Scott Saleska

About

Scott Saleska is a Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, holding a position since 2017. He also has a joint appointment with UA Soil Water and Environmental Sciences and is a faculty affiliate of the UA Institute of Environment. His research focuses on understanding how the structure and function of terrestrial vegetation and microbial communities regulate large-scale biogeochemical processes. As a global change ecologist, he investigates how ecological communities influence land surface interactions with the atmosphere and climate, from local to global scales. His work addresses the significant challenge of scaling biological information from individual organs or organisms to landscapes and ecosystems, utilizing tools from ecophysiology, ecosystem ecology, micrometeorology, atmospheric science, remote sensing, process-based modeling, and microbial meta-omics. His contributions aim to improve predictions of climate change impacts by elucidating the role of ecological communities in climate regulation.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Biology
• Environmental science
• Ecology
• Geography
• Computational biology
• Genetics
• World Wide Web
• Atmospheric sciences
• Information Retrieval

Selected publications

• The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

  Scientific Data · 2020 · 1726 citations

  , water, and energy exchange between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and other meteorological and biological measurements, from 212 sites around the globe (over 1500 site-years, up to and including year 2014). These sites, independently managed and operated, voluntarily contributed their data to create global datasets. Data were quality controlled and processed using uniform methods, to improve consistency and intercomparability across sites. The dataset is already being used in a number of ap…

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• A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

  Nature Biotechnology · 2020 · 963 citations

  The reconstruction of bacterial and archaeal genomes from shotgun metagenomes has enabled insights into the ecology and evolution of environmental and host-associated microbiomes. Here we applied this approach to >10,000 metagenomes collected from diverse habitats covering all of Earth's continents and oceans, including metagenomes from human and animal hosts, engineered environments, and natural and agricultural soils, to capture extant microbial, metabolic and functional potential. This compre…

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• How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity

  Nature · 2021 · 179 citations

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• Empirical evidence for resilience of tropical forest photosynthesis in a warmer world

  Nature Plants · 2020 · 128 citations

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• Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

  Scientific Data · 2021 · 109 citations

  A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00851-9.

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Are Amazon forest trees source or sink limited? Mapping hydraulic traits to carbon allocation strategies to decipher forest function during drought

  NSF · $1.2M · 2018–2023

• Collaborative Research: Airborne LIDAR Surveys of Forest Canopy Structure Across Amazonian Landscapes to Infer Large-scale Forest Biomass and Carbon Balance

  NSF · $309k · 2007–2010

• PIRE: Carbon, Water and Vegetation Dynamics of Amazon Forests Under Climatic Variability and Change

  NSF · $2.6M · 2007–2015

Frequent coauthors

• P. M. Crill

  Stockholm University

  154 shared

• Natalia Restrepo‐Coupé

  University of Arizona

  101 shared

• Steven C. Wofsy

  95 shared

• Virginia I. Rich

  The Ohio State University

  93 shared

• Plínio Barbosa de Camargo

  Universidade de São Paulo

  83 shared

• Lucy R. Hutyra

  Boston University

  79 shared

• J. William Munger

  Harvard University Press

  76 shared

• W. J. Riley

  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  63 shared

Awards & honors

• Elected Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (2019)
• Agnese Nelms Haury Faculty Fellow in Environment and Social…
• NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grantee (1996-1998)
• NASA Global Change Fellow (1994-1997)

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