, A. M. Fox, Russell L. Scott, Fabienne Maignan and William K. Smith. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Geoscientific model development, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Biogeosciences and Remote Sensing of Environment.

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