| Coordinator | Title | Paper Status | Collaborators | Topic | Details (incl. Towers) |
| Jean-Francois Soussana | Disturbance synthesis | Unknown | Grace; Soussana; Klumpp | Disturbance | |
| Markus Reichstein | Inter-annual variation (IAV) in global terrestrial carbon-water balance derived from network of eddy covariance flux sites magnitude, controlling processes and climate factors | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Reichstein; Papale; Baldocchi; Barr; Ciais; Heimann; Luyssaert; Richardson; Rodenbeck | IAV, global | |
| Alessandro Cescatti | Validation of MODIS albedo product at the FLUXNET sites | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Cescatti; Schaaf; Cook; Marcolla; Richardson; Law | Biophys., Albedo | |
| Philippe Ciais | What the eddy-covariance flux measurements tell us about prior errors in CO2-flux inversion schemes | 1st Draft ready | Chevallier; Ciais; Maignan; Wang; Reichstein | | |
| Fred Huemmrich | Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Carbon Fluxes | Unknown | Huemmrich; Middleton; Margolis | | |
| Youngryel Ryu | Seasonal variation of surface and air temperatures across a range of plant functional types and climatic zones | Unknown | Ryu; Baldocchi; Detto; Stoy | | |
| Alessandro Cescatti | Effect of land use change and global warming on winter albedo | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Cescatti; Ciais; Marcolla | Biophys., Albedo, Landuse | |
| Ryan Teuling | The impact of land surface heterogeneity on temperature variability | Paper in press | Teuling; Seneviratne; Reichstein; Ciais; Moors; Luyssaert | | |
| Russell Monson | A Comparative Study of Optimized Process Parameters and their Response to Current and Future Climate in Evergreen Needleleaf Ecosystems | Unknown | Monson;Moore;Schimel;Scott Denton | Inverse parameter retrieval | |
| Gitta Lasslop | Towards a better understanding of temporal variability of inverse model parameter estimates in process-based models | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Lasslop;Reichstein;Mahecha;Kattge | Inverse parameter retrieval | |
| Andrew Richardson | Effect of spring onset and autumn senescence date on forest-atmosphere CO2 exchange | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Richardson;Piao;Ciais;Breon | Phenology; growing season | |
| Enrico Tomelleri | Climatic effects on the inter‐annual variability of net ecosystem fluxes of North America and Europe | Sites selected and PIs contacted with 1st figures | Tomelleri; Migliavacca; Carvalhais | | |
| Junhui Zhang | Sink or Source - Carbon metabolism and regulating factors of old-growth forest ecosystems | Unknown | Zhang | Old-growth; | |
| Bin Zhao | Surface water on energy exchanges of wetlands | Unknown | Zhao; Guo | | |
| Werner L. Kutsch | A quick-test of all sites involved in the Fluxnet study concerning advectional losses during night-time | Withdrawn | Kutsch;Feigenwinter | Quality control | |
| Christopher A. Williams | Estimation of the Evaporative Fraction term of PET for Remote Sensing Applications of AET | Unknown | Williams; Marshall; Still; Roberts; Funk; Michaelsen | | |
| ShiLong Piao | Effect of snow change on the C balance in various northern ecosystems | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Piao;Ciais;Reichstein;Luyssaert | Snow effects; Boreal-Tundra | |
| Junhui Zhang | Tracking water use efficiency (WUE) of terrestrial ecosystems using MODIS-EVI images | Unknown | Zhang | | |
| Gitta Lasslop | Extended hyperbolic light response curve including VPD effects to derive GPP estimates mainly based on daytime data | Paper published | Lasslop; Reichstein; Papale | | |
| Mirco Migliavacca | Semi-empirical modelling of ecosystem respiration: review, improved algorithm and integration with Earth observation data | Paper in press | Migliavacca; Reichstein; Richardson; Lasslop | Ecosytem respiration; spatio-temporal | |
| David Ellsworth | Linking species-level physiology with vegetation fluxes | Unknown | Ellsworth;Wright;Knohl;McMurtrie;Reich | Ecophys | |
| Rodrigo Vargas | A mycocentric perspective on environmental factors controlling CO2 fluxes from terrestrial ecosystems | Paper published | Vargas; Baldocchi; Allen; Hasselquist | | |
| Darrel Jenerette | Variation of ecosystem metabolic rain response along a 2000 mm rainfall gradient | 1st Draft ready | Jenerette;Scott;Huxman | Drought effects; C | |
| Margriet Groenendijk | Assessing parameter variability in a photosynthesis model within and between plant functional types using global Fluxnet eddy covariance data | Manuscript submitted | Groenendijk; Dolman; van der Molen; Arneth; Gash; Leuning; Lindroth; Richardson; Wohlfahrt | | |
