Ankur R Desai

Datos Biográficos

ID6820934
NOMBREAnkur R Desai
NOMBRESAnkur R
APELLIDODesai
FIRMADESAI A R
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
ORCID0000-0002-5226-6041
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2010
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H0

  • Diel, seasonal, and inter-annual variation in carbon dioxide effluxes from lakes and reservoirs

    Open AccessMałgorzata Gołub, Nikaan Koupaei‐Abyazani et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Accounting for temporal changes in carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) effluxes from freshwaters remains a challenge for global and regional carbon budgets. Here, we synthesize 171 site-months of flux measurements of CO 2 based on the eddy covariance method from 13 lakes and reservoirs in the Northern Hemisphere, and quantify dynamics at multiple temporal scales. We found pronounced sub-annual variability in CO 2 flux at all sites. By accounting for diel vari…

  • The biophysical climate mitigation potential of boreal peatlands during the growing season

    Open AccessManuel Helbig, J M Waddington et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Peatlands and forests cover large areas of the boreal biome and are critical for global climate regulation. They also regulate regional climate through heat and water vapour exchange with the atmosphere. Understanding how land-atmosphere interactions in peatlands differ from forests may therefore be crucial for modelling boreal climate system dynamics and for assessing climate benefits of peatland conservation and restoration. To assess the bioph…

  • Quantifying the effect of forest age in annual net forest carbon balance

    Open AccessSimon Besnard, Nuno Carvalhais et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Forests dominate carbon (C) exchanges between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere on land. In the long term, the net carbon flux between forests and the atmosphere has been significantly impacted by changes in forest cover area and structure due to ecological disturbances and management activities. Current empirical approaches for estimating net ecosystem productivity (NEP) rarely consider forest age as a predictor, which represents vari…

  • Montane ecosystem productivity responds more to global circulation patterns than climatic trends

    Open AccessAnkur R Desai, Georg Wohlfahrt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Regional ecosystem productivity is highly sensitive to inter-annual climate variability, both within and outside the primary carbon uptake period. However, Earth system models lack sufficient spatial scales and ecosystem processes to resolve how these processes may change in a warming climate. Here, we show, how for the European Alps, mid-latitude Atlantic ocean winter circulation anomalies drive high-altitude summer forest and grassland producti…

  • Data-based perfect-deficit approach to understanding climate extremes and forest carbon assimilation capacity

    Open AccessSuhua Wei, Chuixiang Yi et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    Several lines of evidence suggest that the warming climate plays a vital role in driving certain types of extreme weather. The impact of warming and of extreme weather on forest carbon assimilation capacity is poorly known. Filling this knowledge gap is critical towards understanding the amount of carbon that forests can hold. Here, we used a perfect-deficit approach to identify forest canopy photosynthetic capacity (CPC) deficits and analyze how…

  • Effects of land cover change on moisture availability and potential crop yield in the world’s breadbaskets

    Open AccessJ E Bagley, Ankur R Desai et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2012

    The majority of the world's food production capability is inextricably tied to global precipitation patterns. Changes in moisture availability—whether from changes in climate from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions or those induced by land cover change (LCC)—can have profound impacts on food production. In this study, we examined the patterns of evaporative sources that contribute to moisture availability over five major global food producing…

  • The influence of carbon exchange of a large lake on regional tracer-transport inversions

    Open AccessVictoria N Vasys, Ankur R Desai et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2011

    Large lakes may constitute a significant component of regional surface–atmosphere fluxes, but few efforts have been made to quantify these fluxes. Tracer-transport inverse models that infer the CO2 flux from the atmospheric concentration typically assume that the influence from large lakes is negligible. CO2 observations from a tall tower in Wisconsin segregated by wind direction suggested a CO2 signature from Lake Superior. To further investigat…

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Open AccessChuixiang Yi, Daniel Ricciuto et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2010

    Understanding the relationships between climate and carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems \nis critical to predict future levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide because of the potential \naccelerating effects of positive climate–carbon cycle feedbacks. However, directly observed \nrelationships between climate and terrestrial CO2 exchange with the atmosphere across biomes \nand continents are lacking. Here we present data describing the relatio…