Benjamin Dechant

5.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
42 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Dechant is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Dechant has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Ecology, 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Dechant's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (31 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (9 papers). Benjamin Dechant is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (31 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (9 papers). Benjamin Dechant collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, Germany and United States. Benjamin Dechant's co-authors include Youngryel Ryu, Joseph A. Berry, Yelu Zeng, Min Chen, Grayson Badgley, Minseok Kang, Christian Frankenberg, Dalei Hao, Jingfeng Xiao and Jing M. Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Science Advances and Plant Cell & Environment.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Dechant

40 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Optical vegetation indices for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems globally

2022 487 citations Yelu Zeng, Dalei Hao et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
A practical approach for estimating the escape ratio of near-infrared solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

2019 295 citations Yelu Zeng, Grayson Badgley et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Canopy structure explains the relationship between photosynthesis and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in crops

2020 251 citations Benjamin Dechant, Youngryel Ryu et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Dechant South Korea	20	1.6k	1.5k	592	484	269	42	2.3k
Sergio Cogliati Italy	32	2.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	736 1.2×	653 1.3×	512 1.9×	83	3.0k
Tommaso Julitta Italy	23	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	398 0.7×	308 0.6×	233 0.9×	54	1.6k
Mitchell Schull United States	13	1.2k 0.7×	900 0.6×	373 0.6×	663 1.4×	304 1.1×	22	1.7k
Petya Campbell United States	22	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	522 0.9×	317 0.7×	351 1.3×	82	1.8k
Caroline Nichol United Kingdom	26	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	640 1.1×	749 1.5×	152 0.6×	45	2.2k
K. Didan United States	3	1.4k 0.9×	803 0.5×	380 0.6×	721 1.5×	273 1.0×	5	1.7k
Kenlo Nishida Nasahara Japan	26	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	621 1.0×	823 1.7×	359 1.3×	103	2.5k
Óscar Pérez‐Priego Spain	23	734 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	554 0.9×	265 0.5×	240 0.9×	49	1.6k
Matti Mõttus Finland	30	2.0k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	809 1.4×	1.1k 2.4×	308 1.1×	88	2.6k
Maximilian Voigt Germany	6	1.2k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	394 0.7×	263 0.5×	348 1.3×	10	1.9k

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Yan, Yulin, Bolun Li, Benjamin Dechant, et al.. (2025). Plant traits shape global spatiotemporal variations in photosynthetic efficiency. Nature Plants. 11(4). 924–934. 2 indexed citations

Lee, Jeongho, et al.. (2025). Development of an automated hyperspectral system to monitor hyperspectral reflectance and sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence with directional and hemispheric view geometries simultaneously. Remote Sensing of Environment. 332. 115100–115100. 1 indexed citations

Ryu, Youngryel, et al.. (2025). GPP-net: a robust high-resolution GPP estimation network for Sentinel-2 using only surface reflectance and photosynthetically active radiation. Remote Sensing of Environment. 334. 115198–115198.

Dechant, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Harnessing Information From Shortwave Infrared Reflectance Bands to Enhance Satellite‐Based Estimates of Gross Primary Productivity. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(11). 2 indexed citations

Kattenborn, Teja, Sebastian Wieneke, David Montero, et al.. (2024). Temporal dynamics in vertical leaf angles can confound vegetation indices widely used in Earth observations. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 8 indexed citations

Liu, Jiangong, Youngryel Ryu, Xiangzhong Luo, et al.. (2024). Evidence for widespread thermal acclimation of canopy photosynthesis. Nature Plants. 10(12). 1919–1927. 5 indexed citations

Ryu, Youngryel, Pierre Gentine, Xu Lian, et al.. (2024). Persistent global greening over the last four decades using novel long-term vegetation index data with enhanced temporal consistency. Remote Sensing of Environment. 311. 114282–114282. 18 indexed citations

Ryu, Youngryel, Xing Li, Benjamin Dechant, et al.. (2024). GEOSIF: A continental-scale sub-daily reconstructed solar-induced fluorescence derived from OCO-3 and GK-2A over Eastern Asia and Oceania. Remote Sensing of Environment. 311. 114284–114284. 8 indexed citations

Dong, Ning, Benjamin Dechant, Han Wang, Ian J. Wright, & I. Colin Prentice. (2023). Global leaf‐trait mapping based on optimality theory. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(7). 1152–1162. 10 indexed citations

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Yan, Yulin, Youngryel Ryu, Benjamin Dechant, Bolun Li, & Jongmin Kim. (2023). Dark respiration explains nocturnal stomatal conductance in rice regardless of drought and nutrient stress. Plant Cell & Environment. 46(12). 3748–3759. 6 indexed citations

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Kim, Jongmin, Youngryel Ryu, & Benjamin Dechant. (2022). Development of a filter-based near-surface remote sensing system to retrieve far-red sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. Remote Sensing of Environment. 283. 113311–113311. 7 indexed citations

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Zeng, Yelu, Dalei Hao, Alfredo Huete, et al.. (2022). Optical vegetation indices for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems globally. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 3(7). 477–493. 487 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baldocchi, Dennis, Youngryel Ryu, Benjamin Dechant, et al.. (2020). Outgoing Near‐Infrared Radiation From Vegetation Scales With Canopy Photosynthesis Across a Spectrum of Function, Structure, Physiological Capacity, and Weather. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(7). 97 indexed citations

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Yoo, Gayoung, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of chlorophyll fluorescence as an efficient plant parameter for CO 2 leakage from CCS site. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Ryu, Youngryel, Benjamin Dechant, Grayson Badgley, et al.. (2019). Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from leaf to the globe, snap-shot to years: new lessons and opportunities. AGUFM. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Tagliabue, Giulia, Cinzia Panigada, Benjamin Dechant, et al.. (2019). Exploring the spatial relationship between airborne-derived red and far-red sun-induced fluorescence and process-based GPP estimates in a forest ecosystem. Remote Sensing of Environment. 231. 111272–111272. 43 indexed citations

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Ryu, Youngryel, Benjamin Dechant, Joseph A. Berry, et al.. (2018). Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is more strongly related to absorbed light than to photosynthesis at half-hourly resolution in a rice paddy. Remote Sensing of Environment. 216. 658–673. 182 indexed citations

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Tagliabue, Giulia, Cinzia Panigada, Benjamin Dechant, et al.. (2018). Sun-Induced Fluorescence and Photosynthesis Estimation in a Mixed Forest Ecosystem Using High Resolution Airborne Imagery. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Dechant, Benjamin, Matthias Cuntz, Michael Vohland, Elke Schulz, & Daniel Doktor. (2017). Estimation of photosynthesis traits from leaf reflectance spectra: Correlation to nitrogen content as the dominant mechanism. Remote Sensing of Environment. 196. 279–292. 99 indexed citations

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Rühl, H., Benjamin Dechant, J. Krug, et al.. (1991). Analyzing power in elastic scattering at 67 MeV. Nuclear Physics A. 524(3). 377–390. 18 indexed citations

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