| Tagir Gilmanov | Gross productivity, respiration, and carbon sequestration potential of grassland ecosystems of the world | Unknown | Gilmanov | Grasslands | |
| Christian Bernhofer | Analyzing long-term FLUXNET measurements for reliable ET values across ecosystems types and across climatic regions | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Bernhofer; Koestner; Knohl; Lindroth; Grünwald; Riedel | H2O | |
| Lucas Jones | Global mapping of net ecosystem CO2 exchange using integrated satellite optical-IR and microwave remote sensing: Algorithm Development for the SMAP Decadal Survey Mission | Unknown | Jones; Kimball; Running; Zhang; Yi | | |
| Youngryel Ryu | Classification of functional vegetation group using water deficit and actual evapotranspiration across diverse ecosystems and climatic zones using FLUXNET database | Withdrawn | Ryu; Baldocchi; Vargas | | |
| Dennis Baldocchi | Measuring Terrestrial Biosphere Metabolism with a Global Flux Network | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Baldocchi;Reichstein;Papale;Law | GlobalSummary | |
| Dario Papale | A new global spatialized estimate of NEP, GPP and TER and analysis of uncertainty and limiting factors using data driven models and eddy covariance measurements | Sites selected and PIs contacted with 1st figures | Papale, Reichstein, Tomelleri | Up-scaling, global, data-oriented | |
| Paul Stoy | Energy balance closure at global eddy covariance research sites is related to landscape-level surface heterogeneity | Unknown | Stoy | | |
| Sonia Wharton | Examining the effects of teleconnection patterns on ecosystem flux exchange at FLUXNET towers along the Pacific Rim | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Wharton; Vargas; Falk | IAV | |
| Paul Stoy | The effects of vegetation on surface temperature: a bottom-up approach from a global network of eddy covariance flux towers | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Stoy; Katul; Juang; Siqueira; Novick; Williams; Clement; Moncreiff; Lloyd | Biophys., Feedback | |
| Anna Goerner | Towards a better representation of drought effects in diagnostic biogeochemical models | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Goerner;Reichstein | Drought effects | |
| Margriet Groenendijk | Seasonal variation of plant functional type photosynthetic parameters derived directly from global Fluxnet eddy covariance data | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Groenendijk; Dolman | | |
| Laurent Misson | Influence of climate soil and vegetation on rain pulses responses in seasonal drought ecosystems or across different ecosystems | 1st Draft ready | Misson;Carrara;Litvak | C-H2O | |
| Bev Law | Temporal dynamics in gross ecosystem production, ecosystem respiration, net carbon uptake and environmental conditions among plant functional types | Unknown | Law; Baldocchi; Reichstein; Papale; Valentini; Hudiburg; Schuetz | GlobalSummary | |
| Asko Noormets | The effects of harvesting thinning and fire on forest carbon exchange | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Noormets; Law; Margolis; Schulze; Chen; Grace; Barr | Disturbance | |
| Andrew Jarvis | A data-based cross-site evaluation of (optimal) carbon gain and water use strategies as expressed in FLUXNET eddy covariance data | 1st Draft ready | Jarvis;Stauch | C-H2O | |
| Christian Beer | Which environmental factors determine temporal and spatial variability of water-use efficiency on ecosystem level | Paper published | Beer; Baldocchi; Bernhofer; Buchmann; Ciais; Knohl; Koestner; Kutsch; Reichstein; Soussana; Williams | C-H2O | |
| Paul Stoy | The relationship between net and long-wave radiation | Withdrawn | Stoy;Knohl;Jarvis;Clement;Moncreiff;Monteith | Biophys., feedback | |
| Barbara Koestner | Water vapour flux partitioning related to climate, global ecosystem types and vegetation structure | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Koestner; Bernhofer; Knohl; Lindroth | H2O | |
| Youngryel Ryu | Can satellite snapshots at morning or afternoon be upscaled to 8-day integrated evapotranspiration | Manuscript submitted | Ryu; Baldocchi | | |
| Rodrigo Vargas | Linking photosynthesis with soil respiration: diurnal patterns across large geographical distances | Manuscript submitted | Vargas; Baldocchi;Gu | | |
| Han Dolman | Global land surface evaporation estimated from satellite-based observations | Unknown | Dolman; Holmes; Miralles; de Jeu; Gash; Wang | | |
