Christopher J. Kucharik
University of Wisconsin-Madison
159 Papers
890 Citations
Christopher J. Kucharik is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Environmental science & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 139 publications. Previous affiliations of Christopher J. Kucharik include Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center.
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Papers
Global Consequences of Land Use
Jonathan A. Foley,Ruth DeFries,Gregory P. Asner,Carol C. Barford,Gordon B. Bonan,Stephen R. Carpenter,F. Stuart Chapin,Michael T. Coe,Michael T. Coe,Gretchen C. Daily,Holly K. Gibbs,Joseph H. Helkowski,Tracey Holloway,Erica A. Howard,Christopher J. Kucharik,Chad Monfreda,Jonathan A. Patz,I. Colin Prentice,Navin Ramankutty,Peter K. Snyder +19 more
TL;DR: Global croplands, pastures, plantations, and urban areas have expanded in recent decades, accompanied by large increases in energy, water, and fertilizer consumption, along with considerable losses of biodiversity.
Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models
Wolfgang Cramer,Alberte Bondeau,F. Ian Woodward,I. Colin Prentice,Richard Betts,Victor Brovkin,Peter M. Cox,Veronica A. Fisher,Jonathan A. Foley,Andrew D. Friend,Christopher J. Kucharik,Mark R. Lomas,Navin Ramankutty,Stephen Sitch,Benjamin Smith,Andrew White,Christine Young-Molling +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the possible responses of ecosystem processes to rising atmospheric CO2 concentration and climate change are illustrated using six dynamic global vegetation models that explicitly represent the interactions of ecosystem carbon and water exchanges with vegetation dynamics.
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Direct and Indirect Estimation of Leaf Area Index, fAPAR, and Net Primary Production of Terrestrial Ecosystems
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of direct and indirect methods used to estimate leaf area index (L), fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fAPAR), and net primary production (NPP) from remotely sensed products is presented.
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Testing the performance of a dynamic global ecosystem model: Water balance, carbon balance, and vegetation structure
Christopher J. Kucharik,Jonathan A. Foley,Christine Delire,Veronica A. Fisher,Michael T. Coe,John D. Lenters,Christine Young-Molling,Navin Ramankutty,John M. Norman,Stith T. Gower +9 more
TL;DR: The Integrated Biosphere Simulator (IBIS) as discussed by the authorsully supports a wide range of processes, including land surface physics, canopy physiology, plant phenology, vegetation dynamics and competition, and carbon and nutrient cycling.
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Mind the gap: how do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world?
Rachel Licker,Matthew D. Johnston,Jonathan A. Foley,Carol C. Barford,Christopher J. Kucharik,Chad Monfreda,Navin Ramankutty +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the potential yield obtainable for each crop in different climates around the world, and then compared the actual yields currently being achieved by each crop with their "climatic potential yield" to estimate the yield gap.
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