| Hank A. Margolis | Contrasting the Seasonal Patterns of Fluxes and Environmental Responses Functions for the Circumboreal Forest | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Margolis;Drolet | Boreal forest | |
| Alessandro Cescatti | Sensitivity of GPP and NEE to direct vs diffuse radiation across Fluxnet sites | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Cescatti; Baldocchi; Grace; Hollinger; Knoll; Ibrom; Marcolla; Richardson | Radiation effects | |
| Timothy W. Hilton | What is the spatial and temporal coherence of flux tower signals | 1st Draft ready | Hilton; Davis; Ciais; Desai | Up-scaling, regional, process-oriented | |
| Youngryel Ryu | Trend of land surface radiation balance and evapotranspiration across diverse ecosystems under climate change | Withdrawn | Ryu; Baldocchi; Vargas | | |
| Paul Stoy | Validating remote sensing evapotranspiration algorithms using global tower data | Unknown | Stoy; Mu; Running; McGlynn; Fisher; Richardson | | |
| Katrin Fleischer | Feedbacks in the Climate System | Unknown | Fleischer; Dolman; van der Molen; Rebel; Arneth | | |
| Miguel D. Mahecha | Extraction and quantification of hysteretic behavior and phase synchronizations at different time scales in ecosystem-atmosphere fluxes inferred from a global network of eddy covariance flux sites | Unknown | Mahecha;Reichstein;Carvalhais;Lange | Temporal variability; multi-scale | |
| Philippe Ciais | Determinants of spatial and temporal gradients in ecosystem fluxes and their dependency upon climate drivers: a comparison between North America and Europe | Unknown | Ciais; Davis; Reichstein; Papale; Piao; Le-Maire | Spatio-temporal variability US-Europe | |
| Enrico Tomelleri | Calibration of a light use efficiency model using FLUXNET data | Sites selected and PIs contacted with 1st figures | Tomelleri;Reichstein;Papale;Gorner | Up-scaling, global, data-oriented | |
| Mirco Migliavacca | Interannual variability of growing season length and its influences on annual carbon budget as derived from carbon flux measurement | Unknown | Migliavacca; Tomelleri; Churkina; Jung; Seufert | Phenology; growing season | |
| Ray Leuning | Using FLUXNET data to constrain SVAT model parameterization | Unknown | Leuning; Stockli; Hoffman; Hollinger; Stoy; Munger; Dellwik; Richardson; Kattge; Reichstein; Williams | Inverse parameter retrieval | |
| Jingfeng Xiao | Global Patterns and Interannual Variability of Water Use Efficiency | Unknown | Xiao; Chen | | |
| Yadvinder Malhi | Quantifying the constraints imposed by sun-angle, light, water and temperature on ecosystem gross productivity | Unknown | Malhi | GPP; spatial constraints | |
| Miguel D. Mahecha | Time scale dependent parameter estimation: principle and example elaboration in an model-eddy covariance data fusion experiment | Manuscript submitted | Mahecha; Reichstein; Carvalhais; Lasslop; Lange; Seneviratne | | |
| Brian Amiro | Carbon Dynamics Following Fire and Harvest in North American Boreal and North Temperate Forests | Paper published | Amiro; Barr; Black | Disturbance | |
| Margriet Groenendijk | Global variation of ecosystem (intrinsic) water use efficiency | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Groenendijk; Dolman | | |
| Giovanni Manca | Paradigmatic networks: a new tool for gap-filling and spatialization of eddy covariance CO2 fluxes | Unknown | Manca; Federici; Seufert; Marchi | Up-scaling, global, data-oriented | |
| Paul Stoy | On the spectral properties of eddy covariance time series | Paper published | Stoy; Richardson; Katul | Temporal variability; multi-scale | |
| Niall Hanan | The canopy structure information content of flux measurements: inferring physiologically-relevant canopy phenology at global scales using Fluxnet data | Unknown | Hanan;Reichstein;Cook;Ibrom | Radiation, Phenology | |
| Ge Sun | A Unified Approach to Estimate Potential Evapotranspiration of Forest Ecosystems | Unknown | Sun | H2O | |
| Michiel van der Molen | Feedbacks in Boreal and Arctic Climate Systems in Siberia | Unknown | van der Molen; Dolman; Ciais; Ohta; Maximov; Heimann; Schulze; Belelli | Boreal & Tundra; feedbacks | |
| Andrew Oliphant | The Role of Canopy Architecture on Gross Ecosystem Production Responses to Diffuse Light | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Oliphant | Radiation; diffuse-direct | |
| Andrew Richardson | Exploring relationships among carbon exchange, foliar nitrogen, and canopy albedo at global scales | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Richardson; Ollinger; Martin; Hollinger | | |
| Anders Lindroth | Factors controlling total ecosystem respiration in boreal forests | Unknown | Lindroth; Margolis; Hollinger; Vesala; Luyssaert | Ecosystem respiration; boreal | |
| Paul Stoy | Does surface temperature decrease with ecosystem development? Testing the maximum entropy hypothesis | Unknown | Stoy; Hua; Baldocchi; Ryu; Grace | | |
| Christian Beer | Upscaling mean annual GPP from ecosystem level to the global land surface | Manuscript accepted | Beer; Tomelleri; Reichstein; Carvalhais; Jung; Papale; Peylin; Ciais | | |
| Bin Zhao | Is wetland an ecosystem type? A synthesis assessment on global carbon sequestration in wetlands | Unknown | Zhao; Guo | | |
| Eva van Gorsel | Nocturnal Carbon Efflux - Can we take advection terms into account without measuring them | Paper published | Gorsel;Leuning | Quality control | |
| Eva Falge | Cross-Validation of Eddy Covariance and NPP Data at Flux Tower Sites | Unknown | Falge | Quality control | |
| Martin Jung | Identifying environmental and biophysical controls of monthly carbon and water fluxes | Manuscript submitted | Jung; Reichstein; Papale; Tomelleri | | |
| Myroslava Khomik | Analysis of across‐site variability of carbon‐flux and ‐pool relations (e.g.turnover times) derived from chamber and eddy covariance based measurements as affected by climate, vegetation and other factors | Unknown | Khomik; Reichstein; Schrumpf | | |
| Chuixiang Yi | Climate control of terrestrial carbon sequestration | Paper published | Yi; Ricciuto; Monson | | |
| May Myklebust | LAI influence on bias in night time eddy covariance data during windy conditions | Manuscript submitted | Myklebust; Misson; Wohlfahrt | | |
| Ben-Jei Tsuang | Thermal inertial and land characteristics for land surface modeling over different land types | Unknown | Tsuang; Tsai; | | |
| Alan Barr | Synthesis of Inter-Annual Variability in Net Ecosystem Exchange at Long-Term North American Mature Boreal and North-Temperate Forest Flux-Tower Sites | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Barr;Black;Wofsy;Hollinger; | IAV, Boreal | |
| Martin Jung | Synthesis of global upscaling of land surface – atmosphere fluxes | 1st Draft ready | Jung; Reichstein; Mahecha | | |
| Sonia Seneviratne | Multi-scale land-atmosphere interactions | Sites selected and PIs contacted with 1st figures | Seneviratne; Reichstein; Ciais; Buchmann; Stockli | Biophysical feedbacks, Drought effects | |
| Alexander Knohl | Assessing soil moisture – atmosphere feedbacks via Bowen ratio changes during droughts | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Knohl;Bernhofer;Ciais;Koestner;Viovy | Drought effects; energy | |
| Tagir Gilmanov | Agricultural ecosystems as strong sinks for atmospheric CO2 | Unknown | Gilmanov | Croplands | |
| Sebastiaan Luyssaert | Short term extremes in NEE: drivers and responses in natural ecosystems | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Luyssaert; Hollinger; Munger; Stoy; Archibald; Buchmann; Williams; Janssens | Temporal variability; extremes | |
| Magnus Lund | Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange in Mires and its Sensitivity to Temperature and Water Table Fluctuations | Manuscript submitted | Lund; Lindroth; Nilsson; Aurela; Rinne; Roulet | Wetlands | |
| Christopher A. Williams | Ecohydrologic Hypotheses Revisited -- Synthesis with a Global Observation Network | Sites selected and PIs contacted with 1st figures | Williams; Buchmann; Baldocchi; Reichstein; Papale | H2O | |
| Karrin Alstad | Ecosystem Water Use Efficiency of Major World Biomoes | Unknown | Alstad;Chen | C-H2O | |
| Guillaume Drolet | Understanding the Environmental Controls on Net and Gross Light-Use Efficiency and Their Temporal Patterns - A Circumboreal Study | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Drolet;Margolis;Middleton | Radiation effects, Boreal | |
| Jean-Francois Soussana | Inter- & intrannual variability of CO2 fluxes of temperate ecosystems at a global scale | Unknown | Buchmann; Ciais; Hollinger; Soussana; Stoy | IAV, Temperate | |
| Paul Stoy | Comparing semi-parametric models for partitioning incident photosynthetically active radiation | Started with 1st overview and site selection | Stoy; Richardson; Cescatti; Grace; Baldocchi; Malhi; Butt; Juang | Biophys., Radiation | |
| Christopher A. Williams | Carbon Dioxide and Water Flux Responses to Extreme Weather and Climate Anomalies | 1st Draft ready | Williams; Munger; Hollinger; Stoy; Richardson; Schaefer; Stockli; Schwalm | Temporal variability; extremes | |